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A study of Vanessa and Lucy's relationship after the abduction told from Vanessa's point of view...
Chenford Week 2026
Prompt: outsider POV
---The meaning was clear: You allowed this.
Vanessa didn’t allow anything. Lucy did what she wanted, and in the end all her pushing only pushed her away. However, in her mother’s view it’s clear who’s to blame here, and it’s not her granddaughter because: Parents guide their children.
And Vanessa didn’t.
“Call her,” she said as she indicated for Vanessa to refill her tea, and she did, later in the car, because it is hard to tell her mother no. But the call went straight to voicemail, and she left it at that; she didn’t know what to say anyway. She later found out second-hand how Lucy was doing—from her sister and, ironically, her mother.
Now she can’t call, even though she did, irrationally, right after hanging up, the words ping-ponging around in her brain: “Your daughter has gone missing. It’s very likely she and her boyfriend have been abducted.”
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19 Jul 2026
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She's walking and talking like Lucy, most of the time. She's laughing and joking. But then, somehow there's an odd energy to her he doesn't think was there before.
Tim/Lucy, on reciprocity in all things.
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17 Apr 2026
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to me, to me by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Mar 2023
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When her stomach finally settles and she’s stopped dry heaving, he picks her up and carries her around to the passenger seat. The glovebox yields an old packet of Kleenex, and he wipes her face off for her while she does her best to help while she’s still uncoordinated from the drugs in her system. After an attempt at taking the tissue ends with her poking herself in the eye, he gently catches her hands and sets them on her lap.
“I’ve got it,” he tells her, and then she just closes her eyes and leans her head back.
He lets her rinse her mouth out and then take a few sips of water, and he waits to make sure it’ll stay down before he buckles her in and leans the seat back so she can sleep more if she wants.
“Happened?” She asks, eyes fluttering open through sheer stubbornness, but he just cups her clammy cheek and kisses her temple.
“I’ll tell you later,” he tells her.
Trusting him, she falls asleep once more.
(alternate ending in which joel tells ellie the truth, and they work it out from there)
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14 Mar 2023
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a half-step to the left by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 May 2023
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It’s not that Ellie means to stalk the couple she catches lurking in the shadows at 1 in the morning after sneaking out of her dorm because sitting in the room alone was making it hard to breathe, but fellow curfew-breakers can hardly expect privacy. All’s fair in love and rule-breaking or whatever their English teacher said in one of the rare classes when they were learning something not related to FEDRA policy.
And there’s something in the way the man holds his hand out to help pull the woman up over a crumbled brick wall that she just can’t look away from.
There’s a gentleness there despite his size and obvious strength that makes her breath catch for just a second. It’s too far for her to hear what they’re saying, but the woman says something with a little half-smile and presses her hand to the man’s shoulder, and the casual affection of the gesture fills her with a nameless want.
So, trailing them at a distance it is.
(AU in which Ellie follows Joel and Tess around and meets them with no Fireflies involved)
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- Part 1 of a half-step to the left
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07 Mar 2023
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You like to speak of responsibility– Of duty? Pray tell, what should you know of it?
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- Part 1 of Primogeniture
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29 Apr 2022