"Just-- stop. Right there. Just fuckin' stop." A hand has come up, defensive, commanding Ellie to do as he damn well says.
Sarah. Tess. Two names he can't bear to hear. Two names he only talks about on his fucking terms, damn it. His terms. Not Ellie's, not no one's.
"Now, I don't know where you're pullin' this shit out from," he continues after staring at her for another long, hard moment, "but it ain't funny, and it sure as hell ain't clever."
The hand that he's now pointing at her balls into a fist, then points warningly at her again as he opens his mouth to say something else. And then suddenly, he turns away from her, walks away a couple of paces. Reels back around and faces her again.
"Do you have any idea what the hell I've just been through? Tryin' to find you? Finding out the fuckin' Fireflies had taken you to the hospital on Marlene's fuckin' orders, and you're gonna stand there and start talkin' shit about Tess? About Sarah?"
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Sarah. Tess. Two names he can't bear to hear. Two names he only talks about on his fucking terms, damn it. His terms. Not Ellie's, not no one's.
"Now, I don't know where you're pullin' this shit out from," he continues after staring at her for another long, hard moment, "but it ain't funny, and it sure as hell ain't clever."
The hand that he's now pointing at her balls into a fist, then points warningly at her again as he opens his mouth to say something else. And then suddenly, he turns away from her, walks away a couple of paces. Reels back around and faces her again.
"Do you have any idea what the hell I've just been through? Tryin' to find you? Finding out the fuckin' Fireflies had taken you to the hospital on Marlene's fuckin' orders, and you're gonna stand there and start talkin' shit about Tess? About Sarah?"