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Ever since Sarah... well, ever since Sarah ten years ago, Joel's stayed as far away from kids as he can. Just the sight of one is practically enough to send him into a panic attack.
But then Tommy signs them up for a contracting job at a high school as a favor to an old army buddy.
And then there's a little girl in the front office, who somehow appears in the coffee shop Joel visits because the motel's coffee machine is shit.
Most damning is when Joel goes in to do some work at three in the morning and that same goddamn little girl is asleep in his construction zone and, when he wakes her up, says she's homeless.
Next thing he knows, she's asleep in his motel bed and he's filing foster parent paperwork.
What the fuck just happened?
(Foster parent AU! Featuring Joel Trying His Best And FailingTM, Ellie annoying local man and his friends & family into adopting her, and Tess/Joel as a lil treat for the masses.)
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The walking dead are coming for the last of us by M2aster
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (Telltale Video Game), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Aug 2025
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After a bandit attack separated her from Crista, Clementine meets Ellie and together they journey across the walker infested united stats in search of a safe haven. Along the way they will meet both old faces and new, both friends and foes and ultimately somewhere along the road they most both make a choice, north or west.
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The Fastest of Us by GayyinRed
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
14 Sep 2025
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"“You bringin’ me fans now?” He asked Tess, his voice calm but tinged with weariness—no bitterness, just tired familiarity.
“Not just any fan, cowboy.” Tess smirked, placing a hand gently on Ellie’s back to encourage her forward. “Ellie’s with the FDA. Best junior driver we’ve had in years. And she’s name-dropped you in every interview since she was thirteen.”
Joel raised a brow, finally lowering the bottle for real. He gave Ellie a good look—awkward, but beaming like the sun just rose in her chest. Something soft crept into those hazel eyes of his. Something sad, too. Melancholy. He glanced at the watch on his wrist, and Tess didn’t need to read his mind. She knew where he’d gone in that moment, and her heart softened for him."
One year after losing his daughter, fallen champ Joel Miller makes a fiery comeback to F1 with Ferrari. Under the ruthless Theresa Servopoulos, he faces brutal rivalries, deadly plots, and a mysterious green-eyed young girl prodigy who could change everything. The race has only just begun.
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girlhood, gunmetal by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 May 2023
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Is this, Ellie wonders, what it’s like to loved? She’s never been loved before, not really, so she isn’t sure, but when she surfaces from the grips of her nightmares and Joel is there to cup her face in his hands, to wipe away her tears with his thumbs, to tell her to breathe, that she’s okay, that she’s safe, she thinks:
This is it.
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Ellie Williams saves the world.
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"There Are a Million Ways We Should’ve Died before Today, And a Million Ways We Can Die Before Tomorrow." by That_one_writer_with_ADHD
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Oct 2025
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Nobody tells you just how much having your face beaten and your arm broken hurts. There’s a lot of blood. Blood on the floor, blood on the walls, blood on your weapons, blood on your clothes. There’s a clear pattern here.
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Whumptober Day 6
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- Part 6 of My Whumptober 2025
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a hopeful stranger by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Jul 2024
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When Ellie Williams is placed in a group home run by a religious weirdo, she's determined to survive.
Turns out she may get the chance to live instead.
A stand-alone companion piece to a safe place to land, kiss from the lips of a monster, and October/November: Interlude. (Will it make more sense if you've read those? Probably. Do you need to? Nah.)
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Bad Things Happen Bingo by two_birds_alone_together
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Dec 2024
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Entries for Bad Things Happen Bingo.
Want to make a request or check out my progress? My BTHB card is on Tumblr!
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Ellie can't stop thinking about David, and what he did to her. Joel notices.
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For you, I would paint the sky blue by Springs_a_changing_me
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Aug 2025
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Joel’s meandered over behind the counter, looking underneath the warping cabinetry and opening anything that isn’t locked. He sighs when he sees the industrial sized coffee machine, rusted metal glinting in the light streaming from the tattered ceiling tiles.
She squints to see the lettering on one of the remaining menus, tilting her head and rolling up on the balls of her feet to get a better view. “What’s a…fra…puk…seeno?”
“Frappuccino.” He corrects her without a second thought, sighing through his nose when another cupboard reveals nothing but a rotted mouse in the back corner. He shuts it closed and keeps moving.
“Frappuccino.” She tests the word on her tongue, quiet and uncertain. Each syllable rolls around uncomfortably between her teeth. “What is it? Coffee?”
He shrugs. “Technically. But I wouldn’t call it that. It’s real sweet.”
“Ah. Not real coffee.”
“Not real coffee.”
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Ellie’s new life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, told through the art supplies she’s gathered and been gifted over the years (Featuring the many wonders of Barnes & Noble).
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After a few months in Jackson, Ellie has settled in. Joel, however, still feels on edge. But a new arrival in town, and Ellie’s instant connection to them, will force Joel to confront parts of himself he’d rather not think about.
