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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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14 Apr 2024
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illuminate by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Mar 2023
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The first time she comes barreling into the house like the devil’s on her heels, he’s on his feet with his gun in hand at once, stepping between her and the door, sure an intruder is about to burst through after her. He readies himself for a fight, already planning how to get an attacker out of the house and away from Ellie.
And then he hears her laughing.
He turns to see her, panting and sweaty, laid out on the floor like she’s a rug, her face practically glowing with the force of her smile. She lifts both hands to the air in fists and cheers.
“What are you doing,” he asks, but the question comes out flat in light of his confusion. He gives the door one more look, but no intruder is imminent, and he holsters his gun, going to one knee beside Ellie, still on her back, breathing hard.
“I beat it!” She says, clearly proud about whatever the hell she’s talking about.
“Beat what?” He asks.
“Curfew!” She nearly crows.
He blinks.
It’s possible they’ve had a misunderstanding about what exactly a curfew is.
(some sweet settling in together fluff with just a smidge of feels for flavor)
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14 Apr 2024
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nomenclature by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Jun 2023
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She thinks, sometimes, about just asking him. She and Joel talk about pretty much anything between them. Hell, he even talked her down through the bathroom door when she got her first period after arriving back in Jackson and was convinced she was dying because there was so much blood. A man who can talk about uterine lining and cycles and heavy flows without being a little bitch about it is a man who can talk about almost anything.
And yet, every single time she starts to open her mouth, she just hears his voice from the one time he did tell her exactly what they are.
Or well, what they aren’t.
You aren’t my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad.
In the end, well.
It doesn’t get much simpler than that.
(after settling in jackson, ellie doesn't know what she and joel are) (ft. short ellie, protective joel, and feels)
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13 Apr 2024
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When a woman he only distantly knows named Helen takes him aside after lunch one day with a “I’ve been meaning to talk to you about Ellie,” he thinks he’s about to hear about his kid accidentally starting a fire in chemistry or somehow knocking down a wall, and he prepares himself for it. She’s a good kid–hell, other parents have expressed envy that their kids don’t listen as well–but she has a mischievous streak a mile wild, and teenagers aren’t exactly known for their excellent impulse control or decision making skills.
Then what comes out of Helen’s mouth is, “Have you thought about if she might do better with a family?”
And he doesn’t think there was possibly a way he could have prepared himself for that.
(in jackson, someone tries to suggest that ellie should be given to them instead) (it goes about as horribly as it possibly could have)
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13 Apr 2024
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palliative by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Aug 2023
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Ellie reminds him, so much, of his great aunt Tina's cat, a smush-faced Persian who had a gold-edged dish and her own special pillow on the couch not to be touched under pain of hissing. Same preference for a single person, same intensely observant eyes, same tendency to both appear and disappear into thin air.
Same apparent judgemental mistrust of him.
"She shy?" He asks Joel one day about four weeks after their return to Jackson, after catching a single glance of an eye looking at him through a cracked door before disappearing.
"Who?" Joel asks, handing over a glass of ice for the whiskey he'd brought. "Ellie?"
No, the poltergeist haunting your house to stare at me and then vanish, he thinks but doesn't say.
(ellie and tommy get off to a rough start)
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13 Apr 2024
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spiral fractures by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Sep 2023
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“Keep her down,” Abby says, talking to the person restraining her. “Take her to the other room and secure her.”
“We should-”
“She lives,” Abby says, voice hard and final. “She didn’t have anything to do with what he did. She’s the reason we’re immune. Show some fucking gratitude.”
“Abby!” She tries again, even as she can barely catch her breath. “Abby, please! Please!”
The last sight she gets before there’s cloth over her eyes is Abby standing over Joel, still unmoving and silent, a pistol in her hand aimed right for his head.
Then a blindfold is over her eyes, and the only awareness she has is the sound of a gunshot.
The sound has barely faded before she replaces it with a scream.
(alternate tlou 2 storyline in which abby makes ellie THINK joel's dead)
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13 Apr 2024
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growing pains by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Sep 2023
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“Ellie’s gonna be out there one day.” He says, cutting her off. Beneath his exhaustion, he feels the first creeping tendrils of dread that he’s been resisting since it happened, imagining his little girl grown up and on a patrol of her own, imagines her bright, proud grin.
Imagines her eyes going glassy from someone else’s goddamn mistake getting her killed.
“Jesus Christ,” he says, already winding himself up. “All it takes is one fucking mistake, and she’s gone, Tess.”
(even four years after starting this life with tess and ellie, joel still has a few scars from the past that act up)
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- Part 20 of babyverse
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13 Apr 2024
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spare the rod by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 May 2023
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“I was just…I was wondering what you do. You know. For like…punishment.” She interrupts him. She needs to get the answer already, needs to know what to expect before she drives herself crazy with anticipation.
“Well I was more into grounding than goddamn child abuse.”
