DarlingGhoulette
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It's 10pm.
She's on the couch in the living room.
Her head is on his shoulder. It's her favorite place to doze off, but she'll never admit it. He's so warm, like a space heater. Even when she starts off at the other end of the couch, she ends up here. Pressed along his side. Safe.
(Post Season 2, episode 2. Ellie pretends)
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walked in and dream-came-trued it for ya' by DarlingGhoulette
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 Mar 2025
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“Besides,” you say, faux-innocence dripping from your tone. “Might be a fun surprise for Tommy. Spice things up after the baby?”
“We don’t need things spiced up, we’re doing just fine, thank you."
Your nose wrinkles a little at that, you may have brought it up first, but that’s your not-brother-in-law she’s talking about fucking–
“But,” she continues on before your face interrupts her anymore. For a few beats, anticipation hangs heavy between you in the dilapidated store.
“But?”
The pursed seal of her lips eases into a grin, mischievous and matching your own.
“But it might be fun to see the stuck dumb look on his face if I sprung this on him.”
You let out a sharp bark of laughter, imagining your own Miller with a similar reaction.
Or: A lucky find on a supply run leads to an impulsive (drunken) decision and a "surprise" for when Joel comes home.
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this is the moment of just letting go by DarlingGhoulette
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Mar 2025
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When Sarah started walking she would run right off from his side daily, desperate for freedom in the way a little kid who don’t know the dangers of the world always is. She’d once been playing in the yard at their old house and decidedly turned on a dime, marching straight for the paved asphalt of their street. She’d been fit to be tied when he’d caught up with her, indignant and shaking with a brewing tantrum that he’d stopped her from going where she liked. More patient man that he was then, he’d taken that anger in stride. Better a tiny pissed off toddler than a run over one.
He’d happily suffer Ellie’s anger in exchange for her safety.
It was never that simple with his second daughter, though.
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"You cannot say you love me in the same breath you say you intend to leave me!"
She could see Gale's heartbreak written plainly across his features and knew it reflected her own.
Good, she thought viciously, a terrified animal lashing out. Let him hurt, if only to make him see reason.
"It is because I love you that you must let me do this. I can't risk the alternative, decimation I could have prevented had I not been so selfish. Please, let my folly be worth -"
"I'm pregnant!"
Despite the surrounding squeal of burning intellect devourers and the roar of dragons, the world around them seemed to snap quiet.
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Break Beneath The Weight by DarlingGhoulette for misfitsbabe
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
22 Dec 2023
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“Steve, let’s go,” Billy’s agitated and terrified, and Steve knows he’s trying to protect them in his own brash and intense way, but–
“We can’t leave him.”
Steve simply cannot leave Eddie Munson there to die.
It takes a second for the sound to register, it’s so low and muffled, but both of the wolves snap their attention over when the crumpled body speaks from the forest floor.
“...please, go.” The voice is all gravel and agony, pushed out through split lips that seem to be attempting to instill urgency.
“Please…don’t let me hurt you, I don’t want…to hurt anyone.”
And, well.
For Steve, that’s that.
They’re keeping him.
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if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2025
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There’s more blood than she expects, when she’s bit.
Riley tears up one of her spare t-shirts so Ellie can wrap her arm up, but they have to change it twice before it stops soaking through. Weirdly, Riley’s hand doesn’t bleed as much. There’s a bit of blood, because, well, in teeth versus skin, teeth win, but she just dabs it away with a scrap of cloth and some water and it stops pretty quick.
Worried about making it bleed again, Ellie leaves the wrapping on hers for so long that neither of them notice that the whorls of infection on her arm don’t match the infection creeping up Riley’s arm.
Or: The one where Ellie bleeds a lot.
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22 Jul 2025
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With a house so big, it seems like a waste to not use all of it.
Which is why she starts deliberately making an effort to spend time in the parts of it she and Joel don’t use often. The linen closet, the dining room, the two spare bedrooms, what Joel says used to be an office, even the attic, nothing gets untouched on her quest to make sure no inch of the house goes unappreciated. She always does it when Joel is out of the house, knowing that it’s a little strange, but she gets a thrill from it, the ability to think something like, “I’m in the spare bedroom of my house right now” and know that it’s not just a fantasy anymore.
And if it would likely set her up to have Joel call her a weird kid again, this new little hobby of hers, well.
What Joel doesn’t know won’t get her roasted.
(ellie settles into having a house) (and then into having a home)
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15 May 2025
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08 May 2025
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“You wanna move out?” Joel asks, and Ellie bites the side of her cheek briefly. Joel’s face conveys more than his tone, sometimes, but she can’t let herself look at him. It’ll make it too hard to say what she knows she needs to.
“Yeah,” she says, studying a chip in the paint on the railing with way more focus than it needs. “Probably a good idea, you and me having our own space.” She isn’t brave enough to bring up what people are saying about them not having their own space. She can’t do it. Either he’s not aware of it yet, or he is, but reminding him about it might mean him wanting her even farther away before her existence even in the backyard has other people making his life harder. If the closest she can get is being in the garage, she doesn’t want to risk fucking up even that.
“Alright,” he says after a long, long moment. She grits her teeth against the toneless quality of his voice. That’s the tone he uses when he doesn’t want someone to know what he’s actually feeling.
Like he would if he didn’t want a pathetic QZ kid to know how relieved he is that he’ll finally be done dealing with her shit.
(after realizing that she's making joel's life harder, ellie decides to move out to the garage)
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24 Apr 2025
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the old man is snoring by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Feb 2025
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She needs to stop watching Joel sleep. It’s getting kinda weird.
Honestly, it was probably weird a few months ago.
In Ellie’s defence, for a while there, there wasn’t anything to do but watch him sleep and hope he wouldn’t die.
Or: Ellie watching Joel sleep
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09 Feb 2025