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Our days are numbered by det395
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Nov 2025
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“I’m the girl, I’m the one you want!”
“What the hell’s she talking about?” someone asks.
“Look at me!” Ellie shouts, and the girl finally meets her eyes. “Yeah, you fucking remember me, don’t pretend you don’t, Abby."
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After stumbling upon Abby torturing Joel in the lodge, Ellie offers herself up for the cure as long as they agree to leave Joel behind. Ellie still wreaks havoc in Seattle, and her and Abby’s relationship grows increasingly tense when they have to work together to get to the hospital.
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The truth is, she isn’t sorry, and she doesn’t have to do this; she wants to. She could let it go and move on the way everyone else seems to be able to do, but her grip on revenge is sclerotic.
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Ellie decides to get even but gets a girlfriend instead. (It's a Catalina Island healing story. There's PTSD. Food made from kelp. And a lot of overwhelming feelings).
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Not at Any Cost by katnissellie
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Nov 2025
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Slow burn Ellabs set in Jackson while Ellie learns to forgive Joel.
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Held back by Owen’s arms Abby thrashed. Her sobs echoed in the surgical suite as fellow mourning Fireflies looked on. She begged her father to stand but Dr. Anderson remained bleeding, unmoving. As she stilled, her cries caught in her throat and she forced the words out. "Who would do this?”
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Evidently, no one could tell her. After piecing together the available information, all she knew was that she was looking for a male smuggler. Not much to go off. Someone said he came from Boston, like Marlene. Someone else said the guy was from a settlement in Jackson.
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After joining the WLF, Abby threw herself into her training and her purpose as a soldier. To push away her guilt, every Scar she slaughtered or tortured, she saw as her father's killer. It felt like enough, until 5 years passed and she finally got a new lead, causing her to uproot her old Firefly crew to track down the smuggler.
Mostly according to video game canon, some borrowed details from the TV show. Canon diverges after Abby and Owen's fight before Jackson. -
Where She Had No Name by idyllicchaos
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
03 Nov 2025
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Death was a kindness too sweet to even dream about.
Jackson, Wyoming was an oasis in a world split between infected, raiders, and slavers. Her life was split into before and after. Not before and after the outbreak. But before and after her name was taken.
Before and after darkness became a refuge instead of a nightmare. Nothing could change the past. Nothing could change who she had become. Who she had to hide from the light.
There seemed to be one person she didn’t have to hide from: Joel Miller.
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a mama and a shaman and a fiery pistol by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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“Making a vaccine… would have killed you,” he chokes out finally, tangling his fingers in the chain.
Joel can’t bring himself to look at her, not directly. Instead, he eases the chain over his head, staring down at the hole punched through it to memorialize its owner. “So we stopped them.”
“We?”
Slowly, reverently, he extends the necklace to Ellie, fingers splayed so she can see the battered Firefly insignia. When she doesn’t move, he allows it to dangle before lowering it to her palm, name up.
“Your mother and I.”
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joel isn't the only one of ellie's parents at st. mary's.
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- Part 2 of whumptober 2025
- Part 4 of bad things happen bingo 2: electric boogaloo
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It's been just over five days since Joel's gotten more than a split-second glimpse of his kid. Other than when he pokes his head into her room at night to make sure she's actually in her bed - more than once a night, if he's being honest - all he's seen is the back of her head, her ponytail whipping around corners. Ellie stays in her room until Joel's left for the day, and sneaks back into it in the evenings. No idea where she's spending her time, what she's up to - but at least she's sleeping in her own goddamn room.
Opening her bedroom door that night to find just a pillow in her place and her bag gone had been easily one of the most terrifying moments of Joel's life.
(whumptober day 8 - self-inflicted injury; bad things happen bingo - self-loathing)
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- Part 3 of whumptober 2025
- Part 7 of bad things happen bingo
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i can see a tear on my father's face by lkay09 for valiantwolf
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
06 Oct 2025
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Besides the comfort of the greenhouses and their leafy occupants, patrol is Ellie's favorite rotation. It's a chance to get out beyond Jackson's walls for a bit and feel…free, almost. It's far less constraining living in the settlement than it ever had been in the QZ, but there was something about roaming the countryside beyond it that just settled her.
Ezra or Gail would tell her it was a reminder of her favorite days, traveling with Joel. Ellie just told herself that it was the crisp mountain air and the lack of curious eyes.
She's looking forward to it the next morning for sure, her skin almost tingling with the anticipation of a few hours out amongst the wilderness.
At least, until she rides up to the front gate and finds Joel waiting for her there instead of Marco.
(patrol with joel goes badly; whumptober day 6 - pinned to the wall; bad things happen bingo - chained to the wall)
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- Part 2 of whumptober 2025
- Part 6 of bad things happen bingo
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"Have you seen Joel?" She asks him, holding up her plate obligingly.
"Not tonight, I haven't." He deposits a hefty serving of potatoes on her plate.
Ellie tries not to wilt. "Thanks," she tells him, and moves down the line.
One more scan of the room after her plate's full tells her there's still no sign of him, and she contemplates going back through to get him some food too.
But there's a sinking feeling in her stomach that tells her that she doesn't need to worry about that, that he's probably already eaten and left her to fend for herself for the night. Ellie's used to that kind of thing from FEDRA, but she'd grown stupidly accustomed to Joel looking after her. It kinda fucking sucks to think that maybe that phase has ended already.
(whumptober - isolation)
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- Part 1 of whumptober 2025
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The Grass is Purple by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Aug 2025
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Welcome to the final part of The Grass Was Never Green.
(The Grass is Blue and The Grass is Red are complete! thank you for making it this far.)The snow hasn’t melted. The silence hasn’t lifted.
