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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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    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.

    *

    Jackson is threatened - and Ellie steps up.

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    After a terrible past, Kate has a hard time trusting people. Living in Jackson, she doesnt have many friends. Will a gruff man who shows up with a little girl help her to not be so lonely?

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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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    “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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    Reader moves to Austin to start over and hires Joel Miller to renovate her grandparents' house. He learns where home is and deals with ghosts from the past that insist on knocking on his door.

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    After being rescued from the brink of death, you start anew in Jackson. It doesn't take long for you to settle in, finding your place in the town as a midwife and baker. A few years into your new life, Tommy's brother shows up at the gates with a young girl. They continue on their journey before returning several months later, something having brought them back from their destination. Joel and Ellie move into the home across from you. You like Ellie, but worry about what happened on the trip that's made her so withdrawn. You like Joel as well, more than you probably should. When he's assigned to help you with the heavy lifting at the bakery, you begin to grow close with him. For years, you'd been convinced that love might not be for you, but Joel makes you second guess that conclusion.

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    Joel Miller is a gruff as they come, the world having changed him for the worst. But settling in Jackson with his brother changed him for the better. He's known around town as someone to help, whether it be with home repairs, construction, and hand carved trinkets. An offhand comment from you inspires him to branch out and create helpful kitchen wares. And it seems everyone has been gifted one from him, except for you. It makes you rethink the casual friendship you had developed with the man that had just begun to expand beyond patrols.

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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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    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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    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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    Joel and his patrol partner. Tags to be updated as we go.

    Set during TLOU Pt 2 when Ellie and Joel aren't speaking.

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    Watch her take me by surprise,
    When she lets me call her mine.
    Do you ever really know?
    Can you ever really know?
    - Woman, Mumford & Sons

    Joel Miller returns to Jackson bringing back memories and feelings from 20 years ago, but you refuse to fall into the universe's trap again. Your table is at capacity. Adding more chairs will only kill you when they get taken away.

    Cross posted to Tumblr under user @dancingtotuyo

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    Joel barely survives Abbys ordeal

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