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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
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In Good Hands by stumblingaway
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
14 Oct 2025
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Tommy takes the bin from her when she’s done and cleans it out, placing it back down beside her. “Well, looks like it’s you and me for the rest of the day.”
Ellie curls in tighter on herself.
“Won’t be that bad, sugar, I promise.” His voice drops when he speaks again, lower but softer. It reminds her of Joel’s. “I can run across the street if there’s anything you want from your place?”
Hah. The one thing she wants from her place is two days away. She wipes sweat away from her face. “I’m okay. Really. You don’t need to—you won’t have to take me to the clinic.”
“We’ll see how it goes,” is all he says in response.
Ellie is sick while Joel is away.
Ft. Tommy showing his sick niece and infant son The Exorcist
(Written for Whumptober Day 14: Ignoring an Illness)
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2025
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15 Oct 2025
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A woman is a changeling by treadlightlymydarling
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2023
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Tess never intended to become a mother.
Some of the women she comes across in the QZ still call themselves that, mother, the first descriptor they’ll use for themselves, even though their children have been dead three or four times longer than they were ever alive.
The word they use for her is dangerous.
But now it comes down this, the woman who never wanted a kid and the man who has never gotten over losing one. A kid who has never known what it is to have a parent.
The woman who can’t even find the courage to ask Joel to love her, a man who can’t even refer to Tess as anything other than a business partner. A kid who doesn’t even understand what love is.
They’re an emotionally stunted trio who only have each other and it feels like a recipe for disaster.
(Tess lives).
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09 Oct 2025
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Save Me a Place by Nandorluna for lkay09
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us
16 Jun 2026
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The stars glitter overhead, blinking in and out as the swaying branches of the trees pass over them like dark fingers reaching across the sky. A streak of light passes overhead, a comet maybe, or a satellite, something bright and fleeting that seems to tear a hole through the velvet – and then the light comes to rest directly on his face. Everything goes blinding white, searing and painful. It hurts too much to keep his eyes open, so he squeezes them shut only to see red through his eyelids.
The light eventually passes and he opens his eyes again in a daze, blinking rapidly to clear away the bright splotches of white and purple that bloom and fade across his eyes, unfurling like flowers. Joel is there suddenly, much closer than he was before, his face lit up harshly from beneath by someone's flashlight. Every line of his face looks darker and deeper than it should be, the creases around his eyes like canyons, the hollows of his cheeks shadowed and gaunt, his brow furrowed with worry.
And she's there, too, just behind the glow of the flashlight, watching with her glittering eyes that catch the glow of the beam and hold it, twin galaxies all their own.
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- Part 2 of Firefly Tommy Miller AU
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02 Oct 2025
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if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2025
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There’s more blood than she expects, when she’s bit.
Riley tears up one of her spare t-shirts so Ellie can wrap her arm up, but they have to change it twice before it stops soaking through. Weirdly, Riley’s hand doesn’t bleed as much. There’s a bit of blood, because, well, in teeth versus skin, teeth win, but she just dabs it away with a scrap of cloth and some water and it stops pretty quick.
Worried about making it bleed again, Ellie leaves the wrapping on hers for so long that neither of them notice that the whorls of infection on her arm don’t match the infection creeping up Riley’s arm.
Or: The one where Ellie bleeds a lot.
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08 Jul 2025
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blueberry alley by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2025
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Ellie slides into her place and picks up her spoon. “What’s this?”
“Porotos granados,” Tommy replies. He sits beside her, squeezing her shoulder as he passes. “Our mama used to make it. She was from-”
“Santiago,” Ellie volunteers. Tommy chuckles.
“Si, Santiago,” he agrees. He says it with a little lilt that’s so different from his normal drawl that it makes Ellie giggle. It’s still weird to her, how sometimes Tommy and Joel switch so easily from one dialect or language to the next. She doesn’t even mind when they talk Spanish around her to keep her from knowing their business. She likes the rapid fire cadence of their words, the way the vowels sound like sugar melting over hot coals on their tongues, the way Joel sucks his teeth and hisses, how Tommy’s voice goes higher when he’s joking. It’s weird sometimes to look around at all the ways her family doesn’t match each other and yet love each other so much. It shouldn’t make sense - they shouldn’t make sense - and still, they do.
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Ellie's first year in Jackson, told through dinners and lunches and midnight snacks and egg sandwiches.
Or:
Food as a form of love.
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17 Jun 2025
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“Joel, get Joel. Please.” Bile is rising in her throat. She swallows it back.
Ian makes a scoffing noise, taking a step closer. “Seriously, you’re fine. You just knocked it, that’s all. You go crying to your daddy every time you get a bruise?”
Ellie fucking doesn’t. Ian bruises her almost everyday, and she never cries.
Someone tries to make Ellie grow up too fast.
Ft. Worried Joel and a teddy bear named Fuckface
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07 Jun 2025
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(Podfic) when a flower grows wild (it can always survive) by marchflower by shoke4321
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 May 2025
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She’s afraid of looking stupid in front of them. What did they just call her? Hardy, like those little flowers out there blooming in the snow. That’s what she has to be.
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Ellie’s first night in Jackson is harder than she thought it would be.
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27 May 2025
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With a house so big, it seems like a waste to not use all of it.
Which is why she starts deliberately making an effort to spend time in the parts of it she and Joel don’t use often. The linen closet, the dining room, the two spare bedrooms, what Joel says used to be an office, even the attic, nothing gets untouched on her quest to make sure no inch of the house goes unappreciated. She always does it when Joel is out of the house, knowing that it’s a little strange, but she gets a thrill from it, the ability to think something like, “I’m in the spare bedroom of my house right now” and know that it’s not just a fantasy anymore.
