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You can live inside a wound if you keep it clean.
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Floriensoul
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"The spirit of blooming"
The personal growth that mirrors flowers blossoming, embracing new stages of life with grace and color.
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Daisy has lived her whole life fighting battles no one can see. Behind her steady smile lies a fragile secret, a sickness that demands her strength each day and a family that never belived in her dreams. The world has always told her she's too weak, too naive, too small to matter.Then the world ends.
When the sky burns and everything she knows collapses, Daisy finds herself running through the ruins beside Joel and Tommy.Two men hardened by loss and survival. Together, they navigate the wasteland where hope is rarer than food and trust is a dangerous thing to offer.
As days blur into nights filled with with silence and fear, Daisy begins to see the cracks in Joel's armor. The moments when his guarded eyes soften, when his voice faltersjust enough to let her in. In a world stripped bare, they find somrthing neither of them expected: a reason to keep moving forward.
In the shattered world beyond the outbreak, Daisy learns that survival isn't just about fighting death. It's about remembering why you're alive in the first place.
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2003 - After the sudden passing of her parents, Margo Kennedy is making it one day at a time. They left behind their family home, a hardware store, and Margo's younger sister, Daisy. Margo is simply trying to make it-Tending to the store, making sure Daisy gets into university, and keeping her misanthropic neighbor Bill on his toes. When the outbreak begins Margo's once predictable life transcends into absolute chaos.
2007 - On a winter’s day, Margo finds herself alone on a supply run. Then, she has an unsuspecting run-in with a man and woman called Joel and Tess. Guns raised, and ready to kill they take what they can from Margo. She manages to get away alive-Little does she know that this won’t be the last time she sees them.
2023 - Margo finds herself traveling alongside Joel Miller, a friend with the task to deliver an immune teenage girl, Ellie, to a group called the Fireflies.
REVISIONS: start date 11-06-2024 - end date 11-25-2024
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Almost four years after the events at St. Mary’s Hospital, Ellie finally learns the truth. And it cuts deeper than any wound. The lies meant to protect her have shackled her instead—and torn Joel away from her forever.
What follows are months of silence. Cold. Empty. Heavy. Ellie comes of age, finishes her tattoo, loses her relationship—and the last fragments of stability she had. Meanwhile, Joel starts a new life—with another woman, with another chance at happiness.
But that’s the one thing Ellie can’t stand.
She doesn’t want him back. She wants him to suffer. Just like she has. And the only way to truly hurt him… is through herself.
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i owe you a black eye and two kisses by thejadeseas
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Nov 2025
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It's been years after the day you left Joel and your group, heartbroken and tired... and pregnant.
You never told them the truth behind why you left, and you never expected to see Joel again either. For years, you built a place for you and your daughter in Jackson and when Tommy arrives, you manage to convince him she is the product of some faceless connection on the road.
You don’t have such luck when his brother arrives.
a post season 1 AU
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- Part 1 of is it casual now?
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Part man, part beast, Joel Miller lives in solitude a few miles away from Jackson. At fifty-seven years old and without a Soulbond, Joel can't coexist with others— a man without his mate crazed by time and age. Until the day he sees her, the girl with tangerine blossoms in her hair and a laugh that echoes through the trees.
So, he tracks her down. Hunts her through the woods, and brings home a girl that is not the wilting flower he expects. -
running out of daylight by waterfalst
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
04 Nov 2025
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Joel is a merciless man, but he has his morals and values straight — the two things that matter most to him. When his group stumbles upon a helpless woman in the woods, he should know better than to let her stay.
June is a merciful woman, but she has her own rules and regulations — the extension of her mercy is what matters most to her. When she finds herself becoming part of a survival group, she should know better than to fall for their leader. -
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When the world ended, Pauline learned to survive by staying unseen.
Now she’s the new therapist in Jackson, and her first patient is Joel Miller.
Getting him to talk might be harder than surviving the apocalypse, especially when he’s starting to get under her skin.
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A Man Called Joel by myownwholewildworld
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Oct 2025
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Joel has lost everyone he held dear: Sarah, Tess, Ellie. And while his brother still remains by his side, Joel can't help but drown in the solitude of his Jackson home. The rooms are too empty, too silent, so his heart is vacant. He's truly had enough of this life, given up to the point where he's decided to end his own suffering. That is until you move in next door and slowly worm your way into his life...
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The Space Between Us by millerlight
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Oct 2025
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You recognize the panic in him because you carry it too. You catch Joel Miller coming apart between a building, and he spends weeks pretending you didn’t. Patrols turn into patterns, silence becomes something almost like trust, and somewhere between — something unspoken starts to take root.
