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Come Home by ImTryingMyBeskar
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Mar 2025
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At the end of the world you have so few friends left. What will you do when you end up alone again?
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How you come to Jackson and fall into a complicated relationship with Joel Miller.
“You lost?”
That voice. That same low, languid, gravelly husk that you had heard the previous night, now with an edge of a challenge to it breaks into your thoughts and demands your undivided attention.
You whirl around again, look back in the direction of where you have just been walking and see him – tall, imposing and as broad as ever. Ruggedly Handsome is exiting the front yard of one of the houses, looking down at the cuffs of his coat and adjusting them, as if he has just put the garment on. The gesture itself is casual but you can see the coiled tension in his shoulders. If he doesn't like your answer, you can expect to be challenged on who you are and why you're here.
“Not lost. Just new,” you reply after gathering your composure.
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To the Light by moderatelytroubled
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 Jan 2024
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Joel finds a young woman being held hostage by a group of men while he's out on patrol one day. He brings her back to Jackson, where she's given the opportunity to have something resembling a real life, for the first time. The two of them orbit around each other, destined to crash, if both of their reservations don't get in the way.______________
Joel finds the love of his life lost in the woods.
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- Part 1 of To the Light (In the Light)
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We loved each other with fragments of ourselves that were dead - Nikita Gill
Love. Such a poignant emotion. Such a terrifying feeling to give into. One that is stored right in the precious cavity of the heart. A sentiment that can turn the toughest of people plush but can forge such an aggressive desire to protect. A dangerous intensity, even more so when you’re left to find it in the obsolete remains of what was once planet Earth.
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Joel finds himself catching feelings for an existing resident of Jackson. Ones he just can’t seem to ignore but it’s not all plain sailing as they navigate through one another’s trauma.
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- Part 1 of DLG universe - TLOU
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can you hold a man as both your savior to be worshipped and the monster that he is?
dark!joel x innocent f!reader post-apocalypse au
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Do I Wanna Know? by Ocean_Park_Avenue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), joel miller - Fandom, The Last of Us (TV)
04 Jun 2023
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Tess, your friend of a few years, makes you team up with the grumpiest and most distanced man you’ve met, Joel Miller. All to get some supplies from a camp in Dallas, Texas. But when you discover there might be more to it than just getting supplies, you agree to help.
You only hope that Joel will come around to you, or it’s gonna be a long trip.
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No Longer Strangers by lazycryptobiote
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Jun 2023
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I didn't notice him at first. He was just a stranger. Now I think this world would be stranger without him.
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but since i survived (i realized) by Once_Upon_A_Typewriter
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2025
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What if...? Joel had told Ellie the truth on the hilltop overlooking Jackson?
What if...? Joel left Ellie behind in Jackson and set off on his own?
What if...? Ellie tried for years to make a life for herself in Jackson but never really felt at home?
What if...? Ellie left Jackson and set off on her own?
What if...? Despite the miles and years between them, Joel and Ellie still found their way back to each other?
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Newly settled into Jackson City, you’re assigned to patrol duty with Joel Miller; a man of rough edges and cool appraisals. His story is buried deep beneath scars of loss while you hide your own grief behind flour-dusted hands and the desperate hope of belonging. What begins as forced proximity slowly shifts into something fragile and all-consuming. But as the past creeps forward through old wounds and the ever-present threat of raiders, your feelings for one another become both a sanctuary and a liability. In a world already broken, where there is already so much to lose, can you let yourself love Joel Miller?
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Yearling by JustAGalWhoWrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Jul 2024
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Yearling: noun
- A young horse, older than a foal but not yet two years old.
- A still wild thing that is too new to tameAfter years of surviving in the wilds of Wyoming after the cordyceps outbreak, you find yourself in Jackson. It's a town filled with friendly faces and the kind of world you hardly remember, let alone can connect with or understand. But one man - Joel Miller, another loner, like you - makes you think that trying to find your place in society again might be worth it.
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- Part 1 of Yearling
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You’ve known Joel Miller for years. He’s practically part of the family - always by your dad’s side with that dark, brooding frown.
You’ve never really thought much of him. He’s just…Joel. Dad’s best friend, occasional ride home, somewhat-scowly dinner guest.
Until you come home one summer, after graduating college, and suddenly -
You can’t think about anything anything else.
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Joel couldn’t say the real reason he needed Sarah to stay home that night. You were in a fucking sundress with a ribbon in your hair. A goddamn ribbon. And you’d been cooking, the whole house smelled like heaven and you were in a fucking sundress with a goddamn ribbon in your hair and now he was going to be home alone with you all night.
Not that anything was going to happen. Nothing was going to happen. Not a damn thing.***
You're a college student in Austin, Texas, who gets a summer job nannying Sarah Miller. It's not long before her dad sees you as more than a babysitter - or more than a friend. But life - and an apocalypse - have other plans.
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- Part 1 of Lavender
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Ellie fucks around and finds out. Rinse. Repeat.
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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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Comfort of Your Touch by Dove_Works
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
24 May 2025
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After Silver Lake, Ellie has a request to make of Joel.
It changes everything--and nothing at all, really.
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- Part 1 of The Choices We Make
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Lycanthropes, while few and far between, exist alongside humans, cohabiting civilization as well as they can with the social challenges of being 'other.' Joel and the Millers are among this small demographic, and while life is hard, they have their little pack and are surviving - at least, until the outbreak happens.
(Basically, TLOU + werewolves = this)
On temporary hiatus thanks to writer's block!
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The Last Of Them by SnufflesThePig
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Jul 2025
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Joel Enrique Miller is a werewolf. That means a lot of things to a lot of people, both Before and After. A dog. A second-class citizen. A danger to society. A prize. A threat. A killer.
Joel struggles to live with it. Then he struggles to teach his daughter to live with it. Then he struggles to live with it and without her.
Things get bad for humanity.
Things get worse for him. -
The Remains of Us by littlemissmiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Oct 2025
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It didn't take Joel long to fall for you. You were Sarah's favorite teacher at school, teaching English. It didn't help that you were also beautiful, kind, smart, everything he valued in a woman.
You loved Sarah like a daughter, as you did all your students. But there was something about her dad that threw you off; his lingering gazes, the way he'd always try to make small talk with you.
Before you knew it, you were head over heels for the father of your brightest student.