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After leaving an abusive relationship, you return back to your hometown in Austin, Texas, seeking safety and a fresh start with your father that you have not seen for many years. The quietness between you two feels strange at first - but peaceful, a feeling that's foreign to you.
Then you meet Joel, one of your dad's business partners and longtime friend -- steady, kind, and nearly twenty years older. What begins as a simple friendship slowly turns into something deeper, something that feels both unexpected and right. -
Honey {Joel Miller} by taylorwhoos14532
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Oct 2025
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"Your dad would have a goddamn heart attack if he saw you wearing that." Joel mutters, his eyes moving over my legs before returning to the road.
My belly heats from the alcohol or more likely- Joel's words. But with what I say next, I'm going to attribute it to the alcohol.
"My dad or you?" I ask quietly, expecting him to say nothing.
The leather steering wheel squeaks under his tight grip, jaw clenching before he speaks. "At this point, darlin', it might be both." -
Home Was Never Here by delulufritsz
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Oct 2025
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In wich you move to texas to live with your dad after your mom moves in with her newest boyfriend. Ofcourse your dads best friend has to be gorgeous, broody and off-limits. (moving from the netherlands, dutch mc.)
Not my first language so apologies for any errors.
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- English
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- 994
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Kudos:
- 1
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{services requested} by penvisions277
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Oct 2025
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Pairing: Older! Joel Miller x Sugar Momma! Reader
Summary: With the flourish of a contract that contains a section titled 'Intimacy Clause' and a quirk of your lips, you turn Joel Miller's life upside down.
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You can never go home again by Lynettefeelsfine
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Oct 2025
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You return to your childhood home in Texas after escaping an abusive relationship. You're exhausted, broken, and trying to rebuild, but you're a survivor, and Joel Miller is there to help you pick up the pieces in more ways than one.
You haven't been home in 8 years and you're not the teenager that Joel once knew. You try to keep everyone at arms length not revealing the real reason you're home but there's something about Joel, your dad's best friend. He sees something in you and he helps you to heal.
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I Remember Everything. by alaynestvne
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
09 Oct 2025
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Running from something you can’t name, you return home for the first time in years.
Everything is the same.
Everyone too.
Except you.That is until the familiar face of Joel Miller, your Dad’s best friend, comes back into your life.
You thought you’d left your foolish childhood crush on him in the past
Thought it long buried.
But your life has never been that easy.Coming home was supposed to help you figure things out.
Not make them more complicated. -
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When your mum finally has enough of your anger, she sends you back to Texas to live with your dad for the summer.
Who better to help you try and tame your wild streak then the steady head of Joel Miller.. a.k.a your dad’s best friend
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You cum untouched in Joel's bed
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After a bad split from your cheating ex you flee back home to your parents. However certain circumstances lead you to the path of Joel Miller. It’s a surprise to you when you realise that’s your dad s best friend
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Friday I'm in Love by vintagettee
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Oct 2025
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Despite trying to avoid it at all costs, you return to Austin after your engagement fails and move back in with your dad while you figure out your next steps.
You reconnect with your dad’s best friend, Joel, and his daughter that you used to babysit when you were in your senior year of high school, Sarah.
Both of them slowly help you find a renewed sense of purpose and help you answer the question of whether you’ll let the ghosts of your past haunt you forever.
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Father Figure by starsshiningabove
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Oct 2025
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Joel over hears reader’s father being rude to her and decides it’s his job to cheer her up.
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Will didn’t tell anyone why she left Michigan. She just showed up in Texas with a half-packed bag and a bruised heart, looking for quiet, for distance.
The ranch was supposed to be an escape Something still, something simple. But between late nights on the porch, too-long glances, and the kind of silence that says more than words, Will starts to want things she swore she was done wanting. Joel Miller is older, closed-off, and entirely wrong.
A slowburn story, forbidden tension, starting over, and the heat that simmers just beneath the surface.
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How far are you willing to go to keep the one, real feeling you've been craving your entire life?
When you returned from college a year ago, you wanted to go anywhere but home. But a desperate phone call from your father and an uncertainty if you can make something of yourself reels you back. You return to the same old town and house, only to find someone new waiting on your front porch next to your father. Rough around the edges, but so gentle within, Joel Miller - who you discover to have been your father's best friend up around 'til your birth when the friendship mysteriously cut off - encapsulates everything you've secretly yearned to have in a man. Over the course of a year, you've created a special connection with Joel, but you're convinced that anything beyond an innocent friendship is completely one-sided.
That was until last night, when Joel picked you up from a party after a concerning drunk dial.
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Sugar Talking by maraschinofever
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Oct 2025
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You knew Joel Miller's name before you knew his face. Six years of phone calls with your dad have been full of him, just scraps of stories about the man next door. Then you come back after grad school and finally meet him. He is more handsome than you imagined, sun-bronzed and broad-shouldered, and he looks at you like he already knows you. You know right away you should not be thinking about him like this, and from the way he looks back, you know he is thinking it too.
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There was something strange about seeing his things in this room. In your house. You’d grown up thinking of him as distant, orbiting your dad like a satellite. A voice on the phone. A pair of boots in the doorway on those rare visits. But now he was here. Really here. Like a person stepping down out of a memory and into something warmer.
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The Warmth Of Your Doorway by pr3ttie_inpink
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Sep 2025
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A 4-day trip in good old Blue Ridge, Georgia.
Life has been fucking the shit out of you with no safeword, so it was nice to see your dad, and your childhood friends, and…Joel.
As you've gotten older and matured into a woman, your thoughts on Joel have changed as well...
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The Tides Between Us by Yslgreen
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Sep 2025
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The Millers’ beach house was supposed to be a fun getaway : a week of sun, drinks, and celebration for Joel’s 40th birthday. But after that night with Joel, everything’s suddenly… awkward. Joel is cold and distant, because Joel knows better. He won’t cross that line—not with his best friend’s daughter, not when you’re half his age. He’s made his share of mistakes, but this won’t be one of them.
But Tommy? Tommy’s never been one for restraint, all too willing to take what Joel won’t. -
Whiskey and Frisson by pepperispunk
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Sep 2025
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With your parents' recent divorce and your own decision to throw in the towel up in New York, you reluctantly admit that life is kind of crumbling at your feet right now. Your father's solution? Spend the summer helping out on his old buddy's ranch in exchange for company and board - what's the worst that could happen?
Well, the answer to that is both very simple and VERY complicated.
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Genevieve has spent years secretly yearning for her dad’s best friend, the next door neighbour, Joel Miller. One quiet night, a single kiss threatens to turn that long-buried want into something they can no longer hide.
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Bleed to Love Her by xxjadeyn77
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Sep 2025
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After graduating college and moving in with your dad post-divorce, you weren’t expecting to spend the summer falling for the one man you’re absolutely not allowed to touch. His best friend and your new neighbour.
Except, of course, it turns out that staying away is a lot harder than you thought.
inspired by a fleetwood mac song <3