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jail(baby)bird by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Jun 2023
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“983,” the guard calls, clanging a baton on the bars of the cell. He doesn’t bother to look up, very busy tracing out the state of Texas in the lines on the wall. He’s found four of them so far. He’s trying for a fifth. “New buddy.”
He does exhale through his nose at that, slightly amused to find out what new victim they’re offering him this time. He doesn’t have a great reputation with his “buddies,” the fuckers attached by handcuff to their cellmates to make it harder to escape, a standard practice in FEDRA prison. He’s gone through four now, each and every one of them trying to pull a power play by picking a fight.
It hadn’t gone well for any one of them.
“Try not to kill this one too quickly,” the guard says, and there’s a certain amount of anticipatory glee in the man’s voice that sets off a quiet alarm in his head.
He lifts his head, needing to see what makes this new inmate so special.
And looks right at a kid who can’t be older than 14, absolutely swamped by a prison outfit meant for someone about three sizes larger.
A girl, in the middle of a men’s prison.
(an AU in which ellie and joel meet in a fedra prison)
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01 Jun 2025
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skin deep by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Feb 2023
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His first warning that something is very wrong is how quiet the house is.
“I’m home,” he calls, sitting down on their entryway bench with a groan and working his boots off. “Ellie?” He calls when he doesn’t get a response. Her boots are haphazardly discarded by the door as usual, so he knows she’s home, but she only rarely doesn’t come barreling down the stairs the moment the door opens, making his heart skip a beat each time with fear that she’s about to take a header in her excitement.
Even after the call, however, no Ellie appears.
(a fic covering Ellie giving herself a chemical burn to cover her bitemark)
(Joel would like if his kid would run plans past him for once)
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01 Jun 2025
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The absolute fuckening of her evening continues when she expects to quietly get inside the house and make her way to her room.
Only to find Joel in the living room waiting for her.
“Hey, party animal,” he teases when he looks up. “How was-” He must see something on her face because his levity drops. His brow furrows in concern, and he tosses aside the map he’d been looking at, the paper fluttering to the ground like a sad ass bird as he crosses the room. She goes to pull back automatically when he reaches for her, but her heart’s not in it, and he gets a hand on her shoulder and his other under her chin, tipping her face up to look at him when she tries to look down. “Hey now, what’s wrong?”
(when ellie gets caught in a compromising position with cat, she's pushed into a fight with joel) (now if only she knew she wildly misunderstood what he meant)
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01 Jun 2025
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“You’re alive,” Tommy breathes, repeating it twice.
Each one hits like a blow.
“She’s dead,” he counters, voice flat in counterpoint to the way it writhes in him like a snake, a painful, thrashing thing. It’s the first time he’s said it out loud.
He can’t bear to repeat it.
“No, no,” Tommy says in a rush, pulling back. “No, Joel. She’s here. She’s in Jackson.”
Joel could almost laugh at the lie, well-intentioned but misplaced, which is his brother’s particular specialty. Tommy must have already read it on him, what Joel knows he’s going to do next. He’d sworn once to his brother that he would never do it again, never leave him behind.
But a man can only break so much before he can’t withstand it anymore.
(what if joel was just a few minutes too late to find ellie in silver lake?)
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01 Jun 2025
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“It doesn’t feel real,” Ellie says that night, when his patience with the Fireflies has broken, and he’s enforced a bedtime for their labrat that involved bodily shoving medical staff out of the room and slamming the door in their faces.
From his place on a cot right in front of the door to make sure no one gets ideas about coming in without warning, he looks over to her, but she’s only looking at the ceiling, looking far too small in the hospital bed she’s been settled on. They’d had her hooked up to machines at first, but she’d been unable to settle with them on her, so he’d made the executive decision to unhook her from everything, pushing buttons at random until all of the noises stopped.
He’d gotten dirty looks through the little window into the room until he’d shut the blinds.
(how the cure gets found) (featuring AGGRESSIVE patient advocate joel)
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It’s almost painful, the way Ellie drags her feet. He doesn’t comment, just turns back now and then to make sure she’s not trailing too far behind. When she doesn’t see him looking, she casts furtive little glances around, very obviously looking for someone, expression going tighter and tighter with each check that continues to reveal no Joel. As they turn into the stableyard, he sees her scrub the back of her mitten over her eyes quickly, pulling her hood up around her face better.
