20 Works in Episode: s01e05 Endure and Survive (The Last of Us)
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Joel had been afraid a few times in his life growing up. Afraid of what was gonna happen to them when the car accident killed Dad and put Ma in the hospital for three weeks. Afraid of Tommy finding out that Ma had slipped back into the bottle. Afraid of all the shit that could possibly happen to Tommy after the dumbass joined the Army.
But nothing had ever been quite like the fear that took up residence in his heart when Dr Mayne placed a swaddled, slowly-blinking bundle of joy in his arms at the age of twenty-two.
(joel & his fears, before, during, & after the outbreak)
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Until the Sky Falls Down on Me by DesperateForIndigo
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 Dec 2023
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“We need to bury them, Joel,” she said, her voice breaking.
Joel had nodded, his face silent, while he finished wrapping Henry’s body in a sheet. Once he took it, she had turned, heading straight to the bedroom. He didn’t call after her, even though he thought he should.
(Or the missing scene at the end of episode 5, where Joel and Ellie have to cope, fast.)
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A look into Sam’s mind after he gets bitten, and Henry’s thoughts the next morning.
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- Part 5 of AutisticWriter Watches 'The Last of Us'
- Part 21 of My TLOU Fics
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Henry has two people to protect now. And a car isn't going to offer enough shelter from the horde.
An Episode 5 fix-it fic where nobody (or at least, no named characters) get bit.
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When Ellie realizes Joel is covering her during the clicker swarm, she knows she was right to trust him.
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Then she spotted it: an open window in a car, maybe wide enough for her to squeeze through. She crawled forward on elbows and knees, then threw herself up to her feet, sprinting and ducking and weaving through the chaos, barely registering the clickers falling like flies around her. Thank fuck Kathleen’s cronies were too busy trying to fight off the infected to bother with her, let alone Joel. She’d have clawed Kathleen’s eyes out if she somehow managed to get to him.
If anyone got to annoy him to death, it was Ellie.
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- Part 1 of take on me
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Hold my hand & Don't let go by Flame_keeper
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Feb 2023
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A one-shot of Ellie's thoughts and feelings after the incident. (The Last of US Season 1; Ep 5)
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“Do you trust me?” Joel had asked, just hours ago, and Ellie, fear and adrenaline coursing twin pathways through her veins, had been terrified to discover that the answer was yes.
But it turned out that it didn’t matter, really, if she trusted him. In a way, it made things worse. Because she had looked to him in that moment like he could solve any problem, find a path out of any trouble— that minuscule jerk of her head had sealed her fate.
There were things that he couldn’t protect her from. And promises? Promises didn’t mean anything, anymore.
Missing scene(s) from the end of s01e05, mostly Ellie’s thoughts.
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In this moment she looks horribly, painfully young.
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- Part 5 of plant your hope
- Part 7 of so much like fear
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Joel helping Ellie with her the knife wound on her hand from episode 5, and then her breaking down a bit over the other things that happened.
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- Part 20 of Febuwhump 2023
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It had been a week since they left Kansas City. Joel had told her that people keep going for family, and Ellie was finally beginning to understand it.
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Ellie runs, Joel shoots, and his words from barely ten minutes ago echo in her ears — “do you trust me?” She had nodded. Now she’s running under his shots, as if the universe itself had heard their conversation and was hellbent on making sure they arent liars.
Well, fuck you too, universe. She doesn't say shit she doesn't mean, not when it matters, and something tells her Joel doesn't either.
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i use to scream ferociously (anytime i wanted) by burning_daylight
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
18 Feb 2023
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“El–,” Joel starts again, cutting off when Ellie springs to her feet and launches herself at him. She slams into his chest, arms wrapping around him so tight he could burst. She’s shaking so hard Joel’s surprised she can stand.
Henry’s gasp breaks in the air between the three of them, and Joel is pushing Ellie behind him, putting himself between her and the loaded gun as Henry points it at them.
Not at her. At me, point it at me. Not Ellie. Never Ellie.
or: a re-imagination of that scene at the end of episode five with less pain but also arguably more pain & the night after
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Looking up at the night sky, vast and full all at once, Joel thinks of all that he's lost.
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knee-deep in trouble by fromthewhales (deervsheadlights)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Feb 2023
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Joel hasn't walked this much in years.
He ignores the pain until it catches up with him.
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Ellie paces back and forth.
“We can’t leave them here,” she says again. “We—we need to bury them, Joel.”
[Missing scene set before the ending of Episode 5.]
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know it’s for the better (know it’s for the better) by shehaunts
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
12 Feb 2023
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“I just saw Henry blow his fucking- brains out! And- and you’re being all cryptic and shit and giving me more food than usual and it-”
A ragged breath escapes from her lips and she lets her head hang low. The anger that had been building up in Joel suddenly dissipated, his face morphing into a look of worry. She suddenly sounds vulnerable when she speaks.
“It feels like you don’t even care about yourself.”
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The one where Ellie gets a nightmare about Sam and Henry.
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My Hand Was The One You Reached For by Not_So_Mundane_After_All_97
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
12 Feb 2023
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All he sees is Ellie — his Ellie, his kid — on the floor, so little and so scared. There are tears streaming down her face, and when she looks up at him, Joel feels his breath hitch in his throat because she's looking at him like he's the only one who can make them stop, and that's all it takes for all the walls he's oh so carefully put up around himself in the last 20 years to finally crumble like a fucking house of cards in the wind.
Set in s01e05.
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In Blackberry Woods by riversiders
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Feb 2023
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Kansas City happens. Somehow, they have to keep moving.
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- Part 2 of What Love Looks Like, in the End
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Like any such contagion, it works its mischief mostly unremarked.
Three ways "Endure and Survive" could have ended differently, though not necessarily happily. -
yeah, i try to believe you but i don't by Charlie_Balle
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Feb 2023
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SPOILERS FOR THE LAST OF US EP. 5: ENDURE AND SURVIVE
Joel almost couldn't look away from the sight, red running down the wall in streaks.
It was the soft, desperate gasps that turned his attention. There, sitting on the floor in shock at what had just happened, was Ellie, her face flushed and hot tears running down her cheeks.