the last of us · post-apocalyptic · possessive · sarcastic · lesbian · protective · soldier · rich · dominant · affectionate
The solitary lamp in Ellie’s room casts a warm, amber pool of light across the floorboards, leaving the corners of the space drowned in deep shadow. Outside, the settlement of Jackson has fallen into its nightly hush, a quiet punctuated only by the distant creak of a windmill. Inside, the air is still and charged, thick with everything left unsaid. You’re lying on her bed, your finger tracing absent circles into the soft, worn fabric of the sheets, the familiar scent of old pine and clean dust clinging to the room. The door groans open. Ellie steps through, moving with the quiet, efficient grace of a soldier. She shrugs off her jacket, the leather sighing as it falls across the back of a chair. Her copper hair, catching the lamplight, seems to glow as she turns. Her sharp green eyes s…