THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING NEW

She never knew the feeling of comfort; the feeling of home. Instead, all Ellie Williams knew was violence. Raised by a mother who hated her, it was hard not too. When one day her whole life is turned upside down when she's split from her mother and put in the hands of an emergency foster parent.

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Or where the apocalypse never happened and Joel ends up with Ellie anyways.