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When Joel saw her, everything around him became unimportant. His vision tunneled and his only thought was Ellie.
Ellie, as she stumbled out of the burning building’s doors, face covered in blood, her eyes the wide, horrified eyes of someone who had seen things they should have never seen. The eyes of someone who’d experienced things they should have never experienced.
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Joel finds, takes care of, and comforts Ellie in the aftermath of David
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22 Mar 2023
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The Cat's Out of The Bag by songbirdscoo
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Mar 2023
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For a moment, Joel can’t quite wrap his head around what he’s hearing.
“Ellie.”
“Joel.”
“Is that a fucking cat?”
Ellie winces, letting the door swing open by itself, and Joel is greeted with the terrifyingly beautiful sight of twenty-odd cats lounging around the house like they own the damn place.
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Ellie keeps sneaking out every night. At first, Joel decides to just let it go, but once it starts to affect her actions and behavior, he decides that he needs to figure out what's making her lose all this sleep. The answer isn't quite as worrying as what he'd expected.
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- Part 2 of there is no golf in ba sing se
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19 Mar 2023
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It’s a novelty to work on an art project that Ellie doesn’t have to quickly fold away before it’s ripped up by someone like Bethany. There’s paint in Jackson, and walls and canvases, and more free time than she knows what to do with.
Or: Ellie paints her heroes and villains. Joel gets rare insight into Ellie’s mind.
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- Part 2 of Fish Out of Water
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19 Mar 2023
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Joel has two daughters when the apocalypse comes. This changes everything and nothing.
"He has two daughters and two hands to protect them with. It has to be enough. He can't fathom a world in which it won't be"
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18 Mar 2023
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You Are My Responsability Now by TheIronMechanic
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Dec 2022
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“Haven’t your parents taught you not to talk to strangers?”
“I’m Ellie.” She smiles, and he can see more gaps than teeth. “I’m six. What’s your name?” He sighs, he wants the kid to go, but he doesn’t want to be an asshole.
“Joel.”
“And how old are you?” He knows he’s not going to get anything done until the kid doesn’t get all her answers, so he decides to sit down, giving his back a little break.
“Twenty-eight.” Ellie nods, taking that information in.
“Okay. See? Now we are not strangers.” He can’t help but let out a soft chuckle.
“If you say so, kid.”
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- Part 4 of Ellie and Joel
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17 Mar 2023
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sovereign by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Mar 2023
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Her ears are ringing when they pull her away. Joel took the brunt force of the flash bang, swinging her around like she weighed nothing to curl around her, but she’s just the slightest bit wobbly when they try to take her away from him, still on the ground.
Doesn’t stop her from screaming for him, though.
Even half out of it, Joel always answers when she calls, and she sees him trying to stagger onto his knees, calling back for her.
Then a soldier hits him on the back of the head.
And Ellie sees fucking red.
(alternate ep 9 ending in which ellie chooses to leave on her own)
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16 Mar 2023
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No Turning Back by jessahmewren
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Mar 2023
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His throat constricted, the sudden sharp stab of tears like swallowing a knife. Ellie didn’t want to die. "I’ll follow you wherever you go," she’d said to him. Ellie wanted family. She wanted it as much as Joel did.
But he also knew--deep, deep down in what was left of his soul--that Ellie would’ve sacrificed herself for whatever was left of this shit planet. He knew it. And that’s why he had to lie.
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16 Mar 2023
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don't try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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15 Mar 2023
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eat my fill of dinners and free will by plooshai
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
04 Mar 2023
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Riley’s fork turned over in the air, and her dinner slide off, back to the plate with a sickening plop. “Ugh, this shit is disgusting.”
Ellie only nods, staring down into her own slop with the disdain of a thousand suns. A green bean slides off her fork as she crams it in her mouth, and shivers at the taste.
She’s never wanted anything more than to never eat FEDRA’s damn food ever again. When she gets out of there, she’s going to eat something… something good, hopefully. She wonders if the officers get good food.or,
canned foods and the promise of hopeSeries
- Part 1 of The Last of Us
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15 Mar 2023
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parting is all we know of heaven by fromthewhales (deervsheadlights)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Mar 2023
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The lump in his throat threatening to choke him is an old friend, a familiar face, come around to knock at his door again.
