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Learning Curve by Sprigs_Of_Hazel
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Oct 2025
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A drive through falling leaves on a quiet October evening. You ask Joel to teach you how to drive his truck, and he agrees — tomorrow. But under the glow of the porch light, smiles and laughter melt into a night where Joel’s all day restraint finally gives way to need.
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All The Sinners Rise by Mr_Potato_25
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Oct 2025
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Proverbs 28:13—Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
They say time should heal all that is broken, yet seven years have passed since you walked away from his hollow heart, and still the memories fester. The name 'Joel Miller' remains to taste like poison on your tongue, a wound that never learned to fully heal. But fate is merciless and against all odds, he crosses your path once more. And in the shadows of his return, one question waits with teeth: how long can you guard the secret you swore to protect?
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- Part 2 of Sinners
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Lingering Eyes by DrReidsWife
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Oct 2025
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After saving a stranger, you learn to be Tommy, from being killed by raiders and ending up with a nasty gash on your upper arm, he brings you back to Jackson for medical attention and to properly thank you.
There, you meet Joel Miller. A man who stole your breath the moment you laid eyes on him. An unknown feeling that you refuse to acknowledge.
But Joel feels just as strongly, if not even more. Although he tries to deny it, he can't keep himself away from you, and when he's not able to be near you, his eyes are always lingering, always searching you out in a crowd of people. -
Friday I'm in Love by vintagettee
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Oct 2025
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Despite trying to avoid it at all costs, you return to Austin after your engagement fails and move back in with your dad while you figure out your next steps.
You reconnect with your dad’s best friend, Joel, and his daughter that you used to babysit when you were in your senior year of high school, Sarah.
Both of them slowly help you find a renewed sense of purpose and help you answer the question of whether you’ll let the ghosts of your past haunt you forever.
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What You Can't Have by rosharan
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Oct 2025
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After your album tanks, you'll do anything it takes to stay relevant - even sign up to get engaged on reality TV. You're not doing this for love, and you harbor no delusions about finding it. But then you meet Joel Miller. He's a guarded single dad with a love of your music, and he sees straight through your act. You want him desperately, and you think he wants you too. The problem is, Joel isn't a contestant. He's your cameraman. The only guy on set that you can't have.
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Sink Your Teeth In by preachersdaughter3
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Oct 2025
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You were brought to Jackson a shell, a husk of yourself. No one knew anything about you, not even your name. Struggling with Jackson life, and your troubling past, you meet Joel Miller. A man with just as much blood on his hands. You won’t let him save you, and you sure as hell won’t save him.
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You and Joel Miller learn you’re more alike than you’d ever admit. Maybe you’ll both learn how to feel alive again.
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- Part 1 of Sink Your Teeth In
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“I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”
A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”
Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”
Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”
“Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:
“What?!”
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Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Shenanigans ensue.
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A Reason to Survive by Ginjaninja1213
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Oct 2025
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*Disclaimer: I do not own The Last of Us or the characters. Most conversations in the story are made up for original characters and are not associated with Naughty Dog, who are the original creators of The Last of Us.
When Joel and Ellie arrive in Jackson after returning from Salt Lake City, they have hopes of finding some sort of normalcy and routine. Joel isn't expecting to meet you, a doctor in Jackson who has a strange background. He remembers you from the Boston QZ, but you don't seem to remember him. You have a way of drawing people in unintentionally, and Joel is no different. Though you try to keep your distance initially, you feel a kind of comfort from Joel that you haven't found through anyone else.
When your plans to run away don't work out, and the more you learn about Joel and Ellie, you're reaching a point of no return where you feel that no matter how much you deny it to yourself, there is something darker going on. Joel can't hide the truth from you forever, and how will you react when you find out the truth?
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Father Figure by starsshiningabove
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Oct 2025
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Joel over hears reader’s father being rude to her and decides it’s his job to cheer her up.
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Carmen Scott is a senior in college trying to finish her thesis on child development in children with single parents. One of her prime research subjects just so happens to be Sarah Miller.
Joel Miller sees how happy Sarah's one-hour a week sessions with Carmen make her. He knows that Carmen is a good influence on Sarah and brings true happiness to her eyes. Carmen is what Sarah has been missing in her life.
But what happens when Joel realizes that Carmen is what he's been missing in his life, too?
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Or: Yet another fic of a college student stealing Joel's heart before moving away.
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Inextricable by honeyandraspberrytea
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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The woman whips around, and yeah, she looks like she could be in her mid thirties, but Ellie is so confused because Joel never would have left her if there was even a chance Sarah were alive, he wouldn’t have abandoned her, and Ellie swings the scope back to Joel to see if she can read his face, but he’s facing the wrong way, and he’s hunched over like he’s physically in pain and—
“Daddy?”
She starts to move, slowly, towards Joel, taking halting steps like she thinks he’ll disappear. He doesn’t move at all.
Distantly, Ellie hears Anna radioing for Tommy.
