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don't you call her baby (we're not talking lately) by spritejac
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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“Sure thing, kiddo.”
The words freeze Ellie in place, hand suspended where it was reaching for her fork as time seems to stop around her.Kiddo.
Since when the fuck is Dina “kiddo”?
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Ellie not knowing how to confront Joel about Salt Lake and learning that maybe she is, in fact, replaceable.
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Jealous Ellie and Joel who takes in every teenage girl.
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Back to Friends by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
10 Oct 2025
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“I’m not gay, by the way.”
Jayce knows what he is. He knows what he likes. He knows what he dislikes, too. He has to get that out, though. Clear the air. Set the record straight. Rule out any misconceptions.
His eyes fly open when he doesn’t hear a response. If it were anyone else, he’d imagine they would have stood up and walked out of there without a second thought. Would have probably laughed in his face before they left, too. Maybe Viktor is different. Maybe he just really wants to suck his dick.
That’s just cocky, Jayce. Twenty in the Douche Bag jar, per Caitlyn’s rules.
But his declaration seems to get a rise out of Viktor because he looks up to him from down on his knees with a humorous glint in his eyes. A cheap chuckle comes from below.
“This is… this is just me broadening my horizons, you know,” Jayce adds, just to be safe. “Drunken fun is all.”
“Broadening your horizons,” Viktor says flatly. “Whatever you say, birthday boy.”
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A story in which Jayce discovers that getting your dick sucked by a hot stranger at the club and falling in love with him does, in fact, make you gay. OR; Jayce experiences a bisexual crisis at the age of twenty-five.
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Look After You by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
01 Aug 2025
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It’s Caitlyn Kirammann’s first year at Piltover Preparatory Academy, a prestigious K-12 STEM school that encourages young minds to explore both their scientific curiosity and creative talents. Cait is bursting with excitement, eager to start this new chapter of her life.
Jayce Talis, on the other hand—Caitlyn’s big brother turned adoptive father—not so much. After being her sole guardian for the last year, he isn’t quite ready to let her go. Thankfully, Viktor, the academy’s beloved and supportive Kindergarten teacher, is there to help Jayce ease the transition from stay-at-home dad back to Piltover’s trusted firefighter.
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How We Used To Be by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Jun 2025
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Jayce and Viktor Talis spend an unforgettable week in Ionia, their favorite honeymoon spot, with a beautiful oceanic view as their backdrop, soaking up plenty of sun on a white sandy beach, ordering all the free drinks they can get… as a newly divorced couple.
Or, Jayce and Viktor work out their marriage while being stuck in the most romantic resort on the island.
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All That Matters by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
29 Apr 2025
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Two-time MVP and captain of the Piltover Wolves Jayce Talis has fallen to the lowest point of his professional hockey career. Determined to restore his team to its former glory, Jayce agrees to train with Viktor Arkanov, a former Olympic figure skater who wants nothing to do with the ice.
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your heart is your masterpiece by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Jul 2023
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“Watch where you’re fucking going,” he grumbles, but it’s with none of his usual bite.
Still, Ellie scowls and mutters, “dick,” under her breath and takes another careful step forward, testing the mushy ground with her sneaker before following behind him dutifully.
Then it’s her turn to pretend she can’t see Joel watching her out of the corner of his eye, hand flexing at his side like he’s fighting the urge to reach out and make sure she doesn’t trip again. Ellie catches his eye, and he immediately sets his jaw and faces forward, but it’s enough that she can’t help but think, got you, motherfucker.
Dude might have a fucking heart after all.
(Or Ellie is clumsy and Joel is not fucking endeared by it at all. He’s not.)
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11 Dec 2025
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butterfly kisses by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 May 2024
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Ellie runs away from Joel and their life in Jackson, believing herself to be cursed. Afraid she'll lose what matters most, she decides to just leave first to protect the family she doesn't think she deserves.
A brush with death out on the road and a familiar stranger help Ellie find her way home. Back to Joel.
(Or Ellie doesn't believe in spirits and guardian angels, but something saved her and she needs to know why.)
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16 Nov 2025
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all this starless night by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Feb 2024
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He wonders sometimes if someone is missing Ellie. Someone who thinks she’s safe at school, someone who doesn’t know she’s gone on this harebrained mission. He doesn’t really think it’s true, but it’s not really the point.
The point is this whole little road trip would be so much fucking easier if he could stop remembering that Ellie is somebody’s baby.
Or: The little pieces of herself Ellie leaves in Joel's life.
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03 Nov 2025
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all i needed was someone (when the whole wide world felt young) by cardigains for eedsknees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Dec 2023
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Much like the other day, Ellie ends up sitting on the porch steps. Joel’s back even quicker this time. Almost like he’d left his first aid supplies sitting out and ready to attend as needed.
More cleaning, this one hurts less. More gel liquid, this time rubbed in a bit better. And more bandaids, these ones something other than plain, boring beige. Not princesses either, usually the first thing adults reached for when they mixed the two factors of Little Girl and Injured together.
Nope. This guy has dinosaur bandaids.
“Dude, I fucking love dinos!”
Joel’s head swivels up, eyes going from her carefully patched up elbow to meet Ellie’s gaze. She wants to ask him how he knew. She wants to ask to see the rest of the designs in the box. She wants to tell him all of the other things she loves.
“S’pose I picked right then,” he says, almost like he’d been standing in the aisle, contemplating what exactly that might be.
“You did,” is how Ellie answers him, not bothering with a thank you.
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or: Ellie is Joel's next door neighbor who's hellbent on learning to ride a bike to get where she needs to go. Little does she know that place is right across the street.
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- Part 1 of Next Door Neighbors
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01 Oct 2025
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Keep Going by stainedglasspanel
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 May 2023
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Joel sounds a thousand miles away. “Ellie? Are you listening? I said, don’t you *ever* do that again.”
Well, she thinks deliriously, that won’t be a problem after all.
“Ellie, what—?”
It feels like she has no control over her body anymore, like it’s someone else who is extending her arm, pulling back her sleeve, and exposing a ring of broken skin. She hears Joel stop breathing when he sees it too.
She's been bitten.
________AU where Ellie is already traveling across the country with Joel when she gets bitten.
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24 Sep 2025