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First it was her parents. Then Riley, and then Tess. Sam and Henry came next. At fourteen, all Ellie knew was loss. She should be used to it by now- expect it, even. What she didn't expect was to become so fond and attached to the grumpy, emotionally-unavailable smuggler that's spent the last three months protecting her at all cost. Despite her initial doubts, they were in this together now. Or at least they were, until Ellie finds out Joel's plan all along had been to ditch her the very first chance he got.
Or: Ellie overhears Joel's conversation about leaving her & rather than agreeing to go with Tommy, she takes off to find the Fireflies on her own. But David and his group have other plans for her. Basically episode 6 & Ellie dealing with the aftermath of episode 8 (with some changes & angst).
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15 Aug 2026
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Inextricable by honeyandraspberrytea
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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The woman whips around, and yeah, she looks like she could be in her mid thirties, but Ellie is so confused because Joel never would have left her if there was even a chance Sarah were alive, he wouldn’t have abandoned her, and Ellie swings the scope back to Joel to see if she can read his face, but he’s facing the wrong way, and he’s hunched over like he’s physically in pain and—
“Daddy?”
She starts to move, slowly, towards Joel, taking halting steps like she thinks he’ll disappear. He doesn’t move at all.
Distantly, Ellie hears Anna radioing for Tommy.
“Daddy?” she asks again, and Ellie registers her southern drawl, even more pronounced than Joel and Tommy’s. She sounds like Scarlett O’Hara. Tommy made her watch Gone with the Wind last month, after Ellie had missed it on movie night.
Joel still hasn’t moved. Sarah doesn’t step any closer to him.
They just stand there, in a stalemate.
Joel is breaking down.
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Two years to the day of EllieandJoel, JoelandEllie, the prodigal daughter returns.
(Sarah lives, and Ellie learns to live with it)
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15 Aug 2026
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The Weight of Broken Wings by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Sep 2026
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Joel makes a promise to a dying man.
He doesn’t realize what surviving you will cost.
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27 Jul 2026
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That House in Nebraska by daryltwdixon
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Jun 2025
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In the time between when he took you to now, something changed. His hands grew gentler. Your fear turned quiet. And somewhere in the stillness, love kindled.
inspired by Ethel Cain's A House in Nebraska- Language:
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24 Jul 2026
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i don't know what to call this song so i'll call it nothing at all by PaigeGoneRogue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Jan 2026
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It started off as innocently enough. In fact, it started out justified.
She’d gotten bit. She’d run into a shabby cottage (in the name of recon, of course), with only three bullets left in her gun. She’d missed the first two, but her last shot made impact with the rotting, snarling thing, sending a spray of blood onto the wall behind it. The metal buried into its shoulder, disabling its left arm. Then it pounced on her.
She hadn’t even been mad about it. She hadn’t taken it out with three tries, it felt only fair that it got at least one shot at her in return.
It sunk its rotting teeth into her shoulder, the acrid stench of the thing curling into her nostrils. It growled, teeth clamping down as it shivered at the taste.
The second she saw the non-existent glow of flames, her knife was buried in its head. The fun was gone now.★☆★
Ellie reaches her lowest point, but Joel's there to pull her out.
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21 Jul 2026
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In the Family Way by introvertedbooklover123
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 Apr 2024
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Suddenly, the older woman steps back and plunges the heel of her boot into the pumpkin, orange flesh exploding apart like a skull cracking open, and examines the contents closely. The adults closest begin to murmur.
Dina shakes her head. “Looks like it’s rotted.”
Images of decomposing flesh covered in fungi flicker through Ellie. “What does that mean?”
Dina shrugs, her eyes glancing back to her row of sprouts. “It means the plants are bad. Probably root rot from the rain. Stops the plant from growing properly.”
“Is that- are all the plants in trouble?” Ellie’s heart ricochets uncomfortably in her chest.
“It’s probably fine. We always have a few years where a bit too much rain comes through and ruins some of our crops.” Her friend tries to sound reassuring, but all Ellie can see is emaciated men in a cold room in Silver Lake, a cleaver held above her arm, and dead bodies strung up like slaughtered animals.
