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“It doesn’t feel real,” Ellie says that night, when his patience with the Fireflies has broken, and he’s enforced a bedtime for their labrat that involved bodily shoving medical staff out of the room and slamming the door in their faces.
From his place on a cot right in front of the door to make sure no one gets ideas about coming in without warning, he looks over to her, but she’s only looking at the ceiling, looking far too small in the hospital bed she’s been settled on. They’d had her hooked up to machines at first, but she’d been unable to settle with them on her, so he’d made the executive decision to unhook her from everything, pushing buttons at random until all of the noises stopped.
He’d gotten dirty looks through the little window into the room until he’d shut the blinds.
(how the cure gets found) (featuring AGGRESSIVE patient advocate joel)
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03 May 2025
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He doesn’t notice that one of her shoes is untied until a lace gets caught in a notch of a log as they pass, sending her down hard.
The momentum of her fall sends him thudding against a tree, and his eyes slam shut as he grits his teeth against the white hot pain that flares in his side.
When he opens his eyes, she’s facedown in the snow, still and silent, hands still at her sides making it clear that she didn’t even try to catch herself.
It speaks of so much trauma, so much unresponsiveness, that he feels tears sting his eyes at the sheer scale of what’s happened to her, of how small and useless he is to fix any of it, of how much he’s let her be hurt by his own failure to protect her.
But there’s no time for his own self-loathing.
She needs him, insufficient as he is.
(a fic covering joel taking care of ellie after episode 8)
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12 Jan 2025
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corals and kings by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Aug 2024
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“Maybe I should sleep here tonight,” Ellie confesses, reaching for her blanket and weakly wrapping it around her. “You can make sure my arm doesn’t peel off in the middle of the night.”
Joel’s face pales at the image; but, he still reaches forward and finishes wrapping the blanket more snuggly around her, tucking her in. “It’d be my greatest honor,” he says.
Ellie could easily poke back in jest, but when he presses a kiss to her temple she realizes that maybe his heart is as exposed and raw as hers. That’s maybe, wrapping her up in a blanket, feeding her soup, and trying to kiss the physical pain away really is his greatest honor. She doesn’t have any reason not to believe him.
After all, he’s always been a terrible liar.
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Ellie, Joel, and a collection of important late night sleepovers.
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05 Jan 2025
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Migrating Monarchs by ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 Dec 2024
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“I’m still getting used to that.” Ellie tells him. “Someone caring where I am all the time.”
Joel chooses his words very carefully. “It’s my job. I quite like it, if I’m honest. ”
She smiles, a little wry, expression molding into something awkward to hide the tremble of her lip. “Interesting take considering I’m the government equivalent of a last draft pick.”
He hums in acknowledgement. “But you’ll always be my first round pick. That’s what counts.”
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It's been twenty years since Sarah died and he fell apart. It's been fifteen years since Tommy couldn't take the heartbreak of helping someone who didn't want to be helped and left without looking back. And it's been ten years since Joel's started to rebuild.
It's day one of fostering Ellie Williams.
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01 Jan 2025
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in the morning there is quiet by thegreenwitch98
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 Nov 2024
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It had started, as most things do, with a drink.
Snapshots of Vander and Silco, how they came together and were ripped apart by the same dream
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21 Nov 2024
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Despite his best efforts, Hunter can't quite stop mourning his uncle. This is, he knows, unacceptable.
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23 Oct 2022
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When exalted shades in Elysium are emboldened and corrupted by Zagreus’ combination of boons, the unthinkable happens for the first time within hundreds of runs, and Zagreus is assaulted. Shocked to find himself traumatised by anything at all, he begins to avoid Elysium at all costs, and others begin to notice…
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21 Feb 2022
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Just keep breathing. Dying ain't happening yet.
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- Part 2 of Forming and Foundations
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09 Feb 2022
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She wasn’t doing the sort of things you were supposed to do after going through so much - she was failing at struggling to cope.
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- Part 22 of Slice of Life One-Shots
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11 Sep 2021
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Astrid needs to stop gasping. If she doesn’t, they will be caught, and it will be Wulf who will be beaten instead of her. Wulf who will spend the week alone in the tower, half-frozen with cold. “What – what are you talking about? Who is Caleb?”
