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if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2025
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There’s more blood than she expects, when she’s bit.
Riley tears up one of her spare t-shirts so Ellie can wrap her arm up, but they have to change it twice before it stops soaking through. Weirdly, Riley’s hand doesn’t bleed as much. There’s a bit of blood, because, well, in teeth versus skin, teeth win, but she just dabs it away with a scrap of cloth and some water and it stops pretty quick.
Worried about making it bleed again, Ellie leaves the wrapping on hers for so long that neither of them notice that the whorls of infection on her arm don’t match the infection creeping up Riley’s arm.
Or: The one where Ellie bleeds a lot.
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08 Jul 2025
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blueberry alley by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2025
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Ellie slides into her place and picks up her spoon. “What’s this?”
“Porotos granados,” Tommy replies. He sits beside her, squeezing her shoulder as he passes. “Our mama used to make it. She was from-”
“Santiago,” Ellie volunteers. Tommy chuckles.
“Si, Santiago,” he agrees. He says it with a little lilt that’s so different from his normal drawl that it makes Ellie giggle. It’s still weird to her, how sometimes Tommy and Joel switch so easily from one dialect or language to the next. She doesn’t even mind when they talk Spanish around her to keep her from knowing their business. She likes the rapid fire cadence of their words, the way the vowels sound like sugar melting over hot coals on their tongues, the way Joel sucks his teeth and hisses, how Tommy’s voice goes higher when he’s joking. It’s weird sometimes to look around at all the ways her family doesn’t match each other and yet love each other so much. It shouldn’t make sense - they shouldn’t make sense - and still, they do.
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Ellie's first year in Jackson, told through dinners and lunches and midnight snacks and egg sandwiches.
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Food as a form of love.
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17 Jun 2025
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“Joel, get Joel. Please.” Bile is rising in her throat. She swallows it back.
Ian makes a scoffing noise, taking a step closer. “Seriously, you’re fine. You just knocked it, that’s all. You go crying to your daddy every time you get a bruise?”
Ellie fucking doesn’t. Ian bruises her almost everyday, and she never cries.
Someone tries to make Ellie grow up too fast.
Ft. Worried Joel and a teddy bear named Fuckface
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07 Jun 2025
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(Podfic) when a flower grows wild (it can always survive) by marchflower by shoke4321
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
27 May 2025
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She’s afraid of looking stupid in front of them. What did they just call her? Hardy, like those little flowers out there blooming in the snow. That’s what she has to be.
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Ellie’s first night in Jackson is harder than she thought it would be.
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27 May 2025
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With a house so big, it seems like a waste to not use all of it.
Which is why she starts deliberately making an effort to spend time in the parts of it she and Joel don’t use often. The linen closet, the dining room, the two spare bedrooms, what Joel says used to be an office, even the attic, nothing gets untouched on her quest to make sure no inch of the house goes unappreciated. She always does it when Joel is out of the house, knowing that it’s a little strange, but she gets a thrill from it, the ability to think something like, “I’m in the spare bedroom of my house right now” and know that it’s not just a fantasy anymore.
And if it would likely set her up to have Joel call her a weird kid again, this new little hobby of hers, well.
What Joel doesn’t know won’t get her roasted.
(ellie settles into having a house) (and then into having a home)
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13 May 2025