#relearning trust

Starting: 2026 Joel Miller x Female!Reader

The Summary: Twenty years ago, Joel Miller thought he lost you and his daughter that night in Texas. But real love doesn't die. When you cross paths again two decades later it's not about falling in love anymore, it's about learning to fall in love again, and again. No matter what the world takes from you.

Warnings: Violence, injury, and death (in line with TLOU world), Emotional Trauma/PTSD Themes, Grief & Loss (Major/Minor characters), Strong language and mature dialogue, Aging, survivors guild, moral ambiguity, slow burn romance, relearning trust, intimacy, love after trauma, mentions of past relationships, implied intimacy, gun violence, pre-post outbreak, post-outbreak combat, alcohol use, blood, minor injury care, emotional flashbacks, outbreak night, loss of loved ones.

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The Last Of Us Master List // Series Master List

ACT 1 (The Fall)

Austin, 2003

The Fire & The Run

The Road Spilts

Ghost Years

The Promise That Breaks

Act 2 (The Waiting)

What The World Took

Old Wounds, New Towns

Jackson, Wyoming

Familiar Eyes

You Don't Know Me Anymore

Act 3 (The Return)

The Things We Lost

What Comes After

Quiet Mornings

The Way He Looks At You

Fall In Love Again And Again (Finale)

Series - Fall In Love Again And Again

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Sneak peek: 

This can't be.

It's the same caramel blonde hair just much longer so that it hits the collar of his shirt. It's the same insane shoulder to waist ratio that Bucky has never seen on anyone before. It's the same eyes that watch Bucky intensely once he turns. Blue like a crystal clear lake. The same but yet so different. They look brighter and less haunted.

Bucky can feel on his skin, through all the layers how he takes him in, how he watches him and as it always has been, it makes the butterflies in his stomach fly.

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This was written as a sequel to my story Too much to take but it works as a standalone too.

You can find the story  here.

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Despite so much pain, only one man can literally turn Bucky inside out.

But  .  .  .  can their love be redeemed?