I thought about Joel taking care of sick Ellie, and now Im thinking about Ellie taking care of sick Joel. I feel like that would go very very different, Joel is stubborn as fuck, I feel like Ellie would have to throw a shit ton of fuck you's at him. Still he won't admit how sick he is, he'll go to work and come back an hour or two later because the headache is making him faint. Ellie would be looking at him like
You fucking done now?, and he would finally give in. He sees how Ellie is taking care of him, doing the same exact things he does for her and better, Ellie is a very observant kid. She would throw a blanket over him, make him soup. Maybe during the night she would get up and touch his forehead to see how he is, and he would give her a smile and grab her hands, put it over his heart and tell her 'Im fine baby'. Ellie would be physically very gentle and loving, but she also has the best bitch face ever, she would be scolding him about listening to her. And slowly but surely he starts to listen to her when he gets sick, they take care of each other, for the past year being there for each other has consisted of violent protection, a chance to be there for each other in a gentle way is everything to them.