#fandom:thelastofus

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i’m almost me again (she’s almost you)

i’m almost me again (she’s almost you) by anonymous (AO3 - 5,000 words)

Fandom: The Last of Us (TV)

Relationship: pre-henry/joel

Summary: Joel reaches his arm up to scratch his neck—stubble rasping.

They sit together there for a long time. Henry doesn't remember falling asleep.

Or

Sam doesn’t get bit and two becomes four.

Notes: pining, melancholy au

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thought I’d have learned by now

thought I’d have learned by now by prettytripping (AO3 - 9,000 words. multi-chaptered and incomplete, but can be read as complete with 1st chapter)

Fandom: The Last of Us (TV)

Relationship: none/gen

Summary: "I show the way, you clear the way." 

Behind the scenes/ rewrite kind of? of ep5 .. and a little bit further

Notes: has your heart been ripped out? let this slightly soothe you

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What I Need’s Been Buried

What I Need’s Been Buried by ilookedback (AO3; one-shot - 1,200 words)

Fandom: The Last Of Us (TV)

Relationships: Joel/Tess

Summary: He meets her in a FEDRA refugee caravan, one week south of the QZ. Fraternization is discouraged—too dangerous out here, outside the safety of walls and militarized police and diagnostic scanners—and there is an air of wariness throughout the group, with Boston’s salvation so close at hand, a tenuous thread of hope that could be snapped by a single set of infected teeth. But she meets his eyes across the campfire and gives him a quick, wry smile and sits beside him as the guitar gets passed around in turn—this impromptu open mic circle an echo of a humanity that will never be the same—and she raises her eyebrows when he takes it for himself and strums a familiar chord.

Notes: it’s doomed, you know it, they know it