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When she lists her gruff but quietly dependable neighbour Joel as her emergency contact (never expecting to actually need him), she wakes up in the ER to find him smirking at her, asking why the hospital thinks he’s her boyfriend.
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Neighbour!Joel
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06 Dec 2025
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Joel Miller’s life has turned to ash—he's a year in a life after a ruined marriage, long work days at the fire station, and a four-year-old daughter who deserves better. He swears he doesn’t need help, but everyone else knows he’s drowning. Especially his brother and best friend.
Enter you—a teacher on summer break, broke, stubborn, and desperate enough to take anything. When Tommy recommends you a job, you figure it’s just another way to pay the bills. What you don’t expect is Joel—the same man who made your heart beat a million times faster. The same man who gave you everything, then left you with nothing.
For him, you’re supposed to be the babysitter he just happens to know. For you, he’s supposed to be just a paycheck with complicated feelings. But old hurts tangle with new sparks every time he looks at you too long. Guilt is easy. This feels dangerous. Because if you give in, it won’t just be your summer that burns.
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05 Oct 2025
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All the Ways We Leave by DogsCantDrive
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Nov 2025
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You came to Jackson five years ago, and since then you’ve built something that almost feels like a life. Steady work at the clinic, a roof over your head, the closest thing to safety you’ve known since the world fell apart. It isn’t perfect, but it’s yours.
Then you’re thrown onto patrol, partnered with Tommy’s brooding older brother, Joel Miller — and everything starts to unravel.
He’s moody, stubborn, infuriatingly bossy. He gets under your skin with every order he barks, with every look he gives you like he knows better. He’s also the one man you can’t stop thinking about, no matter how many times he’s made it clear he wants nothing to do with you.
But the longer you’re out there together, the harder it gets to ignore the pull between you. Banter turns to touches, touches to something you swore you wouldn’t want. And as the line between friends and something more begins to blur, you’ll have to decide just how much you’re willing to risk.
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25 Sep 2025
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You can never go home again by Lynettefeelsfine
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Nov 2025
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You return to your childhood home in Texas after escaping an abusive relationship. You're exhausted, broken, and trying to rebuild, but you're a survivor, and Joel Miller is there to help you pick up the pieces in more ways than one.
You haven't been home in 8 years and you're not the teenager that Joel once knew. You try to keep everyone at arms length not revealing the real reason you're home but there's something about Joel, your dad's best friend. He sees something in you and he helps you to heal.
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24 Jul 2025
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When your high-powered marketing career goes up in flames, you find yourself back in Texas and out of options—until your old childhood best friend Tommy Miller offers you a job at his family’s growing construction company. The only catch? His older brother Joel, the project manager with a chip on his shoulder and zero patience for your city-slicker attitude.
You clash instantly: you’re clever, confident, and painfully corporate. He’s quiet, rugged, and set in his ways. You push his buttons. He pushes back harder. But somewhere between long meetings, late nights, resurfacing memories, and hurt, along with one very unexpected work trip… the tension starts to shift.
What begins as bickering turns into banter. Glances linger. Walls crack. And neither of you is quite sure when things started to change.
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23 Jul 2025