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It’s the same Joel and it isn’t - still rough around the edges with strangers and slow drawl and she still manages to sneak up on him from his right side - but he’s changed since Colorado and Utah and everything that happened in between. Ellie would almost be tempted to joke that penicillin made him nicer, but she knows it has more to do with finding her monosyllabic and covered in blood and trying to fix it because that’s what Joel does, he fixes things.
Joel fixes the light in the dining room, the drain in the sink, and she tries not to think of what his version of fixing things would’ve been in the hospital, hates that she knows he was probably lying and hates that she knows she won’t call him out on it. Right now, he’s fixing an old window air conditioning unit because otherwise she’s taken to threatening to sleep in the river if she has to try to sleep in 90 degree heat because the ancient central air of the house can’t keep up.
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Ellie and Joel adjust to life in Jackson and the change of the seasons.
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31 Jul 2026
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It’s been nine months since Katara broke off her engagement, renouncing her title as the Avatar’s betrothed and reclaiming her name. It's been three weeks of filling in as ambassador and dodging her ex-fiance. The eighth year peace summit has come to an end and it’s the night of the closing ball. Tonight the public finds out that she is no longer the Avatar's betrothed and Katara confronts the feelings she's developed for Zuko. Her friends might be watching her back but they've got schemes if their own. Katara knows where her heart lies but will the Fire Lord feel the same? What will she do when Aang takes his chance to confront her?
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31 Jul 2026
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The Stars Incline Us by Merakiae
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Mar 2026
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astra inclinant, sed non obligant (the stars incline us, they do not bind us)
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Of all the fights Joel has dragged his brother into, none of them have ever been worthy of Tommy’s loyalty, until this one.
“You don’t know what she’s been through, Tommy. She’s just a kid. She needs—“
To be held.
To know that she deserves to live.
To know that she’s setting the world right just by existing, just by breathing.
Tommy finds the words he can’t. “She needs people to love her, a safe place to grow up and do some healin’. I reckon you, me, and Maria can give her that.”
Or: the Part II where Ellie gets her chance at saving the world (or at least her little corner of it) and finds out just how loved she is along the way.
No AI was used in the writing of this fic.
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16 Jul 2026
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It Would Crush Me by kxthiiiy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Jul 2026
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Fear had a way of poisoning certainty. And tonight she was more afraid than she'd been in years. The tears kept coming long after she wished they would stop. And somewhere between guilt, fear, exhaustion, and old memories, Ellie lay awake in the darkness, staring at the ceiling and dreading the arrival of morning...
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(Or: When Ellie makes a stupid decision, her life threatens to change irrevocably—at least that's what she believes. But, unfortunately for all of them, fate had very different, very cruel plans...)
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16 Jul 2026
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lay bare the bones of the earth by marchflower for emooni
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Jul 2024
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Joel sighs, runs his hand wearily over his face. “Baby,” he says, and despite herself, Ellie feels her shoulders relax at the nickname. “This - it’s a threat against all of us. It’s not something we can let lie.”
“I’m not telling you to just let it lie,” Ellie retorts. “Just- why does it have to be you?”
Joel looks away, shifts on his feet. “Ellie,” he says, and the timbre of his voice rakes a claw down her spine. “You know why.”
She does, and that’s the thing- she’s not sure she’s worth it, this kind of love that goes blind with rage in the face of threats, the kind of love that drives people out of their homes and into the night and away from their families. The kind of love that demands sacrifice. It sits uneasily beneath her skin, like an electric current.
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Jackson is threatened - and Ellie steps up.
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01 Jun 2026