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This might be a fluke. It could be stress and grief and age. It could be menopause. It might. He was never that regular to begin with, so that's no help. He'd just been stretching his T too thin and now everything it had been holding off for so many years was crashing down on him all at once.
But it might not be. It could be more.
It could be some part of Tess that he gets to keep.
Joel leaves Boston with Ellie and much more than he bargained for
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The T4T Joel and Tess oops, right? fic
PSA: To be cringe is to be free, the tags are accurate, so you know exactly what you're getting into. Hoping to update weekly.
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You believed Joel was dead. You'd thought it had been that way for twenty years, leaving yourself to find him in the scent of the earth and the whistling of the winds. But when you were met with those deep brown eyes you thought you'd never see again, you couldn't help but fall in love all over. All of a sudden, the people you'd once known in another life were popping up like dead flies, whether you wanted them to appear or not, reliving trauma's you'd believed you had left behind years ago.
[xOC available on Wattpad. @EunoiiaWP]
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At sixteen, angry and rebellious, you join a religious group in Utah - The Children of a Loving God - seduced by the words of charismatic preacher, Pastor David.
Ten years on and your compound in Texas is raided by the police amidst allegations of abuse, and you and your daughters - Ellie and Abby - are forced back into the world you left behind. Your only lifeline is Joel Miller, your mom's friend from college, and his daughter, Sarah. Moving onto his ranch, what starts as friendly support becomes something more. In Joel, a man who carries his own demons, you find the one thing you didn't know you were craving - love without conditions.
But the father of your children is never far away, and he wants his girls back.
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"Listen, if you can't walk, I can help you out of here."
The woman let out a dry chuckle. "Oh, really? What are you, some kind of post-apocalyptic Gen Z saint with a savior-complex?"
"Jesus," Ava muttered. This was not going well.
"Really, I want to know," the woman continued with a mocking grin. "Are out here every day helping strangers for fun, or is it just my lucky day?"
"Or," Ava snapped, "I can just walk out and let you bleed to death in this shitty casino with your clicker friends. Whatever floats your boat."
That earned her a scoff.
"This is not a shitty casino. It's the Palmetto."
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Twenty-six years into the apocalypse, and one year after her last interaction with another human being, Ava meets Deborah.
And maybe it has something to do with the fact that Ava hasn’t spoken to anyone in a year, but there’s something about Deborah that makes her feel like there might still be some fun left in their dead world.
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vanishing hours by 6hoursgirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), Prospect (2018)
08 Nov 2025
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In the winter of 2025, Joel Miller hires Anna Williams to help as an office manager at his thriving construction business. An odd friendship blossoms between them, but Anna has secrets and a baby on the way, and Joel has a monkey on his back.
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Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?…You Should Be (Spanish Version) by Zelda_Story_Teller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Nov 2025
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Durante una patrulla, Joel es secuestrado por los Seraphites. Deciden torturarlo para obtener información sobre Jackson mientras Ellie intenta encontrarlo. Ella cree que estará bien sola, pero pronto se da cuenta de que no ha superado su pasado como pensaba. ¿Podrá salvarlo antes de que sea demasiado tarde?
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Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?…You Should Be by Zelda_Story_Teller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Nov 2025
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While on patrol, Joel gets kidnapped by the Seraphites. They decide to torture him for information on Jackson as Ellie tries to find him. She thinks she’ll be fine on her own, but she soon realises she hasn’t gone to terms with her past like she thought she had. Can she save him before it’s too late?
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- Part 1 of Short Stories
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Tommy Miller loves being an uncle. He always has. When his brother Joel and his niece Sarah move from Austin to Jackson after a rough year, Tommy thinks things might finally start looking up for all of them. He’s got a steady job, a wife he adores, a kid he’s raising as his own, and another on the way. For once, life feels settled.
Then Sarah brings home a girl named Ellie Williams.
At first, she’s just a name, a face at the edge of family dinners and weekend visits. But as the months pass, Tommy starts to see things that don’t sit right: bruises that don’t have explanations, eyes too tired for a kid her age, the kind of silence that hides something ugly. And before he knows it, the protective instinct that’s always made him the “fun uncle” starts turning into something else entirely: fear.
Told month by month through Tommy’s eyes, this is a story about family, loyalty, and the quiet ways people save each other when no one else is watching.
