16 Works in Mentioned Jesse (The Last of Us)
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Ellie goes to sleep after an early morning patrol and wakes up cuddled up to Dina.
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Ellie hated labels.
She hated being perceived as anything to anyone, because all that ever did was get her hurt.
Her mom? Dead. Her best friend? Dead. Anyone who ever cared about her was gone the second she thought of them as anything special.
Which is exactly why Joel was always just Joel. And Tommy was Tommy. And Maria and Benji were Maria and Benji. Not her dad. Not her uncle. Not her family. She was already imposing on their lives, the last thing in the world she wanted to do was throw them into harm's way. Being connected was dangerous.
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Or: Tommy just misses being an uncle.
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I’d Surely Lose Myself by iamawilderness
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2025
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“Do you think… Do you think it’d be better if I didn’t go see Dina after all?”
Maria looks at Ellie like she just sprouted Cordyceps tendrils from her nostrils. “Kid, you’ve asked me a lot of stupid questions over the years, but that one takes the cake.”
“So…you think I should go back?”
“To your partner and child who don’t know if you’re alive or dead? Yes, you fucking idiot.”
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Ellie comes back to Jackson to see if she can get a do-over, whether she deserves one or not.
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Ellie gets sick. Joel is trying his best and Dina is just helping out where she can.
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- Part 11 of The Last of Us
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I don't need you to tell me what that means by Waakeme_up
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
14 May 2025
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Life goes on, without Joel and Jesse. JJ is born, they move to a farmhouse a stones throw away from Jackson and it's a quiet, peaceful life.
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won't be perfect (but we'll be fine) by motionsickness
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Apr 2025
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She lets him rock her half to sleep until the violins wane from inside, and when they stop, she can’t help the disappointed sag in her shoulders. So Joel holds her tighter and prolongs this little dance for another quiet moment, guided only by the crunch of the stones under them, and Ellie suddenly doesn’t want it to end and she doesn’t even know why. It just feels like a memory she’ll miss. Like she’s watching it happen.
A lot of things with Joel since their truce have felt that way.
(jackson has a father-daughter dance. ellie has an existential crisis.)
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Roommates by ChildOfTheBarricade
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Apr 2025
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“So was it Bill’s house we were in?” she asked as they trekked carefully around a half-frozen lake.
“Uh…” Joel’s mind had clearly been somewhere else. It usually was. “Yeah. I mean, Bill lived there first.”
“But Frank had his own place,” Ellie said, careful not to make it sound like a question.
Joel stopped walking and frowned at her. “No, he lived there with Bill.”
“Oh,” Ellie said. Then, just to be sure, “They missed having roommates so much they found one at the end of the world, huh?”
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A series of letters from Ellie to Abby
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- Part 3 of On Hold
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Being Too Far Gone by Bumblepony for marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Mar 2025
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Maria comes to stand by him on the back porch, hands wrapped around the railing inches from his. She watches the sky change from black to lavender and pink, then orange and yellow. When she speaks it's quiet, measured, reasoning, “I think we should take some time apart.”
Tommy doesn't react at first, his gaze still locked on the horizon. It takes a few moments for her words to penetrate his reverie. When they finally do, his shoulders slump, his fingers tighten on the wood under his fingers, and his head turns to her. She doesn't look at him; just keeps her eyes on the sky.
He clears his throat, “You wanna take some time apart? What does that mean?”
“I think, it might be good for both of us to have some distance.”
“Distance from what?”
“From each other. From us.”
IE: Post Seattle Tommy and Maria and how they got to "We're takin' some time apart" and whether they were able to find their way back.
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- Part 6 of Tommy/Maria Week 2025
- Part 17 of Tommy and Maria Stories
- Part 6 of The In-Between Places
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As Ellie shakingly stood up, Abby's corpse floated besides her, the latter's blood staining the water. She looked down at her hands at the realization of what she's just done.
She did it.
She avenged Joel.
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Alternate ending where Ellie kills Abby.
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Joel and Ellie experience PTSD. This explores both.
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- Part 11 of OneShots
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 1/1
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there you are! by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 May 2024
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ellie hears a familiar voice after falling asleep in the theatre.
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"Ellie made her want a future. Sometimes, she could even see it. A rickety porch, a slow wind, the smell of animals in the distance. She dreamt and felt the chasm in her close until there was only her, Ellie, and a warm bed to cradle them. She took another breath, deliberately, and the pollen of late summer stuck to her lungs. In dreaming, Dina felt alive."
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-Dina has her own survivor's guilt. Snapshots of Jackson before Abby.
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ellie’s journal entries mostly about her feelings and dina!
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the stars lean in a little closer by navysealt4t (beelue)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Jun 2023
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“Well,” she grumbles into the flour bag she’s sealing up, “I did alright.”
He grins. “Yeah, yeah, whatever you tell yourself, El. Do you wanna mix up the ingredients or not?”
She’s immediately shoving him to the other side of their small kitchen. Their kitchen.
“Fuck yeah!” She ignores the warmness growing in her heart. “Move over, cowboy, I got work to do!”
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Three times Ellie and Joel said, "I love you," without needing to say it.
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- Part 4 of jazzy's purple panda fics!!