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Holding On

Summary: Joel’s injury induced fever causes him to have strange dreams. Ellie mourns for a man she’ll never meet and what he lost

Rating: NOT explicit, fine for everyone to read.

Warnings: Angst. So much angst. Mourning. Thoughts of children passing. Bittersweet memories. Joel’s wound is described. General sadness, my bad.

Word Count: 1,200

A/N: my first ever fic!! ahhh!! I hope I encapsulated what I was thinking correctly haha. This is a little cliche, a little dramatic, but who cares? I’ve had wayyy too much sleep paralysis lately, so I thought I’d play around with similar dreaming scenarios

Note: this fic does follow the game version’s story line ( Joel is unconscious for the whole period of his injury ) and character descriptions ( Sarah )

credits to @ cafekitsune for the dividers!

He can smell smoke outside. Something comforting, he reckons. His eyes are closed, but he’s awake.

Inhaling once more, he determines that his neighbors must be having a barbecue. They could use some spice though, with whatever they’re cooking. His eyes are still closed - the floaty feeling of being in and out of sleeping making him feel nauseous. There’s a breeze from the window, chilling him far more than it should. He should get up and close it, but he feels too tired, worn down from that client who keeps changing his damn mind about what varnish he wants on the desk.

A few minutes of more drifting, thinking about nothing in particular. Kaity’s party on saturday, after Sarah finishes kindergarten. It’s on his calendar, he’ll remember that. Need to buy milk and bananas, give ma a call. Tommy’s birthday next week, need to confirm with the guy ‘bout those Harley’s.

He feels a pressure on his chest. Blinking awake, and being partially blinded by the late afternoon sun shining through the curtains, he looks down and sees soft locks of golden hair, glowing in the rays. Chubby cheeks and hazel eyes that mirror his own. He smiles softly. There you are, sunshine. He aims to say it out loud, but no sound comes.

Sarah settles her head against his chest. She’s so tiny, still.His little girl, his baby, his whole entire world. He peeks down to find her curled up on him, cuddling against him the way he would hold her when she was an infant, when skin to skin contact was the only thing that would make her stop crying. He missed those naps, he’s happy that she still wants to cuddle with him most nights. He’s not strong enough to insist upon her sleeping in her own bed like big girls do.

His eyes slip closed again, the weight of her a comforting pressure that calms his anxieties as soon as he feels it. The steady rhythm of her breathing, up and down, a comfort to him when she was just born, and now.

He wants to play with her hair, feel the silky strands against his calloused hands, smooth his thumb over her baby-soft cheeks and pinch her little nose so he can hear those giggles, but his body is still so damn tired. What’s up with that? he wonders, but doesn’t fret for too long. Sarah’s breathing lulling him to sleep better than any white noise or tablet could.

It’s cold and there’s a pain in his side. Sarah must’ve kicked him in her sleep. He needs to shut the damn window, Sarah’s going to get sick at this rate. Where’s the damn blanket? He blinks awake groggily to find Sarah gone. Missing that pressure on his chest.

Where’d she go? Who’s watching her? She’s not gonna sleep tonight at this rate.

Goddamnit he needs to get up.

“Sarah!” he calls weakly, his voice hoarse and his throat sore. “C’mon honey, where’d you go? You’re goin’ t’get hurt by yourself!”

He still feels like he’s in between being asleep and awake, it’s nauseating. “Sarah!” he calls again, trying to move his body with all his might, unable to do anything but stare at the window, the sun now set, dusk settling in.

Ellie rubs her eyes tiredly, yawning silently to herself as she sits up.

“Ow, my ass…” she grumbles. The hard concrete of the basement is definitely not the best place she’s slept in. Glancing behind her, she studies Joel’s face as she stretches her back. He looks fine, grumpy as usual, which is less worrying than when his face was totally relaxed. He’s shivering, but there’s sweat gathering on his forehead.

