14 Works in Ellie Returns to Jackson (The Last of Us)
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Maria sinks a simple wooden cross into the head of his grave. It reads his name. Ellie glares at the heaped soil, wiping dirty palms against her thighs, wishing she could cry.
The sun is cloaked in grey.
“Feels like we’re always digging fucking graves,”
Or, the one in which healing is not linear.
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- Part 2 of in lieu of flowers, send him back
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“You don’t get to come back here — you don’t get to do this.”
“I needed to see you,”
“You should go.”
Ellie squeezes her eyes shut and swallows the urge to be sick. She pulls her tired backpack across the counter, unzips the front pouch and rummages through loose accoutrements for the bracelet, holding it out to Dina. “Take it.”
Or, the one in which Ellie returns to Jackson.
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- Part 1 of in lieu of flowers, send him back
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I'm looking back
Now thinking, maybe I was wrong
I been so out of place and desperate for so long
I wrote about it
Think I made a billion songs
But nothing would ever heal the wound
Now I gotta go
It's been too long
If they wanna know, tell 'em I went homeOnce she was told she was a light in the darkness. Now, she doesn’t know what she is.
Ellie tries to go back to Jackson; there’s nothing more to be done.
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i don't deserve forgiveness, but please let me try by lemonade_juice
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
10 Feb 2023
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After Ellie finds the farmhouse empty, there's only one thing left to do.
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AKA where Ellie goes back to Jackson to find Dina
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- Part 1 of traveling back to Jackson
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fears we need to face (to break out of these cycles) by Vyslante for maharetr
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Feb 2023
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"She’s almost there, and yet she does not dare to advance."
(or: Ellie finds the farm empty and decides to check the town)
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Thrown to The Cosmos by monkeybomb
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us
09 Nov 2022
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Forgiveness is not given freely, especially when you leave your entire family behind. But determination has coursed through Ellies blood ever since she read the letter her mom left for her as a child.
𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨! 𝘍𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦. 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳... 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳
𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘢
𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘥, 𝘌𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦!
Maybe she cant be forgiven by Dina, Maria, JJ, hell maybe the entirety of Jackson hates her and wont ever forgive her for the horrors shes committed, but shes not looking for forgiveness. Ellie's found her purpose and shes determined to fight for it.
(Her purpose being shes still madly in love with Dina and deeply misses JJ, her life in jackson, and who she used to be.)
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A series of snippets from Ellie and Dina's reborn relationship after Ellie returns to Jackson. A loose sequel to "Time After Time" -- it flows naturally from that series but can also stand on its own. Shorter chapters. Open to prompts!
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“You were a stubborn old man, you know that? But god, I…I loved you,” Ellie whispers. “I loved you so much, and I… I never even got to tell you, Joel. You fucking died before I could tell you that we were gonna be okay. You should have been there when JJ was born, it should have been you walking me down that aisle when I got married. You should have been there, for all of it.”
Ellie presses her palms into her eyes, biting back a sob as she shakes. “This is so stupid, but do you remember that cassette you gave me? The one where you play “Future Days”, so I could learn the chord progression? I played that fucking thing on my wedding night. I was so nervous, but I played that song before I went down the aisle, and it was…” Ellie sniffles, a fresh wave of tears wetting her cheeks as she recalls her wedding night.
“It was like you were there with me. Listening to your voice, it was like you had never left. I know this is crazy, but… I felt like you were right there beside me, telling me it was okay.”
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Ellie goes back to Jackson in search of the life she left behind and gets something even better: the happy ending she always wanted with her family.
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The story of Ellie and Dina rekindling their relationship after Ellie returns to Jackson, in snapshots over time. Starts out with angst and eventually turns into domestic fluff. Short chapters. (Rated M for language).
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What might have happened just after the end.
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Ellie returns to the Jackson community to try and repair the broken bridges created in the wake of her actions during and after Seattle. Relationships improve, old friends return, and family becomes closer than ever before. Still a work in progress. Was originally posted on fanfiction.net.
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--TLOU PT2 SPOILERS -- Ellie went back to Jackson after confronting Abby. This is the aftermath of that. Having to deal with the consequences of her actions and /maybe/ finally finding the peace she wants so bad.
"Ellie felt like she was drifting through space, it felt calming, it made her forget how tired she was, how her life was crumbling around her and slipping through her fingers and she simply couldn't do anything about it" -
Bad Blood by heygaymayday
Fandoms: The Last of Us, The Last of Us Part II - Fandom, The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Jul 2020
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She’s letting herself think about it, carefully, like the memories are a stray dog that might bite her outstretched hand at any moment. She’s thinking about the pattern of the freckles across her nose and the shape of her dumb, easy grin, and the way her hair would flash red in the sunlight from the window, when it was unkempt and wild from being tangled in Dina’s hands and--
It’s too fucking much. It’s too far. It’s too good, and those stray dog memories do what stray dogs do best--it clamps down on her, sinks teeth down deep, sends her into breathless agony.
So she's folding in on herself, as small as she can get, as if that might help--
it won't--
and she's giving in to the grief again.
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Ellie makes her way back to Jackson and tries to put the pieces of her life back together. She just hopes that those pieces are still there, and hopes she knows what to do if she finds them.
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF PART II