She’s silent as he tacks up the horse, and he drags it out, trying to give her as long as possible. C’mon, you old bastard, he wills his brother in his head. Don’t fucking do this to her. Ellie stays right at the stall door, and when the door to the barn opens, she lights up, turning so quickly his neck twinges in sympathy. When it turns out to only be George clocking in for his morning shift in the stables, Ellie looks like her heart’s breaking.
(tommy ends up taking ellie out of jackson)
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01 Jun 2025
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circle back by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 May 2024
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“Hey, kiddo,” he says, knocking on her door gently. “You up? Gonna have to leave soon if you don’t wanna be late for school.” It’s unusual for him to have to do this–just like Sarah, she’s usually the one who wakes him up, his youngest also a habitual morning person in some sick cosmic joke against him–and he’s trying not to immediately default to thinking something’s wrong. She’s a teenager. Teenagers stay up too late and then sleep in. He got back late from a last minute patrol to check out reports of a raider group in the area last night; she’d been asleep when he got back and peeked in on her, but he doesn’t know when she actually fell asleep. For all he knows, she could have been faking him out just to keep reading one of her books as soon as her door shut again.
Silence.
“Ellie?” He calls a little louder, trying to fight the knee jerk panic. “Kiddo, you up?”
Straining his hearing, he can just catch the sound of her covers rustling, and he lets it settle him.
The fact that she still hasn’t responded means it only settles him so far, though.
(ellie starts acting strangely and won't tell joel why)
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01 Jun 2025
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“Go ahead and shift,” Joel says when he returns, and when she doesn’t move, unsure what the fuck he’s talking about, he makes in impatient noise, gesturing to the river. “Don’t know when we’ll be able to stop again. It ain’t as good as salt water, but it’ll do.”
This is very obviously meant to mean something to her, but she has less than no idea what.
Joel sighs and rolls his eyes, marching over and unzipping her backpack. She tries to stop him with a, “Hey! What the fuck, man?”, but he keeps going until he finds the pelt-her pelt, she reminds herself, still disbelieving. She feels a ripple through her, like a piece of thread behind her belly button pulling taut, and she feels an urge to snatch it away from him, but all he does is hold it out.
“It’s fine,” he says. “I know you need to shift. Go ahead and do it.”
“What,” she asks, bundling her pelt up in her arms and feeling the unnerving sensation in her stomach only get stronger, “the fuck are you talking about?”
Joel narrows his eyes.
(tlou but with SELKIES :D)
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“I have something you have to tell Ellie, but it has to be after you both leave.”
He narrows his eyes slightly, suspecting a trap. He’s wanted to leave since the very start, but this is the first time a Firefly has mentioned it, let alone the Queen Firefly herself.
“And what might that be?” He drawls with a deliberate air of unconcern, even as he registers potential ambush points in the room.
Marlene takes a breath before she looks him in the eye.
“That her immunity isn’t because her mother got bitten when she was giving birth to her.” The weight of Marlene’s words tells him this feels like a confession to her, but he can’t help but scoff.
“So what?” He asks. “How’d she get immune then? Put something in her mouth when she was a baby that she shouldn’t have?” He smiles slightly, a mean, hard thing, still grinding a particular ax on the subject and eager to take a swing. “Not that you would know that, of course.”
(some marlene redemption and some parent!joel feels babeeeey)
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01 Jun 2025
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For all the jokes she’s made about Joel’s name twin, on the day Joel Hendrix is brought back beaten and bloody in a body bag, Ellie isn’t feeling very light-hearted.
Especially when the body is followed by his sobbing daughter, only a year older than Ellie herself. She keeps her eyes on Tanner as she staggers by, held up by Tommy, who was sent out on the rescue patrol to bring the Hendrixes back after they broke protocol and split from their group to go after an elk and then failed to check back in.
Apparently they found something significantly worse than a lucky hunt in the middle of winter.
(what if the fireflies killed the wrong joel?)
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01 Jun 2025
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By Some Miracle by qye
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us
19 Dec 2020
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When Ellie opens her eyes, she is sitting on a porch, the soft sound of guitar beside her and a familiar smell of earth mixed with coffee bringing quick tears to her eyes. She turns her head and intakes softly.
