Reverie5370
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Helplessly Hoping (Awaiting a Word) by Reverie5370
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Dec 2023
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A collection of chapters following Joel and Ellie through their journey of a father/daughter relationship through The Last of Us Part I and Part II. Mainly focuses on the big lie and how it affects their dynamic through the years. Can be read as stand-alone chapter or one cohesive story.
[ "Maria had given her a brown blank-paged book she’d scrounged up from somewhere as a welcome gift to Jackson. At first, she didn’t know what to do with it. It seemed redundant at the time, sharing your feelings with pages of paper that could never really understand. She didn’t even understand. But out of desperation to quiet the monsters in her mind after a particularly vicious nightmare, she began scrawling onto the paper." ]
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- 3,005
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- 1/?
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Exactly How This Grace Thing Works by WickedLovingLies
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Feb 2024
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“So another random holiday,” Ellie muses, arms wrapped around Tommy’s lean waist as they ride toward a nearby town. “What’s the point of this one?”
“Fuck if I know. Just one of them greeting card company holidays, I think. You’re supposed to bring your girlfriend flowers or candy or somethin’.”
Ellie glances at the desolate, snow covered landscape surrounding them, and doubts they’ll have much luck finding either of those things around here. “Sounds dumb.”
“Yeah, it is. But it’s important to a lot of the folks back home. Reminds them of better times, I reckon.”
It makes sense, kind of, but Ellie still thinks it’s weird.“So what’d you get Maria last year?” she asks.
“I didn’t. That’s the problem.”
Ellie snorts. “Have you just like never had a girlfriend before her, or what?”
“Had plenty of ‘em, just didn’t go through the trouble of shopping for ‘em. Didn’t keep ‘em around long enough for them to expect it.”
“So that’s why it took you like fifty years to find a wife. Got it.”
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[[Ellie and Tommy bond while out looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for Maria.]]Bookmarked by Reverie5370
05 Feb 2024
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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.
Bookmarked by Reverie5370
31 Jul 2023
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"Joel holds a baby like someone with practice. He soothes the beginning of a cry like a well-versed father.
When they go home that night, his arm drapes around Ellie’s shoulders, and for as much as she wanted to be a seven-pound human that shits herself twenty minutes before, she bristles at the touch now.
Because she’s not. She’s not a baby. She’s not a child. She’s not a daughter.
Ellie looks at Joel, and she sees a father.
Ellie looks at herself and sees nothing but an orphan."
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or: Joel has almost always been a father. Ellie has never been a daughter.
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26 Jul 2023