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Snowflakes & Heartaches by BearBear100
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Oct 2025
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Ellie is tired. Fuck, she's exhausted. The patrol had been an arduous one, and she'd fought with Dina which never failed to make her stomach squirm uneasily. All she wanted right now, quite frankly, was a hot shower and her bed.
But when she gets home and sees Joel at the kitchen table, head in his hands and panting frantically as he tries to contain a panic attack, she pushes it all aside and rushes to comfort him.
* This is my first fic and will be quite short, please read it if you have a moment!! I'd really appreciate any feedback :) *
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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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When Tess gets bitten, the Cordyceps doesn't spread - she's immune.
But what are the odds that two people are immune when nobody else is?
(And what are the odds that Marlene happened to give Ellie, a girl exactly the same age that Joel and Tess's dead baby would have been, to them?)
(Basically, Joel and Tess are Ellie's biological parents, Tess is immune, etc)
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The Remains of Us by littlemissmiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Oct 2025
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It didn't take Joel long to fall for you. You were Sarah's favorite teacher at school, teaching English. It didn't help that you were also beautiful, kind, smart, everything he valued in a woman.
You loved Sarah like a daughter, as you did all your students. But there was something about her dad that threw you off; his lingering gazes, the way he'd always try to make small talk with you.
Before you knew it, you were head over heels for the father of your brightest student.
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From Joel Miller, you never asked for anything, you didn’t even know him before he gave you his blood to save you. But it was without knowing that with this simple donation, you would disappointingly live linked to each other, even if it meant overturning all your certainties.
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keep you from sorrow and harm by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Oct 2025
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The crowd parts as Dina barrels through, her jacket half-on and her boots untied, panic written clear across her features. Terror replaces the momentary relief at seeing her alive and unharmed when he sees how frantic she is. That girl doesn’t panic; not like this.
Before he can take another step, she skids to a stop in front of him. “Where’s Ellie?”
“What—”
“She was covering for me,” Dina chokes out, the words tumbling over each other in her rush to get them out. “I wasn’t feeling well, so she took my shift. Where is she?”
Tommy’s world tilts. Ellie. Inside. The words don’t connect at first, then slam into him so hard that he bends forward, hands bracing on his knees as his vision tunnels. Ellie was inside when the fire broke out, and now…
Not Ellie. Christ, not Ellie.
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the tipsy bison catches fire.
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- Part 2 of a light not expected
- Part 5 of bad things happen bingo 2: electric boogaloo
- Part 3 of whumptober 2025
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Come In With The Rain by Yelena0518
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Oct 2025
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JoelxReader(You!)
After years of surviving on your own, Jackson feels almost like peace — teaching math, helping at the clinic, baking bread to keep your hands busy. You’ve built a quiet life, and you’re content to stay invisible in it. Until Joel Miller starts showing up at your door.
First it’s for a bandaged hand. Then a follow-up. Then for reasons he won’t say out loud. You tell yourself it’s nothing, but the looks linger, the tension builds, and soon every word carries something heavier than either of you are ready to name.Thank you all SO much for the comments! The bookmarks! The kudos! I’m simply overwhelmed with all the love you’ve been showing this fic <33
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You show up in Jackson with nothing, just a name on your lips and the faint crust of blood drying on your skin. Months after the horde rips its way through the heart of the town, and with no memory of how you got there, you struggle to assimilate. You try—and you fail miserably.
So Maria tucks you away on the expansion project with the other no-talent nobodies. Those who can’t shoot straight, who won’t follow orders, but are still alive enough to swing a hammer. With no other choice, you take the opportunity. At your wit’s end, no family, barely any friends, you're assigned to work under a man the town respects.
Joel Miller carries more than the tools and the orders—he carries weight. Authority. Fear. Trust. And maybe, if you prove yourself, he could be your ticket to something like purpose again. But Joel doesn’t like you. Doesn’t trust you. There are unanswered questions in his eyes—like he’s waiting for something to bleed out.
Maybe he’s right.
Because sooner or later, the past always finds a way back.
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A haunted body by Kodachromereader
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Oct 2025
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You should have died that day. Instead, Joel Miller found you.
After the Millers saved your life, you became something of a miracle. Now you’ve been given a second chance, and the sweetness of your new home is overshadowed by the coldness of one of them: Joel. Unfortunately for him, Tommy assigns you to work by his side, as the assistant he claims he doesn’t need. -
Route To Change by Yelena0518
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts (Movie 2025), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel
12 Oct 2025
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Haunted by her past and torn between orders and instinct, Yelena is drawn into a tangled mission that goes far beyond what she signed up for. As the path grows more dangerous, fate brings her face to face with Joel Miller-a smuggler with a reputation, a hardened heart, and more in common with her than she's ready to admit.
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- Part 1 of The Cure | The Last of Us