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1. To Defrost by vxserii

   Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   20 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Ellie (The Last of Us)/Reader
   • Joel Miller - Character
   • Dina (The Last of Us)
   • Jesse (The Last of Us)
   • Tommy Miller (Pitch)
   • Lack of Dialogue
   • its mostly monologue in the beginning
   • Sorry Not Sorry
   • depictions of senility
   • Illness
   • depictions of mild injury & blood
   • mentions of past death
   • Mentions of Animal Death (hunting)
   • Eventual Sex
   • don't expect smut tho
   • its more intimate than two people fucking
   • mentions of grief & sorrow
   • depictions of alcohol
   • Drunk Sex
   • Sort Of
   • not very graphic i fear
   • descriptions of death
   • also
   • slowest slow burn ever (its worth it i promise)
   • they're so cute when they're finally together
   • heavy angst btw

   Summary

   Annually visiting your grandfather in the winter entails more than simply housesitting. For starters, you share the experience with another girl, Ellie, who has spent eight years pretending that you do not exist.

   de ⟡ frost. verb
   To be released from a priorly frozen state; to be freed from accumulated ice.

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   English

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