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In the Pines by femmefacetious
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Dec 2025
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This wasn’t going to be one of those long, emotional goodbyes.
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I'll Follow You Into the Dark by femmefacetious for marceltheshellwithflipflopson
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
29 Jun 2025
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It never bothered her when he took care of her on the road because they both knew he held her life in his hands every day; it really was do or die. But she didn’t know if she expected it to continue in Jackson, if she could expect anything at all. She’d hoped, maybe—in secret, the way she treasured the times he pulled on her ponytail or teased her or let her fall asleep on his shoulder while they watched their DVDs—but knew it wasn’t deserved or even necessary.
Love had never been necessary. It was a luxury that some people had, if they were lucky, but you didn’t need it. And so even when she got something from him that seemed like love it still felt like too much, it didn’t fit, and she didn’t know whether to embrace it or push it away.
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Joel and Ellie deal with some stupid cold temperatures and assorted shenanigans (the not-fun kind) in and around the town of...Dinosaur, CO.
Come find me on tumblr under the same username :)
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Long As I Can See the Light by femmefacetious
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Jul 2023
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Joel and Ellie discover a record, Joel worries, Joel opens up to Ellie and sings her a song.
(I know Joel doesn't sing till Part 2, just go with it)
They're near Milner, CO.
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beneath the weeping tree by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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She leans into the pain, gasping, till it centers her, till her mind clears, till the ghosts of her childhood - as brief and tempestuous as it was - are shuttered away.
Still though, their words echo dimly in the far corners of her mind. This is what happens when you get close to people, they say. This is what happens when you let your guard down.
She shudders, pushes off of the wall. The thermos tumbles from its perch and falls the long way to the ground, banging tinnily against a rock or a tree root or something. Ellie curses and wipes her hair out of her eyes, leans over to see where it landed-
-and freezes, her breath suddenly cold in her chest.
At the edge of the woods, cloaked in the sage lace dripping from the boughs of the sheltering cottonwoods, something is watching her, its eyes gleaming luridly in the electric light of the coming storm.
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There is something in the woods outside of Jackson.
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for the prompt "non-human whumper"
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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02 Nov 2025
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like a river runs by renegade_knight for marceltheshellwithflipflopson
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
21 Jul 2025
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“Will you play dinosaurs with me?"
No, the answer was most definitely and could only be – no.
His legs wouldn't budge. He pinched the bridge of his nose, the familiar hum of a mounting headache building behind his right eye. Where the hell was her mother this time? He would not get stuck helping this kid again. Absolutely not.
“Didn’t your mama tell you not to talk to strangers?”
“You’re not a stranger,” she said. “You’re Pancake Man!”
“No,” he said, one hand resting at his belt as he faced her again. “I’m Joel. And you’re gonna be trouble when your mama finds you.”
She smiled and shook her head with enough force to bounce her pigtails around her face. “Mama’s not here.”
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or the one where Joel keeps running into young mom Anna and her toddler bebe Ellie until they become a strange little family
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25 Jul 2025
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or honey, hope (even on this side of the grave) again by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Jul 2025
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While on a FEDRA mandated job, Ellie is paired with a grumpy old man who doesn't talk. Not a single word spoken aloud. No one seems to get exactly what his deal is, but Ellie, she spends one day with the dude and understands him just fine.
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18 Jul 2025
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one more song about moving along the highway by becomethesun for two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Mar 2025
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Ellie goes quiet again, pulling her knees to her chest. Joel has half a mind to turn around and take her home, call off work and let her hang out on the couch watching YouTube videos of other people playing video games, which she seems to prefer over actually playing games herself. But it’s the last week of eighth grade, she should be in class, and on top of that, everything he’s read says that grieving kids need structure, routine, normalcy. He knows it’s what he needs, too. He can imagine how easy it would be for him to fall apart and shut down, the same way he did when he lost Sarah.
But now there’s another little girl, sitting here in his truck, fiddling with the car door lock switch, who’s depending on him to keep his shit together.
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In an outbreak-free world, Joel makes a promise to Tess to look after Ellie. Together, Joel and Ellie navigate life, loss, and something like family. (A modern foster-ish AU featuring cameo appearances from some familiar faces and the healing power of a Taco Bell Baja Blast.)
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08 Jun 2025
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blackbird, blackbird, what do you see? by marchflower for historian_in_pearls
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 May 2025
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“I think I - fucked up my ankle.” She points to her left foot. “When I fell.”
Her remorse lies thick and rank between them. Joel imagines he can see it rotting there, in between shafts of honeyed sunlight. Shame, he thinks, fits her so poorly. He’s reminded of Kansas City, of her sitting her with her back to the newspaper lined window, chin on her knees, a single tear on her cheek as she tells him:
It wasn’t my first time.
Little girls, he thinks, have no business carrying that sort of regret. He has no business reading into it this way - thinking about all the tender spots Ellie’s got lying in ruin inside of her, all of the ways this world has failed her. All of the ways he’s failed her, all of the ways he might still. She’s only a job, he tells himself sternly. She’s cargo.
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Joel patches Ellie up again, and again, and again.
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06 May 2025