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Joel Miller x Immune Reader
Before the 2003 outbreak, the Cordyceps virus was a secret government project led by your father, a dedicated scientist. After realizing his mistake, he discovered your immunity following a bite at age 10. Desperate to make amends, he made deals with Fedra and later with the Fireflies, while you chose to escape instead of sacrificing yourself.
Years of evading capture ended when you were eventually caught and taken to a hospital in Salt Lake with another immune girl. They thought two hosts would boost their vaccine chances, unaware that Joel was ready to take them all down.
Unbeknownst to him, he had saved both you and Ellie. Now, you set out on your own, hoping to find your rescuer again, leaving the rest of the Fireflies behind in your hospital scrubs.
It wasn't long before you unexpectedly encountered him in Jackson, but he had no idea who you were or about your immunity. -
angel from montgomery by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Sep 2025
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“Hey.”
The girl’s eyes snapped up, panicked. She spared a second to glance down at the man in front of her, her eyes racing up and then looked at Joel with the exact same type of terror, before emerging with something in her hands.
Joel watched, immediately suspecting a gun. “Whoa, now-”
The girl lifted her hands up, revealing an old knife. She smeared the tears on her cheeks away, trying to seem bigger than she was, but it didn’t work.
She was a terrified kid.
The urgency in Joel’s expression blinked. “Hey,” He repeated, his voice painted soft, though he didn’t let himself hear it. The girl just stared up at him with her knife, not realizing the tremble of her own grip or the violent shakes that tore through her entire, bare body. He just realized that now. Only her knees were covering her, along with the clearly torn pair of underclothes on her lower half. She cringed under his eyes. “It’s okay,” He tried. “I’m not gon’ hurt you.”
The girl didn’t even blink. She just stared up through her tears, terrified of him.
Fuck.
TLDR: Joel finds a traumatized Ellie on the side of the road. He's immediately soft. Meanwhile, she has to learn how to trust him.
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The Last Of Us - One Day At A Time by Moonsong95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Aug 2025
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Jade Grayson was raised in the peaceful Biltmore Estate settlement, nestled in the mountains of North Carolina. Kind-hearted, loyal, and haunted by a past soaked in betrayal, Jay’s life was shattered when raiders slaughtered her grandparents in a brutal ambush. In the aftermath, Jay left home, heartbroken and suicidal, wandering the wasteland with only her dog and horse, and a promise to scatter her family’s ashes at the Grand Canyon and end her story there.
Instead, she met Ellie Williams, jaded and angry at the world. At first, Ellie saw Jay as just another soft soul destined to die. But Jay wasn’t weak, she was quietly unbreakable.
Throughout their time surviving together, Jay slowly cracked Ellie’s shell. She saw Ellie and stayed even when Ellie tried to push her away. Jay didn’t demand Ellie’s heart; she waited for her to offer it. Their love grew in fragments. They faced raiders, illness, survivor’s guilt, and the ghosts of the past. Ellie’s nightmares. Jay’s depressive episodes.
Jay showed Ellie that softness could be a strength. Ellie showed Jay that broken things could still protect. And together, they found a reason to believe in something bigger than survival.
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After the events of 'Lone Wolf,' Joel's managed to get Ellie recovering and keep her safe in Jackson, where he's fighting for them to have a home and a life. However, as much as Ellie loves Joel, she feels responsible for the whole world because of her immunity - and thus, when the Fireflies come, she wants to go.
But Joel? Joel, who only just got his daughter - his still-injured twelve-year-old daughter - and the opportunity to keep her safe? No, of course he doesn't like that.
But he loves her, and when the time comes, he's willing to follow her to the ends of the earth.
Even if it means bad things are going to happen.
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- Part 2 of Lone Wolf
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Ever since Sarah... well, ever since Sarah ten years ago, Joel's stayed as far away from kids as he can. Just the sight of one is practically enough to send him into a panic attack.
But then Tommy signs them up for a contracting job at a high school as a favor to an old army buddy.
And then there's a little girl in the front office, who somehow appears in the coffee shop Joel visits because the motel's coffee machine is shit.
