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Joel looks back at her, oozing guilt, uncertainty. He knows
he's wrong, he knows he should tell her the truth, he knows
that this is too big. Too important to lie about...But Joel is Joel is Joel, and Joel is a father before he's
a good man.He can't lose her, can't hurt her, even if it's for the
best. He'd rather protect her, feed her pretty lies, not
ugly truths. Live in a fantasy with her than reality
without her.He'll feel guilty about it as long as he lives. It'll eat
him up inside like maggots gnawing through his bones, but
he won't regret it.He won't.
So he makes the selfish choice. The choice he knows is
wrong, because a life without Ellie is too dark to
comprehend.I swear.
(A full rewrite of TLOU s2) (In script format)...
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When your high-powered marketing career goes up in flames, you find yourself back in Texas and out of options—until your old childhood best friend Tommy Miller offers you a job at his family’s growing construction company. The only catch? His older brother Joel, the project manager with a chip on his shoulder and zero patience for your city-slicker attitude.
You clash instantly: you’re clever, confident, and painfully corporate. He’s quiet, rugged, and set in his ways. You push his buttons. He pushes back harder. But somewhere between long meetings, late nights, resurfacing memories, and hurt, along with one very unexpected work trip… the tension starts to shift.
What begins as bickering turns into banter. Glances linger. Walls crack. And neither of you is quite sure when things started to change.
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Joel made a choice. He stayed with her. And now mother and father are a blurred line, with no clear beginning and end. He doesn’t pick and choose. He’s everything. He’s Joel. He’s the only person she can think about, when something isn’t right. When she’s curled up on the floor in pain or tangled in her blankets from a nightmare. His name comes to her lips every time, even if she doesn't want it to, a cry that pulls directly from instinct.
She’s Ellie.
Maybe that’s why she doesn’t tell him about what she found in Maria and Tommy’s guest room.
Ellie doesn't have a mother. Jackson gives her space to feel this loss more acutely.
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Ellie has feelings about losing anna. Joel is everything. Maria and Tommy fill in the gaps. Joel takes Ellie and Dina to the mother daughter dance.
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while joel's part of the jackson community, he's finding it hard to settle in. and when his nightmares begin to keep him up at night, he begins to frequent the tipsy bison. he tells himself it's to help take the edge off, to help him sleep, but instead, he finds comfort in you. because even in this fucked up world, you feel like home.
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Lost and Found by missworld1337
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Aug 2025
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Joel leads a quiet, simple life in the outskirts of Jackson, that is until one day when him and his brother find a young woman in the forest while hunting. She's badly hurt and completely alone, therefore, like the nice men they are, they take her back to Jackson to give her some help and set her back on her feet.
Although that seems to take longer than anticipated and Joel offers to let her stay with him. She slowly becomes apart of the town and Joel starts hoarding deeper and deeper feelings for her, so what happens when she decides that she's not gonna stay there? -
Inextricable by honeyandraspberrytea
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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The woman whips around, and yeah, she looks like she could be in her mid thirties, but Ellie is so confused because Joel never would have left her if there was even a chance Sarah were alive, he wouldn’t have abandoned her, and Ellie swings the scope back to Joel to see if she can read his face, but he’s facing the wrong way, and he’s hunched over like he’s physically in pain and—
“Daddy?”
She starts to move, slowly, towards Joel, taking halting steps like she thinks he’ll disappear. He doesn’t move at all.
Distantly, Ellie hears Anna radioing for Tommy.
“Daddy?” she asks again, and Ellie registers her southern drawl, even more pronounced than Joel and Tommy’s. She sounds like Scarlett O’Hara. Tommy made her watch Gone with the Wind last month, after Ellie had missed it on movie night.
Joel still hasn’t moved. Sarah doesn’t step any closer to him.
They just stand there, in a stalemate.
Joel is breaking down.
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Two years to the day of EllieandJoel, JoelandEllie, the prodigal daughter returns.
(Sarah lives, and Ellie learns to live with it)
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To Build a Home by Madpanda75
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
03 Sep 2025
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You wind up in Jackson after escaping the Washington DC QZ. Unfortunately with the influx of refugees coming into the settlement, there is no more housing and you are made to live with Joel Miller and Ellie. Life starts out shaky with your new grumpy roommate, but when you least expect it, a connection begins to form between you both. That is until your present catches up with your past and threatens everything.
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It had to be the news of Dina’s pregnancy fueling her actions, it had to be. But whatever it was guided her to suddenly plunge the knife into the other’s abdomen. Ellie had no knowledge of c-sections, they didn’t exactly teach medical techniques in FEDRA School or in Jackson, but she was determined.
She was going to cut this baby out no matter what.
Ellie succeeds in cutting Mel’s baby out and subsequently adopts them out of guilt.
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You had been soft your whole life, too gentle for a world that demanded brutality. When Tommy found you, half-dead in the snow, he gave you a second chance. Jackson gave you a home. Ellie gave you a friend. And Joel Miller…
Joel gave you nothing.
He barely looked at you. Never spoke your name. He acted like you didn’t exist.
