Safe As Houses

Safe as Houses

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Summary:

Joel can't undo what happened, but he can help her heal.

When he suggests they head back to Jackson, she agrees.

The cycle repeats ten times. Her silence. His rambling. More silence, when he runs out of things to say and his stitches rub his skin raw. Encouraging her to eat food she can't even look at. Sleeping within arm's reach. Waking up a few hours later to screams caused by a nightmare she won't breathe a word about.

He doesn't tell her he's getting weaker. He blames his stumbles on invisible branches and his pained grunts on his aching knees and the snow.

He stops asking why she's so quiet, and she never mentions his side. They return to the same stilted, one-sided conversations from when they first met, their roles reversed.

When he hears the hooves five miles outside Jackson, he nearly collapses on the spot.

By some miracle, he makes it all the way to the fence before he does.

OR

Making it back to Jackson doesn't promise Joel and Ellie safety. But it does offer them one thing the open road didn't: a home.

Notes:

Hi everyone!! This fandom has absolutely taken over my brain, so when I was thinking about doing some writing practice to improve on some areas I struggle with, I figured why shouldn't I make it Joel and Ellie themed?

This fic is all the same universe, but each chapter will be sort of it's own story. There's a couple of different things I wanted to try writing, and this chapter is about switching POVs without accidentally headhopping! If there's anything you want me to include, let me know and I'll be sure to try and squeeze it in.

I hope you enjoy reading this fic as much as I enjoyed writing it!

the ripples they cause

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Chapter Thirty-Four: Avocados at Law

Notes:

Happy Tuesday folks!! Here's the very last Daredevil chapter of this fic... I hope you enjoy it <33 I just want to thank you all again for all the lovely comments you've been leaving - I really appreciate every single one of you and you've all been brilliant readers. There have been a few times I've wanted to quit on this writing journey (which has been going on for over a year!!) and you've been the ones to remind me why I started writing this in the first place. So I hope you're enjoying it, and these last two chapters will sooth all the angst I've put you through so far ;)

Sneak Peek:

The previous Nelson, Murdock, and Page office was a dump, but the new one is equally dismal. Between the wobbly desks and the damp growing in the corners of the ceiling, Karen has always preferred to work at the Bulletin, even if it means spending more time away from her closest friends.

But things are changing. When they first rented this place, they could barely afford the rent between the three of them, even with Karen's double income. Although they are as broke now as they were a few months ago, the decision to defend Spider-Man means their firm is now famous across New York (and even, optimistically, the world).

Anyone invested in Peter's legal battle read Karen's articles on the topic, which put Matt and Foggy front and centre in the fight to defend vigilantes. And after her recent article about Mysterio finally being unmasked as a fraud made the front page of the Bulletin, Ellison offered her a pay rise. Which means it's finally time to clean this place up.

With a bit of hard work, a helping hand, and some new furniture bought with her extra money, they can turn this place around and make it welcoming to the new customers who have called day and night.

"Matt, stop sniffing the bleach. I can smell it from here, so don't claim you don't know what it is. And Foggy, I thought you were putting up the new sign?"

He shrugs. "Matt was in charge of that."

"I left it at the apartment," he says, reluctantly placing the bleach down with the other cleaning products. He's not getting out of cleaning by claiming a headache that easily.

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what it means to be a person

Summary:

Nearly a year after the spell that erased Peter Parker, he finds himself chained to his old mentor. Literally.

Tony Stark has been running from his memories of Thanos for two years, burying himself in work and spending time with the family he nearly lost. But when a cunning new villain kidnaps Spider-Man to get to him, they’ll have to work together to escape with their lives.

But Spider-Man is just a kid. A kid who seems to have the answers to every hole in Tony’s memory. And he’ll do anything to protect the one person who might finally let him rest.

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Had to share this here because you're right and you should say it. It's incredible how many people came out of the woodwork as soon as AO3 was down and suddenly had no compunctions at all about screaming how much they love and need fanfic--on the AO3 twitter. Is it so much harder to do in the comment section?

At this point I don't care anymore if people call me entitled or think I'm out of line. If fanfic is so meaningful to you that you cannot go half an hour without, let alone 24h, then you can get over yourself long enough to write a fucking comment. No excuses.

"writing comments is hard and scary" yeah well GUESS WHAT so is writing fanfics. fandom as a community is dying, because it is instead treated as a COMMODITY, a CONSUMER PRODUCT. We're not asking for much. We're asking for a CONNECTION. We don't want to sell, we want to share.

You've shown your hand. You've admitted you cannot live without us. Now ACT LIKE IT. Go write a fucking comment.

would anybody be willing to beta read a tlou joel & ellie fic about them returning to jackson after joel gets stabbed that has spiralled wildly out of control because if I keep looking at the same words over and over my brain might explode 👀

hold me close to your heart

Summary:

Maybe decades-old grief is messing with his head, making him see relationships where they don’t exist. Perhaps she’s excited to be back with Marlene, far from his grumpy ass. But he will never forgive himself if he doesn’t say this.

‘You’re gonna be immune for the rest of your life,’ he points out. ‘If I’ve got a say, you’re gonna have plenty years more for them to come up with this world-saving cure. Promise me you’ll remember that before doing anything rash.’

Her eyes widen, and she screws up her face in the way that means she’s chewing the inside of her cheek. ‘We can… wait?’

OR

Joel convinces Ellie to come back to Jackson before they rush into a cure. And in the meantime, he's tasked with the very important job of finding her new nickname.

Notes:

As it turns out, finishing The Last of Us right as AO3 went down is the fastest way to end up with a fic sitting in your Google drive, waiting to be posted. Joel and Ellie deserve a happy ending, and by god am I going to pretend they live in a universe where they get it!

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