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fall in love again and again by galactictsukki
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
26 Dec 2025
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“I’m putting in a transfer request to Carleton this afternoon.”
Ilya gets off his bike and wraps his sweaty arms around Shane’s sweaty shoulders, presses their sweaty heads together and holds him tight. “Nooo, Hollander, you cannot leave me. Who will put Barrett and Marly in time out when they fuck up too many shots in a row?”
“I’m sure Bood will do it. He loves bossing people around.”
Bood stands up straight and salutes his captains. “I take the title with great honor. Enjoy the Ravens, Hollander—your legacy of being a chaste Victorian debutante will be remembered fondly but not carried on.”
This snaps that last thread of Shane’s refined patience. “I can pick up girls! I have no problem getting numbers and calling them and talking!”
Hazy smirks. “Innocent until proven guilty.”
“I can pick people up,” Shane says again, moving off his bike and out of Ilya’s sweaty embrace. “And I don’t have to do it by concocting schemes or stripping on top of the LAX bros’ coffee table.”
Or, after some team chirping at Shane's expense, Ilya accidentally interrupts a few of his potential dating prospects and then keeps on doing it less than accidentally
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17 Jun 2026
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He only realizes he’s doing it when it’s too late to stop.
He’s standing in the drink aisle of the grocery store, checking the expiration dates on the cans of Coke, mentally cross-checking them with Boston’s away game schedule, and the reality hits him like someone shook one of those cans and popped it open. A snap. A fizz. A mess.
Shane is making space for Ilya.
(or, lessons in budget-friendly shopping, home decor, and resisting the urge to neatly combine all your situationship’s shit into a drawer in your bedroom because you might be falling in love with him: a seven-ish step guide by shane hollander, who is so, so fucked)
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28 May 2026
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Shane Hollander's PDA Agenda by virtual_typewriter
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Mar 2026
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It happens in an instant.
Over Ilya’s shoulder, Shane sees the doctor and Wiebe give each other a look, and in a sudden bout of impatient anxiety, Shane ends up saying the words that come to ruin everything.
“Don’t touch me.”
The effect is instantaneous. Ilya’s hands fly to his sides, and Shane gets a front row seat as Ilya’s heart breaks before his very eyes. Eyes dimming and lips trembling in slow, painful technicolor.
It causes Shane’s heart to break, too, and he vows, immediately, never to see such a look cross his husband’s face again.
OR Shane embarks on a mission to heal his husband’s heart, one PDA at a time.
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25 May 2026
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carry your world (and all your hurt) by motionsickness
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Apr 2023
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When Sarah was four years old, she went through a phase of begging him to look under her bed every night. There were monsters, she'd tell him, and he was the only one who could frighten them away.
The monster Ellie's afraid of isn't under her bed and he doesn't know how to make this one go away.
(ellie's first winter living in jackson is hard.)
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15 May 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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everything i do, i learned from you by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 May 2023
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“Careful out there today kid,” he’d said seriously, “patrol yesterday came back pretty roughed up. I guess there’s been more hordes moving in from the city.”
She’d laughed, shoving him playfully with a, “c’mon old man! If I was as scared of infected as you are, I’d never leave the house!”
The look on his face had made her stop laughing, mostly because she knows why Joel is so afraid of infected. It’s not for his own safety.
“I’ll be safe. I promise.”
That seemed to put him at ease. Too bad she’s a huge fucking liar.
(Ellie risks her life on patrol to save a stranded kid)
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14 Mar 2026
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your heart is your masterpiece by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Jul 2023
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“Watch where you’re fucking going,” he grumbles, but it’s with none of his usual bite.
Still, Ellie scowls and mutters, “dick,” under her breath and takes another careful step forward, testing the mushy ground with her sneaker before following behind him dutifully.
Then it’s her turn to pretend she can’t see Joel watching her out of the corner of his eye, hand flexing at his side like he’s fighting the urge to reach out and make sure she doesn’t trip again. Ellie catches his eye, and he immediately sets his jaw and faces forward, but it’s enough that she can’t help but think, got you, motherfucker.
