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Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors by elfin (finnelfin)
Fandom The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
30 Jan 2025
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She'll say it offhandedly, mine, and it's just a truth in the way they are together, the way they work, the way they survive. It's a marker for others to not fuck with her, because he's hers and that's a threat.
Tess and Joel and the years they had in Boston QZ.
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02 Jun 2023
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The story of Tess: how she meets Joel and the years of survival beyond.
“So let’s do it,” Tess whispered fiercely.
“What?”
“Let’s just not die. You, me, Tommy. We’ll go all the way to the end, as far as we have to go. Fuck Cordyceps and fuck the future. Let’s just not fucking die.”
“Well, all right,” Joel agreed. “You’re the boss.”
It was absurd optimism, a ridiculous fight: don’t fucking die. But it was the biggest Fuck You she could muster against reality. She was not going to give in, no matter how bad it got. She’d seen people take the easy, quiet way out with their pills or bullets. She got it. She even envied them a little. That kind of quick death would never belong to her. She was too full of fight, too angry at the world.
“We’ll go as far as we have to,” Joel murmured.
(Extra chapter added 16/11. It's the new Chapter 5. No other content has been altered.)
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- Part 1 of Drifters, a book of Tess and Joel
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10 Apr 2023
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22 Feb 2023
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The Murdock boys, they've got the Devil in 'em. But Matt's scared his Devil isn't violent. (It's just as gut-wrenching.)
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- Part 1 of NCU
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12 Jul 2022
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Matt’s days are punctuated by the heartbeats of others, and the steady pulses of those he counts dearest to him mark the hours passing. From his office he can hear the city going about its business, and next to him, like a bass beat to the music of traffic and voices, are Foggy and Karen’s hearts. It’s a normal day, and they’re all at work on their own cases in their own offices.
Until they’re not.Half the world is snapped out of existence. This is not their story. This is the story of the survivors.
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Bookmarked by Nell
12 Jul 2022