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Honey love, dark eyes by Kodachromereader
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Dec 2024
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Joel Miller has been your best friend for four years, and your trust in him is as solid as ever. However, things go awry one night after a heated argument, and you find yourself in a position you never thought you'd be in: naked, underneath him, with his eyes devouring you like there's no tomorrow. And when you wake up the next morning, you know it right away, reality piercing your chest; things will never be the same again.
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Make Glad the Heart by amysue512
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Dec 2024
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"Ellie is asking Santa to make it snow for Christmas." Joel blinks at her. Is that all he thinks? Sarah raises her eyebrows to emphasize that she's serious.
"Well, I hope she's asking for other stuff, specifically a Jurassic Park Lego set," Joel replies, unsure what else she thinks he can do about that.
Sarah exhales loudly, "Dad! You don't understand; what if she stops believing in Santa when it doesn't snow on Christmas? What if that is what breaks her belief? Can you live with that?"
Joel scrubs his hand over his face. "Baby, she's 5, but she's not dumb; she knows it doesn't snow much here. She probably said that trying to make a joke."
Sarah shakes her head forcefully, curls flying. "No, I think she's serious. If she's already questioning Santa, and then it doesn't snow on Christmas, that may be what convinces her he's not real. I'm not letting that happen." She crosses her arms and sets her jaw in determination.
"What are you going to do?" Joel asks, slightly concerned.
"I don't know yet," she admits, "but I'm not letting her stop believing."Ellie asks Santa to make it snow for Christmas, in Texas. It all goes from there.
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You've become close with the Miller duo since moving to the neighbourhood a couple of years ago. As a young woman living alone, Joel is protective of you, and he intends to show you how much so.
Content warnings will be posted in the notes at the beginning of each chapter - happy reading!
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sparrows at dawn, ravens at dusk by marchflower for lkay09
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Nov 2024
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Don’t even need to be big, he’d told Sarah once. He tells Ellie that now, watches her face fold and unfold, a flower in bloom. Don’t even need to be big - because what a fucking privilege it is, he thinks, to be twenty years past the end of the world and still holding that dubious honor of cradling all the small parts of a little girl in his hand.
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Two different girls. One dad.
Because even after the end of the world, parenting doesn't change all that much.
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It's a Long Way to the Top by JediMom2021
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Oct 2024
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A sharp knock wrapped against the cracked wooden door. Joel raised his eyebrows as he paused mid pour on what must be his third cup of lukewarm black coffee. Sighing, he raised his left wrist to glance at his watch-
mouth trembling as he looked at the broken glass face staring accusingly back at him.
Shaking his head, he placed his coffee on the stain speckled counter, pinching the bridge of his nose he bottled the raging memories away back into its little locked box- and threw away the imaginative key.
Walking towards the door, he took a moment to glance surreptitiously through the small golden peephole. Groaning quietly at who was on the other-side.
As if the person could predict his intention to quietly slip back into his room, she taunted,
"I know you're there Miller. Open the door."
Rolling his eyes, he undid the chain, unlocked his deadbolt and cracked the door so only his face was showing. Her sharp brown eyes zeroed in on his bloodshot irises, the disheveled mess of his hair, the bags shadowing his under eyes. Her barely concealed grimace almost got the door slammed in her damn face.
"Marlene."
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dust before the dream’s gone cold by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Oct 2024
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Ellie’s crying again, quieter, the sound muffled by her arm or her backpack or her exhaustion. He sits there on his heels, thighs burning with the prolonged hold, fingertips braced against the cold floor of the cave for balance, and wonders what he should say, what he should do. He’s not good at this. Ellie knows this; she’s not expecting him to do anything, and he pretends like this makes it easier for him to lie back down and listen to her cry in the damp darkness of the cave. She’s only cargo, he tells himself. Cargo doesn’t need comfort.
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Ellie gets a sunburn. Joel takes care of her.
Rinse, and repeat.
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Fulfills the prompt: Sunburn
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2024
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swing low, sweet chariot by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 Sep 2024
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“How do you feel?”
Ellie thinks, sucks on her lower lip. “I guess- mostly just really sad.”
It’s an understatement if there ever was one. Sometimes the sadness feels so big that she’s not sure how she’d ever manage to escape it, to exist outside of it. It feels like a balloon, constantly growing bigger and bigger and never once popping. Ellie’s terrified of what it’s going to feel like when it finally breaks.
“Sometimes,” Maria says, “Sometimes, sad and stuck are the same thing. And that’s okay. You can be sad every day for the rest of your life, Ellie, and you can still live a rich, full, exciting life. Okay?”
