liveandletcry
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Jesus Christ, this kid was more green than the moldy carpet under his ass was red, and Jack could already feel the squish of his blood saturating the fabric, and he was right. He was woozy already, and loosing blood fast. He can't sit up to see his leg, but it must be arterial. Clarity comes with a rush of adrenaline. If he can't get this kid to get his shit together, that's game over. And refuses to die in a suburb.
"Okay." He starts with a practiced, forceful calm. "Two steps here. First, you're gonna slap a tourniquet on my leg, and then you'll radio for EMS." The kid fumbles in three wrong pockets over a few long seconds before pulling out a tourniquet, and he fumbles to separate the velcro strap so that he can open it up.
TLDR: If Jack dies, Robby's going to kill him.
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This might be a fluke. It could be stress and grief and age. It could be menopause. It might. He was never that regular to begin with, so that's no help. He'd just been stretching his T too thin and now everything it had been holding off for so many years was crashing down on him all at once.
But it might not be. It could be more.
It could be some part of Tess that he gets to keep.
Joel leaves Boston with Ellie and much more than he bargained for
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The T4T Joel and Tess oops, right? fic
PSA: To be cringe is to be free, the tags are accurate, so you know exactly what you're getting into. Hoping to update weekly.
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“He’s trying to be here for you.”
That’s all he ever did, she thinks, fuming. Try. Try to make up for what he did. But he thinks he saved her life. He told her he’d do it again. He could try to talk to her, or try to be there for her, but, he never once considered that what she needed from him was the thing she fucking asked for. His trying was worse than if he just left her alone.
Ellie scoffs. “Can he stop?”
TLDR: Ellie gets bitten on patrol while she and Joel are still on the outs. Uncle Tommy to the rescue
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Grave Men, Near Death, Who See With Blinding Sight by liveandletcry for Fiachra
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
16 Jul 2024
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A week later, someone said they were setting up a safe zone north of Houston. Clearing out other people’s homes, their apartments, storefronts, churches - and refitting them to house a more permanent base of operations, but also to hold whatever displaced civilians made it that far. It was rumored to be full already. Thousands of people clamoring up the main interstate were waiting in make-shift camps, in their cars, hoping to get in.
Nobody as far out as Austin held half a shot of getting to that zone, and probably never had.
But they couldn’t permit the growing presence of Infected. Some guy in his unit says over breakfast one morning that they called them that because anybody left holding a lick of power was too busy ordering the mass murder of civilians to come up with anything better. Tommy thinks he’s probably right.
TLDR Sarah is bitten and Joel refuses to leave her - Tommy goes on because his big brother told him to.
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The ground rumbled lightly beneath their feet. Her uncle adjusted his grip, sparing a glance down to her before refocusing on the treeline ahead. Ripples tore through the winding creek that made up the moat. Her smile grew with each approaching step. Her dad came up to her side, resting a hand over the back of her neck and squeezing. The bull protested louder, then the trees began to quiver, crack. and fall.
Then she felt her, rumbling so impossibly low that she could hardly be heard, vibrating deeply in her chest.
“Here she comes,” Tommy said, voice low. “Watch close, she’ll be quick.”
Ellie couldn’t stop watching. She wondered who possibly could.
TLDR: It's like if the Millers worked at Jurassic Park
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Miller Family Values (And Accompanying Shennanigans) by liveandletcry
Fandom The Last of Us (TV)
19 Sep 2023
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Moonlight Raising from The Grave by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Nov 2025
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His skin pulls tight, and a vague ripple wanders down his spine, an urge to shift and protect searing as he stuffs it down and reaches in with two blood-slicked palms.
Dry patches of soft down catches and sticks to his hands, but more hot crimson also coats them as he gently lifts the pup out from beneath entrails.
A girl, judging by her scent.
Earthy, green - maybe a little spiced.
It’s hard to tell with so much of her blood intermingled with what he thinks must be her mama's and her other fallen packmate.
Distantly, he feels Tess come to hover behind him, her hand now braced firmly on the same shoulder she’d been tender with only minutes ago. “Is it still alive?” Her voice shakes and her scent shifts, turning startled and unsure.
The low whine and broken whimper that whistles out of the pup as he clears the protective curve of the two dead wolves says yes.
The pained twist and wiggle as she pants says that she may not be for long.
Christ almighty she’s little.
Ain’t supposed to shift this young, shouldn't be able to.
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Joel and Tess find Ellie in the carnage of her pack. Post outbreak, a wolf pup is rare thing, something to be protected at all costs.- Language:
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28 Nov 2025
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that's just our wasteland, baby by buggieb
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Mar 2024
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“Oh, our Ellie-girl is growin’ up,” Tommy coos, and Ellie kicks him under the table. He winces, but that smug smile doesn’t wipe off his face, so she kicks him again, a little harder.
“Ellie, stop that,” Joel says, not even looking but knowing exactly what sort of a menace she’s being.
“He’ll be fine,” Maria snorts. “Ellie’s got tiny feet.”
“Hey!” Ellie cries out, indignant. Just for that, she kicks Tommy a third time.
(ellie: the meaning of weed and williams.)
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- Part 4 of my love is mine, all mine
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07 Mar 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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13 Feb 2024
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When Sarah Miller was 14 she caught a bullet in her stomach. The piercing metal had felt like fire and ice taking up permanent residence in her core, reducing the surrounding world to nothing but a blurry distraction—or as she explained it to anyone who got close enough to ask about the puckered, pale scar between her hip bones, it had hurt like a bitch.
Or: Tommy pulls Joel away from Sarah before she fully bleeds out and it makes all the difference, leading to a very different confrontation in the Salt Lake City O.R.
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30 Jan 2024
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Interstellar Overdrive by Arien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Jun 2024
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Tess is a powerful underworld figure, brokering information. When an internal threat has her questioning the loyalties of those closest, she must enlist the help of someone who has just as much to lose as she does. A bodyguard/boss AU set in the 1970s.
His fingertips brushed through the curtain of hair hanging to her waist. Dressing like a goddamn hippie with motivations that were resolutely square. A capitalist muckety-muck playing dress-ups with the beautiful people. Tess had some goddamn nerve and he wanted every last piece of her, Duke’s warnings be damned.
Because Duke was right – he’d never met anyone like her before. And maybe by getting a little closer he could unravel the enigma, because he’d meant what he’d told Duke – one woman was, essentially, the same as another. There were a finite number of parts people could play. And she was just playing one of them, concealing it a little better than most.
Tess whispered again in his ear: “You answer to me, now.”
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- Part 1 of Night Fever, a Tess/Joel 1970s AU
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29 Jan 2024