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Mel doesn’t have an emergency contact. Frank changes that.
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- Part 1 of emergency contact
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Melissa King lives in the controlled chaos of the ER, where saving lives is easier than sitting with grief. Langdon has learned how to survive loss by keeping his head down and his heart guarded. When crisis pulls them into each other’s orbit — through long shifts, quiet hallways, and moments that refuse to stay professional — they form a connection neither of them is prepared for. As family, duty, and boundaries collide, Mel and Langdon must decide what it means to hold on when everything else is slipping away.
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- Part 1 of Continuous Care
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"Significant pulmonary contusion and multiple rib fractures, and there's very likely a subdural hematoma in there too,” Garcia says grimly, sounding like she's citing it to herself rather than to anyone else in the room. “We’re lucky it's most probably small, but given her fluctuating GCS it still concerns me quite a bit. Also, besides the shard of metal, the bruising and swelling along her abdomen suggests the possibility of internal bleeding as well, but we need to get in the OR to fully evaluate the severity of it."
“Jesus King,” he murmurs. “You were supposed to have the day off.”
or: there's a car accident on mel's day off. she ends up at the pitt anyways.
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17 Jan 2026
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it ain't me, babe by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Feb 2026
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Ellie’s eyes lit up. She tightened her palms around the embroidered patches of Mars, Venus, and Earth on the straps of her backpack and then quickened her pace as fast as her little legs could take her. The image of the house grew closer.
It was an old farmhouse. Vines clung to the faded, wooden siding. A porch wrapped around it, the paint chipped. There was a large willow tree in the front yard. A tire swing hung from an especially large branch. Ellie’s thoughts were immediately consumed with how much she wanted to ride it. The night breeze brushed her bare arms, nudging her along.
TLDR// Toddler Ellie comes across a haunted house while running away. In it, she finds a nice, though grumpy, ghost, Joel. For the first time in twenty years, he feels alive, looking after her when no one else ever has, the entire time terrified he'll lose another little girl.
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14 Jan 2026
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She was there, a blurred silhouette in his green flannel, gun still raised.
She turned and fired at the front of the room, hitting the last man charging in. His body thudded to the tile.
In the new silence, one man lay gasping on the floor. She walked toward him, slow and purposeful.
Joel sat up, breath ragged, and watched.
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AKA Joel finds Ellie, mute and traumatized, as he heads west. It’s going to be an emotional roller coaster my dudes.Bookmarked by trappedwithinabstract
08 Jan 2026
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you’re my best friend (now i’ve no one to tell how i lost my best friend) by lavheart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
31 Aug 2024
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Robin squeezes his hand tightly, tighter than she’s ever held his hand before and it kind of hurts and yet all he wants is for her to keep that hold. “You know you’re my best friend, right?”
“You’re my best friend, too,” he chokes out, squeezing his eyes shut. “Always and forever.”
“Always and forever,” she echoes softly, and his heart cracks and shatters.
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Everyone knew there would be casualties with the rift open. Steve wasn’t prepared for what, or who, those casualties might be.
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03 Dec 2025
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“It’s okay. I will fix the lock tomorrow.”
Ellie gasped when she heard his voice, since she hadn’t been aware of his presence nor that he had been listening. Once again, she was looking up at him with those big eyes of hers and only in that moment Joel realized that Ellie didn’t only dislike him.
No, even worse. She was fucking scared of him.
That this was fear glistening in her innocent eyes, as she took a few steps backwards, hugging herself tightly in self-protection, her head hanging low like she was ducking, trying to make herself as small as possible and her eyes being focused on her socked feet.
Joel was looking at her, hating himself for spooking her like that and before he could come up with saying something to make her feel less tensed and more comfortable, Ellie turned around and hurried inside the safety of the guest room without taking a shower, like she had probably intended to do.
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Or: Joel healing a little heart he hadn't broken.
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24 Oct 2025
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Savior Complex by Logan_Howlett2003
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Jan 2026
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He felt his rib cage tighten around his lungs and suddenly his previous morality was choking him. She couldn't be his problem. He couldn't handle another responsibility, Sarah could never be anything other than his first priority.
