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You show up in Jackson with nothing, just a name on your lips and the faint crust of blood drying on your skin. Months after the horde rips its way through the heart of the town, and with no memory of how you got there, you struggle to assimilate. You try—and you fail miserably.
So Maria tucks you away on the expansion project with the other no-talent nobodies. Those who can’t shoot straight, who won’t follow orders, but are still alive enough to swing a hammer. With no other choice, you take the opportunity. At your wit’s end, no family, barely any friends, you're assigned to work under a man the town respects.
Joel Miller carries more than the tools and the orders—he carries weight. Authority. Fear. Trust. And maybe, if you prove yourself, he could be your ticket to something like purpose again. But Joel doesn’t like you. Doesn’t trust you. There are unanswered questions in his eyes—like he’s waiting for something to bleed out.
Maybe he’s right.
Because sooner or later, the past always finds a way back.
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Returning home after your college graduation, you expect the same sleepy rhythm—quiet nights with your dad, maybe a summer job at his firm, and that ever-present question: what now? But the heat stretches long and slow, and you find yourself babysitting your neighbor’s daughter just to pass the time.
Joel Miller—your dad’s best friend, all calloused hands and quiet glances—is supposed to be off-limits. He’s older, steady, and familiar. But something between you has shifted. There’s tension, thick as the summer air, now impossible to ignore.
And as the days blur and the lines between you begin to fray, it becomes harder to remember where the rules used to be—or why they mattered.
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Safe with me by bitsandbobsandstuff
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
10 Jun 2018
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When an unknown threat enters your life, protection is offered at the highest level. As Bucky Barnes comes into your life, the game changes, and you realise falling for the man tasked with keeping you safe is the last thing you expected.
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27 Jul 2025
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Go Your Own Way by Nandorluna
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us
05 Feb 2024
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“You don’t need more,” he repeated softly. “But do you want more?”
He expected her to side-step the question – she was good at that. The look she gave him now was a thoughtful one, however. She mulled the question over in her head for a few moments, her brow furrowed. “Maybe…” she began, and there was some hesitation there, “maybe before all of this, I would have been open to it. Not…at first. I really think that I had to live a good life for a while before I was capable of…of thinking about motherhood in a way that wasn’t as painful. But there was a choice to be made there: having a baby, or keeping you. You asked me to marry you, and it seemed like the obvious choice – so I chose you.” She pressed a hand to the side of his face, her palm gently pushing against his cheek as though it alone could cure the devastation that had settled across his bruising features. “Apparently, I’ll always choose you.”
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Joel X OC. [COMPLETE.]
Sequel: As Long as You Follow
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Short Days, Long Nights by frannyzooey
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Feb 2024
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Part of a band of travelers, your party is slowly picked off one by one, until there are only two of you left. Finding an abandoned cabin in the woods, you decide to make camp there until you figure out your next move. As the seasons change, the nights get longer and longer…..
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- Part 1 of Short Days, Long Nights
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Fear of God by netherfeildren
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 May 2023
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What was monstrousness? What was it, but a certainty that there existed within you multitudes of desires, needs, guilts, impulses – humanity? At the end of the world, when the dust has finally settled, Joel grapples with what it is to take hold of your own monstrosity – your own humanity – and live with it. And what it is to bear that truth in the palm of your hand held towards the person you love, offer it to them, and have it be accepted for what it was. Courage, above all else, it is courage that is necessary to go on.
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Big bad Joel Miller falls in love and doesn't know how to deal with it.
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02 Jun 2025
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our coming of age has come and gone by peytonn
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Jun 2023
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Your arrival at the gates of Jackson meant you had a new home. Two years later, the only issue you had with it was one, very specific, ruggedly handsome man.
Joel Miller.
Avoiding Joel due to your unending attraction to him takes a turn on its heels as you no longer have the option to ignore it.
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