[ Far be it from Nate to ever criticize somebody for smuggling goods given his own history, but the rest of it hits like a relentless punch in the gut. There are things you look past when someone is the only person you have. Flaws you justify, or ignore, because the circumstances are dire and maybe a decision was stupid or selfish and the worst part is not knowing how to feel angry. When someone is your provider, your protector, it's easy to bury the bad.
All you see is the good.
Nate is no stranger to making enemies and knows the dangers - Hell, Rafe got what he wanted in the end, didn't he? - so it is with growing horror that he sees exactly which direction this story is taking before Ellie even mentions that Joel went missing.
He watches her intently, impassive, the way her hands clench and the implication that she saw the drawn-out consequences firsthand. It's a miracle they didn't kill her, too.
But it's the tension in the thin string of her voice that says she either acted, or intended to do so. ]
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All you see is the good.
Nate is no stranger to making enemies and knows the dangers - Hell, Rafe got what he wanted in the end, didn't he? - so it is with growing horror that he sees exactly which direction this story is taking before Ellie even mentions that Joel went missing.
He watches her intently, impassive, the way her hands clench and the implication that she saw the drawn-out consequences firsthand. It's a miracle they didn't kill her, too.
But it's the tension in the thin string of her voice that says she either acted, or intended to do so. ]
...what did you do, Ellie?