"Dad... please,"
And yet... if anyone could ever convince him to do anything, it was going to be her. Her pleading brown eyes, brimming with tears at the idea of this girl being left out in the cold was ripping through him with a response he didn't want to give.
"For how long?"
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Or... Sarah convincing Joel she needs a sibling.
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- Part 1 of Savior Complex
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11 Sep 2025
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The Fastest of Us by RavenWolfff
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 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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11 Jul 2025
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Inextricable by honeyandraspberrytea
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Oct 2025
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The woman whips around, and yeah, she looks like she could be in her mid thirties, but Ellie is so confused because Joel never would have left her if there was even a chance Sarah were alive, he wouldn’t have abandoned her, and Ellie swings the scope back to Joel to see if she can read his face, but he’s facing the wrong way, and he’s hunched over like he’s physically in pain and—
“Daddy?”
She starts to move, slowly, towards Joel, taking halting steps like she thinks he’ll disappear. He doesn’t move at all.
Distantly, Ellie hears Anna radioing for Tommy.
“Daddy?” she asks again, and Ellie registers her southern drawl, even more pronounced than Joel and Tommy’s. She sounds like Scarlett O’Hara. Tommy made her watch Gone with the Wind last month, after Ellie had missed it on movie night.
Joel still hasn’t moved. Sarah doesn’t step any closer to him.
They just stand there, in a stalemate.
Joel is breaking down.
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Two years to the day of EllieandJoel, JoelandEllie, the prodigal daughter returns.
(Sarah lives, and Ellie learns to live with it)
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29 Jun 2025
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the consequence of living by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Jul 2025
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Ellie takes a few hesitant steps toward the door before Joel notices it: blood, soaking down her side.
Fuck. Fuck.
He yanks her back, frantic as he pulls up the hem of her shirt. Dark red seeps through the fabric as he searches for the source. “Jesus,” he breathes, spotting the wound. “Okay, you’re okay. Keep goin’.”
She stares at him in confusion, still trying to catch her breath from the terror of being attacked. “What?”
“Just keep movin’.” With his hand on her back, Joel forces her forward until bodies no longer surround them. He needs space to work, needs to get her away from the carnage before shock sets in. With one movement, he sweeps the cans off the large crate, then focuses on Ellie. “Up,” he says, voice low as he boosts her to sit.
“What’s wrong?” she asks. He can hear the fear creeping into her tone.
“I think you were shot.”
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(wherein henry's bullet doesn't just kill sam)
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28 Jun 2025
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This is a High school AU that is borderline pre-canon. There are a few major plot differences to the movie, but Luke and Cassie's personal storylines are essentially the same. Luke is struggling with addiction and Cassie is trying to forge her path in the music industry, whilst struggling (unknowingly) with symptoms of T1D. When they are forced to live together as 17yr olds, at first they don't get along at all. Eventually they work through their differences and build a deeply connected relationship.
Explicit rating applies to Chapter 6.
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28 Jun 2025
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and I built a home (for you, for me) by MadwomanInABlueBox
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Aug 2025
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In an alternate universe where the apocalypse doesn't happen, Ellie joins the Miller family. Chaos ensues.
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04 Jun 2025
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At the sound of crying coming from outside, both brothers trained their eyes forward towards Ellie’s room. There were two women, both dressed in suits and wearing easy-to-see-through smiles, perched at the foot of her bed. A pit of guilt fell through Joel’s stomach. “... what do you think they’ll do with Ellie?” He finally realized, almost guilty that the thought hadn’t come to him sooner.
“Find some group-home to send her to,” Tommy muttered in a low tone. By the sounds of the crying from Ellie’s room, she clearly didn’t want to go, not that either of them needed that to know she wouldn’t want to go to a fucking orphanage.
But Joel was no longer the man he’d been, so he left her there and let them take her.
