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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 bofalasofala
07 May 2026
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breathe in, breathe out by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Sep 2023
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Sarah Miller is, without a doubt, a daddy’s girl.
She never stood a chance, really. It’s always been just her and her father. Her mama died when she was just a baby, so young she couldn’t remember her face if she tried. And Daddy never brought home no girls from the bars or giggly waitresses like Uncle Tommy used to before he met Aunt Maria.
Never in her life has she had to share him.
That is, until Daddy comes home late on Thursday evening with news for Sarah.
(Ellie is a foster kid- Joel and Sarah take her in)
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- Part 1 of Fosterverse Series
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04 May 2026
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Mary Poppins ain't got nothing on me by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Apr 2024
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It scares him, though, the idea of something happening to Joel. It’s been one of his worst fears for years, ever since a missed bullet, ever since a fight, ever since Joel dropped off the radar and he felt almost a guilty sense of relief at not having to face his own failure. It’s been worse since he met Ellie and he saw his brother come back to life, because that little girl needs his brother like she needs air.
Or: Tommy POV again! This time, he's watching Ellie while Joel has surgery. Ellie is not fond of this plan.
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28 Apr 2026
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every bird, gone unheard by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 May 2026
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“She’s cold, Joel.” It’s the first thing Tess says about the kid that isn’t practical, isn’t about the job. It’s quiet, too quiet for the kid to hear since she’s wandered a bit away and found herself a spot to sit down, out of the rain still dripping from the roof. “She’s just a fucking little girl and she’s cold.”
He stops trying to argue they should keep moving.
Or: Joel doesn't like Ellie being cold.
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28 Apr 2026
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your words mean nothing so take 'em back (i don't wanna be carrying this weight on my shoulders) by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
14 Apr 2023
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And then soft, so soft Ellie barely hears from all the way over on her staircase, ear angled down towards the slats in the railing, breath held while awaiting a reply. She needs the truth, too. She deserves the truth. After all of this. The blood on her hands, on her face, on her memories. She gets to know why. Why after all this shit, none of it was even worth it.
What Ellie once believed to be heavy, uneven breathing, she comes to realize, is quiet, fractured sobbing. “I can’t lose her,” he confesses, an omission to what Ellie already knew from the second she woke up in the back of that car, woozy and light and empty. Bare legs, cold and exposed in a hospital gown. The whole car reeked of human blood and sweat, while her skin was the cleanest, the purest, it had been in months.
“I couldn’t let ‘em take her, Tommy.”
It’s all the answer she needs.
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Through the seasons of Joel and Ellie's first year in Jackson. How the anger she feels at his betrayal wedges its way between them and how they find their way back together regardless.
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16 Apr 2026
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lowkey just got better and better
was worth the full read