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Ellie Williams at the intersection of grief, faith, and love.
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- Part 4 of out of the mouths of babes
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Every Rose by floatyourboat1997
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
30 Aug 2024
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*No Cordyceps Outbreak! TLOU AU*
Rose Turner had a secret that very few people knew, and she planned on keeping it that way. She closed herself off to the world around her, hiding where she hoped no one would find her. But Joel Miller found her, and somehow managed to claw his way into her iron-clad heart.
Through no fault of his own, Joel Miller was forced to flip his entire world on its head. He stumbled his way through life, and even as everything seemed to fall apart around him, he hoped that one day he'd find peace. And then he met Rose, and he thought maybe, finally, the universe was lending him a hand.
But no matter how beautiful it may seem - no matter how sweet, or soft, or alluring - every rose has its thorns.
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Carried You with Me by amysue512
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
23 Aug 2024
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"I throwed up on you," Ellie says pitifully.
"Yeah, I know, but it's okay."
"Oh god," Sarah moans, picking her head from the bathroom floor where she'd been laying prone since her last turn, heaving into the toilet. "I just remembered it's Father's Day, and we're spending it on the bathroom floor."
"Well," Joel says, reaching over to run his hand gently over her head. "At least we're all here together."Series
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Fall Into Me by Joelalorian (Lauri_Adores_Barba)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 Jul 2024
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Joel is hanging on by a thread as a single father to tenacious 10-year-old Sarah. Feeling like he's drowning, like the world is about to spit him out, he needs some help before he breaks in half. At your dad's insistence, you show up in his life and change everything.
Story is inspired by the song Fall Into Me by Forest Blakk. Chapter titles will be lyrics from the song.
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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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Quid Pro Quo by The_Golden_Sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us, tlou - Fandom
14 Jul 2024
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"Ellie has a good handful of reasons for not wanting to leave Boston (the most important one: a stupid gray headstone she’s only visited once because just seeing it makes her nauseous) but none of them are enough to change Marlene’s mind."
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Ellie's the new girl until Sarah Miller arrives.
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- Part 1 of We, the Millers
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A series of non sequential vignettes of Joel Miller’s complicated and tumultuous relationship with parenting.
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like a wildfire by northernbluess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Jun 2024
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After nursing a seemingly irrational crush on fellow single parent Joel Miller, your innocent friendship develops into more when he invites you and your daughter to stay at their ranch house during the summer. What started as nothing more than simple feelings ignites into something neither of you expected.
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Chemtrails Over The Country Club by millerlover
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 May 2024
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You find out Joel is a member of the country club you frequently visit.
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matter and matrix, mother and medium by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 May 2024
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“You don’t even know what I did,” she whimpers, and Joel asks:
“Do you- wanna tell me?”
He’s not sure he’s ready to hear it; he’s not sure he’ll ever be ready to hear, he thinks, but his needs dim mightily in comparison to the needs of his girl. Always has, always will. That’s the way this thing works, after all, isn’t it?
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Joel Miller, his daughters, and the small miracle of running water.
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- Part 1 of Good Things Happen Bingo
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Whatever it takes by The_Golden_Sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us
24 Apr 2024
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...And now Ellie had been missing for two weeks. Of course, neither he nor Sarah ever believed the pastor's version. They knew Ellie hadn't run away. But they were the only ones who believed that. To the rest of the world, she was just a problematic foster girl with a long history of runaways and fights...
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- Part 2 of We, the Millers
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our love is timeless (Joel & Sarah fluff tlou) by imakestories
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Apr 2024
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i really wanted to read some pre-outbreak (no outbreak AU) fluff stories of Joel and Sarah just living life but obviously no one cares abt me 😔
So here is a book of Joel and Sarah fluff cause their father-daughter relationship means the world to me <3
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- Part 1 of if you were the sun (i'd be the moon)
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When Ellie was a baby, her mother left the family.
Ever since then, her father, Joel, was the one to teach her everything about life. He taught her how to love herself and how to make friends. He taught her how to tie her shoes, make soup, and do fractions.
But there was something he failed to teach her, and that was how to live in this world without him.
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i start for the great temple by marchflower for Toointojoelmiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Dec 2023
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She’s been doing that a lot now- sitting in one place and not moving, not speaking, for hours. The silence feels like a millstone around Joel’s neck. She hasn’t told him what happened to her back there in that lodge, but he set her nose and wrapped her ribs and tied her jeans shut with a length of shoelace so he thinks he knows.
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Several days after Silver Lake, Joel and Ellie try to find some measure of peace in an abandoned cabin in the woods.
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