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When you meet a girl that has been captured by your group and not agreeing with the fate they chose for her, you make a decision that brings overwhelming consequences to your life. You end up being saved by someone you may not have the desire to be saved by. Someone who has the same wounds and losses that you, that doesn't know what a delicate touch is for a long time. Who doesn't allow himself to be loved and to show love.
"And I'm not here to be the saviour you long for
Only the one you don't
And are you watching me, with eyes of a predator
As you move towards the door (...)
Show me those pretty white jaws, show me where the delicate stops
Show me what you've lost, and why you're always taking it slow
Show me what wounds you've got, and show me love (...)
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In many ways, the cabin felt like home, filled with warmth. She loved it here. But at night, when they retreated to their separate rooms, she feared the time between dusk and dawn. She couldn’t sleep well now, not since David had controlled her dreams and haunted her nighttime stories.
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Or an excerpt where she finds herself having a nightmare and becomes comforted by someone who doesn't push her to get over her trauma.A part of the 'What Remains of Us' storyline, set between Ch 62 & 63. Can be read as a standalone, though it includes themes and events from the main narrative.
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- Part 3 of 'What Remains of Us'
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- 1,348
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At sixteen, angry and rebellious, you join a religious group in Utah - The Children of a Loving God - seduced by the words of charismatic preacher, Pastor David.
Ten years on and your compound in Texas is raided by the police amidst allegations of abuse, and you and your daughters - Ellie and Abby - are forced back into the world you left behind. Your only lifeline is Joel Miller, your mom's friend from college, and his daughter, Sarah. Moving onto his ranch, what starts as friendly support becomes something more. In Joel, a man who carries his own demons, you find the one thing you didn't know you were craving - love without conditions.
But the father of your children is never far away, and he wants his girls back.
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When she lists her gruff but quietly dependable neighbour Joel as her emergency contact (never expecting to actually need him), she wakes up in the ER to find him smirking at her, asking why the hospital thinks he’s her boyfriend.
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Neighbour!Joel
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Unravelling a not-so-slow-burning, dominant obsession that begins at the end of the bar and deepens each week, until he brings you to your knees, his hands, and finally, into his home.
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Second Wind by PrincessTianna23
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
16 Dec 2025
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You are living for your family in this apocalypse safe within the confines of The Miller’s old cabin. Dynamics change and you’re forced to address old memories when Joel has made his way to you.
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you survived FEDRA. you survived being alone. you survived the storm.
being brought to jackson doesn't mean your safe, it just means you have to learn how to live around people again. with scars on your body and a past that won't stay quiet, recovery becomes its own kind of fight.
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the waiting game by ruinherself
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Dec 2025
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Every six months, your paths cross at the trading post.
Every six months, you swear it’s the last time.
And every six months, you fall into each other anyway - fast, rough, desperate, like you're starving for something you'll never admit you want.
In a world where love is dangerous, and time is always borrowed, you learn that sometimes the cruelest thing isn’t losing each other - it’s having to walk away. -
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Part man, part beast, Joel Miller lives in solitude a few miles away from Jackson. At fifty-seven years old and without a Soulbond, Joel can't coexist with others— a man without his mate crazed by time and age. Until the day he sees her, the girl with tangerine blossoms in her hair and a laugh that echoes through the trees.
So, he tracks her down. Hunts her through the woods, and brings home a girl that is not the wilting flower he expects. -
Miller's Party (Versión en español) by jadevaderr, wolfstarispunk
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
16 Dec 2025
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Una chica de Texas se marcha a California para estudiar durante cuatro años, dejando atrás a su familia. Una de las veces que viene de visita a casa, sufre un accidente con Joel Miller, el mejor amigo de su padre, un hecho que los une de una forma inesperada. Entre ellos nace una atracción intensa y prohibida, que se intensifica cuando ella vuelve a Texas.
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- Español
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Miller's party (English version) by jadevaderr, wolfstarispunk
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Dec 2025
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A Texan girl leaves her hometown to study in LA, leaving behind her family and friends. Now, when she's finally back in Texas, she's forced to face Joel Miller, her neighbor and her father's best friend, after what happened the last time she saw him some months ago. A crescent tension grows up between them, leading to forbidden feelings. Something it's too late to stop now.
