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I Told The Doc I Didn’t Want Brain Surgery, But He Changed My Mind by joschmo
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
14 Jun 2023
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Joel wakes up in the hospital too late. Marlene says the brain surgery already happened. The doctor cored out a chunk of Ellie for testing. The good doctor is going to take out another and another and another until they have a cure: vivisecting Ellie through millimeters of gray matter. Ellie will be unconscious the whole time. Marlene assures him it will be completely painless as they turn his smart vibrant girl into a vegetable.
Joel disagrees. Vehemently.
Ellie's life is saved but she can't communicate or move the same ways. Now both Joel and Ellie work to do more than just endure and survive.
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22 Dec 2025
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“I have something you have to tell Ellie, but it has to be after you both leave.”
He narrows his eyes slightly, suspecting a trap. He’s wanted to leave since the very start, but this is the first time a Firefly has mentioned it, let alone the Queen Firefly herself.
“And what might that be?” He drawls with a deliberate air of unconcern, even as he registers potential ambush points in the room.
Marlene takes a breath before she looks him in the eye.
“That her immunity isn’t because her mother got bitten when she was giving birth to her.” The weight of Marlene’s words tells him this feels like a confession to her, but he can’t help but scoff.
“So what?” He asks. “How’d she get immune then? Put something in her mouth when she was a baby that she shouldn’t have?” He smiles slightly, a mean, hard thing, still grinding a particular ax on the subject and eager to take a swing. “Not that you would know that, of course.”
(some marlene redemption and some parent!joel feels babeeeey)
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22 Dec 2025
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“Do you want to put away Ellie’s things?" Tommy asks. "We can put them in the attic for now.”
“The hell would we do that for?” Joel lifts up his dead little girl’s shirt, rolls his eyes at the dirt stains that didn’t come out, and folds it neatly.
Tommy swallows. “Cause she died, Joel. And maybe it’s too hard right now to…” he cuts himself off. Joel isn’t listening anymore. He unfolds and refolds the same shirt, his eyes glassy. “Joel—”
“—You got the roster out for next month yet? Was hoping to get Ellie’s birthday week off, I’ve got plans.” He shakes his head. “16, jesus.”
Tommy drops it. Ellie keeps living.
Ellie is presumed dead. Joel doesn't react the way Tommy thought he would.
Written for Whumpter Day 16: Repressed Trauma
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- Part 3 of Whumptober 2025
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21 Dec 2025
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*through tear stained glasses and a pile of tissues* . . .Oh man
never sobed more from reading a fic. 10/10 would cry again -
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Uncle Tommy’s teased her about being a homebody before, but she really and truly just doesn’t like staying away from home. She likes to tease her dad that it’s because it’s the only place she gets to be the boss of everything. He grumbles about her sassing him, but she’s still the one making the grocery lists, so he can grumble as much as he wants as long as her will still rules the roost.
Not that there’s much to rule over right now, not with her dad and uncle out in Wisconsin helping one of her nana’s friends who needed help making her house more wheelchair-accessible since her husband had a bad fall. Her dad had been hesitant about leaving her, but she’d thought this would be great practice for her not having her dad a mere two hour drive away if she really needed an out. After all, she’ll be off at college in just four years, and she definitely doesn’t want to end up being a weirdo who has to call her dad to come get her.
Hearing the nearly deafening sirens going by outside, though, she desperately wishes she hadn’t been quite so insistent about being just fine without her dad for two weeks.
(when the outbreak happens, joel and tommy are out of the state, and sarah's left to survive on her own)
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- Part 1 of brady bunch verse
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19 Dec 2025
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Spoken, Yet Unsaid by Triscribe
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
04 May 2025
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“Perhaps this might do it,” she hummed. Bringing her hands together, the Jedi bowed, just low enough the tips of her front lekku brushed the floor. The gesture served two purposes: a greeting, certainly, but also a momentarily stronger connection to the vibrations in the metal, giving Shaak a more precise peek at the intruder’s heartbeat and rate of breathing.
Reassuringly, both slowed a touch. And then, more reassuringly, the stranger bowed back: one hand held up flat, the other folded into a fist before they pressed together, and then a perfectly precise bend of ninety degrees from the waist, even deeper than Shaak Ti’s own.
(Cassandra Cain, Kamino, and the benefit of understanding body language above all others.)
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- Part 40 of What-If Star Wars AUs
- Part 16 of Canon? What Canon? Batfam Stories
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23 Nov 2025