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His world crumbling down as he hold his baby girl taking her last breath in his arms.
.. and then came this girl..
.. twenty years later.
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You thought Joel was dead. You'd thought it had been that way for twenty years, leaving yourself to find him in the scent of the earth and the whistling of the winds. But when you were met with those deep brown eyes you thought you'd never see again, you couldn't help but fall in love all over. No matter the challenges you found yourself in, the people you ran into, you found yourself falling back into him, just as you should have been.
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In the end, it’s not about what you’ve lost, but what you’re willing to fight for, even when the world seems beyond saving.
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Broken Without You by Sourwolf_32
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Jul 2025
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After witnessing the death of your best friend Henry and his little brother, you're close to giving up and ending it all. Until Joel asks you to join him and Ellie on their journey across the country and gives you a reason to keep fighting.
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Joel falls for you and he falls HARD. But he hides it in fear of losing you too.
**NEW CHAPTERS FOR SEASON 2**
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Joel and Tess are heading out to Bill and Franks when their lives become entangled with an injured young woman who needs their help.
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Ever since Sarah... well, ever since Sarah ten years ago, Joel's stayed as far away from kids as he can. Just the sight of one is practically enough to send him into a panic attack.
But then Tommy signs them up for a contracting job at a high school as a favor to an old army buddy.
And then there's a little girl in the front office, who somehow appears in the coffee shop Joel visits because the motel's coffee machine is shit.
Most damning is when Joel goes in to do some work at three in the morning and that same goddamn little girl is asleep in his construction zone and, when he wakes her up, says she's homeless.
Next thing he knows, she's asleep in his motel bed and he's filing foster parent paperwork.
What the fuck just happened?
(Foster parent AU! Featuring Joel Trying His Best And FailingTM, Ellie annoying local man and his friends & family into adopting her, and Tess/Joel as a lil treat for the masses.)
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Lycanthropes, while few and far between, exist alongside humans, cohabiting civilization as well as they can with the social challenges of being 'other.' Joel and the Millers are among this small demographic, and while life is hard, they have their little pack and are surviving - at least, until the outbreak happens.
(Basically, TLOU + werewolves = this)
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“You’re a kid,” the stranger interrupts. His voice carries a gruff, uncaring tone, even though his eyes are considering.
Ellie pulls up her boot to rest by her hand, wrapping her arms around her knees. In the secret space of her heel, she thumbs the hilt of a pocketknife.
“Doesn’t mean I can’t blast your fucking head off,” she threatens.
The stranger’s brows raise as if her threat is empty. “If that’s what you were tryin’ to do, you did an awful shitty job of it.”
“Fuck you,” she snaps, and her cheeks burn. She hasn’t felt uncomfortable like this since David, since I like the fight—
Ellie is not doing that shit again.
Before the stranger can retort, she wields her pocketknife and lunges from her curled-up position to slash at his face.//
Ellie first meets Joel in the aftermath of Silver Lake.
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Where we fit by sparkle_jump_rope_queen
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Jul 2025
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On the way of running from the ghosts in your past, you left the hustles and bustles of city life and settled down in rural Texas. You didn't expect to fall in love with the Western desert. You also didn't expect to stumble upon a brooding, quiet, guarded middle-aged man. You were soon bewitched by him, by his sunburnt tan and rough hands. But you found that love to be unbearable and mighty inconvenient.
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A quiet kind of dying by Hidingfromstuff
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
10 Jul 2025
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Joel is a training coach at a old fighting dojo just trying to get by ignoring hole in his heart, left by his deceased daughter who had been dead 20 years but never forgotten
Ellie is a foster kid moving around the city of Boston, Broken, sad, angry grown up knowing she was going to be alone forever a fact ony made more obvious when her best friend, first kiss and first love ends her life one night. so its safe to say Ellie is rough around the edges
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Marline thinks it would be good for Ellie to get taught self defence and joel happens to have a spot for a new student or daughter?OR
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When Joel lost his daughter to an ill-timed leg cramp at Craynold’s Road Lake, he fell apart. 20 years later, he's still in pieces when he saves a rough and tumble foster kid from drowning in a pool on his construction site. In the end, they end up saving each other from much more.
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'Coalescence' Definition: The process by which two or more separate masses of miscible substances seem to "pull" each other together should they make the slightest contact.
