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After Silver Lake, Joel and Ellie are both struggling. She needs a hug, he needs a haircut, and they both need to lean on each other a little. Spoilers for Episode 8.
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tbr my angels
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different times, places, and ways that joel & ellie could have come together
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It starts to get annoying when she keeps noticing it because, seriously, he’s such a fucking asshole. She doesn’t care if he needs stupid little notes to remind him to be an adult or whatever.
But then he stands between her and soldier with a gun and refuses to move.
And beats his knuckles bloody killing the guy.
Or: Joel is bad at taking care of himself, but he keeps taking care of Ellie. He also keeps noticing her laughter.
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Turning in the undertow by probsdeleteltr
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
14 Sep 2024
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Her head tilts back towards the water where the wind twirls snow across its surface in large, airborne white waves. They billow towards them, kicking up a rough gust that splatters icy flecks of snow onto her face. Her eyelids flutter, trying to blink back the intrusion of the wind - barely mange more than a twitch with the frost clinging to her lashes. A shiver ripples through her body, the frigid air creeping into Joel’s unzipped coat, hanging loosely around her.
Ice floats; maybe if she gets cold enough, she could too.
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Just another “what happens after” fic for all the people that love post 8 fics. Picks up basically right after Ellie and Joel walk away from the restaurant, from Ellie’s POV. Girly is struggling, and will be struggling probs for quite some time.- Language:
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if we make it through december (we'll be fine) by marceltheshellwithflipflopson
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
31 Dec 2023
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Joel takes care of Ellie after Silver Lake.
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Joel takes care of Ellie after Silver Lake.
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cold is the water by marceltheshellwithflipflopson
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Jul 2023
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After escaping David, Ellie falls into the lake outside the resort and develops hypothermia. Joel tries to keep her alive.
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"If they were coming after us today, they would have done it already. We gotta rest while we can."
The word sends a horrible shiver down her spine. Rest. How could she possibly rest?
Every time she blinks she sees him—his grimacing mouth, the whites of his eyes reflecting flame. She sees the sickening mess of flesh inside his skull, cracked open like a broken pot. She can almost feel the handle of the butcher's cleaver in her long-empty palm, slick with blood and viscera.
Ellie's certain she'll never rest again.
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- Part 3 of What Love Looks Like, in the End
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Tales of Love and Consequences by the_last_of_me (Pati_et_Vivere)
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Sep 2025
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“You don’t have to be so defensive, you know.” The man chuckles. “I meant it when I said I wasn’t going to hurt you. I just have people to feed.”
Peter doesn’t respond.
“My name is Skip, by the way.”
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Or: Inspired by The Last of Us Season 1, Episode 8: 'When We Are in Need"
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Joel turns and peers cautiously down the alley. In the fading light he can make out three figures, teenage boys if he had to guess, in a semi-circle around a kneeling figure. Their head turns and Joel catches sight of a brown ponytail between the boys’ legs, a flash of a knife gripped in a hand.
One of them steps forward and kicks her in the shoulder, sending her sprawling backwards. She scrambles back to her feet, knife outstretched in front of her, teeth bared. If she wasn’t so goddamn small, Joel would think she was more than capable of handling herself against these guys, but they’ve each got probably half a foot and fifty pounds on her, and he finds himself walking closer.
(joel and ellie meet in the QZ months before she's bitten)
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- Part 2 of alterations
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actually genuinely healed me from the games i think. if i ever get sad abt them ill just read this and ill feel happy and fulfilled yipppeeeee
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Something Worth Saving by mentallyinlothlorien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Mar 2023
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“How can I get it through your head that I don’t give half a shit about the fate of humanity in comparison to you?”
//After Silver Lake, Joel embraces the fact that he'd do just about anything before burying another little girl.
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- Part 3 of he sure as hell is her dad
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Cargo by mentallyinlothlorien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Mar 2023
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If Joel had it his way, he’d storm into every building in this shitty resort and beat the fuckers senseless, but his way doesn’t matter anymore. Since the moment he’d ridden out of Jackson with that little girl on the back of his horse, Ellie has been the center of his universe. Before that, really. He’d lied to her in Bill’s broken-down old truck.
Ellie has never been cargo.
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- Part 2 of he sure as hell is her dad
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i sit alone in this winter clarity which clouds my mind by soda_poppers
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
07 Mar 2023
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He looks at her and thinks, Oh god, what did they do to you?
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- Part 8 of plant your hope
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Angsty, tw david
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Don't Lose Hold of Me Now (I'm Barely Hanging On) by coulsons_left_arm
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Mar 2024
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"But for all intents and purposes, this was one of the more well preserved and intact stuffed animals he had come across. He gave the torso a squeeze. The cotton sprung back in his hands.
“I’ll be damned,” he quietly spoke under his breath, mistified. His heart clutched in his chest.
This is Ellie’s penguin now. She didn’t have much to start with when he met her, and right now she looks like she lost a part of herself. God knows she can't afford to lose anything else before she implodes. And now that he really thought about it, who even knows if she's ever held a stuffed animal growing up, much less owned one for herself?"
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Joel finds Ellie a stuffed animal; post ep. 8
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Joel / Reader stories inspired by lyrics from Ethel Cain's "Preacher's Daughter"
I imagine the reader and Joel as parental figures to Ellie :)
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“And my ribs,” she said, “He kicked me in the ribs.”
Joel closed his eyes and Ellie swore she could see the anger welling up inside him before he swallowed it back down. It was both humiliating and vindicating, watching him feel that for her. She wanted to tell him she could take care of herself, that she didn’t need his protectiveness. What’s done was done and she survived, so he could fucking get over it already.
She wanted to watch him hunt David down and kill him over and over until she felt normal again.
She wanted him to fold her up into his arms and never let go.
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Ellie’s panicked thoughts after she kills David and tries to escape.
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- Part 33 of 100 Drabble Challenge: Whump Edition
- Part 4 of My TLOU Fics
- Part 2 of Ellie and Joel
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Another post episode 8 story, with more focus on Joel still very much in pain and recovering.
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There is this specific feeling of realization Ellie has gotten used to over the past couple of months.
She felt it when Sam first sprung onto her that morning. She felt it immediately after Henry’s body hit the floor with a dull thud. She felt it when Joel tried to pawn her off to Tommy. And she really felt it when Joel was—fuck, is still bleeding out in a moldy basement.
It’s a calm, little tick in the back of her head that goes:
This is gonna haunt you for the rest of your life.
(Or, just another post-episode 8 fic).
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What Love Looks Like, in the End by riversiders
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Mar 2023
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A collection of oneshots about how to love when you've lost everything.
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