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In the Family Way by introvertedbooklover123
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 Apr 2024
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Suddenly, the older woman steps back and plunges the heel of her boot into the pumpkin, orange flesh exploding apart like a skull cracking open, and examines the contents closely. The adults closest begin to murmur.
Dina shakes her head. “Looks like it’s rotted.”
Images of decomposing flesh covered in fungi flicker through Ellie. “What does that mean?”
Dina shrugs, her eyes glancing back to her row of sprouts. “It means the plants are bad. Probably root rot from the rain. Stops the plant from growing properly.”
“Is that- are all the plants in trouble?” Ellie’s heart ricochets uncomfortably in her chest.
“It’s probably fine. We always have a few years where a bit too much rain comes through and ruins some of our crops.” Her friend tries to sound reassuring, but all Ellie can see is emaciated men in a cold room in Silver Lake, a cleaver held above her arm, and dead bodies strung up like slaughtered animals.
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Jackson's food supplies dwindle while Ellie's abdomen gets bigger
***on hold until further notice - I have not abandoned this piece!
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28 Apr 2024
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(five times other people saw what joel is to ellie, and one time he saw it for himself)
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26 Apr 2024
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in sickness and in health by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
02 Jul 2023
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“I hope she knows,” Maria says quietly, “how loved she is.”
The words hang ghostlike in the air between them. Joel nods, stiffly, presses his mouth against the crown of Ellie’s damp hair, tastes lavender and bergamot in the back of his throat.
“I think she’s comin’ around to it,” he says.
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Ellie is sick, Joel is worried, and Tommy and Maria step up.
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- Part 1 of out of the mouths of babes
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17 Apr 2024
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the transit of venus by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Nov 2023
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She thinks that this is what love entails, warm houses and long hugs and baby fingers tangled in her hair and back rubs and hot tea at midnight - but sometimes it just feels like she’s walking that cliff’s edge, waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting for the expectations to shift, knowing she can’t meet them. She’s never been loved before and she doesn’t know that when it stops being easy, stops being new- is it still there?
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In Jackson, Ellie goes to pieces. Her family fits her back together again.
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17 Apr 2024
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Mary Poppins ain't got nothing on me by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Apr 2024
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It scares him, though, the idea of something happening to Joel. It’s been one of his worst fears for years, ever since a missed bullet, ever since a fight, ever since Joel dropped off the radar and he felt almost a guilty sense of relief at not having to face his own failure. It’s been worse since he met Ellie and he saw his brother come back to life, because that little girl needs his brother like she needs air.
Or: Tommy POV again! This time, he's watching Ellie while Joel has surgery. Ellie is not fond of this plan.
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13 Apr 2024
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Recoil, Rebound, Reforged by Mote_of_dust
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Jul 2024
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When Ellie's hopes for a future and a cure crumble amids violence and trauma, will the Miller brothers be able to help her put the pieces back together?
A canon-divergent story where Joel never shows up the stables and Ellie leaves for Boulder with Tommy. Plans fall apart, and so does Ellie.
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10 Apr 2024
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Ellie brings home a wolf pup. Joel is less surprised by this than you might think.
Doesn't mean he's pleased about it.
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The one in which Joel thinks he knows what's going on, but he really really doesn't.
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07 Apr 2024
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She hasn't had a nightmare this bad for a while. She always had Joel to wake her up before she would fall into a deep sleep. It's like he had a sixth sense for it. She would fall asleep, and right when the dream would start, he would gently shake her awake to stave off the nightmares.
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Ellie has a nightmare and tries to tough it out but needs her dad, set like a few days after tlou1 ends
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31 Mar 2024
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a real nightmare (completely aware) by lkay09 for stillboldlygoing
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
26 Mar 2024
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“Joel.” His name slips from her without thought, just the utterance of it stinging her chest.
He jerks to a stop, turning to look at her in surprise. Ellie can’t blame him, she’s barely said a word to him in almost two years.
Ellie tilts her head towards Tommy’s house, blowing out a breath. “Don’t bother.”
He looks between her and the house across the street, hands fidgeting with the paper he holds. “There oughta be another option. You shouldn’t –” He cuts himself off, but Ellie knows what he was gonna say. Years of distance don’t mean that she doesn’t still know him as well as she used to.
You shouldn’t have to be around me if you don’t want to.
(bad things happen bingo - cradling someone in their arms)
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- Part 3 of bad things happen bingo
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25 Mar 2024
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the castle of a thousand candles by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Oct 2024
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A few weeks into living in Jackson, Ellie notices one of the watchtowers along the wall often goes unoccupied during the night. She decides to remedy that immediately.
