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    “Why the hell would you do that?”

     

    The desperation is ratcheting up as he tries to clumsily shrug out of his over shirt and ball it up as a makeshift bandage to lay over her side. His dark eyes, so like Joel’s, pool with moisture, and it’s everything she can do not to look away, cheeks prickling with heat.

     

    “You took that bite for me,” Tommy says, voice cracking and trembling with barely repressed rage and terror. “Why the fuck would you do that?”

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    16 Dec 2024

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    Joel rarely gets calls from unfamiliar numbers, so his tone is gruff and cautious when he answers.

    “Is this Joel Miller?” Asks the girl on the other end.

    “Who’s this?” He demands.

    “Oh, right. My name is Ellie Williams. I’m a criminal justice student at the university. I was calling to see-“

    “Don’t call me again,” his voice is a growl, rage seeping into his veins as he puts together the purpose of this call.

    “Mr. Miller, please just give me a minute. I run a true crime podcast about unsolved cases. We’ve already solved two-“

    “Don’t call me again, do you hear?”

    “Listen, there’s some evidence in your daughter's case that was overl-“

    Joel hangs up the phone. For good measure, he blocks the number like Tommy showed him how to do.

     

    (Joel's daughter was murdered 20 years ago, and it's still unsolved. Ellie runs a true crime podcast. - AKA finding eachother in every universe- true crime AU)

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    15 Dec 2024

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    “You are not replaceable, I am not temporary.” He’s holding her face in his hands, wiping away the tears that try to fall from the corner of her eyes.

    She’s had a shit childhood, one he wishes with every fiber of his being, he could replace for her.

    He can do this, though. Be here for her now.

    “Look at me kiddo, I know you are not Sarah, and I don’t need you to be. I need you to be Ellie; funny, brave, and so goddamn smart, Ellie.” His heart tugs painfully in his chest as her face screws up in an anguished expression.

    “You are enough just as you are, and anybody who tells you different will find themselves laid out for spit’n that kind of bullshit at my kid.” He tucks her into his chest as the first broken sobs burst past her lips.

    She might be eighteen, a legal adult, but she’s still just a kid looking for the comfort of a parent.

    Something she’s never had before. He’ll be that for her, if she’ll let him.

    From now until the earth claims him.


    Another modern/western vibe. After Ellie ages out of foster care in Boston, she greyhounds it out to Wyoming to work at Miller Ranch, where Joel is waiting in that dad shape of his.

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    15 Dec 2024

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    “What’s wrong?” He asks, stepping back and inviting her inside. She takes the offer and slips in, careful not to touch him when she does. “Everything alright? Joel okay?”

    “He will be,” she says enigmatically, and he has a moment of rolling his eyes at this very teenaged flare for drama. Whatever she’s come over for doesn’t appear to be an emergency–he has faith enough that she’d be more urgent in her actions if it were–so now he’s more curious than terrified.

    “You wanna elaborate on that?” He asks with a lift of one brow, shutting the door and leaning against it casually, arms crossed loosely over his chest. “Because it certainly sounds-”

    “I need to burn a scar off of my arm,” she says plainly, posture ramrod straight from her place on the armchair she’s settled in.

    He blinks.

    (after settling in jackson, ellie has a favor to ask of tommy)

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    12 Dec 2024

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    “Watch where you’re fucking going,” he grumbles, but it’s with none of his usual bite.

     

    Still, Ellie scowls and mutters, “dick,” under her breath and takes another careful step forward, testing the mushy ground with her sneaker before following behind him dutifully.

     

    Then it’s her turn to pretend she can’t see Joel watching her out of the corner of his eye, hand flexing at his side like he’s fighting the urge to reach out and make sure she doesn’t trip again. Ellie catches his eye, and he immediately sets his jaw and faces forward, but it’s enough that she can’t help but think, got you, motherfucker.

     

    Dude might have a fucking heart after all.

     

    (Or Ellie is clumsy and Joel is not fucking endeared by it at all. He’s not.)

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    09 Dec 2024

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