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After saving a little girl’s life, you’re thrust into her and her father’s small cabin oasis. She wants to be your friend. He wants nothing to do with you. Fighting for a better life, you’re forced to reconcile your differences, battling against a world wrought with monsters and raiders.
Because while they might not be family, they’re the only ones you’ve got.
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It’s the 10th anniversary of your mother’s death and your father relapses. When you’re dragged back home to Austin to help him you run into too many familiar faces.Tommy, your childhood best friend, his new wife.
And Joel...or Tommy and reader were childhood friends, joint at the hip, known each other since they were in diapers with dummy’s. Joel, Tommys older brother by 2 years was your sworn enemy and OFF PROPERTY.
Now that you're seeing him again, the past unravels. The tension returns.
But somewhere along the lines something changes, youre just both too stubborn to admit it.
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Somewhere to Land by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Oct 2025
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You're nineteen, angry, and freshly kicked out of your mother’s new life.
Your last option is moving back in with a father you barely know and into a house that’s never felt like home.
Then there’s the man next door.
Older. Quiet. Off-limits.
His bedroom window faces yours. And some nights, you swears he’s looking.Joel Miller is everything you shouldn't want.
He says he’s too old. Too responsible. Too careful to touch you.
But tension this hot doesn’t just disappear.
And you're not the only one losing sleep over it.
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When she lists her gruff but quietly dependable neighbour Joel as her emergency contact (never expecting to actually need him), she wakes up in the ER to find him smirking at her, asking why the hospital thinks he’s her boyfriend.
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Friday I'm in Love by vintagettee
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Oct 2025
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Despite trying to avoid it at all costs, you return to Austin after your engagement fails and move back in with your dad while you figure out your next steps.
You reconnect with your dad’s best friend, Joel, and his daughter that you used to babysit when you were in your senior year of high school, Sarah.
Both of them slowly help you find a renewed sense of purpose and help you answer the question of whether you’ll let the ghosts of your past haunt you forever.
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You Can Feel It In The Silence by IryaMarjorieHill
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Oct 2025
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You met Joel when he was 29.
You had just moved to Texas, to live with your aunt and your sick grandfather, after your parents death, leaving you mired in debt and complications with the courts.
Few years later, when he needed someone to take care of Sarah so he can go to work, you didn't think twice to accept the offer. You just didn't know it would tie you to the Millers, even after the end of the world.
20 years later, you've just arrived in Jackson with Ellie, in search of information about Tommy and the Fireflies, when during a conversation with Maria, you finally realize what you've neglected for so long.
What you can feel in the silence.
And that you could no longer ignore.
So with a surge of courage, you went to Joel Miller to tell him the truth and make a wish to him.
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When you come back to your late parents' farm in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, you are introduced to the local hardware store owner's nephew and you begin to have feelings for him but don't know how to act on it.
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When the news of a funeral drags Dahlia Johnson back to the sleepy Wyoming town she once called home, she tells herself it's only temporary. After all, she's built a life in New York - one filled with high-rise apartments, demanding clients, and noise loud enough to drown out the past.
But home has a way of pulling things to the surface. Memories. Regrets. And Joel Miller.
He's older now. Quieter. Still wearing that same guarded look in his eyes. He was always just a friend of the family. So why does one look from him make her forget what's right and what's allowed?
In a town where everyone knows your name, where whispers travel faster than wildfire, Dahlia finds herself caught in something she can't quite name.
A touch too lingering.
A stare too loaded.
A connection neither of them dares admit.But rules were made to be broken... and some desires? They never stayed buried for long.
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“It’s okay. I will fix the lock tomorrow.”
Ellie gasped when she heard his voice, since she hadn’t been aware of his presence nor that he had been listening. Once again, she was looking up at him with those big eyes of hers and only in that moment Joel realized that Ellie didn’t only dislike him.
No, even worse. She was fucking scared of him.
That this was fear glistening in her innocent eyes, as she took a few steps backwards, hugging herself tightly in self-protection, her head hanging low like she was ducking, trying to make herself as small as possible and her eyes being focused on her socked feet.
Joel was looking at her, hating himself for spooking her like that and before he could come up with saying something to make her feel less tensed and more comfortable, Ellie turned around and hurried inside the safety of the guest room without taking a shower, like she had probably intended to do.
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Or: Joel healing a little heart he hadn't broken.
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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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Inextricable by honeyandraspberrytea
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Oct 2025
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The woman whips around, and yeah, she looks like she could be in her mid thirties, but Ellie is so confused because Joel never would have left her if there was even a chance Sarah were alive, he wouldn’t have abandoned her, and Ellie swings the scope back to Joel to see if she can read his face, but he’s facing the wrong way, and he’s hunched over like he’s physically in pain and—
“Daddy?”