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Floriensoul
(noun)
"The spirit of blooming"
The personal growth that mirrors flowers blossoming, embracing new stages of life with grace and color.
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Daisy has lived her whole life fighting battles no one can see. Behind her steady smile lies a fragile secret, a sickness that demands her strength each day and a family that never belived in her dreams. The world has always told her she's too weak, too naive, too small to matter.Then the world ends.
When the sky burns and everything she knows collapses, Daisy finds herself running through the ruins beside Joel and Tommy.Two men hardened by loss and survival. Together, they navigate the wasteland where hope is rarer than food and trust is a dangerous thing to offer.
As days blur into nights filled with with silence and fear, Daisy begins to see the cracks in Joel's armor. The moments when his guarded eyes soften, when his voice faltersjust enough to let her in. In a world stripped bare, they find somrthing neither of them expected: a reason to keep moving forward.
In the shattered world beyond the outbreak, Daisy learns that survival isn't just about fighting death. It's about remembering why you're alive in the first place.
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A month after fleeing a collapsed Silver Lake, Joey Byrne continues to wander through the wintery wilderness in search of Jackson. Physically and mentally exhausted, he's running out of hope and time. A fateful encounter will decide whether he lives or dies.
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- Part 1 of To The Grave With Me
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Before the world ends, life keeps moving.
It doesn’t wait for you, and it surely doesn’t care if you can’t catch up.
Sometimes the things holding you down are inevitable – love, loss, a soul.
And when it finally does, sometimes you realize you can’t live without it.
Joel wasn’t looking to feel. You weren’t looking to be seen. Life teaches you things don't always go as planned.
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A recursive fan fiction based on Ruin Me, by the now-deactivated @coppersaladstories on Tumblr.
This fic will explore the aftermath of Reader discovering Joel's affair with his office manager Luna, just 5 months into their marriage - and her pregnancy. Over the course of about a decade (including both epilogues) we'll get to see if Reader can build a life apart from Joel while still having conflicting feelings about the role she wants him to play. We'll also see if there is enough therapy in this world to make Joel stop destroying his own life.
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In a world where survival leaves no room for softness, trust is the hardest commodity to come by. You've settled in with a traveling group, moving place to place, always wary and watchful. Tommy, the leader of the group, announces that his brother, Joel, will soon be joining. His presence threatens the fragile balance you've fought to maintain and you are left to determine whether this new group is one that you can continue to exist in. How will you balance the friction Joel sparks among the group with the growing pull you can't seem to quiet inside yourself?
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You let out a breath you didn’t even know you were holding. “What are you, some kind of therapist now? Dr Phil?”
“I don’t know who that is and I’m a man who doesn’t like wastin’ time. I got a bunch of other folks lined up to take your spot. So, either you tell me what the hell’s in your head so we can use it or lose it, or we spend another two weeks out here while you learn to shoot around it.”
You're new in Jackson and rifle training is mandatory for all adults. You're eager to help, to prove you can be useful. But it's hard when Joel Miller's your instructor.
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- Part 1 of Beneath A Scarred Sky
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Fallen Stars by BluestNeonMoon
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Dec 2025
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After nearly dying alone deep in the woods, Lucía is pulled back to life and into the walled town of Jackson.
Healing should’ve been the hard part but it’s learning how to live again that truly hurts.
Between new friendships, old grief, and a quiet community that won’t let her stay invisible, she finds herself falling in and out of love with a man older than her, a man with a past dark enough to cast shadows over them both. -
A Little Hope by HopelesslyDevoted02
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
14 Dec 2025
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Everyone needs a little hope to survive.
Before the world ended, Joel found his in his new neighbor, the quiet comfort of her presence, the way she cared for his daughter, Sarah, the way she looked at him as if he was something worth fighting for.
After the outbreak steals everything and Sarah is gone, hope becomes something far more dangerous.
Once the world turns upside down, Joel has nothing left to hope for but her.
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Room For A Little One? by reedispunk
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
14 Dec 2025
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You find a stray kitten during patrol and can’t resist bringing him home to a grumpy Joel.