19 Works in Pre-The Last of Us Part I/Season 1
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All The Sinners Crawl by Mr_Potato_25
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Sep 2025
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You never used to be this desperate. Never used to allow yourself to grovel at a man’s feet for him just to give you the smallest morsels of warmth in return. Yet, you found yourself lapping up each and every crumb.
It was never supposed to even be him. It was Tommy that set his eyes on you on that godforsaken night at the bar—the night that turned to utter carnage.
Yet now, you would do just about anything to have his brother look at you with the same warmth and wanting.
You wanted to hate Joel Miller, wanted to feel nothing but disgust as you looked at him but you never could… and so in turn, you allowed him to ruin you over and over in every sense of the word.
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Or the events that took place during the two decades leading up to part 1Series
- Part 1 of Sinners
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Prescribed Desires by ThelastofTays
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Aug 2025
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In the crumbling remains of Boston, Madds is surviving, barely. She’s got a steady job, a stash of pills, and a list of regrets long enough to circle the QZ twice. The last thing she expects is for Joel Miller to show up again. Not after everything. Not with another woman on his arm.
They try to ignore it. The history. The heat. The way it still hurts.
But this city’s too small, and their past is too loud.
And when Madds bonds with a certain foul-mouthed teenager, ignoring Joel becomes impossible.This is not a love story. It’s a story about what comes after. About addiction and guilt. About wanting someone you shouldn’t, and not being able to stop.
It’s glances that linger too long. Arguments that turn into touches. And touches that always go too far.
And when the world starts to shift again, neither of them are ready for what it demands.A slow-burn, smut-leaning drama with sharp edges and soft centers. Loosely based on the HBO storyline.
TW: there is hard drug use, overdose (accidental and on purpose) and we explore some dark themes.
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echos of the fireflies by strangexvibes101
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 Aug 2025
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callie never asked for a family but found one with abby and the fireflies, until the fate of a firefly happened, forced into the WLF, she had no choice to help with the struggles as she then betrays the WLF for a new life but that causes forces into matter and a way to warn Ellie but unfortunetly.. tragedies can't be stopped. a path of revenge had led to callie to explain her past even a little more than usual.
or, callie's past and present.
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A second chance, snatched away. by loviegeto
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2025
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| After his trip with Ellie, Joel finally finds some peace in Jackson. It is there that he meets y/n, a young woman who, against all odds, manages to break down the wall Joel had built around his heart. Despite criticism for their age difference, their love grows strong and sincere, until news of a pregnancy changes everything. But in such a world, even happiness has a price.
What if, that day, under that house, instead of Ellie, it had been Joel's fiancée?
What if she had been the one to witness his end, with a daughter in her belly and a broken heart? -
A Snake in the Grass by believersramblings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Jul 2025
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In his time thieving to survive, Joel tries to steal from a bountiful farm, only to find that he's bitten off much more than he can chew. Set in several eras (pre-Part 1, during Part 1, pre-Part 2), Joel finds that no amount of time can help him shake the farmer who saved his life, try as he might to keep his distance. When their paths continue to cross, it becomes harder to ignore the unspoken bond that the two can't help but form.
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Hands on | J.M by mirroredmuse
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 May 2025
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Joel teaches you the things no one ever bothered to, starting with how to fix your car.
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All That Remains by daryltwdixon
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Mar 2025
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Being raised by a survivalist father meant learning two things: endure at all costs, and trust no one. And you lived by those rules, even after he was gone, surviving alone in a world that never gave second chances.
But enduring becomes far more complicated when a familiar face returns, burdened with a fierce young girl and a mission that was never meant to include you. When you're forced from the only home you’ve ever known, survival is no longer just about the next meal or the next breath—it’s about who you become when there’s no way back.
You’ve spent years believing your father’s lessons—that needing people is a sign of weakness. But as the miles stretch on, as survival becomes more than just a fight for the next day, one truth becomes harder to ignore—you can’t live by your father’s rule of trusting no one anymore.
And one man makes following that rule damn near impossible.
Follows Season 1 of The Last of Us. Blend of show and game canon. Picture Joel as you prefer, but I will be mentioning Pedro Pascal's brown eyes. No use of Y/N. In the beginning of the story, time hops are not canon. -
dead of night by ghostinthegraveyard
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Dec 2024
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Tommy is gone.