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19 Aug 2021
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Yasha wakes up feeling like she never really escaped Xhorhas - it's a grey day, one of those intermittent relapses that have become so much rarer since the work she's done but which can still surprise her. But rough days don't have a monopoly on coming out of nowhere. She knows Beau to be perceptive, but actively inserting herself into Yasha's life to help her is new.
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- Part 18 of Beauyasha College AU
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03 Aug 2021
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Despite being heavily injured, Beau refuses to relax. Caleb has to call in the cavalry.
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22 Jun 2021
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After barely escaping the Tomb Takers with their lives, the Mighty Nein escape to the Vurmas Outpost to seek refuge with Essek. They need safety, and they will need to find answers. But for now, all Yasha needs is to get that blood off of Beauregard's face.
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08 Jun 2021
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After shutting down the Tombtakers, the Mighty Nein return to finish what they started with Gelidon. A moment of distraction leaves both Beau and Yasha feeling guilty for endangering the other, and a night in the tower gives them time to sort those feelings out.
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08 Jun 2021
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Caleb stared at Kiri, who did not go away.
“What...er...what do you want from me?”
“Want from me?” Kiri echoed, and it was somewhat unsettling to hear a grown man’s voice coming from a 3-foot, fluffy bird-child.
Caleb ran a hand through his hair. “Ja, want from me. Is...is there something you need?”
“Something I need,” she agreed.
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- Part 4 of It Takes Two (Critrole RSweek Drabbles)
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31 May 2021
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prompt: a found family comfort fic for Beau
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Each of the Mighty Nein has something they can offer, a way to help Beau. After talking to her father, she just might need all of it.
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- Part 49 of Blue Girls Have The Most Fun
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30 May 2021
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Take me beyond what I can see by Loulouche, TiamatZX
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
28 Jan 2021
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Beau had noticed her left hand felt warm now that the eye was here, but now, it feels warmer. She looks down at it and… she might be imagining it, but the eye seems to shine a little brighter. Was she merely hearing things? Were the Somnovum fucking with her? Was she really hearing Yasha’s thoughts just--
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Beau discovers something about her unwilling “gift” that forces her and Yasha to accept the here and now. Takes place immediately after C2E122.
Title from All I Need to Be, by Fireflight
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NOTE FROM LOU: TiamatZX and I are no longer working together and I am no longer interacting with him for reasons I don’t wish to share. We collaborated on a few fanfictions and I am proud of the work I did during this time, which is why I decided to keep my name on these fics. There won’t be any other collaborations between us, but it seemed fair to keep both of our names since we both worked on those.
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30 May 2021
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An inside look at the growing friendship between Beau and Caleb, featuring The Mighty Nein. Lots of found family feels and empire siblings. Each chapter is a continuation of sorts, either mid or post episode, and can be read separately.
Ch 21: 2x123 - Fair-Weather Faith
After a narrow escape from their midnight battle with the Tombtakers, Caleb and Beau take stock and seek comfort.
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29 May 2021
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please don't lose your faith (in me) by LoveWithAGirl
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Aug 2018
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“I’m not,” and Jester’s voice cracks again but she takes a deep breath and pushes on, “I’m not okay, is the thing,” and Fjord just holds on as she finally lets the words pour out. She starts with being taken, the fear that had filled her and stayed with her, and Fjord’s surprised when Yasha joins in, her breathing growing just as ragged as Jester’s. Yasha falls silent when Jester talks about the second night, about the three of them fighting off the two slavers, and then Fjord surprises himself by picking up where Jester falters when she gets to the torture.
Nott stays in front of them as they talk, the three of them weaving together the long day and night they spent in the dungeon, tears filling her eyes and eventually rolling down her cheeks, but she doesn’t make a sound, no one else in the room does, until finally they taper off, Jester’s voice turning into a whisper and fading as she finishes telling about watching Fjord get knocked out.
“You’re so strong,” Nott’s voice is wet but fierce, and Fjord watches her reach out to grab Jester’s free hand, “you’re all so strong. But it’s okay to let us be strong for you, now.”
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22 Apr 2021
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An accident in the ruins of Eiselcross leaves Beau with an ancient disease and a limited amount of time for the Mighty Nein to cure her before she's left as frozen and decimated as Aeor.
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06 Apr 2021