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All Over Again by Nandorluna for cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us
18 Dec 2024
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Joel catches the front tire with practiced hands, sets it spinning with enough force to create a soft whirring sound that echoes in the garage's shadows.
“See how the tread’s still in a straight line?” His finger traces the air in demonstration, his other hand automatically shooting out to grab Tommy's shoulder when the boy leans in too close to the spinning wheel – he’s got enough scrapes on his face already, his chin still red and glistening. “Means you didn’t bend the rim.”
“Cool.” Tommy grins up at him. “Next time, I’m gonna use a ramp.”
“You don’t have a ramp,” Joel points out with the roll of his eyes.
The tire's spin gradually loses its momentum, then staggers to a stop. Joel rights the bicycle easily, toe nudging the kickstand into position when Tommy informs him: “No, but I could, if you help me build one.”
Joel snorts. “Now, why am I gonna tell you no?”
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Joel, through the years; his family, and how he takes care of them - and how they care for him in return.
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19 Dec 2024
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still life: flowers in the hands of a girl by marchflower for mirananananan
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Dec 2024
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Their fragrance lingers on: weak and tepid, drained and subdued, but there.
There: the Rockies on their right and miles of wheatgrass to their left, the sun overhead a pulsing, livid thing. The Nebraskan prairie, its clover that high summer yellow, so tall that it’d tickled the underside of Ellie’s chin when she’d ran through it. That first snowfall in Wyoming, the flakes delicate and wispy, fairy like as they sifted down through the pale pink haze of sunrise. All those nights around the fire, all those days with her feet aching and her nose running and her heart taking flight around her chest. Those first months, before Jackson and Joel’s betrayal, before the university and Silver Lake. Before she was a victim; before she was a broken child, a broken promise.
Before the lie.
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Ellie and Joel's journey, told one flower at a time.
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16 Dec 2024
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Migrating Monarchs by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Nov 2024
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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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30 Nov 2024
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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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12 Nov 2024
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“I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”
A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”
Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”
Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”
“Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:
“What?!”
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Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Shenanigans ensue.
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06 Nov 2024