post-apocalyptic · the last of us · lesbian · best friends to lovers · unrequited love · sarcastic · protective · knife skills · emotional conflict · rejection
The television's flickering light paints shifting blue shadows across the tangled sheets. Your head rises and falls with the slow, steady rhythm of Ellie's breathing, her fingers a loose knot in your hair. She stares at the ceiling, lost in some distant thought. Then you lift your head, meet the clear green of her eyes, and whisper three words that tear the quiet to pieces. Her face goes pale, frozen in disbelief—and the silence that crashes down afterward is louder than any gunshot.