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When your high-powered marketing career goes up in flames, you find yourself back in Texas and out of options—until your old childhood best friend Tommy Miller offers you a job at his family’s growing construction company. The only catch? His older brother Joel, the project manager with a chip on his shoulder and zero patience for your city-slicker attitude.
You clash instantly: you’re clever, confident, and painfully corporate. He’s quiet, rugged, and set in his ways. You push his buttons. He pushes back harder. But somewhere between long meetings, late nights, resurfacing memories, and hurt, along with one very unexpected work trip… the tension starts to shift.
What begins as bickering turns into banter. Glances linger. Walls crack. And neither of you is quite sure when things started to change.
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Joel Miller and his family are on a flight when there is a nuclear attack on the USA, and they have to find their way across a couple of states trying to survive. They meet Tess and her son, as well as two little girls traveling alone.
The Jericho / The Last of Us (TV) fusion no one asked for
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- Part 7 of AU-Gust 2025
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sun bleached flies by dancingonmoonbeams
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Jul 2025
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The end of the world comes to Maria’s doorstep like a tornado, gathering strength somewhere in the distance before it tears through and takes almost everything she loves with it. Before, she is driving home from work, her mind stuck on the day’s cases, barely listening to the strange news reports on the radio. After, she is forging her way in a world that's unrecognizable, trying to find a way to build back a new life.
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- Part 5 of run on for a long time
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The Miller family takes a day trip to the beach as a family celebration of Ellie's recent adoption being finally completed.
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- Part 3 of July Break Bingo 2025
- Part 12 of Street Kid!Ellie
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I'd Like to Make Myself Believe by Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Jul 2025
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Eugene’s almost got the wires soldered properly, when his door flies open with a bang.
“Fucking Christ,” He yells reeling back from the desk, solder all over the board he was working on. Turning, he opens his mouth to chew out the idiot who interrupted him when he sees Tommy standing there, his expression panicked, an exhausted looking Ellie on his hip, thumb in her mouth, as she leans against his shoulder, her eyes blinking slowly, “Tommy, what the Hell?”
“We have to go, they’re going to C-U-T out her B-R-A-I-N!” Tommy yells and suddenly Eugene doesn’t care much about his wires anymore.
IE: Tommy finds out the Fireflies' plans for Ellie, and he makes a friend.
This is part of my Tommy raise Ellie series, see more in the notes.
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- Part 2 of Tommy Miller, You Are The Father
- Part 16 of A Step to the Left
- Part 18 of Tommy and Maria Stories
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Sarah and Ellie get attacked by other street teens who used to bully Ellie when she was living on the street. Sarah is hurt worse than Ellie and she doesn't handle it well.
The Millers do what they can to help her.
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- Part 8 of Street Kid!Ellie
- Part 2 of July Break Bingo 2025
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Nothing's Alright But That's Okay by The_Golden_Sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games), tlou - Fandom, The Last of Us
22 Jun 2025
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"Her first night in the Millers' home, the start of her new life, begins with a kiss on the forehead from Joel and a night of half-sleep, waking every couple of hours to follow the doctors’ instructions exactly."
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After the basement, the pain, and David, Ellie returns to a place she barely dares to call home. Between medication, nightmares, and hands that now heal instead of hurt, she begins to learn that not all affection is conditional. Joel calls her "kiddo," Sarah offers her bed, and Ellie, for the first time in a long while, allows herself to want to stay.
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- Part 3 of We, the Millers
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tell him that his cowgirl has come by thejadeseas
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 May 2025
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You expect your life to be turned upside-down when you move to your family's old farm in Texas to be closer with your uncle, who is the last family you still have left. You're prepared for it.
What you are not prepared for is falling in love with your uncle's long-time neighbour and friend.
a no outbreak!AU
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The two of them had paid their dues, separately and together. They had earned their happily ever after and Joel was ready to seize it. He had promised himself he wouldn’t take a moment of it for granted. What exactly lay in their happily ever after was nebulous, however. They had the romance, they’d built the house, they had sworn promises deeper than vows. What else was there?
The Snowqueen of Texas sequel: a no-outbreak AU where the biggest challenges are plain old life and they get to live as their softer, untraumatised selves.
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- Part 2 of Making Mirrors, a Tess/Joel Modern AU
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Warm As A Glass Of Brandy by Bumblepony for Ameerawrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Feb 2025
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“What in tarnation do you think…” Tommy starts but is struck dumb when he comes face to face with a very tall man holding a sleeping little boy in his arms. The man has dark brown skin, a lean frame, and a bald head. A pair of black glasses perch on his nose, and he’s dressed like an English professor in tan slacks and a red sweater. The boy looks maybe three or four years old, has the same dark skin tone as the man, and has short, soft curls floating around his head. He’s dressed in a pair of firetruck-patterned footie pajamas.
“Ah, pardon me, somethin’ I can help you with?” Tommy asks, his brow lifting in surprise.
“Yes, I’d very much like to talk to my wife.” The man says, his eyes tracking over Tommy’s bare chest and jeans that hang low off his hips.
“Excuse me? I think you’ve got the wrong…”
“I’m not your anything anymore, and this is not okay.” Maria comes out from behind Tommy, now fully dressed, but she’s still got his shirt on. She plants herself between Tommy and the man at the door.
IE: Tommy and Maria's third date is interrupted by some surprise visitors.
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- Part 5 of Tommy/Maria Week 2025
- Part 14 of Tommy and Maria Stories
- Part 15 of Smut Makes the World Go Round
- Part 14 of No Cordyceps AU's
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4 outfit changes, 3 stockings, 2 teens, and a baby in a bouncer by ketchupchipsaregross for JudithWilde
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Jan 2025
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“Dada, on,” She fixed him with the saddest puppy dog eyes he’d ever seen. 2 out of 3 was pretty good.