She starts to move, slowly, towards Joel, taking halting steps like she thinks he’ll disappear. He doesn’t move at all.
Distantly, Ellie hears Anna radioing for Tommy.
“Daddy?” she asks again, and Ellie registers her southern drawl, even more pronounced than Joel and Tommy’s. She sounds like Scarlett O’Hara. Tommy made her watch Gone with the Wind last month, after Ellie had missed it on movie night.
Joel still hasn’t moved. Sarah doesn’t step any closer to him.
They just stand there, in a stalemate.
Joel is breaking down.
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Two years to the day of EllieandJoel, JoelandEllie, the prodigal daughter returns.
(Sarah lives, and Ellie learns to live with it)
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Because of her. by wildthyng
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (TV) RPF
05 Oct 2025
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After what you lost, Jackson was supposed to be a fresh start. With Tommy and Maria by your side, rebuilding seemed almost possibleuntil Joel Miller stepped into your life. Haunted by his own ghosts, you soon realized you might have more in common than you ever wanted to admit.
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THE LAST JOURNEY (JOEL MILLER-THE LAST OF US) by Acer_Wolfe
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), tlou - Fandom, Pedro Pascal - Fandom, joel miller - Fandom, tommy miller - Fandom, ellie tlou - Fandom
05 Oct 2025
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After a series of tragic loss Joel Miller travels far and wide surviving on his wits and experience. Always moving forward despite the unforgiving environment he encounters because a quest keeps him going in his journey. (From the game The Last of Us and the live action TV series)
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Lonely Single Parent’s Club by RailaneyB
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Oct 2025
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You and Joel have a… unique relationship. Both with broken marriages, sole custody, and not a clue on how to raise children. You’ve made it work, helped each other out every now and again. As years ticked by, the kids got older and you relied on one another less and less.
But when Joel catches Sarah and your son, Daniel, in her bed, he comes straight to your door for a solution.
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"Your dad would have a goddamn heart attack if he saw you wearing that." Joel mutters, his eyes moving over my legs before returning to the road.
My belly heats from the alcohol or more likely- Joel's words. But with what I say next, I'm going to attribute it to the alcohol.
"My dad or you?" I ask quietly, expecting him to say nothing.
The leather steering wheel squeaks under his tight grip, jaw clenching before he speaks. "At this point, darlin', it might be both." -
Life Goes On by TheSupineLupine
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
04 Oct 2025
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Hunted to the edge of extinction after the outbreak the remaining werewolves face a new threat: now Fedra scientists want to take them alive! When a lone omega escapes capture and stumbles upon Joel Miller’s remote cabin neither of their lives will ever be the same.
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When your high-powered marketing career goes up in flames, you find yourself back in Texas and out of options—until your old childhood best friend Tommy Miller offers you a job at his family’s growing construction company. The only catch? His older brother Joel, the project manager with a chip on his shoulder and zero patience for your city-slicker attitude.
You clash instantly: you’re clever, confident, and painfully corporate. He’s quiet, rugged, and set in his ways. You push his buttons. He pushes back harder. But somewhere between long meetings, late nights, resurfacing memories, and hurt, along with one very unexpected work trip… the tension starts to shift.
What begins as bickering turns into banter. Glances linger. Walls crack. And neither of you is quite sure when things started to change.
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she used to be mine by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
04 Oct 2025
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“You okay?” Joel whispers, his breath warm against her ear.
"Yeah,” she lies. What else can she say? That she’s an impostor for being at a funeral for a world she’ll never experience? That she’s more worried about him than anything? That she’d give anything to go back to the hospital if it meant sparing everyone the grief of adding more names to these memorials?
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(ellie & joel's first outbreak day in Jackson)
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- Part 1 of whumptober 2025
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Zenith and Nadir by Arien for marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Oct 2025
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This was good. Joel could work with this. Dallas was far enough away without having to worry about hitting the reset button on every aspect of his brother’s life. He nodded quickly. He wasn’t worried about the kind of work he might be asked to do. He didn’t even consider it then - he saw a way out and that was all that mattered. But a wave of anxiety did wash over him which left him faintly trembly, weak in the belly. Everything was going to be on him, now. He had to do right by Tommy. There was no point to any of this if he couldn’t do it better than his old man.
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Joel through the years, the people he loves most and the patterns which emerge.
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- Part 3 of Night Fever, a Tess/Joel 1970s AU
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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