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Back to School by ChildOfTheBarricade
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Apr 2025
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"Since their late-Spring return to Jackson, Ellie had filled her time apprenticing with Joel on construction crew, helping Maria with the new baby, and hovering around the stables until Michael the horse guy put her on the rota there. Joel had mentioned school one single time - casually, in passing - and it had gone over so badly - with Ellie locked in her bedroom on a hunger strike for three days - that he’d vowed to let her bring it up when she was ready."
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19 Apr 2025
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When Mel volunteered for the mission to Wyoming, all she wanted was to bring Joel Miller to justice. She didn't know what she'd be giving up. She certainly didn't expect to end up trapped in Jackson, trying to nurse Joel Miller back to some semblance of health. Along the way, she faces challenges to everything she believes in. So does everyone around her.
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08 Jan 2025
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enough of dying species by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Oct 2024
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“It doesn’t matter,” she says. “He - he’s mine.”
Gil scrutinizes her for a long minute; she tries not to squirm beneath his attention, beneath the heat of his appraisal. She knows what he sees: an impetuous child, a runaway with muddy boots, another girl awash in the great violence of their world. She squares her shoulders, sticks out her chin, and he softens.
“He’s very lucky to have you,” Gil says, and that’s that, but his words stick with Ellie long after he’s gone, after the nursing staff has turned them out for the night. Ellie follows Maria and Tommy home and thinks over and over again how luck has nothing to do with it; luck is so scarce in this world, rarer even than love. Ellie hasn’t seen the likes of it in years. No, it was never luck that drew her and Joel together, once upon a time. It was something greater entirely.
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Joel survives Abby's attack. In the aftermath, Ellie struggles to heal.
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Fulfills the prompt: recovery
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- Part 9 of Whumptober 2024
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in the cold light i live (i only live for you) by marceltheshellwithflipflopson
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Oct 2024
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Five times Joel gave Ellie his coat, and one time he didn’t.
Bad Things Happen Bingo: Shaking and Shivering
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26 Oct 2024
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‘It’s the coat he wore when she loved him best’ will haunt me forever!
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lay bare the bones of the earth by marchflower for emooni
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jul 2024
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Joel sighs, runs his hand wearily over his face. “Baby,” he says, and despite herself, Ellie feels her shoulders relax at the nickname. “This - it’s a threat against all of us. It’s not something we can let lie.”
“I’m not telling you to just let it lie,” Ellie retorts. “Just- why does it have to be you?”
Joel looks away, shifts on his feet. “Ellie,” he says, and the timbre of his voice rakes a claw down her spine. “You know why.”
She does, and that’s the thing- she’s not sure she’s worth it, this kind of love that goes blind with rage in the face of threats, the kind of love that drives people out of their homes and into the night and away from their families. The kind of love that demands sacrifice. It sits uneasily beneath her skin, like an electric current.
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Jackson is threatened - and Ellie steps up.
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24 Jul 2024