Fandom Life in a Quarantine Zone { The Last of Us 1x1 with icedthemoon }

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Carlos reached out and grabbed Kaleb’s hand. “I promise I will pay more attention.” He sat up enough to kiss his fingers before he let them go. “Maybe we should rest for a while.” He dropped back down like a string cut and groaned. “Would it be so bad just to amputate?”

Asher shook his head. Of course they had to resort to smuggling to get basic necessities such as medications. He thought about Jordan’s words. Recalled their conversation all those years ago. “You told me she died of a sickness that FEDRA didn’t want to treat.” That conversation was a bit hazy. Asher did not yet trust anyone. “That was when I thought maybe I could trust you.” He smiled at the memory. “Because you and I shared something.”
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb paused when he felt Carlos grab his hand and kiss his fingers and then let them go. “Good.” Kaleb said quietly before he stood. His leg was good enough to make it through to the other room. “Yes, we should rest for a while. And no it would be worse to amputate because I don’t have the equipment to do that safely.”

Jordan nodded as he heard that. “It was just that they didn’t want to treat it. The refused to do so. I was fifteen and I couldn’t work to get us rations. Mom couldn’t work because she was sick. So I petitioned to work at fifteen and they denied me. I asked for medicine so mom could work again, and they refused that. If I had not run into Joel and Tess. I probably would’ve died from starvation before I could work. I didn’t.. I blocked that piece of my youth for years. I brought it up when I met you because.. I wanted you to trust me. To know that I understood you better than you probably thought I did at the time.” Jordan admitted, looking at Asher with a small smile. ​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Carlos smiled and yawned. “You are always so serious. My serious officer with blue eyes.” His head rolled to the side as his eyes closed. He was exhausted. “I bet Asher would cut it off for me.” He snorted out a laugh. “Okay, you can go. I won’t keep you.” He yawned again. “I think I’m going to fall asleep again, actually. It was easier asleep.”

Stories like that did not make it any easier for him to forgive FEDRA. It didn’t make it any easier to release all that hatred he had. His really aggressive, he would have liked to talk to the people who denied Jordan kind of hatred. “I am so sorry.” He took Jordan’s hands as he readjusted so that he could really look into his eyes. “That was not okay. Maybe, when we find Joel, we can find a place that cares about its people too.” FEDRA as an organization never cared enough about the citizens it said that it was protecting. They did not care about a fifteen year old boy who was going to die, because his mother was dying. They didn’t care about any of that.
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

“One of us has to be the serious one.” Kaleb said as he smiled, shaking his head. “No. He won’t. I won’t let him. Now, rest beautiful. I’ll be back.” Kaleb said, walking to the door and slipping out. He moved down the hall and knocked on Asher and Jordan’s door.

