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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 SoftballA13
19 Jun 2026
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18 Jun 2026
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After a difficult day at work, Kerry goes to the one person who can help.
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19 May 2026
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Hold Back The River by sporadicallyceaseless
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Nov 2024
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"Maria's gonna be a little late tonight, she’s busy yelling at some kids that got caught jumping off the dam.”
Stunned, Joel eyes the puddle slowly forming under her feet with quiet horror. “But you were smarter than that, right?”
“Or faster?” Tommy cuts in hopefully.
“Both,” Ellie agrees. Then, with a wince, “But also…neither.”
A dangerous dare and a nasty sickness rock the Miller household on an already emotional week. Joel and Ellie learn that something always lurks deeper than the surface.
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26 Feb 2026
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"She's your fucking kid too, Joel. Just because you went and found yourself another one doesn't mean Sarah didn't happen." And that's real rich coming from the jackass who'd disappeared for days at a time as Sarah's life had come to an end and took off when he couldn't handle her absence after she'd passed.
"Don't you ever suggest that I don't give a damn, Thomas. You don't know what it's like to watch your baby die and then put them into the ground where you have to leave them." His hands shake and his voice is lined with thinly veiled rage, but there's still a wobble when he thinks about her funeral and that too-small coffin she'd been in.
His head still aches from the bullet he'd tried to put through it that very same day.
Another thing Tommy had missed; only finding him almost two days later, unresponsive and crusted in dried blood.
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A story of 'What If's'What if Sarah died some other way? What if there was no outbreak? What if Tommy fell apart too? What if Ellie came into Joel's life before he got the chance to spend twenty years spiraling?
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23 Feb 2026