#fic: covermeup

[almostfoxglove]

COVER ME UP

Rating: Explicit (18+ only)

Pairing: Joel x f!Reader OC

Status: Complete (97k words)

SUMMARY: After you spare the lives of two kids who break into your isolated cabin in the woods, they lead you back to their settlement. You intend to get in, trade for valuable supplies, and get out, but end up staying. Four years later, you're a solitary but respected pillar of Jackson's close-knit community when Joel Miller shows up, kid in tow. You think nothing of him or the kid. You like your quiet life. Too bad it won't stay quiet for long. Or: Joel and Ellie make you human again.

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chapter one | chapter two | chapter three | chapter four chapter five | chapter six | chapter seven | chapter eight chapter nine | chapter ten | chapter eleven | chapter twelve chapter thirteen | chapter fourteen | chapter fifteen | chapter sixteen chapter seventeen | chapter eighteen | chapter nineteen | chapter twenty chapter twenty-one | chapter twenty-two | chapter twenty-three chapter twenty-four | chapter twenty-five | chapter twenty-six chapter twenty-seven. (new!)

CW: Description of and reference to canon-typical violence, gore, illness, and body horror. Descriptions of / mention of panic attacks. Explicit smut, allusions to smut. Reference to pregnancy (NOT reader), childbirth (NOT reader), the death of a child, and the death of a sibling.

[almostfoxglove]

COVER ME UP: the final chapter

Rating: Explicit (18+ only)

Pairing: Joel x f!Reader OC

CW: Canon-typical violence, gore, injury, and body horror. Smut. Reference to the death of a child and the death of a sibling. Individual chapters all have warnings.

SERIES SUMMARY: After you spare the lives of two kids who break into your isolated cabin in the woods, they lead you back to their settlement. You intend to get in, trade for valuable supplies, and get out, but end up staying. Four years later, you're a solitary but respected pillar of Jackson's close-knit community when Joel Miller shows up, kid in tow. You think nothing of him or the kid. You like your quiet life. Too bad it won't stay quiet for long. Or: Joel and Ellie make you human again.

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the final chapter is coming august 29th!

dividers by @saradika-graphics - find a SNEAK PEEK, tag list & some mutuals below the cut!

SNEAK PEEK

You dip your canteen in the river, sunlight bouncing from the water in silver petals. A yellowed leaf tendrils lazily from above, shed by a branch in the shelter of trees that has lost their green, and lands in the stream to be swept away. Behind you Joel chuckles, and you swear you can hear the dimple in his cheek. That real, whole smile.  “I’m serious,” you say, laughing. “Can’t picture it,” Joel says. With a practiced flick, you screw the cap back onto your canteen and stand to turn around, looking down at Joel where he sits on a stump by the riverbank. “I wasn’t raised by wolves,” you snark.  Dappled light patterning his flannel, forearms licked by dirt, Joel shrugs as if to say could’a fooled me, and you roll your eyes, slumping onto the moss-sponged ground beside him to dig in your pack. He moves his knee to press against your arm: a quiet offering. “Shut up,” you mutter. 

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[almostfoxglove]

COVER ME UP: THE FINALE

chapter twenty-seven: SISTER

Rating: Explicit (18+ only) | Pairing: Joel x f!Reader OC | Word Count: 9.1k CW: Descriptions of canon-typical violence, gore, and injury. Brief reference to smut (piv). Description of and reference to and the death of a sibling and the death of a child. Discussions of death.

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CHAPTER SUMMARY: Your sister watches you as the years paddle by.

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dividers by @saradika-graphics - tag list & some mutuals below!

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[almostfoxglove]

❤️‍🩹 wip wednesday

ty for the tag @evolnoomym !!

hi pals. the final chapter of cover me up coming at you this week, here's a PEEK of our finale, titled SISTER - which, well. is told from the perspective of our sweet little ghost, Merry, of course. her memory isn't what it used to be, but we might get a special appearance from another girl we love? perhaps? hm!

I'm popping under the cut since it is the last chapter. so SPOILERS BELOW! (but not any big plot ones, I don't think.)

npt: @joelsgreys @guiltyasdave @burntheedges @clawdee @maggiemayhemnj and anyone else who wants to share! tag me, so I can gush? <3

[almostfoxglove]

COVER ME UP

chapter twenty-six: MINE

Rating: Explicit (18+ only)

Central Relationship: Joel / Reader OC

Word Count: 5.3k

You and Joel find each other again. CW: Smut, cockwarming. Reference to canon-typical violence, injury, the death of a child, and the death of a sibling.

SNEAK PEEK

"Need another, darlin’," he growls, and with one fluid motion tugs your tank top up and over your head, tossing it across the room. Now bared to him, you keen in his lap, sink all the way down on his girth, rewarded when he throbs inside you and your clit drags against him. Joel licks at the spot he’s nipped at before trailing, dragging his stubbled chin harsh across your chest as he lifts your breast to his mouth.  Your cheek falls against the crown of his head while he circles your nipple with the dart of his tongue, sending a parade of goosebumps across your flesh. "Can’t," you sigh, and chuckle breathily. You grind your hips down again and the hand on your hip tightens. "Too fucked to come," he teases, voice whispered and muffled against your chest. He pinches your nipple gently, testing you, and you twitch, dizzy. "Can’t have that."