Most damning is when Joel goes in to do some work at three in the morning and that same goddamn little girl is asleep in his construction zone and, when he wakes her up, says she's homeless.
Next thing he knows, she's asleep in his motel bed and he's filing foster parent paperwork.
What the fuck just happened?
(Foster parent AU! Featuring Joel Trying His Best And FailingTM, Ellie annoying local man and his friends & family into adopting her, and Tess/Joel as a lil treat for the masses.)
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When Tess gets bitten, the Cordyceps doesn't spread - she's immune.
But what are the odds that two people are immune when nobody else is?
(And what are the odds that Marlene happened to give Ellie, a girl exactly the same age that Joel and Tess's dead baby would have been, to them?)
(Basically, Joel and Tess are Ellie's biological parents, Tess is immune, etc)
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“You’re a kid,” the stranger interrupts. His voice carries a gruff, uncaring tone, even though his eyes are considering.
Ellie pulls up her boot to rest by her hand, wrapping her arms around her knees. In the secret space of her heel, she thumbs the hilt of a pocketknife.
“Doesn’t mean I can’t blast your fucking head off,” she threatens.
The stranger’s brows raise as if her threat is empty. “If that’s what you were tryin’ to do, you did an awful shitty job of it.”
“Fuck you,” she snaps, and her cheeks burn. She hasn’t felt uncomfortable like this since David, since I like the fight—
Ellie is not doing that shit again.
Before the stranger can retort, she wields her pocketknife and lunges from her curled-up position to slash at his face.//
Ellie first meets Joel in the aftermath of Silver Lake.
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Joel Miller is your best friend’s uncle—Sarah’s dad, Tommy’s brother. He’s tied to everyone you love, woven into the fabric of your life. But when he returns after years of silence and sorrow following a tragedy, something between you shifts. Desire begins to grow through the cracks of shared grief.
Pain lingers. So does longing. And as old wounds resurface, you find yourself drawn to the one person you were never meant to want.
Because some ghosts don’t haunt you—
they tempt you. -
The Grass is Purple by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Aug 2025
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Welcome to the final part of The Grass Was Never Green.
(The Grass is Blue and The Grass is Red are complete! thank you for making it this far.)The snow hasn’t melted. The silence hasn’t lifted.
Jackson is still standing, but everything beneath it is beginning to crack.
Secrets. Lies. Love that's fraying at the edges.
This is the story of what comes after.
After the blood. After the silence.
After trust is broken, and hope starts to flicker back in, soft and strange and maybe too late.It’s about grief. And guilt. And the aching, slow crawl toward something like healing, if it even exists at all.💜
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- Part 3 of The Grass was Never Green
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I'll Never Ask For More by iammymotherschild
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Aug 2025
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"Maybe they're not here for me," Ellie tried to calm him. She needed Joel to be calm and content if she was about to lose her shit. "Maybe they just need a place to stay, like we did."Joel stopped and looked at her with sentimental eyes, his lips pursed in a line. His hand came up and rubbed the worry lines on his forehead. "Ellie, even if that were the case, you think those people are gon' just forget about the mess we made back at that hospital?"
She cringed at the memory and furrowed her eyebrows at him. "The mess you made. I didn't kill anyone."
He sighed and sat down at the spot beside her, running his hands over his face again. "I know," he mumbled. "You're right, I made a big mess of things." He looked at her again. "I would have done it all over again, y'know?"
Ellie nodded, "I know."
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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.
(STILL ONGOING !!!)
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the haunted and the haunter by KreativeYao
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Aug 2025
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What Ellie finds upon turning her head is not what she expected. Lingering next to Joel, atop the armrest of the couch, is a girl. Her hair is frizzy and controlled, kinky and coiled and no less beautiful than the rest of her. Her skin bears no filth, not like the dirt that’s accumulated all over Ellie’s. Her lips are large, her face full, like she’s been receiving full rations from the day she was born. There’s scorn in her eyes as her fingers trace over the broken watch on Joel’s wrist.
Ellie opens her mouth to ask about who in the hell she is when she notices the bloodstains on the girls’ violet shirt.
She then notices the inhuman translucency of her skin.
