16 Bookmarks by InEmbers
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Until now, Joel and Tommy had always done their best to avoid Joel being away during the darker hours, as Ellie regularly suffers from panic attacks and night terrors. Yet the day before, one of the men usually affected to night watch had an accident while helping fixing the fence. Joel being one of the best and most senior fighters of Jackson, there was no other choice but to have him fill in. Tommy and Joel manage to get Ellie a walkie-talkie so she can speak to Joel if she's afraid.
She is, although she won't admit it.
Joel knows, though, and devises a plan to get her to sleep...
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- Part 4 of Joel Miller's Wonderful Hugs
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Ellie has a recurring nightmare.
In it, the world is blue-black with shadow. A figure swings down with something blunt and she has to watch, choking on screams, as the Joel dies violently in front of her. The whole time, she’s pleading with him to get up, to open his eyes, to stay with her. He never does.
Ellie wakes up begging.
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A story about forgiveness.
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14 Jun 2023
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Yearning Souls and Sparkling Embers by Aledhwen for InEmbers
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
03 Jun 2023
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As Ellie and Joel camp for the night in a small forest cave, Ellie has the good idea to jump into the nearby stream. When night falls, she starts freezing, and Joel has no other choice than to try and warm her up with his own body. As he hugs her for the first time since they met, they both realize how touch-starved they are, and yet fear the other to know. They cannot deny, though, that this is the beginning of something that might change their lives forever.
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- Part 3 of Joel Miller's Wonderful Hugs
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we'll walk this road together (through the storm) by Last_Lane_of_Liv
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
02 Jun 2023
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The fear didn’t hit when he saw the raiders in the street, when he crashed Bill’s old truck into a store window, or even when he was being strangled to death with a rifle. Hell, he’d been ready to die for decades.
Instead, the fear hit when he and Ellie were crouched in an old storehouse with papered-over windows, waiting, and Ellie said: “Are you okay?”
_____________Or, Joel realizes fear is intimately associated with fatherhood.
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02 Jun 2023
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Joel wrapped her close, encasing her in his jacket and his warmth. The feeling of her body pressed to his woke the papa-bear kept dormant for too long and he gently cradled her head with his palm. “It’s okay.”
She wasn’t cargo, she hadn’t been since Henry and Sam. Since he nearly lost her the first time.
She was his daughter. His Ellie. She was everything. The earth, sun, stars, and moon all tangled in one. She was right here, in his arms. Alive.
He’d burn the entire world down for her. He hoped the careful stroking of her hair conveyed that enough.
“It’s okay baby girl. I’ve got you,” his eyes fell shut against the winter, relief running thick through his veins as he gently rocked them both. Incomprehensible groans and cries continued from the space between his collar and jaw. The sound formed a stinging lump in his throat. “I’ve got you. I’ve got you,” Joel repeated, unsure if for him or for Ellie.
They stood like that longer than was probably safe; tangled within Joel’s heavy coat together, clinging to each other like a lifeline.Bookmarked by InEmbers
28 May 2023
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Brought from Ashes, Return to Dust by SoulLikeABird
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 May 2023
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An anecdote of Ellie Williams, the ghosts of winter, and a fire to burn it all away.
(Alternatively: Ellie burns that wretched sweater. Joel helps.)
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21 May 2023
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wild horses through hollow bones by queensyther
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 May 2023
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“Tommy,” Joel starts, clenching his fists. He looks at the terrified girl, and she shrinks under his gaze. He forces himself to relax, adjusts his stormy expression enough that it won’t scare her off before he figures out just what the hell is going on here. “You’d better tell me what’s goin’ on and where the hell Ellie is—”
“That little girl is Ellie.”
Joel barks an unamused laugh, but his rage is quickly reaching a boiling point. “That’s real funny, Tommy, but I ain’t in the mood for fuckin' jokes.”
“I’m serious, Joel.”
“Tommy, I am about to lose my patience—”
“Fuckin’ look at her!” Tommy exclaims, gesturing wildly at the kid. “Look, you think I don’t know how crazy this sounds? Jesus Christ, Joel!"
