4 Works by Hiding_Reader
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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"