“Joel?”
It’s barely a whisper, a question, her voice cracking as the tears stream freely. Warm eyes look back at her, and the strumming stops.
“Hey there, kiddo.”
Ellie is given a second chance at the worst year of her life.Series
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She thinks it’s a joke at first when she finds out that Joel’s a patroller, too. She’s a veteran, so it was a simple thing for her to be assigned to the work as well, but the idea of gentle, loving Joel with a gun in hand, fighting and killing, is almost laughably absurd.
She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who spends hours on the porch with his daughter patiently teaching her guitar and think “yes, he’s good in a fight.” She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who regularly scoops up his fussy nephew and soothes him with an experienced parent’s deftness and think “yes, he’ll absolutely kill without hesitation.” She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who lets his teenager manhandle him to steal his food right off his plate because it makes her laugh and think “yes, he’s ruthless enough to take out a threat.”
She doesn’t know how anyone could look at Joel Miller and think he’d be a good patroller, and day by day, she worries about it more and more.
(a newcomer to jackson meets joel and thinks he's FAR too soft to be a patroller) (ft. outside pov of joel being a somft girldad) (and somft, period)
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01 Jun 2025
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don't try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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01 Jun 2025
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Where Joel miscalculates the situation with David and the hunters, and Ellie pays the price. Ellie and Joel struggle to cope after Ellie is raped. Thrown into unfamiliar territory-- Will their bond grow stronger, or will the trauma tear them apart? Begins during the winter, and follows the pair into Jackson as Ellie grows up in the aftermath of the decisions that have been made for her.
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spare the rod by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 May 2023
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“I was just…I was wondering what you do. You know. For like…punishment.” She interrupts him. She needs to get the answer already, needs to know what to expect before she drives herself crazy with anticipation.
“Well I was more into grounding than goddamn child abuse.”
“Grounding like…” Her face scrunches in confusion as she dares to look at him. The word is foreign and the best guess she has doesn’t seem right, but she also doesn’t know what else it could be. “Like being…in the ground?”
Joel stares at her for a long, long moment before he speaks.
“Jesus fucking Christ.”
(after they settle into jackson, ellie realizes she doesn't know how joel will punish her if she messes up) (it quickly becomes a problem she needs to solve)
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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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01 Jun 2025
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illuminate by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Mar 2023
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The first time she comes barreling into the house like the devil’s on her heels, he’s on his feet with his gun in hand at once, stepping between her and the door, sure an intruder is about to burst through after her. He readies himself for a fight, already planning how to get an attacker out of the house and away from Ellie.
And then he hears her laughing.
He turns to see her, panting and sweaty, laid out on the floor like she’s a rug, her face practically glowing with the force of her smile. She lifts both hands to the air in fists and cheers.
“What are you doing,” he asks, but the question comes out flat in light of his confusion. He gives the door one more look, but no intruder is imminent, and he holsters his gun, going to one knee beside Ellie, still on her back, breathing hard.
“I beat it!” She says, clearly proud about whatever the hell she’s talking about.
“Beat what?” He asks.
“Curfew!” She nearly crows.
He blinks.
It’s possible they’ve had a misunderstanding about what exactly a curfew is.
(some sweet settling in together fluff with just a smidge of feels for flavor)
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28 May 2025
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Hermione and Ron join Harry in the Gryffindor common room after the Battle of Hogwarts, and things fall into place.
(Hermione laughed then covered her mouth. “Don’t make laugh, now. We’ll wake Harry. And the first thing he’ll hear is that-“
“You kissed, I heard,” Harry murmured sleepily. “Good. Best people I know, you are. S’right.”
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25 May 2025
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Rumors are spreading in the wake of the war that Harry Potter has gone Dark. Hermione and Ron are the only ones who know the truth—he has, and they’re going to follow him regardless. Their paths will always lie together.
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25 May 2025
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After Battle, Tighten Your Armour by cheshire_carroll
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Dec 2019
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Wars end, but that doesn't mean peace. Not always. Not for those who've fought and bled and sacrificed to free their world from a monster wearing the mask of humanity.
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25 May 2025