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Hold Back The River by sporadicallyceaseless
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Nov 2024
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"Maria's gonna be a little late tonight, she’s busy yelling at some kids that got caught jumping off the dam.”
Stunned, Joel eyes the puddle slowly forming under her feet with quiet horror. “But you were smarter than that, right?”
“Or faster?” Tommy cuts in hopefully.
“Both,” Ellie agrees. Then, with a wince, “But also…neither.”
A dangerous dare and a nasty sickness rock the Miller household on an already emotional week. Joel and Ellie learn that something always lurks deeper than the surface.
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26 Feb 2026
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"She's your fucking kid too, Joel. Just because you went and found yourself another one doesn't mean Sarah didn't happen." And that's real rich coming from the jackass who'd disappeared for days at a time as Sarah's life had come to an end and took off when he couldn't handle her absence after she'd passed.
"Don't you ever suggest that I don't give a damn, Thomas. You don't know what it's like to watch your baby die and then put them into the ground where you have to leave them." His hands shake and his voice is lined with thinly veiled rage, but there's still a wobble when he thinks about her funeral and that too-small coffin she'd been in.
His head still aches from the bullet he'd tried to put through it that very same day.
Another thing Tommy had missed; only finding him almost two days later, unresponsive and crusted in dried blood.
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A story of 'What If's'What if Sarah died some other way? What if there was no outbreak? What if Tommy fell apart too? What if Ellie came into Joel's life before he got the chance to spend twenty years spiraling?
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23 Feb 2026
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Bitty Ellie, she's living her best life by ketchupchipsaregross
Fandom The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Jan 2025
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20 Feb 2026
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ten mile stilts by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Jan 2025
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For a long minute, she stands in the hallway with her blanket wrapped around her and takes in the stillness of the house: the shadows pooling beneath the table and counters in the kitchen, the muted thumping of the wind against the siding, the low crackling of the logs in the woodstove. The open staircase in front of her yawns like the mouthpiece of some humongous beast. Joel’s breath is raspy, labored; the chill creeping in under the front door sinks its teeth into her feet. She could close her eyes, she thinks, and she’d be there-
She shakes herself till her vision spins. She’s not there. Colorado and all the horrors she endured there are a thing of the past. She’s here, and she’s now. She’s in her home in Jackson and she’s safe, and Joel-
He’ll be alright, she thinks. Her teeth are chattering. He’ll be okay. He has to be.
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A blizzard hits Jackson, and Joel is sick.
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15 Feb 2026
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Through Every Season by thesleekhabit
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Dec 2025
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Ever wondered what life was like for Ellie and Dina after they left Seattle and returned to Jackson? How Dina’s pregnancy unfolded, or how JJ ended up with the nickname "Potato"? This story dives into their journey, told week by week—from the moment they settle back in Jackson, through every milestone of Dina’s pregnancy, and into the early days of parenthood. Ellie never leaves to go to Santa Barbara.
(ultimately I was frustrated by the lack of fics that explored Dina's pregnancy and how that impacted her and Ellie's relationship so I wrote it myself)
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13 Feb 2026