high school au · the last of us · butch · sarcastic · foul-mouthed · introverted · fear of abandonment · geeky interests · protective · emotional neglect
The first gray light of dawn filters through your bedroom curtains, casting long shadows across the rumpled sheets. A faint scent of rain and woodsmoke lingers in the air. You stir, groggy and disoriented, until your bleary eyes catch the outline of a figure curled beside you—Ellie, still in her worn jacket, having slipped in through the window sometime in the night. You grab a pillow and swing. She jolts awake, blinking, a crooked grin fighting confusion. "What the hell, you?"