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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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18 Jun 2026
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Ashes to Ashes by MessyDepressy95 for midnight_society
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Jun 2026
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She's whiter than sin and beat to hell, blood crusted up under her nose and around her mouth when he gently lifts the poorly stitched together sack up and away from her face with hands that don't feel like his own.
All of maybe seven or eight, if he had to guess, kids somehow looking both younger and older than they're meant to these days.
She looks like a baby to him, her features all soft despite being so damn thin.
With an odd sense off detachment, he rolls up her sleeves and checks both arms before moving onto her legs in search of any sign that's she's been infected, but the tell-tale climb of Cordyceps is nowhere to be found, no bite mark to mock him. Not on her back that's a swirl of blackened bruising and bumpy spine or on the hollow of her stomach that's just as tender and hard to look at, the cut of her ribs striking.
There ain't a thing on her outside of a list of hurts that's a mile long and etched into her skin.
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Joel stumbles on Ellie at the bottom of a pile of dead bodies meant for the burn pits, one shallow breath and a steady heartbeat is all it takes to undo him.Bookmarked by Wingsoffbutterflies
12 Mar 2026
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The Ballad of a Nightingale by onthewallwiththis
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Mar 2025
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The flutter of hope that she had left unscathed died quickly upon hearing them, even more so after cataloguing the state of the girl. In pieces is the only apt way to describe it.
But whatever string of hope that could’ve been left dwindling in his soul was ceremoniously ripped out when the desperation in Ellie's eyes and gasps for air from her mouth left him looking at the bloody, Jagged, fleshy hole in her mouth where her tongue was supposed to be.
Or: When Ellie gets captured by David’s group, they change her in a way Joel can’t fix, no matter how hard he tries.
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04 Jan 2026
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Max stared at nothing and didn’t move. She gripped her walkie-talkie like it was her only anchor to the world, which it kind of was. She wasn’t sure how long she’d been sitting here in the closet she used to use to hide, thoughts creeping into her head and preparing to strangle her.
She clicked the button on her walkie-talkie. She couldn’t get her voice to rise above a whisper. “Steve, can you come get me?”
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30 Dec 2025
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Dirges for the darkness by onthewallwiththis
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Jan 2025
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All at once, Ellie feels 8, and 10, and 12, and 14 again. She feels all the fragments of herself morph into one, she sheds the tears she never let herself shed. She says the words, the mumbled eulogies she never got to speak aloud. She lays to rest the bodies of the people who she loves most. And it still doesn’t feel like enough.
But she doesn’t know what will be.
And that only makes her cry more.
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After the loss of someone in the Jackson community, Ellie is thrust into facing the grief, guilt and pain that has been following her around her whole life. Luckily this time around, she doesn’t have to do it alone.
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15 Dec 2025