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   I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive by Kiwicane

   Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   16 May 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Joel (The Last of Us)/Reader
   • Joel (The Last of Us)/You
   • Joel (The Last of Us)/Original Female Character(s)
   • Joel (The Last of Us)
   • Tommy (The Last of Us)
   • You
   • Ellie (The Last of Us)
   • Pre-Canon
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Fluff and Angst
   • Strangers
   • First Meetings
   • Grumpy/Sunshine
   • First Impressions
   • see if you can you pick up on the subtle animal symbolism
   • Blink and you'll miss it
   • Young Joel (The Last of Us)
   • Pre-Cordyceps Outbreak (The Last of Us)
   • Pre-Cordyceps Outbreak Joel (The Last of Us)
   • an age appropriate relationship
   • in a Joel fic
   • can you imagine
   • Near Death Experiences
   • Walk into a Bar
   • Canon Era
   • you're the girl next door
   • Angst
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • come back to haunt him
   • and end up getting haunted
   • sunshine wants to kill grumpy
   • and grumpy doesn't know it
   • Revenge
   • Slow Burn
   • hunting each other through the woods
   • Reader-Insert
   • Flashbacks
   • you're the albatross
   • Eventual Smut
   • Eventual Romance
   • Sexual Tension
   • Mutual Pining
   • getting emotional over interior decor
   • Foreshadowing
   • Porn with Feelings
   • Porn with Plot
   • Enemies to Lovers
   • Enemy Lovers
   • getting high with Joel Miller
   • Grief/Mourning
   • you're less of a mom to Ellie and more like a cool aunt

   Summary

   Joel meets you one night before the outbreak, a perky bartender warmed from the sunshine out West. You almost get the both of you killed. Twenty years and one life-changing cross-country adventure later, you turn up in Jackson out of the blue.

   He wants answers. You want revenge. He's unforgivable. You're inexplicable. Neither of you gets exactly what you want, and yet you still end up with much more than what either of you could have ever bargained for.

   Chapter 22: Pan American

   No one has ever been this direct with you. No one has ever been this unflinchingly, vehemently sworn to you. This certain of you. This devoted. Your words fall off a cliff. You’re left suspended in your own stunned silence. You’re dangerously close to fainting.

   Joel steps forward and kisses you. It’s full and steadfast. Like the seal of a promise. You stand, legs nearly giving out, kissing him back. Like you’re signing your name next to his in black ink.

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   English

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