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She didn’t used to hate school. She didn’t love it, but she likes reading, and science is objectively cool.
But now, each time she sits in class, all she can think about is David saying, “I was a teacher, taught kids about your age,” and then she can’t help but stare at the teachers and think, “Are you a monster, too?” Every smile, every encouragement, every smiley face on her quizzes, all of them just make her think of sitting across a fire from someone trying to make her laugh, knowing already that it was only an attempt to make her drop her guard enough to-
She doesn’t trust teachers, is the key point.
(ellie has a rocky start settling into jackson) (now if she'd only learn to ask for help)
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02 Mar 2025
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don't try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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02 Mar 2025
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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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02 Mar 2025
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urgent care by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Jun 2023
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“Maybe we should see if a doctor can stop by,” he says at the same time she says “No no no no.”
He sighs and sits beside her carefully. He rests a hand on the back of her head, and despite herself, it’s soothing.
“Just to make sure nothing’s wrong,” he says in a calm, reasonable tone that doesn’t do anything but wind her up. “We can-”
“It’s a period,” she says flatly. “It’s just a bad one.”
“Ell-”
“Do you have a uterus?” She demands. “No? Shut the fuck up then.”
It’s way more aggressive than she’d usually get with him, but there’s no goddamn way she’s going to the clinic, especially just to have a doctor laugh at her for being freaked out by a period.
It took her weeks to get out of the hospital in Salt Lake, and that was for the sake of creating the cure they brought back with them.
Hopping right back into another one? And for some stupid period cramps?
No fucking way.
(the "ellie gets appendicitis" fic that no one asked for)
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02 Mar 2025
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and with you alone by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Mar 2023
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“Are we thinking white sheep or black sheep?”
The question, unrelated to anything, pulls her back to her body enough to frown. She’s shaking still, curled against Joel as tight as she can get, having woken up from a nightmare that left her screaming, convinced someone was sawing through her arm to roast it over their fire. In reality, Joel’s too-big shirt on her had just gotten twisted around her shoulder in her sleep, but the dream had been fucking vivid, and it’s like she can feel phantom chopping at the base of her arm.
“What?” She asks, voice a croak. She thinks briefly about tilting her head up to look at Joel when she asks it, but she’s tucked up in a little ball against him, and the feel of him all around her makes her feel safe in a way she’s been worrying she’d never feel again.
“For our moon sheep ranch when this is all over,” he says, resting his cheek on top of her head. “I think black sheep would be easier to find. The white ones might get lost.”
(alternate ending fic following the end of episode 8 up through 9 ft. joel being a good dad and talk about blue sheep)
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02 Mar 2025
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i will soften every edge by longwerethenights
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Mar 2023
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Joel doesn’t really know what he expected to happen when he finally delivered Ellie to the Firefly hospital.
To be completely frank, he didn’t actually expect to make it to the hospital at all, so the fact that he managed to get them both here without being bitten or brutally murdered is something of a pleasant surprise.
(in which the fireflies do their goddamn research because i don't like episode 9)
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02 Mar 2025
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shifting paradigms by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Apr 2023
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She has mixed emotions when word makes its way to them that Joel Miller has returned to Jackson.
Tommy perks up at once, so clearly happy about it that she smiles completely reflexively just to see it. It’s a different side to him, him with Joel, a man who still worships his older brother to some degree.
No matter how little his older brother might deserve it.
To his credit, Tommy doesn’t ditch her, even if walking beside him feels like leash training a new puppy, the way he pulls forward and then catches himself, returning to her side. This late in her pregnancy, she’s almost at the waddling stage, and there’s only so fast she can get.
As they walk, she prepares herself for a silent stand-off with Joel. They’ll need to get some things straight if he is indeed here to stay the way she knows Tommy hopes he is.
(how joel and maria reach an understanding ft. devoted dad!joel)
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02 Mar 2025
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the principle of the cuckoo chick by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Apr 2023
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“Meet Tara, our latest resident,” he says to them before turning to the woman. “This is my brother, Joel, and my niece, Ellie,” he says, and her already-limited reserve of politeness is lost for a moment behind the way she feels mildly stunned by her casual inclusion as his niece in the introduction.
Thankfully, adults tend to look only at adults first, so she has a moment to recover before-
-but no, Tara is looking at her, only at her, with an intensity that makes her feel uneasy. Immediately she presses a bit tighter to Joel, who looks down at her before looking back up to Tara, frowning a bit. He shifts Ellie a bit, getting her just slightly more behind him before he extends his hand, breaking Tara’s unnerving stare with a blink as she registers it in her field of vision.
“A pleasure,” he says, and Tara fumbles for a moment before she takes it, even as her gaze flits back to Ellie briefly.
(ellie happens to resemble the dead daughter of a new resident in jackson) (surely this will not cause anything bad at all)
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02 Mar 2025
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Pride and Joy by Kaylee_To_My_Strawberries
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 May 2023
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01 Mar 2025
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Logan, Lucy, and assorted adventures in Sandrock.
