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its okay i was just looking at it with a sad love ballad about loss playing in the background

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So everything was good until it was awful and he didn't take it well. [That's cool and all as far as explanations go but like he basically looked at Wally like he was some kind of molester and also carried around a shotgun so. There's that.

Oooh, they have tortillas and cheese. CHEESE QUESADILLAS IT IS.] Do you like peppers? Actually, do you have peppers?

near far wherever you are i believe that the thread will go onnnnn

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The world's been hard on him. Not a lot of people make it as long as he has. [Once you lose so much, there's no going back. Ellie sighs.]

Peppers? Like the red and green ones? I'm not too big a fan.

and iiiiieeeiiii will always thread with youuuuuaaahhhh

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[Wally gives her a pitying look and gets the peppers out anyway. She will like them in a cheese quesadilla. And if she doesn't, well, he'll just eat it and make her one without it. Frying pan, turning on the burner, cheese grater, get to work.]

You're not like that, though. From what I've picked up your world is kind of indiscriminately mean to everybody.

applauds

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[Ellie makes a face, but it's not that harsh because hey, someone cooking for her? Hell yeah.]

It's worse when you go from life like this [she motions around them] to my world. I was born into it, so it's not like I have much to miss. Him, though... his whole world got fucked up over night. His life. It's not easy surviving where we're from.

[You have to do terrible things to stay alive.]

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Yeah, yeah. [Not very charitable there, Wally. He cuts open and guts the peppers before dicing them, assembles a quesadilla in the pan and goes hunting for a spatula.] I just don't like the way he looked at me. I mean, did you see him? Like I was just waiting for him to turn his back so I could throw you down and have my filthy way with you. I mean, Jesus, you're like fourteen, right? That's messed up.

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Okaaaay, you're like fourteen, too. Not that it has anything to do with anything.

[Ellie shrugs.]

Maybe he's just extra paranoid because that's what he would have done when he was younger. You know, back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

[Poking fun at Joel is okay when it's about his age.]

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[JABS SPATULA AT HER.] I'm sixteen, thanks. And whatever it is doesn't matter. I should just probably never ever come here when he's here ever again. [He flips the quesadilla and it kind of falls apart so he attempts to salvage it.] Crap.

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[Ellie rolls her eyes.]

He's gone most of the week. [Hence him getting her a dog.]

And what the hell are you trying to do?

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I'm trying to make you dinner, you ungrateful punk. [Wally swats at her with the spatula and who cares if he misses because he flicks cheese gobs and pepper bits everywhere.] Siddown. Go siddown.

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Don't make me clean up a giant mess! [Joel isn't super clean himself, but he'll notice if the kitchen is covered in cheese.]

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Relax I'll take care of it. [If he remembers. He flips the quesadilla again and slides it onto a plate.] Here. Behold. I'm actually giving you food first, so mark this momentous occasion.

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You're being awfully nice for a guy that narrowly escaped death.

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[He jabs the spatula at her plate. Eat.] I'm always nice when I narrowly escape death. It's my coping mechanism.

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[She has some manners!! She'll wait for him.]

Excuses, excuses...

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[SHE'LL BE WAITING A WHILE. He's already putting together a huge spread for what's obviously going to be like five quesadillas.

But since she obviously seems bothered by it,] I'm not worried. Okay? [He assembles a quesadilla in the pan and yanks his hands back when it hisses, spilled cheese bubbling up.] I'm not scared off. That's what you're really asking, right?

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[She sighs. Okay, okay.]

I swear he's not that bad.

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[Just. This look.]

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No, really! Like I said, he's just been through a lot. If he were really that bad, do you think I'd still be hanging out with him? We're not related. I could go whenever I wanted.

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[Wally flips a quesadilla. The puppy comes over to chew on his sneaker laces and lick the cheese off the floor.] What's being related got to do with it?

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He's not my dad. I don't have to do anything for him. [Except he practically is her dad and she'd do anything for him.]

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First of all, even if someone is your dad, you don't have to do jack for him. [Annie. Artemis.] And second...someone doesn't have to be your dad for you to do anything for him. [He looks at Ellie.] I don't have to like him to know that he matters a lot to you. All right? You don't have to sell him to me.

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[Dammit, Wally. Ellie scratches her nose and looks down at her plate. He's got it.]

Okay, okay.

[How embarrassing.]

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[That's right.

He eyeballs her, puts the hot quesadilla on a plate and gives her that so he can take the cold one and roll it up and shove half of it into his mouth.] 'Sides, [he mumbles around it as he gets another ready,] pr'y sure 'ou cah 'andle 'urself. [And if she can't then he'll just have to make sure he gets her out of here.]

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[What is even going on with this food. Ellie takes hers and starts picking at it, though she's a little flustered because what is talking about Joel.]

Yeah. I could kick his ass. But I'll never need to.

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M'kay, well. [Wally bites it off and waits to shove the rest into his mouth after he finishes speaking.] Still prob'ly a good idea for me to not be in the same room as him.