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Winter hits Wyoming. Joel and Ellie are not having a good time.
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21 Dec 2023
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Where you last placed your heart by itainthardtrying
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 May 2024
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Now that Ellie’s alone, she just sits on her bed and looks at her book. She can’t call it reading anymore – by now she has read the thing front to back so many times that she could quote some paragraphs word for word.
That’s why it’s weird that it took her so long to notice the message written on the front page.
There, nestled just below the title, there’s one line of writing addressed to her. It doesn’t mention any names, but it is for her. It can’t be otherwise.
It’s not Tommy’s handwriting, nor Maria's, nor Riley's.But it’s somebody’s. Somebody who knew she’d like to read about Moon landing, spaceships, and astronauts. Somebody who cared enough to take this book, fix the hardcover with some scotch tape, and give it to her. Somebody who wrote those words on the front page knowing that they would make her smile.
Somebody who loved her.
It’s late spring 2024 when Ellie wakes up in Jackson. She has a backpack full of books, a burn on her arm, and no memory of how she went from Boston QZ to Wyoming.
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Back & Forth by probsdeleteltr
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Jan 2024
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It was Joel who stumbled first.
He had felt the strength seeping out of him with every step so viscerally it was like his body was a container with a slow leak. His gate would falter and his hand would slip further down her shoulder, power waning. He would cough in his throat and blink forcefully trying to reignite the spark of energy that had carried him to Ellie just hours ago, but it was all a losing battle. And eventually, he lost it.
It was Ellie who moved first after that.
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What's in a name? by tloufan926
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Dec 2023
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The question of what, exactly, she and Joel are to each other is something that Ellie spends far too long thinking about, and an equal amount of time trying not to think about. The words he’d so clearly communicated last winter, you’re not my daughter, are swimming in her head the whole time she and Joel are hiking back to Jackson after the hospital.
I sure as hell ain’t your dad.
There wasn’t much else to it, was there?
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12 Dec 2023
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i don't want to be the owner of your fantasy (i just wanna be a part of your family) by bloomstarswrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
02 Nov 2023
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Ellie is content like this, Joel busy doing something, and her just sitting with him, watching. It reminds her of after Silver Lake, when Joel would drag her around because she couldn’t stand being without him. She thinks back to the first time she woke up and couldn’t feel Joel’s presence at her back. She had rolled over, expecting to find him sitting across from her, stoking the fire, only to notice that Joel’s sleeping bag was empty, and he was nowhere to be seen. She remembers the fear, that all encompassing fear she’d felt thinking that David had come and snatched him away from her, just like he snatched everything else from her. That fear had been mixed with white hot anger, and she had clung onto her sleeping bag so tight, she’d almost ripped holes in it. She’d cried, hard, and only calmed down once Joel had returned. She remembers the trembling, and the shaking, but mostly the feeling of being held by strong, yet gentle arms. She also remembers when she came to later that night, and apologised to Joel for acting so childish.
“You have nothin’ to apologise for, baby,” he’d said, running his fingers through her hair in a way that always helps her calm down, even now. “You’ve done nothin’ wrong,”.
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12 Dec 2023
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10,000 hours by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2023
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By week five, she’s recovered and trusted enough to start taking short walks on her own, though she doesn’t miss how Joel almost always “happens” to be on the porch when she gets back, always giving her a quick once-over as if she’s gotten into something dangerous in the ten minutes she walked around without him. She rolls her eyes at it and grumbles to keep up appearances, but she can’t help liking it, just a little bit. She went three days of being so sick that she was unable to leave her bed in FEDRA when she was nine without anyone noticing. Now she thinks she’d be lucky to get a sneeze under the radar. It’s a lot, kind of, having someone so attentive.
…but it’s also pretty fucking nice.
Less nice is trying to find her feet in this new life, which requires all sorts of things she never knew she didn’t know.
Such as cracking an egg, apparently.
(settling in jackson means facing a few challenges)
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12 Dec 2023
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It turns out washing machines are neither easy nor peasy.
Washing machines are fucking bastards.
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look for the light by Toointojoelmiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Dec 2023
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inspired by a BTHB prompt - "electrical outage". This started as a one shot but has grown into what will be a multi part story.
Jackson loses power one night, and panic ensues. Ellie can't be found.
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11 Dec 2023
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07 Dec 2023
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please don't go by Toointojoelmiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Mar 2024
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"“It’s ok, baby girl,” he says in a breath as he shuts his eyes, trying to keep himself upright against a surge of heartache. He hears the words as if someone else has said them, like they didn’t leave his lips – but immediately feels the truth in it. The wall he’s tried to keep up between Ellie and Sarah, the nothing-but-bullshit line he’s drawn to try to somehow separate what they are to him is gone. There’s no more pretending. She’s his to take care of – that’s how she ended up here shaking and bleeding, after all, isn’t it?"
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Joel & Ellie straight up not having a good time. Picks up after Joel finds Ellie in Silver Lake. Another after David comfort fic for those of us who love ep 8 aftermath angst. Me trying to answer my burning questions - what happened next, and how did they survive??content warnings - David got farther than a wandering hand - s/a + violence + generally disturbing stuff
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06 Dec 2023