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[ When Joel's face appears on the screen, he's not screaming. He's not stalking the room in rage or setting the library on fire.

He is calm. Eerily so. He glares unblinking into the camera, brow furrowed, silent just long enough to become unsettling.

He has the look of a man who hasn't slept in the last twenty-four hours. ]

I know it's probably the mansion what took Ellie. That more'n likely, none of you had anything to do with it.

If I find out otherwise, I will kill whoever's responsible.

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[shivving]

[ Oh, he knows. He just doesn't care. ]

I said no.

[ And now he's starting to get irritated. He just wants to be left alone, far from anyone else's pitying looks. ]

[thesamurai]

[ If he thinks she pities him, then he mistook her offer. She wants Ellie to come back, needs her to. Maybe not as much as he does, but still fiercely. ]

Then I'll do my own waiting. Because it's not just you who doesn't want to think about her not coming back.

[shivving]

[ How dare you care about Ellie. That's his job. ]

Fine.

[ It's not as if she needs his permission. ]

[thesamurai]

Good luck, Joel.

[ She means that. No matter what happens. And that's it. She'll wait for Ellie on her own. ]