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After Kansas City, Joel and Ellie agree it'd be safer if people believed they're father and daughter.
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“I don’t really get it,” she said, “but I trust you.”
Joel blinked down at her, wearing that same expression from last time: like he wished she didn’t trust him at all. But then he wiped it away and refocused on the road ahead of them, a long brown ribbon unspooling over the gently rolling hills. “I won’t let anything happen to you, Ellie. You know that, right?”
“Yup. Thought that was already established, given I trusted you to watch my back during the clicker swarm, but—” She shrugged. “You got me this far. I trust you’ll get me even farther.”
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- Part 2 of take on me
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15 Aug 2025
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what dads do for daughters by mercess
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Apr 2023
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Sometimes dads murder. Sometimes dads braid hair. It's the little things.
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09 Aug 2025
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Riley gets bit in the mall, but Ellie doesn't.
Joel takes her anyway.
There’s no grand purpose for her existence, nothing to make her worth saving.
Joel loves her anyway.
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- Part 1 of The Garden
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07 Aug 2025
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this is me trying (at least i'm trying) by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 May 2024
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It wouldn’t be so bad if she was alone in Jackson like she was in Boston. She’d figure out where she fit and she wouldn’t really care if people liked her. She’s done it before when they made her switch schools.
But she’s not. She’s here with Joel, and she doesn’t want him to be embarrassed by her. She doesn’t want him to regret this. To regret her.
OR: Ellie adjusts to living in Jackson.
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18 Jul 2025
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Keep Going by stainedglasspanel
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 May 2023
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Joel sounds a thousand miles away. “Ellie? Are you listening? I said, don’t you *ever* do that again.”
Well, she thinks deliriously, that won’t be a problem after all.
“Ellie, what—?”
It feels like she has no control over her body anymore, like it’s someone else who is extending her arm, pulling back her sleeve, and exposing a ring of broken skin. She hears Joel stop breathing when he sees it too.
She's been bitten.
________AU where Ellie is already traveling across the country with Joel when she gets bitten.
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07 Jul 2025