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After the events of 'Lone Wolf,' Joel's managed to get Ellie recovering and keep her safe in Jackson, where he's fighting for them to have a home and a life. However, as much as Ellie loves Joel, she feels responsible for the whole world because of her immunity - and thus, when the Fireflies come, she wants to go.
But Joel? Joel, who only just got his daughter - his still-injured twelve-year-old daughter - and the opportunity to keep her safe? No, of course he doesn't like that.
But he loves her, and when the time comes, he's willing to follow her to the ends of the earth.
Even if it means bad things are going to happen.
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- Part 2 of Lone Wolf
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Joel found our writer after the outbreak, while looting an abandoned gas station, and brought her on an intimate journey to his brother’s commune. Life there is steady, almost safe. Almost perfect. But perfection has its cracks. Every night she slips into Joel’s bed, seeking the kind of safety that she can’t find anywhere else. And every morning, he sends her back before anyone notices. That’s their ritual. But can it last?
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Bad Jokes & Anaphlyaxsis by finding_the_sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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How the Millers find out Ellie is deathly allergic to blueberries.
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Nothing Left by Nonbinairyboi
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 Sep 2025
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You hadn't spoken in years. Technically, you had the ability to, though as the years wore on, you weren't so sure anymore.You'd settled in Jackson over a year ago and now it was Fall again. You are drawn towards Ellie and her 'not-dad' but you had always assumed any relationships deeper than surface level were beyond you at this point.
Please note MainCharacter/Reader is afab non-binary, has short hair, and has multiple nicknames but none are their name.
Series Warnings: This is my first fanfic and I plan to go into some dark stuff including some in-depth discussion of SA that was done to the main character (not by Joel) and the mental impact it has. Eventual Smut. MINORS DNI!
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When the news of a funeral drags Dahlia Johnson back to the sleepy Wyoming town she once called home, she tells herself it's only temporary. After all, she's built a life in New York - one filled with high-rise apartments, demanding clients, and noise loud enough to drown out the past.
But home has a way of pulling things to the surface. Memories. Regrets. And Joel Miller.
He's older now. Quieter. Still wearing that same guarded look in his eyes. He was always just a friend of the family. So why does one look from him make her forget what's right and what's allowed?
In a town where everyone knows your name, where whispers travel faster than wildfire, Dahlia finds herself caught in something she can't quite name.
A touch too lingering.
A stare too loaded.
A connection neither of them dares admit.But rules were made to be broken... and some desires? They never stayed buried for long.
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Good Luck, Babe! by finding_the_sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Sep 2025
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Ellie humiliates herself in front of her best friend and crush, leaving school in the middle of the day, hurt and upset. Tommy finds her via Jesse, and a series of funny and embarrassing misunderstandings occur due to protective dads and uncles just trying their best.
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Gay disaster Ellie and over protective Miller brothers.
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The Last Of Us Oneshots by imbluebadoodee
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Sep 2025
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umm you read the title idk what else to say gang
TW: sh and sa
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- Part 1 of The Last of Us
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Like God Needs the Devil by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Sep 2025
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“Don’t.”
It’s meant to be a hiss, possibly a snarl, but it slips from her in a blank tone void of emotion that makes even her arms pebble with the warning that lies threaded into that one word.
She will not be placated, she will not be coddled, and she will not have anybody talking to her about Joel like that.
“Don't speak to me like he is dead, you do not know that. Don’t you fucking dare talk to me like he is.”
Planting the heel of her hand in the weak give of Tommy’s sternum just like he’d taught her, she shoves him away roughly enough to send him back onto his ass with a splat as he lands in the bloodied mud.
Stumbling to her feet, she shakes off the premature grief like she’s shedding a skin that doesn't fit and follows the tracks that have become almost impossible to see.
Joel’s not dead until she’s got proof, and right now? She doesn’t have shit and neither does Tommy.
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Sequel to 'Let Me Be Your Shelter' - now 21, Ellie is taking on more responsibility as she settles into what it takes to run the ranch and handle its enemies, especially after they threaten the people she claims as hers.Series
- Part 2 of Modern AU - Miller Ranch
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The Ghosts of Babylon (2025) by 6hoursgirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Sep 2025
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A medical doctor turned hardened FEDRA soldier, Mira Hallowell is sent to spy on the settlement of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 21 years after the cordyceps outbreak. Things get complicated when she finds an unexpected purpose in Jackson…and some unexpected companionship.
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THE GREAT WAR by Annasemojulia
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last Of Us (videogames)
03 Sep 2025
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After your mother's death leading the Fireflies and five grueling years as a soldier for the WLF, your faith in the post-apocalyptic world begins to fade. You flee, with no hope left to survive, until you find yourself in Jackson, where unexpected reasons to keep living might be waiting for you.
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You show up in Jackson with nothing, just a name on your lips and the faint crust of blood drying on your skin. Months after the horde rips its way through the heart of the town, and with no memory of how you got there, you struggle to assimilate. You try—and you fail miserably.
