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Learn You Slowly by Shh_be_quiet
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Apr 2026
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Ellie doesn't entirely understand why the things that happened to her were wrong — she just knows she was hungry and scared and that the dark in that particular closet had a specific texture she's been trying to forget.
The Millers are different. She can see that. She's just not sure yet if different means safe, or if safe means permanent, or if permanent is something that actually exists for someone like her.
Joel builds things with his hands and shows love the same way — through presence, through action, through sliding Sally across the floor without being asked. Tess knows what it is to be a case number in a system that doesn't see you, because she was one once. Sarah is fourteen and has made a highlighted document and has decided, quietly and completely, that this is her sister.
Ellie is six years old. She is trying very hard not to need them.
She is not succeeding.Bookmarked by trappedwithinabstract
25 Apr 2026
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Melissa King lives in the controlled chaos of the ER, where saving lives is easier than sitting with grief. Langdon has learned how to survive loss by keeping his head down and his heart guarded. When crisis pulls them into each other’s orbit — through long shifts, quiet hallways, and moments that refuse to stay professional — they form a connection neither of them is prepared for. As family, duty, and boundaries collide, Mel and Langdon must decide what it means to hold on when everything else is slipping away.
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Mel doesn’t have an emergency contact. Frank changes that.
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- Part 1 of emergency contact
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"Significant pulmonary contusion and multiple rib fractures, and there's very likely a subdural hematoma in there too,” Garcia says grimly, sounding like she's citing it to herself rather than to anyone else in the room. “We’re lucky it's most probably small, but given her fluctuating GCS it still concerns me quite a bit. Also, besides the shard of metal, the bruising and swelling along her abdomen suggests the possibility of internal bleeding as well, but we need to get in the OR to fully evaluate the severity of it."
“Jesus King,” he murmurs. “You were supposed to have the day off.”
or: there's a car accident on mel's day off. she ends up at the pitt anyways.
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17 Jan 2026
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it ain't me, babe by monalisaaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
07 Feb 2026
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Ellie’s eyes lit up. She tightened her palms around the embroidered patches of Mars, Venus, and Earth on the straps of her backpack and then quickened her pace as fast as her little legs could take her. The image of the house grew closer.
It was an old farmhouse. Vines clung to the faded, wooden siding. A porch wrapped around it, the paint chipped. There was a large willow tree in the front yard. A tire swing hung from an especially large branch. Ellie’s thoughts were immediately consumed with how much she wanted to ride it. The night breeze brushed her bare arms, nudging her along.
TLDR// Toddler Ellie comes across a haunted house while running away. In it, she finds a nice, though grumpy, ghost, Joel. For the first time in twenty years, he feels alive, looking after her when no one else ever has, the entire time terrified he'll lose another little girl.
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14 Jan 2026