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Jackson's School Tip: Never Assume by Cold_Coffie
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Jun 2026
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Ellie had grown used to the Miller household, and even if hearing the other kids kinda hurt, she didn’t need a father, or an uncle, or an aunt or even a baby cousin: She had Joel, and Tommy, and Maria and even the baby in a few months, and that was enough.
That was enough.Which is why, every time a teacher in Jackson riled them all up about some out-of-the-walls road trip or even a school activity that was off the clock, only to demand their parent’s written authorization first, Ellie sucked it up and went home in silence.
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Or: Jackson's school trips need a parental permission, but Ellie was no one's daughter (to the surprise of her father)
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brokenhearted, running wild by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Mar 2025
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“This is private property.”
Her head snaps up, eyes narrowed as her lips curl into a snarl. “No shit? I thought this was a public fucking park.”
Joel levels a glare at the kid as he loads the washer. “It ain’t. These machines are for residents, not runaways.”
“I’m not a fucking runaway,” she snaps, squaring her shoulders and drawing her backpack closer. “And I am a resident. Kid of the week for the Jenkins. You know, the people who live in 3E?”
“And the Jenkins have you down here doin’ laundry after school every day?” he asks with incredulity.
She glances around the room, a uniquely teenage disdain in her sneer as she surveys the silent machines. “Obviously.”
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(joel is an apartment super, ellie is a foster kid. they orbit each other in every universe.)
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With the world burning in the background by Deadbugapplepie
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Aug 2025
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What if David got a bit further? Plus the aftermath and hard conversations that Joel and Ellie need to have once he finds her with a new sweater and rippped jeans.
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11 Aug 2026
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baby teeth, block parties by myhomeistheshire
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 May 2023
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In Jackson, he starts to put it all together. Curtains on her windows. A lock on her door. Sugar on berries with milk, all stirred together like cereal-dessert. She keeps asking why, why shoes come off in the house and why dinner is an all-together event and why she has to learn how to swim or grill or play the guitar. He wants to ask her why she spends so much time out in the field, back flat against the earth and looking upward. Wants to ask her what she sees, or thinks, or is.
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joel tries to fix all the years he missed.
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11 Aug 2026
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blackbird, blackbird, what do you see? by marchflower for historian_in_pearls
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 May 2025
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“I think I - fucked up my ankle.” She points to her left foot. “When I fell.”
Her remorse lies thick and rank between them. Joel imagines he can see it rotting there, in between shafts of honeyed sunlight. Shame, he thinks, fits her so poorly. He’s reminded of Kansas City, of her sitting her with her back to the newspaper lined window, chin on her knees, a single tear on her cheek as she tells him:
It wasn’t my first time.
Little girls, he thinks, have no business carrying that sort of regret. He has no business reading into it this way - thinking about all the tender spots Ellie’s got lying in ruin inside of her, all of the ways this world has failed her. All of the ways he’s failed her, all of the ways he might still. She’s only a job, he tells himself sternly. She’s cargo.
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Joel patches Ellie up again, and again, and again.