And if it would likely set her up to have Joel call her a weird kid again, this new little hobby of hers, well.
What Joel doesn’t know won’t get her roasted.
(ellie settles into having a house) (and then into having a home)
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13 May 2025
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Bleed to Love Her by Nandorluna for two_birds_alone_together, Bumblepony, renegade_knight
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us
29 Aug 2025
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The world is swimming, the tops of the buildings blurring into the wispy gray sky. The taste of copper floods his mouth. He's flat on his back, the rough, wet pavement biting into his skin through his shirt, and Tess looms over him, grinding her boot into his chest, pinning him in place.
“You are not fucking doing this."
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Slight AU: Tommy never leaves the Fireflies. He still heads west, assigned to help establish their newest base and protect their most essential asset - a scientist who thinks he can develop a "cure." Even without his help, Joel and Ellie manage to find their way to Salt Lake City.
Some things change, while others stay exactly the same.
[Complete.]
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- Part 1 of Firefly Tommy Miller AU
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03 May 2025
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blackbird, blackbird, what do you see? by marchflower for historian_in_pearls
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 May 2025
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“I think I - fucked up my ankle.” She points to her left foot. “When I fell.”
Her remorse lies thick and rank between them. Joel imagines he can see it rotting there, in between shafts of honeyed sunlight. Shame, he thinks, fits her so poorly. He’s reminded of Kansas City, of her sitting her with her back to the newspaper lined window, chin on her knees, a single tear on her cheek as she tells him:
It wasn’t my first time.
Little girls, he thinks, have no business carrying that sort of regret. He has no business reading into it this way - thinking about all the tender spots Ellie’s got lying in ruin inside of her, all of the ways this world has failed her. All of the ways he’s failed her, all of the ways he might still. She’s only a job, he tells himself sternly. She’s cargo.
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Joel patches Ellie up again, and again, and again.
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29 Apr 2025
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angel from montgomery by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Sep 2025
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“Hey.”
The girl’s eyes snapped up, panicked. She spared a second to glance down at the man in front of her, her eyes racing up and then looked at Joel with the exact same type of terror, before emerging with something in her hands.
Joel watched, immediately suspecting a gun. “Whoa, now-”
The girl lifted her hands up, revealing an old knife. She smeared the tears on her cheeks away, trying to seem bigger than she was, but it didn’t work.
She was a terrified kid.
The urgency in Joel’s expression blinked. “Hey,” He repeated, his voice painted soft, though he didn’t let himself hear it. The girl just stared up at him with her knife, not realizing the tremble of her own grip or the violent shakes that tore through her entire, bare body. He just realized that now. Only her knees were covering her, along with the clearly torn pair of underclothes on her lower half. She cringed under his eyes. “It’s okay,” He tried. “I’m not gon’ hurt you.”
The girl didn’t even blink. She just stared up through her tears, terrified of him.
Fuck.
TLDR: Joel finds a traumatized Ellie on the side of the road. He's immediately soft. Meanwhile, she has to learn how to trust him.
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28 Apr 2025
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Lay Your Weary Head Upon My Chest by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 May 2025
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"When I say go, you go." He's panting, terrified and hurting like a son of a bitch from the chest strap of the seatbelt jerking tight, but he needs Tess to take one fucking command.
For once in her life, he needs her to listen to him.
"You slip through the wall, and you get Ellie the fuck out of here. I will find you after." Her lip curls into a snarl, fury and irritation chafing her expression. He knows that she's pissed, but they ain't smuggling partners on a run gone sideways right now.
They're parents.
"We don't get to leave, Joel. That was the fucking deal." And it still is. He's trying to get them all out alive.
That means she needs to run, and he needs to handle the fucking hunters opening fire in the direction of their family.
"I ain't leavin' and neither are you; this is just temporary." Hoping like hell he ain't lying to her, he tightens the strap of Ellie's sling and insures she's pressed tight against Tess.
He'll get back to them, and he'll mow down every fucker that tries to get in his way.
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Joel finds baby Ellie after Marlene fails to show up for Anna, he and Tess make the hard decision to raise her themselves.Series
- Part 1 of Teensy Baby Ellie
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27 Apr 2025
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Never is a Promise by Arien for bignosebushybrows
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 May 2025
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Fix-it fic for episode 02.02. Same situation, different choices, new stakes.
“Your friends?” Tess graciously posited.
Complication. Tess didn’t know her; she didn’t know her friends. She knew the Lodge was a mess and at higher altitude; colder, maybe. She knew they had two horses and they moved faster with two riders. This girl had no weapon and no credentials.
And Tess did not like outsiders.
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- Part 22 of Drifters, a book of Tess and Joel
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22 Apr 2025
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the once and future carpenter by becomethesun for marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Apr 2025
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Lately, it’s been hard to know what Ellie needs. Some days she’s his little shadow and hardly leaves his side, and other days he gets the cold shoulder and she barely talks to him all day. He’d like to chalk it all up to typical adolescent angst, normal kid stuff, but he knows it runs deeper than that. She’s still adjusting to being part of a family, on top of dealing with all of the shit she went through on their trip here, the fallout of everything that happened at the hospital in particular. Everything he did, not that he regrets any of it. It breaks his heart that she’s hurting so much over it, but even if she decided that she never wanted to speak to him again, he’d take that loss a thousand times over losing her in that hospital.
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Joel and Ellie make their way towards forgiveness and family with the help of Uncle Tommy and Aunt Maria, a few carpentry projects, and a contraband turtle.
Good Things Happen Bingo: Working With Your Hands
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- Part 2 of kin (a canon-divergent au)
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