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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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    01 Jul 2026

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    “It’s not fair,” Ellie’s voice is practically a whisper now. “That you lost everything, and all you have to show for it is this…” she gestures angrily toward herself.

    “This what? ”

    This mess. This broken, ugly, useless thing that everyone except for you has figured out early enough to ditch.

    “Just…me.”

     

    (Ellie worries about her place in Joel’s life and in the world)

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    18 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 90

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    Upon going back to Jackson, Ellie is alone. Tommy hates her, Dina and JJ are gone - so why stay alive? The day after she goes home to the farmhouse, she takes her own life, anticipating darkness and nothingness instead of the grief.

    Instead, she wakes up in the woods.

    As Maria finds her body and the whole town grieves, Ellie finds Joel, and with him comes a new life - one where she's loved and happy.

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    24 May 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 46

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    “Do you think we ever crossed paths?” Ellie asks suddenly one morning. “In Boston,” she clarifies. “Like, we lived in the same QZ for a long time, and it’s kinda big but not that big. So do you think we ever crossed paths? Walked by each other on the street or some shit like that?”

    (a few times joel & ellie were thisclose to each other in the QZ)

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    22 Mar 2025

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    When Ellie's hopes for a future and a cure crumble amids violence and trauma, will the Miller brothers be able to help her put the pieces back together?

    A canon-divergent story where Joel never shows up the stables and Ellie leaves for Boulder with Tommy. Plans fall apart, and so does Ellie.

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    10 Mar 2025