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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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It would be a very gentlemanly thing to do, she thinks, to offer his jacket to a lady, but for the fact that it’s a muggy midsummer evening and no extra layer of warmth is needed.
He’s not being a gentleman, she decides, as she follows him down to the canal where he’s untying one of those funny little boats. He probably just doesn’t want to be seen taking a moonlit stroll with a whore.
After being rescued from the nightmare of the Menagerie, Inej gets to know her new companion over contract negotiation.
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17 Sep 2024
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She took a step back. “Where’s the escort?”
“Ellie, we don’t have time for this, let’s go,” he said with an impatient gesture.
Something wasn’t right, she couldn’t pinpoint what but the air was thick with it.
“Go where?”
“I’m taking you out of here,” he said, voice dropping to a low hiss. “You’ll understand everything later but right now we need to move.”
A shiver traced up her spine and through her ribs, struck by a sudden and impossible idea. But what other explanation was there? No one else knew she was here. Her heart skipped in her chest, thrumming with the hope she thought she’d burned out of it.
She leaned forward, breathless with anticipation, and asked, “Did Joel send you?”
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(or, a rooftop interlude)
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- Part 2 of Rooftop AU
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15 Aug 2024
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“So, you’re their lab rat,” he said.
“I’m not a rat,” she said indignantly.
The disheveled ponytail, dirt stained clothes, bare feet, and the way she presently occupied the ground were doing a lot to counter her statement. But he knew a kid missing context when he saw one.
“They’re using you to run experiments to test their theories. They used to do that shit to rats Before,” he said.
Her expression twitched with what was surely the question of why but she shook her head dismissively and instead said, “I’m the only immune person they’ve found. They need to study me.”
“So,” he said with repeated emphasis. “You’re their lab rat.”
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(or the AU where Marlene wasn’t the one who found Ellie in the mall so naturally Joel runs into her on a roof one night and then keeps running into her)
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- Part 1 of Rooftop AU
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14 Aug 2024
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alabaster in the evening by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Nov 2024
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Joel rarely gets calls from unfamiliar numbers, so his tone is gruff and cautious when he answers.
“Is this Joel Miller?” Asks the girl on the other end.
“Who’s this?” He demands.
“Oh, right. My name is Ellie Williams. I’m a criminal justice student at the university. I was calling to see-“
“Don’t call me again,” his voice is a growl, rage seeping into his veins as he puts together the purpose of this call.
“Mr. Miller, please just give me a minute. I run a true crime podcast about unsolved cases. We’ve already solved two-“
“Don’t call me again, do you hear?”
“Listen, there’s some evidence in your daughter's case that was overl-“
Joel hangs up the phone. For good measure, he blocks the number like Tommy showed him how to do.
(Joel's daughter was murdered 20 years ago, and it's still unsolved. Ellie runs a true crime podcast. - AKA finding eachother in every universe- true crime AU)
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21 Jul 2024
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Recoil, Rebound, Reforged by Mote_of_dust
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Jul 2024
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When Ellie's hopes for a future and a cure crumble amids violence and trauma, will the Miller brothers be able to help her put the pieces back together?
A canon-divergent story where Joel never shows up the stables and Ellie leaves for Boulder with Tommy. Plans fall apart, and so does Ellie.
*Complete*
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- English
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19 Jul 2024
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He’s learned a few things about Ellie Wiliams entirely against his will in the time they’ve been stuck together. She likes Chef Boyardee Ravioli, she hates whatever the fuck a green ration is, she talks like she’s fillibustering, and she has absolutely no respect for personal space.
Tonight he’s learning she’s a goddamn Monopoly shark.
“Pay up,” she says smugly, holding her hand out. “Rent’s due, motherfucker.”
He pretends he’s not nursing as much of a grudge as he is as he counts out mildly water-warped paper money, the box she found in an old store intact but not in the best condition.
He wonders if being a piece of shit landlord was a class for FEDRA brats or if the skill just comes naturally to her.
(5 times ellie asked joel to play a boardgame and 1 time joel asked her) (aka ellie and joel's relationship told through the medium of old boardgames)
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05 Jul 2024
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this could either break my heart (or bring it back to life) by lkay09 for two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
25 May 2024
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Joel stops, all the muscles in his body locked up, the rifle half-raised and the barrel pointed at the knees of a mangy man with a thick neck and stringy hair. He’s got one hand locked around the back of Ellie’s neck, fingertips gripping hard enough that even from here Joel can tell she’ll have bruises.
His other hand is pressing a thin blade against the front of her throat.
He nods at the gun in Joel’s hands. “Drop it.”
(bad things happen bingo - knife to the throat)
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- Part 4 of bad things happen bingo
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26 May 2024
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Ellie hates math, but not because of the numbers on her homework. Joel tries his best to be a dad again.
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- Part 9 of Last of Us one-shots
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24 May 2024
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“Go ahead and shift,” Joel says when he returns, and when she doesn’t move, unsure what the fuck he’s talking about, he makes in impatient noise, gesturing to the river. “Don’t know when we’ll be able to stop again. It ain’t as good as salt water, but it’ll do.”
This is very obviously meant to mean something to her, but she has less than no idea what.
Joel sighs and rolls his eyes, marching over and unzipping her backpack. She tries to stop him with a, “Hey! What the fuck, man?”, but he keeps going until he finds the pelt-her pelt, she reminds herself, still disbelieving. She feels a ripple through her, like a piece of thread behind her belly button pulling taught, and she feels an urge to snatch it away from him, but all he does is hold it out.
“It’s fine,” he says. “I know you need to shift. Go ahead and do it.”
