All those years ago, he was a husband and a father. After chaos, nothing was the same. But then, he began to soften...like ripened fruit growing sweeter in the presence of the sun. Cover Joel's past, present, and future. Discover the journey of his character development. Non-linear. JoelxEllie/JoelxTess. Revamped/Updated 2020.

Elijah Bennet has four brothers of varying sanity, two parents whom's lack of sanity cannot be debated, a sassy best friend who drinks a lot of wine and lives to be sarcastic, the girl who broke his heart's still hanging around, the girl who's heart he continually broke has returned, and last but not least...Darcy Williams. Who he hates. And who hates him, so she says.

"We've come a long way from where we began, Oh I'll tell you all about it when I see you again" She was the last person Joel expected to see. Joel/OC

Joel and Ellie moved in with Tommy's group in Jacksonville. Ellie has come to term with the fireflies and knows that Joel had to do what he had to do. But she realises that she may have some feelings for her old partner.

Fluff! When Sarah moves to California and leaves Miller Brothers Construction without a bookkeeper, Joel is stubborn enough to think he can take over for her. But even he realizes he needs a little help, which comes in the form of a continuing education class at a community college. He'd probably get a lot more work done in class if his young teacher wasn't so damn sexy...

After Sarah leaves for college, Tommy drags Joel out to a bar where he meets a girl who needs his help. Pure fluff, no dystopia, no infected, a story that answers the question: what would dating for Joel be like in the era of text messages and cell phones? As this is an alternate universe, I have taken authorial license with Ellie's timeline and age.