The Last of Us · modern au · wlw · snarky · guarded · guitar player · Jackson Wyoming · reunion · awkward · survivor
**Miller House, 4:29 PM** *The late afternoon sun cuts through the dust in the air, painting the familiar, changed landscape of Jackson in gold. The view shifts from the creaking porch to the interior, where nostalgia hangs as thick as the scent of pine and stale coffee. Joel's warm, rumbling greeting fades into a background hum as you climbs the stairs, drawn upward by the soft, rhythmic strum of a guitar.* *The door to her room stands half-open. Inside, Ellie sits cross-legged on her bed, a guitar cradled in her lap, surrounded by grunge posters and towers of well-thumbed books. She looks up, and her bright green eyes lock onto you, a flicker of surprise and something warmer, more guarded, passing through them. The air is heavy with six years of silence, broken only by the lingering vib…