A Stranger's Heart Without A Home Masterlist

a stranger's heart without a home masterlist

Pairing: rivals to friends with benefits Joel x F!Reader, Post-Outbreak

Fic Summary: Sleeping with Joel Miller was supposed to be a one time thing. When the older brother of your closest friend showed up in Jackson, you hadn't expected him to stay more than a day. You'd both given into a brief moment of passion before he left, and that was the end of that. It didn't matter, you were never going to see him again. Then Joel returns a few months later, and screws up everything about the comforting life you had established in Jackson.

Fic Tags: One Night Stands, Rivals into Friends with Benefits, Emotional Slow Burn (really slow), Eventual Romance, Mutual Pining Idiots, Angst & Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Found Family (lots of Tommy & Reader and Dina & Reader friendships), Long Chapters

Fic Warnings: Explicit Smut (18+ MDNI), Language, Canon-Typical Violence, Alcohol Use, Age Difference (Reader around 30, Joel 56) Themes of Grief/PTSD/Depression with mentions of death (family members, both Reader and Joel) that can be heavy at times, Specific Warnings in each Chapter

Status: Complete

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official art by @cynibuns

chapter 1: I am not the only traveler

chapter 2: the holidays linger like bad perfume

chapter 3: do I wanna know if this feeling flows both ways (18+ Smut)

chapter 4: there it is again, that funny feeling

chapter 5: break the silence; damn the dark, damn the light

chapter 6: and I'll never see you again if I can help it (18+ Smut)

chapter 7: look at us, you and I, back at it again (18+ Smut)

chapter 8: maybe I don't quite know what to say, but I'm here in your doorway

chapter 9: I thought that you’d be here by now (18+ Smut)

chapter 10: can the killer in me tame the fire in you?

chapter 11: this slope is treacherous, this path is reckless (18+ Smut)

chapter 12: you take what you get, and you turn it into honesty

chapter 13: burned out flames should never reignite, but I thought you might take me home (18+ Smut)

chapter 14: he built a fire just to keep me warm

chapter 15: speak to me until your history’s no mystery to me

chapter 16: and it feels good to be known so well (18+ Smut)

chapter 17: baby, it's Halloween, and we can be anything (18+ Smut)

chapter 18: yes, I'll admit that I'm a fool for you (18+ Smut)

chapter 19: either I'm careless or I wanna get caught (18+ Smut)

chapter 20: with your boots beneath my bed; forever is the sweetest con (18+ Smut)

epilogue

morning after chapter 20

waking up to oral (18+ Smut)

lingerie & breeding kink (18+ Smut)

kissing scars

chapter 13 sneak peek (Jealous!Joel's POV Date Scene)

chapter 13 scene (Jealous!Joel Smut after Date 18+)

chapter 13 cut endings (Angst af)

chapter 14 sneak peek (Reflection Joel's POV)

chapter 15 sneak peek (Totally Casual Drinks Between Friends)

chapter 16 sneak peek (Dina and Ellie Plan)

chapter 17 sneak peek (The Dance)

chapter 18 sneak peek (Joel Pines for You)

chapter 18 secret scene (Tommy finally fucking figures it out)

chapter 19 sneak peek (Tommy and Reader)

fic playlist

MC playlist

Taylor-coded MC playlist (for my fellow Swifties!)

Joel POV playlist

The Art of Failing [masterlist]

Werewolf!Joel Miller x F!Reader, Vampire!Din Djarin x F!Reader

Warnings: violence and mild gore, mentions of blood and injures, reader is described as active and able to fight, eventual smut, loss of a child, angst to fluff, more warnings to come based on individual chapters

Summary: The Division of Mythological Affairs was created to protect and serve the supernatural community while keeping the knowledge of their existence a secret. You hoped to become an Agent of the DMA like your mother before you. Just as your dream begins to fall apart at the seams, you stumble across a missing persons report that could change everything. You are desperate to solve the case, to prove your ability, and you find yourself with unlikely allies⏤ a werewolf running from his pack and a vampire shunned from his coven. The stakes are high, lives are at risk, and success hinges on the three of you learning to work together.

[a/n: this FIVE part series is in celebration of October! I'll update this post with the chapters as we go. Want notifications on my updates? Follow @theidiotupdates 💜 Wanna buy me a cup of coffee? Click here. ]

updates scheduled for 8PM EST, unless otherwise announced

MIDDAY MADNESS

DANGER AT DUSK

FIVE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

THE WITCHING HOUR [10/25/2023]

DAWN OF A NEW DAY [10/31/2023]

Oof my heart 💓

i found | masterlist

>>  teaser [1, 2] || part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15, part 16, part 17, part 18, part 19, part 20, part 21, part 22, part 23, part 24, part 25, part 26, part 27, part 28, part 29, part 30, part 31, part 32, part 33, part 34, part 35, part 36, part 37, part 38, part 39, part 40, part 41, part 42, part 43/final, epilogue

playlist

taehyung headcanons

yoongi headcanons

cute ♡

Joel Miller Masterlist

series

Of Saints and Sinners - completed

Apothecary - ongoing

June - ongoing

Only Lovers Left Alive

oneshots

I've Got You

Sweetness

A High Price

Make it Better

Easy, Cowboy

Unexpected Expectings

Baby Blue - a continuation of Sweetness

We'll Be Expecting You - a continuation of Unexpected Expectings

Not What You Expected - a continuation of Unexpected Expectings

In a Pinch (Sweetness Universe)

Nothing to Hide

The Hayloft

requests

A Big Break

Talking Shop (Unexpected Expectings universe)

Big Fan

Big Fan - Part Two

Spring Foals

Splash

All Yours

Pieces of Our Path

Menace

Cold As Ice

Ride It

Let's Take a Ride - a continuation of Ride It

Looking

High Expectations (Unexpected Expectings universe)

Good

Better Off - a continuation of Looking

Unmet Expectations (Unexpected Expectings universe)

Untitled [drunk!joel begs his woman for another baby] (Unexpected Expectings Universe

An Unexpected Addition (Unexpected Expectings universe)

Jealousy, Jealousy

Favorite Part

What a Ride

Birds of a Feather

Unexpected Circumstances (Unexpected Expectings Universe)

Summer Lovin

WORKS IN PROGRESS

miss me in your bones (cw: age difference)

pairing: no outbreak!joel miller/female reader

rating: explicit (18+ MDNI)

chapters: 2/?

summary:

When Joel Miller started his own contracting business, he didn’t expect all the administrative tasks that came with it. As a result, his budding business is in desperate need of help.

Good thing his best friend’s daughter is home for the summer from college. And sure, he’s always been attracted to you, but he can keep that under control.

It’s just one summer, right?

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