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love brought weight to this heart of mine by Vulpecula_et_Anser
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Feb 2023
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Ellie and Joel settle in Jackson and try to establish a sense of normalcy. It goes pretty well, all things considered, until it doesn't.
Also, it's Ellie's first Christmas and she's determined to make it the best.
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- Part 2 of an ocean quiet beneath our skin
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12 Jul 2025
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“What the fuck happened?” asked Ellie waking up.
“What’s the last thing you remember?”
“We were telling puns and then there was a grenade,” she said.
Nodding, Joel said, “That was the Fireflies. They knocked us out. I woke up. Marlene told me that they didn’t have a plan for a cure. They didn’t have a roadmap at all. Their plan was to kill you and look at your brain and see if it told them anything. And I know that you are willing to die for a cure. But the thing was, she was saying they thought there were cordyceps in your brain. If it’s in your brain, it’s in your spinal fluid. They don’t have to kill you to get that. They were idiots, and their only plan was murder. So, now, we have what research they did on cordyceps, we have all of their medical supplies and we are going to Jackson to see if they have any doctor or know where we can head to. I know you want to save the world; I believe you will. But them butchering you wasn’t the way to do it.”
(Joel makes choices based not just on emotion but on medical knowledge that he has because Sarah's mother had cancer. Then we get a whole new story as they head to Jackson without secrets between them. This is an AU set before TLOU 2.)
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12 Jul 2025
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Jackson's Most Wanted by TheIronMechanic
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Aug 2024
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Ever since they got to Jackson, people (especially older women) have been fawning over Joel, the new guy. Joel is annoyed, Ellie loves it, until she doesn't.
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- Part 20 of Ellie and Joel
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11 Jul 2025
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Winning Friends and Influencing Parents by Azure_K_Mello
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 May 2023
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Joel could easily picture the teens of Jackson hanging around a mall food court. And, it was mean to think it about children, but they were dull. He remembered thinking Ellie was weird when they first met. She was weird, no doubt. But that wasn’t a bad thing. She was interesting. She could hold a conversation — often without Joel’s participation. The kids she was hanging out with were… just kids.
Their parents were assholes. They made little comments. They told her off for her language. There was an idea that Ellie was too worldly, being from Boston and foulmouthed.
(Ellie and Joel settle into Jackson but making friends is hard and Joel has to step in.)
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11 Jul 2025
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resonance by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Apr 2023
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When Joel calls his name and comes jogging towards him in Jackson, pulling him into a hug as fierce, as joyful as the ones he got when he was back on leave during his army days, he thinks, Is that all it took? I just needed to leave him alone to let him heal? I could’ve just fucking ditched him and then gone back? It’s a painful thought, that his own attempt at support just hindered Joel’s healing, but it’s a giddy one, too, the idea of his brother back with him.
Then he sees Joel catch a kid who almost falls off of her horse when she dismounts, the motion as easy and thoughtless as if he were-
Oh, he thinks, when he sees the way the girl looks at Joel, all sass and no regard, clearly not afraid of him in the slightest, the way she uses his personal space as her own without a second thought. Oh, you paternal fucker.
(tommy loses the person his brother was on the night of the outbreak) (it takes 20 years and a mouthy little punk to get him back) (ft. miller brother feels, ellie being feral, ellie thinking she and tommy are mortal enemies, and star wars)
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11 Jul 2025