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Living On The Edge by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Apr 2025
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“I ain’t doing this to earn some sort of self-fulfillment. You’re a good kid, and turning eighteen doesn’t make you an adult.” The first wet arc of a tear rolls down her cheek, and he catches it with a dry thumb before it reaches her chin.
“You are going to stumble, and I’d like to be there to catch you, if you will allow me to be.” Leaning her head back into the steady beat of his heart, she lets him rock her side to side as she cries, her arms slipping around his torso.
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Joel and Ellie meet at an NA meeting. Joel is ten years sober, and Ellie is just four weeks clean. After begrudgingly becoming her sponsor, Joel finds himself stepping back into the shoes of a father for the first time in 15 years.Bookmarked by ash0012
20 Jan 2026
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“It’s okay. I will fix the lock tomorrow.”
Ellie gasped when she heard his voice, since she hadn’t been aware of his presence nor that he had been listening. Once again, she was looking up at him with those big eyes of hers and only in that moment Joel realized that Ellie didn’t only dislike him.
No, even worse. She was fucking scared of him.
That this was fear glistening in her innocent eyes, as she took a few steps backwards, hugging herself tightly in self-protection, her head hanging low like she was ducking, trying to make herself as small as possible and her eyes being focused on her socked feet.
Joel was looking at her, hating himself for spooking her like that and before he could come up with saying something to make her feel less tensed and more comfortable, Ellie turned around and hurried inside the safety of the guest room without taking a shower, like she had probably intended to do.
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Or: Joel healing a little heart he hadn't broken.
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14 Jan 2026
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Ain't No Grave by pandapetals
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 May 2025
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A clicker bite should’ve ended your life. Instead, Joel made a brutal choice to save you. Now, one hand gone and your place in Jackson hanging by a thread, you're left to battle grief, survivor’s guilt, and the town’s growing fear.
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11 Dec 2025
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Hit Me With the Force of Your Love by WhetherItsTwoMinutes
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Sep 2025
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“Besides, it doesn’t really matter.” At the change of her tone, Joel glances back at her and finds her calculative look. “I saw how you killed him.”
Joel takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. “I was passing by and I heard your screams. I defended a kid.”
“Yeah.” She snorts. “Passing by with a gun. Miles away from any city.”
“It's called hiking. And plenty of folks carry a gun these days.”
“And wear leather gloves. In summer.”
They glare at each other. The girl’s eyes glint dangerously in the dim light and she lifts one eyebrow in challenge, a look on her face that dares him to object.
“You weren’t just passing by. You came here to kill him.”
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Or: A hitman Joel AU, where one of his contracting jobs goes south, but it might be the best mistake of his life.Bookmarked by ash0012
11 Dec 2025
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You squeezed your eyes shut, willing yourself not to cry. You were left alone to fend for yourself and a child. You didn’t know how. Fuck, you’d never even had to look after a fish, and now some laughing deity had put a child in your care.
But you made a promise.
You’d give your life trying to keep her safe.
Even if that meant following a stranger, who seemed to hate your existence, to a settlement you had never heard of.
What else was there left in this world for you?
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Set 15 years after the outbreak if Joel was never asked to take Ellie to the fireflies. Instead, he continues his quest to find his brother, finding you and little more than he bargained for on his way.
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