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Jackson's food supplies dwindle while Ellie's abdomen gets bigger
***on hold until further notice - I have not abandoned this piece!
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30 Jun 2026
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Blood.
It was fanning out under Ellie’s body, taking her and claiming her like cordyceps. After a few endless seconds, she moved in it, curled up, and then immediately whimpered as a result; the knife in her stomach had twisted.
The sound was what broke Joel out. “Ellie,” Her name fell out. Before he even knew what he was doing, he sprinted forward and then crashed right back down, scooping his arms underneath Ellie’s body. “Ellie. Oh, God.” When he moved her, the knife shifted, too, and she cried out; a sharp wince claimed his face, like a gunshot had gone off. Had it? His eyes lifted up, searching for a soldier’s flashlight.
Sarah?
No.
A different baby bleeding out on him, again his fault.
TLDR: Ellie gets hurt at the university instead of Joel. Going into winter with this change! Lots of angst and hurt/comfort <3
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14 Jun 2026
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Ellie Williams was going to die, all by herself, in a forest clearing, under a bright blue sky, without a soul knowing. Alone, all alone, not even some beautiful final vision of the one person that cared enough to break the world for her, that was her fate. As her vision faded, as breath grew impossible, and the pain finally dissolved into nothingness, Ellie’s final thought was ‘this is how I end’.
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08 Jun 2026
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“I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”
A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”
Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”
Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”
“Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:
“What?!”
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Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Complications ensue.
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12 May 2026
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It Feels Like the World is Healing by lovett_the_moon
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Jul 2022
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Joel survives the encounter with Abby. Joel gets to meet his grandson. Ellie forgave Joel, but she thinks she finally understands his choice now too.
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- Part 1 of Grandpa Joel
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29 Apr 2026
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a redwood among mere sprouts by two_birds_alone_together for ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Sep 2026
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“Kid, get the hell outta my tree.”
Stupid fucking neighbors. She’s never even seen the person who lives here before.
“It’s not your tree,” she calls back, infusing her tone with as much attitude as she can muster. “No one owns a tree.” Deep breaths, Ellie. Can’t give away how scared you are, especially not to a stranger. Especially especially not to a man.
“Tree’s on my property. I own the property, so I own the tree. Now scram.”
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ellie climbs a tree, and maybe finds a home in it
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23 Apr 2026
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i wish i was a lionfish by PaigeGoneRogue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Apr 2026
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Joel didn’t really care about the newcomers, to be perfectly honest.
Whenever someone new arrived in Jackson, it was always a big deal for a week. Chatter and talk and baked goods delivered before the shine of intrigue rusted and everyone went back to their business. Back to their happy, idyllic little lives in the toy town they all inhabited. Playing a dime-store society liable to collapse the day they dug up the wrong root.
The only difference between these newcomers and the ones they usually got was the age. The girl, a ratty, brown-eyed fifteen-year-old, had been picked up with her light-haired, blue-eyed dad by a patrol out near the old copper mine, and given immediate refuge because ‘youth was sacred’, the kind of sappy, stupid saying Jackson thrived on.𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
David and Ellie take up residence in Jackson. Joel tries his best to help.
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12 Apr 2026
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The Stars Incline Us by Merakiae
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Mar 2026
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astra inclinant, sed non obligant (the stars incline us, they do not bind us)
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Of all the fights Joel has dragged his brother into, none of them have ever been worthy of Tommy’s loyalty, until this one.
“You don’t know what she’s been through, Tommy. She’s just a kid. She needs—“
To be held.
To know that she deserves to live.
To know that she’s setting the world right just by existing, just by breathing.
Tommy finds the words he can’t. “She needs people to love her, a safe place to grow up and do some healin’. I reckon you, me, and Maria can give her that.”
Or: the Part II where Ellie gets her chance at saving the world (or at least her little corner of it) and finds out just how loved she is along the way.
No AI was used in the writing of this fic.
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22 Feb 2026
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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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18 Dec 2025
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Saving What Was Lost by Mermaidgirl30
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Dec 2025
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You never expected to get auctioned off in a room full of filthy rich, vile men after being taken over a year ago, but it happened. And the man that buys you, the one with soft brown eyes, just might’ve saved your life. He doesn’t want to hurt you. No. He wants to show you what it’s like to fall back in love with life.
