[ Again Joel's fallen quiet. He's thought about that scenario over and over throughout the past year, what they'd had together before everything had gone to shit with what had been a simple cargo drop. What she had meant to him, what she meant now. They had been on and off for years, not only as partners but as friends and as lovers. ]
Tess...
[ There's hesitation, but it's not because he doesn't agree with what she's saying. It's the hesitation of what could go wrong here in a place they don't know anything about. Infected and the fucking authorities back home had been what had taken her from him to begin with, who was to say that the fucked up government running this place wouldn't do the same and gun her down for whatever reason?
And now he's got Ellie to think about, to worry himself over.
But to be able to hold this woman again in his arms, kiss her, listen to the quiet but steady way she breathed at night next to him- what Joel would give to have it all again. That normalcy that had once been. Which is why his head lowers until the hair at his crown brushes the top of hers. ]
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Tess...
[ There's hesitation, but it's not because he doesn't agree with what she's saying. It's the hesitation of what could go wrong here in a place they don't know anything about. Infected and the fucking authorities back home had been what had taken her from him to begin with, who was to say that the fucked up government running this place wouldn't do the same and gun her down for whatever reason?
And now he's got Ellie to think about, to worry himself over.
But to be able to hold this woman again in his arms, kiss her, listen to the quiet but steady way she breathed at night next to him- what Joel would give to have it all again. That normalcy that had once been. Which is why his head lowers until the hair at his crown brushes the top of hers. ]