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Modern AU - Miller Ranch by MessyDepressy95
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 Jan 2026
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- 251,990
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- 3
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11 Jan 2026
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“They were my pills, too. If you were anyone else …”
“You’d what?”
A ghost of a smile touched her lips. “I’d send you after them.”
He returned the smile, but it was awash with the guilt he’d always helplessly, hopelessly, love more than her. Joel wanted her angry and unforgiving. It sustained him. Tess knew what it was to want to hurt at the hands of the one she loved most. They gave one another everything. Most of the time, it wasn’t pretty. But that was what they were.
“Next time – ”
“You can’t lie to me,” she swiftly countered. “I’ll take the rest Joel. But not that.”
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Joel is a mess and everything is miserable.Series
- Part 24 of Drifters, a book of Tess and Joel
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,545
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 15
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03 Dec 2025
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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.
Title from Would That I by Hozier- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,093
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 62
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29 Nov 2025
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In This Burning House by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Nov 2025
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She's sitting cross-legged and pretty in a plastic chair across from him while crunching on a salad, her lashes fluttering at him with false innocence when she catches his bleary eyes coming into focus. "So…come here often?" Shoveling another bite in, she leans back and waves her spork between him and the baby still sleeping soundly beneath his hand.
Clearly, she knows the answer to that.
He lies anyway.
"Sometimes." He drawls out, eyeing her warily.
She snorts loud and ugly, lettuce bound to be all up in her brains from the action. With an upward flick of her brows, a quick show of disbelief, she digs through her salad and gathers another bite before muttering not under her breath, but low enough to mind the sleeping infants within the vicinity.
"You still lie like shit, Joel."
Yeah, well.
Ain't a skill he necessarily wants to hone.
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Firefighter Joel and Preemie Ellie take two? With a heavy dose of Tess and Joel being horny as hell for one another. One chapter for every Saturday in November covering at least one prompt a week (except for c5) for Bumblepony's Tess/Joel. month- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 62,034
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 1
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- 75
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24 Nov 2025
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All Primal Screams (and quick relief) by MessyDepressy95 for Bumblepony, ketchupchipsaregross
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Nov 2025
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Shoving herself upright, she splashes beige tinted water onto her face from the trickling tap before forcing herself to meet her own eyes in the mirror, the starkly white wash of her skin making her look ill. The drift of her hand drags her shirt back up and her breathing catches, an undignified whine slipping out of her as she stares unblinkingly at that small protrusion, it's existence undeniable now that she knows.
She's pregnant.
And she can't tell Joel, he can't know.
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Tess makes the belated realization that she's harboring a tiny fugitive (Ellie) and decides that it's best if Joel doesn't know (Outbreak compliant, takes place within Boston QZ)
For Tess/Joel month 2025- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,144
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 1
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- 78
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- 177
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- 41
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24 Nov 2025
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People Still Listen to Fleetwood Mac in the Apocalypse by Nandorluna
Fandom: The Last of Us, The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
23 Oct 2025
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- 657,445
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- 5
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- 48
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12 Nov 2025
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The Inevitable Desires of Edward Kaspbrak by bread_and_walls
Fandoms: IT (Movies - Muschietti)
17 Aug 2021
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This story is about sex.
(But there are spaces between your fingers and there are times between sex.)
Two and a half years after the events in Derry, Eddie is divorced, recovered (mostly) and he's free to do whatever (or whoever) he wants.
That shouldn't be so hard, should it?
(The spaces between your fingers might be sweeter when they're linked with someone else's)
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- English
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- 173,181
- Chapters:
- 15/15
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27 Oct 2025
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Anna Williams has managed to keep her daughter safe in the Boston QZ for fourteen years. Their life is far from perfect, but it’s theirs. In the haze of anger and depression from having her dreams ripped away from her when her life was just getting started, she found her purpose: Ellie.
But now the woman who she thought was her best friend is threatening their safety. Anna makes the rash and necessary decision to leave Boston. As they make their way through Massachusetts, Anna and Ellie run into another parent/daughter duo heading West: Joel and Sarah Miller.
Anna and Joel despise each other right out of the gate, but they share a common goal and need each other to accomplish it. Anna can provide the Millers with medical care thanks to her training and Joel can provide muscle that Anna begrudgingly admits will be necessary at some point. Still, tensions escalate almost every stop of the way along with some unexpected feelings that rise to the surface.
