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Bump in the Road by soulmetalfairy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jun 2025
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What could have happened if Ellie were the one to be impaled on the rebar during the events at the university. Joel will do whatever it takes to keep Ellie alive, even if it means dealing with some unsavory characters.
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The last time Ellie and Abby saw each other was in Santa Barbara. They faced off one final time, and in the end, Ellie let Abby go. She chose to abandon her quest for revenge. That was the last time they ever saw each other.
Jesse died in Seattle because Ellie wanted to get back at Abby. Dina chose to leave Ellie, because even after everything, Ellie still wanted to seek revenge. Now Ellie Williams finds herself alone.
It's been five years since the events in Santa Barbara. Five years that Ellie has been truly and completely alone, chasing ghosts. And those ghosts—she was about to find them. She was really close, or so she tells herself. What she doesn't yet know is just how much closer she had already come back in Santa Barbara...
Now it's time to go home. Unfortunately, home might not be the final destination...
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After that fateful bite at the mall, two girls are left behind, making the decision to face whatever may come; for one of them, that ends up being something no one could've expected.
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My take on what happens after Left Behind, how Riley dies and Ellie discovers her immunity.
No comfort for this hurt my friends.Series
- Part 1 of The Last of Us Stories
- Language:
- English
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- Chapters:
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- Kudos:
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- Hits:
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seeing the literation scarred into my skin leaves me with a sunken feeling inside. soulmates are rare to come by. the little voice in my head tells me that i will never meet mine. these words haunt me.
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There will be trigger warning at the beginning of chapters that will contain things such as self harm, anything sexual, and any abuse that happens.I'm not giving away anymore details, you'll have to read to fully enjoy this emotional roller-coaster!! ^.^
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The Last of Us Part III: Coming Home by stillcrooked
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Jun 2025
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This story takes place after The Last of Us Part II video game. Some elements of the show may be blended into the story.
After choosing not to kill Abby, Ellie returns to Jackson—physically and emotionally scarred, haunted by the violence and loss she endured. Struggling with guilt, grief, and the remnants of her broken identity, Ellie seeks out the only family she has left: Tommy and Maria. Her true goal, however, is to find Dina and JJ—to see if healing is possible, and to try and repair what was lost. The story follows Ellie’s journey through emotional reckoning, forgiveness, and the slow, fragile process of reclaiming love and a place she once called home.
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A quiet kind of dying by Hidingfromstuff
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 Jun 2025
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Joel is a training coach at a old fighting dojo just trying to get by ignoring hole in his heart, left by his deceased daughter who had been dead 20 years but never forgotten
Ellie is a foster kid moving around the city of Boston, Broken, sad, angry grown up knowing she was going to be alone forever a fact ony made more obvious when her best friend, first kiss and first love ends her life one night. so its safe to say Ellie is rough around the edges
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Marline thinks it would be good for Ellie to get taught self defence and joel happens to have a spot for a new student or daughter?OR
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What does she do? She doesn’t know what to do.
“What-what do I do? Hey, hey…” Ellie turns to the girl, her eyes staring sightlessly at the ceiling, and begs, “What do I do now? Please, I don’t know what to do.”
She doesn’t know how to do this. She’s alone, and she doesn’t know what she’s doing. She hears voices and looks up as Tommy and Jesse come into view.
“Oh god.” Tommy breathes.
“Jesus… what…” Jesse stammers.
“I don’t know what to do,” Ellie pleads, holding up the still, blue baby, “Help, please, I don’t know what to do.”
IE: What if Ellie actually did what Mel asked her to do. Or Ellie and crew accidentally acquire a newborn.
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Abby grabbed a fistful of her hair, pressed her knee into her back, and kept her down. “Listen to me. I don’t have to do shit! I don’t owe you a goddamn thing. Not after what you did.”
“But—" Ellie grumbled. “I don’t fucking know what I did!”
“That isn’t my problem! You are not my fucking problem anymore! You are supposed to be fucking dead! Normally when I shoot someone in the fucking head, they don’t come back!”
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Memories fragmented, like a glass thrown to the concrete. Ellie can't make sense of the recollections from the past five years. Everything is distorted, but there was one thing she remembers. A name- Abby. Why does that name hold in her subconscious so? Who is Abby?Series
- Part 3 of TLOU Centric
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I Love You So (Please Let Me Go) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08 for TheSunflowerQueen333
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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When an Omega is in severe distress, it's obvious - they become unable to eat, their scent shifts into something achingly sweet, and their throat punches out mournful chirps, all designed to attract pack members and mates to the Omega's aid, designed for the pack to spoon-feed and carry and cuddle and coddle the Omega. This is called a drop. Since Joel's murder, Ellie's been in that state twice - once when she had Dina, Jesse, and Tommy to watch over her and take care of her as they hunted down Abby, and then again now as she hunts Abby down on her own. But now she's alone. Her pack is completely gone, Jesse dead and Dina and Tommy despising her, Ellie even being kept away from her own pup, JJ. This state has gone on for months and no help is coming as Ellie becomes borderline catatonic.
