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icarus, spread your wings by marchflower for lkay09
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Jul 2026
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“This,” he interrupts firmly, “is what I want to do.”
His hand settles over hers, tugs it free from his shirt. He threads his fingers through hers, fixing their palms flush against each other. All the rough parts of him scrape all the wounded parts of her, and it rubs her raw, but she finds that that flaying - the slow and painful shedding of her shell- feels more like a rebirth than a burial. He doesn’t expect her to be anyone other than who she is, flaws and all. He doesn’t need to be anyone other than who he is. She’s seen him in some of his worst moments and in most of his best, and she’s found herself in both sides of him. Two and half years since he kicked her knife away from her in that leaking hallway in the Boston QZ and she’s harder pressed than ever to find the murky line where he ends and she begins. She stopped looking for it a long time ago.
“Okay,” she whispers. She rests her head against his shoulder, turns her face sideways into the collar of his shirt. He hums, low and throaty, and rubs his free hand up and down her arm.
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Seven times that Ellie held Joel's hand, and one time she let go.
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07 Jul 2026
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every bird, gone unheard by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 May 2026
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“She’s cold, Joel.” It’s the first thing Tess says about the kid that isn’t practical, isn’t about the job. It’s quiet, too quiet for the kid to hear since she’s wandered a bit away and found herself a spot to sit down, out of the rain still dripping from the roof. “She’s just a fucking little girl and she’s cold.”
He stops trying to argue they should keep moving.
Or: Joel doesn't like Ellie being cold.
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25 Apr 2026
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all or none by guts (verucabat)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Mar 2026
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“Ellie,” Marlene breathes, tightening her grip. Ellie whips her head around to look at her, heart lodged in her throat. “You have to get to the hospital, nothing is more important than that.”
Ellie nods jerkily. Marlene squeezes her knee with an intense expression.
“You get there, and you make it happen. No matter the cost.”
“Okay,” Ellie agrees wetly.
“You do not let anything stop you,” Marlene stresses.
“Make it right,” she tells Ellie.
OR: Marlene gets Ellie out of Boston without Joel. They find each other in Kansas City anyway.
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17 Mar 2026
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the gold and the rust by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Feb 2026
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And she’s always had her moments of quiet. After Sam and Henry especially, it took days for her to tell him a pun or ask him a question, days of only speaking when necessary. Hell, even when she’s her normal self, he can tell she’s tired because she goes quiet.
This is different. More. Terrifying. But he’s not surprised, exactly.
Or: Sometimes Ellie doesn't talk.
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28 Feb 2026
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“You can scream if you want,” Joel murmured. “Hell, that’s probably more convincin’. But I need you to listen first. Can you listen? You ain’t too scared to do that?”
Tess swallowed hard. Her breath rasped in her throat and her skin prickled all over. She was reeling from his speed and strength. He could do whatever he wanted. He was strong enough and fast enough to do whatever he wanted and there wasn’t anything she could do to stop him. The hubris of thinking she could actually have gotten herself out of the trap was staggering. If she was quiet, if she could be still, maybe another chance would open up. But the fight would not leave her body.
She loathed herself for it.
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