Through their desperate effort to save their reasons for breathing, Anna and Joel discover another type of love they didn’t think they were capable of.
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- Part 1 of Kindled in the Dark
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20 Oct 2025
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Ain't Nothing But a Thing by Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Aug 2025
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“Joel?” She starts softly, turning into him; he tenses when her hand falls lightly on his still-heaving chest, but doesn’t pull away.
He sighs deeply and lays his forearm over his eyes, his cock lying soft on his thigh, “Just ain’t happenin’ today. I’m sorry.”
“Nothing to be sorry for.”
“It’s just-”
“I know.” She soothes, careful to keep her voice soft but not placating or pitying.
“Fuckin’ hell, just my goddamn knee, then my back, and then my damn mind gettin’ in the way. Shit.”
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- Part 28 of Tess and Joel Stories
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05 Sep 2025
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blueberry alley by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2025
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Ellie slides into her place and picks up her spoon. “What’s this?”
“Porotos granados,” Tommy replies. He sits beside her, squeezing her shoulder as he passes. “Our mama used to make it. She was from-”
“Santiago,” Ellie volunteers. Tommy chuckles.
“Si, Santiago,” he agrees. He says it with a little lilt that’s so different from his normal drawl that it makes Ellie giggle. It’s still weird to her, how sometimes Tommy and Joel switch so easily from one dialect or language to the next. She doesn’t even mind when they talk Spanish around her to keep her from knowing their business. She likes the rapid fire cadence of their words, the way the vowels sound like sugar melting over hot coals on their tongues, the way Joel sucks his teeth and hisses, how Tommy’s voice goes higher when he’s joking. It’s weird sometimes to look around at all the ways her family doesn’t match each other and yet love each other so much. It shouldn’t make sense - they shouldn’t make sense - and still, they do.
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Ellie's first year in Jackson, told through dinners and lunches and midnight snacks and egg sandwiches.
Or:
Food as a form of love.
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04 Sep 2025
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Her world comes to a stop. The unmistakable pink lines stare up at her, and she can feel her breath turn shallow and fast.
“Ellie,” Jesse says. He is standing next to her now, slowly placing his hand on her shoulder. “Ellie, you need to breathe.”
“Jesse,” She whines. “They're…they're positive.” Her breath stutters and it feels like any air she manages to get in is scraping all the way down into her lungs.
“Yeah,” He agrees solemnly.
“Oh, fuck.” She breathes out. “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”
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After a patrol gone bad ends with Ellie being pregnant, Jesse steps up claiming to be the baby’s father.
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05 Aug 2025
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These Things Eat at Your Bones by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Jul 2025
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“Tommy.” It’s a stuttered plea slipping free from the confines of his shredded mouth, a beg that he ain’t ashamed of as he writhes in his brother's unrelenting grasp, the sores lining his cheeks and rubbing against his teeth alight with fire.
He’s asking to be let go, to be able to go to his child because she needs him.
Because he had promised that he wouldn’t let her do this alone.
The people in that room don’t count.
They don’t know that her favorite color is forest green even though she’s never been in the woods, that her shoulder aches if she falls asleep on her right side because her foster father fractured it when she was eight and it healed wrong.
They don’t know that it’s her greatest fear - what’s happening inside that sterile room with grey walls, white bedding and too little warmth.
To let her die alone would be his failure, his broken promise, and he’s watching it happen. Her heart no longer beating and her chest failing to rise.
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Even when he’s fighting cancer, Joel can’t help but be dad as fuck, especially when Ellie’s fighting it right beside him.Bookmarked by OrcaOracle
02 Jul 2025
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the consequence of living by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Jul 2025
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Ellie takes a few hesitant steps toward the door before Joel notices it: blood, soaking down her side.
Fuck. Fuck.
He yanks her back, frantic as he pulls up the hem of her shirt. Dark red seeps through the fabric as he searches for the source. “Jesus,” he breathes, spotting the wound. “Okay, you’re okay. Keep goin’.”
She stares at him in confusion, still trying to catch her breath from the terror of being attacked. “What?”
“Just keep movin’.” With his hand on her back, Joel forces her forward until bodies no longer surround them. He needs space to work, needs to get her away from the carnage before shock sets in. With one movement, he sweeps the cans off the large crate, then focuses on Ellie. “Up,” he says, voice low as he boosts her to sit.
“What’s wrong?” she asks. He can hear the fear creeping into her tone.
“I think you were shot.”