The whole time Tommy’s talking, Joel can’t stop staring at the girl. She’s watching them go at it with wide brown eyes full of tears she’s refusing to let fall, and Joel feels another gunshot rip through his heart.
Or, Ellie mysteriously transforms into her six-year-old self, and Joel gets to know his daughter all over again. Meanwhile, Ellie gets a second chance at childhood.
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20 May 2023
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“You know, you should really take these off sometime, Joel.” She shuffles a little bit, adjusting her stance. “You’ve always got them on.”
“Always ready to go,” he murmurs, adjusting his own stance and sliding his hands to under her elbows, taking more of her weight, ensuring she’s steady. “How’s that?”
“Better. Now what?”
“Now,” he says, swaying softly from side to side. “We dance.”Joel and Ellie and a hospital room. A world in which they did a blood test first.
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19 May 2023
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It's late, and someone is feeling extra affectionate. Copious amounts of fluff abounds.
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- Part 3 of Their Purpose - The Episodes
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16 May 2023
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Water in the Ground by iusedtobeoctober
Fandom The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Aug 2023
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A series about coming home to love.
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Bookmarked by InEmbers
15 May 2023
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No direction but to trust the final destination by GladiaDelmarre
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Jul 2023
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PLEASE READ THE TAGS
Joel and Ellie are on a difficult journey, where they risk their lives on a daily basis, but surprisingly good things can also happen at the same time. Each story represents one of these moments.
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These little OS start from an initiative with my friend Martina: we have chosen ten words + a bonus to be used during May 2023, and we added six more for June.
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Three more short stories!Series
- Part 1 of Not all those who wander are lost
Bookmarked by InEmbers
14 May 2023
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Before the Snowdrops by GladiaDelmarre
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 May 2023
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After what happened in Silver Lake, Ellie is in a very dark place. She's only fourteen and a half, and although she was born in a world already devastated by Cordyceps, a violent world where death is a daily affair, she's just a teenager, and it's not easy to face it all together for the first time.
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- Part 2 of Not all those who wander are lost
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14 May 2023
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when you need me, call my name by SmileHoney
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Apr 2023
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Her breaths have just evened out enough that he thinks she’s asleep again when he hears her mumble thickly, “‘M sorry, Dad.”
Immediately, his eyes fly open, flooding with tears, and his heart lodges itself in his throat as he tries to— tries to process that this is the first time Ellie’s spoken to him in days, and she’s apologizing for… Well, he doesn’t even know what, and she’s calling him Dad, and—
— and he hasn’t been a dad in a long time, and it hurts, it hurts so damn bad, it feels like he’s cracking open from that one single word, it feels like it’s tearing through him and reminding him of how he failed the last little girl who called him that, and—
—and he loves Ellie with a fierceness that scares even himself, and hearing her call him Dad has mended something at the very same time that it’s broken something else.
He remembers back in Jackson, when he so cruelly said You’re not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad.
Oh, how wrong he’d been— how foolish, to think he could ever give her up.
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5 times Ellie calls Joel Dad and they don't talk about it, and 1 time she doesn't call him Dad and they do talk about it.
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23 Apr 2023
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Foreign Element by mentallyinlothlorien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Apr 2023
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Joel comes clean about Salt Lake City, Ellie doesn't take it well, and winter is hell for both of them.
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- Part 6 of he sure as hell is her dad
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16 Apr 2023
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Somewhere along the way, his girl’s gotten to believing that she’s a superhero. He doesn’t disagree, not necessarily, but he still sees the parts of her that are less man of steel and more little girl that grew up lonely and leans in to praise like a plant growing towards the sun. He sees it. Tommy and Maria see it. And evidently, Marshall fucking Green saw it.
Or, everyone has blind spots. Someone tries to exploit one of Ellie’s and its handled accordingly.
Bookmarked by InEmbers
02 Apr 2023
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If It Weren't for Second Chances, We'd All Be Alone by mentallyinlothlorien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Mar 2023
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Maria is trying really hard to understand her new brother-in-law, despite his less-than-stellar reputation.
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- Part 5 of he sure as hell is her dad
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01 Apr 2023