Dude might have a fucking heart after all.
(Or Ellie is clumsy and Joel is not fucking endeared by it at all. He’s not.)
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11 Dec 2025
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butterfly kisses by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 May 2024
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Ellie runs away from Joel and their life in Jackson, believing herself to be cursed. Afraid she'll lose what matters most, she decides to just leave first to protect the family she doesn't think she deserves.
A brush with death out on the road and a familiar stranger help Ellie find her way home. Back to Joel.
(Or Ellie doesn't believe in spirits and guardian angels, but something saved her and she needs to know why.)
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15 Nov 2025
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all this starless night by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Feb 2024
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He wonders sometimes if someone is missing Ellie. Someone who thinks she’s safe at school, someone who doesn’t know she’s gone on this harebrained mission. He doesn’t really think it’s true, but it’s not really the point.
The point is this whole little road trip would be so much fucking easier if he could stop remembering that Ellie is somebody’s baby.
Or: The little pieces of herself Ellie leaves in Joel's life.
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03 Nov 2025
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all i needed was someone (when the whole wide world felt young) by cardigains for eedsknees
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Dec 2023
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Much like the other day, Ellie ends up sitting on the porch steps. Joel’s back even quicker this time. Almost like he’d left his first aid supplies sitting out and ready to attend as needed.
More cleaning, this one hurts less. More gel liquid, this time rubbed in a bit better. And more bandaids, these ones something other than plain, boring beige. Not princesses either, usually the first thing adults reached for when they mixed the two factors of Little Girl and Injured together.
Nope. This guy has dinosaur bandaids.
“Dude, I fucking love dinos!”
Joel’s head swivels up, eyes going from her carefully patched up elbow to meet Ellie’s gaze. She wants to ask him how he knew. She wants to ask to see the rest of the designs in the box. She wants to tell him all of the other things she loves.
“S’pose I picked right then,” he says, almost like he’d been standing in the aisle, contemplating what exactly that might be.
“You did,” is how Ellie answers him, not bothering with a thank you.
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or: Ellie is Joel's next door neighbor who's hellbent on learning to ride a bike to get where she needs to go. Little does she know that place is right across the street.
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- Part 1 of Next Door Neighbors
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01 Oct 2025
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Keep Going by stainedglasspanel
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 May 2023
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Joel sounds a thousand miles away. “Ellie? Are you listening? I said, don’t you *ever* do that again.”
Well, she thinks deliriously, that won’t be a problem after all.
“Ellie, what—?”
It feels like she has no control over her body anymore, like it’s someone else who is extending her arm, pulling back her sleeve, and exposing a ring of broken skin. She hears Joel stop breathing when he sees it too.
She's been bitten.
________AU where Ellie is already traveling across the country with Joel when she gets bitten.
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24 Sep 2025
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the shirt off his back by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 May 2025
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“Your clothes,” she says. “I don’t mind them.”
“Well, they’re all yours,” he says. “Whenever you want.”
In the moment, he’d carve out his actual heart and give it to her if it made her feel better. His clothes are nothing compared to that.
Or: 5 times someone stole Joel's shirt + 1 time they didn't
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10 Sep 2025
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‘Til our Fingers Decompose (Keep my Hand in Yours) by Baymax_13
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Jul 2023
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The next thing he sees and knows isn’t a dream is Ellie’s little hand reaching over his heart and balling up his shirt in her fist. Her head lays on his shoulder and her ear presses against his chest. He feels her small exhales and they bring fresh, unbidden tears to his eyes. She doesn’t notice his half-lidded gaze, but he sees just fine as she brings the hand still clutched around his flannel up to her nose and presses it to her face like it’s the only thing keeping her from floating away.
Almost on muscle memory alone, Joel aims to press a kiss to her hair where it’s up to his own nose, but he can’t quite get it right. Still, his cheek ends up against the soft tendrils of Ellie’s brown strands and he thinks it’s enough. He hopes it gives her some meager comfort.
It’s all he has to offer.
