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[vaccination]

[Her eyes go back to the floor, the fire, whatever isn't Jesse as she thinks, letting out a slow breath.]

If you were a complete asshole you would have lied about it. Just sayin'.

[No matter how much she thinks about it, it's not something she feels she can truly grasp. Being an addict. Getting a brief good feeling followed by so much pain--or death. It's easier to be angry at Stephanie for lying, and be pissed at her and everyone else for making Jesse feel so shitty that he lost that fight. They broke him.

But she's not too furious at Saul. He did something fairly decent. God fucking forbid if he announced Jesse died, especially like that. How many people would say good riddance? How many would say he deserved it? Just thinking about Sonya's reaction makes Ellie's teeth feel like they're going to crack on each other.]

I won't tell anyone. [A given.] Not even the people that know what happened.

[Stephanie can go on thinking she's fooled her.]

[hostage]

[Jesse wipes at his eyes, shaking his head emphatically.]

No, no, no. I'm not - I'm not asking you to keep a secret for me. You can talk about it to whoever you want. If you need to. Or if you just want to. It's a big deal and it's fucked up. Don't feel like you gotta hold it all in for me or cover for me or... Or anything. It's all on me.

[vaccination]

The only person I'd want to talk about this with is you. Even then, I don't really know what to say aside from that it's not all on you. You were treated like shit for a long time. Then you made a mistake.

[She can't be angry at him for it, just like she can't be angry at Henry for blowing out his brains in front of her, or any number of people that probably killed themselves during the outbreak. Looks like they took the easy way out, she'd said one time. Joel had been quick to correct her. It's not easy. She wants to believe it wasn't easy for Jesse to pick up that needle.

But she can be angry at Steph. She should have told her the truth.]

And... even if you don't believe that, I think you've been punished enough. [Dying and going home to some shitty situation in which you wished someone killed you sounds like a good time.]