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When Joel Met You by pandapetals
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), When Harry Met Sally (1989)
25 Jan 2026
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You never expected to cross paths with Joel Miller again after college. He’d always been sharp-tongued, guarded, and impossible to figure out — your roommate’s boyfriend, and nothing more. Yet, life in Texas has a way of circling back, especially when you keep running into Joel.
*Or a slow burn inspired by When Harry Met Sally.
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After saving a little girl’s life, you’re thrust into her and her father’s small cabin oasis. She wants to be your friend. He wants nothing to do with you. Fighting for a better life, you’re forced to reconcile your differences, battling against a world wrought with monsters and raiders.
Because while they might not be family, they’re the only ones you’ve got.
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You squeezed your eyes shut, willing yourself not to cry. You were left alone to fend for yourself and a child. You didn’t know how. Fuck, you’d never even had to look after a fish, and now some laughing deity had put a child in your care.
But you made a promise.
You’d give your life trying to keep her safe.
Even if that meant following a stranger, who seemed to hate your existence, to a settlement you had never heard of.
What else was there left in this world for you?
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Set 15 years after the outbreak if Joel was never asked to take Ellie to the fireflies. Instead, he continues his quest to find his brother, finding you and little more than he bargained for on his way.
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- Part 1 of Promises We Keep
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Newly settled into Jackson City, you’re assigned to patrol duty with Joel Miller; a man of rough edges and a cold facade. What begins as forced proximity slowly shifts into something raw and all-consuming.
But as the past creeps forward through old wounds and the ever-present threat of the world outside Jackson's walls, your feelings for one another become both a sanctuary and a liability.
In a world already broken, where there is already so much to lose, can you let yourself love Joel Miller?