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Lay Your Weary Head Upon My Chest by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 May 2025
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"When I say go, you go." He's panting, terrified and hurting like a son of a bitch from the chest strap of the seatbelt jerking tight, but he needs Tess to take one fucking command.
For once in her life, he needs her to listen to him.
"You slip through the wall, and you get Ellie the fuck out of here. I will find you after." Her lip curls into a snarl, fury and irritation chafing her expression. He knows that she's pissed, but they ain't smuggling partners on a run gone sideways right now.
They're parents.
"We don't get to leave, Joel. That was the fucking deal." And it still is. He's trying to get them all out alive.
That means she needs to run, and he needs to handle the fucking hunters opening fire in the direction of their family.
"I ain't leavin' and neither are you; this is just temporary." Hoping like hell he ain't lying to her, he tightens the strap of Ellie's sling and insures she's pressed tight against Tess.
He'll get back to them, and he'll mow down every fucker that tries to get in his way.
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Joel finds baby Ellie after Marlene fails to show up for Anna, he and Tess make the hard decision to raise her themselves.Series
- Part 1 of Teensy Baby Ellie
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21 May 2025
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Ellie Williams: Professional Street Sweeper by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
02 Sep 2023
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Sequel to Toointojoelmiller's wonderful fic blind to it all.
This will definitely not make sense unless you read that first.
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- Part 7 of Bad Things Happen Bingo
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30 Apr 2025
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For all the jokes she’s made about Joel’s name twin, on the day Joel Hendrix is brought back beaten and bloody in a body bag, Ellie isn’t feeling very light-hearted.
Especially when the body is followed by his sobbing daughter, only a year older than Ellie herself. She keeps her eyes on Tanner as she staggers by, held up by Tommy, who was sent out on the rescue patrol to bring the Hendrixes back after they broke protocol and split from their group to go after an elk and then failed to check back in.
Apparently they found something significantly worse than a lucky hunt in the middle of winter.
(what if the fireflies killed the wrong joel?)
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23 Apr 2025
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expect(ing)(ations) by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 May 2023
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“And what if…” She pauses, biting the inside of her cheek for a moment. “What if I wanna be a mom?” She asks, and when she looks up, his face has gone soft in a way that makes her feel so loved and so warm inside.
“Well, I think you’d be one hell of a mom,” he says, and she smiles a little shyly, her chest feeling fuller at the vote of confidence from someone who would know. “More ways to have kids than from scratch, you know,” he says, indicating her with his mug with a small smile. “As you’re well-aware of.”
“I know,” she says, and she does. As an adoptee, it had been one of her first thoughts, but she wants, without really being able to explain why, to have at least one from babyhood. It was a vague idea she’d first felt when she held Maria and Tommy’s baby, Oliver, after he was born, the rightness of a warm little bundle in her arms.
And there’s another advantage to building one herself.
“I think my immunity would be passed on if I had kids,” she says, and Joel sits a little straighter.
(set about ten years after the original storyline) (ellie, now grown and married, decides she wants to have a baby so she can pass her immunity on to her kid)
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- Part 1 of what to expect
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19 Apr 2025
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“You wanna tell me about this infected you and Dina decided to lie to the council about?” Joel asks as he carefully guides the needle through her skin. She winces but doesn’t flinch, breathing through the pinprick of the needle each time it pokes through. “They clocked that immediately, by the way.”
“Council sessions are confidential,” she says dryly. “Privacy privilege to ensure honesty.”
They both look to the other and exchange a mutual raised eyebrows look about how that tends to go in practice given how quickly gossip spreads in Jackson, and for a moment, a single wonderful, fiercely addictive moment, they're a unit again. She's fifteen, she can tell herself he's never lied about anything except her birthday treat to keep it a surprise, and the only tension between them is the words they haven't put to what he is to her.
But the moment pops like a soap bubble, and she's nineteen and angry again, and the contentment fizzles to nothing like a sparkler burning out, leaving her blinking at black spots in the absence of its light.
(2x01 except i make them talk to each other by employing mortal peril)
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17 Apr 2025