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A loud buzzing sounds between her ears. It drowns out the ED, the commentary of the other nurses as Ahmad hits play on a video cued up from a local news’ YouTube channel that reads HOSTAGE SITUATION AT PITTSBURGH BANK in the lower chyron.
The video shows a shaky camera zoomed way far in as, yeah, that’s definitely Jack, walking toward the front doors of a Philly First National branch with his hands held up in surrender.
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Jack’s TEMS shift goes awry, and all Samira can do is wait.
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01 Jun 2026
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"This is one of the things that she loves most about him— Jack Abbot knows when to push, when to let her push, and he knows when to give her space. Tonight, he’s doing that tenfold."
Or, Samira Mohan finds that finding a work-life balance is easier said than done.
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27 May 2026
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When a trip to San Francisco brings him back into Samira Mohan’s orbit for the first time in two years, Jack tells himself it’s just coincidence.
It would be easier if she didn’t already have a life here.
And even easier if he didn’t still want to be part of it.
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09 May 2026
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A mass shooting occurs at PittFest. Somehow, only Jack Abbot is aware that it keeps happening again, and again, and again.
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- English
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- 36,651
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 1
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- 111
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- 397
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- 4,380
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28 Apr 2026
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06 Apr 2026
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By the time smoke floods the Emergency Department and the fire alarms start going off, Jack Abbot isn’t there at all.
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- English
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- 19,860
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Comments:
- 260
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12 Jan 2026
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Short Days, Long Nights by frannyzooey
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Feb 2024
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Part of a band of travelers, your party is slowly picked off one by one, until there are only two of you left. Finding an abandoned cabin in the woods, you decide to make camp there until you figure out your next move. As the seasons change, the nights get longer and longer…..
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- Part 1 of Short Days, Long Nights
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- English
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- 78,158
- Chapters:
- 18/18
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- 278
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04 Apr 2024
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Joel couldn’t say the real reason he needed Sarah to stay home that night. You were in a fucking sundress with a ribbon in your hair. A goddamn ribbon. And you’d been cooking, the whole house smelled like heaven and you were in a fucking sundress with a goddamn ribbon in your hair and now he was going to be home alone with you all night.
Not that anything was going to happen. Nothing was going to happen. Not a damn thing.***
You're a college student in Austin, Texas, who gets a summer job nannying Sarah Miller. It's not long before her dad sees you as more than a babysitter - or more than a friend. But life - and an apocalypse - have other plans.
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- Part 1 of Lavender
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- English
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- 253,601
- Chapters:
- 49/49
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- 2,333
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03 Apr 2024
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Joel has always been lucky, in the worst of ways.
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04 Dec 2023
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You escaped a life sentence of becoming a mom and housewife to move to Colombia and work at the US Embassy. One thing you never counted on was meeting Javier Peña and him somehow becoming the most important person in the world to you.
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12 Sep 2023
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Heart of Steel by MissDirection26
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 Aug 2023
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You have spent the past seven years focussed on building and protecting Jackson. Emotional ties will distract you, and you know being distracted means people die.
When a man who's pain you recognises enters your town, and with a girl, you are torn. Would he bring harm to your town, or is he an asset?
Either way, you need to keep away. Either way, he is a danger to the town.
(COMPLETE!)
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30 Aug 2023
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Joel doesn’t know how to describe what you were to him. You’d never made any promises to each other, but you loved his daughter like she was your own. Had he known what would happen, he wouldn't have let you go.
series will take place before AND after the outbreak. Slow-burn(ish), eventual smut.
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- English
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- 87,951
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- 14/14
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- 694
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27 Aug 2023
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Silence fell over the line for a minute and you could hear the sounds of ringing phones and Spanish voices in the background. You closed your eyes, wanting so badly to say it, but couldn’t quite form the words.
“I miss you, cariño,” Javier said and you closed your eyes as the pit of your stomach warmed.