She then notices the way part of the girls’ leg phases through the couch.
Oh.
(TLDR: ellie can see ghosts. she can see sarah. it changes everything-- and nothing-- about her journey with joel.)
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Sequel to Rotten Sorrows.
Ellie finds herself transported back to the night before the fateful event occurred. She tries to stop the premonitions and Abby before losing herself and everything dear to her. Will she succeed?
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- Part 2 of Where Silence Remembers
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The Grass is Red by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Jul 2025
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This is Part 2 of my ongoing story,
The Grass Was Never Green.
Part 1 (The Grass is Blue) is fully posted. 148k words across 83 chapters. If you're up for a slow burn full of heartache, healing, and found family, go give it a read.The Grass is Red picks up years later, and it’s different, heavier. This section leans into the weight of silence, the fallout of secrets, and the consequences that come with the choices we don’t talk about. There are elements pulled and reimagined from The Last of Us Part II, but this story takes its own path.
There’s more darkness here. More action. Less romance. If you loved Part 1, I hope you feel the ache this chapter of the journey brings. And just a heads up, still no smut. This story has always been about emotion first, and that hasn’t changed.
Thanks for coming along. ❤️
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- Part 2 of The Grass was Never Green
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drawn to her light | a dellie + katille story by strangexvibes101
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Jul 2025
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what if there was time where Ellie and Dina did meet before? 5 years earlier before everything went down, how Ellie met Kat too also to begin with, an alternate storyline where we do get to see Ellie and Dina's friendship to relationship grow throughout the years along with drama and love triangles,
or, after Ellie and Joel comes back to Jackson, Ellie ends up finding Kat who she falls in love with but it doesn't work until Dina showed up in her life.
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"No hablaré de ti en pasado ya que sigues a mi lado,
quiero llorarte en silencio pero dueles demasiado.
De que me sacaras viva aún no entiendo el significado,
lo volverías a hacer, aún sabiendo el resultado."Ellie le escribe un poema a Joel en su diario mientras lidia con el duelo de su pérdida.
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- Part 1 of Poetry Characters
- Language:
- Español
- Words:
- 403
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 8
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A quiet kind of dying by Hidingfromstuff
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
10 Jul 2025
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Joel is a training coach at a old fighting dojo just trying to get by ignoring hole in his heart, left by his deceased daughter who had been dead 20 years but never forgotten
Ellie is a foster kid moving around the city of Boston, Broken, sad, angry grown up knowing she was going to be alone forever a fact ony made more obvious when her best friend, first kiss and first love ends her life one night. so its safe to say Ellie is rough around the edges
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Marline thinks it would be good for Ellie to get taught self defence and joel happens to have a spot for a new student or daughter?OR
A fighter AU i thought of when i should have been sleeping -
in harm's way by lauzz
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Walking Dead (Telltale Video Game)
28 Jun 2025
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With the loss of Lee Everett and almost everyone else she could call a friend bearing down on her mind, Ellie continues to make the best of a life that gives new meaning to pain.
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- Part 2 of against the tide
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Ellie manages to get revenge but at a very high cost. Mentally destroyed by what she has done, she flees Seattle determined to pay for her mistakes alone. The road back home is long and full of pain, will she be able to do it?
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Bump in the Road by soulmetalfairy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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What could have happened if Ellie were the one to be impaled on the rebar during the events at the university. Joel will do whatever it takes to keep Ellie alive, even if it means dealing with some unsavory characters.
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Nothing Left to Save by StormyWriter55
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Jun 2025
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Ellie wakes up alone in the Salt Lake City hospital—drugged, disoriented, and separated from Joel. When she overhears Marlene plotting her execution and Joel’s, she escapes, bloodied and barefoot, making her way across the city to save him. Together, they leave a trail of dead Fireflies behind: Dr. Anderson among them, Marlene left broken but breathing.
They make it back to Jackson—battered, haunted, but alive. For a while, they find peace. They try to forget. To heal. Ellie starts to believe she might have a future. Joel dares to hope she’ll be safe.
But the past doesn’t stay buried.
And what they ran from has found them again.
This time, there’s nowhere left to run.