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“It’s okay. I will fix the lock tomorrow.”
Ellie gasped when she heard his voice, since she hadn’t been aware of his presence nor that he had been listening. Once again, she was looking up at him with those big eyes of hers and only in that moment Joel realized that Ellie didn’t only dislike him.
No, even worse. She was fucking scared of him.
That this was fear glistening in her innocent eyes, as she took a few steps backwards, hugging herself tightly in self-protection, her head hanging low like she was ducking, trying to make herself as small as possible and her eyes being focused on her socked feet.
Joel was looking at her, hating himself for spooking her like that and before he could come up with saying something to make her feel less tensed and more comfortable, Ellie turned around and hurried inside the safety of the guest room without taking a shower, like she had probably intended to do.
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Or: Joel healing a little heart he hadn't broken.
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The Last Of Us - One Day At A Time by Moonsong95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Dec 2025
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Ellie is bleeding out and is not really sure she cares what happens next. Jay Grayson does. A girl traveling on a one-way trip to the Grand Canyon and had every intention of being done with the world when she got there, right up until she stumbled upon an utterly done with everything Ellie. What starts as a reluctant truce turns into a cross-country ride. Desert into forests, empty highways, ruined cities, and into a hidden estate in the Blue Ridge, where people have learned how to live instead of just not die. Along the way, there are ptsd attacks, nightmares, bad jokes, one very opinionated dog, and a slow, messy, painfully human kind of falling in love. But Biltmore comes with its own history and its own dangers, and Ellie’s ghosts, Joel, Dina, Jackson, Santa Barbara, don’t disappear just because there’s a door that locks and a real bed. Jay also has a past that can still hurt people. Ellie has a future she isn’t sure she deserves.
Post–TLOU Part II, this fic follows Ellie and an FOC through a long road home, found family, suicidal ideation and recovery, PTSD, canon-typical violence, and the stubborn work of deciding to stay. Slow burn F/F, lots of feelings. -
The Last Of Us| Younger Days by Grrrckck
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (TV) RPF
07 Dec 2025
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Joel, a smuggler, and Ellie, an immune little 5 year old kid, who travel across the United States after a fungal infection devastated society. Their journey becomes a brutal fight for survival as they navigate a world with infected humans and hostile survivors while Joel is tasked with escorting Ellie to the Fireflies, a resistance group who believes her immunity is the key to developing a cure.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
When strange attacks have been plaguing the town in fear, you become suspicious of their origin.
Your focus on your studies wanes as news bombards you with an unyielding threat: women struck by episodes of fainting that leave them pale and weak. The phenomenon is from the transition between seasons, the changing climate, the poor eating habits—all rumors fabricated when the police department couldn't find a lead. Speculation continues until a victim presents new evidence, spilled blood, and the town can conclude it's a person once and for all. You’re just unsure whether that person is human.
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Joel Miller x Immune Reader
Before the 2003 outbreak, the Cordyceps virus was a secret government project led by your father, a dedicated scientist. After realizing his mistake, he discovered your immunity following a bite at age 10. Desperate to make amends, he made deals with Fedra and later with the Fireflies, while you chose to escape instead of sacrificing yourself.
Years of evading capture ended when you were eventually caught and taken to a hospital in Salt Lake with another immune girl. They thought two hosts would boost their vaccine chances, unaware that Joel was ready to take them all down.
Unbeknownst to him, he had saved both you and Ellie. Now, you set out on your own, hoping to find your rescuer again, leaving the rest of the Fireflies behind in your hospital scrubs.
It wasn't long before you unexpectedly encountered him in Jackson, but he had no idea who you were or about your immunity. -
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After the events of 'Lone Wolf,' Joel's managed to get Ellie recovering and keep her safe in Jackson, where he's fighting for them to have a home and a life. However, as much as Ellie loves Joel, she feels responsible for the whole world because of her immunity - and thus, when the Fireflies come, she wants to go.
But Joel? Joel, who only just got his daughter - his still-injured twelve-year-old daughter - and the opportunity to keep her safe? No, of course he doesn't like that.
But he loves her, and when the time comes, he's willing to follow her to the ends of the earth.
Even if it means bad things are going to happen.