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Part 2 of a three-part series, one part set during each season of Narcos.
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- Part 2 of Mejores
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23 Aug 2023
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What if Joel had been in a relationship when the outbreak started? What if they were still together 20 years later?
(aka a version of the show with Joel in a relationship)
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19 Aug 2023
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You comfort Javi after a particularly bad day at work
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17 Aug 2023
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Fear of God by netherfeildren
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 May 2023
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What was monstrousness? What was it, but a certainty that there existed within you multitudes of desires, needs, guilts, impulses – humanity? At the end of the world, when the dust has finally settled, Joel grapples with what it is to take hold of your own monstrosity – your own humanity – and live with it. And what it is to bear that truth in the palm of your hand held towards the person you love, offer it to them, and have it be accepted for what it was. Courage, above all else, it is courage that is necessary to go on.
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Big bad Joel Miller falls in love and doesn't know how to deal with it.
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- Part 1 of Birdie’s House
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- English
- Words:
- 54,914
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 337
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- 1,230
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- 413
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- 60,648
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09 Aug 2023
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a stranger's heart without a home by MorningStarJoy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
28 Jun 2023
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After leaving the Fireflies, you ended up in the settlement of Jackson with Tommy, unwilling to part with the only friend you had left. You were even able to carve somewhat of a life out for yourself after a few years.
Until Tommy's older brother shows up. You think Joel Miller is gruff and rude, and you're pretty sure he doesn't have a fond opinion of you either. That doesn't stop the attraction you feel for each other, but he's gone in a day. You settle back into a routine, thinking you'll never see him again.
Then Joel returns a few months later, and screws up everything about the comfortable life you had established in Jackson.
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- Part 1 of ASHWAH
- Language:
- English
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- 219,732
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Comments:
- 1,108
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- 178,357
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09 Aug 2023
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Just Too Good To Be Gone by Something_to_fight_for
Fandom The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 Jan 2024
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What would Joel's life look like after arriving in Jackson with Ellie if he met someone that understood who he was - and what he'd been through?
Relaxed-fit series that tells the story of Joel and Ellie settling into Jackson - and what happens next.
No use of 'y/n', female reader, includes smut. Canon compliant (until it's not). No age gap here.
- Words:
- 217,801
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- 20
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- 67
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01 Jul 2023
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Wasteland, baby! (I'm in love with you) by littleR13
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Jun 2023
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Five years after the outbreak, you're coping however you can. Running into Joel and Tommy then seems a well-timed coincidence, a lucky turn as the three of you make your way to Boston. How long can this seemingly perfect alliance last after feelings get in the way?
Living in Jackson, so many years later, old passions resurface when Joel inadvertently comes back into your life. Will grievances and doubts get in the way yet again?OR
We get to see Reader / OC and Joel navigate the depths of their love, both in the past and in the future.
"Joel knows all this, knows to be prepared for the worst, as a way to compensate for his inattention. But he forgot all about it the day he first saw you again."
Now COMPLETE with epilogue!!
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 134,417
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Comments:
- 254
- Kudos:
- 621
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- 243
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- 27,790
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21 Jun 2023
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Infections Of A Different Kind by psychedelic_ink
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), Narcos (TV)
13 Oct 2023
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Javier, a former member of the Federal Disaster Response Agency in Kansas City, is haunted by the guilt and violence he indirectly caused by not taking action when he should have. After fleeing Kansas City in the aftermath of Kathleen's violent overthrow of FEDRA, you and Javier seek refuge in an abandoned train in the middle of a forest.
As you and Javier turn the train into a living space and learn to navigate the dangers of a post-apocalyptic world, you gradually overcome your differences and form an unlikely bond. But when your pasts catch up with you, you must confront the demons that haunt you and make a choice that could mean the difference between life and death. Will you choose to protect each other and find a way to build a new life together, or will the ghosts of your pasts tear you apart?
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17 Jun 2023