Chaos_In_The_Stars
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To Keep Her Safe (Even if it Breaks Her Heart) by Chaos_In_The_Stars
Fandoms: Encanto (2021)
20 Dec 2021
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He sucks in a sharp breath as he tilts it further to see the final scene; it shows mamá standing in the courtyard, back to him, while Bruno, curled in on himself with the hood of his ruana drawn up, is..leaving, walking towards the front door, away from mamá.
Mamá isn't going to blame Mirabel for last night's failed ceremony, she is going to blame Bruno.
What if Bruno didn't see Mirabel's future when he looked?
What if, instead of hers, he saw his own?
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regeneration by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Mar 2023
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“Brains are like bones,” he says when he’s sure he can be calm, and she pulls back at that, face scrunched in judgment.
“Jesus, man, it sounds like you’re the one who needs to take a biology class.”
“Hold the sass,” he chides mildly, and she rolls her eyes but settles against him again. “A broken bone hurts like a bitch,” he says, “and for a while it doesn’t work like it should. Sometimes it feels like it might never hold you up again.”
She’s quiet, but it’s an attentive sort of silence, not like her blessedly increasingly rare moments of catatonia.
“But it heals, baby girl,” he tells her, adjusting her until he can get his arms around her, blanket bundle and all. He rests his chin on the top of her head and brings one hand up to squeeze the back of her neck gently, trying to coax the tense muscles loose. “Sometimes it still aches on rainy days-”
“Okay, Edgar Allen Joel.”
“-but you take those days, and you breathe through them, and eventually, they end.”
(the events of episode 8 have left their scars on Ellie) (luckily she has a Joel)
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02 Jan 2026
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He doesn’t notice that one of her shoes is untied until a lace gets caught in a notch of a log as they pass, sending her down hard.
The momentum of her fall sends him thudding against a tree, and his eyes slam shut as he grits his teeth against the white hot pain that flares in his side.
When he opens his eyes, she’s facedown in the snow, still and silent, hands still at her sides making it clear that she didn’t even try to catch herself.
It speaks of so much trauma, so much unresponsiveness, that he feels tears sting his eyes at the sheer scale of what’s happened to her, of how small and useless he is to fix any of it, of how much he’s let her be hurt by his own failure to protect her.
But there’s no time for his own self-loathing.
She needs him, insufficient as he is.
(a fic covering joel taking care of ellie after episode 8)
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01 Jan 2026
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no man's land by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Mar 2023
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To her own credit, she gives it her best shot when the agents–FEDRA, she notes grimly, though their uniforms are battered and faded in a way that suggests they’re not exactly the cream of the crop–spill out and surround her. She’s nothing against the guns pointed at her, but she knows she damn fucking well won’t go down without a fight. She kicks and scratches and claws with everything she’s got, but she’s one skinny, unarmed 15 year old against a group of trained adults, and in no time, they have her facedown on the ground, one of them kneeling on her back so that she can’t move and can barely breathe.
“Get-the fuck-off me!” She wheezes, trying futilely to get loose, giving it all she has to buck the guard off. Her mouth is slick with the coppery taste of blood from where she’s bitten more than one person, and she spits as she struggles, trying to get it out of her mouth.
There’s a sharp prick of pain in her neck, and the world slowly dissolves into darkness.
(looking to compete with the Fireflies, FEDRA sends agents to capture Ellie to make their own cure) (and this time, Joel isn't right there to protect her)
Series
- Part 1 of no man's land
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01 Jan 2026
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tricks and treats by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Mar 2023
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He makes his way into the store, light filtering in through dusty windows. None of their inventory will be of any use to him, he knows, but it’s possible that someone somewhere along the line left something that could come in handy. Nothing turns up, but the more he looks through the cheap costumes and bright masks, the more an idea occurs to him.
It looks like just the sort of thing Ellie would have a field day with, he thinks with a small smile as he flicks a witch hat out of his way. It’s been too long since he’s seen her smile, really smile, and he can already imagine her delight in getting to pick through so many artifacts from the old world.
She’s going to love it.
(looking to cheer Ellie up after everything she's gone through in winter, Joel surprises her with a Halloween store) (it doesn't go well)
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01 Jan 2026
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“Oh c’mon,” she’d wheedled two weeks ago, “I’m not a baby, Joel. Plenty of the other 16 year olds go out without their parents.”
It hits him in a cold wave of terror now. There are other 16 year olds who go out without their parents, yeah.
There are also 16 year olds who don’t come back to their parents when they do.
He’s at the gate faster than he’d ever thought possible, and he’s nearly frantic as he scans faces, looking for Ellie’s cowboy hat. She’s taken to accessorizing it recently, and he’s searching desperately for a glance of a bright blue jay feather tucked into a brim because “it’s a blue jay kinda day, Joel.” He pulls himself up as tall as he can get, scanning faces for the third, fourth, fifth time.
No hat.
No blue jay feather.
No Ellie.
(Ellie gets badly hurt on a patrol, and Joel relives some horrible memories)
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31 Dec 2025