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note: all the stories are titled with lyrics from the song "I Don't Like Who I Was Then" by The Wonder Years. (The realist pop-punk band from South Philly, not the classic TV series)
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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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She tries to shake the thought of all of them out of her head. She wants to enjoy this. They fucking made it. No more taking turns sleeping. No more ignoring the rumbling of their stomachs and parched throats. They get to relax and bask in the glory of it all. So why does the thought of actually doing that make her sick to her stomach?
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Ellie and Joel make it back to Jackson. Ellie has a hard time forgetting the past and Joel shows her that she doesn't have to.
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- Part 2 of Father-Daughter Bonding With The Millers
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Tess is methodical, thorough, efficient. She does everything in two’s — bullets between eyes, boot pairs in rotation so they last longer, shivs tucked into her back pocket, curse words behind her teeth, orgasms ripping through her thanks to him. Even if she didn't demand them, Joel would deliver.
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you’re familiar (like my mirror years ago) by LiterallyThePresident
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Mar 2023
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“I… understand what you’re going through-“ he started cautiously, and Ellie couldn’t help the bitter little laugh that escaped her.
“Oh, you understand?” she bit out like a cornered dog, pulling his jacket tighter around her as her skin crawled, remembering David’s touch, his sickening grin, “Some fucking freak tried to rape you too?”
Joel didn’t answer, meeting her eyes steadily, and Ellie’s throat closed up.
“No…”