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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
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the snowy day by becomethesun for Nandorluna
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Dec 2023
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One of the few things that people said was an advantage of having a baby at twenty-one was getting to be a part of your child’s life for such a large chunk of it, getting to have a relationship with your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren. He’d always found some peace in the thought that if Sarah decided to have kids someday, he’d be around to help her out with them when she needed it.
He’s gotten more second chances in this life than he ever deserved, and he knows this is yet another one of them.
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Baby JJ and his grandpa have a nice winter afternoon. (Joel Lives AU featuring adventures in babysitting with Grandpa Joel and a lot of warm fuzzy holiday family feels)
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25 Dec 2023
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Riley gets bit in the mall, but Ellie doesn't.
Joel takes her anyway.
There’s no grand purpose for her existence, nothing to make her worth saving.
Joel loves her anyway.
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19 Dec 2023
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revery alone will do by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Dec 2023
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“Hey,” he says. “Look at me.”
She does. His face is cast in shadow, lined with soft pearlescent moonlight, but his eyes are sharp and bright and glittering, dissecting. She feels like she’s being flayed alive, like every inch of her is being peeled open and left out to air. She finds that she doesn’t hate it. She knows that whatever Joel sees in her, he’s gonna keep whole, protect.
“I’m gonna be alright,” he says, that same firm tone he used in KC. “You don’t gotta worry. I’m okay.”
She breathes, “Okay.”
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Somewhere between Kansas City and Wyoming, Ellie gets sick.
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19 Dec 2023
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These Lines Etched in Sand by Elialys
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
30 Nov 2025
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What would have happened if Joel was the one bitten at the museum? This is an exploration of TLOU, in which Tess takes Ellie across country in search of the Fireflies. What begins as a reluctant partnership grows into something much deeper, where bonds forged in fire breathe new hope, and a chance for redemption.
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“You don’t have to answer now,” Tess tells her. “I get that it’s a big thing to ask, but I have to ask it. I just…I want you to know you always have a choice, here. Even if we do find Tommy, and we do find some Fireflies. You’re smart, and you have great instincts. Keep asking questions. Make informed decisions whenever possible.”
“That’s not always an option when you’re a fourteen-year-old kid,” Ellie points out, sounding much older than she is.
“When it comes to your body and what you do with it, it should always be. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not even me."
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13 Dec 2023
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Joel hears a tiny, sharp whistle and a grunt from behind him. “Yo, potato. Cool it, man. You bulldozed an innocent NPC on your quest for knowledge.”
The kid turns around with a guilty smile. “Sorry, Mom.”
“Don’t apologize to me,” the voice says and Joel looks up to see a young lady who looks barely old enough to order a beer, offering him a hand; she pulls him up with surprising strength, and his eyes trace the intricate tattoo of her forearm before his eyes flicker to her face - pale, freckled, framed by short and shaggy red hair and adorned with a small smirk. “S’not my kneecaps you nearly ripped from their sockets.”
“Sorry about your kneecaps, sir.” the kid says.
“No worries," he gruffs.
“He’s being nice,” she says to her son. “If it happens again, he’s darting you with one of those poison frogs.”
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On a special science museum outing for his niece, Joel meets Ellie and her son, JJ.
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- Part 1 of in another universe
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10 Dec 2023
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Future Proof by Capricordinary
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Feb 2026
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Joel doesn’t remember anything beyond the outpost.
All he knows is that he was there, he lost consciousness and then he was all the way back in 2010. He woke up to his old, shitty apartment in Boston and the overwhelming feeling that he'd lost something.
Ellie. All those years leading up to and after finding her. Seemingly erased. Or yet to happen.
He doesn’t know how.
But he knows he has to find her.
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Joel is somehow transported into the past, well before any of the events of the Last of Us Season One take place. Armed with the knowledge of everything that happened the first time around, he makes it his mission to find four year old Ellie, reunite his family and find a safe place for them in the Wyoming wilderness. Once he establishes himself as Jackson's leader, he gets to work giving Ellie the childhood and the family she deserves.
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02 Dec 2023
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Uncle Tommy’s teased her about being a homebody before, but she really and truly just doesn’t like staying away from home. She likes to tease her dad that it’s because it’s the only place she gets to be the boss of everything. He grumbles about her sassing him, but she’s still the one making the grocery lists, so he can grumble as much as he wants as long as her will still rules the roost.