“Grounding like…” Her face scrunches in confusion as she dares to look at him. The word is foreign and the best guess she has doesn’t seem right, but she also doesn’t know what else it could be. “Like being…in the ground?”
Joel stares at her for a long, long moment before he speaks.
“Jesus fucking Christ.”
(after they settle into jackson, ellie realizes she doesn't know how joel will punish her if she messes up) (it quickly becomes a problem she needs to solve)
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13 Apr 2024
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13 Apr 2024
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staggering on by thisisthehill_i_die_on
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Apr 2023
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“Where the fuck is Joel?” Ellie asked, before Marlene could even open her mouth. Marlene sighed, leaning against the doorframe in what was surely supposed to be a casual, comforting way. To Ellie, she just looked like a fucking liar.
“Ellie, as soon as he woke up, he asked for his payment and left. He’s gone.”
“Bullshit,” Ellie spit out with no hesitation. “Where the fuck is he?” Marlene narrowed her eyes, trying to decide what to say next. Realizing Ellie wouldn’t back down, she told her the truth. “They hit him over the head pretty good before we realized who you guys were. He’s sleeping it off downstairs.”
“Take me to him,” Ellie demanded. “Now.”
Marlene scoffed. “There’s no way, Ellie. We’ve got to get started on the cure.” At this, Ellie barked out a humorless laugh. “So you can cut me open and watch me die? For fucking nothing?”
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OR - What would happen if Ellie really wasn't the only immune person the Fireflies found?
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- Part 2 of the contractor and his girl
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13 Apr 2024
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If It Weren't for Second Chances, We'd All Be Alone by mentallyinlothlorien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Mar 2023
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Maria is trying really hard to understand her new brother-in-law, despite his less-than-stellar reputation.
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- Part 5 of he sure as hell is her dad
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13 Apr 2024
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you’re familiar (like my mirror years ago) by LiterallyThePresident
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Mar 2023
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“I… understand what you’re going through-“ he started cautiously, and Ellie couldn’t help the bitter little laugh that escaped her.
“Oh, you understand?” she bit out like a cornered dog, pulling his jacket tighter around her as her skin crawled, remembering David’s touch, his sickening grin, “Some fucking freak tried to rape you too?”
Joel didn’t answer, meeting her eyes steadily, and Ellie’s throat closed up.
“No…”
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13 Apr 2024
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Father-Daughter Bonding With The Millers by winterlily207
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Sep 2025
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12 Apr 2024
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The blow to the head that Joel received from being knocked unconscious by the Fireflies turns out to have some repercussions.
Or, in which Joel deals with a concussion, acquires a new shirt, takes a gamble with prescription meds, and teaches his pseudo-daughter to drive, not necessarily in that order.
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12 Apr 2024
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the shrike to your thorn by Vulpecula_et_Anser
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Mar 2023
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12 Apr 2024
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Holds Your Hand Through Plastic Now by meggledy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Mar 2023
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Joel gets pneumonia their first winter in Jackson. It's not a fun time for anybody.
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12 Apr 2024
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Don't You Wanna Save This Planet? by Bird_Teeth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Mar 2023
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And if he’s dead? For real this time? There is no doubt in her mind she’ll kill every single person who is responsible for his demise. Joel wouldn’t even wait for a heartbeat to pull this building apart, shredding anyone and everyone who got in his way. Blood covers their hands, and Ellie isn’t afraid anymore. Joel is proud and she wants to tell him that she knows it. She wants to tell him she’s proud too. Marlene be fucking damned.
What if Ellie was given a chance to stop Joel's rampage? What if her life didn't have to be on the line? What if they could both be saved?
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Title from “On and On” by DjoBookmarked by unfinishedduet
12 Apr 2024
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cicatrix by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Apr 2023
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Being alive in a world like theirs is primarily down to skill and experience, but he can’t discount sheer stupid luck, either.
And luck, he knows all too well, can run out.
He gets bitten three days after Ellie’s tattoo while hauling an infected off of a trainee, a 17 year old named Clara who reminds him of Ellie with her sass and her smile, even though she’s a good half a foot taller than his little slip of a girl. She’s a good kid, has a solid head on her shoulders, but she’s still learning, and even with the trainees paired off with an adult, shit happens.
(Joel gets bitten and has to be on watch to see if his dose of vaccine will be effective or not) (also ft. Ellie getting a tatoo)
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11 Apr 2024
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Joel and Ellie learn sign language together.
(Now with a second chapter)
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11 Apr 2024
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sleepless nights (with morning light) by Wanheda1999
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Apr 2023
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There was no sound from Joel. Instead, Ellie felt a feather-light kiss on her forehead. It was so absurdly parental she started crying more.
I want, she thought. But he wasn’t hers to want.
“Ellie,” Joel said. “Ellie, look at me.”
She scrubbed her face with her hands before attempting to meet his gaze. Joel’s eyes were dark and unreadable.
“You are not Sarah.”
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11 Apr 2024