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27 Feb 2025
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my love is mine, all mine by buggieb
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Jun 2025
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Things are different with Ellie and Joel when they're just a teensy bit more emotionally intelligent. But, really, not all that much more.
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26 Feb 2025
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i don't have a choice (but i'd still choose you) by generousheart for Browneyesandhair
Fandoms: The Vampire Diaries (TV)
15 Feb 2025
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“I’m sorry love,” he said, and she didn’t know if it was because of how delirious the venom running through her veins was making her, but he seemed genuine when he said it. “I never meant for you to get hurt.”
She snorted weakly. “Yeah then, maybe you shouldn’t have told Tyler to bite me, or even turned him, I guess.”
He quirked an eyebrow at her, eyes darting to the red script on her right wrist. “Then we wouldn’t have met, sweetheart,” he said, dragging his pinky finger across the words on her skin. “And I, for one, am quite glad we did, blood and gore and all.”
(When you are born the first words that your soulmate would say to you are tattooed on your body.)
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24 Feb 2025
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Ellie is still badass Ellie, but her personality is slightly different—she’s shy and introverted. As she and our favorite smuggler travel across the country to find the Fireflies, Joel is taken by surprise by how much he sees himself in her. Will the quiet still bring them together—or will it drive them apart?
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Alternate Universe; same duo and journey.
⚠️⚠️General Content Warnings⚠️⚠️ (In order of appearance; a few will have an additional warning preceding the chapter they’re in)
Canon-typical warnings: Adult language, graphic depictions of violence, suicide, sexual violence/abuse/assault, pedophilia
Other warnings: Mature themes of mental health, mentions of rape, brief nudity, implied/referenced rape (non-graphic), self-harm
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22 Feb 2025
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Chimerical (Highly Unrealistic, Wildly Fanciful) by two_birds_alone_together
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 Jul 2023
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22 Feb 2025
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all i needed was someone (when the whole wide world felt young) by cardigains for eedsknees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Dec 2023
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Much like the other day, Ellie ends up sitting on the porch steps. Joel’s back even quicker this time. Almost like he’d left his first aid supplies sitting out and ready to attend as needed.
More cleaning, this one hurts less. More gel liquid, this time rubbed in a bit better. And more bandaids, these ones something other than plain, boring beige. Not princesses either, usually the first thing adults reached for when they mixed the two factors of Little Girl and Injured together.
Nope. This guy has dinosaur bandaids.
“Dude, I fucking love dinos!”
Joel’s head swivels up, eyes going from her carefully patched up elbow to meet Ellie’s gaze. She wants to ask him how he knew. She wants to ask to see the rest of the designs in the box. She wants to tell him all of the other things she loves.
“S’pose I picked right then,” he says, almost like he’d been standing in the aisle, contemplating what exactly that might be.
“You did,” is how Ellie answers him, not bothering with a thank you.
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or: Ellie is Joel's next door neighbor who's hellbent on learning to ride a bike to get where she needs to go. Little does she know that place is right across the street.
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- Part 1 of Next Door Neighbors
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21 Feb 2025
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Oh, good, the kid’s got a knife. Great. Because the thing Joel really needs today is to be stabbed by a kid with a knife and not enough brains to know when not to use it. The cherry on top of this shit sundae would just be an ER trip.
Or: The no apocalypse AU foster kid!Ellie au!
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21 Feb 2025
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When your lost in the dark I’ll be your light by Solangelofan16
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
09 Nov 2023
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Joel’s been grieving the death of his daughter for years numbing himself to the pain unable to accept love ever since.Joel only has one person still in his life his brother Tommy until he meets Ellie a runway foster kid Marlene talks him into looking after and she might just make Joel realize he still cares.
"I'm Joel you got a name kid"
"Of course I have a fucking name everyone has a name" Joel just stared at her till she finally answered "Ellie my name's Ellie"
"How long have been here Ellie"
"Well if my math is right" she said pointing to the section of wall below a window above them covered in tally marks "three weeks give or take".
"Jesus fuck How did you get here"
"Well I was bored one day and said to myself you know what would be really fucking fun if I cuffed myself to a heater in an abandoned building where no one could hear me scream".
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21 Feb 2025
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suitcase full of stars by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Dec 2024
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She picks up the keychain. It only has one key on it, and it’s a boring keychain, just one of those stretchy plastic bracelet ones that look like hair ties.
But it’s still a house key.
“You’ve known me for less than eighteen hours.”
“Highlight of my life,” Joel mutters.
Or: Another foster kid au!
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21 Feb 2025
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“Yes,” Enid says, holding out her hand. This is Sandrock. They should shake on it. “I’ll be your fake girlfriend.”
Logan slaps his knee. “Ha! I promise to be the best fake boyfriend this side of the Eufaula.”
A fake dating AU
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20 Feb 2025
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Logan can pinpoint with perfect clarity – right down to the second – when he first fell in love with her.
(Five times in which Logan fell in love with the Builder, and one time he loved another.)
*Rating changed to E. Nsfw chapters marked accordingly*
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- Part 1 of Everything
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20 Feb 2025