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my heart was reaching, so tangled and twined (and darling, you came to me in the glory i'd longed to find) by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
31 May 2024
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“Come home with me,” Sarah rushes to say before Ellie can launch into any excuses about loving her own time and space and quiet. She’s sure that there’s some degree of truth to it, but Sarah’s calling bull on Ellie actually wanting to be entirely alone in the freezing, blustery landscape of a Massachusetts winter instead of flying out to Wyoming and spending a few weeks together.
“Sarah…”
“No! No, it’ll be fun, okay? We can do all of my favorite holiday things like bake cookies and watch movies and go shopping. I hate going shopping alone! And my dad already said that you can come, and it’s our first Christmas since he moved up to Wyoming, and it’ll just be…nice if you’re there too.” Everything was already going to be so different, to feel so different. So maybe this difference could be something good. Sarah could stand a chance to look forward to along with all of the change that she was…making the best of. “I want you there too.”
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or: Sarah can't stand the concept of Ellie being left all alone over the holidays. Ellie doesn't know if she can stomach forcing her way into some other family's Christmas. And Joel just wants to get it all right.
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19 Nov 2025
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Like Greed to Gold (i won't let go) by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
29 Aug 2024
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Dina raises her mug, holds it out for him to clank against.
“What exactly are we cheersin’ to?” Joel asks, smacking his cup against hers without an answer.
She takes a sip, swallowing her tanned, sweetened coffee and releasing a long, “Ahhh,” as she does so. “To…loving people enough that you stay awake the whole night for them.”
Joel doesn’t repeat it back, just lets the words settle deep in his gut, sliding on down his esophagus much like hot coffee that burns the whole way.
“Sure thing, kiddo. Sure thing.”
or: The Joel and Dina become something like best buds despite Ellie refusing to so much as even acknowledge Joel's existence fic.
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19 Nov 2025
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Routines by PaigeGoneRogue for Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Feb 2024
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Everyone had a routine, and Joel was no different. Some people strayed from their routine, making it inconsistent, unreliable, but they always came back to it. Their routines changed and shifted over the years, the only thing staying the same was that they woke up and fell asleep each day. Sometimes they died, and then that routine was over, leaving nothing but the memory of it. The ache to go back to a safer, happier time.
Almost everyone changed their routines. Trying new things or letting go of old ones. But not Joel. Not anymore. His routine was normal. Safe. It wasn’t happy, but it was what he did. He didn’t know what he’d do without it.
It repeated over and over and over again. An infinite loop. Monotony.
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Prison AUBookmarked by witandglitter
18 Nov 2025
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“Tío Joel!”
“Ellie.”
The two of them collide, Joel lifting his niece into his arms with an ease that finds Sarah swallowing every ounce of envy she feels from when her father could hold her like that, back when she was as little as Ellie is. Guilt drowns the envy. She can’t possibly wish herself in Ellie’s position right now. Get a grip, Sarah.
She stands off to one side, her eyes scanning their surroundings. There’s a room behind Ellie with glass walls and a sliding door, but the curtains are partially drawn inside, so all she can see is a nurse hanging a blood bag on the metal stand by the bed. There’s a smartly dressed woman still sitting on a chair beside where Ellie had been. The woman offers Sarah a tight smile and her stomach churns about the fact that this complete stranger has a better idea of the situation than Sarah.
But if Ellie’s inconsolable out here in Joel’s arms, then that means that behind those curtains, must be—
(they get through it together, because that’s what families do)
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- Part 3 of if things were different
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18 Nov 2025
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sit & stay by ninesunrisedogs
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 May 2023
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Joel’s plumb out of luck, it seems, because running after the dog is the little girl. She’s out of breath, still halfway laughing, and for a few seconds she doesn’t notice him. In those seconds, her face is wide open in a grin, dark hair wild and posture loose. She can’t be more than thirteen, maybe a small fourteen, and she’s clumsy in the way teenagers are right after a growth spurt. There’s a knife in Joel’s chest, the one that’s been there for twenty years, and it twists.
(or, joel accidentally gets a dog. apparently, the dog comes with a mouthy fourteen-year-old kid, and maybe also a reason for living again.)
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