[There's not a lot to do in Holly Heights and Joel is often restless about this- with Ellie gone he finds that feeling intensifying, the overall peace and quiet nagging at him in ways that it didn't before. He's not home a lot these days, but it's not like he could call this artificial set-up home. His home left and he doesn't know what to do. Scaling the outside for a way out never works, but some days he does it just to kill time.
Today is different. Today there's a familiar ghost hovering outside the Cathedral, one that stops him in his tracks and makes his heart skip a couple of beats. The landlord has pulled some crazy shit since he's been here, up to and including him being here, but this is the first time Joel freezes like a deer in headlights at what he spots.
He peers at Tess like he's on guard for something, for her to turn into someone else or vanish in the blink of an eye. He can't blink just in case that's true. More than a decade of partnership flashes back to him in bits and pieces, emphasized by their parting. It suddenly slams back on him with such force (all the things he usually forced himself not to think about) that all he can do is mirror the same lost look he'd had in his eyes when he'd backed away from her and left, the last time he saw her.]
Tess...?
[Is she infected? Are they on limited time? Was this is a setup? Joel chances a step closer, and before he knows it he's chancing another. And another.]
a) huffffff
Today is different. Today there's a familiar ghost hovering outside the Cathedral, one that stops him in his tracks and makes his heart skip a couple of beats. The landlord has pulled some crazy shit since he's been here, up to and including him being here, but this is the first time Joel freezes like a deer in headlights at what he spots.
He peers at Tess like he's on guard for something, for her to turn into someone else or vanish in the blink of an eye. He can't blink just in case that's true. More than a decade of partnership flashes back to him in bits and pieces, emphasized by their parting. It suddenly slams back on him with such force (all the things he usually forced himself not to think about) that all he can do is mirror the same lost look he'd had in his eyes when he'd backed away from her and left, the last time he saw her.]
Tess...?
[Is she infected? Are they on limited time? Was this is a setup? Joel chances a step closer, and before he knows it he's chancing another. And another.]