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The first year in Jackson is hard, settling back into some sort of home without her in it. Joel remembers Tess with Tommy and Ellie.
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The Grass is Blue by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Jul 2025
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After Salt Lake City, Joel Miller is back in Jackson physically, at least. Emotionally? That’s a longer road.
And for Dolly Hart, a sharp-tongued bar maid with ghosts of her own, the last thing she expected was for Joel to walk into her life like nothing had changed.But everything’s changed.
What begins with a shared night and unspoken pain spirals into something deeper, messy, complicated, impossible to name. As winter gives way to spring, Dolly is forced to reckon with her past, her grief, and the parts of her heart she thought had died with it. Joel, in turn, finds himself standing at a crossroads, keep running from everything he’s done, or finally start showing up for someone.
I wrote this as an alternate to the game two. The first part is very long, yes but it's worth it. Part two will be more game oriented and circle back to Joels consequences.
Trigger warning there is mentions of suicide and stillbirth.💙Series
- Part 1 of The Grass was Never Green
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Repeat Offender by NyssaStarling
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Jul 2025
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You're breaking rules in the Jackson Community like a brat. What's Joel gonna do with you? Oh good golly gosh probably SPANK YOU I guess. Since that's what always happens in my shameless self-inserts...and my dreams.
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drawn to her light | a dellie + katille story by strangexvibes101
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Jul 2025
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what if there was time where Ellie and Dina did meet before? 5 years earlier before everything went down, how Ellie met Kat too also to begin with, an alternate storyline where we do get to see Ellie and Dina's friendship to relationship grow throughout the years along with drama and love triangles,
or, after Ellie and Joel comes back to Jackson, Ellie ends up finding Kat who she falls in love with but it doesn't work until Dina showed up in her life.
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- Part 2 of drawn to her light series
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Ghost Repeater by Bumblepony for renegade_knight
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Jul 2025
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“So, what are the rules about radio usage in town?” Joel takes a swig from his thermos, the almost too hot coffee tingling on his tongue.
“As long as it’s here in Jackson, ain’t got any rules. Other than we keep a pretty regular check on frequencies at the main guard station, so any conversation you have could be interrupted.”
“Makes sense. The town got a list of call signs?”
“Yeah, but it’s for the patrollers. You lookin’ to find out who this Rosette is?” Tommy peeks at him out of the corner of his eye, and Joel rolls his eyes.
“I told ya it ain’t like that.” Joel wipes his mouth with the back of his hand and plunks the thermos down onto the still snow-covered picnic table. “Just didn't know if there was some protocol I had’ta follow. An’ I ain’t lookin’ to find out who she is. Long as I know it’s someone in Jackson, I’ll be fine. If an’ when she wants to share her real name, she can.”
“Alright, just let me know if anythin’ seems off. Like I said, shouldn’t be able to get outside the town walls, but if someone really wanted to, they might be able to communicate from just outside.”
IE: Joel gets a ham radio while he and Ellie are on the outs. Someone answers his call.
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- Part 12 of A Step to the Left
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More Than Just a Word by JeopardyFriendly
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 May 2025
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“I can’t," he heard her saying to her classmate. "I promised my dad I’d meet him after school. He’s worried about me because it’s my first day, you know how dads are.”
She sounded exasperated, as though she really did know how dads are, as though she’d had one her whole life.
Beyond the annoyance in her voice though, there was an undercurrent of something else. It was almost as if she was bragging, like she was trying to find any excuse to say ‘my dad’.
Joel felt his heart swell with pride.
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Or, the five times Joel hears Ellie call him ‘dad’.
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Margaret Graham was sixteen years old when the outbreak happened. Gone were her dreams, her family and any notion of what the world was, as soon as the first infected appeared in Chicago and chaos spread faster the fungus.
Twenty years went by and now Margaret managed to live peacefully in the small town of Jackson, using the survival abilities she learned over the years to keep the community and her thirteen year old son safe and alive. Life is as good as it could possibly be under the circumstances.