The changing began when Charlotte was only eighteen. She never recognized it, but she had a beautifully simple life. When the Cordeyceps outbreak began; politicians, doctors, and scientists only viewed it as another mild and treatable virus. They were so damn wrong. Now, nearly twenty years later, Charlotte is the only remaining thing from her past life. With only the company of her dog, Vito, she is under prepared, and truly naive. She has somehow miraculously managed to survive this long using the few skills she can muster. Whether they were obtained through luck or blessings, she's not quite sure. However, when she meets a grumbling, cold man named Joel and his enthusiastic, chatty young travel companion, she is forced to rethink her entire existence. With change on the horizon, she must continue learning how to adapt. And worst of all, she is forced to try and trust someone other than herself.
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Where the Flowers Don't Grow by WhiteWolfBuckaroo
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Jul 2025
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Joel meets Ellie, and Joel and Ellie meet Faith. And Faith meets the first two people she can trust after years of hiding her heart after walls built up by the cruel world the three of them lived in. A world where the flowers don’t grow… but something can still take root.
This is a dad!Joel Miller fic, Joel Miller x daughter!reader fic, Joel Miller x platonic!reader fic... Whatever you want to call it :)
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- Part 1 of Where the Flowers Don't Grow
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I’d do it again, for you by 4everand4ever
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Jul 2025
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Relentless, unwavering, and bound by something neither can name, but both understand with absolute certainty.
Both would tear down the world for the other.
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In the aftermath of Silver Lake, Joel and Ellie fight for each other in a world that’s taken too much.
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Rush by Dove_Works for ThisBadge
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Jul 2025
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In the university, after the disappointment of finding the Fireflies have abandoned Colorado, Ellie and Joel are attacked. They don't manage to escape unscathed--but this is where the story changes.
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So You’ve Been Adopted by Supervillains: A Survival Guide by HeliDeluge
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Jun 2025
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She likes it when it pours or when lightning flashes through the window, barely able to catch it. A bath day is what Frank calls it when she inevitlbly goes out to jump in puddles and get herself soaked head to fucking toe.
But the rolling grey plooms in the sky aren't clouds. They crawl up from the top of one of the buildings just across the street. As the walls of its fourth floor come collapsing down, it sends a shock wave of vibration rattling her stool.
With the shrieking alarm of a car, victim to some of the debris, she lifted her face, a painful crick finding its home as her neck pops oddly. Dr. Daniela Star comfortably stuck to her cheek. She peels the page away and lets it thump onto the countertop.
The unnecessary TV in the corner clicks to life, staticy and jumbled words blaring out, the typical evacuation warning joining the symphony of sirens.
This slow day was about to get a lot more interesting.
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Basically Ellie and Joel shenanigans but make them supervillians.
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angel from montgomery by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Jun 2025
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“Hey.”
The girl’s eyes snapped up, panicked. She spared a second to glance down at the man in front of her, her eyes racing up and then looked at Joel with the exact same type of terror, before emerging with something in her hands.
Joel watched, immediately suspecting a gun. “Whoa, now-”
The girl lifted her hands up, revealing an old knife. She smeared the tears on her cheeks away, trying to seem bigger than she was, but it didn’t work.
She was a terrified kid.
The urgency in Joel’s expression blinked. “Hey,” He repeated, his voice painted soft, though he didn’t let himself hear it. The girl just stared up at him with her knife, not realizing the tremble of her own grip or the violent shakes that tore through her entire, bare body. He just realized that now. Only her knees were covering her, along with the clearly torn pair of underclothes on her lower half. She cringed under his eyes. “It’s okay,” He tried. “I’m not gon’ hurt you.”
The girl didn’t even blink. She just stared up through her tears, terrified of him.
Fuck.
TLDR: Joel finds a traumatized Ellie on the side of the road. He's immediately soft. Meanwhile, she has to learn how to trust him.
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Bump in the Road by soulmetalfairy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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What could have happened if Ellie were the one to be impaled on the rebar during the events at the university. Joel will do whatever it takes to keep Ellie alive, even if it means dealing with some unsavory characters.
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Joel is a cop in Austin.
His daughter Sarah was murdered 5 years ago and dumped on his doorstep to die in his arms and Joel vowed to stay away from children forever.
But then this girl keeps getting in trouble and Joel bails her out once, then bails her out again and again until suddenly he has another little girl who looks to him to keep her safe.
Joel tries so hard to ignore the way Ellie's face lights up when she sees him (he tries even harder to ignore the fact his does the same)(foster parent au, featuring Ellie being an abused delinquent and running to Joel for help.)
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The Quiet that Follows by KaymayLmao
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Jun 2025
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Ellie’s dying when you find her — not that she wants your help.
But you’ve already lost too much to walk away.You were a nurse in training once.
Now you’re just trying to stitch the world back together, one broken girl at a time.