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    “Explain,” Ellie echoes, and he feels her hands fist in the fabric of his shirt when she sways too far to the right. His impulse is to reach back to steady her, but this isn’t the moment. Instead he leans back just a bit, and she takes the gesture for what it is, leaning forward a bit more to steady herself against him.

    “We didn’t know it was Joel with you,” Marlene says, in that same calm tone. “As soon as we figured it out, we brought him here to recover.”

    “And tried to drug me,” Ellie spits like an angry cat.

    “You were panicking,” Marlene says. She moves forward a half-step. “We just-”

    “Back,” he orders, and after a jerk of the rifle, she does. He doesn’t know what’s going on, not yet, but he knows that Ellie is upset and Marlene has had something to do with it.

    And what else does he need to know, really?

    (i looked at episode 9 and went 'nah') (alternate ending in which they stay and let the fireflies find a cure)

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    Joel’s on edge the entire time they’re in the hospital.

    He’s not stupid. He knows how science-types tend to put the why above the how. He sees the way they look at Ellie, like she’s a fascinating specimen instead of a child. There’s a calculation in their faces that he mistrusts immensely, and he knows at once that he won’t leave any of them alone with Ellie.

    They try to keep him out of the room at first when they do their tests, but HIPAA died twenty years ago along with the rest of their world, and it only takes pinning one doctor to the wall by his throat for them to see that he’s best left to his own judgment calls about whether or not he needs to stay with his kid.

    The gratitude in Ellie’s grip when she reaches for his hand when they start drawing blood tells him he made the right one.

    (an alternate ending in which Joel doesn't have to Rambo an entire hospital) (aka Joel being a great dad while terrorizing an entire building of medical professionals)

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    Among Englishmen, Thomas has never felt like one of them. He's slighter than them, prettier than a man should be, and looks at men in a way he would never dare reveal. He never expected that he'd abandon the settlement of the New World and join an Indian tribe either, but meeting Kocoum made him believe that his life could be something different than he had ever imagined. Kocoum, with his strength, his kindness, and undying loyalty, it's no wonder Thomas falls desperately in love with him.

    It's no surprise that that love between them could lead to something more, something beyond the boundaries of everything Thomas knows.

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    “I don’t know. Truthfully, Triton won’t tell me what he flashed into but he isn’t one to act upon another violently without prominent reason.” Those eyes darken once more. “He was told not to call for me. My son, my baby boy, was told not to call for me if he needed anything.” He turns back to the bathroom that houses their sons. “That is the reason he called for his brother and not me. He’s not going back. He is mine just as much as he is hers and I am keeping him. If she thinks she can fix that monster wasting away in human flesh she may do so but she will not keep my son with her if that is her decision.” 

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