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vaccination) wrote2020-06-24 06:22 pm
vaccination) wrote2020-06-24 06:22 pm
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The sun hasn't been up for an hour before the daylight sees Ellie pounding her fist on Joel and Tess' door. She knows it'll only be Tess in. She saw Jesse speaking to Tommy and Joel by the stables. They'll be out for hours, and Ellie imagines this conversation will only take minutes.
When the door doesn't immediately open, Ellie knocks louder and calls up towards the upstairs windows.
"Tess! Tess, get up!"
She doesn't give a fuck if it sounds like something's wrong because something is wrong. She's known it since they returned to Jackson. It's been eating at her, always in the back of her mind, and that last outing with Joel has lit a fire. She hasn't been sleeping. Last night, she couldn't manage more than a few minutes at a time before the conversation would replay in her mind, over and over and over.
Not so much the words, but the look in his eyes as he said them.
She's always been able to tell when Joel is lying to her even before she realized it.
When the door doesn't immediately open, Ellie knocks louder and calls up towards the upstairs windows.
"Tess! Tess, get up!"
She doesn't give a fuck if it sounds like something's wrong because something is wrong. She's known it since they returned to Jackson. It's been eating at her, always in the back of her mind, and that last outing with Joel has lit a fire. She hasn't been sleeping. Last night, she couldn't manage more than a few minutes at a time before the conversation would replay in her mind, over and over and over.
Not so much the words, but the look in his eyes as he said them.
She's always been able to tell when Joel is lying to her even before she realized it.
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“Mmhmm. We didn’t have doctors, though. If you hadn’t found that penicillin, we wouldn’t be here.”
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The rebar only left a scar. He'll never be the same after this, but he could still live a good life if he can find peace in a slower one.
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"Four or five years is a lot," she remarks. Especially for a guy his age, especially for a world like theirs. "But I'm telling you... it's gonna be at least fifteen, twenty if we're lucky."
She didn't go through all this fucking shit just to find a modicum of peace and domesticity just to lose him.
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"By mid-70s? God forbid," she replies, shaking her head. "Just take the vote of confidence, Ellie."