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- Part 2 of Lone Wolf
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Ever since Sarah... well, ever since Sarah ten years ago, Joel's stayed as far away from kids as he can. Just the sight of one is practically enough to send him into a panic attack.
But then Tommy signs them up for a contracting job at a high school as a favor to an old army buddy.
And then there's a little girl in the front office, who somehow appears in the coffee shop Joel visits because the motel's coffee machine is shit.
Most damning is when Joel goes in to do some work at three in the morning and that same goddamn little girl is asleep in his construction zone and, when he wakes her up, says she's homeless.
Next thing he knows, she's asleep in his motel bed and he's filing foster parent paperwork.
What the fuck just happened?
(Foster parent AU! Featuring Joel Trying His Best And FailingTM, Ellie annoying local man and his friends & family into adopting her, and Tess/Joel as a lil treat for the masses.)
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When Tess gets bitten, the Cordyceps doesn't spread - she's immune.
But what are the odds that two people are immune when nobody else is?
(And what are the odds that Marlene happened to give Ellie, a girl exactly the same age that Joel and Tess's dead baby would have been, to them?)
(Basically, Joel and Tess are Ellie's biological parents, Tess is immune, etc)
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Henry gets bitten instead of Sam, and as a result, he makes Joel promise to save Sam before taking his own life. Which means Joel has to try to get across the country with a severely-ADHD 12-year-old and a deaf 8-year-old.
(It's fine, though. Everything's fine.)
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Here Comes The Sun by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
02 Dec 2025
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After what David did, Ellie’s in bad shock - and after years of taking care of kids, Joel’s dad instincts kick in hard, and he washes her face clean of the blood, realizing how little she is, before tucking them together in his jacket and taking care of his little girl.
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I Would Do It All Again by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
02 Dec 2025
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When Joel tells Ellie the truth about the Fireflies in Salt Lake City, Ellie should be angry - but she realizes he loves her so much that he literally sacrificed the world just for her, and as a kid who's never been loved like that before and who loves him more than anything, forgives him for it all.
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potatoes and molasses (mystery meat) by azazalea
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Dec 2025
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Joel attempts to teach manners to the table creature. The meat is wonky and bad, and Ellie doesn't want to eat it.
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Old memories come back… and it’s not for the better of her health.
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Endure and Survive - [OC x Ellie TLoU] by CatradoraSimp16
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Nov 2025
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From 2013 to now, the wild has been consumed with chaos and survival has been a priority over anything else.
But love still has to exist, right?
Heartbreak, bloodlust, love, anger, desperation, it still exists within the walls of Jackson.
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Self insert oc. I am keeping Ellie's traits in this story. So toxic or not? The baby needs some peace... -
How to Train Your Cordyceps by Hidingfromstuff
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies)
10 Nov 2025
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Ellie Williams is the runt of the village, she's newish to Berk and can't catch a break, and well dragons being everywhere doesn't help. Or maybe it does.
Joel Miller is a grumpy, old, dragon killer. He was once the chief of Berk but was scarred by the loss of his daughter. His brother took over and got married, he moved on. Joel didn't.
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Wasted Potential by PaigeGoneRogue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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Sometimes, Ellie got the strange sensation of being in a hotel, somewhere completely impermanent and impersonal. It was all too easy to picture the others leaving and simply never coming back, Ellie waiting in the empty space like a sad little foster kitten, ridden with fleas and whining at her food bowl. Then some new group would arrive and inform her it was theirs now, and that would be that. This place she called home could be rid of any trace of her in a matter of hours.
(Or: Ellie is a drug dealer. Joel is a dad. Bonding ensues.)
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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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Sequel to Rotten Sorrows.
Ellie finds herself transported back to the night before the fateful event occurred. She tries to stop the premonitions and Abby before losing herself and everything dear to her. Will she succeed?
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- Part 2 of Where Silence Remembers
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"I'm Scared Of Ending Up Alone." (Whumptober 2025) by That_one_writer_with_ADHD
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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Alone.
Just like how she always knew she would end up.
Alone.
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Whumptober Day 5
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- Part 5 of My Whumptober 2025
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 214
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
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I’ve Never Seen Green Eyes Look So Blue by daughterofarcain
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 Sep 2025
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Ellie returns home to the farmhouse and Dina, after the final fight with Abby.