Tess is pissed.
Joel is desperate.Joel/Tess smutty oneshot, set approximately five years before the events of TLOU Part I.
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Sometimes I don't think through the things I'm doing by AeAyem
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls Online
18 Oct 2023
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Those who would become Hands of Almalexia must undertake a pilgrimage: they must wander Morrowind as anonymous adventurers, aiding the Dunmer in secret, and alone.
After the Akaviri war, a young woman and Hand-Aspirant does a bad job at this.
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- English
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- 10,061
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
- Hits:
- 63
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You stalk him like prey.
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Do I Wanna Know? by Ocean_Park_Avenue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), joel miller - Fandom, The Last of Us (TV)
04 Jun 2023
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Tess, your friend of a few years, makes you team up with the grumpiest and most distanced man you’ve met, Joel Miller. All to get some supplies from a camp in Dallas, Texas. But when you discover there might be more to it than just getting supplies, you agree to help.
You only hope that Joel will come around to you, or it’s gonna be a long trip.
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You meet Joel on a summer road trip while you were passing through Big Bend National Park. In a life where you live like a nomad, living out of a camper, you face the realization that you might just need to stay in one place for a while after meeting him.
*The first part of the story is pre outbreak. Post outbreak will come much later.*
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Seeing You, Seeing Me by tothestrongones
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 Feb 2023
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After handling a life-or-death favor for Tess, you're in deep trouble. Until she can make things right, she suggests you lay low at her place for the week. The issue? It's also Joel Miller's place, and you're pretty sure he hates you.
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- Part 1 of The Gibson Girl Series
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The cave - Joel Miller by malefecently
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
10 Feb 2023
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━─━────༺༻────━─━
"The harvest left no food for you to eat.
You cannibal, you meat eater, you see.
I know the shame in your defeat
But I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the Noose around your neck"
━─━────༺༻────━─━When her family is killed and she is forced off a roof right into the arms of Joel, the two begin to kindle a friendship and maybe something more. With secrets and lies keeping the two at arms length, will Joel and Bonnie come to terms with each other's past? Can they stop being ignorant and leave the isolation and ignorance of the 'cave'?
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"Cause I have other things to fill my time.
You take what is yours and I'll take mine.
Now let me at the truth"
━─━────༺༻────━─━Inspired by Plato's allegory of 'The cave' and Mumford and Son's song of the same name. (Lyrics taken from that song)
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"So come out of your cave,
Walking on your hands
And see the world hanging upside down
You can understand dependence
when you know the makers land"
━─━────༺༻────━─━With.....
Pedro pascal as Joel
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Jessica Henwick as Bonnie
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1 good bottle of scotch - This one’s ours, Joel!
Joel and Tess get to share that bottle of scotch.
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- Part 1 of TessJoel
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Early on in their professional relationship Tess and Joel share a bottle of Jack Daniel's and pop a few pills. Some unpleasant truths come out, and they take comfort in one another; if only for a night.
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- Part 2 of TessJoel
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Her breaths came in quick choppy gasps for air, arms cradled her rounded belly. Frantically trying to escape the screeching cries of infected.
They were supposed to be safe. Marlene had promised they would be safe.
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Smell of Leather and Smoke by r4nch
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Last of Us (Video Games)
05 Sep 2020
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The past month didn’t feel real to Nile. Everything happened so fast, her dying with her throat cut open and her blood going everywhere. Then her coming back to life, Andy basically kidnapping her, learning what she is with the lack of a why. Then everything with Merrick and subsequently Booker’s exile.
Nile truly didn’t feel as betrayed by Booker as the other three did. She didn’t know him for very long, and she understood where the man was coming from. He felt lonely and depressed, the Frenchman most likely has severe depression and along with the fact that he couldn’t die, that he was alone and having to deal with Nicky and Joe at the same time.
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This is a companion piece to my longer fic 'The Last of the Old Guard', you don't have to read that to understand this one nor do you even have to know what The Last of Us is. There are elements of tlou, but only at the very end.Series
- Part 2 of The Last of the Old Guard
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A moment with Tess and Joel. He leaves her a note and it kind of surprises her.