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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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just babes being dudes by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Mar 2024
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It’s not that she’s been made uncomfortable; The Miller brothers call her all sorts of things, though it’s usually kept to honey, darlin’, kiddo, babygirl - she’s chalked those up to their Texan charm, and Jesse’s got loads of that and more. So, no, it's not bad. Not even romantic it just...
... doesn't really aid in squashing Joel's hope that she and Jesse are a couple.
(Five times Jesse called Ellie 'babe' and the one time she says it back)
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The fic where Jesse is the one that helps Ellie burn her bitemark off
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flat on my face then back in the race by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Feb 2024
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Joel takes a few steps back before he offers his hand. Ellie cocks her brow, skeptical, but he doubles down, wiggling his fingers in enticement. “C’mon girl. Humor me. I ain’t gettin’ any younger.”
Their fallout is pretty standard knowledge in Jackson and Ellie likes being gossip fodder just about as much as he does. But in the end, she gives in with a sigh and takes his hand, letting him lead her out to the dance floor. “Fine. But only because I haven’t earned my assisting the elderly badge.”
“Baby,” He chuffs out a laugh, “They’d kick you out the Girl Scouts before you could say Thin Mints.”
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In another universe, Ellie tries to mend her fallout with Joel by giving him a choice: take her to the rumored firefly hospital in Alaska, or stay behind and keep her girl safe.
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my cow, your cow, our cow by ciaconnaa for Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Dec 2023
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The midwest is boring. At this point, the crops are harvested and the fields are literally just dirt, so she spends all her time looking for those sweet cows. But she can’t seem to find any, despite there being nothing but pastures. There are, however, plenty of churches. Ellie ends up marrying her cows twice as often as Joel. After the fourth or fifth time, when the cows are up in the hundreds and she’s had to break out a notebook just to do math and keep track, Joel starts playing dirty.
She barely sees a steeple, a little building behind an old abandoned school when she says, “Marry my - hey!” She doesn’t finish. Instead, she falls into a fit of laughter as she tries to squirm away from the hand he’s pressed firmly over her eyes so she can’t see to play.
“Ain’t no church,” he says, deadpan. He keeps his hand over her eyes. “Oh, hey look. My cow.”
“Joel!”
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Ellie and Joel take a massive roadtrip to Wyoming for the impromptu wedding of his estranged brother. There's stories, adventures, and a massive car game about claiming cows along the way.
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the patron saint of one-way trips by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
29 Sep 2023
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"I cut off my fingers."
Joel wills himself to look at her hand before reacting; her finger, while bloody and needing stitches, is very much still on her hand. “No, baby, you didn’t cut off your fingers."
“I did, I did” she chants lightly. “I did. I cut off fingers. It's what I do. Ears, too. Like Monet. No? Van Gogh.” She looks at Jesse: expression blank, shaking shoulders, mouth in a soft frown. “The nose got real crooked. His eyes were closed, but they probably popped like raspberries.” Jesse’s face goes pale and he looks Joel’s way, silently begging for help. “No, wait. Grapes. Right? Do they pop like grapes, Joel?”
“Baby," his voice breaks as he watches her tremble and bleed. "Look at me, huh?” He shakes her a little, not having the heart to pinch her arm to try and bring her back. “Right at me. We’re gonna fix you up. Trust me.”
For a moment she stops shaking, eyes on him. Searching his face for a lie. Almost expecting it.
But he knows he only has himself to blame.
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Ellie, Joel, and the weight of their lies as they settle into Jackson.
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hodgepodge of love by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Aug 2023
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Ellie looks down at her crossword, dejected, as she adjusts her new green glasses. “At this rate, I’ll die before I finish this.” She tugs on his sleeve. “What’s number twenty-seven?”
Joel sighs. “I dunno.”
“I don’t believe you,” Ellie scoffs, the words almost a whine. “C’mon, seriously, me and Dina are trying to see who can finish ours first and if I don’t beat her I have to clean out Japan’s stable for two weeks and -”
“Well, hold on now,” Joel says, reaching into another one of his jacket pockets. “Let me get my glasses…”
Ellie lets out a delighted laugh when Joel slips on a pair of identical round, green glasses. How he got two of the same pair, she’ll never know. But she does know it makes her smile so wide her cheeks might split open.
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Joel, Ellie, and the things they give each other out of love
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Once Ellie’s done striking her Herculean poses to egg on an already loud and cheering crowd, she makes haste to choose a prize; he thinks she’s going to choose the enormously large bear if only to make him or Tommy carry it around but instead, she returns with something small - an elephant with velvet soft ears.
"It's Ellie the Elephant," she tells him. "It's an Elliephant."
"You never stop, do you?"
"Nope."
He tweaks her nose, somehow still dusted in cinnamon sugar, and prays she truly never will.
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A year in the life. Four seasons and four moments as Joel and Ellie navigate change.
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- Part 4 of in another universe
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“So,” Ellie says, downing the rest of her first beer. She leans against the bar, batting her eyes ridiculously before she pops the cherry in her mouth and rips the stem out with dramatic flair. “Come here often?”
Joel cocks a brow in response. “That’s your go-to line? You ain’t gonna pick up any pretty girls with that.”
Ellie barks out a laugh. “Well, fuck, what’s a good one then, hmm?”
"None of ‘em.”
“Aw, c’mon. I love a cheesy line.”
“I know you do. You pick your beers solely on the pun factor.”
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Ellie's convinced they can be fantastic wingman for each other. Joel might disagree considering she's trying to set him up with his ex-girlfriend.