Until Abby finds Ellie at death's door, and it doesn't matter if Ellie hates her, what kind of Alpha would she be to let an Omega suffer like that? Of course she has to treat the girl who wants her dead like she were Abby's own mate, recruiting Owen and Mel to help bring the little Omega back - what else is there to do?
(And even more important a question: is that situation the truth? Or is it just a dream?)
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Nothing Left to Save by StormyWriter55
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Jun 2025
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Ellie wakes up alone in the Salt Lake City hospital—drugged, disoriented, and separated from Joel. When she overhears Marlene plotting her execution and Joel’s, she escapes, bloodied and barefoot, making her way across the city to save him. Together, they leave a trail of dead Fireflies behind: Dr. Anderson among them, Marlene left broken but breathing.
They make it back to Jackson—battered, haunted, but alive. For a while, they find peace. They try to forget. To heal. Ellie starts to believe she might have a future. Joel dares to hope she’ll be safe.
But the past doesn’t stay buried.
And what they ran from has found them again.
This time, there’s nowhere left to run.
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When Tess gets bitten, the Cordyceps doesn't spread - she's immune.
But what are the odds that two people are immune when nobody else is?
(And what are the odds that Marlene happened to give Ellie, a girl exactly the same age that Joel and Tess's dead baby would have been, to them?)
(Basically, Joel and Tess are Ellie's biological parents, Tess is immune, etc)
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I am not a white teeth teen by thatonedudewholikesbooks
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Jun 2025
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"the people are talking, let em talk" - Lorde, "a world alone"
She flicked the lights on. They stuttered, buzzing like a mosquito in her skull. The mirror didn’t feel like it was reflecting her, just some girl she vaguely recognized.
The room was too quiet.
Quiet like being six feet deep.
Like Riley.
Like how Ellie was supposed to die that day right next to her.She needs to stop thinking about that, needs to stop thinking all together
CW: drug addiction, medical situations, minor sex work
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angel from montgomery by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Jun 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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“You’re a kid,” the stranger interrupts. His voice carries a gruff, uncaring tone, even though his eyes are considering.
Ellie pulls up her boot to rest by her hand, wrapping her arms around her knees. In the secret space of her heel, she thumbs the hilt of a pocketknife.
“Doesn’t mean I can’t blast your fucking head off,” she threatens.
The stranger’s brows raise as if her threat is empty. “If that’s what you were tryin’ to do, you did an awful shitty job of it.”
“Fuck you,” she snaps, and her cheeks burn. She hasn’t felt uncomfortable like this since David, since I like the fight—
Ellie is not doing that shit again.
Before the stranger can retort, she wields her pocketknife and lunges from her curled-up position to slash at his face.//
Ellie first meets Joel in the aftermath of Silver Lake.
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Ellie has never been the same since she bitten by that radioactive spider. She had since loved and lost while taking on the responsibility of the city's safety. What happens when she allows herself the luxury of a crush on the Police Captain's daughter?
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Deanna Mae Taylor had found herself a widow and childless before arriving in Jackson along side Tommy, she'd been going through the motions until her best friend's brother and daughter found their little community. The years have gone by and she has found herself in a relationship with the resident grump, also known as Joel Miller, and a mother of sorts to Ellie. But what happens when Joel tells Ellie the truth of what happened with the Fireflies?
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blueberry alley by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Jun 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.
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Food as a form of love.
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The Last Of Us - One Day At A Time by Moonsong95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Jun 2025
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Jade Grayson was raised in the peaceful Biltmore Estate settlement, nestled in the mountains of North Carolina. Kind-hearted, loyal, and haunted by a past soaked in betrayal, Jay’s life was shattered when raiders slaughtered her grandparents in a brutal ambush. In the aftermath, Jay left home, heartbroken and suicidal, wandering the wasteland with only her dog and horse, and a promise to scatter her family’s ashes at the Grand Canyon and end her story there.
Instead, she met Ellie Williams, jaded and angry at the world. At first, Ellie saw Jay as just another soft soul destined to die. But Jay wasn’t weak, she was quietly unbreakable.
Throughout their time surviving together, Jay slowly cracked Ellie’s shell. She saw Ellie and stayed even when Ellie tried to push her away. Jay didn’t demand Ellie’s heart; she waited for her to offer it. Their love grew in fragments. They faced raiders, illness, survivor’s guilt, and the ghosts of the past. Ellie’s nightmares. Jay’s depressive episodes.
Jay showed Ellie that softness could be a strength. Ellie showed Jay that broken things could still protect. And together, they found a reason to believe in something bigger than survival.
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You have found out something bad about your health, but talking about it is a risk.
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New Dreams - Old Lies by ButterflyScribbles
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Jun 2025
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Ellie and Joel made their way back to Jackson after the Fireflies and Ellie has to learn how to be a part of a family while recovering from everything that has happend. Joel wants to help her but is being very Joel about it. The Millers stumble upon a bunch of issues while all building a relationship and trying to take care of eachother.
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Basically the 5 year time jump but with recovery from Silver Lake because we can never have to many post silver lake fics right?
(will have both Ellies and Joels POV but might add others like Tommy) (Will add Dina and Ellie during the 5 years aswell)ON PAUSE, NOT ABANDONED, AO3 CURSE GOT ME