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The Fastest of Us by RavenWolfff
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Oct 2025
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"“You bringin’ me fans now?” He asked Tess, his voice calm but tinged with weariness—no bitterness, just tired familiarity.
“Not just any fan, cowboy.” Tess smirked, placing a hand gently on Ellie’s back to encourage her forward. “Ellie’s with the FDA. Best junior driver we’ve had in years. And she’s name-dropped you in every interview since she was thirteen.”
Joel raised a brow, finally lowering the bottle for real. He gave Ellie a good look—awkward, but beaming like the sun just rose in her chest. Something soft crept into those hazel eyes of his. Something sad, too. Melancholy. He glanced at the watch on his wrist, and Tess didn’t need to read his mind. She knew where he’d gone in that moment, and her heart softened for him."
One year after losing his daughter, fallen champ Joel Miller makes a fiery comeback to F1 with Ferrari. Under the ruthless Theresa Servopoulos, he faces brutal rivalries, deadly plots, and a mysterious green-eyed young girl prodigy who could change everything. The race has only just begun.
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18 Jun 2025
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won't be perfect (but we'll be fine) by motionsickness
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Apr 2025
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She lets him rock her half to sleep until the violins wane from inside, and when they stop, she can’t help the disappointed sag in her shoulders. So Joel holds her tighter and prolongs this little dance for another quiet moment, guided only by the crunch of the stones under them, and Ellie suddenly doesn’t want it to end and she doesn’t even know why. It just feels like a memory she’ll miss. Like she’s watching it happen.
A lot of things with Joel since their truce have felt that way.
(jackson has a father-daughter dance. ellie has an existential crisis.)
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30 Apr 2025
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“You wanna move out?” Joel asks, and Ellie bites the side of her cheek briefly. Joel’s face conveys more than his tone, sometimes, but she can’t let herself look at him. It’ll make it too hard to say what she knows she needs to.
“Yeah,” she says, studying a chip in the paint on the railing with way more focus than it needs. “Probably a good idea, you and me having our own space.” She isn’t brave enough to bring up what people are saying about them not having their own space. She can’t do it. Either he’s not aware of it yet, or he is, but reminding him about it might mean him wanting her even farther away before her existence even in the backyard has other people making his life harder. If the closest she can get is being in the garage, she doesn’t want to risk fucking up even that.
“Alright,” he says after a long, long moment. She grits her teeth against the toneless quality of his voice. That’s the tone he uses when he doesn’t want someone to know what he’s actually feeling.
Like he would if he didn’t want a pathetic QZ kid to know how relieved he is that he’ll finally be done dealing with her shit.
(after realizing that she's making joel's life harder, ellie decides to move out to the garage)
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25 Apr 2025
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Ellie is a young songwriter on most record labels' blacklists. Joel is the frontman of a band that was most popular in 2002 who spends most of his time producing music. Their paths predictably cross.
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31 Mar 2025
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Small Wins and B.S. by TheTenMillionthFirefly
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Dec 2024
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Years after his daughter's traumatic death on a construction site, Joel has sunken deep in a hole of depression and alcoholism. His court-mandated therapy sessions have somehow evolved into group therapy...
After putting Bethany Newman in the hospital, Ellie has to choose between Juvi (... again) and attending some dumb grief counselling course.
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AU where Ellie and Joel get stuck in the same Bereavement Support group
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04 Jan 2025