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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, you need to wake up, right the fuck now!”
Ellie stops at his side and suddenly grasps his shoulder and shakes him. Joel gasps from the pain as his eyes open.
His eyelids are sticky and his vision is blurry, but there she is. His gaze drifts over Ellie, taking in her greasy brown hair, warm eggplant jacket, and iridescent black feathers.
[OR] what if it was a wing au set during Silver Lake, but from Joel’s perspective
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- Part 1 of Tlou wing au
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Emotions run high and as night falls, you do everything to keep your mind occupied, but sometimes, you need a shoulder to cry on.
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The movies we enjoy by Average_Floridian
Fandoms: SPY x FAMILY (Manga), SPY x FAMILY (Anime)
05 Apr 2025
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The Eden five gets a project where they must give a presentation on a movie from another country.
Anya choses John WickSeries
- Part 3 of Eden stories
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a gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall by goldypomd
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Oct 2024
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Ellie doesn’t know how long it’s been. She’s not counting.
Time keeps going between every second feeling like hours, and every hour feeling like seconds. The sound of the snow crunching beneath their shoes is starting to feel like torture. And Ellie is zoning out.
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Or, Ellie’s breaking after Silver Lake. Joel is trying to put the pieces back together.
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Once he’s inside the house, safe from her prying eyes, he makes quick work of peeling up the layers over his torso, shivering in the bite of the air. His bottom layer is practically glued to his skin with dried blood, and Joel has to bite down on the collar of his jacket to muffle the pained sounds he can’t quite restrain as he works it free. He’d tried to get a bandage on it last night at one point, when Ellie had dozed off, but in the dim of the fire he hadn’t really been able to see what he was doing. Apparently he’d missed half the wound, sloppily taping it off-center.
The bandage itself was soaked with blood, even more trickling out now.
(whumptober - bleeding through bandages)
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- Part 6 of whumptober 2024
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“I need to hide,” Ellie whispers, the words carried away on the wind. “Need to hide.”
She turns away again and steps, stumbles and goes to her knees. The snow is cold, soaking her pants almost immediately. But she pushes up, stumbles forward again.
“Hide,” she whispers to herself. “Hide.”
(whumptober - blood trail)
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- Part 5 of whumptober 2024
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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. -
What Tangled Webs by the_last_of_me (Pati_et_Vivere)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Jul 2024
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Ellie and Joel are both struggling after everything that happened at Silver Lake. Joel does his best to be there for her in every way he can, and they both move on towards Salt Lake City. Joel worries about how Ellie's coping, especially when she starts lying to him, preventing him from protecting her like he needs to. Reluctant to cause her anymore pain, Joel holds off on punishing her like he would have before before Silver Lake, but by doing this, is he actually causing her more harm? How can they work through their collective trauma to get back to some sense of normal?
Or, Ellie is traumatized after Silver Lake. Joel can't bring himself to spank her. When she starts lying to him, can Joel figure out how to uphold the rules that keep her safe without further adding to her trauma?
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- Part 6 of Tales of Love and Consequences
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An alternate ending for episode 8 of the last of us inspired by the prompt: buried alive.
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All of My Enemies Started Out Friends by Once_Upon_A_Typewriter
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Apr 2024
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Ellie's decision to allow Dr. Davis to manipulate her onto his service - so he would save Joel's life after his accident - come back to haunt her when the details of that interaction are revealed to the hospital's board of directors.
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please don't go by Toointojoelmiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Mar 2024
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"“It’s ok, baby girl,” he says in a breath as he shuts his eyes, trying to keep himself upright against a surge of heartache. He hears the words as if someone else has said them, like they didn’t leave his lips – but immediately feels the truth in it. The wall he’s tried to keep up between Ellie and Sarah, the nothing-but-bullshit line he’s drawn to try to somehow separate what they are to him is gone. There’s no more pretending. She’s his to take care of – that’s how she ended up here shaking and bleeding, after all, isn’t it?"
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Joel & Ellie straight up not having a good time. Picks up after Joel finds Ellie in Silver Lake. Another after David comfort fic for those of us who love ep 8 aftermath angst. Me trying to answer my burning questions - what happened next, and how did they survive??content warnings - David got farther than a wandering hand - s/a + violence + generally disturbing stuff
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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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He Shall Provide by Bumblepony for probsdeleteltr
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Mar 2024
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It only took one little girl with a messy ponytail, ratty-ass Converse sneakers, shitty puns, and a generally annoying personality to get his ass out of the grave he’d buried himself in all those years ago in Texas. One girl who was unwilling to give him up even after he told her ‘she wasn’t his daughter and he sure as hell wasn’t her dad’, failed her by getting stabbed and leaving her to fend for herself, shoved her away when she was trying to save his sorry carcass.
All it took was for her small, shaking, blood covered fingers to curl into his own for Joel to finally see that this girl owned him now. That she had carved his broken heart out of his chest, put all the pieces back together with spit and pure stubbornness, and now carried it around in her delicate, precious, grasping hands. There was no going back for Joel now.
IE: Post Episode 8, Joel finds himself again.
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- Part 15 of Tumblr Ficlets
- Part 4 of The In-Between Places
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Joel’s never known Ellie to be so silent.
He really fucking hates it.
She hasn’t said a word since they walked away from that burning building at the resort, has barely let out more than a whimper even though he knows she’s gotta be in just as much, if not more pain than him. Joel can tell by the way she’s walking that her ribs are hurting, by the way her gaze is unfocused that she’s probably got a concussion.
But she just keeps trudging along behind Joel, stepping where he steps, letting him guide her around fallen trees and boulders.
All without a sound.
(bad things happen bingo - crying themselves to sleep)
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- Part 1 of bad things happen bingo
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i try to remember the wrath of the devil was also given him by god by platomityy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Feb 2024
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i was born something (what could i be?) by rosemaryandthyme11
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Feb 2024
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Ellie and Joel pick up the pieces after Silver Lake. Admittedly, it takes them a while.
title from abbey by mitski.
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Terror came around, not when you were losing your life, but when you were losing your reason to live.
Joel learned this distinction on the first day of the apocalypse. Before that moment, he would have described himself as terrified, easily. He had spent the night watching half of the people he knew being shot down and then watching the other half succumb to sickness. Before everything, that would have constituted terror.
Then Sarah died and he didn't think he'd even felt fear before. He was determined to make sure that he never felt that way again.
His goal became increasingly harder when Ellie came into his life.OR...
A post-episode eight hurt/comfort scene explaining why Joel didn't take Ellie back to Jackson immediately following Silver Lake.
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When the Rain Washes You Clean by forestkey
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Feb 2024
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A few days after escaping David's cannibal cult, Ellie and Joel find themselves caught in a blizzard, taking shelter in a seemingly abandoned house near the Utah-Colorado border. Little does Joel know the two people hidden in the basement will change everything...
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Joel and Ellie run across a mother/daughter duo going their own way through the apocalypse, and Joel and Ellie decide to bring them back to Jackson.
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wings will carry you by JudithWilde
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Jan 2024
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When Ellie opens her eyes again, she's leaning on Joel's arm. She weighs a ton, pressing too hard. Shame tenses around her shoulders and she moves away.
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This is not a traditional story. Each chapter is a short scene interspersed with poetic lines exploring Ellie's psyche after Silver Lake. During moments of affection, Ellie has severe anxious attachment since she's not used to being comforted/loved. Joel is patient and helps her through it.