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burning one hell of a something by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Aug 2025
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“I just… I wanna wear short sleeves again. But… but Joel’s gonna think it’s his fault. I-I didn’t think…”
The simple explanation breaks his heart, just a little. Of course she didn’t consider how Joel’s going to react. She’s fifteen, she’s new in town, and she just wants to fit in with the other kids without questions or stares. It shouldn’t be a surprise that she went and maimed herself so she can wear short sleeves.
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(an uncle, a niece, and more confessions then one man can handle)
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if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2025
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There’s more blood than she expects, when she’s bit.
Riley tears up one of her spare t-shirts so Ellie can wrap her arm up, but they have to change it twice before it stops soaking through. Weirdly, Riley’s hand doesn’t bleed as much. There’s a bit of blood, because, well, in teeth versus skin, teeth win, but she just dabs it away with a scrap of cloth and some water and it stops pretty quick.
Worried about making it bleed again, Ellie leaves the wrapping on hers for so long that neither of them notice that the whorls of infection on her arm don’t match the infection creeping up Riley’s arm.
Or: The one where Ellie bleeds a lot.
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creatures, great and small by RandomRuth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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“Ellie? That you?”
Joel’s home early.
Halfway between the front door and the stairs and in full view of the kitchen, Ellie freezes. “Fuck,” she mutters, low. “Yeah,” she says, loud enough to carry.
She has no choice but to stay hunched over herself like Quasimodo from that movie — it’s suspicious as fuck, but she manages to manoeuvre her arm to mostly obscure the squirming of the tell-tale bulge under her hoodie.
(Ellie and Joel have settled in Jackson. While Ellie goes to school and, Joel hopes, makes some friends her own age, he tries to keep their house from tumbling down around them. Ellie does befriend some Jackson locals, and tries to sneak them into her room — without Joel noticing that they’ve all got four legs.)
One-shot, set after season 1.
Series
- Part 1 of all, who live
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22 Jun 2025
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one more song about moving along the highway by becomethesun for two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Mar 2025
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Ellie goes quiet again, pulling her knees to her chest. Joel has half a mind to turn around and take her home, call off work and let her hang out on the couch watching YouTube videos of other people playing video games, which she seems to prefer over actually playing games herself. But it’s the last week of eighth grade, she should be in class, and on top of that, everything he’s read says that grieving kids need structure, routine, normalcy. He knows it’s what he needs, too. He can imagine how easy it would be for him to fall apart and shut down, the same way he did when he lost Sarah.
But now there’s another little girl, sitting here in his truck, fiddling with the car door lock switch, who’s depending on him to keep his shit together.
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In an outbreak-free world, Joel makes a promise to Tess to look after Ellie. Together, Joel and Ellie navigate life, loss, and something like family. (A modern foster-ish AU featuring cameo appearances from some familiar faces and the healing power of a Taco Bell Baja Blast.)
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blue blossom days by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 May 2025
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Ellie sits out in the backyard simply because she can. Because she has one of those now. Along with an actual fucking house.
Who would've thought?