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i sure know mating calls by Hiding_Reader for Fiachra
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Dec 2025
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The moment is abruptly broken when three loud thumps suddenly ring out through the wall above Tess’s head, unexpected enough to make her jump, and a muffled but extremely irate voice follows:
“Jesus Christ, man, put a sock in it! Some of us have to go to fucking work in the morning!”
A crimson flush that has little to do with the exertion of sex fills her cheeks and self-consciousness slinks in, her afterglow shriveling slightly.“Shit,” Joel croaks. It’s almost a squeak.
“Yeah. Shit,” Tess mutters. “Sometimes I forget…”
Or: Joel is a vocal lover, Tess enjoys loud sex and this causes trouble in the hamster cage that is the Boston QZ.
My entry for the TLOU Sex Gone Sideways Challenge 2025
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twin flame bruise by Hiding_Reader
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Jul 2025
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Joel feels the worry that he’s kept dormant all day suddenly flicker back to life in his stomach. It pitches up a level from the faint concern he had this morning, that he could easily nudge away, and starts to worm more insistently at this update that Ellie isn’t feeling better.
“Is it worse than this mornin’?”
“A bit,” Ellie says uncomfortably.
“What is it, still like a cramp?” Joel says carefully.
“No, just…kinda like an ache, I guess? Around here.” Ellie runs her fingertip around her belly button.
His own stomach throbs again and Joel can't tell if it’s the pain that’s been bothering him since he woke up or dread jabbing at him, sharpening like a knife pressed against his gut, telling him that something might be wrong with Ellie.
Or: The one where Joel and Ellie have their own separate surgery-requiring medical emergencies within days of each other.
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“Joel…”
Ellie’s voice rings out behind him – it sounds tiny and frightened all of a sudden. And winded, like she’s had the breath knocked out of her.
Joel turns around to face her, needing to know that she’s okay, thinking she must have caught the raider’s elbow in the gut, a rebuke on the tip of his tongue for jumping into the fray like that, what was she –
Blood. Oozing darkly, heavily between Ellie’s fingers. Her hands clasped to her side.
Joel is suddenly paralyzed, can’t speak even if he wanted to, unable to breathe, unable to process this impossibility in front of him. It’s like his brain has short-circuited.
How – how can that – how did – ?
Joel looks back to the dead man on the ground. There, clutched in his limp right hand. The broken handle of the baseball bat he’d swung at Joel’s head, snapped into a sharp, jagged shard. Stained red with blood.
Or: The one where Ellie is grievously injured at the university and Joel crosses paths with a preacher in the woods. -
my love is like to ice and i to fire by Hiding_Reader for becomethesun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
03 Nov 2024
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The window judders again and Tess’s anxiety thrums in her stomach like a bass string plucked. It’s been building for the last couple of hours, started out as anger but now it’s burned itself out, thickening and coagulating into a more oppressive, insidious emotion – fear. It’s not so much that she’s frightened of the windows not being able to withstand the storm, though that is a concern.
It’s more so the fact that somewhere, out there in this wild “significant danger to life, only journey outside if absolutely necessary” weather, Joel is conducting business and trying to put a bow on a deal that she and him have been working on all winter.
Or: Joel goes on an ill-advised smuggling errand during a vicious snowstorm and almost freezes to death. Now it's Tess's job to keep him from succumbing to hypothermia.
My submission for Whumptober 2024. Fulfils the prompt "Shivering"
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priest of nothing by marchflower for ayeleye
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Nov 2025
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Silence falls, echoing, around them. Sarah cries quietly. Joel hesitates, then chucks the remainder of his slice over the wall into the river and scoots across the tailgate, gathers her up against him. Sarah tucks her face into the crook of his neck and shudders. Joel runs a hand up and down the delicate ladder of her spine, buries his face in the sweet bed of her curls. She’s paper thin in his arms, fever bright and sticky sweet, at once both the little girl he once knew and the woman she’s becoming. The world is moving too fast for him; Sarah keeps pace with it so easily, and he’s -
Well, he’s forever falling behind.
“I love you,” he says again. He closes his eyes, swallows. The things he’d do for her are innumerable and unchanging. She has to know. “I can’t - I can’t promise you that I’m always going to get it right, baby girl, but I promise you I’m always going to try. More than I did tonight. Okay?”
Sarah whispers, “Okay.”
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Joel's metamorphosis, twenty years in the making: from a father to a man turned inside out by grief, and back again.
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for the whumptober prompt “painful transformation”
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2025
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29 Dec 2025
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the privilege of being yours by two_birds_alone_together for Merakiae
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Nov 2025
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Sarah dragged him stargazing a handful of times, but they never ventured far enough from Austin to escape the light pollution. After, when he and Tommy wandered the country with no real destination in mind, Joel couldn’t bear to look up. What was there to see but stars that outlived his daughter? Light that kept shining when Sarah didn’t?
Ellie, though… well, he hopes she never stops marveling at the night sky. She’s the one who tricked him into lifting his gaze for the first time in decades.
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joel and ellie mark september 26 with old and new traditions
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- Part 2 of explain the infinite
- Part 4 of whumptober 2025
- Part 6 of bad things happen bingo 2: electric boogaloo
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beneath the weeping tree by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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She leans into the pain, gasping, till it centers her, till her mind clears, till the ghosts of her childhood - as brief and tempestuous as it was - are shuttered away.
Still though, their words echo dimly in the far corners of her mind. This is what happens when you get close to people, they say. This is what happens when you let your guard down.
She shudders, pushes off of the wall. The thermos tumbles from its perch and falls the long way to the ground, banging tinnily against a rock or a tree root or something. Ellie curses and wipes her hair out of her eyes, leans over to see where it landed-
-and freezes, her breath suddenly cold in her chest.
At the edge of the woods, cloaked in the sage lace dripping from the boughs of the sheltering cottonwoods, something is watching her, its eyes gleaming luridly in the electric light of the coming storm.
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There is something in the woods outside of Jackson.
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for the prompt "non-human whumper"
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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29 Dec 2025
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I need my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology by Fiachra
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
21 Sep 2025
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He looks up, when she gasps and tightens her grip on his hair, and it's like he sees right through her, past all the bullshit, and any other day or time or person she'd close up, recoil in horror and at the intensity of been seen like that.
But she looks back, because she sees in that look that he sees her, not who she used to be, not some fantasy, her. He's touching her, not using her as an alternative for anyone else.
It's in that moment, as she comes in his mouth and he doesn't pull away, that she realises she's undeniably, irreversibly, fucked.
Tess, before and after the end of the world
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- Part 4 of Watch Me Bleed
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Fixed on Your Hand of Gold by ChildOfTheBarricade
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
29 Nov 2025
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'“It’s that bad, huh?” Joel said gruffly, self-consciously running his hand through his hair, his eyes fixed on the curls on Benji’s head. “I…” he cleared his throat and looked at Tommy for help.
“Tess cuts our hair,” Tommy blurted out, pushing a glass of whiskey into Joel’s hand as he came around the couch.
Maria blinked at them for a moment, thinking back to literally three days prior when she’d given Tommy a trim. And the dozen or so times before that.
“Used to,” Tommy clarified, sitting down. “She always cut our hair. It’s… her job.”
Joel took a swig of his drink and sighed, not quite able to look at Maria or Ellie yet.
“I’m so sorry, Joel,” Maria said quietly.'
A story about grief, and also how hard it is to get a good curly hair haircut.
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