Jordan heard Asher and felt him take his hands. “It’s okay. I’m okay now and I’ve.. forgiven them. Because life is too short to hate.” He admitted before he heard Asher and smiled. “That would be nice. I miss him terribly.” Jordan admitted and turned his head at the sound of the knock. Huh. “I bet it’s Kaleb. But I hope he didn’t walk over here on his own. Not with that leg.”​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Asher shook his head. “You are a good person, you know that? Too good for this world. I don’t understand how you can even exist.” He looked up at the knock. “He better not have walked over with Carlos. Not with that arm.” He pulled away from Jordan and walked to the door. He opened it was a crooked smile. “It is in fact Kaleb all by his lonesome with his bad leg.” Asher pointed accusatorially to it. “That’s unacceptable.” Without a second thought or leaving Kaleb any time to react, he swept him up and hauled him over to the bed. “Don’t move, lovebug.” Then he placed Kaleb down beside Jordan and stood before them with hands on his hips. “So, who’s man is faring better?”
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Jordan chuckled at Asher’s words before he heard the knock. He couldn’t exactly turn to look at the door so he relied on listening. Kaleb blinked as the door opened and he smiled at Asher. He flushed red at the accusatory point to his leg. Then he gasped as he was picked up into Asher’s arms and then he was set down on the bed beside Jordan. Jordan lifted a hand and placed it on Kaleb’s knee as he looked at him. Kaleb looked at Asher and sighed. “Carlos isn’t doing great but part of that was my fault. I woke him up. So I was thinking of taking the day to rest. His arm is really hurting him and I know he’s exhausted still from so little sleep.” Kaleb admitted.​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Asher walked over to the older desk and pulled out the chair. He swiped at the dust on it, which was the only real problem and dragged it over to the bed and sat down so that he could look at both of them. “You did tell me he could sleep like this one. Can he sleep through pain better?” He reached for Jordan’s hand and squeezed it. “But it probably is smart to take a day to rest and let everything heal.” He glanced to Kaleb’s leg. “Alright, Carlos is dead. Jordan can’t move. How are you feeling today?” He was not going to ask about why Kaleb woke up Carlos. Probably.
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb watched Asher walk over to the desk, clean the dirt off the chair and bring it over to them. “He can sleep like the dead, and I suspect what woke him this morning was because he rolled onto the arm.” Kaleb said as he tilted his head a little. “Me? I’m fine.. well. My leg is a little sore but that’s it.” Kaleb said as Jordan squeezed the hand that Asher had been holding back. “I can put some weight on it if that’s what you’re asking.”​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Asher leaned back on his chair, lifting one leg up in a leisurely display. “So I don’t have to be upset that you walked over here without help. That is the appropriate answer.” Had it not been, there was not much he could do, but he could still be judgmental. It was one of his skills. “Alright. So what’s the plan? Jordan, my sweetest angel, are you also going to laze around all day? Because I love you most than the world, but I don’t know if I can lay here all day with you.”
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb chuckled a little bit and shook his head. “No you don’t have to be upset. As for a plan? I don’t know. We could let our men recover safely in this room and go explore the house?” Kaleb suggested. Jordan chuckled a little bit as well. “Gorgeous. Love of my life and my world. That is exactly what I’m gonna do. You take him..” He pointed at Kaleb. “And go have fun.. any kind of fun you want.. and I’m going to go back to sleep.” Jordan said, waving them off with a grin.​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Asher rolled his eyes as he stood up. “Are you insinuating that we could ever do what you and Carlos get up to when we aren’t around?” He chuckled as he bent down and met Jordan where he lay for a kiss. He stood back up and hooked the chair with one arm to haphazardly toss back into its place. “Well, alright then. I guess we have been kicked out. I’m for exploring this house a little.” He moved back to the bed and put out a hooked arm for escorting purposes.
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Jordan grinned at Asher and nodded a little bit. “Absolutely.” He said with a wink as he kissed Asher back. Kaleb looked at Asher and saw the hooked arm. “I guess we have been. Let’s go check this house out.” Kaleb agreed as he hooked his arm with Asher’s. “Lead the way.” Kaleb commented as he walked with him out of the room.​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Asher gave one last look to Jordan, decided that he was going to be just fine there on his own, and walked with Kaleb out of the room. He closed the door behind them. “So, start from here or shall we go back to the front and pretend like we just now arrived and are touring a house for the first time?” He peered down the hall. There wasn’t much more other than the two bedrooms this way.
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb looked at Asher as they stepped out of the room and heard the door shut behind them. "We can start like we just started touring the house." He agreed, before he thought for a moment. "Perhaps we can start by going upstairs?" Kaleb asked as he walked with him away from the two bedrooms. His partner would be fine and so would Jordan who was already passed out again.​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

