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Under Her Command by giveherswords
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Jan 2026
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Ellabs smutty military rivals, enemies to lovers with every trope imaginable:
Ellie's looking for answers, and the WLF may hold them. Joel's death in Salt Lake is an open question mark, an unhealed wound: Who killed him? Why?
After four years in Jackson, raised by Tommy and Maria, she decides enough is enough—she needs closure. Now, at the WLF, Ellie is put under the command of Lieutenant Abigail Anderson. Her Commanding Officer is a force of nature: all coiled intensity, with an insane physique, and a sharp, tactical mind that’s as compelling as it is infuriating. And, yeah, she also seems to hate Ellie’s guts from day one.
Meanwhile, Abby, still haunted by her own father's mysterious death in Salt Lake, is Isaac’s right hand, his top enforcer. She has no patience for distractions. But when the defiant and startlingly capable Ellie Williams lands on her squad, sparks fly. Around this new recruit, Abby feels her iron-clad control start to slip.
Forced together on high-stakes missions, an undeniable, volatile attraction ignites beneath the surface of their rivalry.
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02 Jun 2025
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What the Ghosts Demand by giveherswords
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 May 2025
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Ellabs post-canon TLOU P1, Abby in Jackson, Abby POV, strangers to lovers:
Five years after her father's murder by unknown assailants, Abby's life is a hollow shell of obsession and militaristic discipline in the WLF. A whisper of truth leads her to Jackson, Wyoming, chasing ghosts from a past that won't stay buried.
There, a chance encounter with Ellie, a fierce stranger who saves her life, sparks an unexpected and dangerous intimacy. As their bond deepens, Abby unknowingly grows closer to Ellie’s protector, Joel. But Jackson holds a horrifying secret, one that connects Abby’s consuming need for vengeance to the very people she’s begun to care for.
Torn between the desire that could save her and her all-consuming obsession, Abby hurtles towards a devastating revelation that could destroy everything and everyone she’s begun to care about.
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25 May 2025
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Shoot for the Stars by Bee_KeepingAge
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Sep 2024
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Ellie's sixteen, when she finally gets fed up with the foster system and decides to run for the hills. In her mind, she figures years of complete solitude, but the perfect opposite happens: she meets Sarah, another teenage runaway, her soulmate, her better half. Life is finally good.
And then the Accident happens, and because Murphy's Law is a bitch and a half that says that, if shit happens, more shit is bound to come, now she's pregnant too. Oh, and Sarah abandons her after a not-so-cryptic conversation about how she wants to go home before winter comes, leaving behind a note saying she'll come and find her again.
Clearly, she went home to her Dad, and clearly Ellie's not gonna stay in Bumfuck, Wyoming, waiting for her. No, she'll go look for her, even if it means having to drive all the way to Boston and live with her father-in-law.
Besides, considering her current state, it's gonna be nice to have a warm bed, a roof over her head, and a man who is so much of a girls' father that he's gonna let her annoy the crap out of him.
[Alternatively: how Joel ends up taking into consideration only the "daughter" part of "daughter-in-law."]
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10 Nov 2024
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Air in my lungs,’Til the road begins by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Oct 2024
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“She knows her uncle Tommy, you’re not a stranger to her.” he says, begging Tommy with his eyes.
His baby brother looks so different than he had six years ago. He’s grown the mustache out again.
It’s filled in better this time.
“What the fuck were you thinking Joel” Tommy's voice cracks. He looks at Joel like he’s been gutted.
“Living” the reply is hoarse, he knows he’s not answering the question he was asked. Their eyes connect again, he sees the understanding shining in his brother’s eyes.
“Living” Tommy echoes back.
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The modern au in which Joel is a firefighter thrust back into fatherhood at 36 by our favorite little shit Ellie, that literally no one asked for.Bookmarked by coconut
29 Sep 2024
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wolf season and pocket knife are two groups that are very quickly coming up on the indie rock scene. so, of course it makes the most sense for their labels to send them on tour together... especially after they catch wind of potential history that went down between the two lead vocalists.
but, like, bygones and all that. they're totally over it.
(off the record: maybe not so much.)
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08 Sep 2024
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to clasp gold, fading glow by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Oct 2024
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Another grunt. “How you livin’ out here on your own?” he asks again. As if he hadn’t eaten the freshly slaughtered rabbit, drank from the routinely boiled water, slept beneath the gathered and plentiful blankets.
