12 Bookmarks by killiab
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Gwaine challenges anyone in Camelot not to have had the occasional flight of fancy about one of their famous knights swooping in to save them, all shining armor and tousled hair, or the wish of being courted by such a noble suitor, or even just a night, one night, to find out what's really underneath all that armor. Their knights are the stuff of legends, after all, and bards are commonplace in a tavern, can he be blamed for how he listens to them? Especially working in a tavern so close to the citadel itself, where the knights will actually come and drink during their evenings, well, that's just like putting a fresh pie on the counter and expecting it to be there when he returns.
And if there's one knight in particular that happens to occupy Gwaine's mind more than any other, well, that's between him and his thoughts.
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27 May 2026
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The light beckons you over like a moth to a flame, and your weary bones follow, taking you across three lawns and up the steps, straight into the arms of Joel Miller.
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- Part 7 of dress up!Joel
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09 Feb 2025
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this could either break my heart (or bring it back to life) by lkay09 for two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
25 May 2024
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Joel stops, all the muscles in his body locked up, the rifle half-raised and the barrel pointed at the knees of a mangy man with a thick neck and stringy hair. He’s got one hand locked around the back of Ellie’s neck, fingertips gripping hard enough that even from here Joel can tell she’ll have bruises.
His other hand is pressing a thin blade against the front of her throat.
He nods at the gun in Joel’s hands. “Drop it.”
(bad things happen bingo - knife to the throat)
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- Part 4 of bad things happen bingo
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20 Jun 2024
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On the sixth snatched lunch, he decides to wait and watch. It’s childish, but they’d finally had help in so work had gone quickly enough that he could work on making cuts for the cabinet framing.
And it just so happens to offer the perfect viewpoint to watch his lunch bag on the passenger side of his truck without being immediately visible.
He waits in the hours before lunch ready for a fight, ready to storm out and confront his little shit of a little brother. He knows it’s Tommy. He knows it.
And then a little head with a brown ponytail sticks out of a bush, and he starts to wonder what he knows after all.
The girl looks around furtively, darts forward, jumps up to get her arm over the open window, makes a basket of her shirt, shakes out the contents, tosses the bag back in, and darts off, disappearing into the bushes once more.
All while he stands on the sidelines, saw still in hand.
(non-apocalypse au in which ellie and joel meet bc she keeps sneaking onto his jobsite to steal his lunch)
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19 Jun 2024
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urgent care by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Jun 2023
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“Maybe we should see if a doctor can stop by,” he says at the same time she says “No no no no.”
He sighs and sits beside her carefully. He rests a hand on the back of her head, and despite herself, it’s soothing.
“Just to make sure nothing’s wrong,” he says in a calm, reasonable tone that doesn’t do anything but wind her up. “We can-”
“It’s a period,” she says flatly. “It’s just a bad one.”
“Ell-”
“Do you have a uterus?” She demands. “No? Shut the fuck up then.”
It’s way more aggressive than she’d usually get with him, but there’s no goddamn way she’s going to the clinic, especially just to have a doctor laugh at her for being freaked out by a period.
It took her weeks to get out of the hospital in Salt Lake, and that was for the sake of creating the cure they brought back with them.
Hopping right back into another one? And for some stupid period cramps?
No fucking way.
(the "ellie gets appendicitis" fic that no one asked for)
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17 Jun 2024
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He frowns and picks the picture up, angling it to better see it in the light of the fluorescents of the hallway shining in. He looks over to Ellie’s sleeping face, smooth now in a brief reprieve from nightmares. He looks back to the picture. Back to Ellie. Back to the picture.
It’s…it’s her. It has to be. Same nose, same eyes, same ears. The baby has the soft roundness of a young infant that makes it hard to tell jaw shape or cheekbones, but there’s no denying it.
He’s holding a picture of an infant Ellie.
(the fireflies steal ellie's fedra file) (in the hospital, joel finds it)
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16 Jun 2024
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It’s across his desk that the first reports of the Fireflies and their miracle cure comes. He handles most intelligence on them. It’s partially down to his own interests; after Anna’s betrayal, he’d needed to make sure that no one else would ever be able to find out exactly how much information ended up spoken fuckdrunk and passed along.
It’s because of this access that he’s the first one who puts eyes on a file about the subject that allowed the Fireflies to get their miracle cure. There’s no names–well, no names that are true, he can tell from even a cursory glance–but there are notes that start to scratch at memories.
Female, 14 years old, raised in the Boston QZ, mother a Firefly, father unknown, 5’1”, 94 pounds at the start and 83 by the end of testing, medical history unknown by virtue of being an orphan.
It’s a rough sketch, a vague idea of a person that could fit anyone.
But somehow, in the part of himself that’s made him one of the best spymasters FEDRA has in its employ, he just knows.
The Firefly’s miracle girl is his daughter.
(au in which ellie's father is a high-up fedra official who decides he can use her immunity for his own ends)
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15 Jun 2024
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spiral fractures by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
07 Sep 2023
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“Keep her down,” Abby says, talking to the person restraining her. “Take her to the other room and secure her.”
“We should-”
“She lives,” Abby says, voice hard and final. “She didn’t have anything to do with what he did. She’s the reason we’re immune. Show some fucking gratitude.”
“Abby!” She tries again, even as she can barely catch her breath. “Abby, please! Please!”
The last sight she gets before there’s cloth over her eyes is Abby standing over Joel, still unmoving and silent, a pistol in her hand aimed right for his head.
Then a blindfold is over her eyes, and the only awareness she has is the sound of a gunshot.
The sound has barely faded before she replaces it with a scream.
(alternate tlou 2 storyline in which abby makes ellie THINK joel's dead)
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12 Jun 2024
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(five times other people saw what joel is to ellie, and one time he saw it for himself)
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11 Jun 2024
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Jaskier looks up from the book he is reading and smiles. The shadows and the flickering light gives his face strong angles, like the rough strokes of a painting, and there is a familiar something curling up in his chest, something warm and pleased.
Or; Geralt is a poetic, romantic little shit, its just all inside his head
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Ellie knows before she’s even told that the woman is a former FEDRA officer. There’s a way she carries herself that raises Ellie’s hackles at once, makes her stand up straighter, makes her hyper-aware of the dirt on her shoes and the way her ponytail is slipping out, both infractions that would be punishable under FEDRA regulations.
In an instant, Ellie knows they’re destined to hate each other.
(a former fedra teacher arrives in jackson) (it goes badly)
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08 Jun 2024
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first reactions after falling through the ice by thee-morrigan (marillen)
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game)
30 Oct 2022
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Hans considers the role Henry has come to play in his life.
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06 Jun 2024