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Joel's Painkiller (Ellie) by avabava07
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jun 2026
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As he pulled his hands away, Ellie stirred slightly. She rolled over, instinctively seeking the warmth, and rested her head heavily in his lap.
Joel froze. Every protective wall he had built over the last two decades told him to move. But he didn’t move. He looked down at her small face, completely peaceful in sleep, and he found that he didn’t mind the weight of her head on his thigh.
The whiskey fuzz had been gone for hours. He was completely, painfully sober. As the clock on the desk quietly ticked past midnight, signaling the start of September 26th, a heavy realization settled over him. For the first time in twenty years, Joel wasn’t sitting alone in a dark room, getting filthy drunk. He was sober and keeping a little girl safe.
TLDR: Joel is a FEDRA officer. Twenty years of apocalypse have made him cold-blooded. He's supposed to be cruel. But he crosses paths with a "troubled" eight-year-old girl who changes him for the better.
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05 Jun 2026
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It was stupid. He was fucking stupid. But still Shiv followed him deeper into the empty copy room, heels catching against the worn industrial carpet as Tom led her between towering metal shelves stuffed with dusty binders and forgotten paperwork.
- Or the missing tomshiv scene from s3e5 reimagined -
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- Part 3 of Wife, Wife, Wife
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28 May 2026
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Seven months pregnant, and they’ve never been more estranged. They live together, breathe the same air, yet feel miles apart. Shiv has closed herself off completely, leaving Tom knowing almost nothing about their child. She’s carrying a secret from her past, one so heavy it terrifies her, convinced that if it ever comes out, it will break her for good.
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28 May 2026
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“Don’t,” he snapped with sudden sharpness. The gun lifted a fraction too high before he lowered it again. “There’s no use trying to escape.”
Shiv looked at the gun again, then back at his nervous movements and decided to push, “You’ve never done this before, have you?”
- Tom kidnaps teenage Shiv for a ransom. Shiv realizes she has more to gain than to lose from the situation. -
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12 Mar 2026
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Ashes to Ashes by MessyDepressy95 for midnight_society
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Jun 2026
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She's whiter than sin and beat to hell, blood crusted up under her nose and around her mouth when he gently lifts the poorly stitched together sack up and away from her face with hands that don't feel like his own.
All of maybe seven or eight, if he had to guess, kids somehow looking both younger and older than they're meant to these days.
She looks like a baby to him, her features all soft despite being so damn thin.
With an odd sense off detachment, he rolls up her sleeves and checks both arms before moving onto her legs in search of any sign that's she's been infected, but the tell-tale climb of Cordyceps is nowhere to be found, no bite mark to mock him. Not on her back that's a swirl of blackened bruising and bumpy spine or on the hollow of her stomach that's just as tender and hard to look at, the cut of her ribs striking.
There ain't a thing on her outside of a list of hurts that's a mile long and etched into her skin.
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Joel stumbles on Ellie at the bottom of a pile of dead bodies meant for the burn pits, one shallow breath and a steady heartbeat is all it takes to undo him.Bookmarked by deaconess
06 Mar 2026