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- Part 4 of We, the Millers
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Wasted Potential by PaigeGoneRogue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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Sometimes, Ellie got the strange sensation of being in a hotel, somewhere completely impermanent and impersonal. It was all too easy to picture the others leaving and simply never coming back, Ellie waiting in the empty space like a sad little foster kitten, ridden with fleas and whining at her food bowl. Then some new group would arrive and inform her it was theirs now, and that would be that. This place she called home could be rid of any trace of her in a matter of hours.
(Or: Ellie is a drug dealer. Joel is a dad. Bonding ensues.)
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The Fastest of Us by GayyinRed
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Oct 2025
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"“You bringin’ me fans now?” He asked Tess, his voice calm but tinged with weariness—no bitterness, just tired familiarity.
“Not just any fan, cowboy.” Tess smirked, placing a hand gently on Ellie’s back to encourage her forward. “Ellie’s with the FDA. Best junior driver we’ve had in years. And she’s name-dropped you in every interview since she was thirteen.”
Joel raised a brow, finally lowering the bottle for real. He gave Ellie a good look—awkward, but beaming like the sun just rose in her chest. Something soft crept into those hazel eyes of his. Something sad, too. Melancholy. He glanced at the watch on his wrist, and Tess didn’t need to read his mind. She knew where he’d gone in that moment, and her heart softened for him."
One year after losing his daughter, fallen champ Joel Miller makes a fiery comeback to F1 with Ferrari. Under the ruthless Theresa Servopoulos, he faces brutal rivalries, deadly plots, and a mysterious green-eyed young girl prodigy who could change everything. The race has only just begun.
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Ever since Sarah... well, ever since Sarah ten years ago, Joel's stayed as far away from kids as he can. Just the sight of one is practically enough to send him into a panic attack.
But then Tommy signs them up for a contracting job at a high school as a favor to an old army buddy.
And then there's a little girl in the front office, who somehow appears in the coffee shop Joel visits because the motel's coffee machine is shit.
Most damning is when Joel goes in to do some work at three in the morning and that same goddamn little girl is asleep in his construction zone and, when he wakes her up, says she's homeless.
Next thing he knows, she's asleep in his motel bed and he's filing foster parent paperwork.
What the fuck just happened?
(Foster parent AU! Featuring Joel Trying His Best And FailingTM, Ellie annoying local man and his friends & family into adopting her, and Tess/Joel as a lil treat for the masses.)
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Joel and Tess are heading out to Bill and Franks when their lives become entangled with an injured young woman who needs their help.
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The world ended, but people didn’t. Not entirely.
Twenty years after the outbreak, survival has become second nature. But when Althea agrees to help smuggle a girl across the country, everything shifts. There’s Joel: quiet, brutal, impossible. The gruff, closed-off man with blood on his hands and grief in his bones. There’s Ellie: foul-mouthed and sharp-eyed, with too much riding on her small shoulders. And there’s Althea, stuck somewhere between running from her past and crashing headfirst into a future she never dared to want.
Love isn’t safe. Hope isn’t smart. But some things are worth the risk.
Because in the end, it’s not about what you’ve lost,
but what you’re willing to fight for,
even when the world seems beyond saving. -
rivers til i reach you by idkmaybeham
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Oct 2025
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You survive the outbreak, the QZ, the Fireflies. Years of running, patching things that can’t be fixed, and trying to hold on to the people who keep slipping away. Between the ruins of Boston and the fragile peace of Jackson, you learn that love in a world like this isn’t soft, it’s survival. And sometimes it hurts worse than loss.
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- Part 1 of RTIRY
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Joel woke up after golf. Some things were as he remembered, others were beyond his control.
If he could do it all over
If there were no second chance
If this were the final night
If it were only the beginning
He would choose her, he would save her.
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you get kidnapped on the road with joel and after finding you, ruined from david and multiple of his men, he just can’t help but rape you.
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- Part 1 of kinktober 2025
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- English
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- 2,592
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 16
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Part II of the "Already Home" Series. It starts right after Joel tells Ellie that she is family. Anna and David are Ellie's biological parents, but they died in a car crash, so Tess and Joel are now raising Ellie.
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- Part 3 of Already Home
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A cool fall day and beams of sunshine toppling through a cracked stained glass window holding the picture of Mother Mary and Jesus.
“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity”
tldr: Joel takes pity on a single mother with little to live for.
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- English
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- 58
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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angel from montgomery by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 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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Making a Decision by AllyAndJay
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Sep 2025
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This is one shot of when Tess and Joel made the decision to become foster parents, just in case Ellie needed somewhere to go.
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- Part 2 of Already Home
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- English
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- 1,070
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 9
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- 189