“What,” she asks, bundling her pelt up in her arms and feeling the unnerving sensation in her stomach only get stronger, “the fuck are you talking about?”
Joel narrows his eyes.
(tlou but with SELKIES :D)
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23 May 2024
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circle back by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 May 2024
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“Hey, kiddo,” he says, knocking on her door gently. “You up? Gonna have to leave soon if you don’t wanna be late for school.” It’s unusual for him to have to do this–just like Sarah, she’s usually the one who wakes him up, his youngest also a habitual morning person in some sick cosmic joke against him–and he’s trying not to immediately default to thinking something’s wrong. She’s a teenager. Teenagers stay up too late and then sleep in. He got back late from a last minute patrol to check out reports of a raider group in the area last night; she’d been asleep when he got back and peeked in on her, but he doesn’t know when she actually fell asleep. For all he knows, she could have been faking him out just to keep reading one of her books as soon as her door shut again.
Silence.
“Ellie?” He calls a little louder, trying to fight the knee jerk panic. “Kiddo, you up?”
Straining his hearing, he can just catch the sound of her covers rustling, and he lets it settle him.
The fact that she still hasn’t responded means it only settles him so far, though.
(ellie starts acting strangely and won't tell joel why)
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23 May 2024
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It’s almost painful, the way Ellie drags her feet. He doesn’t comment, just turns back now and then to make sure she’s not trailing too far behind. When she doesn’t see him looking, she casts furtive little glances around, very obviously looking for someone, expression going tighter and tighter with each check that continues to reveal no Joel. As they turn into the stableyard, he sees her scrub the back of her mitten over her eyes quickly, pulling her hood up around her face better.
She’s silent as he tacks up the horse, and he drags it out, trying to give her as long as possible. C’mon, you old bastard, he wills his brother in his head. Don’t fucking do this to her. Ellie stays right at the stall door, and when the door to the barn opens, she lights up, turning so quickly his neck twinges in sympathy. When it turns out to only be George clocking in for his morning shift in the stables, Ellie looks like her heart’s breaking.
(tommy ends up taking ellie out of jackson)
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23 May 2024
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Midnight in Texas by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Apr 2024
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Something catches her attention. It’s faint, almost imperceptible, but it comes through the crackly static of the communicator as she finishes the last verse.
“...somebody there?”
Every muscle in her body goes still, icicles frozen into her veins at the sudden sound of a voice, faint and quiet, through the radio. Her fingers clench around the radio, eyes wide, jaw slack.
“Hello?” The voice comes through again, crackly. Through the fuzz of distance, Ellie thinks she can make out a slight southern drawl. It’s a man. A southern man. She doesn’t know of anyone like that who works at the station.
(Ellie is an astronaut in an experimental FEDRA aircraft- she picks up a man on her radio who doesn’t work for them ——- aka the finding each other in every universe astronaut Ellie au)
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22 May 2024
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a hopeful stranger by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Jul 2024
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When Ellie Williams is placed in a group home run by a religious weirdo, she's determined to survive.
Turns out she may get the chance to live instead.
A stand-alone companion piece to a safe place to land, kiss from the lips of a monster, and October/November: Interlude. (Will it make more sense if you've read those? Probably. Do you need to? Nah.)
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- Chapters:
- 33/33
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21 May 2024
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While the Miller family gushes over their newest addition, Gabriel Miller, Ellie takes some time getting used to him.
This is a short, heart-warming story with a lot of jokes sprinkled in.
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- Part 1 of The Millers
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08 May 2024
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and when i call, you come home by spiritually
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Mar 2023
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“Are you hungry?”
She glanced up at the clock on the wall. “It’s late.”
“Last I checked, you don’t magically stop being hungry after midnight. How about a cup of cocoa and a few sweets.”
There was a helpless look on her face. “I don’t have money.”
“Store’s closed, Ellie. Can’t sell anything.”
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Joel Miller, owner of local coffee shop "Cup of Joel" is pretty determined to live the rest of his life alone, and he's okay with that. After all, anyone he's allowed himself to get close to has been lost in one way or another. But loneliness is hard to achieve when there's a 14 year old who won't leave you alone.
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basically the last of us without the infected but still all of the found family of joel and ellie. and still the trauma. in a coffee shop!
NOT A SHIP FIC
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- English
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- 25,143
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- 1/1
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23 Mar 2024
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They'd put eight days between them and the burning resort. One look at Ellie almost made Joel forget it. A healing of-sorts fic.
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- Part 1 of Last of Us one-shots
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13 Mar 2024
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I kept hold of everything, just in case by treadlightlymydarling
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
23 Apr 2023
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He’s not surprised, really, to find that Ellie processes her trauma just like she processes pretty much anything else, by asking a shit ton of questions.
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05 Mar 2024
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Joel’s never known Ellie to be so silent.
He really fucking hates it.
She hasn’t said a word since they walked away from that burning building at the resort, has barely let out more than a whimper even though he knows she’s gotta be in just as much, if not more pain than him. Joel can tell by the way she’s walking that her ribs are hurting, by the way her gaze is unfocused that she’s probably got a concussion.
But she just keeps trudging along behind Joel, stepping where he steps, letting him guide her around fallen trees and boulders.
All without a sound.
(bad things happen bingo - crying themselves to sleep)
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- Part 1 of bad things happen bingo
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,403
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 18
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- 178
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- 24
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28 Feb 2024
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amidst the chaos by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Feb 2024
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Joel and Ellie learn to navigate becoming a family, past trauma, current threats, and look to the future -- together.
The sequel to a safe place to land will be updated weekly.
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- Language:
- English
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- 105,056
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 450
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10 Feb 2024