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“The girl dances like a dream. As she moves she’s every birthday and christmas and good thing Ellie’s ever heard of but never had. She’s the prettiest goddamn thing Ellie has ever seen in her life.
Ellie wants to dance with her. She wants to be her. She feels her cheeks heating and her breath coming quicker and she doesn’t know why, just that something earth shattering is happening.”
The rich survived the apocalypse with a hoard of guns and medicine that they dole out to FEDRA in exchange for luxuries. Luxuries like art and pageantry. The FEDRA-run Boston Conservatory hosts everything from ballets to musicals to keep their patrons happy and the supplies flowing. Ellie is chosen as one of the orphans with potential and trains to be a ballerina. This changes nothing, and everything.
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20 Jun 2025
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Bella’s powers have grown, allowing her to read Edward’s thoughts. They’re less refined and mysterious than she’d hoped they’d be.
This leads to unfortunate realizations about maturity, self-awareness, and what it really means to be a teenager forever.
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20 Jun 2025
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“Bella is-that is to say, her thoughts…” Edward struggled valiantly to find a way to phrase it before blurting out the shameful truth about his wife. “She’s stupid!”
Alice laughed. It felt pointed. Cruel.
“Oh, Edward. She’s not stupid. She’s a perfectly normal 18 year old high school girl,” Alice reassured as Edward’s expression grew more horrified with every word. “At worst she’s shallow, a shallow dish that’s reflecting your powers right back at you, showing you exactly what you want to see. Like Narcissus.”
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20 Jun 2025
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The Kind That Likes To Grow Up by joschmo
Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types
18 Nov 2024
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Bella could wear a silk gown for hours and take it off for it to feel unworn: no heat from her body to warm the fabric, no sweat, no clumsy stains or tears.
Like a corpse, changing clothes for a viewing.
She misses food. She misses going to the bathroom, as silly as that sounds. But everything is perfect and beautiful. Forever.
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20 Jun 2025
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She’s in a fucking hospital gown. A short, paper-thin hospital gown, with nothing on under it.
Ellie gags, choking down bile, trying her fucking hardest not to vomit. She can’t do that now, not yet. She has to find Joel. He’ll fix this, whatever this is. That’s what Joel does, he fixes things, he fixes her. He keeps her safe.
And she knows if she asked, he would put a bullet right between the eyes of whoever it was that took her out of her clothes while she was unconscious.
She thinks she might ask.
(ellie wakes up in the hospital and has a choice to make)
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17 Jun 2025
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FEDRA loses control of the Boston QZ, just as the Fireflies planned it. But Joel is less than impressed with the transitional government and their recruitment of teenaged soldiers as a different war keeps raging on.
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17 Jun 2025
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moral philosophy at the end of the world by heroesfading
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Good Place (TV)
16 Mar 2023
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Chidi and Eleanor are Joel and Ellie's neighbors, and when Chidi meets the real life application of the Trolley Problem his head just might explode if he doesn't throw up first. / Only a few steps away from crack!fic if you squint.
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17 Jun 2025
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Joel Miller died in a ditch in Texas in 2003 and somehow woke up again in 2023 to make sure he didn’t make the same mistake twice.
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17 Jun 2025
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Joel considers the Trolley Problem while figuring out how to be a parent to a teenage girl again. He's slowly getting the hang of it, for the most part.
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17 Jun 2025
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Ellie Williams' Guide to Teenage Rebellion by simoncowellsjuicytits
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Feb 2025
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“Joel.” He says. He’s Texan, which as far as Ellie’s concerned is an accent-imitating jackpot.
"Can I call you Joe?"
"No."
"Jojo?"
"Absolutely not."
There's a brief silence.
“You’re gonna stop me from getting shot in the face?”“That’s the job.”
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As the (alleged) daughter of the new president, Ellie Wiliams is hellbent on making herself as much of a nuisance as possible. Joel Miller, the virtually unreadable and perpetually grumpy bodyguard assigned to watch her for eighteen hours a day, certainly thinks she's doing a good job of it. But as Ellie processes losses of her past and present, she slowly begins to realise just how valuable it can be to have someone watching your back.
(Angst/eventual fluff found family Joel & Ellie AU, slow-burn father-daughter relationship.)
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- Part 1 of The Last of Us- Presidential AU
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16 Jun 2025
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sit & stay by ninesunrisedogs
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 May 2023
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Joel’s plumb out of luck, it seems, because running after the dog is the little girl. She’s out of breath, still halfway laughing, and for a few seconds she doesn’t notice him. In those seconds, her face is wide open in a grin, dark hair wild and posture loose. She can’t be more than thirteen, maybe a small fourteen, and she’s clumsy in the way teenagers are right after a growth spurt. There’s a knife in Joel’s chest, the one that’s been there for twenty years, and it twists.
(or, joel accidentally gets a dog. apparently, the dog comes with a mouthy fourteen-year-old kid, and maybe also a reason for living again.)
