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Anna Williams and Joel Miller were never supposed to cross paths twice — let alone for fifteen years. She’s a whip-smart, vivacious Boston woman with a rebellious streak trying to keep her head up after losing both parents in a car accident. He’s a grumpy Texas single dad with a limited patience trying to rebuild after his marriage imploded. The two of them meet in a bar while Anna’s in Austin during Spring Break and have a shameless one night stand with the expectation that they’ll never have to see each other again.
But when Anna’s best friend, Marlene, and Joel’s brother, Tommy, decide to turn their own spring fling into a committed relationship, Joel and Anna quickly realize they’re stuck with each other. Their lives keep colliding: weddings, birthdays, holidays, and every family event Marlene and Tommy throw their way. Between stolen glances, drunken arguments, and a few more salacious hookups, Anna and Joel can’t decide if they’re soulmates or just bad habits that never quite fade.
A no-cordyceps AU about found family, resilience, and falling for the one person who drives you absolutely insane.
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You’re an ambitious corporate attorney in Manhattan who lives for proving people wrong. So when you become a partner at your firm and get the man of your dreams to put a ring on it before forty, you feel like the iconic leading lady of a Nancy Meyers romcom. But when your engagement implodes, it turns out you’re really just the disposable, bitchy ex-girlfriend in a bad Hallmark movie.
While drowning your sorrows at a bar, you run into Harry Castillo. He’s ridiculously handsome, ludicrously wealthy, and trapped on the worst first date you’ve ever witnessed. One too many cosmos sends you barging into the disaster, ruining his night, and accidentally turning him into your new drinking buddy. The chemistry hits fast, sharp, and dangerously easy…but you both pretend not to want it that badly.
But this proves difficult when fate throws you together on a ridiculous singles cruise. Every look lingers too long. Every touch sparks. Every moment feels one breath away from something you’re still terrified of—yet desperately yearn for.
You insist the two of you are better as friends. But your heart, body, and soul—not to mention Harry’s eyes on you—say something else entirely.
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5 years ago, the desire to protect their daughters brought Anna Williams and Joel Miller together. They made choices that they thought they could carry the burden of for the rest of their lives, but it turns out they may have miscalculated the ripple effect these actions would have. As the trauma from their past threatens to topple the fragile building blocks of their new marriage, they wonder if simply loving Ellie and Sarah, as well as each other, was ever going to be enough in a world as cruel as theirs. As they come to terms with the kind of adults that their daughters are becoming, they quickly realize that their nurturing could only rebel against nature for so long.
Now, in the wake of a recent tragedy that has the community of Jackson divided, tensions rise and a desperate attempt at ensuring the town’s safety pushes Anna down a path somehow even darker than the one she’s walked before. After five years of trying to help his wife heal, Joel is starting to wonder how much more of her pain he can take on before it breaks him too.
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- Part 2 of Kindled in the Dark
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A compilation of one shots that explore the events that happen in Jackson with the Miller-Williams family in the five years that take place in between Bound to Your Flames and Outrun Our Shadows.
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- Part 3 of Kindled in the Dark
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Anna Williams has managed to keep her daughter safe in the Boston QZ for fourteen years. Their life is far from perfect, but it’s theirs. In the haze of anger and depression from having her dreams ripped away from her when her life was just getting started, she found her purpose: Ellie.
But now the woman who she thought was her best friend is threatening their safety. Anna makes the rash and necessary decision to leave Boston. As they make their way through Massachusetts, Anna and Ellie run into another parent/daughter duo heading West: Joel and Sarah Miller.
Anna and Joel despise each other right out of the gate, but they share a common goal and need each other to accomplish it. Anna can provide the Millers with medical care thanks to her training and Joel can provide muscle that Anna begrudgingly admits will be necessary at some point. Still, tensions escalate almost every stop of the way along with some unexpected feelings that rise to the surface.
Through their desperate effort to save their reasons for breathing, Anna and Joel discover another type of love they didn’t think they were capable of.
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- Part 1 of Kindled in the Dark
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There’s next to nothing truly known about the Upside-Down, but after you get stuck there with Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington, you learn one thing: don’t touch the flowers.
Warning: SPOILERS for season 4 volume 1
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the waiting game by ruinherself
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Dec 2025
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Every six months, your paths cross at the trading post.
Every six months, you swear it’s the last time.
And every six months, you fall into each other anyway - fast, rough, desperate, like you're starving for something you'll never admit you want.
In a world where love is dangerous, and time is always borrowed, you learn that sometimes the cruelest thing isn’t losing each other - it’s having to walk away.- Language:
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16 Dec 2025
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The Savage and the Sanctuary by JustAGalWhoWrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Dec 2025
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After the death of his daughter, Joel Miller fell apart. But when searching for answers at the bottom of a bottle and within his own rage doesn't fix it, he resigns himself to working for his brother in private security. It's a job that starts him down the path to stability and a semblance of a life, even if it's not one he particularly wants. At least it does until you show up.
The biggest movie star in the world with your newly adopted niece in tow, you throw everything about Joel's life into flux. Is he capable of letting himself feel something again while protecting the only things left in the world that matter?
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14 Dec 2025
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When your life falls apart, you find yourself back in your hometown of Austin, Texas for the first time in more than a decade. Eager to make your own way after a rough divorce, you reconnect with your high school best friend Joel Miller - a man you never thought would be in your life again.
Things have changed since your falling out just before you left for college but friendship with Joel comes easy. His life isn't in any better shape than your own and the two of you make a vow to get your acts together - personal, professional and romantic - in the span of a year. But will your burgeoning connection make it so you can figure everything out or will your history together get in the way?
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Mercy for Those Seeking by moderatelytroubled
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Nov 2025
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Sometimes it takes a moment akin to an atom bomb to remake a life. Other times, all it takes is a whisper. This is both. For fate can exist as a single, chance meeting.______________
Joel is a construction worker. Ophelia is an architect. Chance or fate brings them together and sends Ophelia on a journey of rebirth.
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