(Inspired by the famous picture of Ellie sleeping all curled up on the forest floor during episode 2 - essentially an exploration of how Ellie becomes more than cargo to Joel through Ellie's very cute sleeping habits)
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08 Sep 2025
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another two years gone (spent forever letting go) by fabbee
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Aug 2025
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Jackson Hole sat at the base of two mountain ranges, with long, winding rivers that ran around its perimeter. The rolling fields seemed to go on forever and ever, full of bright wildflowers and blooming butterweeds. It was breathtaking to stand on top of the hill and look down at their new home.
It was the kind of shit people would paint pictures of.
It sort of made her want to throw up.
“Whadda’ ya say, kiddo? Ready to go home?” Joel asked.
Home.
He made it sound so fucking simple.
“Yep.” She forced a smile onto her face that she hoped looked believable. “Let’s go, old man.”
OR: After Salt Lake City, Ellie and Joel return to Jackson and try to build a life. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of the past.
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- Part 2 of back to you verse
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17 Aug 2025
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“I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”
A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”
Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”
Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”
“Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:
“What?!”
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Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Complications ensue.
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07 Aug 2025
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shearly beloved by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Mar 2023
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The day of Jackson’s sheep shearing, Ellie’s up before the sun.
Joel, predictably, is not.
She’s learned that settled into the peace of Jackson, he is very much not a morning person. She’d suspected as much from how his grumpiness was always at peak in the mornings while they were on the road, but sharing a house has really made it sink in that unless there’s a world-saving quest ahead of him, Joel would quite happily never see the day before at least 8 in the morning, which is one of the reasons he usually ends up taking later patrols when he can.
Fortunately (and unfortunately) for him, though, it’s sheep shearing day, and she’s ready to see if he was full of shit about liking sheep or not.
(day in the life of ellie and joel in jackson liVING THE SOFT AND HAPPY LIVES THEY DESERVE)
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05 Aug 2025
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It’s across his desk that the first reports of the Fireflies and their miracle cure comes. He handles most intelligence on them. It’s partially down to his own interests; after Anna’s betrayal, he’d needed to make sure that no one else would ever be able to find out exactly how much information ended up spoken fuckdrunk and passed along.
It’s because of this access that he’s the first one who puts eyes on a file about the subject that allowed the Fireflies to get their miracle cure. There’s no names–well, no names that are true, he can tell from even a cursory glance–but there are notes that start to scratch at memories.
Female, 14 years old, raised in the Boston QZ, mother a Firefly, father unknown, 5’1”, 94 pounds at the start and 83 by the end of testing, medical history unknown by virtue of being an orphan.
It’s a rough sketch, a vague idea of a person that could fit anyone.
But somehow, in the part of himself that’s made him one of the best spymasters FEDRA has in its employ, he just knows.
The Firefly’s miracle girl is his daughter.
(au in which ellie's father is a high-up fedra official who decides he can use her immunity for his own ends)
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31 Jul 2025
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never enough, always too much by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 May 2023
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“It’s not fair,” Ellie’s voice is practically a whisper now. “That you lost everything, and all you have to show for it is this…” she gestures angrily toward herself.
“This what? ”
This mess. This broken, ugly, useless thing that everyone except for you has figured out early enough to ditch.
“Just…me.”
(Ellie worries about her place in Joel’s life and in the world)
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23 Jul 2025
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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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22 Jul 2025
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a real nightmare (completely aware) by lkay09 for stillboldlygoing
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
25 Mar 2024
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“Joel.” His name slips from her without thought, just the utterance of it stinging her chest.
He jerks to a stop, turning to look at her in surprise. Ellie can’t blame him, she’s barely said a word to him in almost two years.
Ellie tilts her head towards Tommy’s house, blowing out a breath. “Don’t bother.”
He looks between her and the house across the street, hands fidgeting with the paper he holds. “There oughta be another option. You shouldn’t –” He cuts himself off, but Ellie knows what he was gonna say. Years of distance don’t mean that she doesn’t still know him as well as she used to.
You shouldn’t have to be around me if you don’t want to.
(bad things happen bingo - cradling someone in their arms)
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- Part 3 of bad things happen bingo
Bookmarked by spritejac
22 Jul 2025