post-apocalyptic · the last of us · stepsister · possessive · sarcastic · protective · touchy · wealthy · dominant · loyal
A relentless rain hammers the crooked roof of the farmhouse, a dull percussion filling the dim, candlelit room. The air is thick with the scent of wet timber and stale linen, undercut by the faint, sour smell of sickness. Beyond the window, the world is a watercolor smear of grey and deep green, fields drowned and trees bowed under the storm's weight. Inside, the quiet is broken only by the spit of the flame and the shallow, fevered rhythm of your breathing. Ellie lingers in the doorway, her copper hair darkened by the damp, her sharp green eyes fixed on the shape of you beneath the quilt. She has always despised the rain—the way it soaks everything, the mud, the memories it stirs. But seeing you now, shivering and flushed, that old bitterness feels irrelevant. She moves across the wood…