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(wherein henry's bullet doesn't just kill sam)
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,900
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 26
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- 198
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27 Jun 2025
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“Can you get me some weed?” She asks, and to his credit, Tommy just raises his eyebrows. “Or some vodka, I think, but weed, preferably.”
Tommy takes a deep breath, and afraid of a no, she speaks again.
“Not a lot!” She reassures him. “Just like-” She gestures with her hands to indicate the amount she saw someone else carrying to Gail’s house when she was spying to get some intel earlier. “Like that much.” She might need more later, but if the lady’s studied how to fix brains, surely she’ll be able to do it pretty quickly. Ellie might be fucked up more than other kids her age, but she can’t be the most fucked up person in Jackson. Just statistically, other people have had more time to get more fucked up. She’s probably barely even fucked up, comparatively. Freaked up, really, if anything.
That’s what she’s been desperately telling herself, at least.
(after accidentally hurting joel, ellie decides to get help to make sure she won't ever do it again) (now if only that help wasn't gail)
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07 May 2025
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MODERN AU: Joel is a single dad of tweeny bopper Sarah. Tess is a single mom of teeny bopper Ellie. They've established a pretty comfy routine of being strictly fuck buddies. Until they're not.
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05 May 2025
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Lay Your Weary Head Upon My Chest by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 May 2025
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"When I say go, you go." He's panting, terrified and hurting like a son of a bitch from the chest strap of the seatbelt jerking tight, but he needs Tess to take one fucking command.
For once in her life, he needs her to listen to him.
"You slip through the wall, and you get Ellie the fuck out of here. I will find you after." Her lip curls into a snarl, fury and irritation chafing her expression. He knows that she's pissed, but they ain't smuggling partners on a run gone sideways right now.
They're parents.
"We don't get to leave, Joel. That was the fucking deal." And it still is. He's trying to get them all out alive.
That means she needs to run, and he needs to handle the fucking hunters opening fire in the direction of their family.
"I ain't leavin' and neither are you; this is just temporary." Hoping like hell he ain't lying to her, he tightens the strap of Ellie's sling and insures she's pressed tight against Tess.
He'll get back to them, and he'll mow down every fucker that tries to get in his way.
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Joel finds baby Ellie after Marlene fails to show up for Anna, he and Tess make the hard decision to raise her themselves.Series
- Part 1 of Teensy Baby Ellie
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03 May 2025
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planets of the universe by marchflower for Nandorluna
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Jul 2025
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Mateo loved his dad. He loved more him than he’d ever loved someone else before. It was sort of strange, because he didn’t always know Dad or Mom, and sometimes he still looked at his family and wondered if there was really a place for him in it, after all. But the one thing he’d never doubted, not from the first night that Dad had tucked him in - before he was even Dad, when he was still just a stranger- was how safe Mateo felt with him, and how much he felt like he could love someone who made him feel that way.
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In a continuation of the story Nandorluna told us in her saga, Go Your Own Way, Mateo Miller grapples with growing up, fitting in, and figuring out what it means to be part of a family.
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01 May 2025
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derail the mind of me by probsdeleteltr
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Apr 2025
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“You feelin’ alright?” Joel asks, voice breaking through the static.
“-ffeelnnn,” she tries, but the word crumbles in her mouth, slips away before she can catch it.He’s moving before she even registers it - crouching low, close enough she can feel the heat of him cutting through the cold sweat on her skin. His eyes are all over her face. He knows. No way he can't. His gaze skates down - eyes flicking from hers to her mouth. He's probably seeing pinpoint pupils and purple lips.
Her heart kicks once, hard, like it wants to run.
Something’s wrong.---
Joel promised Ellie things would get better come spring. They haven't. Ellie goes looking for the solution at the bottom of a little orange bottle.Author's note 4/27: This thing was untouched since Feb.'24. I have picked it up again and done a rewrite on the first two chapters. YAY!?! So it is updated with about 12k words worth of new story, even though the chapter count is the same (for now). Chapter 3 coming soon (crossing my fingers and toes)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,894
- Chapters:
- 2/8
- Collections:
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27 Apr 2025
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A work that depicts all the time spent between Jinx and Ekko as they prepare for the final battle.
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- English
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- 40,490
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- 14/14
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21 Mar 2025
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babyverse by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Apr 2025
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- 256,261
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- 27
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- 458
Bookmarked by OrcaOracle
13 Feb 2025