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08 Dec 2025
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angel from montgomery by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Sep 2025
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“Hey.”
The girl’s eyes snapped up, panicked. She spared a second to glance down at the man in front of her, her eyes racing up and then looked at Joel with the exact same type of terror, before emerging with something in her hands.
Joel watched, immediately suspecting a gun. “Whoa, now-”
The girl lifted her hands up, revealing an old knife. She smeared the tears on her cheeks away, trying to seem bigger than she was, but it didn’t work.
She was a terrified kid.
The urgency in Joel’s expression blinked. “Hey,” He repeated, his voice painted soft, though he didn’t let himself hear it. The girl just stared up at him with her knife, not realizing the tremble of her own grip or the violent shakes that tore through her entire, bare body. He just realized that now. Only her knees were covering her, along with the clearly torn pair of underclothes on her lower half. She cringed under his eyes. “It’s okay,” He tried. “I’m not gon’ hurt you.”
The girl didn’t even blink. She just stared up through her tears, terrified of him.
Fuck.
TLDR: Joel finds a traumatized Ellie on the side of the road. He's immediately soft. Meanwhile, she has to learn how to trust him.
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Bookmarked by Livispunkk
04 Nov 2025
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It's been just over five days since Joel's gotten more than a split-second glimpse of his kid. Other than when he pokes his head into her room at night to make sure she's actually in her bed - more than once a night, if he's being honest - all he's seen is the back of her head, her ponytail whipping around corners. Ellie stays in her room until Joel's left for the day, and sneaks back into it in the evenings. No idea where she's spending her time, what she's up to - but at least she's sleeping in her own goddamn room.
Opening her bedroom door that night to find just a pillow in her place and her bag gone had been easily one of the most terrifying moments of Joel's life.
(whumptober day 8 - self-inflicted injury; bad things happen bingo - self-loathing)
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- Part 3 of whumptober 2025
- Part 7 of bad things happen bingo
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03 Nov 2025
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keep you from sorrow and harm by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Oct 2025
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The crowd parts as Dina barrels through, her jacket half-on and her boots untied, panic written clear across her features. Terror replaces the momentary relief at seeing her alive and unharmed when he sees how frantic she is. That girl doesn’t panic; not like this.
Before he can take another step, she skids to a stop in front of him. “Where’s Ellie?”
“What—”
“She was covering for me,” Dina chokes out, the words tumbling over each other in her rush to get them out. “I wasn’t feeling well, so she took my shift. Where is she?”
Tommy’s world tilts. Ellie. Inside. The words don’t connect at first, then slam into him so hard that he bends forward, hands bracing on his knees as his vision tunnels. Ellie was inside when the fire broke out, and now…
Not Ellie. Christ, not Ellie.
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the tipsy bison catches fire.
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- Part 2 of a light not expected
- Part 5 of bad things happen bingo 2: electric boogaloo
- Part 3 of whumptober 2025
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03 Nov 2025
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don't you call her baby (we're not talking lately) by spritejac
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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“Sure thing, kiddo.”
The words freeze Ellie in place, hand suspended where it was reaching for her fork as time seems to stop around her.Kiddo.
Since when the fuck is Dina “kiddo”?
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Ellie not knowing how to confront Joel about Salt Lake and learning that maybe she is, in fact, replaceable.
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Jealous Ellie and Joel who takes in every teenage girl.
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03 Nov 2025
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Living On The Edge by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Apr 2025
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“I ain’t doing this to earn some sort of self-fulfillment. You’re a good kid, and turning eighteen doesn’t make you an adult.” The first wet arc of a tear rolls down her cheek, and he catches it with a dry thumb before it reaches her chin.
“You are going to stumble, and I’d like to be there to catch you, if you will allow me to be.” Leaning her head back into the steady beat of his heart, she lets him rock her side to side as she cries, her arms slipping around his torso.
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Joel and Ellie meet at an NA meeting. Joel is ten years sober, and Ellie is just four weeks clean. After begrudgingly becoming her sponsor, Joel finds himself stepping back into the shoes of a father for the first time in 15 years.Bookmarked by Livispunkk
02 Nov 2025