TLDR// Foster au with a little spin on it. Ellie and Sarah are best friends, they have been since they were infants. Sarah has the perfect family, or at least, in Ellie's mind she does. She has the perfect dad, the perfect uncle. Ellie has a no-show father and a drunk mother. So, when Sarah and Ellie’s mother die in a crash, she and Joel have no one else but each other.
… it just takes him a little bit.
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21 May 2025
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She’d wasted years hating him, just the sight of him filling her with rage. Now every ounce of her was screaming for one last look at him, savoring every second she could possibly glimpse.
There were glimpses of giraffes and dinosaur skeletons and Chef Boyardees and guitars in there too.
Joel is at her side in every single one of them.
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What if Ellie had been with Joel?
EVERYONE LIVES, No Jackson battle, no fatal golfing.
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19 May 2025
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Beneath the Surface (Tethered and Broken) by ML_Quinn
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 May 2025
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A year into their lives in Jackson Ellie’s health is deteriorating, but the cause remains a mystery. As her symptoms worsen, she hides them from everyone around her – until she can’t anymore. With her life on the line and the past closing in, Ellie and her newfound family must confront the consequences of their actions and how they’ve unknowingly shaped her future.
A Canon-Divergence Chronic Illness/Disability AU | Takes Place Between Part I & Part II
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03 May 2025
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Lay Your Weary Head Upon My Chest by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 May 2025
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"When I say go, you go." He's panting, terrified and hurting like a son of a bitch from the chest strap of the seatbelt jerking tight, but he needs Tess to take one fucking command.
For once in her life, he needs her to listen to him.
"You slip through the wall, and you get Ellie the fuck out of here. I will find you after." Her lip curls into a snarl, fury and irritation chafing her expression. He knows that she's pissed, but they ain't smuggling partners on a run gone sideways right now.
They're parents.
"We don't get to leave, Joel. That was the fucking deal." And it still is. He's trying to get them all out alive.
That means she needs to run, and he needs to handle the fucking hunters opening fire in the direction of their family.
"I ain't leavin' and neither are you; this is just temporary." Hoping like hell he ain't lying to her, he tightens the strap of Ellie's sling and insures she's pressed tight against Tess.
He'll get back to them, and he'll mow down every fucker that tries to get in his way.
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Joel finds baby Ellie after Marlene fails to show up for Anna, he and Tess make the hard decision to raise her themselves.Series
- Part 1 of Teensy Baby Ellie
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02 May 2025
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What the fuck did you do to my daughter? Rage fills me so quickly that I should be dizzy. This stupid fucker in front of me looks at me like he has no fucking idea what i’m talking about.
Or One of the fathers in Jackson loses his daughter and tries to make Ellie his new daughter. Joel is not having it when his daughter goes missing out of the blue. Ellie being kidnapped and some random guy thinking Ellie is his kid doesn’t bode well for our mental health.
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01 May 2025
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The Outsider by krissyscoconutmall
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 May 2025
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Ellie watched Joel embrace this woman. Showing more emotion than he'd ever shown her in the past 6 months.
"Oh Sarah. Oh babygirl."
Oh.
The realisation washed over Ellie like cold water being poured down her back.
Sarah was Joel's daughter. And she was alive.
⸺ sarah is alive in jackson. ellie faces her biggest fear. joel goes gray.
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25 Apr 2025
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Keep the Blue Side Up by Mote_of_dust
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Dec 2025
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Through a series of tragic events Ellie Williams ends up in the foster care system in the small town of Jackson, Wyoming.
More alone than ever, Ellie struggles with settling in.
That is, until she gets the opportunity to learn to fly. Literally.
Joel Miller is a man that's had his fair share of tragedy. Despite life's cruelties he's managed to carved out a life for himself in Jackson.
Determined not to complicate or jeopardize that he tends to keep everyone at arm's-length.
Little do either of them know the impact they are about to have on each other's lives.
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Modern AU. No Outbreak.
Ellie takes flight lessons; Joel is her instructor.
Unplanned bonding ensues (with a healthy side of angst).Bookmarked by trappedwithinabstract
25 Apr 2025