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shearly beloved by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Mar 2023
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The day of Jackson’s sheep shearing, Ellie’s up before the sun.
Joel, predictably, is not.
She’s learned that settled into the peace of Jackson, he is very much not a morning person. She’d suspected as much from how his grumpiness was always at peak in the mornings while they were on the road, but sharing a house has really made it sink in that unless there’s a world-saving quest ahead of him, Joel would quite happily never see the day before at least 8 in the morning, which is one of the reasons he usually ends up taking later patrols when he can.
Fortunately (and unfortunately) for him, though, it’s sheep shearing day, and she’s ready to see if he was full of shit about liking sheep or not.
(day in the life of ellie and joel in jackson liVING THE SOFT AND HAPPY LIVES THEY DESERVE)
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26 Mar 2023
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don't try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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23 Mar 2023
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love brought weight to this heart of mine by Vulpecula_et_Anser
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Feb 2023
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Ellie and Joel settle in Jackson and try to establish a sense of normalcy. It goes pretty well, all things considered, until it doesn't.
Also, it's Ellie's first Christmas and she's determined to make it the best.
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- Part 2 of an ocean quiet beneath our skin
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21 Mar 2023
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regeneration by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Mar 2023
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“Brains are like bones,” he says when he’s sure he can be calm, and she pulls back at that, face scrunched in judgment.
“Jesus, man, it sounds like you’re the one who needs to take a biology class.”
“Hold the sass,” he chides mildly, and she rolls her eyes but settles against him again. “A broken bone hurts like a bitch,” he says, “and for a while it doesn’t work like it should. Sometimes it feels like it might never hold you up again.”
She’s quiet, but it’s an attentive sort of silence, not like her blessedly increasingly rare moments of catatonia.
“But it heals, baby girl,” he tells her, adjusting her until he can get his arms around her, blanket bundle and all. He rests his chin on the top of her head and brings one hand up to squeeze the back of her neck gently, trying to coax the tense muscles loose. “Sometimes it still aches on rainy days-”
“Okay, Edgar Allen Joel.”
“-but you take those days, and you breathe through them, and eventually, they end.”
(the events of episode 8 have left their scars on Ellie) (luckily she has a Joel)
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