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the better version of our past (the start of life) by mirananananan
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Jun 2024
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Joel and Tess agree to smuggle a six-year-old named Ellie to the Fireflies in exchange for gear they need to get west in Joel’s search for Tommy. When they discover she is immune and what the Fireflies plan to do with her, there is a change of plans.
Takes place about 8 years before canon. Tess lives, family is found, Ellie gets a post-apocalyptic childhood.
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20 Jun 2023
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just say the word by elliemiller (piqu3d), piqu3d for eedsknees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Apr 2023
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"Tess and Joel are awfully kind. Tess bosses Joel around, which makes Ellie giggle, and he sasses her right back, which makes Ellie giggle even more. They seem a little sad, to Ellie, but far more importantly they’re silly and kind and patient with her. Nobody has ever been patient with Ellie, not like this. When they finally take her away from the group home, on the way to the parking lot, Ellie has to stoop to tie her shoelaces twice. They wait patiently for her both times.
(When they get home, Joel teaches her step-by-step how to double knot her shoes. Judging from his familiarity with the motion of teaching it, it seems like he’s taught this to another little girl before.)"
(alternatively, the apocalypse never happens, and Ellie barely avoids becoming a statistic. her seventh birthday is spent surrounded by love.)
Series
- Part 2 of alternatively,
- Part 1 of foster baby ellie au
- Part 5 of tlou anthology
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20 Jun 2023
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spare the rod by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 May 2023
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“I was just…I was wondering what you do. You know. For like…punishment.” She interrupts him. She needs to get the answer already, needs to know what to expect before she drives herself crazy with anticipation.
“Well I was more into grounding than goddamn child abuse.”
“Grounding like…” Her face scrunches in confusion as she dares to look at him. The word is foreign and the best guess she has doesn’t seem right, but she also doesn’t know what else it could be. “Like being…in the ground?”
Joel stares at her for a long, long moment before he speaks.
“Jesus fucking Christ.”
(after they settle into jackson, ellie realizes she doesn't know how joel will punish her if she messes up) (it quickly becomes a problem she needs to solve)
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10 May 2023
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resonance by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Apr 2023
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When Joel calls his name and comes jogging towards him in Jackson, pulling him into a hug as fierce, as joyful as the ones he got when he was back on leave during his army days, he thinks, Is that all it took? I just needed to leave him alone to let him heal? I could’ve just fucking ditched him and then gone back? It’s a painful thought, that his own attempt at support just hindered Joel’s healing, but it’s a giddy one, too, the idea of his brother back with him.
Then he sees Joel catch a kid who almost falls off of her horse when she dismounts, the motion as easy and thoughtless as if he were-
Oh, he thinks, when he sees the way the girl looks at Joel, all sass and no regard, clearly not afraid of him in the slightest, the way she uses his personal space as her own without a second thought. Oh, you paternal fucker.
(tommy loses the person his brother was on the night of the outbreak) (it takes 20 years and a mouthy little punk to get him back) (ft. miller brother feels, ellie being feral, ellie thinking she and tommy are mortal enemies, and star wars)
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22 Apr 2023
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shearly beloved by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Mar 2023
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The day of Jackson’s sheep shearing, Ellie’s up before the sun.
Joel, predictably, is not.
She’s learned that settled into the peace of Jackson, he is very much not a morning person. She’d suspected as much from how his grumpiness was always at peak in the mornings while they were on the road, but sharing a house has really made it sink in that unless there’s a world-saving quest ahead of him, Joel would quite happily never see the day before at least 8 in the morning, which is one of the reasons he usually ends up taking later patrols when he can.
Fortunately (and unfortunately) for him, though, it’s sheep shearing day, and she’s ready to see if he was full of shit about liking sheep or not.
(day in the life of ellie and joel in jackson liVING THE SOFT AND HAPPY LIVES THEY DESERVE)
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26 Mar 2023