Ellie deigned to be set on the couch while he fumbled for the power bar. He turned it on and the warm glow of pink, blue, yellow, and green danced over the living room. The star at the top softly glowed.
“All good?” He asked as he joined Ellie on the couch.
“Nana?” She opened her mouth at him like a baby bird.
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(christmas in the Miller-Servopoulos household)Series
- Part 2 of Bitty Ellie, she's living her best life
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littlest digit, you've got the world by the handle by ketchupchipsaregross for Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
03 Oct 2024
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“There’s my baby,” Sarah bent to scoop Ellie up. She smushed her cheek with a kiss that had Ellie trying to push her face away, “Did Dad say Happy Birthday yet?” She gave him a pointed look and he turned back to the stove, dunking the next piece of bread in the egg mixture and setting it in the pan.
“No,” Ellie said, though he was pretty sure it was just to hear her own voice.
“How could he?” Sarah gasped. She flipped Ellie around and held her out to him. Ellie’s legs kicked in the open air, “Dad, say happy birthday.”
Joel rolled his eyes but wiped his hands on a kitchen towel before accepting her and dotting kisses all over her face. Her cheeks were sticky from the banana she’d already eaten, “Happy birthday, baby girl.”
(or ellie turns one surrounded by family)
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- Part 1 of Bitty Ellie, she's living her best life
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“Alright,” Joel said, grunting as he kneeled down next to the girl. “First, you’re gonna need a jack. Do you know what a jack is?” The girl nodded.
“Yeah, of course I know what a jack is. It’s… uh, it’s a type of… wrench?” Joel shook his head slightly. “A… large… drill?”
“It’s the thing you use to lift the car.”
“I have to lift the car?!” Joel couldn’t help a small laugh from escaping his chapped lips.
“Yeah, sorta, I s’pose.”(Tech Company AU)
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seeking what is desirable by encasedinobsidian
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Jul 2024
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Albert Camus said that "A man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them,” and it made me wonder how we justify romantic affairs — if we are free when we enter them in secrecy, or only truly free when we have burned the bridges we ran over to reach the arms of the other.
Naomi is married, Joel is married, and they can't stay away from each other.
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- Part 1 of Seeking
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I Hate Everything About You by The_Golden_Sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games), tlou - Fandom, The Last of Us
28 Jul 2024
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"Why do you only live with your dad? Is your mom dead?"
Sarah was five years old the first time another child asked her that question.
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Things are moving slowly and complicated, but they’re getting better. Her father’s relationship with Tess is becoming more serious, and Sarah is happy. Until someone from her past reappears.
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- Part 5 of We, the Millers
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Quid Pro Quo by The_Golden_Sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us, tlou - Fandom
14 Jul 2024
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"Ellie has a good handful of reasons for not wanting to leave Boston (the most important one: a stupid gray headstone she’s only visited once because just seeing it makes her nauseous) but none of them are enough to change Marlene’s mind."
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Ellie's the new girl until Sarah Miller arrives.
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- Part 1 of We, the Millers
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kevin carson and the no good, very bad day (and why it's all ellie's fault) by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
18 May 2024
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“My mama will-” He starts to say, turning to reassure Ellie-
Only to find her already jumping off of the wagon, Mercy following her after he chased after them, wagging his tail and panting.
“Ellie!” He hisses, looking for a grownup to tell. “Ms. Monica!” He calls, seeing her first. “Ms. Monica, Ellie’s leaving!”
Ms. Monica, though, is busy looking at Jesse’s skinned knee and Nara’s bumped head, and she doesn’t hear him. He bounces on his toes, frustrated, but Ellie is already walking away, and if he can’t get a grownup soon…
He stomps his foot, frustrated.
And then he drops off of the wagon and runs after her.
(after a false alarm means the kids get evacuated en masse, ellie decides to try and get back to her family on her own) (against his will, kevin gets dragged along for the ride)
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- Part 10 of brady bunch verse
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It's what you do, not what you say by Bumblepony for JenniReals, Ameerawrites
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 May 2024
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“I got that. But what the hell is Tommy Day?” Ellis quips, pulling a loud sip from her strawberry and creme frappuccino.
“It’s Mother’s Day, but for Tommy.” Sarah looks at Ellie and laughs when she sees the confusion written on her face.
“That’s fucking helpful.”
“When I was in kindergarten, my school had a Mother's Day breakfast, and I cried because I didn’t have a mom to bring. Dad offered to go, but I wouldn’t have it. He was my Daddy; he already had a Father's Day. So, Tommy said something like, ‘Why don’t I go darlin’? I may not be your mommy, but I am your Tommy,’ and it just kinda continued from there.” Sarah’s voice softens with nostalgia. “He was always there for me, anytime Dad couldn’t be and sometimes even when he could be but I didn’t want him to be. It started as a joke, but now it feels right. Tommy Day is a day to honor the other person who’s been there for me, always.”
IE: Sarah and Tommy celebrate Tommy Day, and Ellie gets Tess a Mother's Day gift and gets all in her head about it.
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- Part 3 of Fate Makes Fools of Us All
- Part 4 of No Cordyceps AU's
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Whatever it takes by The_Golden_Sun
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us
24 Apr 2024
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...And now Ellie had been missing for two weeks. Of course, neither he nor Sarah ever believed the pastor's version. They knew Ellie hadn't run away. But they were the only ones who believed that. To the rest of the world, she was just a problematic foster girl with a long history of runaways and fights...
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- Part 2 of We, the Millers
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seeking what is desirable AU extra #2: ✨The parent/teacher school trip winter cabin AU✨
How would things have played out if Naomi and Joel met on a ski trip in December, rather than at a party in July?
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- Part 3 of Seeking