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- Part 1 of through the looking glass
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25 Mar 2024
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Don't Lose Hold of Me Now (I'm Barely Hanging On) by coulsons_left_arm
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Mar 2024
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"But for all intents and purposes, this was one of the more well preserved and intact stuffed animals he had come across. He gave the torso a squeeze. The cotton sprung back in his hands.
“I’ll be damned,” he quietly spoke under his breath, mistified. His heart clutched in his chest.
This is Ellie’s penguin now. She didn’t have much to start with when he met her, and right now she looks like she lost a part of herself. God knows she can't afford to lose anything else before she implodes. And now that he really thought about it, who even knows if she's ever held a stuffed animal growing up, much less owned one for herself?"
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Joel finds Ellie a stuffed animal; post ep. 8
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21 Mar 2024
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love that doesn't have a place to rest by eedsknees for piqu3d
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
09 May 2023
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FEDRA officers are never careful with kids, and Ellie could feel the bruises in her biceps forming from their grip on her as she stumbled down the stairs. It’s fucking embarrassing, and terrifying. She knows three things right now:
First, Ellie knows that she’s never going to get a chance to try and convince them of her innocence. Even if FEDRA did hear people out, they certainly wouldn’t for her, given her track record. Second, the punishment for being caught with stolen rations and weapons is three days in The Hole. And third, the door isn’t fucking opening until those three days are up.
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15 Mar 2024
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Mystery Work
Part of Eden Private
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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15 Mar 2024
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He Shall Provide by Bumblepony for probsdeleteltr
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Mar 2024
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It only took one little girl with a messy ponytail, ratty-ass Converse sneakers, shitty puns, and a generally annoying personality to get his ass out of the grave he’d buried himself in all those years ago in Texas. One girl who was unwilling to give him up even after he told her ‘she wasn’t his daughter and he sure as hell wasn’t her dad’, failed her by getting stabbed and leaving her to fend for herself, shoved her away when she was trying to save his sorry carcass.
All it took was for her small, shaking, blood covered fingers to curl into his own for Joel to finally see that this girl owned him now. That she had carved his broken heart out of his chest, put all the pieces back together with spit and pure stubbornness, and now carried it around in her delicate, precious, grasping hands. There was no going back for Joel now.
IE: Post Episode 8, Joel finds himself again.
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- Part 15 of Tumblr Ficlets
- Part 4 of The In-Between Places
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15 Mar 2024
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Joel’s seat moves a bit, indicating that someone has sat down next to him. There’s no overtly offensive smells coming from them, so that’s a small blessing, but he doesn’t open his eyes. Please let them not be chatty, please let them just sit there for the next ten hours and leave him the fuck alone.
The bus starts rolling from the station, the noise level cresting briefly and then dropping back down again, and Joel finally opens his eyes, chancing a glance over at the person sitting next to him.
Scratch that – the kid sitting next to him.
(joel & ellie greyhound-ing it across the country in an apocalypse-free world)
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- Part 3 of alterations
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14 Mar 2024
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“Thought I told you to listen and do what I say.” He scolded. But as he looked down at Ellie, he noticed that her head stayed bowed, looking at something Joel couldn’t see. That was, until she slowly pulled her hand away from her middle and Joel was struck with the horrifying sight of fresh blood staining her palm.
Suddenly, the snow had disappeared around him and instead, he was kneeling in an open field, noticing his baby girl lying a mere few feet away, gasping as she held her bleeding stomach and fought to stay alive.
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While patrolling in Jackson, Ellie gets shot protecting Joel.
Joel deals with this exactly how you would expect a man with PTSD to.
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28 Feb 2024
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As the pair stood in the dark hallway, Ellie allowed herself to forget the idea that Joel was going to leave her. For a few brief moments, she imagined that this would be permanent, that Joel was and always would be her dad. That Sarah wasn’t simply a person of Joel’s past, but of Ellie’s, too, the long lost sister that she never got to have.
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Joel finally apologizes for what he said to Ellie their first night in Jackson.
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28 Feb 2024
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Mystery Work
Part of privated
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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22 Feb 2024
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17 Feb 2024
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spare the rod by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 May 2023
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“I was just…I was wondering what you do. You know. For like…punishment.” She interrupts him. She needs to get the answer already, needs to know what to expect before she drives herself crazy with anticipation.
“Well I was more into grounding than goddamn child abuse.”
“Grounding like…” Her face scrunches in confusion as she dares to look at him. The word is foreign and the best guess she has doesn’t seem right, but she also doesn’t know what else it could be. “Like being…in the ground?”
Joel stares at her for a long, long moment before he speaks.
“Jesus fucking Christ.”
(after they settle into jackson, ellie realizes she doesn't know how joel will punish her if she messes up) (it quickly becomes a problem she needs to solve)
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16 Feb 2024