As if the efforts of survival have not been inscribed along her very skin.
“I’m not a kid.”
They stare at a fire which burns without ceasing—at skeleton fragments and glass shards and a spoon, warped and curled in on itself. There are flames in Ellie’s throat. There is poison in her body. The pages of a Bible have long since burned away—like they were never intended to be permanent. Not like loss. Not like grief. Not like loneliness.
Or: Ellie and Joel don't find each other until after she's already burned Silver Lake, and all of its residents, to the ground.
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07 Aug 2024
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Ellie plays video games for money on the internet and also hates her stupid fucking roommate.
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- Part 1 of today tomorrow today
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05 Aug 2024
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"I remember you."
Ellie's head snaps up and over to where a girl's voice comes from, and she immediately regrets it when the world sways and her vision blurs.
"You're that girl from Jackson," the girl's bleary lips move, forming words that take Ellie a second to process. The name of Ellie's hometown back in Wyoming rings alarms in her head. How the fuck would anyone know that? She squints her eyes further, desperately trying to see who is chained up to the wall opposite from her. Is it one of Abby's friends? That's the only way someone would remember her.
When Ellie finally gets a good look at the girl's face, her heart pounds and her skin boils as white-hot rage floods through her body.
It's her.
"Abby." The name spills from Ellie's lips, sounding like a threat. She doesn't say her name with any ounce of uncertainty. She knows it's her. How could she ever forget that face? The face of Joel's killer that has haunted her nightmares for months.
(OR Ellie is captured by Scars on her third day in Seattle and thrown into the same cell as Abby.)
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- Part 1 of Ellabs
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03 Aug 2024
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being lost gets lonely sometimes.
~ or, abby and lev aren't captured and instead find ellie williams hanging upside down in a tree ~
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28 Jul 2024
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warmed by bloodstained hands by JustAnotherSailorScout
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 May 2025
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She turns back around and picks up Abby’s hands to try and rub warmth back into them. She very pointedly does not acknowledge the pang in her chest, and how much it feels like when she found her, starved and tied to a post. Then, Joel’s lessons on survival ring in her brain.
Warm the body first. Losing a finger or two ain’t nothing compared to dying. Okay? Dry heat until they are no longer in danger, and then move ‘em to a warm bath if ya have one on hand.
Abby isn’t going to get warm enough like this. Lying stiff on the ground, her eyes close as she loses consciousness again. Ellie presses her fingers to her pulse. It’s too slow. She’s still too cold.
There was, another bit of advice that Joel gave.
Now Ellie, sometimes you’re not gonna have enough blankets to get ‘em warm. Or maybe they don’t have much time. If that’s the case, body heat works well.
Ellie closes her eyes and swallows.
If she was going to go to all of this trouble to save Abby in the first place, she can’t just stop at the finish line.
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A snowed in/injury recovery AU
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27 Jul 2024
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She was only about a five or ten minute walk away from the mansion by the time she saw lights down the mountain side.
They littered a wide area; just those twinkling lights. The relief was dizzying. She no longer felt cold, adrenaline rushed through her veins with enough power for her to hear her own heart beating in her ears.
“It’s a fucking city.” She murmured to herself.
(Or: Abby and Lev end up in Jackson before it all)
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19 Jul 2024
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Against all odds, Ellie and Abby meet again after Santa Barbara. Ellie can't quite move on- but Lev's life is on the line, and winter is setting in. As painful as it is to see Abby again, they have no choice but to get along until he's back on his feet and the mountains have thawed.
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09 Jun 2024
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Okay. So mayyyyyyybe Ellie had agreed to take this patrol route for reasons which were not purely innocent. But, like, it wasn’t her fault that it was summertime. It wasn’t her fault the warmth of the sun meant sleeveless shirts and sweaty skin. And it definitely wasn’t her fault that she’d caught the new girl staring at her not once, not twice, but three times since she’d been integrated into Jackson just over a week ago. But, hey. The route had to be covered, and Ellie happened to have the next few hours wide open…
OR:
Ellie and Abby meet in Jackson, spend the day flirting, and end up having explosive hot sex.
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23 Mar 2024
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what’s on the menu? me-n-u! by constance2425
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Feb 2024
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“Abby Anderson?”
