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Another Life by betterthantherapy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Dec 2025
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You weren’t supposed to be here- not in Texas, not renovating your best friend's dream house, and definitely not raising a child on your own.
But life didn’t ask what you were ready for.
You made a promise. Lily would have a home, even if you had to build it from nothing.
What you didn’t expect was Joel Miller- the contractor with tired eyes and quiet hands, who watches you a little too carefully and offers himself up when you most need him. A man who makes the unfinished house feel less empty… and makes you wonder if another future is possible.
Maybe even another life.
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AU of Promises We Keep. Does not need to be read in order.
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Promises We Keep by betterthantherapy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Nov 2025
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You squeezed your eyes shut, willing yourself not to cry. You were left alone to fend for yourself and a child. You didn’t know how. Fuck, you’d never even had to look after a fish, and now some laughing deity had put a child in your care.
But you made a promise.
You’d give your life trying to keep her safe.
Even if that meant following a stranger, who seemed to hate your existence, to a settlement you had never heard of.
What else was there left in this world for you?
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Set 15 years after the outbreak if Joel was never asked to take Ellie to the fireflies. Instead, he continues his quest to find his brother, finding you and little more than he bargained for on his way.
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Somewhere to Land by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Nov 2025
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You come home at 19 because you’ve run out of places to fall.
Back to a father you barely know.
Back to a house that feels too small for your anger, your loneliness, your life.And then there’s Joel Miller, the man next door. Older. Quiet. Steady. The kind of man who shouldn’t look at you the way he does… and the kind of man you shouldn’t want.
But tension like this doesn’t stay harmless. It pulls. It burns. It ruins sleep.What starts as glances through open windows and arguments that leave your pulse racing spirals into something deeper, heavier, impossible to ignore. Something that scares you both in different ways.
This is a story about desire that hits before you’re ready, love that hurts before it heals, and two people who keep finding their way back to each other through every mistake, every distance, every ache.
A slow burn that smolders.
A heartbreak that lingers.
A connection that refuses to die.- Language:
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