Marceline96
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You’d been told your thirties were when everything would fall into place. But your thirtieth birthday finds you looking for answers at the bottom of a whiskey glass; recently let go from your lackluster job, fresh out of a tumultuous relationship, and more than a little bit cynical about what the future may hold. Then a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime – an all-expense-paid retreat to a ranch in Wyoming. There’s just one catch. And his name is Joel Miller.
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Cowboy!Joel AU. Fake relationship - you need to pretend to be Joel’s fiancée so he can get the sheep ranch of his dreams. You know the drill.
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It’s been two weeks since he walked you home from the Tipsy Bison and had his lips pressed into that same hairline while you quivered in his lap. Just the recollection has his heart skipping beats like muscle memory. Two weeks he’s been doing everything possible to avoid you, and for good reason. Because a man like him should not be wanting the types of things that he does from a girl like you.
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- Part 2 of Like Nature Intended
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All My Blood for the Sweetness of Her Laughter by Marceline96
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
14 Feb 2025
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You sniffle, using the flannel sleeve to wipe the wetness from your cheeks. “Sorry. Bad dream. Didn’t want to wake you.” You don’t tell him that the dream had been about him. That the last thing you saw behind your eyelids before you woke up in a cold sweat with his name on your lips was him and Ellie leaving you behind as the horde of infected chasing you overtook you. In your nightmare, his face had been cold and uncaring as he watched you get swallowed up by the swarm. Now his forehead wrinkles in concern. “Just needed some air. You can go back to sleep. I’ll be in in a minute.”
Joel frowns at the thought of you out here all by yourself, shivering from the cold and your tears. You could’ve woken me, he almost says. But he thinks sometimes that you and him are cut from the same sad cloth. He wouldn’t have woken you if the roles had been reversed. He’d be out here on these steps too. Once you make peace with being alone for the rest of your life, it’s almost more painful to try to walk back into the fold than to just stick it out.
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Like Nature Intended by Marceline96
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Feb 2025
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When you and Ellie cook up a plan to help you finally lose your virginity, you never expect Joel to take such an...interest in your cause.
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- Part 1 of Like Nature Intended
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Our Little Corner of the World by Marceline96
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Jan 2025
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“Are you Joel?” the girl asks.
“Mmm,” he grunts in answer.
“My mom says it was kind of a dick move to open a diner with your brother and only name it after yourself.”
Joel hears Tommy bark out a laugh behind him. He almost chuckles. This girl has a pair on her, that’s for sure.
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You run the inn in your small town, and you and your daughter, Ellie, meet the surly new diner owner. Basically the Gilmore Girls AU that’s been haunting my dreams. Cue the la la las!
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Like Nature Intended by Marceline96
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Mar 2025
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