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safely, gathered in by RandomRuth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Aug 2025
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Then it’s the scythe’s turn, with its long, two-handled shaft and huge, curved blade attached at an angle. Beside him, Ellie straightens up in her chair from the slump she’d fallen into like someone’s dumped a bucket of ice water on her head.
“Oh, shit,” she whispers, near breathless.
Joel straightens too, glances around. “What?”
“I’ve never seen one in real life before,” she tells him, watching the scythe, her eyes practically sparkling. “That’s the Grim Reaper’s stick.”
Joel is frazzled, but he has been listening — it helps that he already knew what this one is called from Before. “It’s called a scythe.”
Ellie’s delighted grin is only getting bigger. “Sick.”
(Joel and Ellie attend a town meeting to discuss the upcoming barley harvest, Joel worries about the future, and Ellie picks up a new hobby.)
One-shot, set after season 1, and almost a year after "creatures, great and small".
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- Part 2 of all, who live
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creatures, great and small by RandomRuth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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“Ellie? That you?”
Joel’s home early.
Halfway between the front door and the stairs and in full view of the kitchen, Ellie freezes. “Fuck,” she mutters, low. “Yeah,” she says, loud enough to carry.
She has no choice but to stay hunched over herself like Quasimodo from that movie — it’s suspicious as fuck, but she manages to manoeuvre her arm to mostly obscure the squirming of the tell-tale bulge under her hoodie.
(Ellie and Joel have settled in Jackson. While Ellie goes to school and, Joel hopes, makes some friends her own age, he tries to keep their house from tumbling down around them. Ellie does befriend some Jackson locals, and tries to sneak them into her room — without Joel noticing that they’ve all got four legs.)
One-shot, set after season 1.
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- Part 1 of all, who live
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"Arguing with god is probably not one of the best plans Root has ever had, but the alternative — working with Reese, ugh — is much worse."
One-shot, set in late season 3.
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"Harold's typing is slow, his word choices unusually uninspired, as he attempts to write an assignment for Professor Whistler's students."
A fluffy moment for Harold and John, post-4.20 "Terra Incognita". One-shot.
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Greer has won and Samaritan is online and operational — or so he thinks...
Cracky alternate ending to 3.23 "Deus Ex Machina".
One-shot.
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Ellie and Joel and life in Jackson.
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These drabbles are a select few of my favourites from a couple of drabble challenges I used to take part in over on fanfiction.net — the E/O Drabble Challenge and the SPN100 Challenge. In both cases you were emailed a word every week and asked to write a 100 word drabble containing that word. While I always got the word of the week in, I very often went over my total word count!
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These stories are only loosely drabbles, really. Back in 2014 I was a member of the POI Discussion Forum (now apparently defunct, I can't find it online), where there was a prompt: write a 250-word drabble about Team Machine completing an ordinary task.
I took that idea and ran with it, but never really managed the word count, always going over. I've rewritten a few of my favourites and brought them here.
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Busy begging the past to stay by riskyfixins
Fandoms: All Creatures Great and Small (TV 2020)
07 Nov 2025
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Gerald takes a trip to Darrowby, hoping he might be able to rekindle his relationship with Audrey. However, things are not exactly as they used to be.
Or - Gerald Hammond and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
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08 Nov 2025
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Audrey fails to make it out of bed one morning; Siegfried looks after her.
Prompt: "You're not supposed to be up and about”
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- Part 10 of Snapshots
Bookmarked by RandomRuth
07 Nov 2025
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Siegfried is jealous of Mrs Hall's hugs. He decides to address the issue with her directly.
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06 Nov 2025
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James's stag do leaves Siegfried a little worse for wear, and in need of cheese
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07 Nov 2025
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Mr Farnon wants to make a present for Jimmy's first birthday. He needs some help.
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Bookmarked by RandomRuth
07 Nov 2025