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  1. Public Bookmark 10

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    Their fragrance lingers on: weak and tepid, drained and subdued, but there.

    There: the Rockies on their right and miles of wheatgrass to their left, the sun overhead a pulsing, livid thing. The Nebraskan prairie, its clover that high summer yellow, so tall that it’d tickled the underside of Ellie’s chin when she’d ran through it. That first snowfall in Wyoming, the flakes delicate and wispy, fairy like as they sifted down through the pale pink haze of sunrise. All those nights around the fire, all those days with her feet aching and her nose running and her heart taking flight around her chest. Those first months, before Jackson and Joel’s betrayal, before the university and Silver Lake. Before she was a victim; before she was a broken child, a broken promise.

    Before the lie.

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    Ellie and Joel's journey, told one flower at a time.

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    17 Dec 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 10

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    Ellie’s pretty sure dudes don’t wear nail polish. She’s never seen a picture of them with it on, anyway. And Joel probably wants to go home. It’s late and he spent the day bashing in former human's skulls.

    But her curiosity gets the better of her. She looks up as he walks into the kitchen after her, taking a few bottles out of the box. “I’m gonna do yours.”

    “Right now?”

    “Right now.”

     

    Two girls. Two times. Numerous bottles of nail polish.

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    09 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 46

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    “I’m still getting used to that.” Ellie tells him. “Someone caring where I am all the time.”

    Joel chooses his words very carefully. “It’s my job. I quite like it, if I’m honest. ”

    She smiles, a little wry, expression molding into something awkward to hide the tremble of her lip. “Interesting take considering I’m the government equivalent of a last draft pick.”

    He hums in acknowledgement. “But you’ll always be my first round pick. That’s what counts.”

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    It's been twenty years since Sarah died and he fell apart. It's been fifteen years since Tommy couldn't take the heartbreak of helping someone who didn't want to be helped and left without looking back. And it's been ten years since Joel's started to rebuild.

    It's day one of fostering Ellie Williams.

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    01 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 39

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    “I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”

    A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”

    Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”

    Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”

    “Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:

    “What?!”

     

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    Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Shenanigans ensue.

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    07 Nov 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    “I need to hide,” Ellie whispers, the words carried away on the wind. “Need to hide.”

    She turns away again and steps, stumbles and goes to her knees. The snow is cold, soaking her pants almost immediately. But she pushes up, stumbles forward again.

    “Hide,” she whispers to herself. “Hide.”

    (whumptober - blood trail)

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    19 Oct 2024

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