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every bird, gone unheard by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 May 2026
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“She’s cold, Joel.” It’s the first thing Tess says about the kid that isn’t practical, isn’t about the job. It’s quiet, too quiet for the kid to hear since she’s wandered a bit away and found herself a spot to sit down, out of the rain still dripping from the roof. “She’s just a fucking little girl and she’s cold.”
He stops trying to argue they should keep moving.
Or: Joel doesn't like Ellie being cold.
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09 May 2026
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i wish i was a lionfish by PaigeGoneRogue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Apr 2026
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Joel didn’t really care about the newcomers, to be perfectly honest.
Whenever someone new arrived in Jackson, it was always a big deal for a week. Chatter and talk and baked goods delivered before the shine of intrigue rusted and everyone went back to their business. Back to their happy, idyllic little lives in the toy town they all inhabited. Playing a dime-store society liable to collapse the day they dug up the wrong root.
The only difference between these newcomers and the ones they usually got was the age. The girl, a ratty, brown-eyed fifteen-year-old, had been picked up with her light-haired, blue-eyed dad by a patrol out near the old copper mine, and given immediate refuge because ‘youth was sacred’, the kind of sappy, stupid saying Jackson thrived on.𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟
David and Ellie take up residence in Jackson. Joel tries his best to help.
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15 Mar 2026
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a redwood among mere sprouts by two_birds_alone_together for ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Jun 2026
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“Kid, get the hell outta my tree.”
Stupid fucking neighbors. She’s never even seen the person who lives here before.
“It’s not your tree,” she calls back, infusing her tone with as much attitude as she can muster. “No one owns a tree.” Deep breaths, Ellie. Can’t give away how scared you are, especially not to a stranger. Especially especially not to a man.
“Tree’s on my property. I own the property, so I own the tree. Now scram.”
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ellie climbs a tree, and maybe finds a home in it
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12 Dec 2025
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“You can scream if you want,” Joel murmured. “Hell, that’s probably more convincin’. But I need you to listen first. Can you listen? You ain’t too scared to do that?”
Tess swallowed hard. Her breath rasped in her throat and her skin prickled all over. She was reeling from his speed and strength. He could do whatever he wanted. He was strong enough and fast enough to do whatever he wanted and there wasn’t anything she could do to stop him. The hubris of thinking she could actually have gotten herself out of the trap was staggering. If she was quiet, if she could be still, maybe another chance would open up. But the fight would not leave her body.
She loathed herself for it.
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06 Nov 2025
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Sweet Dreams by stumblingaway
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Apr 2026
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“Woah.” Ellie’s face is inches away from her window when Tess looks back, her gaze fixed on the deer. “They’re so big.”
“There’s a whole lot of things bigger than them,” Tess snorts.
“The only animals I’ve seen are birds and dogs.”
Right.
Joel rolls down his window and she’s hit with a blast of cold air to the face. She’s thankful, actually, as the roar of the wind fills the car, drowning out any of the kid’s attempts at further conversations. He rolls it back up once the sun has started to set, the insects beginning their evening songs.
Tess, Joel, Ellie, and the rare occurrence of sleep. A Tess Lives story.
Written for Whumptober Day 18: Dystopia
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- Part 4 of Whumptober 2025
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20 Oct 2025