So Maria tucks you away on the expansion project with the other no-talent nobodies. Those who can’t shoot straight, who won’t follow orders, but are still alive enough to swing a hammer. With no other choice, you take the opportunity. At your wit’s end, no family, barely any friends, you're assigned to work under a man the town respects.
Joel Miller carries more than the tools and the orders—he carries weight. Authority. Fear. Trust. And maybe, if you prove yourself, he could be your ticket to something like purpose again. But Joel doesn’t like you. Doesn’t trust you. There are unanswered questions in his eyes—like he’s waiting for something to bleed out.
Maybe he’s right.
Because sooner or later, the past always finds a way back.
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safely, gathered in by RandomRuth
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Aug 2025
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Then it’s the scythe’s turn, with its long, two-handled shaft and huge, curved blade attached at an angle. Beside him, Ellie straightens up in her chair from the slump she’d fallen into like someone’s dumped a bucket of ice water on her head.
“Oh, shit,” she whispers, near breathless.
Joel straightens too, glances around. “What?”
“I’ve never seen one in real life before,” she tells him, watching the scythe, her eyes practically sparkling. “That’s the Grim Reaper’s stick.”
Joel is frazzled, but he has been listening — it helps that he already knew what this one is called from Before. “It’s called a scythe.”
Ellie’s delighted grin is only getting bigger. “Sick.”
(Joel and Ellie attend a town meeting to discuss the upcoming barley harvest, Joel worries about the future, and Ellie picks up a new hobby.)
One-shot, set after season 1, and almost a year after "creatures, great and small".
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- Part 2 of all, who live
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it's a long way back (but a short road home) by cardigains
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Aug 2025
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“It’s okay. I know a guy.” Ellie likes talking about Joel like he’s her mob lackey or something. Makes everything feel a little less looming and leering and lethal. She called Joel "a guy" when it came to getting an extra slice of pie or getting outside of Jackson's walls when she needed a day off of school, when she couldn’t fucking stomach it anymore. He told her to cut it out whenever she called him that. It was a bit. She liked all of their bits these days. “He’ll get you out too.”
“I’m Ellie," she volunteers though she doesn't want to. This woman isn’t an enemy. She’s as caged in as Ellie, worn down to the point that she barely had her wits left about her. There was a look in people’s eyes when they got that way, when they’d started giving up hope. Ellie would fucking know.
The woman shakes something loose from her bones, digs her teeth against her lip before she answers, “I’m Sarah.”
Ellie snorts. “Yeah,” she says with only the edges of humor clinging on. “He’ll definitely fucking save you.”
or: On Outbreak Night Joel and Tommy are separated from Sarah. They spend the next twenty-one years assuming each other is dead. Until Ellie and Sarah find each other in the same awful circumstances.
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Damaged Lungs by LilBitDepressed27
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 Aug 2025
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The one where Ellie isn't immune to a certain lung disease. Or is she?
Abby Anderson never went to Jackson. There's no Seattle no wolves or anything Dina and Ellie are only friends at first.
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Joel Miller is your best friend’s uncle—Sarah’s dad, Tommy’s brother. He’s tied to everyone you love, woven into the fabric of your life. But when he returns after years of silence and sorrow following a tragedy, something between you shifts. Desire begins to grow through the cracks of shared grief.
Pain lingers. So does longing. And as old wounds resurface, you find yourself drawn to the one person you were never meant to want.
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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. Shenanigans ensue.
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Newly settled into Jackson city and forced to go on patrols with the miserable Joel Miller sets off a chain of events and encounters that have you questioning everything, including your own heart.
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From Joel Miller, you never asked for anything, you didn’t even know him before he gave you his blood to save you. But it was without knowing that with this simple donation, you would disappointingly live linked to each other, even if it meant overturning all your certainties.
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It's Never Been An Option (Original Non-Linear Version) by Musica_FICta
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
10 Aug 2025
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NOTE: This work is in non-linear format. A chronological version is embedded into the series "Sweeter Days, Future Days" at https://archiveofourown.org/series/5052161
At FEDRA school, Ellie'd been mostly just "Williams." She liked being a Williams, like her mom. But Jackson was waving this new "Miller" option in her face, and she couldn't stop thinking about it.
It was stupid to be so stuck, when she could just bring it the hell up, and 1. hear Joel rasp "You can tell me, Kiddo," 2. Watch him try to guess what she wanted so he could encourage it, 3. Make her feel like an insightful fucking genius for wanting it. Which was awesome, actually, if she could just decide what she wanted.
OR, how Ellie navigates an opportunity she never thought she'd have: to choose who she wants to be and what her life can mean. And drags her family along for the ride.
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Disconnected by finding_the_sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
10 Aug 2025
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Ellie gets an injury while out on patrol and hides it from everyone, worrying that Joel will take it as a sign she's not ready to go out there. A few days later, she starts getting sick, and only gets sicker as time goes on.