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Twenty-First Century Survival Blues by Roselees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Dec 2024
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‘Dad says if everything else has already gone to shit, no harm in laughin’ when you can.’ she paused, ‘I probably weren't meant to hear him swearin’, but I think his point still stands.’
Sarah could have sworn she saw the hint of a smile on Tess’ face. Blink-and-you'd-miss-it, but it was there, ‘Sounds like a smart guy, your dad.’
‘He has his moments.’ Sarah paused, then added thoughtfully, ‘And he's single too.’
Tess laughed, ‘Don't push your luck, kid.’
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In an alternate universe, Sarah lives. As the Miller's settle into their new life under FEDRA's law, she takes it upon herself to play matchmaker in her fathers tragic love life when sparks fly between him and their mysterious new neighbour.
Joel and Tommy, meanwhile, learn they can't always protect the kid from difficult truths.
(Or - the Sarah!lives fic that nobody asked for)
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dead of night by ghostinthegraveyard
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Dec 2024
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Tommy is gone.
Tess is pissed.
Joel is desperate.Joel/Tess smutty oneshot, set approximately five years before the events of TLOU Part I.
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Make This Easy For Me by Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Nov 2024
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Tess is sitting next to the head of his cot in what looks to be the lone chair in the room. “How you doing there, big guy?” She asks, laying a rung-out rag on his forehead, and he sighs at the cold feeling against his skin.
“Been better.”
Tess laughs softly, “I bet.” Her hands come to his neck and work their way down to his clavicle and shoulders. When she gets to the right one, he can’t hold back a hiss. She makes a gentle shushing noise and presses a little more around the tender area.
“Broken?” He grits.
“Don’t think so, but you may have torn something. Gonna have to make you a sling.”
“Great.” He mumbles, bringing his uninjured arm up to cover his eyes. “Just fuckin’ great.”
IE: Joel gets hurt protecting Ellie between Silver Lake and Salt Lake City, and Tess and Ellie take care of him.
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- Part 3 of Tess/Joel Week 2024
- Part 6 of The In-Between Places
- Part 13 of A Step to the Left
- Part 3 of Tess and Joel Stories
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It's a Miracle You're Alive by Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Nov 2024
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“When we get home, I’m going to have to tell you about the dream I had while I was out.” Tess mumbles.
“Oh, really?”
“Yeah, it was pretty crazy.”
“That right?”
“Yup. It was me, over and over again, in different lives.”
“Hmm, sounds strange.”
“It was. But you know what was the same about all those lives?”
“What?”
“You were there in all of them.”
IE: All of Tess' lives flash in front of her eyes, and she learns something important.
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- Part 2 of Tess/Joel Week 2024
- Part 5 of What's Past Is Past
- Part 1 of Tess and Joel Stories
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When she asked, they'd tell her that there wasn’t anything to be afraid of, that these things were common and people could get sick, but soon there would be fewer cases and less risk, and the world would go back to normal.
Or: Outbreak day with Tess in it.
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- Part 13 of tlou songfics
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Ellie Williams' Guide to Teenage Rebellion by simoncowellsjuicytits
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Aug 2024
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“Joel.” He says. He’s Texan, which as far as Ellie’s concerned is an accent-imitating jackpot.
"Can I call you Joe?"
"No."
"Jojo?"
"Absolutely not."
There's a brief silence.
“You’re gonna stop me from getting shot in the face?”“That’s the job.”
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As the (alleged) daughter of the new president, Ellie Wiliams is hellbent on making herself as much of a nuisance as possible. Joel Miller, the virtually unreadable and perpetually grumpy bodyguard assigned to watch her for eighteen hours a day, certainly thinks she's doing a good job of it. But as Ellie processes losses of her past and present, she slowly begins to realise just how valuable it can be to have someone watching your back.
(Angst/eventual fluff found family Joel & Ellie AU, slow-burn father-daughter relationship.)
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- Part 1 of The Last of Us- Presidential AU
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a hazy shade of winter by ghostinthegraveyard
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Aug 2024
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In which Tess survives to see the winter alongside Joel and Ellie.
An expansion on the canonical events of winter and beyond in TLOU Part I but with a Tess-shaped twist. Inspired by both the game and the TV show.
(Sorta-kinda Joel/Tess; Tess & Ellie mother-daughter relationship; Joel & Ellie father-daughter relationship.)
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i know you belong to somebody new (but tonight you belong to me) by sunkiss3dlily
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Aug 2024
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(Joel x Tess x Reader)
You were prey. Sweet, innocent, wandering prey.
They were predators. Greedy, insatiable, subtle predators.
But sometimes, the hunted learn to outsmart the hunters, turning the tables on their once inevitable fate.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,115
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 12
- Hits:
- 302
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She’d traveled with the brothers for months. Tommy had welcomed her in with open arms as had the other members of the group to some extent but Joel on the other hand? Well he remained completely indifferent to her existence.
But when a seemingly simple raid turns awry, the end result see’s the pairs dynamic shift drastically.
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“You need something to drown the thoughts?"
His glare was still very much on the bottle as he shamefully nodded.
"Then use me."
His face snapped up to hers in a shot... clearly that wasn't an idea that he had in mind- not until she suggested it, anyway but then the horror wiped from his face and she could see him studying her. His expression left her tense beneath his cold stare, all blank and unreadable. Tess wasn't keen on unreadable, it was hard to prepare for. She'd seen that look on his face before but she was unable to link it to a specific emotion. Sometimes it would just be as they were walking or driving along in silence, sometimes during certain unrelated conversational topics and sometimes just before he'd murder someone in cold blood...
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- Part 2 of What Made Us
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A daughter, abandoned, forced to fend for herself for years. All she remembers is waiting, wishing, and hoping for them to return to her. To come back to her with open arms, wide smiles, and great news.