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if you'd like to be taken off this list, pls don't be shy, just let me know <3

@thethirstwivesclub @la-vie-est-une-fleur29 @hediondoamor-blog @goodgirlwannabe @heartstoptrying

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[almostfoxglove]

okay i am so sorry to the lovely ao3 reader who bookmarked my fic for sharing the screenshot of your bookmark tags but they made me CACKLE

AUTHOR TOOK ME OUT BACK AND SHOT ME LIKE A DOG/POS IS ACTUALLY CRAZY like I'm gonna lose it that's so fucking funny thank you so much for this oh my god

[almostfoxglove]

you should be incredibly proud of yourself for finishing cover me up queenie

AH this is so sweet, thank you so much anon!! <3 I feel very grateful to have finally finished it - I put it off for a long time so feels good to know it's done and out there at last, and our lovebirds can be at peace (ALIVE! VERY ALIVE! NOT AT PEACE AS IN DEAD! SO ALIVE!) :,)

you're a sweetheart for this. sending you a big ol hug <3

[almostfoxglove]

y'all I think I'm gonna have the cover me up finale ready this week and tell me why I've made myself cry twice already? like this fic ends happily. so???? WHY.

[almostfoxglove]

editing the end of this chapter of cover me up is makin me teary-eyed oh nO

[almostfoxglove]

me: wow i can't believe i'm almost done cover me up i am so sad to end it

two chapters from the end: what if... we did... a tiny bit more angst... as a treat...

hope ya'll are okay with a little more pining lmao

[almostfoxglove]

This is asking for a lot, especially since you’re already sharing so much of your work for free so sorry about this but I’m on chapter 14 of Cover Me Up and Celeste’s all yearning and hot but shy for Joel and she thinks how it’s like she’s twenty again. And they got me thinking . . .

Would you ever write a short little something where and how Celeste and Joel would meet in a no outbreak world?

-Pep

oh my gosh this is so SWEET ahhhhhh :,) THE THOUGHT OF THEM MEETING IN A NO OUTBREAK WORLD MAKES ME WANNA SOB. can you imagine :,) how much less traumatized :,) they would be :,) holy shit :,)

I honestly love this idea. @justagalwhowrites has done this with her fic Yearling (cannot recommend enough, both the original and the no-outbreak au) and honestly it just TORE ME UP AND PUT ME BACK TOGETHER IN THE BEST WAY

which is to say I would LOVE TO. I'm not sure when I would have it out / ready - I'll need to let this simmer until the right thing comes to me, but YES! yes to this. thank you so so much for suggesting / requesting this <3 the fact that anyone would wanna read more of them beyond this fic could actually make me sob it's so nice. AH

[almostfoxglove]

How could you?? And if we get something from Sarah’s perspective?

yeah girl I am not reading that last chapter. Id like to not sob my eyes out over your beautiful writing k?

-pep

pep trust and believe I was cryin a little last night working on it :,) why am I like this? idk! but apparently even when I knew this fic was gonna have a happy ending I couldn't resist also making it soo angsty. LMAO! unfortunately we won't get sarah's pov in this fic, but she might pop up in the chapter here and there <3

but I hope there will be lots of good feelings with it too! but bittersweet, for sure. anything less wouldn't feel right. cel and joel have been through so much and lost too much for it all to be roses, ya know?

really sorry in advance :,) <3

[almostfoxglove]

Sooooooo

That picture of Celeste/Celestes haircut?

-pep

OKAY YES! gonna put it under the cut in case someone doesn't want their immersion ruined - but this is sorta what I imagine her hair to look like - this amount of gray (though the rest of the color could be anything imo), the length closer to the photo on the left when she needs another trim, but a texture / curl pattern somewhere in between the two, if that makes sense. and obviously not so pretty/styled 'cause it's the end of the world lmao.

this woman is not what I picture her to look like at all (she's gorg though!) - but the hair!! the haiiiirrrr!!

[almostfoxglove]

so some lovely people have been reading through cover me up for the first time and anytime I see comments in the chapter 15-17 range I go hehehe and then they get to chapter 18 and I just.... wait... for them to get to 19 like.... 😳😳😳

[almostfoxglove]

is the next chapter of cover me up in the works? no pressure at all but i just love that series!

oh bless your heart you're so sweet to ask!! cover me up has such a special place in my heart so I'm honored someone's waitin for the next chapter :,,)

it is next on my to do list!! I've started the next chapter, but it opens with smut so it's takin me a minute to get right, but I hope it'll be worth the wait in the end <3 tysm for sending this honestly it is motivating my slowpoke ass to get goin!