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Ellie wakes in a world that shouldn’t exist. She’s twenty, bruised by Seattle and everything after. Joel is thirty-two, faster on his feet, untouched by her name, and still whole in all the ways that mattered.
He doesn’t know her. But she remembers everything.
In a makeshift camp that could vanish by morning, she follows him like muscle memory, grieving the version of him who died for her... and mourning the one who hasn’t yet lived through it.
In this fractured mirror of what was, can a post-Seattle Ellie and a pre-Ellie Joel find each other all over again or will time tear them apart before it ever lets them begin?
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05 Nov 2025
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Each full moon shines on a world slightly changed, the natural consequence of time.
Years ago, it would have been a dream to share an apartment in Seattle. While that hasn't necessarily changed, Max never planned for it to happen quite like this - her childhood best friend a full-fledged creature of the night on the run from the terrible secrets exposed in Arcadia Bay, haunted and hunted... but still Chloe Price. Month by month, they pick up the pieces and attempt to reconfigure old dreams against new nightmares.
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03 Nov 2025
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Salmon Run by st_marymagdalene
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Mar 2023
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“Tommy tries to imagine what he might find. His brother gone, the little girl a lab rat, a hospital on the precipice of a world altering discovery. What he finds instead is a massacre.”
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Salmon almost always return home to die.
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02 Nov 2025
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a monster broken by the rules of love by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Jun 2025
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“We need to get to the science building.” Her voice cracks; she doesn’t give a fuck. “Now.”
Joel shakes his head. “Ellie—”
“No, listen to me,” she insists, grabbing one of his hands with both of hers. “They… I think they can make it quick. The cure. And… and it’s on your leg, so we have a little time—”
“Ellie.”
“We have… Joel, we have to move. Now.” She jumps to her feet and grabs Callus, leading him to Joel. “Now, Joel.”
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(joel gets bit at the university of eastern colorado)
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31 Oct 2025
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wild horses through hollow bones by queensyther
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 May 2023
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“Tommy,” Joel starts, clenching his fists. He looks at the terrified girl, and she shrinks under his gaze. He forces himself to relax, adjusts his stormy expression enough that it won’t scare her off before he figures out just what the hell is going on here. “You’d better tell me what’s goin’ on and where the hell Ellie is—”
“That little girl is Ellie.”
Joel barks an unamused laugh, but his rage is quickly reaching a boiling point. “That’s real funny, Tommy, but I ain’t in the mood for fuckin' jokes.”
“I’m serious, Joel.”
“Tommy, I am about to lose my patience—”
“Fuckin’ look at her!” Tommy exclaims, gesturing wildly at the kid. “Look, you think I don’t know how crazy this sounds? Jesus Christ, Joel!"
The whole time Tommy’s talking, Joel can’t stop staring at the girl. She’s watching them go at it with wide brown eyes full of tears she’s refusing to let fall, and Joel feels another gunshot rip through his heart.
Or, Ellie mysteriously transforms into her six-year-old self, and Joel gets to know his daughter all over again. Meanwhile, Ellie gets a second chance at childhood.
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31 Oct 2025