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Joel used to be Ellie's favorite person in the world. Her hero. Now, she just glared right through him.
Sarah would yell at Joel for it if she was here.
She wasn’t.
Still, her shadow was sitting in the kitchen with them.
“I…” Halfway through his sentence, Joel turned his eyes down the hallway and instead towards his own room.
“Daddy, I miss you.” Ellie’s little toddler voice returned to his ear, from all of those years ago.
It felt fair, that he hadn’t paid enough attention to those three little words then, and now he was feeling them himself.
Joel felt the burden of tears stinging in his eyes. “I miss you. I miss how we were. You’re still my little girl.”
Ellie’s molars clamped down on the inside of her cheek as anger washed over her face. “I’m thirteen,” She corrected shortly. “And you were the one who taught me not to need you. It’s not gonna change just ‘cause you want to actually fucking be a dad now.”
TLDR: Ellie is Sarah's baby sister. Sarah still dies on apocalypse night, and Ellie is left with their father, broken now. This will go all the way through season one with this muchhhh added baggage.
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i walk the line. by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Oct 2024
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Unbeknownst to Joel, he was being watched. Observing quietly from the rear end of his truck, there was a little girl, dressed in tattered clothes and barely any taller than one of the wheels that she was standing beside. “Hey!” She hollered, smiling when she watched Joel practically jump out of his skin at the sound of her voice.
Joel’s eyes darted over, quickly worming through the shadows and picking out the kid, despite how small she was. “Christ, girl,” He admonished, his heart still racing inside of his chest. “How are you so goddamn quiet?”
The girl grinned from ear to ear and then dared a step closer. “It’s a talent."
“You’re lucky it’s only me that you snuck up on,” Joel lectured.
“Yeah, ‘cause you seem so pleasant,” The girl teased. She was closer now, like one of those cats who snuck closer every time they weren’t being watched.
Joel snorted in response. “What the hell are you even doin’ out here anyway? This is the middle of nowhere.”
The girl flashed another smile. “I’m on an adventure,” She replied, grinning up at him with a missing tooth.
Joel snorted again. “What, to become roadkill?”
TLDR// Trucker AU! Ellie's a stowaway, and Joel's a lone wolf.
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i know the end. by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Sep 2024
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Ellie had stopped screaming. She stared down at her gory work, still hyperventilating, before letting her blood-covered hands slip away from the handle as she struggled to her feet.
Outside.
Door.
Escape.
Ellie turned with such unsteadiness that she almost tumbled over. Her breath was still struggling in and out of her broken lungs, both from the panic as well as the smoke, and her entire body was still shaking. Shuddered, terrified whimpers fell from her lips with each breath, though when she made it outside, they were hidden under the howling of the wind.
Cold.
Freezing.
Hurts.
Everything was white and covered in snow. The surrounding landscape was completely featureless. Ellie didn’t have any room left in her mind to bother trying to figure out where the fuck she was, she just knew that she had to get away from the burning hell behind her.
And then someone grabbed Ellie’s hand.
And she screamed for her fucking life.
TLDR/ Ellie's journey throughout their year on the road told through her panic attacks, from Sam's death, to after David, to Jackson. This also explores her trauma with F.E.D.R.A as well as everything else after they arrive in Jackson.
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mechanical bull by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
23 Sep 2024
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Ellie paused. Briefly, she shot a glance towards the door to make sure that it was empty before panning back over towards the flask. It was heavy to lift. It’s full, she realized, pausing again.
There was an idea that began to brew in the bottom of her stomach.
That idea was even further fueled by a corresponding slew of images of Joel drinking by the campfire every few weeks, especially after they’d had a bad week like when Henry and Sam had died or after they’d lost Tess.
It must help, Ellie thought as she stared down at the flask. At least a little bit.
She continued to stare.
“Ellie,” Joel’s voice echoed from down the hall. At the sound, as well as the sudden thump-thump of his approaching footsteps, she grabbed the flask from where it sat on the dust-brushed desk and then shoved it down into her pocket just as his face appeared in the door. "Hey. You find anythin’?”
“Nothing,” Ellie answered, all the while coiling her fingers around the flask hidden in her jacket pocket.
TLDR/ Exploring Ellie's recovery after Silver Lake and the methods with which she tries to cope, all the while Joel worries.
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“Miller,” The radio crackled, shattering the otherwise peaceful night. “You there?”
Joel simmered in the quiet for one more moment before sighing and taking his radio from its rest. “Here,” He echoed in a grumble. “What’ve you got for me?”
“I’ve got a missing little girl, possibly seen about two blocks from you. Suspect’s mid fifties, possibly armed. He’s her math teacher. ” The voice over the radio drawled. Tess. Her low, weathered voice, similar to Joel’s, was easy to recognize. They were friends, maybe something more than that, which was why she knew that a call about a missing girl was going to be hard for him. “I know,” She sighed over the microphone. “But, I don’t have anyone else, and this girl’s been gone all day. Every second counts, you know that.”
“I know that,” Joel echoed in a low tone. He sighed, and then reached down and flicked on his siren. "Christ. Her teacher?"
“I know,” Tess echoed. “Just go get her.”
TLDR// Joel was a cop. After a long day of long calls, he was heading home, and then he got the call. It was just another call, just another kid. And then it wasn't. As soon as he saw Ellie, he knew that it wasn't, and he knew that she wasn't leaving his life anytime soon.
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be still my foolish heart (don't ruin this on me) by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
29 Sep 2024
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“Her name is Ellie,” she says, eyes still on the sweet, slumbering child. “Take care of her. Don’t fuck this up, Joel.”
He doesn’t respond, just watches until Marlene is gone and moves to lock the door once more, knowing it’s probably about to be a long night with very little sleep.
Glancing down at the baby – Ellie – Joel releases a slow breath. “Looks like it’s just you and me, kid.”
Fucking hell, he’s got his work cut out for him.
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(Joel raises Ellie. Some things change while others stay the same. A journey from Boston to Wyoming.)
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19 Feb 2024
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Ellie brings home a wolf pup. Joel is less surprised by this than you might think.
Doesn't mean he's pleased about it.
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The one in which Joel thinks he knows what's going on, but he really really doesn't.
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12 Feb 2024
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Blood runs thicker than water by Roselees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Nov 2024
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‘No. I’m tellin’ you now, no. You going away and joinin’ the Fireflies.. Fine. You ruin your own life if that’s what you want. But we ain’t taking a baby in during all of this, Tommy. No way in Hell.’
‘What’s the alternative, Joel? Give her to FEDRA? They’d turn her into a fucking soldier. Cannon fodder. You know that.’
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In which Joel and Tess receive an unusual request from the Boston Fireflies, and the pair find themselves navigating parenthood in the midst of the apocalypse.
(Or; in an alternate timeline, Joel raises Ellie from the beginning - and this time, for as long as he has breath left in his body, nobody is going to hurt his daughter.)
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29 Nov 2023