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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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    After the sudden passing of her parents, Margo Kennedy is making it one day at a time. They left behind their family home, a hardware store, and Margo's younger sister, Daisy. Margo is simply trying to make it-Tending to the store, making sure Daisy gets into university, and keeping her misanthropic neighbor Bill on his toes. When the outbreak begins Margo's once predictable life transcends into absolute chaos.

    Eventual Joel Miller/Original Female Character

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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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    “And suddenly, life wasn’t about living. It’s was about not dying.”

    In which Tommy Miller is separated from his young daughter during the world’s end. His only thoughts are of how he is going to find her, but his brother is insistent they head the other direction- with or without the girl.

    In which Maria Allen has a deep hatred for the Fireflies, but she just can’t keep away from them. How does she manage to take on the responsibilities her father left her and a little girl whom her best friend found alone in an old office? And this girl just won’t shut up about her father.

    *This is basically my take on the events before and during The Last of Us and during That Last of Us: Part II following Tommy, Maria, and their daughter. It has not been edited, but will be eventually.*

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    “Well, if you’re that concerned, I’ll be your date,” she tells him, finishing her own beer and setting her bottle down on the table. Joel splutters, choking on his drink, and swipes the back of his hand over his damp mouth.

    “Tessa…” he starts, and Tess waves his words away.

    “I’m a model fuckin’ date,” she says, and Joel pinches the skin between his eyebrows. “Plus your mom already loves me.”

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    “What do you do?” Bill asked, curious to learn more about this man who seemed so different from himself.

    “I’m an artist.”

    “What, like with paint and shit?”

    Bill was sometimes proud of how badly he could put his foot in it.

    Frank just laughed. “Less of the latter and more of the former, but yes, exactly.”

    --

    What if the apocalypse never happened? What if Bill and Frank had just met?

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    So this story runs alongside my other story ‘Don’t Let Go’.

    It’s a world that’s forever changing. The planet had mutated a lot in the past two decades. Not many things stayed as a constant but Joel had always been a constant to Tess. He was always there to push her forward and have her back. When she wakes up alone and injured on the Capitol building floor she makes it her mission to find her old partner and dedicate her life to the cure. What she wasn’t expecting, was to find a new constant on her journey.
    Can she find Joel? Can she survive the journey? Will everything be as it was? Could she be the key to the cordyceps vaccine that was so desperately needed?

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    They’ve established a routine by now so that the mornings go smoothly; Tess usually rises first, starting the coffee and checking on the girls in the nursery while Joel stumbles into the shower, bleary-eyed and still half-asleep. By the time he’s clean and dressed, she’s got breakfast ready and at least one girl is awake- usually Sarah, babbling in her crib while Ellie remained sound asleep under her covers, dead to the world.

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    In the evenings, she, Joel, and Ellie took long walks through the town.

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    Then she walks in, and something about her has got him lookin’. He tries not to be obvious about it as she sits down at a table with her friend. She takes her jacket off, exposing her lean muscular arms as she hangs it on the back of her chair. Her smile is wide, and Joel can imagine how running his thumb along her full bottom lip would feel. She says something to her friend and starts to stand up.

    “Christ.” He says to himself and turns quickly back to the bar, trying to shake the image of her lips from his mind. What the fuck is wrong with him? He’s not here to meet some woman. He downs the last of his beer and calls over the bartender to get the glass of whiskey he’d been thinking about all day. He feels a hand slide onto his arm, and suddenly the woman is standing beside him at the bar.

    “Hi there.” She says, her fingers resting delicately on his wrist.

    “Ma’am?” He looks down into her startling hazel eyes, and his mouth is suddenly dry.

    IE: Joel and Tess meet at a bar in an Alternate Universe where the Cordyceps Outbreak never happens.

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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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    Ellie loves three things: puns, playing guitar, and Dina. Unfortunately for Ellie, her biggest talent is in fucking things up.

    - or; a post santa barbara fic set in the pre-apocalypse

    -- or; what if Dina wrote Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac?

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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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    “Tess, I thought I was going to lose you today. We was this close,” Joel says, holding his thumb and pointer finger up, held only centimeters apart. “I don’t know what I woulda done If… shit Tess. This fuckin’ close.” His hands shake as he pulls her body tight against his. She wraps her arms around his back and presses her palms firmly against his shoulders, trying to show him the best way she can that she’s still here, still very much alive.

    IE: Tess makes it out of the museum, and she and Joel need a minute to process.

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    Joel doesn’t remember anything beyond the outpost.

    All he knows is that he was there, he lost consciousness and then he was all the way back in 2010. He woke up to his old, shitty apartment in Boston and the overwhelming feeling that he'd lost something.

    Ellie. All those years leading up to and after finding her. Seemingly erased. Or yet to happen.

    He doesn’t know how.

    But he knows he has to find her.

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    Joel is somehow transported into the past, well before any of the events of the Last of Us Season One take place. Armed with the knowledge of everything that happened the first time around, he makes it his mission to find four year old Ellie, reunite his family and find a safe place for them in the Wyoming wilderness. Once he establishes himself as Jackson's leader, he gets to work giving Ellie the childhood and the family she deserves.

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    A ficlet collection for tess and joel

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    [Part III to The End Never Met]

    Life seems to have gone mostly back to normal in Jackson, and Ellie is finally able to move on and focus on her and Dina’s future.

    Joel is struggling with letting her leave the nest, but is trying to support her decision and is keen on giving her a few last fond memories before she moves out to the farmhouse. Distracted with all this, Joel’s focus might be just a bit too narrow to realise there are other people in his life to look out for.

    Meanwhile, Tommy and Maria are preparing for the next chapter of their life as soon-to-be parents, Mel is finally able to move past Owen, and Abby finds herself spending way too much time in the company of Marauders. Jesse isn’t quite sure, but is Fenton Warren flirting with him? Otto has a new arch nemesis and Janet might just be in a little over her head. But hey, at least Bill gets a nice retirement plan after he decks Otis fucking Meyer.

    (This is the final part to the trilogy, slower paced and far more domestic, Even When The Leaves Fall will hopefully paint a picture of our much loved Jackson families!)

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    Joel Miller x Reader (HBO Show)

    STOP! READ⬇️
    (This will be an age-gap story.)

     

    Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Last of Us of the characters. I only own my characters and some plot and Dialogue I make up.

    Yn is neighbors with the Millers and watches Sarah. She has a close relationship with both of them. She lives across the street with her Grandmother who she has been living with since she was five years old after her parents had been killed in a car accident. She's with Sarah when everything happens with the Adlers and ends up staying with Joel and Tommy after Sarah dies. as time goes on and she gets older she and Joel grow closer and closer. She fills a big hole in his chest where his heart is supposed to be. He doesn't care about, love, or trust a lot of people. But her and Tommy are his family and he would do anything for them.

    Read the authors note for more about the story! It's is a request for all my stories. it has not only more of a description but also has triggers and warnings for the story.

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    divergence from the end of patching up chapter 16

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    Fate decides that Tess and Joel need to sort some shit out when it comes to their relationship (and, you know, their deaths/almost-deaths). For Tess, it's surviving getting out of Boston. For Joel, it's leaving Jackson with Ellie with unresolved feelings chasing after him.

    More simply put: Tess and Joel each end up in their own time loop.

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