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blade-end up and five feet tall by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Dec 2025
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Ellie lunges forward, pressing her palm against his mouth. “Shut up,” she seethes. “If she wakes up now -”
It’s only when he licks her palm and Ellie lets out a disgusted, “Ugh!” that Sally stirs with a whine.
“Sorry, sorry,” Jesse apologizes, pressing several light kisses to her forehead. “Go back to sleep,” he says into her hair. She whines again, and he's forced to up the ante. “When you wake up, I’ll be here and we’ll go get you a puppy, okay?”
She takes a deep, shaky breath and settles back down against him, moving her head so her nose is in his armpit. “Misser Eugene’s puppies…” she mumbles and then she’s out.
When he looks back up, Ellie’s grin takes up her whole face. “You’re such a sucker.”
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For Ellie, things with David ended differently. For Jesse, he's all about community. So, if anyone asks, the blue-eyed blonde-haired girl of Ellie's is definitely his.
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Amongst The Waves by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Aug 2025
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After her mother's unexpected death, Ellie packs up all she has and moves with her long-lost family across the country to the sandy shores of Jackson Island. She tries her best to adjust, but she feels like an outsider - and it doesn't help that Riley, her last piece of home, randomly starts dodging her calls.
But when a hurricane wipes out the power and Ellie's bitten off more than she can chew, Ellie finds an unexpected friend in Joel - the island's solitary grouch with a soft spot for guarding as many endangered sea turtle nests as humanly possible. Because as it turns out - they have more in common than they think.
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Modern AU | Ellie’s mom dies on a Tuesday. She meets her dad, Tommy Miller, on Friday.
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“Jesus, kid,” the man scoffs. “First winter in Jackson?”
Ellie doesn’t really want to explain that her winter wardrobes usually revolve around whatever people can spare; she’s never had a hat, coat, scarf that didn’t have a hole, stain, or stitch. So she just shrugs before she sniffles loudly, scrubbing her bare palm up and down her nose to will a sneeze away.
"Hold on,” he says before she can get away, and she watches as he steps down off the sidewalk and unlocks the passengers side, only yank out a heinously purple-pink scarf.
“I’m okay,” Ellie starts to say, but the man is already wrapping the damn thing around her. She tucks her chin down and really looks at it, fighting a grimace when she sees the pastel colors have glittery yarn woven in there as well. “Girly isn’t really my color.”
“Coulda fooled me. Your nose is as pink as they come.”
And because the universe is a cruel thing, Ellie sneezes.
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(Modern AU) Troubled teen Ellie, new to Jackson, needs a job. Joel doesn't really need a part time employee. He hires her anyway.
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Migrating Monarchs by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Dec 2024
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“I’m still getting used to that.” Ellie tells him. “Someone caring where I am all the time.”
Joel chooses his words very carefully. “It’s my job. I quite like it, if I’m honest. ”
She smiles, a little wry, expression molding into something awkward to hide the tremble of her lip. “Interesting take considering I’m the government equivalent of a last draft pick.”
He hums in acknowledgement. “But you’ll always be my first round pick. That’s what counts.”
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It's been twenty years since Sarah died and he fell apart. It's been fifteen years since Tommy couldn't take the heartbreak of helping someone who didn't want to be helped and left without looking back. And it's been ten years since Joel's started to rebuild.
It's day one of fostering Ellie Williams.
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corals and kings by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Aug 2024
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“Maybe I should sleep here tonight,” Ellie confesses, reaching for her blanket and weakly wrapping it around her. “You can make sure my arm doesn’t peel off in the middle of the night.”
Joel’s face pales at the image; but, he still reaches forward and finishes wrapping the blanket more snuggly around her, tucking her in. “It’d be my greatest honor,” he says.
Ellie could easily poke back in jest, but when he presses a kiss to her temple she realizes that maybe his heart is as exposed and raw as hers. That’s maybe, wrapping her up in a blanket, feeding her soup, and trying to kiss the physical pain away really is his greatest honor. She doesn’t have any reason not to believe him.
After all, he’s always been a terrible liar.
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Ellie, Joel, and a collection of important late night sleepovers.
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12 Days of Irondad & Spideyson Christmas by ciaconnaa
Fandom Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
24 Dec 2018
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12 individual Christmas-themed stories! Pick and choose whichever ones you want and enjoy them in any order!
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press zero to speak to a long lost relative by ciaconnaa
Fandom Iron Man (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
01 Apr 2020
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Riley gets bit in the mall, but Ellie doesn't.
Joel takes her anyway.
There’s no grand purpose for her existence, nothing to make her worth saving.
Joel loves her anyway.
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- Part 1 of The Garden
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17 Dec 2025
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this is me trying by CatherineA
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Aug 2025
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"I don't think I can ever forgive you for that. But I would like to try."
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“Where is Joel?” asks Ellie. He’s dead. He’s dead because of her, and they don’t want to tell her.
“Joel just got out of surgery,” Maria answers calmly, taking both of Ellie’s hands in hers. Ellie’s eyes snap back open. “Tommy is with him. You’ll be able to see him soon.” Ellie starts to sit again, to stand, to go to him, but Maria squeezes her hands in warning. “First, we need to make sure you’re okay. Next, we need to understand what happened out there, what Tommy and Dina can’t tell us. Then, I’ll take you to Joel.”
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03 Aug 2025
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one single thread of gold (tied me to you) by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 May 2025
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The words remind her of something. There was that voice, Ellie remembers. It said she was safe too. And it sounded… nice. Like she could believe it.
Slowly, she settles down.
Eventually, she learns the voice that found her belongs to a man called Tommy Miller, who took her back to his town.
An actual town, not controlled by FEDRA.
Holy shit.
Or: AU where Ellie and Joel don't meet in Boston, but they find each other anyways. Featuring, cryptid Joel!
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31 May 2025
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'Cause Stitches Don't Work On a Cut This Deep by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 May 2025
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“Nothing’s different,” Ellie tries to talk Joel off the ledge the best way she knows how. “Except that fucking…thing. It was different. It was smart. And I just thought…What if, ya know?”
Joel’s right in front of her. He sinks to his knees, which is honestly for the best before he passes out and knocks his head against the hardwood floors. “What are you asking me here, kiddo?”
The nickname tugs at years old memories, tussles with months old anger. Settles in her hours old desire to be held by him again. The desire she’s brushing off and shoving down. Even if she is going to die, it doesn’t mean Joel gets to be off the hook. All it means is that he’d ruined everything all so she could die in the name of fucking nothing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming instead.
Ellie squares her shoulders as she tilts up her chin. She holds him hostage with her gaze and implores him with the earnesty of her expression. “I need you to wait with me to see if I turn. And if I do,” she pauses, swallows, wishes she could look anywhere besides right into his eyes, “I need you to put a bullet in my head.”
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14 May 2025
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Post 2x02
Joel blacks out in the lodge and wakes up standing on the staircase of his old house in Texas. He and Ellie get the chance to say what they need to say.
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24 Apr 2025