"We have a cure for you, Sweet Pea,"
But that never came.
After years of hoping, Penelope forced herself to grow colder, accepting that they would never return. They left for a reason, right?
Wrong.
They left to find a cure for the Infected, bring the world back together, and fix this savage land.
In which Joel gets two daughters in the end.
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- Part 1 of The Edge of Everything
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Future Proof by Capricordinary
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Jun 2024
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Joel doesn’t remember anything beyond the outpost.
All he knows is that he was there, he lost consciousness and then he was all the way back in 2010. He woke up to his old, shitty apartment in Boston and the overwhelming feeling that he'd lost something.
Ellie. All those years leading up to and after finding her. Seemingly erased. Or yet to happen.
He doesn’t know how.
But he knows he has to find her.
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Joel is somehow transported into the past, well before any of the events of the Last of Us Season One take place. Armed with the knowledge of everything that happened the first time around, he makes it his mission to find four year old Ellie, reunite his family and find a safe place for them in the Wyoming wilderness. Once he establishes himself as Jackson's leader, he gets to work giving Ellie the childhood and the family she deserves.
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and in the end i'd do it all again (i think you're my best friend) by Glitter_Gecko, tessaservopoulos
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 May 2024
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Fate decides that Tess and Joel need to sort some shit out when it comes to their relationship (and, you know, their deaths/almost-deaths). For Tess, it's surviving getting out of Boston. For Joel, it's leaving Jackson with Ellie with unresolved feelings chasing after him.
More simply put: Tess and Joel each end up in their own time loop.
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Fate Making Us Fools by Bumblepony for ketchupchipsaregross
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Apr 2024
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“But…”
“No, no buts. That’s over. You’re mine. You're not going back. Do you understand?” Tess says.
“Yeah. okay.” Ellie whispers.
“Say it, Honey. Say you understand. you're not going back.” Tess firmly demands.
“I-I,” sniff, “I’m not going back,” sniff, “I understand, I’m not going back,” sniff, “I’m-I’m yours.”
“That’s right, bug, you’re mine, and I’m yours, and we're stuck together,”
IE: AU where Ellie goes to a party when she shouldn't. Tess is her foster mom and nothing is going to stop her from taking care of her girl.
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- Part 21 of Tumblr Ficlets
- Part 1 of Fate Makes Fools of Us All
- Part 3 of No Cordyceps AU's
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The Kinship of Being Hers by unleashing_demons
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Apr 2024
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With Joel tied to Tess and Tess tied to Finn, their trio developed. Finn and Tess were a couple for years before Tess decided to involve Joel. Finn wanted more. She never complained about it to her but Tess could sense it. She wanted to be fucked harder, wanted to give more love, and wanted more comfort and protection. When Tess floated the idea to Finn of inviting someone into their sex life, she had been excited about it but also nervous, she was scared to trust anyone new.
What started out as one night turned into Joel moving into their apartment and bringing him into their relationship. A part of Tess had always loved Joel, she just didn't think he would ever be capable of what she needed. And Finn, once she saw a peek at the type of lover he could be when he wasn't worried every moment about survival, she wanted to pull on his threads and unravel the web of all things Joel. Unravel she did.
Tess is the glue that holds them together. Joel and Finn have a kinship, in their own ways they both belong to her.
AKA Tess x OFC x Joel. Loosely follows season 1, starting right before Ellie comes into the picture
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These Lines Etched in Sand by Elialys
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 Feb 2024
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What would have happened if Joel was the one bitten at the museum? This is an exploration of TLOU, with Tess taking Ellie across country in search of the Fireflies—and maybe some hope.
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"If Ellie chooses to be cruel and say those things, she could at least decide when Tess gives up on her, like it’s bound to happen anyway.
But no word comes out of her mouth.
Because above all else, she’s pathetic, and embarrassingly dependent on whatever it is she feels when she’s with Tess like this, even if it’s all in her head, even if they’re on a ticking clock.
She doesn’t want to hurt Tess.
She wants to crawl in her arms and scream, or cry, or maybe both."
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ain't no rest for the wicked by corazondebeskar
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jan 2024
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Joel would never complain about what he and Tess have. The only thing is that, sometimes, he’d like to be the one in control. Tess has a proposition: she’ll find a partner for Joel that they can both enjoy. It’s not an easy feat, until they stumble upon you in a dark alley.
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It’s ok babygirl by Ilovewaffles
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
23 Jan 2024
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Joel goes out to hunt for his and Tess’s dinner when he finds an injured little girl that reminds him a little too much of his daughter that died 20 years ago
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A companion collection of short stories featuring the POVs of canon and non-canon supporting characters in Driftersverse. Tess, Joel and their relationship is still the key anchor and most of these stories will revolve around them, just from different perspectives.
“I’ve spent all this time worried about Tess. Trying to work out where her head was at, if she’d do something stupid. It all makes sense now. Tess is losing her mind because you lost yours.”
Joel’s expression didn’t flicker. “Don’t talk to me about Tess.”
“When I met Tommy in Sioux Falls all those years ago, and we started to get friendly, you know what one of the first things he told me was? ‘Don’t flirt with Tess. Don’t look at Tess. Whatever you do, don’t fuck with Tess.’”
“I’ve done what I had to do to keep her safe.”
“And that’s what you did for Ellie?”
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- Part 9 of Drifters, a book of Tess and Joel
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Tess and Joel first meet and develop their alliance. - This will be a collection of Joel/Tess one shots. PROMPTS OPEN - if there is a scene you would like to see, let me know! Hurt/comfort/family category - Whump
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Joel waits, one finger on the trigger, because so help him if she even twitches...bit of a ramble
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