The downstairs probably had things like a bathroom, a living room, and a kitchen. Upstairs was the wild card if there were two bedrooms downstairs. “Agreed. Let’s see what treasures there are to find.” Asher walked with him to the bottom of the stairs and paused. “You feel up to the task of stairs?"
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb looked at Asher as he heard him, knowing that the downstairs didn't have as much interesting things. Upstairs was going to be interesting for sure. Kaleb looked at the stairs and then at Asher. "I want to try, but if it becomes too much, you'll be right beside me?" Kaleb asked, looking at Asher.​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Asher took in the stairs as though they were a challenge that were something formidable. Maybe they were. He remembered when stairs were not just a challenge but an impossibility. “That’s what I’m here for,” he answered. “For when stairs are too much and you need help.” He smiled as he thought of all the times that stairs were too much. How frustrating that was. How much he hated needing help but also how much Jordan made it okay.
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb sent a grateful look to Asher, smiling. And then he turned to the stairs, determination in his eyes. He moved to take the first step, a little wince at the pressure on his bad leg but it was okay. Just muscles. Nothing more. His skin was healed, but ha had to get his muscles to work. Another step. And another. He made it halfway before he stopped. “A- Asher.. I think.. I’m going to need a hand. Now.”​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Asher walked along behind Kaleb in case he fell or slipped or something. But he also wanted to give Kaleb the chance to do this on his own. Asher needed that when he was healing. As soon as Kaleb sounded like he was about to ask for help, Asher closed the gap between them and placed a hand around Kaleb’s waist to keep him upright.. “alright. What do you need for me? I am at your service.”
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb looked over at Asher as he felt that hand around his waist. “I’m not sure. Perhaps help keep me balanced so I can climb the stairs with just one leg?” Kaleb asked as he looked up at the last few stairs. If he held onto Asher, they could almost three leg race it up the rest of the stairs. He didn’t think that picking him up in the middle of a staircase was a smart idea.​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

“Got it. I will be your other leg.” Asher readjusted so that he could better grip where he needed to in order to be a good balance for him. “Take your time. I’m not in a hurry and neither are the dead ones down there.” He smiled as he looked up at the rest of the stairs. “We have plenty of time. This is honestly a good time to practice. Sure wish I had a time to just practice moving up the stairs when I needed that. But, I would never have told him that was what I needed.” Asher was known for being detrimentally stubborn.
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb looked at Asher with a smile and nodded. “Right. No need to rush.” Kaleb replied, before he paused, really looking at the other. “You mean you let yourself move at his pace instead of yours?” He asked, concern and curiosity in his voice. Kaleb sighed and shook his head as he looked up the stairs. Then he moved and took one step. “Okay, now you step up so I can bring my leg up without putting pressure on it.”​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

As he was told, Asher moved up to the next stair. “I had to let myself go at his pace,” he responded. “I literally could not go any faster. That, apparently, is what happens when you are stabbed in the gut.” He smiled at the thought of the next part. “He would have carried me everywhere if I let him. He is so sweet.” For just this moment, there was a lilt in his voice that was not usually there. This was entirely Jordan’s doing. “As I suspect Carlos would for you. Their love is so infuriatingly sweet.”
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Kaleb Price and Jordan DeShay
Former FEDRA officer, Former Smuggler | 25, 28 | Current location ;; New Mexico

Kaleb’s eyes widened as he heard that information. Did he just say.. stabbed in the gut? He looked at Asher a little concerned now. Though he smiled softly. “Yes, and Carlos has all but told me he’d do that too. I had to stop him from carrying me through halls as we were searching buildings because it wasn’t safe.” Kaleb said as he moved up another stair. “Also I’d like to know just what happened to cause you to be stabbed in the gut..”​

 

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Carlos Da Silva and Asher McCoy
Aspiring Artist, Former Hunter | 23, 30 | Current location ;; New Mexico

As they slowly moved up the stairs, Asher nodded. “I’m not surprised by that at all. Even right now with the hurt back and the arm, I bet they would try to carry us if we asked them to. Not that I would.” He shook his head. He absolutely would not. In fact, he was his job to tell them no. He grinned at the question. With his free hand, he touched the place he had been stabbed. “We pissed off my protégé so she lured us into a trap and stabbed me when we came down some stairs. She didn’t like that I lied to her about Jordan’s death. She really wanted to torture him, and I didn’t let her do that either.”
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