“Shit.” Ellie mumbles, gently lifting the thin blanket and moving Joel’s jacket away. His face pinches at this,

“I know it’s cold, give me two seconds Joel.” she mutters to herself quietly. The wound looks bad. Fuck. Her first aid teacher would not be impressed at all.

There’s puss forming, and she knows that’s never a good sign. Her shitty stitch job closed the wound at least, there’s not much more she can do for now but pour little batches of whiskey she found in the house’s cellar over the cut and hope for the best, pulling her t-shirt back over him and reapplying the duck tape.

“S…”

Her head shoots to the side at the tiny sound, pausing mid action, trying to silence everything - even her heart beat as she holds her breath - so she can hear.

No sound comes and she deflates. Maybe he’s just breathing through his mouth and his teeth are whistling. Old people shit.

“Sar…ah.” he mumbles and Ellie stops in her tracks. She blinks a few times, layering him again slowly.

There’s a pinch behind her eyes. Combined stress, those people she killed at the mall, Riley, Henry and Sam, jumping into that damn helicopter, not knowing if Joels going to die or not. And now, this man that she’s grown to care for over these past few months, who’s saved her life more times than she can count. A father, calling out for his dead daughter when he’s fighting for his life on a cold basement floor.

Fat tears roll down her cheeks, blurring her vision as she tries to make sure Joel’s comfortable on the matress. Sniffles and heaving breaths as she mourns for someone she never met, a life Joel lived that he’ll probably never share. She thinks of that picture Maria showed her, shoved away in her backpack, that smiley girl with blonde hair, a smile from Joel that she can’t even imagine gracing his features. A baby, his baby. She can’t imagine that feeling, but she knows it’s more than enough to shatter a person forever, stomp them into tiny little pieces.

You don’t know what loss is.

She’s sure she doesn’t. Not compared to that. Hopefully she never will.

Still crying, for herself and for Joel : for the dad he was and a girl she never met, she lowers herself back down, laying her head on his chest like she was before and slings her arm around him.

She’s not giving up on him, she’s not gonna let him die. She’ll find medicine and food in the morning no matter what.

He hears Sarah crying downstairs, soft sniffles and hiccups.

Panic seeps into his bones.

Fuck, why can’t I move?! Goddamnit she needs me.

The wind is blowing stronger from outside. He’s so cold.

There’s a sharp pinch at his side and he hisses. He can feel something thin : a needle under his skin, for a moment.

Sarah’s still crying, her sobs are getting louder, distorting into some garbled sound that has his heart rate increasing, adrenaline and something stronger pumping through his veins.

He feels sticky, fuck, is that blood?

The sobs of pain and garbled noises are loud, right there. All he can see is her body, twelve years old now, gripping at his shirt while she screams and cries in pain.

He wakes with a start, blinking as he sees the cold, dark ceiling.

It all comes flooding back to him. The university, the Fireflies, those raiders - christ. Where’s Ellie?

He stands up on shaky legs, gripping his side before he calls out into the empty house.

“Ellie?!”

Where the hell did that girl go?

He makes his way up the stairs shakily, gripping the doorway before heading out the front door.

The snow blinds him, but he continues forward.

a/n : tysm for reading!! Comments and reblogs are always appreciated.

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Kaity Eighty Story and Facts

LORE POST GO

Early Life/Childhood

At the beginning of her life, her infant brain was aptitude tested and was confirmed to be in the 90th IQ percentile or higher, and was soon whisked away from her parents at the young age of 5 hours old. All documents surrounding her birth and existence were destroyed, and she was soon to be habilitated in military school.

Growing up, she didn’t necessarily have friends, but brothers and sisters she would rely on. She had an aptitude for taking things apart and putting them back together, such as pencil sharpeners and mechanical toys. Her teachers became aware of this, and transferred her into an engineering program, with an emphasis in machinery. 

Messing with machines for assignments was probably the happiest she was in her childhood. She stayed in school until about 14 years old, where she graduated and was soon assigned to the Side Order project.