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For you, I would paint the sky blue by Springs_a_changing_me
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Aug 2025
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Joel’s meandered over behind the counter, looking underneath the warping cabinetry and opening anything that isn’t locked. He sighs when he sees the industrial sized coffee machine, rusted metal glinting in the light streaming from the tattered ceiling tiles.
She squints to see the lettering on one of the remaining menus, tilting her head and rolling up on the balls of her feet to get a better view. “What’s a…fra…puk…seeno?”
“Frappuccino.” He corrects her without a second thought, sighing through his nose when another cupboard reveals nothing but a rotted mouse in the back corner. He shuts it closed and keeps moving.
“Frappuccino.” She tests the word on her tongue, quiet and uncertain. Each syllable rolls around uncomfortably between her teeth. “What is it? Coffee?”
He shrugs. “Technically. But I wouldn’t call it that. It’s real sweet.”
“Ah. Not real coffee.”
“Not real coffee.”
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Ellie’s new life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, told through the art supplies she’s gathered and been gifted over the years (Featuring the many wonders of Barnes & Noble).
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A Man Called Joel by myownwholewildworld
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Jun 2025
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Joel has lost everyone he held dear: Sarah, Tess, Ellie. And while his brother still remains by his side, Joel can't help but drown in the solitude of his Jackson home. The rooms are too empty, too silent, so his heart is vacant. He's truly had enough of this life, given up to the point where he's decided to end his own suffering. That is until you move in next door and slowly worm your way into his life...
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Maria and Tommy Miller separated just as the winter snow melted into the rainfall of spring. It was a quiet affair, with Tommy moving into the apartment across from Flora by the middle of March, no grand gestures or explanations given to anyone, but the townsfolk of Jackson still ran with it. Flora almost thought it might’ve been better if they’d made a public announcement about it, really— The gossip fodder was gigantic, ranging from torrid love affairs to explosive fighting during patrols to someone claiming they were told by someone else’s friend’s cousin that Jackson’s royal couple had broken up because Tommy couldn’t perform.
Flora didn’t believe most of the gossip, but it was the defeated slump of Tommy’s shoulders, the dark circles under his eyes and the mocking whispering that followed him around that made her react the way she did. It started with a small lie, a snarky suggestion that Tommy might’ve already moved on with a much younger woman and that they were getting down.
She never expected the situation to unravel the way it did.
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Amongst The Waves by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Aug 2025
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After her mother's unexpected death, Ellie packs up all she has and moves with her long-lost family across the country to the sandy shores of Jackson Island. She tries her best to adjust, but she feels like an outsider - and it doesn't help that Riley, her last piece of home, randomly starts dodging her calls.
But when a hurricane wipes out the power and Ellie's bitten off more than she can chew, Ellie finds an unexpected friend in Joel - the island's solitary grouch with a soft spot for guarding as many endangered sea turtle nests as humanly possible. Because as it turns out - they have more in common than they think.
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Modern AU | Ellie’s mom dies on a Tuesday. She meets her dad, Tommy Miller, on Friday.
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A New Morning Breaks with the Sun by Musica_FICta
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Aug 2025
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Ellie and Joel's return to Jackson after a tough stay at the Fireflies' lab in Salt Lake City.
This work runs parallel to "Trust" (the vaccine storyline), also in this series.
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Her world comes to a stop. The unmistakable pink lines stare up at her, and she can feel her breath turn shallow and fast.
“Ellie,” Jesse says. He is standing next to her now, slowly placing his hand on her shoulder. “Ellie, you need to breathe.”
“Jesse,” She whines. “They're…they're positive.” Her breath stutters and it feels like any air she manages to get in is scraping all the way down into her lungs.
“Yeah,” He agrees solemnly.
“Oh, fuck.” She breathes out. “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
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After a patrol gone bad ends with Ellie being pregnant, Jesse steps up claiming to be the baby’s father.
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Upon going back to Jackson, Ellie is alone. Tommy hates her, Dina and JJ are gone - so why stay alive? The day after she goes home to the farmhouse, she takes her own life, anticipating darkness and nothingness instead of the grief.
Instead, she wakes up in the woods.
As Maria finds her body and the whole town grieves, Ellie finds Joel, and with him comes a new life - one where she's loved and happy.
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Jackson, Copy, Joel You're Daughter is Growing up. by Wqpzz
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Jun 2025
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4 times Joel questions Jesse's intentions with Ellie.
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One noisy gift from Tommy wrecks Joel’s and your peace. Years later, Joel gets his sweet revenge.
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The first time Joel notices that Ellie can't keep her eyes open is somewhere between the capitol building and Lincoln.
He chalks it up to two nights of little to no rest and two days packed with loss.
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The Death of Tommy Miller by Kinvara
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Sep 2025
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It's been over a decade since Tommy Miller's ill-fated quest to avenge his brother's murder. He has lost everything. His health. His community. His family. While accompanying his son on a mission, Tommy finally gets a chance to redeem himself, but it will cost him far more than just his life. As Tommy approaches the end, he reflects on his past and the people he has loved and lost along the way.
(CW: Body horror, alcoholism, ableism, violence, death, suicide, self-harm, etc.)
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- Part 1 of The Last of Us: Lichen