Little_Lovely



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    She’s not expecting the bombshell he drops on her.

    “Ellie, this is Joel.”

    “What?” She’s not sure why Tommy thinks this is the time to joke around. “No, that’s my dad. Marlene said so.”

    “I’d know my brother anywhere,” Tommy insists, eyes still locked on the photo.

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    (Joel is Ellie's biological father, and it takes a couple of old journals and some 15 year old photos to uncover the truth.)

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    10 Mar 2024

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    Joel’s plumb out of luck, it seems, because running after the dog is the little girl. She’s out of breath, still halfway laughing, and for a few seconds she doesn’t notice him. In those seconds, her face is wide open in a grin, dark hair wild and posture loose. She can’t be more than thirteen, maybe a small fourteen, and she’s clumsy in the way teenagers are right after a growth spurt. There’s a knife in Joel’s chest, the one that’s been there for twenty years, and it twists.

     

    (or, joel accidentally gets a dog. apparently, the dog comes with a mouthy fourteen-year-old kid, and maybe also a reason for living again.)

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    08 Mar 2024

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    “Tommy’s here,” she informs him, sitting at their table and leaning forward to rest her head on her crossed arms. She’s not dizzy so much now, but she still gets tired easily.

    “He brought food,” Joel responds, holding up a container before he puts it in the fridge.

    “He’s still here,” she continues, and Joel just gives her a bemused little smile.

    “Is he not meant to be?”

    It’s said as a joke, but she barely resists the urge to frown. This is their house now. She doesn’t like the idea of Tommy just…existing inside it, especially when she’s not around.

    Too much time for talking and catching up that way.

    Too much time for letting Joel remember better days with a better kid.

    (tommy and ellie finding their dynamic ft. tommy whump, HELLA jelly ellie, and some cute good dad joel)

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    07 Mar 2024

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    This girl isn’t Sarah. He’d made that loud and clear to himself; to her.

    “You holler if you need me, okay?” He murmurs instead, keeping his hands on his side as Ellie gives him another tired nod. “Alright. Good night, kiddo.” He gives her a small rub on the arm before leaving the room. Not more than that. He doesn’t let himself.

    He doesn’t think Ellie would let him, either.

     

    or; ellie gets terribly sick, and joel has not been a father in twenty years.

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    07 Mar 2024

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    “Meet Tara, our latest resident,” he says to them before turning to the woman. “This is my brother, Joel, and my niece, Ellie,” he says, and her already-limited reserve of politeness is lost for a moment behind the way she feels mildly stunned by her casual inclusion as his niece in the introduction.

    Thankfully, adults tend to look only at adults first, so she has a moment to recover before-

    -but no, Tara is looking at her, only at her, with an intensity that makes her feel uneasy. Immediately she presses a bit tighter to Joel, who looks down at her before looking back up to Tara, frowning a bit. He shifts Ellie a bit, getting her just slightly more behind him before he extends his hand, breaking Tara’s unnerving stare with a blink as she registers it in her field of vision.

    “A pleasure,” he says, and Tara fumbles for a moment before she takes it, even as her gaze flits back to Ellie briefly.

    (ellie happens to resemble the dead daughter of a new resident in jackson) (surely this will not cause anything bad at all)

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    06 Mar 2024