Not that there’s much to rule over right now, not with her dad and uncle out in Wisconsin helping one of her nana’s friends who needed help making her house more wheelchair-accessible since her husband had a bad fall. Her dad had been hesitant about leaving her, but she’d thought this would be great practice for her not having her dad a mere two hour drive away if she really needed an out. After all, she’ll be off at college in just four years, and she definitely doesn’t want to end up being a weirdo who has to call her dad to come get her.
Hearing the nearly deafening sirens going by outside, though, she desperately wishes she hadn’t been quite so insistent about being just fine without her dad for two weeks.
(when the outbreak happens, joel and tommy are out of the state, and sarah's left to survive on her own)
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- Part 1 of brady bunch verse
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24 Nov 2023
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If there was one thing Ellie didn’t expect to be good at in Jackson, it was gardening.
Hunting, sure, she’s done that, and she’s got Joel and Tommy to give her tips. Farming, maybe. But straight up regular gardening? Never would have crossed her mind.
(the ellie-enjoys-gardening fic that took over my life and got out of control and has more feelings than gardening)
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23 Nov 2023
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Him and Tommy, they’ve done this thing before- this thing where they’re the best goddamn parent/uncle tag-team around. They pick up the slack for each other, and Joel will never be anything but grateful for another adult hanging around that’ll treat Ellie the way she ought to be treated.
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Four times that Joel and Tommy are the world's greatest co-parent/uncle-ing duo...and one time they co-fuck up.
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06 Nov 2023
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Joel couldn’t say the real reason he needed Sarah to stay home that night. You were in a fucking sundress with a ribbon in your hair. A goddamn ribbon. And you’d been cooking, the whole house smelled like heaven and you were in a fucking sundress with a goddamn ribbon in your hair and now he was going to be home alone with you all night.
Not that anything was going to happen. Nothing was going to happen. Not a damn thing.***
You're a college student in Austin, Texas, who gets a summer job nannying Sarah Miller. It's not long before her dad sees you as more than a babysitter - or more than a friend. But life - and an apocalypse - have other plans.
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- Part 1 of Lavender
- Language:
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- 253,601
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- 49/49
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03 Nov 2023
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*Reposted to correct a couple typos that were making me twitch. It's what I get for completing and posting at midnight*
It Halloween and Joel has to face his kids growing up.
Really just lots of family fluff and poor Joel feeling sad about his kids getting older.
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01 Nov 2023
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The Legend of Charro by Arien for betweentwoceremonials
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
03 Oct 2023
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Joel is the sheriff of Black Creek. Tess is an outlaw on the run. They have history.
A Tessjoel Western AU literally nobody asked for.
Shooting people hadn’t been much harder than tin cans or birds. That cold revelation had been a quiet comfort that re-oriented a world turned on its head. Shootin’ was shootin’. You loaded up the chamber the same way. You breathed the same way. The only difference was getting shot back at, but that sort of made it fairer. More exciting.
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- Part 1 of Tin Star, a Tess/Joel Western AU
- Language:
- English
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- 34,594
- Chapters:
- 7/7
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31 Oct 2023
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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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31 Oct 2023
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hodgepodge of love by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Aug 2023
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Ellie looks down at her crossword, dejected, as she adjusts her new green glasses. “At this rate, I’ll die before I finish this.” She tugs on his sleeve. “What’s number twenty-seven?”
Joel sighs. “I dunno.”
“I don’t believe you,” Ellie scoffs, the words almost a whine. “C’mon, seriously, me and Dina are trying to see who can finish ours first and if I don’t beat her I have to clean out Japan’s stable for two weeks and -”
“Well, hold on now,” Joel says, reaching into another one of his jacket pockets. “Let me get my glasses…”
Ellie lets out a delighted laugh when Joel slips on a pair of identical round, green glasses. How he got two of the same pair, she’ll never know. But she does know it makes her smile so wide her cheeks might split open.
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Joel, Ellie, and the things they give each other out of love
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24 Oct 2023
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help me love myself the way you love me (so who i am tomorrow is who i'm meant to be) by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 Oct 2023
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Across the street, Ellie can hear the cries of a baby. She hates the sound, hates the anxiety that spikes up in her without consent and the simultaneous desire to make it stop and hating that she knows there’s already somebody over there doing exactly that. She hates herself for hating it.
Because it’s not like Ellie hates Leo. He’s a fucking baby. He’s got light brown skin and these dark curls of hair and no teeth and way too much drool. He has grabby little fists and a head he’s only just learned to hold up and spit bubbles that he blows when he gets real excited over pretty much nothing. He’s happy. Just, naturally. Like he came out smiling, doesn’t have a clue yet what the fuck is wrong with the world.
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or: Tommy and Maria have a baby. Ellie has to figure out how to deal with it.
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13 Oct 2023