“Yeah, that’s me,” she says, blatantly staring at the cute delivery girl. “Is that my food?”
“Nah, I just carry paper bags around,” Cute Delivery Girl says with a straight face.
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(Abby repeatedly makes a fool of herself in front of Ellie. Ellie's kinda into her anyway.)
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16 Feb 2024
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dodors (and other birds) by ketchupchipsaregross
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Feb 2024
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“Duck do?” Ellie asked from her spot in the carrier.
Joel kept a hand on her back as he scrambled eggs. He was half twisted away from the stove to keep her out of kicking distance of the pan, “Quack-quack.”
“Dog do?”
“Woof-woof.”
“Snail do?” She peered up at him expectantly.
“Snails don’t make a sound,” He flicked the burner off and scooped eggs onto the waiting plate.
“Yep,” Ellie brightened, “They do crunch!”
(or how Tess and Joel accidentally restarted parenting in their 40s)
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04 Feb 2024
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my heart was reaching, so tangled and twined (and darling, you came to me in the glory i'd longed to find) by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
31 May 2024
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“Come home with me,” Sarah rushes to say before Ellie can launch into any excuses about loving her own time and space and quiet. She’s sure that there’s some degree of truth to it, but Sarah’s calling bull on Ellie actually wanting to be entirely alone in the freezing, blustery landscape of a Massachusetts winter instead of flying out to Wyoming and spending a few weeks together.
“Sarah…”
“No! No, it’ll be fun, okay? We can do all of my favorite holiday things like bake cookies and watch movies and go shopping. I hate going shopping alone! And my dad already said that you can come, and it’s our first Christmas since he moved up to Wyoming, and it’ll just be…nice if you’re there too.” Everything was already going to be so different, to feel so different. So maybe this difference could be something good. Sarah could stand a chance to look forward to along with all of the change that she was…making the best of. “I want you there too.”
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or: Sarah can't stand the concept of Ellie being left all alone over the holidays. Ellie doesn't know if she can stomach forcing her way into some other family's Christmas. And Joel just wants to get it all right.
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17 Jan 2024
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trying to find my way home (back to you) by castellis
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Jan 2024
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They say their goodbyes after he gets called away by Maria to help with the groceries, and then Ellie’s alone again, in her slightly rundown apartment that suddenly seems too small even for her. She finishes the chicken and takes out the trash, seeing flashes of texts rush by as she straightens the rug and tosses her clothes and uniform to launder later.
They’re all from Jesse.
Wakey wakey
So Owen made a fuss on his broken nose and Isaac’s given him the night off
You’ve got a shift with Abby instead
Have fun lol
She rereads the messages again, making sure she’s not seeing things, but they’re absolutely real. “What the hell?” Ellie growls, forgetting all about fabric softener for one moment and immediately calling Jesse’s number.
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(or: a modern animal transformation AU where Ellie and Abby work in the police force and
hatestrongly dislike each other. It stays that way right until Ellie turns into a cat while they're on the job.)Bookmarked by coconut
16 Jan 2024
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They've lost their fathers, their lovers, their friends, themselves.
But they're still searching.
For hope. For peace. For something they can only get from each other.
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The Last of Us Part III.- Language:
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23 Dec 2023
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all i needed was someone (when the whole wide world felt young) by cardigains for eedsknees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Dec 2023
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Much like the other day, Ellie ends up sitting on the porch steps. Joel’s back even quicker this time. Almost like he’d left his first aid supplies sitting out and ready to attend as needed.
More cleaning, this one hurts less. More gel liquid, this time rubbed in a bit better. And more bandaids, these ones something other than plain, boring beige. Not princesses either, usually the first thing adults reached for when they mixed the two factors of Little Girl and Injured together.
Nope. This guy has dinosaur bandaids.
“Dude, I fucking love dinos!”
Joel’s head swivels up, eyes going from her carefully patched up elbow to meet Ellie’s gaze. She wants to ask him how he knew. She wants to ask to see the rest of the designs in the box. She wants to tell him all of the other things she loves.
“S’pose I picked right then,” he says, almost like he’d been standing in the aisle, contemplating what exactly that might be.
“You did,” is how Ellie answers him, not bothering with a thank you.
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or: Ellie is Joel's next door neighbor who's hellbent on learning to ride a bike to get where she needs to go. Little does she know that place is right across the street.
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- Part 1 of Next Door Neighbors
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