“Daddy?” she asks again, and Ellie registers her southern drawl, even more pronounced than Joel and Tommy’s. She sounds like Scarlett O’Hara. Tommy made her watch Gone with the Wind last month, after Ellie had missed it on movie night.
Joel still hasn’t moved. Sarah doesn’t step any closer to him.
They just stand there, in a stalemate.
Joel is breaking down.
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Two years to the day of EllieandJoel, JoelandEllie, the prodigal daughter returns.
(Sarah lives, and Ellie learns to live with it)
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The Lies We Tell (A Joel Miller Fic) by writtenbyalycia
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Oct 2025
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As Captain of the Boston QZ, Nora Bounds upholds FEDRA's system without question—until the same system she serves marks her estranged brother for death. With a freshly healed arm and a target on her back, Nora knows she can’t make the nearly 3,000-mile journey alone. Desperate, she strikes a deal with the only man reckless enough to take it.
Joel Miller.
But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
With plans to double-cross Nora to search for Tommy in Wyoming, Joel is even less willing to trust the partnership than he lets on. However, as the harsh reality of their circumstances sets in, Nora and Joel are forced to rely on each other, making their fragile alliance into something far more dangerous—and complicated—than either of them ever anticipated.
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"Joe Miller? Ain't heard of him before. Gotta be some city slicker with no damn clue… One second, Viv." Your mom sighs and covers the phone with her hand as she turns to you with an impatient expression.
"What do you want? I'm on the phone."
"You're blocking the fridge. Just need some water." You mumble, motioning to the fridge with your hand. Another sigh escapes your mom like you're asking her to call upon the lord himself and beg for water. You just need her to step out of the way. And she does, rolling her eyes like that was the most irksome thing she's had to put up with all day. You're about to turn around and head back outside to finish up the mowing when you hear your mom snapping her fingers at you. It makes you feel like a dog. Especially when you turn and wait for her instruction.
"Go tell your dad someone named Joe Miller bought the old Harris farm," she whispers, her hand still over the bottom half of the telephone. You want to groan, to ask why the hell your dad would even care, but she's shooing you out with a flick of her hand. Maybe he knows whoever this Joe guy is and why it's so dire to spread the news that he's bought the farm. Maybe.
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kinktober 2025 day 5 : finger sucking and dacryphilia
joel miller is a protective, dirty old man in the boston QZ who also needs to blow some steam every now and then 𖹭
not proof read but will probs come back to edit <3
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The Prophecy by bored__author
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Oct 2025
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She had shouted his name. Begged and pleaded with him.
“Get up! Tommy, get the fuck up!”.
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A collection of "one-shots" following an alternate universe where Tommy dies instead of Joel. Follows the main events of TLOU2, plus some extra "missing" or brand new scenes.
(A few tags will be updated as chapters are posted, because otherwise I feel like I'm baiting people ;_;)
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- Part 3 of The Last of Us
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Any Final Words? by Pati_et_Vivere
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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It's only a short while since Joel and Ellie arrived back in Jackson. Ellie is busy getting used to a new way of life, and a new parent-like version of Joel. Having to adjust to a whole new set of expectations is made even harder when Joel suddenly starts being even more overprotective than usual, and fails miserably in his efforts to lie to Ellie about why.
Ellie determines to find out exactly what is going on and in doing so learns a lot more about Jackson's own brand of justice, and what the man she's starting to feel comfortable thinking of as hers is willing to do to protect her.
Or, Joel won't let Ellie out of her sight in supposedly safe Jackson. He won't tell her what's going on. She has no choice but to sneak out and do some investigating of her own.
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- Part 1 of The Family They Deserve
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you've been a resident in jackson for less than a year. you have everything you could ever need, but you want joel miller.
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The cordyceps outbreak stole humanity from their structure, and made civilization crumble. It took everything from Morgan, and everything from Joel.
But in Jackson, the roots of a new world are emerging, and so they must, too, bloom again.
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Or: the fic where, bonded by trauma and fear of being single forever, Joel and reader start to hook up.
This is a kind of a slow burn filled with TRAUMA so check tags! Reader has a name and a very traumatic backstory so please feel free to not read this if it triggers you in any way. We will get smut and a happy ending but we need to get there lol
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she used to be mine by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
04 Oct 2025
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“You okay?” Joel whispers, his breath warm against her ear.
"Yeah,” she lies. What else can she say? That she’s an impostor for being at a funeral for a world she’ll never experience? That she’s more worried about him than anything? That she’d give anything to go back to the hospital if it meant sparing everyone the grief of adding more names to these memorials?
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(ellie & joel's first outbreak day in Jackson)
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- Part 1 of whumptober 2025
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Ellie has officially been living with the Millers for a year, and the Millers wanna celebrate. Ellie just needs to know that nothing is going to change.
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- Part 8 of Street Kid!Ellie
- Part 1 of Flufftober 2025