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A woman is a changeling by treadlightlymydarling
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2023
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Tess never intended to become a mother.
Some of the women she comes across in the QZ still call themselves that, mother, the first descriptor they’ll use for themselves, even though their children have been dead three or four times longer than they were ever alive.
The word they use for her is dangerous.
But now it comes down this, the woman who never wanted a kid and the man who has never gotten over losing one. A kid who has never known what it is to have a parent.
The woman who can’t even find the courage to ask Joel to love her, a man who can’t even refer to Tess as anything other than a business partner. A kid who doesn’t even understand what love is.
They’re an emotionally stunted trio who only have each other and it feels like a recipe for disaster.
(Tess lives).
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A woman is a changeling - treadlightlymydarling
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“Oh, and Joel?”
He stopped dead, shoulders tight, refusing to face her. Tears burned hot at the corners of his eyes. He tilted his head just slightly — the smallest concession that he was listening.
“Don’t you dare come near this house again.
Because if I ever see even ONE single fucking hair of yours on my porch — I swear to God, Joel…”
She sucked in a sharp, shaky breath.
“…I’ll put a bullet between your goddamn eyes.” -
In My Restless Dreams by bcimbatman
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Dec 2025
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After a journey of vengeance leads her to making a life altering choice, January Carter wanders through the mountain ranges of Southwest Wyoming ruminating over questions she isn’t sure how to ask. Joel Miller might have the answers.
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Nothing Hurts Like You Do by fxckingjo
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Dec 2025
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At the time of the outbreak, Joel Miller was your godfather... and the man who murdered your father before he turned.
Twenty-one years later, Joel is your patrol partner. The pair of you are outcasts with matching sharp edges at the end of the world. Three things you have in common: a soft spot for Ellie, his adoptive daughter with a sharp tongue, love for Tommy, who raised you when Joel ran off, and an undeniable chemistry that'll end in blood or heartache.
Or likely, both.
But perhaps, neither.
Title from 'Knuckle Velvet' by Ethel Cain
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Ellie and Dina are in the business of love, and have focused all their efforts on their new Project Marry the Scaries, to Tommy's great unease. So what if you and Joel don't like each other. There's a thin line between love and hate - isn't that what they say?
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The Savage and the Sanctuary by JustAGalWhoWrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Dec 2025
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After the death of his daughter, Joel Miller fell apart. But when searching for answers at the bottom of a bottle and within his own rage doesn't fix it, he resigns himself to working for his brother in private security. It's a job that starts him down the path to stability and a semblance of a life, even if it's not one he particularly wants. At least it does until you show up.
The biggest movie star in the world with your newly adopted niece in tow, you throw everything about Joel's life into flux. Is he capable of letting himself feel something again while protecting the only things left in the world that matter?
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“You are the dumbest person in the world,” Dina tells her, a pained laugh falling from her lips as she wipes at her eyes.
“I am the dumbest person in the world,” Ellie repeats quietly.
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keep you from sorrow and harm by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Oct 2025
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The crowd parts as Dina barrels through, her jacket half-on and her boots untied, panic written clear across her features. Terror replaces the momentary relief at seeing her alive and unharmed when he sees how frantic she is. That girl doesn’t panic; not like this.
Before he can take another step, she skids to a stop in front of him. “Where’s Ellie?”
“What—”
“She was covering for me,” Dina chokes out, the words tumbling over each other in her rush to get them out. “I wasn’t feeling well, so she took my shift. Where is she?”
Tommy’s world tilts. Ellie. Inside. The words don’t connect at first, then slam into him so hard that he bends forward, hands bracing on his knees as his vision tunnels. Ellie was inside when the fire broke out, and now…
Not Ellie. Christ, not Ellie.
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the tipsy bison catches fire.
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- Part 2 of a light not expected
- Part 5 of bad things happen bingo 2: electric boogaloo
- Part 3 of whumptober 2025
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Fire in Jackson, angsty, protective Tommy and joel, hurt poor traumatized ellie
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Things go wrong while on patrol with your patrol partner Joel; leading to a spiral of situations in Jackson.
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Searching For a Trail by WalkingOnAMoonbeam
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Aug 2023
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After an unexpected escape from a crumbling QZ, you found a home in Jackson where you enjoyed time with your friends Ellie and Eugene.