Jackson is still standing, but everything beneath it is beginning to crack.
Secrets. Lies. Love that's fraying at the edges.
This is the story of what comes after.
After the blood. After the silence.
After trust is broken, and hope starts to flicker back in, soft and strange and maybe too late.It’s about grief. And guilt. And the aching, slow crawl toward something like healing, if it even exists at all.💜
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- Part 3 of The Grass was Never Green
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Ellie’s not sleeping much.
Granted, they’ve only been in Jackson three weeks, hardly time to shake the habits of the road like sleeping in shifts for a couple hours at a time. But this is different, Joel can tell. She’s restless, deep shadows under her eyes, and when he wakes in the middle of the night he can usually hear her moving about the house somewhere.
But the house is quiet one night when he pokes his head into her room and finds her bed empty, and his heart damn near screeches to a stop in his chest. It’s almost three in the morning, so why in the hell isn’t she in her bed?
(4 times ellie can't sleep, and 1 time joel can't either)
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The Last of Us Part II - What I Couldn't Kill: The Human Within by MistressKira
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
02 Jul 2025
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It started with a helping hand in the wrong place, at the wrong time. It ended with an endless thirst for revenge.
And you — what would you do if your person was taken from you, and all you could do was watch?
A grounded, character-focused reimagining of The Last of Us Part II. No mercy without consequence.
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Grief, they said, would pass away. Vengeance, they said, would change nothing.
But they didn't know the truth; they didn't know what she and Joel were.
Joel was everything.
And Abby took him.
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Doctors come in and out. There isn't much more they can do. She's yelled and screamed and cursed about it. Didn't change anything. They did what they could. All she can do is wait. Fucking useless.
He's lost so much blood. She wanted to give him some, but they're not the same blood type. Of course they're not. Maybe they would be if she were his daughter, but she's not. She's not.
He's lost so much blood. So much blood running through her fingers. Ellie wipes her hands on her jeans. It doesn't help.
He's stilI. Too still. But his chest lifts and falls, and that has to be enough.
~oOo~
Or, the one where Ellie saves Joel from Abby, and they get to try and mend what has been broken between them for so long.
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You Held onto Me So Tight and I Pushed Away, Now I Just Want to Be Allowed in Your Arms Again by 8BeepBoop8
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Apr 2025
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Ellie never believed much in miracles or higher power, but when she saw Joel getting beaten to the brink of death while she herself was held down. She begged for one more than she ever had before. That Joel would just **live**, and she got it.
Except Ellie should’ve known the universe would have one last cruel trick waiting for her.
*I Do Not Own The Last of Us or Its Characters.*
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memories made in the coldest winter by lkay09 for marchflower, renegade_knight
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
15 Apr 2025
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“Ellie?”
She exhales inside her little pod, toes curling inside their woolen socks. Maybe if he thinks she’s still asleep –
A heavy hand lands on her knee, shaking gently. “Ellie, time to get up.”
Ellie groans, still not emerging. “Don’t wanna. ‘S too cold.”
A rough chuckle, the hand patting a little. “You’ll be warmer downstairs, I got the woodstove goin’. C’mon, darlin’, up and at ‘em.”
“No.”
(ellie's first winter back in jackson, and joel's lie is already exposed)
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his heart fits right in the palm of her hand by lkay09 for renegade_knight
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
31 Dec 2024
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“Dad?”
The scent of sick hits his nose before Joel even has a chance to open his eyes, and he has to bite back a soft groan. He cracks one eye, then the other - sure enough, Sarah’s standing before him, bonnet askew and dribbles of vomit down her chin and shirt. He’d bet every pitiful penny in his savings account that the rest of it is on her bed and the fuzzy rug that covers part of her floor.
“I threw up,” Sarah tells him unnecessarily when she sees he’s awake.
(joel caring for his sick girls)
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But when she looks up at the patrol they still aren’t moving; they stand and they watch blankly, rivulets of blood rolling down their cheeks as they refuse to move. Under her hands Ellie feels Joel’s heart rate slow and then stop, and the red snow keeps spreading around her until it’s an ocean, all she can see in every direction around her –
Ellie blinks, eyes peeling open until she’s staring at her ceiling, chest heaving.
(whumptober - nightmares)
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- Part 7 of whumptober 2024
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Once he’s inside the house, safe from her prying eyes, he makes quick work of peeling up the layers over his torso, shivering in the bite of the air. His bottom layer is practically glued to his skin with dried blood, and Joel has to bite down on the collar of his jacket to muffle the pained sounds he can’t quite restrain as he works it free. He’d tried to get a bandage on it last night at one point, when Ellie had dozed off, but in the dim of the fire he hadn’t really been able to see what he was doing. Apparently he’d missed half the wound, sloppily taping it off-center.
The bandage itself was soaked with blood, even more trickling out now.
(whumptober - bleeding through bandages)
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- Part 6 of whumptober 2024
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“I need to hide,” Ellie whispers, the words carried away on the wind. “Need to hide.”
She turns away again and steps, stumbles and goes to her knees. The snow is cold, soaking her pants almost immediately. But she pushes up, stumbles forward again.
“Hide,” she whispers to herself. “Hide.”
(whumptober - blood trail)
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- Part 5 of whumptober 2024
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“What is it?”
Maria hesitates, eyes raking over the brace on his leg. The pause lasts an eternity, Joel’s patience stretching thin till it nearly snaps, and then she opens her mouth and utters Joel’s worst nightmare in the shape of three words.
“Ellie is missing.”
(whumptober - race against the clock + bad things happen bingo - missing & presumed dead)
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- Part 5 of bad things happen bingo
- Part 1 of whumptober 2024