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These Violent Delights by Arien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 May 2025
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Summary
It’s 2006. Tess, Joel and Tommy face threats in the open country and grapple with the moral chasm opening between them. Survival must be earned. Evolution cannot be walked back.
Or: Everything wants to kill them and the brothers want to kill each other.
Joel dove off the bridge.
He was enveloped with a sharp, sudden slap. The water was shockingly cold. Murky sunlight streamed through the surface and lit upon rusting cars and mossy debris. Joel pumped his legs and thrust up to fresh air like a cork. He sucked in a breath. Tried to orient himself. The river was moving faster than it looked and the bridge was already shrinking. He needed to find Tommy, but before he could do that he had to get control of his own body because right now, the current was in charge. If he didn’t figure it out, he was going to break an arm.
Or he might drown, too.
Series
- Part 21 of Drifters, a book of Tess and Joel