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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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    20 Dec 2024

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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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    20 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 84

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    Joel stumbles into Ellie five years earlier while he's still a hunter with Tommy. It changes everything, and nothing, about their story.

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    16 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 1

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    Joel adores Ellie. He rescued the young girl and sees the 15 year old as his own daughter, although he had once been a father, he'd never seen 15 with his daughter, Sarah. So everyday is something new. But today probably takes the cake.

    Or

    The coming out we all needed.

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    16 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 64

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    Deeply scarred by the loss of his 12-year-old daughter, Joel has deliberately distanced himself from anything involving children for the past 17 years. This initially included the 8-year-old foster kid who moved in down the street. Despite his resistance and attempt to stay detached, over the past year, he’s found himself drawn into the girl's life, eventually revealing the abuse she's been enduring at the hands of her foster father.

    When Joel wakes up in the middle of the night to a phone call just days prior to Christmas, his life is forever changed.

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    16 Dec 2024

  6. Public Bookmark 46

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    “I’m still getting used to that.” Ellie tells him. “Someone caring where I am all the time.”

    Joel chooses his words very carefully. “It’s my job. I quite like it, if I’m honest. ”

    She smiles, a little wry, expression molding into something awkward to hide the tremble of her lip. “Interesting take considering I’m the government equivalent of a last draft pick.”

    He hums in acknowledgement. “But you’ll always be my first round pick. That’s what counts.”

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    It's been twenty years since Sarah died and he fell apart. It's been fifteen years since Tommy couldn't take the heartbreak of helping someone who didn't want to be helped and left without looking back. And it's been ten years since Joel's started to rebuild.

    It's day one of fostering Ellie Williams.

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    16 Dec 2024

  7. Public Bookmark 47

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    Joel had hesitated when Sarah called him that first time, practically begging him to help chaperone her preschool class.

     

    He’d declined initially, thinking his presence in her and her students' space would be exceedingly intrusive– besides, it'd been so long since he'd handled a toddler, much less had a gaggle of them running around him, and to a botanical garden of all places? He couldn't. Sarah would understand.

     


    Sarah is a preschool teacher, and Ellie is her student.

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    16 Dec 2024

  8. Public Bookmark 21

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    Ellie is on a mission:

    Find out when Joel's birthday is.

    Get him a gift.

    Bake him a cake.

    It really shouldn't be as hard as it turns out to be.

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    15 Dec 2024

  9. Public Bookmark 5

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    “Don’t,” she growls, wincing as she prods at the largest cut. “Fucking ow, man. What day is it? Wednesday? Who the fuck gets blown up on a Wednesday?”

    “You do.” He dodges Ellie’s flailing hand and digs through his pack for his canteen. “You okay to walk? Rather not patch you up right next to an active bomb.”

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    (a booby-trapped basement, a piggyback ride, and some good ol' hurt/comfort)

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    15 Dec 2024

  10. Public Bookmark 50

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    “You are not replaceable, I am not temporary.” He’s holding her face in his hands, wiping away the tears that try to fall from the corner of her eyes.

    She’s had a shit childhood, one he wishes with every fiber of his being, he could replace for her.

    He can do this, though. Be here for her now.

    “Look at me kiddo, I know you are not Sarah, and I don’t need you to be. I need you to be Ellie; funny, brave, and so goddamn smart, Ellie.” His heart tugs painfully in his chest as her face screws up in an anguished expression.

    “You are enough just as you are, and anybody who tells you different will find themselves laid out for spit’n that kind of bullshit at my kid.” He tucks her into his chest as the first broken sobs burst past her lips.

    She might be eighteen, a legal adult, but she’s still just a kid looking for the comfort of a parent.

    Something she’s never had before. He’ll be that for her, if she’ll let him.

    From now until the earth claims him.


    Another modern/western vibe. After Ellie ages out of foster care in Boston, she greyhounds it out to Wyoming to work at Miller Ranch, where Joel is waiting in that dad shape of his.

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    15 Dec 2024

  11. Public Bookmark 28

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    When Ellie was leading David's men away from where she'd hidden Joel and the horse was shot out from under her, she fell.

    Hard.

    In ancient times, the first sign of developing civilization was a healed broken leg, as it leaves the individual all but helpless while they recover. And in David's words, "even lone wolves need to be cared for when they break their whole left side."

    Little does he know that she's not a lone wolf.

