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heroes and monsters by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Punisher (TV 2017), Daredevil (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe
11 Feb 2025
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Karen braces herself. It's a crazy idea -- maybe her craziest -- and she knows there is so much he is still not telling her. But it's the only thing she can think of.
"You need to return to society as Frank Castle," she says. "And you need to marry me."
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karen runs a club for women. one day, frank castle shows up and brings a hell of a lot of trouble with him.
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Hermione spends her first Christmas break as a teacher at Hogwarts.
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the students conspire to get draco and hermione together. it works, obviously.
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it's summer 1986. the world didn't end. steve and robin go see top gun.
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No one knows what happened. Everyone says something different, even still. It was the bread. It was the water. It was a biological warfare test gone wrong, it was aliens, it was the world itself rebelling against humanity.
Whatever it was, it worked. The world ended.
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kate and anthony at the end of the world. a modern!apocalypse coworkers-to-lovers au.
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living high until that fatal day by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Dec 2023
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Joel picks them off one by one, floor by floor, hardly taking note of how familiar it all feels. He doesn't even give the surgeon a chance to speak before he's dead, a bullet between the eyes. He knows they'll make it to the elevator. He kills Marlene. He drives them away.
He lies.
He wakes up yesterday.
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joel finds himself stuck in a time loop of that day in salt lake city.
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i'm dreamin' of a garden again by wmthackeray
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
25 Dec 2023
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How can all of it be over? All the darkness, the war, the violence. How can they be sure they left it all behind?
Both of them still have nightmares. There are days when she does not want to get out of bed. But there are chores to be done, a cat to wrangle, Haymitch to check on. A district to rebuild.
And Peeta. There's always Peeta.
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a solstice celebration in the days after.
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i've been nothing these days by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Sep 2023
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"What's that?" she asks.
He eyes her like he thinks she's going to reach into the pan and take the whole chunk of meat in one bite. "Food."
"Come on, dude."
Is he smirking at her? Asshole. "Beef. Not fancy like Bill used to make it, but it'll do. Good to get some protein. And--" Joel looks down at the can before pouring it out "-- you'll like this. S'for kids."
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joel and ellie through food.
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"Do you know who I am?"
"No," Ellie snarls. "Why the fuck would I know who you are?"
"My name is Abby," the girl says, mouth tight and eyes violent. "And I know who you are."
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it's not over. after the WLF group fails to execute their plan, ellie encounters abby on patrol.
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- Part 2 of in the morning
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in the daytime i'll need you as before by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
30 May 2023
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"You okay, Ellie?" Joel asks.
"No!" she screeches. "No, I'm not fucking okay, because I feel like I just almost fucking found you two dead in the snow, or something!"
"It was a near thing," Tommy says, looking at the blood on his hands like he just noticed it and grimacing.
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ellie has a really weird morning patrol and then she and joel watch a movie
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- Part 1 of in the morning
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the whole world gently wrapped around me by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 May 2023
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"Head wounds bleed a lot," Joel says. "S'probably just a small cut."
"No shit they bleed a lot," Ellie retorts. "You look like a fucking horror movie."
"Have you ever even seen a horror movie?"
"No."
ellie and joel in season/part i and slightly beyond through the small injuries
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the blood was on your shoulders by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
23 Apr 2023
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"Y'know," she says as she unscrews a leg from an overturned chair. "I thought escaping our first time getting kidnapped would be a little...harder?"
He snorts. "Count your blessings, kiddo."
then: telling the truth, learning to live, being a team
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ready to walk you through the night by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Mar 2023
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"You, uh," she starts, sounding shy. It makes her seem so, so young. "You found a game. Back in Salt Lake City, right?"
"I did."
"Do you still have it?"
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once they get to jackson, joel just wants ellie to have a nice life and be happy. boggle helps.
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there's nothing i can do, not much i can change by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Mar 2023
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The day Ellie finds a Polaroid camera, she hasn't said anything to Joel other than a strained "morning" or "excuse me" in 246 days.
Less than 12 hours after Ellie speaks to Joel again, she thinks he might be dead.
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ellie wants a picture of her and joel but the road to forgiveness is long(ish) and treacherous
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for you i am a child, believing by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
12 Mar 2023
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"I don't know how to do this," she says into his shirt as he tugs her further into the house. "I don't know how to just...live." I don't know how to be loved this much. I don't deserve it. Joel presses his nose into her hair and takes a deep inhale.
"We're gonna figure it out," he says. "You and me. Okay?" She nods, wiping her tears and her snot on his shirt but she knows he won't care. She believes him with every bone in her body. They're going to figure it out.
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ellie doesn't know how to handle loving someone this much, but she's gonna try
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today is another day to find you by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Jan 2023
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This close she can see that he's greying -- it's mostly in his beard, still, but the dark is laced with silver on top of his head, too. She tells him so.
"Yeah, yeah," he grumbles. "You're puttin' 'em there."
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joel asks ellie to give him a haircut
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i flew far away, as far as i could go by wmthackeray
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
31 Dec 2022
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He wipes his hands on his pants. "Are you staying for a while?"
"If the Lord Baratheon allows it," she says. "I'm sure he's quite busy."
Gendry smiles, then. "He'll allow it."
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arya comes back to storm's end. how long will gendry allow her to stay?
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"You know," Harry says, studying the framed certificates from the Minister on their walls. "There's an office pool on how long you two will take to get together," he says.
"How do you even know that?" Hermione asks him. "You don't work here."
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draco and hermione decide it's time to become official. a mistletoe helps.
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One upon a time, Mulder asked Scully to marry him. She said no.
Four years later, he shows up at her job. What could go wrong?
[a quick au]
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somewhere in the desert there's a forest by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Dec 2022
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"What, did the world end on his birthday, or something?" Tommy says nothing. Her jaw drops. "No fucking way. Really?"
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Joel takes Ellie to a museum for her birthday. She decides to figure out how to celebrate his. She just has to figure out when it is, first.
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For love, Cas said. You did all of it for love.
Oh Cas, Dean thinks. You have no idea.
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despair? i think not. let's fix that.