@omniterror asked: ❛ i guess i don't really care if it's dangerous or not. i'm going either way. ❜ / rose &. joel
❛ Rose! Damn you, just wait— ❜
Joel’s entire life is a mud-up between half-completed tasks and following after other people. Joel stuffs handgun ammo into a duffel bag and keeps having to take breaks to sneak Rose into his peripheral, making sure she doesn’t sneak off like a damn cat in the dead of night. Joel’s heart hammers, but it does every time, useless and in irregard of how much he needs to stay calm.
He zips up the bag, nearly getting it caught on his own thumb. In the winter, his skin cracks like hell and burns like wasp stings. There’s a perfect clotted seam of red down his hand and over his knuckles. It’s pretty damn poetic.
❛ You gotta go with someone. If you don’t have anyone to watch your back, you’re as good as dead. Kindly protect your damn skin for Anna. ❜ If anyone mentioned Sarah like that to Joel, he might knock their teeth in. But times change. Sarah is dead. despite how she haunts.
Anna is not. Swallowing thick spit, Joel clicks his tongue. ❛ Where we heading out, anyway? ❜ We not you nor I, Rose is as much a companion as Tess used to be. Alberta ain’t no Boston. But she understands the difference the same, that companions come &. go, the suffering held for when you’re alone and it’s dark, when the sounds of the monsters’ drool ‘gainst your door keep you awake. When the ghosts come and they don’t leave, and you gotta make do. ❛ Supplies or what, Rose? ❜