    Because Ellie’s got Joel. And he will never stop protecting her.

    (Canon divergent from episode 8. When Ellie falls, she breaks her left arm, leg, and two ribs, leaving her vulnerable and trapped in the lodge as David insists on caring for her. Because of her injuries, she's not fit to fight - but Joel, despite his own stab wound, is willing to fight to the death to get his girl to safety and get her better.)

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    16 Dec 2024

  12. Public Bookmark 89

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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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    15 Dec 2024

  13. Public Bookmark 13

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    “Apparently, soul marks are a big deal in FEDRA. You’re supposed to keep them always covered, never disclose your Names. They think it could create unnecessary camaraderie between the ranks, alliances they couldn’t control.”
    “Fucking fanatics,” Joel mutters, and Tess snorts her agreement.
    “Gets worse. That asshole told me it’s even more of a problem when there’s kids involved. FEDRA worries somebody could pick a fight with them, steal away one of their precious free resources. Or that the kids could grow and run – try to find whoever’s on their arms.”
    Joel frowns. “So? Tell’em to cover their Names too?”
    “Not really,” Tess says, finally turning to look straight at Joel. “With FEDRA kids, they erase them.”

    Soulmate AU. Everyone is born with their soulmates’ Names written on their skin. Joel meets his third when he’s fifty-six, and he’s tasked to smuggle her outside Boston’s QZ. This can’t possibly end well.

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    15 Dec 2024

  14. Public Bookmark 14

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    He knew what it meant, even if he didn’t want to admit it. Anna was slipping. Again. And Ellie was bearing the brunt of it.

    Joel watched her go, his chest tight. As she rounded the corner, he made a silent promise to himself: if Anna didn’t pull it together soon, he’d step in. Scared or not. Because Ellie deserved better, and Joel couldn’t keep pretending he didn’t care.

    OR: Modern setting, abusive Anna, eight-year-old Ellie, and neighbor Joel, who will do anything for Ellie. Even if he doesn't want to admit it.

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    15 Dec 2024

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    Now that Ellie’s alone, she just sits on her bed and looks at her book. She can’t call it reading anymore – by now she has read the thing front to back so many times that she could quote some paragraphs word for word.

    That’s why it’s weird that it took her so long to notice the message written on the front page.

    There, nestled just below the title, there’s one line of writing addressed to her. It doesn’t mention any names, but it is for her. It can’t be otherwise.
    It’s not Tommy’s handwriting, nor Maria's, nor Riley's.

    But it’s somebody’s. Somebody who knew she’d like to read about Moon landing, spaceships, and astronauts. Somebody who cared enough to take this book, fix the hardcover with some scotch tape, and give it to her. Somebody who wrote those words on the front page knowing that they would make her smile.

    Somebody who loved her.

    It’s late spring 2024 when Ellie wakes up in Jackson. She has a backpack full of books, a burn on her arm, and no memory of how she went from Boston QZ to Wyoming.

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    10 Dec 2024

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    Joel and Ellie settle in Jackson after running away from the Fireflies and slowly build a life for themselves as they both struggle to carry the weight of their actions.

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    10 Dec 2024

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    In the end, the most invasive procedure the Fireflies perform on Ellie is a spinal tap.

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    09 Dec 2024

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    Where Joel miscalculates the situation with David and the hunters, and Ellie pays the price. Ellie and Joel struggle to cope after Ellie is raped. Thrown into unfamiliar territory-- Will their bond grow stronger, or will the trauma tear them apart? Begins during the winter, and follows the pair into Jackson as Ellie grows up in the aftermath of the decisions that have been made for her.

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    09 Dec 2024

  19. Public Bookmark 82

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    Nejire Hado: 3rd Year Hero Course Student-Part Time 1st Rate Detective!?

    Nejire's endless curiosity is focused on U.A's new hero course students! But after secretly watching the quirk apprehension test her eyes are locked onto 1 first year student in particular.

    Can Izuku Midoriya keep the secret of One For All to himself while being bombarded by questions from the endlessly curious Bluenette!?

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    01 Dec 2024

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    Izuku's dreams?

    Crushed.

    Reality?

    Checked.

    Future plans?

    Non-existent.

    He's given up. He knows his place. All that's left for him is to go through the motions of life as he always should have.

    Too bad Nejire Hadou won't let him.

    If only she didn't nearly kill him the first time they met...

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    01 Dec 2024

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