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"Nicole is tired. She’s tired and scared of leaving her home with a nasty virus at large. She’s tired of patrolling the desolate streets, telling people to please stay inside."
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Waverly and Nicole vow to keep their five-year-old daughter safe amidst the chaos.
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- Part 26 of Stay
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Fan video of Mike and El to "Flowers In Your Hair" by the Lumineers.
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"So, despite the unwelcome guests on the sidelines, and the dirty looks as they make their way up the Purgatory streets toward Shorty’s, Nicole, Waverly, and Ariel do what they always do.
They march to the beat of their own drum.
They celebrate.
They love."
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Waverly and Nicole take their daughter to the Purgatory Pride parade.Series
- Part 25 of Stay
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“I don’t even know what her favorite color, is Waverly. I assumed it was purple because of her walker, but how do I not even know my own daughter’s favorite color?”
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A new member of the family changes Waverly and Nicole’s life for the better.
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- Part 24 of Stay
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“You have a Veggie," Ariel says. "Alice told me that boys have peas and girls have veggies and then they wrestle and a baby comes from Jesus nine months later.”
Nicole’s face goes red because she’s fairly certain that they’re having a conversation with a five-year-old at six-forty-nine on a Saturday morning about the birds and the bees.
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Waverly and Nicole discuss the possibility of expanding their family.
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- Part 23 of Stay
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After an unforeseen circumstance, Waverly and Nicole become foster parents to a five-year-old girl with special needs named Ariel. Although it's sometimes tough, they vow to always stay together.
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Tommy sighs, scrubbing a hand over his pinched face. He has a pretty good idea about what happened there, and it’s twisting the knife in his heart a full three-sixty. Joel, in pain and delirious with it, stuck twenty years in the past and begging for his baby girl. Probably with a head injury to boot. “My brother has no living children, ma’am. He might be experiencing some confusion.”
“Your brother is unconscious, Mr. Miller. He isn’t experiencing anything at the moment. And I can assure you, the minor in our care is very much alive.”
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The story of Ellie and Joel, as told to Tommy, who would have liked to have known he had a niece before it became hugely, urgently relevant. (Modern AU)
Bookmarked by elandhop
02 Jun 2025
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Honey, you’re familiar (like my mirror years ago) by Springs_a_changing_me
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
25 Jul 2025
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A pitiful whimpering pierces through the thin walls and his heart like an electrical current.
His instincts kick into high gear, something animalistic from the early days of Sarah’s life forcing him up. Where is that coming from? He sneaks down the hallway, passing by Ellie’s room along the way. The door’s open just a bit, light streaming in through the crack.
He peers in, expecting to see all five feet of his kid splayed across the bed, brown wavy hair poking up from under the covers.
He searches the room for Ellie, stepping in without hesitation and blinking hard, making sure he didn’t miss anything.
“Ellie?”
Another little coo comes from her bed, a mixture of babbling and a frustrated cry. He stops dead in his tracks and turns around.
A baby is sitting in Ellie’s bed.
A baby. In Ellie’s bed.
“The fuck?”
Or: Joel has Feelings™. Particularly about not having gotten to see Ellie grow up. Ellie magically turns into a baby. Don’t ask how. Nobody knows and I especially don’t. Angst with hella feels and Joel and Ellie being The Father Daughter Duo Ever.
Bookmarked by elandhop
02 Jun 2025
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Driven to Distraction by MildredEllie for lkay09
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Jan 2024
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“No, you don’t fucking get it, dude!” Ellie's palms come down against the table with a loud bang, all that pent up energy exploding outward. “I hate Mr. Bryant, and I hate school— and I fucking hate math!” Chair legs screech against the wooden floor as she pushes backwards, the paper displaced, fluttering to the ground to join the collection of school supplies already there.
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Joel Miller learns about ADHD in the apocalypse, and it brings him and Ellie closer together.
Bookmarked by elandhop
09 Jan 2024
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regeneration by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Mar 2023
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“Brains are like bones,” he says when he’s sure he can be calm, and she pulls back at that, face scrunched in judgment.
“Jesus, man, it sounds like you’re the one who needs to take a biology class.”
“Hold the sass,” he chides mildly, and she rolls her eyes but settles against him again. “A broken bone hurts like a bitch,” he says, “and for a while it doesn’t work like it should. Sometimes it feels like it might never hold you up again.”
She’s quiet, but it’s an attentive sort of silence, not like her blessedly increasingly rare moments of catatonia.
“But it heals, baby girl,” he tells her, adjusting her until he can get his arms around her, blanket bundle and all. He rests his chin on the top of her head and brings one hand up to squeeze the back of her neck gently, trying to coax the tense muscles loose. “Sometimes it still aches on rainy days-”
“Okay, Edgar Allen Joel.”
“-but you take those days, and you breathe through them, and eventually, they end.”
(the events of episode 8 have left their scars on Ellie) (luckily she has a Joel)
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09 Apr 2023
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what dads do for daughters by mercess
Fandom The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Apr 2023
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Sometimes dads murder. Sometimes dads braid hair. It's the little things.
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08 Apr 2023