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blackbird, blackbird, what do you see? by marchflower for historian_in_pearls
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 May 2025
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“I think I - fucked up my ankle.” She points to her left foot. “When I fell.”
Her remorse lies thick and rank between them. Joel imagines he can see it rotting there, in between shafts of honeyed sunlight. Shame, he thinks, fits her so poorly. He’s reminded of Kansas City, of her sitting her with her back to the newspaper lined window, chin on her knees, a single tear on her cheek as she tells him:
It wasn’t my first time.
Little girls, he thinks, have no business carrying that sort of regret. He has no business reading into it this way - thinking about all the tender spots Ellie’s got lying in ruin inside of her, all of the ways this world has failed her. All of the ways he’s failed her, all of the ways he might still. She’s only a job, he tells himself sternly. She’s cargo.
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Joel patches Ellie up again, and again, and again.
Bookmarked by rominatrix
18 May 2025
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this could either break my heart (or bring it back to life) by lkay09 for two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
25 May 2024
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Joel stops, all the muscles in his body locked up, the rifle half-raised and the barrel pointed at the knees of a mangy man with a thick neck and stringy hair. He’s got one hand locked around the back of Ellie’s neck, fingertips gripping hard enough that even from here Joel can tell she’ll have bruises.
His other hand is pressing a thin blade against the front of her throat.
He nods at the gun in Joel’s hands. “Drop it.”
(bad things happen bingo - knife to the throat)
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- Part 4 of bad things happen bingo
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16 May 2025
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a real nightmare (completely aware) by lkay09 for stillboldlygoing
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
25 Mar 2024
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“Joel.” His name slips from her without thought, just the utterance of it stinging her chest.
He jerks to a stop, turning to look at her in surprise. Ellie can’t blame him, she’s barely said a word to him in almost two years.
Ellie tilts her head towards Tommy’s house, blowing out a breath. “Don’t bother.”
He looks between her and the house across the street, hands fidgeting with the paper he holds. “There oughta be another option. You shouldn’t –” He cuts himself off, but Ellie knows what he was gonna say. Years of distance don’t mean that she doesn’t still know him as well as she used to.
You shouldn’t have to be around me if you don’t want to.
(bad things happen bingo - cradling someone in their arms)
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- Part 3 of bad things happen bingo
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13 May 2025
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Joel’s never known Ellie to be so silent.
He really fucking hates it.
She hasn’t said a word since they walked away from that burning building at the resort, has barely let out more than a whimper even though he knows she’s gotta be in just as much, if not more pain than him. Joel can tell by the way she’s walking that her ribs are hurting, by the way her gaze is unfocused that she’s probably got a concussion.
But she just keeps trudging along behind Joel, stepping where he steps, letting him guide her around fallen trees and boulders.
All without a sound.
(bad things happen bingo - crying themselves to sleep)
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- Part 1 of bad things happen bingo
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12 May 2025
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with your hair falling into place like dominoes by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Apr 2025
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“Well, no wonder.” He opens another cupboard like there’s gonna be anything in it, like all the others in all the other apartments they’ve gone though haven’t been empty. “When was the last time you washed your hair?”
She scratches self-consciously at her scalp. “When do you think, dude?”
She’s gross. Travelling is dirty and sweaty and half the time they’re sleeping on the ground. More than once, she’s found leaves in her hair in the morning. She wants a hot shower like she hasn’t wanted anything in years.
Or: Ellie's relationships with Joel, her family, and herself, told through hair.
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04 May 2025