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16 Jun 2025
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Swallowtail by crownjrose (rosesnblueberries)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Oct 2024
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September 7th, 2007
The first thing he saw were the tears on her cheeks, the wide, terrified shape of her mouth. Then, the sedate braid of hair over her shoulder. The clean, aged clothing she wore – t-shirt, jeans, boots. Beaded bracelet around skinny wrist. Tall, shot up like a weed. Huge, disbelieving eyes. Hazel eyes. Her mother’s eyes. Cheeks narrower than ever. His daughter’s face, transposed on a young woman.
“I–” Joel said. “I don’t understand.”
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Joel, Tess, and Tommy travel to Austin after what would have been Sarah's eighteenth birthday. Seeking closure after the brutal death of his daughter, Joel finds that not only has his old house been well-kept and cared for, but that, somehow, Sarah had been alive all this time.
Between the guilt of having left her for dead on that field and the incandescent gratitude of finding her safe, Joel must battle with the fact that the reason she survived is another man named Angel.
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The Outsider by krissyscoconutmall
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 May 2025
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Ellie watched Joel embrace this woman. Showing more emotion than he'd ever shown her in the past 6 months.
"Oh Sarah. Oh babygirl."
Oh.
The realisation washed over Ellie like cold water being poured down her back.
Sarah was Joel's daughter. And she was alive.
⸺ sarah is alive in jackson. ellie faces her biggest fear. joel goes gray.
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11 Jun 2025
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you’re not my waiting room by ahale
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Nov 2023
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“But Joel wouldn’t do that. Not to her. He’d argue with Marlene all damn night if he had to; there was no way he’d leave her in the middle of the world going to shit.
But when Marlene gave a singular nod and thrusted the phone in Ellie’s direction, she felt like she stopped breathing.“
Or, Ellie’s a part of the Miller family when the apocalypse starts.
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11 Jun 2025
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Joel has two daughters when the apocalypse comes. This changes everything and nothing.
"He has two daughters and two hands to protect them with. It has to be enough. He can't fathom a world in which it won't be"
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11 Jun 2025
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Joel is holding his daughter in his arms, the two of them sobbing together as Tommy stitches the gaping wound in Sarah’s leg. They’d managed to make it back home, but Sarah had been drooping ever closer to unconsciousness and Joel was terrified that if she slipped a little bit further, he would lose her altogether.
“You’re okay,” He whispers the words into her hair like a mantra. “I’ve got you, babygirl. You’re doing so good.”
what if…
Sarah lives. Joel gets his girls.Series
- Part 2 of if things were different
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11 Jun 2025
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me and my dog (and an impossible view) by becomethesun for mirananananan
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Dec 2023
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“Hi!” he hears Ellie call in a soft voice that he knows from months on the road with the kid is reserved for animals of any variety. Squirrels, horses, raccoons, garter snakes. “What are you doing all alone out here?”
“Leave it alone, Ellie,” he says, not sure what kind of creature it is that she’s communing with, but absolutely sure that, regardless of what it is, it’s not something she should be getting near.
She pops back into his line of sight, out from behind a bookcase in the science fiction section, a bright grin lighting up her face. She’s holding a goddamn puppy.
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Ellie gets a dog. (Featuring some Joel Parenting Anxiety, puppy shenanigans, Ellie's Not Super Great First Day of School, Shrek as a love language, and a lil sickfic)
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the snowy day by becomethesun for Nandorluna
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Dec 2023
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One of the few things that people said was an advantage of having a baby at twenty-one was getting to be a part of your child’s life for such a large chunk of it, getting to have a relationship with your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren. He’d always found some peace in the thought that if Sarah decided to have kids someday, he’d be around to help her out with them when she needed it.
He’s gotten more second chances in this life than he ever deserved, and he knows this is yet another one of them.
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Baby JJ and his grandpa have a nice winter afternoon. (Joel Lives AU featuring adventures in babysitting with Grandpa Joel and a lot of warm fuzzy holiday family feels)
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“Joel, get Joel. Please.” Bile is rising in her throat. She swallows it back.
Ian makes a scoffing noise, taking a step closer. “Seriously, you’re fine. You just knocked it, that’s all. You go crying to your daddy every time you get a bruise?”
Ellie fucking doesn’t. Ian bruises her almost everyday, and she never cries.
Someone tries to make Ellie grow up too fast.
Ft. Worried Joel and a teddy bear named Fuckface
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06 Jun 2025
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Joel made a choice. He stayed with her. And now mother and father are a blurred line, with no clear beginning and end. He doesn’t pick and choose. He’s everything. He’s Joel. He’s the only person she can think about, when something isn’t right. When she’s curled up on the floor in pain or tangled in her blankets from a nightmare. His name comes to her lips every time, even if she doesn't want it to, a cry that pulls directly from instinct.
She’s Ellie.
Maybe that’s why she doesn’t tell him about what she found in Maria and Tommy’s guest room.
Ellie doesn't have a mother. Jackson gives her space to feel this loss more acutely.