CatherineA
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it's so good to see your face (welcome home) by CatherineA
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
14 Aug 2025
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“Marlene was going to tell me about my mom.”
The silence that stretches between them is long, but for once, Ellie doesn’t feel the need to break it. Tommy can fill it or not.
The couch creaks as Tommy sinks back into it, but Ellie’s gaze remains anywhere but on him. The sun sets so early in the winter—it’s so dark—but she can still make out a stain in the rug, only half-hidden under the coffee table.
“Marlene knew your mom?”
“Best friends, apparently.”
“Ellie,” says Tommy, and the seriousness in his voice has Ellie’s head snapping up. The intense curiosity in his eyes is unnerving. “Who—what was your mom’s name?”
It clicks for Ellie, then. Her mom knew Marlene. Marlene knew Tommy…
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Or, the one where Tommy's and Anna's paths crossed in Boston.
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this is me trying by CatherineA
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Aug 2025
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"I don't think I can ever forgive you for that. But I would like to try."
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“Where is Joel?” asks Ellie. He’s dead. He’s dead because of her, and they don’t want to tell her.
“Joel just got out of surgery,” Maria answers calmly, taking both of Ellie’s hands in hers. Ellie’s eyes snap back open. “Tommy is with him. You’ll be able to see him soon.” Ellie starts to sit again, to stand, to go to him, but Maria squeezes her hands in warning. “First, we need to make sure you’re okay. Next, we need to understand what happened out there, what Tommy and Dina can’t tell us. Then, I’ll take you to Joel.”
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Or: Joel survives, Ellie is still bent on revenge, and their family just wants to help.
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saying goodbye doesn't feel like the end by CatherineA
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Oct 2024
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Ellie grapples with that event from TLOU2.
Ellie wanted to be an astronaut, so Joel made sure she got to go to space.
Now, Ellie just wants Joel.
So she stares at the stars and listens—for an apology, for an absolution. Words she will never hear.
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some version of you (that I might not have but I did not lose) by CatherineA, manushroom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Sep 2024
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Jonathan likes New York, mostly because it couldn’t be less like Hawkins. But living across the country does mean that when he finds himself alone and injured, he’ll finally have to learn to accept help—from the most unexpected source.
“Jonathan?” the woman asks, stepping towards him like he’s a frightened animal. “Jonathan Byers?”
He nods, wary, and she must believe him because she quickly closes the distance between them and kneels close, holding out a rag and examining his cut.
“I’m Diane. Your dad—Hopper called me.”
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the weight of the world ain’t that bad by CatherineA
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Aug 2024
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“Ellie,” he begins, staring at the ground, his voice low. Not little shit, not kiddo, not baby girl. The use of her given name has the desired effect, because she takes a step back and looks down at him with an expression almost like fear. He levels her in his gaze. “Listen to me very closely. No matter what happens? What you’ve done will not be for nothing. It can never mean nothing. It has already meant everything.”
Ellie stares at him, open-mouthed. There’s a joke here, somewhere—Ellie, silent?—but the punchline doesn’t quite form.
“Joel, you’re freaking me the fuck out,” she says, finally. And yeah, it’s not her fault he hasn’t made it abundantly clear exactly what she has come to mean to him.
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Or: Joel opens up to Ellie just a little bit earlier. It changes everything.
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5 Times the Staff of PTMC Watched Mel & Langdon + 1 Time Mel & Langdon Finally Admitted it to themselves by DEVILISHMINS
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
03 May 2025
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what it says on the tin.
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following Langdon's return, the staff of PTMC watch the ever evolving and changing dynamic of Mel & Langdon.
Bookmarked by CatherineA
27 Oct 2025
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Nancy comes out of that week in November with a boyfriend and a boy she can't get off her mind.
They're not the same boy.
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24 Oct 2025
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A beat, then, “How does Dr. King feel about company?”
“Dr. King isn’t sold on company generally speaking,” she says, then realizing his implication, has to bite back a grin. “She doesn’t mind her friend Dr. Langdon, though.”
Mel finds solace in sitting on the rooftop following some of the ED’s hardest moments. Langdon joins her.
Bookmarked by CatherineA
21 Oct 2025
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It’s Mel King, who looks absolutely identical to the other times—count them, three—he’s seen her: honey-colored braid, no-nonsense thick-framed glasses, a slightly uncertain expression playing across her face, which Frank already knows hides the strength of her convictions.
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18 Oct 2025
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Ellie’s not sleeping much.
Granted, they’ve only been in Jackson three weeks, hardly time to shake the habits of the road like sleeping in shifts for a couple hours at a time. But this is different, Joel can tell. She’s restless, deep shadows under her eyes, and when he wakes in the middle of the night he can usually hear her moving about the house somewhere.
But the house is quiet one night when he pokes his head into her room and finds her bed empty, and his heart damn near screeches to a stop in his chest. It’s almost three in the morning, so why in the hell isn’t she in her bed?
(4 times ellie can't sleep, and 1 time joel can't either)
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17 Oct 2025