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A month after a brutal Fourth of July shift and a quiet fallout with Garcia, Trinity Santos does what she does best, throws herself into work and tries not to think about anything else.
Then a burn patient with dark red hair and an easy smile walks into her ER.
At first, the flirting feels harmless. The chance encounters feel like coincidence.
The problem is… she keeps showing up.
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"If Trinity was going to assess her life it would go as follows: one pan, one fork, dust. Then: Ibuprofen, NyQuil, Sleep-Aid, Sleep-Gels, Melatonin. Stained glass reflection on her thread-bare carpet in synthetic blues. Hail Mary."
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Trinity gets better, gets worse.
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Trinity stumbled towards the bathroom, her joints popping and creaking. She tripped over a thrash bag that Whitaker was supposed to grab on his way out in the morning, barely regained her balance, closed and locked the door, then finally, finally dropped down beside the toilet, throwing up everything she had in her stomach.
She groaned. Redbulls were pricy as fuck.Trinity breaks down after an particularly unlucky day at the Pitt.
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03 Apr 2026
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Trinity Santos finds herself on the rooftop of PTMC, in a world full of hurt.
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10 Mar 2026
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The words Trinity was thinking were out of her mouth before she could consider them. “I just didn’t want him to touch me again.”
“Again?” His voice was suddenly spiked with alarm, so much so that Trinity couldn’t quite decipher his confusion for a second longer than she should’ve. “He’s done this before?”
“No, not him,” she clarified, then raised her left hand to make the vague outline of a man in the air. “I mean. Him.”
Langdon looked at the blank space she had gestured to, like it might explain what she meant. He sounded wary as he said, “Okay, Santos.”
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trinity santos gets drugged and the only person there to help is her least favorite coworker. lucky her.
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In a world of flight, Max was flightless.
In a society with wings, Max had none.
In an evolutionary advancement of airborne humans, Max was grounded.
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“Do you think it’s possible to grow wings?”
Dustin looked a little bewildered when the question was spewed at him. Max didn’t really blame him. She didn’t even let him get a word in edgewise to her that morning, nor did she greet him or any of the others in their flock before she was spraying her needy curiosity out at him.
He blinked several times, opening and closing his Mandarin duck wings in a habit that meant that he was thinking. Then, he said, “Well…yeah, I think so. There have been some accounts of wingless people growing wings before, but it’s, like, a one in one million chance to happen.” He tilted his head at her. “Why do you ask?”
Max took a breath, then said, “I think I might be growing wings.”
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OR: the wing au absolutely NO ONE asked for
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10 Dec 2025
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06 May 2025
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Joel remembers, and Ellie learns. (Or, loosely, three times Joel takes care of Ellie.)
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“I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”
A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”
Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”
Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”
“Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:
“What?!”
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Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Complications ensue.
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Bookmarked by carchbin
13 Mar 2025
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ohh i’m so fond of this one. . . the joel and ellie of it all
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memories made in the coldest winter by lkay09 for marchflower, renegade_knight
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
15 Apr 2025
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“Ellie?”
She exhales inside her little pod, toes curling inside their woolen socks. Maybe if he thinks she’s still asleep –
A heavy hand lands on her knee, shaking gently. “Ellie, time to get up.”
Ellie groans, still not emerging. “Don’t wanna. ‘S too cold.”
A rough chuckle, the hand patting a little. “You’ll be warmer downstairs, I got the woodstove goin’. C’mon, darlin’, up and at ‘em.”
“No.”
(ellie's first winter back in jackson, and joel's lie is already exposed)
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03 Mar 2025
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Hold Back The River by sporadicallyceaseless
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Nov 2024
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"Maria's gonna be a little late tonight, she’s busy yelling at some kids that got caught jumping off the dam.”
Stunned, Joel eyes the puddle slowly forming under her feet with quiet horror. “But you were smarter than that, right?”
“Or faster?” Tommy cuts in hopefully.
“Both,” Ellie agrees. Then, with a wince, “But also…neither.”
A dangerous dare and a nasty sickness rock the Miller household on an already emotional week. Joel and Ellie learn that something always lurks deeper than the surface.