But Maria had some words of advice: Settle down, get married, have a family.Surely it couldn’t be that easy. Could it?
AKA A seemingly naive nurse accidentally lands in Jackson and falls quietly in love with Joel Miller.
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- Part 1 of Searching For A Trail Series
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By Some Miracle by qye
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us
19 Dec 2020
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When Ellie opens her eyes, she is sitting on a porch, the soft sound of guitar beside her and a familiar smell of earth mixed with coffee bringing quick tears to her eyes. She turns her head and intakes softly.
“Joel?”
It’s barely a whisper, a question, her voice cracking as the tears stream freely. Warm eyes look back at her, and the strumming stops.
“Hey there, kiddo.”
Ellie is given a second chance at the worst year of her life.Series
- Part 1 of A Twist In Fate
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Joel Miller’s life has turned to ash—he's a year in a life after a ruined marriage, long work days at the fire station, and a four-year-old daughter who deserves better. He swears he doesn’t need help, but everyone else knows he’s drowning. Especially his brother and best friend.
Enter you—a teacher on summer break, broke, stubborn, and desperate enough to take anything. When Tommy recommends you a job, you figure it’s just another way to pay the bills. What you don’t expect is Joel—the same man who made your heart beat a million times faster. The same man who gave you everything, then left you with nothing.
For him, you’re supposed to be the babysitter he just happens to know. For you, he’s supposed to be just a paycheck with complicated feelings. But old hurts tangle with new sparks every time he looks at you too long. Guilt is easy. This feels dangerous. Because if you give in, it won’t just be your summer that burns.
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When the world ended, Pauline learned to survive by staying unseen.
Now she’s the new therapist in Jackson, and her first patient is Joel Miller.
Getting him to talk might be harder than surviving the apocalypse, especially when he’s starting to get under her skin.
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Pour the Drinks by readerwhateverr
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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Joel Miller is not the type of man to just rock up into the Bison and have a drink. So when he has a rough day and decides to pop in for a glass, he finds himself in-between an angry ex lover and the local bartender.
*just going under a quick re edit for this week so please don’t mind that sudden changes or if things don’t add up. They will eventually!*
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St Mary’s extinguished the last fire you held on to as a firefly. But, it reignited with the burning hatred for the man that ruined everything. After disbanding, you spent your time alone, surviving in a world that didn’t have to be, each day blaming the smuggler that chose to damn the world and murder everyone you loved.
When strangers find you dying on a frozen cliff top, you wouldn’t expect them to lead you right to the bane of your existence. The Butcher of St Mary’s and the little immune girl that could’ve saved the world.
Hate is so consuming, for him and for you. But is there such thing as black and white, good and bad? How far do those lines blur in this apocalyptic world? Does hate truly turn into passion? You would find the tragic answer to your questions in the most unlikely of men: Joel Fucking Miller.
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The cost of mercy by wildthyng
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Dec 2025
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What if against all reason, grief, and everything she swore , Abby fell in love with the only man she shouldn’t? She hated him long before she saw his face. But when Joel Miller, the man who murdered her father — saves her life, revenge becomes complicated.
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Look for the Light (to Find Your Way Home) by Dove_Works
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Nov 2025
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Ellie was taken captive a year ago when Marlene was able to scrape together a patrol to escort the infected-but-immune team to the rendezvous point before the Fireflies headed west.
Things don't exactly go like that.
Maybe this newcomer's plan to get him and Ellie west will go a little better—once they get out.
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When Ellie walks away from that farmhouse, she knows she needs something, just not what that something is. Joel is done. Abby is done. And Dina is gone. Now all she has left is ice. So what does that make her?
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“There’s—there’s a teacher,” Ellie whispers. “At the school. She’s new.” She takes a deep, shuddering breath. “But she’s—not new for me, I mean—I know her.”
Joel stiffens. The way Ellie says her reminds him of how she says him when she’s talking about David.
“The Captain?” Joel asks, keeping his voice steady. All the fuckers at the FEDRA school were Captain Something-or-other, but there’s only one The Captain.
(Or: A figure from Ellie's past makes an unwelcome appearance in Jackson)
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- Part 10 of Jackson
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