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Upon going back to Jackson, Ellie is alone. Tommy hates her, Dina and JJ are gone - so why stay alive? The day after she goes home to the farmhouse, she takes her own life, anticipating darkness and nothingness instead of the grief.
Instead, she wakes up in the woods.
As Maria finds her body and the whole town grieves, Ellie finds Joel, and with him comes a new life - one where she's loved and happy.
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16 Mar 2026
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happiest when i'm with you by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Oct 2023
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He flips the TV on to the local news, pausing as the headline story comes on: “Pedophile Preacher on Trial.”
The news claims that it is blurring the sketch of the witness out of deference for their age, which makes Joel roll his eyes. If they are deferring to the kid’s age, they shouldn’t be showing any sort of courtroom sketch. Too many things can be discerned from the minor details, he thinks as he looks at the sketch on the screen despite himself. It depicts a kid in a red t-shirt, palm trees cut out of a sun…
He knows that shirt. Ellie left the house in it this morning.
(tl;dr: the trial au exactly one person asked for)
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- Part 12 of whumptober 2023
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16 Mar 2026
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sit & stay by ninesunrisedogs
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 May 2023
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Joel’s plumb out of luck, it seems, because running after the dog is the little girl. She’s out of breath, still halfway laughing, and for a few seconds she doesn’t notice him. In those seconds, her face is wide open in a grin, dark hair wild and posture loose. She can’t be more than thirteen, maybe a small fourteen, and she’s clumsy in the way teenagers are right after a growth spurt. There’s a knife in Joel’s chest, the one that’s been there for twenty years, and it twists.
(or, joel accidentally gets a dog. apparently, the dog comes with a mouthy fourteen-year-old kid, and maybe also a reason for living again.)
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12 Mar 2026
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“There’s no way there’s a real difference between Siberian and Sumatran,” Ellie finally decides. “Stripes are stripes.” She gasps suddenly, clearly struck with an idea. “Hey, Joel: why do tigers have stripes?”
He barely finishes rolling his eyes when a voice beside them interjects. “It’s a Bengal.”
Joel's eyes flicker to the owner of the voice behind him. Off the bat, he doesn’t notice anything particularly strange - but it doesn't matter what he thinks.
Because all the color has drained from Ellie's face.
“David.” Her voice is quiet, but he hears the subdued rage. “What are you doing here?”
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Ellie's son JJ is becoming fast friends with Joel's niece. But an outing to the zoo proves to be a little disastrous with an unwelcomed guest. The first time, Joel promises not to swing on him. He makes no promises on the second.
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- Part 2 of in another universe
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11 Mar 2026
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Riley gets bit in the mall, but Ellie doesn't.
Joel takes her anyway.
There’s no grand purpose for her existence, nothing to make her worth saving.
Joel loves her anyway.
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10 Mar 2026