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02 Jan 2025
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sparrows at dawn, ravens at dusk by marchflower for lkay09
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Nov 2024
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Don’t even need to be big, he’d told Sarah once. He tells Ellie that now, watches her face fold and unfold, a flower in bloom. Don’t even need to be big - because what a fucking privilege it is, he thinks, to be twenty years past the end of the world and still holding that dubious honor of cradling all the small parts of a little girl in his hand.
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Two different girls. One dad.
Because even after the end of the world, parenting doesn't change all that much.
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Jackson fits Joel like a glove. He joined the construction crew to do whatever contractors do. He makes small talk with the endless stream of strangers that approach them in the canteen when they’re trying to eat in peace. He’s full of amiable smiles and says shit like “after you, ma’am.”
Jackson fits Ellie like a glove too—like one of the hundreds of gloves they encountered on the road that didn’t fit her annoyingly small hands.
She doesn’t fit into normal things.
(Or: Ellie struggles to settle in Jackson, and Joel gets better at the feelings shit)
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- Part 3 of Jackson
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The tender fret in Joel's voice made Ellie feel the way she had on that half-wall outside Salt Lake City, like she’d accidentally stitched part of herself into him when she’d clumsily sewn up the hole in his belly. Between them it was all so much scar tissue and thread.
Deep in winter, she’d insisted he move carefully lest he ruin her efforts at mending. Now she demanded it of herself: try not to pull too hard.
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post-season 1. Scenes from a long first Jackson summer. Joel and Ellie and all that awful wasted space between ‘em.
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Joel. He’ll know what to do with her, how to wrench this manic energy and overwhelming unease back into control. She slips out of the bed, down the hall, to the right. Her feet knowing to find their way to safety even through the dark. The floor is cool beneath bare feet—it should be grounding. But it only makes her feel like a frightened child sneaking into the master bedroom in search of someone to make it all better.
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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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27 Jul 2024
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“What you're bein’ is real goddamn dumb.” Ellie picks herself up and wraps her arms around his bicep. “The part of Nebraska I loved best isn’t even there anymore.”
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corals and kings by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Aug 2024
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“Maybe I should sleep here tonight,” Ellie confesses, reaching for her blanket and weakly wrapping it around her. “You can make sure my arm doesn’t peel off in the middle of the night.”
Joel’s face pales at the image; but, he still reaches forward and finishes wrapping the blanket more snuggly around her, tucking her in. “It’d be my greatest honor,” he says.
Ellie could easily poke back in jest, but when he presses a kiss to her temple she realizes that maybe his heart is as exposed and raw as hers. That’s maybe, wrapping her up in a blanket, feeding her soup, and trying to kiss the physical pain away really is his greatest honor. She doesn’t have any reason not to believe him.
After all, he’s always been a terrible liar.
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Ellie, Joel, and a collection of important late night sleepovers.
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For the first time in decades Joel is eating healthy. As he and Ellie adjust to Jackson, Joel realizes maybe he wasn’t feeling awful just because he’d been growing old.
A slight hurt/mostly comfort, introspective story about the healing power of good food and the path of recovery.
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fundamental frequencies by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Apr 2024
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Tommy gives him wounded looks the next day as he helps patch his brother up, shame like a wet blanket around him, suffocating him with each new mark he finds he left the night before. He hadn’t meant it, hadn’t meant to take his pain out on his brother, hadn’t meant to rip into the last family he’s got left, hadn’t meant to leave him limping and aching and bleeding when morning found them.
But the sound of Tommy’s mournful howl, a call that would never again be joined by a higher pitched one in return, had sent him over the edge he’d been clinging to until that point. He’d been angry, furious at his brother for what had felt like mockery, this call that would never have a response. Howls are meant to bring packs back together, after all. They’d both howled for Sarah plenty through the years, keeping track of a pup who was far too good at finding mischief.
He’d just wanted it to stop, the sound that should mean family.
It’s just the two of them now, after all.
(the TLOU werewolf verse that absolutely NO ONE asked for)
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wild horses couldn't drag me away by flowerpetvls
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 May 2024
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“Can I ask you a question?” Ellie asks when Joel meets her eyes. She juggles the soccer ball in her hands, dropping it several times before accepting defeat and kicking it back into the grass.
“No.”
“Do you ever take that cowboy hat off?” she continues.
(or, Joel's a cowboy, and Ellie wants him to take her to Colorado)
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- Part 1 of i went about as far as i could go