༺ ♱ ༻ [ Ellie Williams x Fem!Reader ] ༺ ♱ ༻
Book 1/2: SINS.
Book 2/2: JUDGMENT.
Outcast and lost at thirteen years old, you have nowhere to go and no one to rely on. After a year of mindless wandering and fighting to survive, you encounter an odd pa...
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SOTC: Dumb - Nirvana
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TW: Brief mentions of sexual assault and pedophilia
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YOU
You scour around the run-down and moldy gas station's convenience store for any useful supplies. So far it seemed they had all been pilfered a long time ago. Growing frustrated, you throw an empty can and approach the bathroom where Ellie is holed up. When you open the door, she's by a mirror and hastily shoving something into her backpack. When she's done scrambling she leans on the sink trying to seem casual, and gives you an awkward smile.
"Nothing?" She questions.
"Jack shit." You mumble. You'd really like to ask her what it is she's been shoving into her backpack any time you've approached her, however at the same time you don't want to be a bother.
The nosy part of you is still dying to know.
Another time, you guess.
Ellie nods at your answer and walks past you to exit the small convenience store. You both approach Joel who's siphoning gas from another vehicle.
"We have to do this every hour?" Ellie asks tightly.
"Gas breaks down over time. This stuff's almost water." Joel huffs. "Back in the day, we'd drive almost ten, twelve hours on one tank. You could go anywhere."
"So where'd you go?" In an attempt to grow a better relationship with Joel, you try to bring up casual conversation.
He looks up at you. "Pretty much nowhere." He then blows into a tube that causes gas to leak into another, and his gasoline tank.
"Nice! How does that work?" Ellie tilts her head.
"It's a siphon." Ellie gives Joel a questioning look. Joel then looks at you and you give him a, don't look at me expression. "It's when liquid... travels against gravity because pressure—"
"You don't know." Ellie teases Joel with a smirk.
"I know it works." Both you and Ellie laugh at Joel's exasperated expression. You start to walk away, feeling the conversation end. Ellie follows shoulder to shoulder with you when Joel's voice cuts in. "No wandering."
You feel like you're being told off by your dad.
Ellie turns back to look at Joel, then awkwardly shuffles around. You watch her with an amused expression. She takes one good look at the tank that's clearly not even close to being full. "Okay." She turns around to shift through her bag.
You raise your eyebrows at her and give her a questioning look. She looks up from her bag and smirks at you.
"This is your fault then." She turns back and says to Joel. You think for a second she's pulling out what she had been shoving into her bag multiple times, except she pulls out a book. "'It doesn't matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.'" She gives out a chuckle at the book's joke, and holds a proud smile.