You have lost everything when you arrive in Jackson. Will the town, and the community you find there, be enough to give you a reason to carry on, to stay?
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Joel has gotten used to life in Boston without his daughter, but all that is about to change.
A modern AU in which Joel and Tess are Ellie's foster parents. Now complete!
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- Part 1 of Home Is Not Places
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It All Happened On Her Birthday by RottPoe
Fandom: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
30 Mar 2024
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This is an honest, unfiltered story about an adorkable, quirky, a bit hormonal, but still—in contrast to her age—quite mature teenage girl who has found herself falling in love with an older, at times grumpy, but mellow man who once was just a stranger to her, and who—regardless of his constant inner fights with the morals—realizes that this firecracker of a girl managed to charm her way into his heart a long, long time ago. If only he had understood his feelings sooner.
As the 1st chapter closely adheres to the actual events of the game, the subsequent chapters will deviate from canon, becoming a work of fiction. While I aim to stay true to the core characteristics and facts about Ellie and Joel that fans of the game know and love (except for the slippery slope where they fall in love) I am taking creative liberties. To wrap this up, the essence of who Ellie and Joel are at their core will remain intact, even as I explore an alternate path where romance blossoms between them.
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Ellie Williams' Guide to Teenage Rebellion by simoncowellsjuicytits
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Feb 2025
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“Joel.” He says. He’s Texan, which as far as Ellie’s concerned is an accent-imitating jackpot.
"Can I call you Joe?"
"No."
"Jojo?"
"Absolutely not."
There's a brief silence.
“You’re gonna stop me from getting shot in the face?”“That’s the job.”
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As the (alleged) daughter of the new president, Ellie Wiliams is hellbent on making herself as much of a nuisance as possible. Joel Miller, the virtually unreadable and perpetually grumpy bodyguard assigned to watch her for eighteen hours a day, certainly thinks she's doing a good job of it. But as Ellie processes losses of her past and present, she slowly begins to realise just how valuable it can be to have someone watching your back.
(Angst/eventual fluff found family Joel & Ellie AU, slow-burn father-daughter relationship.)
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- Part 1 of The Last of Us- Presidential AU
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- 132,249
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- 23/23
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a simple favor by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Jan 2024
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Really, it’s just a stupid favor.
Joel Miller, owner of Miller Contracting, has zero goddamn reason to be substitute teaching a woodshop class at the high school in downtown Austin. It’s the absolute last fuckin’ thing he wants to do with his time, actually. He ain’t a fan of kids, especially not at the snot-nosed age of fourteen. In fact, he’d never be here in this classroom, not in a million fuckin’ years.
Until Bill died.
(when his mentor and friend passes away, Joel takes on a job he really, really doesn't want to do. - aka the joel and ellie finding each other in every universe teacher joel edition)
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“What do you want to hear about tonight, kiddo?”
The corners of Ellie’s lips scrunched to one side as she pondered. “What’d you do?” She finally decided. A smile settled over her face. “Were you a millionaire, Dad?”
A chuckle fell from Joel’s chest. His laugh was warm, hearty, strong, just like him. “No, baby,” He replied, amused by the thought. “If I was a millionaire, we’d have us a fancy bunker to live in.”
Ellie lit up at the idea. “With a rocket ship?”
Joel smiled. “Sure, kiddo,” He answered, his tone soft. “And so much food that we’d get sick.”
TLDR// Joel is Ellie's biological father. We enter the first season and its events with a clear and close relationship between them. Marlene doesn't hire him to smuggle a kid, she's his daughter, and he just wants a better world for her. This will cover the entire first season.
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am i the one (you were sent to save) by Once_Upon_A_Typewriter
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Feb 2025
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He was dragged into a bar by his brother. She was new in town.
He knew she was too young for him. She didn't seem to care.
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am i the one (you were sent to save)
By Once_Upon_A_Typewriter
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you and me on the rock by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Jul 2023
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“Oh, come on.” Ellie takes a step towards him, her hands balled into fists. “Don’t be like that. We’re a fucking team, Joel. That’s not fucking fair.”
“You know what ain’t fair?” Joel snaps. He stuffs one arm, then the other, into his jacket. “Is having to sit here and listen my own goddamn kid tell me they think I’m too old to do my fucking job anymore. That ain’t fair. That aint right.”
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Just Ellie and Joel doing what they do best: pissing each other off and patching each other up.
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Ellie has officially been living with the Millers for a year, and the Millers wanna celebrate. Ellie just needs to know that nothing is going to change.
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- Part 8 of Street Kid!Ellie
- Part 1 of Flufftober 2025
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Fifteen years after Outbreak Day, Ellie is a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage boy, Joel, across a post-apocalyptic United States.
A reverse verse retelling of The Last of Us, where Ellie is the hardened survivor and Joel needs to make it to the Fireflies.
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- Part 1 of Unbroken Chord
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this is fucking amazing 10/10 the different dynamics are handled great and the story differences are interesting and make sense