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    Tess is a powerful underworld figure, brokering information. When an internal threat has her questioning the loyalties of those closest, she must enlist the help of someone who has just as much to lose as she does. A bodyguard/boss AU set in the 1970s.

    His fingertips brushed through the curtain of hair hanging to her waist. Dressing like a goddamn hippie with motivations that were resolutely square. A capitalist muckety-muck playing dress-ups with the beautiful people. Tess had some goddamn nerve and he wanted every last piece of her, Duke’s warnings be damned.

    Because Duke was right – he’d never met anyone like her before. And maybe by getting a little closer he could unravel the enigma, because he’d meant what he’d told Duke – one woman was, essentially, the same as another. There were a finite number of parts people could play. And she was just playing one of them, concealing it a little better than most.

    Tess whispered again in his ear: “You answer to me, now.”

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    We loved each other with fragments of ourselves that were dead - Nikita Gill

    Love. Such a poignant emotion. Such a terrifying feeling to give into. One that is stored right in the precious cavity of the heart. A sentiment that can turn the toughest of people plush but can forge such an aggressive desire to protect. A dangerous intensity, even more so when you’re left to find it in the obsolete remains of what was once planet Earth.

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    Joel finds himself catching feelings for an existing resident of Jackson. Ones he just can’t seem to ignore but it’s not all plain sailing as they navigate through one another’s trauma.

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    Joel sighs, runs his hand wearily over his face. “Baby,” he says, and despite herself, Ellie feels her shoulders relax at the nickname. “This - it’s a threat against all of us. It’s not something we can let lie.”

    “I’m not telling you to just let it lie,” Ellie retorts. “Just- why does it have to be you?”

    Joel looks away, shifts on his feet. “Ellie,” he says, and the timbre of his voice rakes a claw down her spine. “You know why.”

    She does, and that’s the thing- she’s not sure she’s worth it, this kind of love that goes blind with rage in the face of threats, the kind of love that drives people out of their homes and into the night and away from their families. The kind of love that demands sacrifice. It sits uneasily beneath her skin, like an electric current.

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    Jackson is threatened - and Ellie steps up.

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    Ophelia felt her life started not when she was born, but when her little sister was. As the baby took her first breath, the older felt like air was filling her lungs for the first time as well.
    Everything was falling apart, she was losing everything she had — and she never really had anything to begin with — but it all palled at the newfound sense of purpose her sister gave her. She never really had anything to begin with, but she would give the little girl whatever she could from the shambles of that destroyed world, a world that she never got to know, a world that was never hers, but one she was willing to pick up the pieces if it was for her sister.
    She was going to put in the effort no one put in for her, she was going to fight like no one ever fought for her. It was all for her.
    And by trying to create and nourish something good for the child, in Jackson, she found something good for herself too, with the name of Joel Miller

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    So this is literally me posting all my predictions for season 2 as I come up with them.
    Spoilers for Part II cuz some of my theories are based off game themes.
    Although I’m not a writer by any means, I do work in the film industry so some of this is probably my production brain running a bit wild.
    I really just need a place to post these and would die for some feedback and others predictions!

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    “Green beans and Chef Boyardee,” he says, placing a dish in front of her. “That’s what I call fine dinin’, mija.”

    Three bites in, her cheeks stuffed full like a squirrel hoarding nuts, she remembers to ask: “What’s that word mean? Mee-ha?”

    Joel blinks. “Oh,” he says, and shuffles a little awkwardly. He pokes at his green beans timidly and Ellie thinks, for a second, he might be blushing.

     

    (joel and ellie have a much needed talk after silver lake.)

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    A fic loosely inspired by Second First Impressions (a novel by Sally Thorne). There won't be spoilers of the novel <3

    Reader lives and works in a home for the elderly. Her colleague and friend sets Reader up with Joel.

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    At the sound of crying coming from outside, both brothers trained their eyes forward towards Ellie’s room. There were two women, both dressed in suits and wearing easy-to-see-through smiles, perched at the foot of her bed. A pit of guilt fell through Joel’s stomach. “... what do you think they’ll do with Ellie?” He finally realized, almost guilty that the thought hadn’t come to him sooner.

    “Find some group-home to send her to,” Tommy muttered in a low tone. By the sounds of the crying from Ellie’s room, she clearly didn’t want to go, not that either of them needed that to know she wouldn’t want to go to a fucking orphanage.

    But Joel was no longer the man he’d been, so he left her there and let them take her.