And then Joel Miller showed up, posed as a killer, a huge amount of baggage and a touch that forced Margaret to feel again.
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won't be perfect (but we'll be fine) by motionsickness
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Apr 2025
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She lets him rock her half to sleep until the violins wane from inside, and when they stop, she can’t help the disappointed sag in her shoulders. So Joel holds her tighter and prolongs this little dance for another quiet moment, guided only by the crunch of the stones under them, and Ellie suddenly doesn’t want it to end and she doesn’t even know why. It just feels like a memory she’ll miss. Like she’s watching it happen.
A lot of things with Joel since their truce have felt that way.
(jackson has a father-daughter dance. ellie has an existential crisis.)
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When the Night has Come, and the Land is Dark by tervesu
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Apr 2025
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Jackson is quiet at night.
Not because of the curfew, or because frequent swirling snowstorms soundproof the town. But because everyone seems to develop a sort of reverence when the sun goes down. It’s as if Jackson is a church, a place of holy worship, and when the sun disappears behind the mountains, it is the time to pray. It’s something that Joel has come to admire in the last few days since his and Ellie’s arrival. The subtle switch from a bustling cityscape to a serene small town.
And, above all else, the universal quiet makes it easy to hear when something isn’t quite right.
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Ellie is haunted by the things that happened to her in Silver Lake.
Joel is there to scare the demons away.
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You knew better than to fall. But Abby was gravity.
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𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧' [𝐟!𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫] by zevrra
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Apr 2025
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You could make plenty of bad choices on your own but throw a little alcohol in the mix and you might just make a really, really bad(good) decision. Everyone knew Joel but you would like to know him a little more on a personal scale.
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ℑ'𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔬 𝔦𝔱 𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫 by VetroSoffiato07
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Apr 2025
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Jackson gave Joel a roof and too much time to remember what he did to save Ellie. Tonight, he comes home to you heavy with guilt and you remind him why he’s still worth holding on to. Even if that means getting pinned to the couch and fucked ‘til exhaustion.
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Ellie first meets Dina the week after she and Joel return to Jackson.
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- Part 1 of the end is here
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"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...What I dread is the isolation."
Wild men or monstrous infected creatures, the world is wild and ravaged by Cordecyps but some are raised in it and flourish becoming a wild thing.
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Halloween rolls around and Jackson is throwing a party. Ellie is excited to show off the costume Maria made for her, but the season also brings up some unpleasant memories.
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Joel goes to bring Ellie her dinner one night, but soon realizes that she isn't home, her guitar missing to boot. He embarks on a short quest to find her just outside of Jackson, each step that brings him closer a crescendoing reminder of everything he's done to find himself here. The world fades to the background whenever Ellie is in frame, but can Joel reconcile all of their shared heartache to make room for his own peace of mind?
The sight of a lone Ellie strumming her guitar in the woods, illuminated by gentle firelight in the night, allows him to put aside his worries, even for just a moment, and indulge in their love of music together.
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Can We Please Not Talk About This?! by lettucehater007
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Apr 2024
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One morning, Joel spots a hickey on Ellie's neck. A coded, awkward discussion ensues. Then Ellie talks it over with Cat.
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- Part 1 of The In-Between Years
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After settling into Jackson, Joel is sent on his first patrol with Tommy.
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Jackson was meant to be safe. Then why were there gunshots ringing out at night?
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the stars lean in a little closer by navysealt4t (beelue)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Jun 2023
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“Well,” she grumbles into the flour bag she’s sealing up, “I did alright.”
He grins. “Yeah, yeah, whatever you tell yourself, El. Do you wanna mix up the ingredients or not?”
She’s immediately shoving him to the other side of their small kitchen. Their kitchen.
“Fuck yeah!” She ignores the warmness growing in her heart. “Move over, cowboy, I got work to do!”
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Three times Ellie and Joel said, "I love you," without needing to say it.
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- Part 4 of jazzy's purple panda fics!!