She was in charge of designing life-sustaining and oxygen producing machinery for the fallen dome, utilizing the nuclear power that was present.

With the sudden influx of Zapfish, the project was prosperous and a young Kaity was making great progress.

However, Zapfish would soon begin to disappear as the events of the first Splatoon occurred.

Splatoon 1

Kaity was really close to figuring out a solution to safely connect the nuclear power to power oxygen production, enabling a solution that would require minimum monitoring and could possibly be applicable to all the domes.

This would revolutionize life in the domes, as an infinite power source for oxygen would be a miracle for a civilization so reliant on electricity.

However, just as she was about to hit save, the Zapfish that powered her section of the project was ripped from its socket, and everything was shot for power for a while before the backup electricity kicked in.

Kaity had lost everything. About 2 years of work, calculation, research and scripture was lost in just a simple outage.

Needless to say, a young Kaity was fucking furious.

She went up to her manager and demanded to be relocated as a military force to find whoever did this and to make them PAY.

Through propaganda, she would discover Agent 3 was the one ripping out the power. She decided to set her sights on Agent 3.

Splatoon 2

After a lot of demanding and determined requests, she was transferred to the armed forces.

There, she met Kirakira, a young octoling who wasn’t sure what to do with himself, so he applied to the most basic of forces.

Kaity and Kira would begin to grow a powerful bond. At one point they would even say they were brothers.

Finally, when their basic training was complete, they were assigned together to an area where members of the NSS had an interest. An unstable area on the mountains.

On their first day on the job, it didn’t take them long to spot a 17 year old Sicily.

Memories flashing before her eyes of the lost files, she began to fight with Sicily, much to Kira and Sicily’s dismay because of the unstable conditions.

As such, the surface they were fighting on began to crumble, and eventually gave out beneath the three of them.

Octo Expansion

Octo Expansion.

Kaity forgets everything prior! Yay no more file bloodlust!

When she heard the Calamari Inkantation, she developed an extreme longing for the surface.

At this time, everyone called her Hachi, but her accent made it sound like Aachi, which prompted the nickname.

After finishing the campaign and defeating Commander Tartar, the OTH helicopter immediately transports everyone to the NSS Military Hospital. Kaity, Kira and Sicily are treated for injuries.

Left without a memory of everything prior, Kaity feels extremely bad for an injured Sicily. She stays by her side constantly.

Marina begins to teach Kaity and Kira a little Inklish. Kaity is way more receptive to the lessons than Kira is, but Kaity is happy to translate for him.

She’s also a huge Squid Sisters fan and freaked out during Sicily’s big genetics reveal.

After Sicily was discharged from the hospital, Kaity stuck with her to help take care of her.

Kaity begins to learn more about life on the surface, and begins to fall in love with life. And eventually… with Sicily.

Sicily cracks her egg and she realizes she’s a girl, and changes her name from Aachi to Kaity Eighty.

After Sicily feels better, she sticks around to help with rehabilitation training.

SO much romantic tension during spar sessions dear god. These girls should kiss and commence yuri (they do)

Splatoon 3

At a NSS going away party for Sicily and the Squid Sisters to go to Splatsville, Kaity proposes and the girls are engayged.

She gets employed at Ammo Knights as a Weapons Consultant and Modifier. She’s popular for weapon repairs and being a design assistant for Grizzco weapons.

However, she would soon be assigned to return to the Side Order project for the Side Order campaign, due to areas near the project’s location above ground becoming dangerous and polluted.

Originally only she would go with Off the Hook, but Caroline insisted on tagging along with her.

She would go for a month and then return for a visit to Splatsville. During that first month she still had an internet connection, and was able to keep in contact with her friends and family.

However, when she returned to the Side Order campaign, contact would be cut for her, Caroline, and Off the Hook.

Currently, she’s been separated from 4 and Marina, and she’s exploring an illusion of Inkopolis with Pearl.

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