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- Part 3 of in another universe
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“There’s no way there’s a real difference between Siberian and Sumatran,” Ellie finally decides. “Stripes are stripes.” She gasps suddenly, clearly struck with an idea. “Hey, Joel: why do tigers have stripes?”
He barely finishes rolling his eyes when a voice beside them interjects. “It’s a Bengal.”
Joel's eyes flicker to the owner of the voice behind him. Off the bat, he doesn’t notice anything particularly strange - but it doesn't matter what he thinks.
Because all the color has drained from Ellie's face.
“David.” Her voice is quiet, but he hears the subdued rage. “What are you doing here?”
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Ellie's son JJ is becoming fast friends with Joel's niece. But an outing to the zoo proves to be a little disastrous with an unwelcomed guest. The first time, Joel promises not to swing on him. He makes no promises on the second.
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- Part 2 of in another universe
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Joel hears a tiny, sharp whistle and a grunt from behind him. “Yo, potato. Cool it, man. You bulldozed an innocent NPC on your quest for knowledge.”
The kid turns around with a guilty smile. “Sorry, Mom.”
“Don’t apologize to me,” the voice says and Joel looks up to see a young lady who looks barely old enough to order a beer, offering him a hand; she pulls him up with surprising strength, and his eyes trace the intricate tattoo of her forearm before his eyes flicker to her face - pale, freckled, framed by short and shaggy red hair and adorned with a small smirk. “S’not my kneecaps you nearly ripped from their sockets.”
“Sorry about your kneecaps, sir.” the kid says.
“No worries," he gruffs.
“He’s being nice,” she says to her son. “If it happens again, he’s darting you with one of those poison frogs.”
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On a special science museum outing for his niece, Joel meets Ellie and her son, JJ.
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- Part 1 of in another universe
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Joel calls her a lot of things.
Honey, when he's asking if she wants her usual drink with milk. Brat, when she manages to get her way. Darlin', when he's marveling at her latest painting. Mija, when he finds her awake in the middle of the night, waiting for dawn to creep above the horizon. Bitch, when she kicks his ass at yet another board game. Sweetheart, when he wishes her a goodnight despite it all.
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Joel, Ellie, and moments spent with friends and family over a cup of coffee
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“El believes it,” Eddie says softly. “Her immunity for a cure, Jonathan being alive, Owens to pull it all off. A happy home back in Jackson. All of it. For me, right now, that’s good enough.”
Steve isn't so sure. “I’m afraid of what it will cost her,” He finally says.
“Nothing,” Eddie shrugs. “We’ll make sure of it. I promise.” He says it so casually, but there’s a dark tone to it, protective colors that rarely break free from Eddie. It’s not just a promise. It’s a threat.
And Steve, who has walked across this country and back with an axe in his pack and a gun slung over his shoulder, knows threats like the back of his hand. And that, for him, is enough.
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After a day of horrors, the gang stops to rest ( stranger things x the last of us crossover)
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“Did you make a wish?” Joel asks. Ellie hums in return, the noise a question, and slowly lowers her head to look at him. “Because if you see a shooting star, you make a wish,” he tells her. “That’s the rule.” Joel shrugs. “From the mouth of Sally Ride herself.”
A smile, fragile as it is, breaks through like the very stars catapulting through the atmosphere.
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in the aftermath of David, Ellie is left hallowed out, haunted by her memories and the declaration of a violent heart. Joel, armed with a guitar and the stars speckling the sky of the world Ellie so desperately wants to save, tries to help.
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“You doin’ okay, man?”
Steve sighs, slouching a bit. “As good as one can, I guess. According to Robin, my eye’s gonna disintegrate,” he jokes, and Eddie can only tell it’s a joke by the tint of a laugh that rolls out at the end.
“We’ll get you a new one, all glassy and shiny. No one will even know.” Eddie turns his head a little, rubbing his cheek back and forth against the fabric of Steve's jacket. “Or we can have everyone know. Make a spectacle of it. A real party trick. Get you one you can take out and toss around during beer pong.”
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It's just Steve's luck that when Christmas rolls around, he needs eye surgery. With his parents and Robin out of town, Eddie volunteers to stick around for the recovery. But when he brings Steve to his big empty, lonely house, Eddie decides he might just have to bring a little holiday cheer their way.
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Steve finds them on countertops with take-out pizza and their heads still wrapped in purple-soaked saran wrap. “Did I forget about a hair appointment?” He asks, grinning. “What’s going on here?”
He and Hannah both have mushroom pizza in their mouth, but they manage a deadpan, “Rebellion,” at the same time.
Steve simply nods his approval before he leans down and smacks a kiss to both of their cheeks, successfully dodging the dye caked on their hairlines. “You didn’t have to bleach his hair, you know that, right? There’s plenty of gray on his head -”
“Oh, you son of a bitch-” And Steve is cackling as Eddie jumps off the kitchen table and tackles him onto the floor.
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A collection of important moments that Eddie shares with Steve's daughter over a slice of pizza.
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- Part 2 of polaroids and scrapbooks
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Even after the earth splits open and hell dribbles out, even after his friends were bitten and torn, even after the small town he never really dreamed of staying in began literally crumbling away, Steve Harrington still wanted a wife, six nuggets, and a Winnebago.
He’s nineteen and single when he ends up with one nugget and a car seat in his BMW.
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Snapshots of the first year of Steve's life after he adopts a baby orphaned from Vecna's destruction.
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- Part 1 of polaroids and scrapbooks