    TLDR// Foster au with a little spin on it. Ellie and Sarah are best friends, they have been since they were infants. Sarah has the perfect family, or at least, in Ellie's mind she does. She has the perfect dad, the perfect uncle. Ellie has a no-show father and a drunk mother. So, when Sarah and Ellie’s mother die in a crash, she and Joel have no one else but each other.

    … it just takes him a little bit.

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    As the (alleged) daughter of the new president, Ellie Wiliams is hellbent on making herself as much of a nuisance as possible. Joel Miller, the virtually unreadable and perpetually grumpy bodyguard assigned to watch her for eighteen hours a day, certainly thinks she's doing a good job of it. But as Ellie processes losses of her past and present, she slowly begins to realise just how valuable it can be to have someone watching your back.

    (Angst/eventual fluff found family Joel & Ellie AU, slow-burn father-daughter relationship.)

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    She doesn’t notice there are bruises on her legs until she changes out of her clothes in an abandoned motel bathroom one evening. She looks up at the ceiling to take a breath, then back down at herself.

    She sees the areas indented by her nails; running her hands across the scars, she makes out a soft ‘t’.

    (or, Ellie struggling with the concept of religion after David)

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    A bartender comforts Joel when he's anxious about going to a gay bar for the first time. They get to know each other. The world ends. On the way from Salt Lake City back to Jackson, Joel is surprised to see a familiar face.

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    Desmond befriends a stranger at work, has a horrible apocalypse and eventually gets a much-needed hug.

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    But Ellie wants to tell him about this. She wants to just be a normal kid who tells her parent, guardian—whatever exactly it is that Joel is to her—about crushes and first dates, all of that overly complicated drama that always exists as a byproduct of teenage relationships. She just doesn’t want him to see her differently. Doesn’t want this to be the thing that finally makes him leave.

     

    (coming out can be hard, even in the apocalypse)

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    Ellie had imagined this day a million times. It was always coming, she just didn’t think it would be this soon. It had been less than a year since the incident in Salt Lake City. She’d told them that if they found a way to extract what they needed for the vaccine without killing her, she’d be all theirs. Now, it seems it’s time for her to make good on her promise.

    Sure, they could’ve simply given up on finding a different solution. They could be here to attempt to take her against her will and perform the original surgery, but she doubts it. For Marlene to walk into Jackson with only ten men behind her, out-gunned and vulnerable, would be incredibly stupid. Not to mention, she knows Joel’s been waiting, practically praying, for the opportunity to take her out.

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    Marlene has supposedly found a different way to make the vaccine, Joel doesn't trust a word that comes out of her mouth, Ellie just wants everybody to calm the fuck down, and Tommy's just happy to be there.

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    Looking back, she’s the first one to admit that her reaction was a bit extreme, not that she’d tell anyone, not that it wasn’t justified.

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    Ellie struggles through the wasteland that is adolescence and managing your first real romantic relationship in the apocalypse.

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    Sam and Henry live. Adventures and found family bonding ensue on the journey from Kansas City to Jackson and beyond.

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    Tess shot her a tired look. “He hunts alone. It’s not personal.”

    “It’s not just the hunting. It’s everything. You saw how he was at the rest stop.” Ellie made her voice deep, imitating Joel’s southern accent. “Put that back cause I said so—over a fucking necklace. Like, what’s next? He gets mad at my backpack?”
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    Ellie, Joel, and Tess learn to live on the road together without wringing each other's necks in the process. Ellie is feral, Joel is savage, and Tess is trying to get everyone to Wyoming in one piece.

    Set during the 3-month timeskip before winter. There are wonderful character arcs and nice campfire scenes, but it gets dramatic as hell—buckle up.

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    Joel stumbles into Ellie five years earlier while he's still a hunter with Tommy. It changes everything, and nothing, about their story.

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    Joel barely survives Abbys ordeal

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    One thing is sacred though, albeit secret, the one thing keeping him sane through all this shitshow they call routine. Whenever he gets ready for bed, Ellie better be sleeping in her bed, because the moment he opens her door - as he always does and she’s never noticed - and she’s not snuggled under the blankets? He thinks he’s gonna go nuts. Hell, he doesn’t think, he knows, because it’s 3 in the fucking morning and she’s not where she’s supposed to be, and he feels his stomach clenching.

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    Ellie’s missing in the middle of the night.

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    Being a high school art teacher has its perks. Getting to teach the next generation, making art, flirting with trouble personified by Joel Miller. You can't date a student's parent. You can be professional. You can handle this. Right?

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