It’s not as though he needs the reminder, but here it is anyway, a taunting whisper: You’re going to lose her.
This time, Ellie gets to make a choice.
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14 Mar 2023
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holy ghost who haunts your home by thesco
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Mar 2023
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And when she wakes up from her dreams of red sheets and fresh blood, Ellie knows that something is wrong.
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Jackson is supposed to be better, but all Ellie can do is sleep.
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- Part 1 of graveyard etiquette
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14 Mar 2023
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13 Mar 2023
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Sunset pulls the horizon, flickering warm on the river to their right. It hits Ellie, but she isn’t comforted. It only makes her shadow so much bigger. A bruise that follows wherever she goes.
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13 Mar 2023
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Ellie latched onto those words like a tether keeping her from floating out into space— into nothingness. Baby girl. She meant something to him. She mattered to him.
She thought the first time had been a fluke, that he didn’t actually mean to call her that, and now she didn’t know what to do with it. All she knew was that it was the only thing keeping her from drowning in whatever feeling was bubbling up in her chest.
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- Part 2 of Fruit Punch
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12 Mar 2023
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“You’re safe, Ellie.”
“No, I’m not.”
In the aftermath of Silver Lake, Joel and Ellie hold on.
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12 Mar 2023
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Old Habits by myhomeistheshire
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Mar 2023
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He asks, once, to check on the bruising, to see if anything's broken. She thinks of pulling up her sleeves, lifting the hem of her sweater, pulling down her collar to show purple bruises in the shape of fingers. "I know what broken ribs feel like," she snaps, cold and vicious, and walks away before she can think too hard about the look on his face when she says it.
They're back in Jackson. It takes some adjusting.
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12 Mar 2023
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work study by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Mar 2023
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In his many years of taking on jobs for too-little pay, there’s one assignment he’s never worked. The other workers call it the “preschool brigade,” the FEDRA-school kids sent out into the field for what they call “work experience” to get them used to the real world. Really, it’s a behavioral tool, he knows, an example of “better act right or you’ll end up like these poor fuckers when you’re grown.”
He's deliberately never worked on one, uninterested in being put in charge of a kid doing a dangerous job they shouldn’t be. The kids that get sent on the preschool brigade are the ones FEDRA doesn’t necessarily care about getting back, after all, and there are things even adults shouldn’t be doing, not as untrained as most of them are.
And then comes the day one of the FEDRA guards assigned to his work detail that leads over a sullen-looking girl, who kicks rocks the entire way.
(an AU in which ellie and joel first meet on job assignments)
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11 Mar 2023
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exhaustion & disgust by awenswords
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Mar 2023
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The sight of this girl - this child - shaking and bloody makes Joel feel sick too. He's not sure how much is her blood, and that terrifies him almost as much as the why? that bubbles up in the back of his mind. Why would someone do this? How can a child hold so much brutality?
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Ellie struggles to cope with and understand the events of Episode 8. Joel tries to help her but doesn't know how.Series
- Part 1 of The Last of Us One-Shots
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11 Mar 2023
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It’s not meant to be a difficult journey, but it’s taken them a bit longer than expected due to a brief encounter with a group of raiders. They weren’t exceptionally difficult by any means, but Ellie did manage to get herself thrown into a tree and slashed across the ribs with a knife.
She’d told Joel she was fine, and she was!
She just… might not be, anymore.
a one-off thing where i am a little mean to ellie but make it up to her in the end. self indulgent hurt/comfort nonsense.
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11 Mar 2023
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care (how love is shown) by cosmic_idiot1
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Mar 2023
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“What hurts, baby?” Joel asks, and she feels her lips tremble before she even says a word. She shakes her head, because she thinks if she opens her mouth, she’ll just sob, and Joel makes some noise of discontent. “Words, Ellie.”
“Can’t,” she mumbles, wiping at her eyes. She opens them and Joel’s already looking straight into her soul, searching for the answer she can’t give him. She shakily exhales and reaches out for the rag, moving his hand back up to her face. He sighs, deeply, but gently presses the fabric against her cheek once more. She sharply inhales and her eyes flutter shut again.
Or, the aftermath of Silver Lake.
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- Part 1 of how love is shown
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10 Mar 2023