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[Letting himself be nudged, Joel takes up the controller he'd set down.

And then, quick as a flash, he dashes his hand out and gives her side a brief but playful tickle just by her ribs. Just as quickly, he pulls his hand away again and pretends he hadn't done anything. ]

[Whoa! Ellie jumps, complete with a squeak of surprise.]

Hey! You're asking for it! [She tries to get him back in the same spot. Does it translate well? Probably not, but she's got to try. He can't get away with all that tickling and pretending like he's innocent bullshit.]

[ Joel isn't ticklish in that spot, though he jerks away slightly at Ellie's fingers digging into his ribs. He's otherwise unfazed. ]

You're gonna have to try harder than that.

[ He's stretching a hand towards her again, slowly this time. Slooowly. Taunting her with the threat of tickling her again. ]

[She shoves his hand away, controller and game system forgotten. As excited as she is for it, Joel's the priority. He's not always this playful.]

Don't you dare. And don't you test me!

[ He's almost reached her side. Almost seems about ready to grab her side in another tickle. His brows are raised at her, too, as much to say, Oh yeah?

But then, he relents. He draws his hand back to himself and gives a shrug as much to say, Alright, I won't test you. And it seems for a second that he's about to turn back to the game with the way he returns his attention to the television.

That is, until his hand dashes down to grab her knee in a taunting tickle. ]

[Ellie's first mistake: thinking he was actually done with playing around. It's in character for him. His playfulness and silliness comes and goes all the time. Ellie's second mistake: relaxing and turning back to the screen when he does. Best not to mess with him so much that he gets annoyed and ruins the moment.

Oops.

There's another squeak of laughter, surprised and giddy, followed by a thud as Ellie's full-body jerk sends her butt sliding off the bed. She lands right on her ass.]

Oowwww...

[She's still laughing.]

[ Joel snorts, looking amused at the way Ellie slides off the bed with a jerk. ]

Heh. You alright, kiddo?

[ He barely gives her a chance to answer. He reaches down for her and attacks the sides of her neck just behind her ears with his fingers, gentler than the way he'd tickled her ribs and her knee, but no less merciless. ]

[Ruthless. Ellie shrieks and laughs, clearly having a blast. She tries to push his hands away and scoot to safety, but not very hard. She likes laughing so hard her cheeks and lungs hurt.]

Owwww I think my ass is broken! [Ellie, you regenerate.] You've won! You've won!!

[ Hearing Ellie laugh like that, uncontrollable and shrieking and full of childlike joy - Joel can't help but smile. And Lucy, excited by the commotion, bounds up to Ellie all the while and starts jumping up at her while licking at her face, tail wagging madly.

After a good few seconds of tickling Ellie's neck, hearing her giggle about her ass being broken and shrieking that he's won, Joel knows when enough is enough and so eases off with the tickling to let her catch her breath and sits back.

Which is the point Lucy decides to scramble up onto the bed and Joel finds himself suddenly being attacked by Lucy licking his face. The force of her excitement is enough to send Joel almost slumping over on the bed with Lucy climbing on top of him. ]

Stop it, you dumb-- C'mon, stop--

Good dog! [Who knows when to take advantage of a situation? Ellie. Whether it's a brick to the face or a dog to the face, it works. Huffing out one last wheeze to recover from her tickle attack, she pulls herself back onto the bed, joining Lucy. Her hands go to get Joel behind the ears, just like he had done to her.]

You've gotta be ticklish somewhere!

[ Joel almost manages to wrangle Lucy off him just when Ellie joins him on the bed and her hands attack him on his neck. It's unexpected and Joel makes a noise that's something like a grunt. ]

El--

[ Lucy suddenly starts snuffling at his ear, a horribly sensitive part of his body to the touch, and it's between that and Ellie tickling the sides of his neck that Joel cuts off from saying Ellie's name and lets out a helpless bark of a laugh instead that sounds somewhere between a protest and a wheeze. ]

Edited 2014-09-11 09:50 (UTC)

[Holy fuck what was that noise.

She almost stops to ask, but of course she knows what it really is--a laugh. A real laugh, not just a chuckle or an amused grunt. It occurs to her that it's pretty fucking sad that in the year and some that she's known him, spending almost every day with him, she's never heard this. Hell, even unguarded smiles are... pretty rare.

She likes hearing him laugh.]

That was kinda squeaky! I think you need some oil. [As much as she wants to hear more, she stops her assault, flopping over on top of him.]

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