Tlou
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She was there, a blurred silhouette in his green flannel, gun still raised.
She turned and fired at the front of the room, hitting the last man charging in. His body thudded to the tile.
In the new silence, one man lay gasping on the floor. She walked toward him, slow and purposeful.
Joel sat up, breath ragged, and watched.
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AKA Joel finds Ellie, mute and traumatized, as he heads west. It’s going to be an emotional roller coaster my dudes. -
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Joel turns and peers cautiously down the alley. In the fading light he can make out three figures, teenage boys if he had to guess, in a semi-circle around a kneeling figure. Their head turns and Joel catches sight of a brown ponytail between the boys’ legs, a flash of a knife gripped in a hand.
One of them steps forward and kicks her in the shoulder, sending her sprawling backwards. She scrambles back to her feet, knife outstretched in front of her, teeth bared. If she wasn’t so goddamn small, Joel would think she was more than capable of handling herself against these guys, but they’ve each got probably half a foot and fifty pounds on her, and he finds himself walking closer.
(joel and ellie meet in the QZ months before she's bitten)
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- Part 2 of alterations
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rambles and promises and bedtime stories by some_pomegranate_tea
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Mar 2023
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He finds a chunk of ice beside the lake and wraps it in a piece of flannel that he tears off of his shirt. It’s a dumb idea; he knows he’ll regret it, but if he doesn’t do something for Ellie’s pain he doesn’t think he’ll be able to live with himself any longer. So he presses it into her fingers, directs her hands to hold it against the angry bump on her head, and tries to pretend that means anything after what he’s failed to protect her from.
She’s so quiet. So passive. Joel almost feels like he shouldn’t be seeing it. Like she wouldn’t want him to be, if she wasn’t lost wherever she is, far from reality.
Series
- Part 1 of afterwards
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and i'm tired of taking orders by elliemiller (piqu3d), piqu3d
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Apr 2023
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"A small girl was curled up on the stage on her bare knees, her arms across her uncovered chest in a heart-wrenching attempt at modesty. Her back was raked apart like putty, long and deep lashes surrounded by raised, inflamed skin. Ellie. The little girl with a mutilated back had a name.
Absurdly, Joel’s brain thought, her knees must hurt, digging into the wood like that."
(alternatively, FEDRA finds Ellie before the Fireflies do and stages a public punishment for sneaking into the mall.)
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- Part 1 of alternatively,
- Part 6 of tlou anthology
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babyverse by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Apr 2025
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