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angel from montgomery by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Sep 2025
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“Hey.”
The girl’s eyes snapped up, panicked. She spared a second to glance down at the man in front of her, her eyes racing up and then looked at Joel with the exact same type of terror, before emerging with something in her hands.
Joel watched, immediately suspecting a gun. “Whoa, now-”
The girl lifted her hands up, revealing an old knife. She smeared the tears on her cheeks away, trying to seem bigger than she was, but it didn’t work.
She was a terrified kid.
The urgency in Joel’s expression blinked. “Hey,” He repeated, his voice painted soft, though he didn’t let himself hear it. The girl just stared up at him with her knife, not realizing the tremble of her own grip or the violent shakes that tore through her entire, bare body. He just realized that now. Only her knees were covering her, along with the clearly torn pair of underclothes on her lower half. She cringed under his eyes. “It’s okay,” He tried. “I’m not gon’ hurt you.”
The girl didn’t even blink. She just stared up through her tears, terrified of him.
Fuck.
TLDR: Joel finds a traumatized Ellie on the side of the road. He's immediately soft. Meanwhile, she has to learn how to trust him.
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On the night of her twelfth birthday, Sarah asks for a sister. Blindsided and single, Joel turns to Tommy's friend, Marlene, and the orphanage she runs just outside of town.
When Joel meets Ellie Williams, an angry, disobedient orphan-from-birth, they don't exactly click. But as Joel agrees to foster her, he slowly starts to uncover a different side to the young girl, and becomes more dedicated to saving her than he ever imagined.
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What if… Riley never got bitten on their last night together?
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Pencil sketches made while watching The Last of Us.
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On their wedding night josh and Maya meet up on the roof of the hotel, they disagree on how their first kiss went.
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- Part 13 of Joshaya oneshots
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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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and I built a home (for you, for me) by MadwomanInABlueBox
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Aug 2025
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In an alternate universe where the apocalypse doesn't happen, Ellie joins the Miller family. Chaos ensues.
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Edge of the Universe by AlwaysSunnySomewhere
Fandoms: The Boys (TV 2019), The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Aug 2025
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“I said-” she looked down at them through the barrel of the rifle, shaking slightly from what could be the cold or nerves “-drop your fucking weapons, I mean it, I will shoot”
Butcher saunters forwards, hands thrown up in a mockery of surrender.
“Look kid, we’ve dropped all our guns, even chucked my knife in there for ya. Now, do you want to tell us where the fuck you came from and how a fourteen year old girl got a hold of a gun? I knew you yanks were backwards bastards, but this just takes the fucking cake.”
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What if after Joel fell on the Rebar, instead of Ellie running into David she is unknowingly teleported to The Boys universe and runs into Butcher and the gang? Based on the game, but will still make sense if you have only seen the show.
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We Walk Through the Valley by AerisTheChaosDemon
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Aug 2025
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It's been six years since the Cordyceps outbreak devastated the world.
Having been separated from his team, Ghost finds himself in the Boston quarantine zone, working as a smuggler. The hope for a vaccine has long since died out. Until he gets a job from the Fireflies to smuggle you out the city.
You are immune.
Delivering you to the Fireflies might be mankind's last hope.
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Not your Fault by LilBitDepressed27
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Aug 2025
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Basically a part 1 of I'd Die for You. Here we see the friendship between Dina and Ellie. So here they're only friends. How they both hide their feelings from each other. We also see more of Joel and his fatherly presence in Ellie's life. And we see how Joel got hurt.
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Look for the light by LavenderBoyArt
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Aug 2025
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Riley comes back to see Ellie and they start seeing each other without being honest with the Miller's about it. Riley is different than who she was and Ellie wonders if this is going to work.
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- Part 7 of July Break Bingo 2025
- Part 17 of Street Kid!Ellie
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like real people do by violentplum
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Jul 2025
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a show compliant, game compliant retelling of the last of us where ellie has an older sister, maggie. she accompanies ellie and joel on their journey.
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Lingering Lights by anthracinus
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Jul 2025
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Tormented by the loss of her friend, Ellie finds herself breaking all over again. Caught between memory and reality, the fifteen-year-old must learn how to heal — and let her family hold her when she can’t hold herself.
(Or in which Ellie finally gets to say goodbye to Riley.)
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Two Minutes, Or Two Days... by izikotik
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Jul 2025
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"There are a million ways we should've died before today. And a million ways we can die before tomorrow. But we fight… for every second we get to spend with each other. Whether it's two minutes, or two days… we don't give that up. I don't want to give that up."
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5 things,+1 thing, ft. Riley Abel
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Lycanthropes, while few and far between, exist alongside humans, cohabiting civilization as well as they can with the social challenges of being 'other.' Joel and the Millers are among this small demographic, and while life is hard, they have their little pack and are surviving - at least, until the outbreak happens.
(Basically, TLOU + werewolves = this)
On temporary hiatus thanks to writer's block!
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'Coalesce' Definition: The process by which two or more separate masses of miscible substances seem to "pull" each other together should they make the slightest contact.
The changing began when Charlotte was only eighteen. She never recognized it, but she had a beautifully simple life. When the Cordeyceps outbreak began; politicians, doctors, and scientists only viewed it as another mild and treatable virus. They were so damn wrong. Now, nearly twenty years later, Charlotte is the only remaining thing from her past life. With only the company of her dog, Vito, she is under prepared, and truly naive. She has somehow miraculously managed to survive this long using the few skills she can muster. Whether they were obtained through luck or blessings, she's not quite sure. However, when she meets a grumbling, cold man named Joel and his enthusiastic, chatty young travel companion, she is forced to rethink her entire existence. With change on the horizon, she must continue learning how to adapt. And worst of all, she is forced to try and trust someone other than herself.
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Where the Flowers Don't Grow by WhiteWolfBuckaroo
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Jul 2025
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Joel meets Ellie, and Joel and Ellie meet Faith. And Faith meets the first two people she can trust after years of hiding her heart after walls built up by the cruel world the three of them lived in. A world where the flowers don’t grow… but something can still take root.
This is a dad!Joel Miller fic, Joel Miller x daughter!reader fic, Joel Miller x platonic!reader fic... Whatever you want to call it :)
Daily updates!
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- Part 1 of Where the Flowers Don't Grow
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Ellie has always felt disconnected from gender, but without the words or space to express it while stuck in the QZ.
Maybe their journey with Joel will also be a journey of self discovery.Or
An overview of random bits of Ellie's life, in which I will be projecting my own Gender Issues™ very hard.
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- Part 2 of The Last of Us Stories
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Joel couldn’t be sure where it went wrong. He and Tommy had spent weeks staking the place out, studying how the law moved. The bank was supposed to be almost empty… Joel might have wondered why it wasn’t, if he’d had the time.
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Ellie had never planned on running from the law, but a little girl with no one else to turn to often finds herself tangled up with a dangerous sort. In her case, that meant outlaws Joel and Tommy Miller.After a failed bank robbery, bounty hunter Abby Anderson makes it her mission to hunt down her father’s killers and see them hang.
or: the slow burn ellabs enemies to lovers western au that nobody asked for