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Entry tags:lol fandom, zombiepocalypse

"Did you raise the dead?" "YES!" "But the car's okay?"

IT'S

A weekend fic(let) battle.

Hooray! The hour is upon us! The 'fest will run throughout this weekend, through midnight Monday. Really, you're welcome to post whenever, but your odds of being read are probably better this weekend than three months from now.

Post in the comments to this entry! Please make a note in the subject line of the prompt you're using, or at least the fandom, plus the overall rating of the fic(let). On that note, any rating you want is just fine, so long as it's clearly there.


Single Fandom
24: Chloe, she is not putting up with this

The 4400: Nina Jarvis/April Skouris, steel
The 4400: Tess Doerner/April Skouris, skin

Angel: Gunn/Anne; "this girl taught me everything I know"
Angel: Lilah, it had to be zombies
Angel: Gunn/Wes, withdrawal
Angel: Gunn/Cordy/Wesley, my brains are the prettiest

Baby-Sitters Club: any, Kid-Kit

Battlestar Galactica: Kara/Anders; "zombie frakkin' Cylons"
Battlestar Galactica: Kara/Leoben; "enemy of my enemy"
Battlestar Galactica: Kara/Leoben/Anders; "Centurions are great for barricading purposes"
Battlestar Galactica: Gaius Baltar, "is this real?"
Battlestar Galactica: Cally/Gaius, taking advantage
Battlestar Galactica: Cally/Kara, presents
Battlestar Galactica: Cally/Roslin, secrets

Bones: Zack, this is stranger than anything Hodgins could come up with

Boston Legal, Denny/Shirley/Alan/Denise/Brad/Paul/Claire/et al any combination so long as Denny is present and Alan says "I'll take the case."

Brothers & Sisters: McAllister, president
Brothers & Sisters: the Family Walker, stuck at the end of the world with you

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Anya, nightfall
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Giles; "someone always stumbles"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Ethan; "of all the people I had to get on my team"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dawn/Giles, acceptable losses
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles, research
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles & any scoobies, stupid prophesy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tara/Buffy, "I might have an idea."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy/Faith, "The world is ending and you want to WHAT??"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: ensemble, it takes an army
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow, Google was no help
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander, all those lost
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Amy Madison, all by myself
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Amanda/Vi, saccharine
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Molly/Dawn, aspertime
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Eve/Fred, memoranda

CSI: Greg, usually the dead bodies weren't alive

Dark Angel: Kendra/Original Cindy, we can do this
Dark Angel: Kendra/Max, the wrong place at the right time

Dawson's Creek: Pacey/Audrey, "I thought she was just tired!"

DCU: Kara Zor-El/Conner Kent, lavender Kryptonite
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Cassandra Sandsmark, "can we just hit things now?"
DCU: Anita Fite/Cassandra Sandsmark, "they're not my kind of zombie"
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Barbara Gordon, working with what we have
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Stephanie Brown, into the darkness
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Cassandra Cain, coconuts as weapons
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Zor-El, take off your clothes
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Pamela Isley, empathy
DCU: Kara Zor-El/Harley Quinn, nothing makes sense anymore

Dirt: The Sex Secrets of Celebrity Zombies

Doctor Who: Rose/Reinette, compassion
Doctor Who: Rose/Harriet Jones, foxhunting
Doctor Who: Rose/Ursula Blake, eyeglasses
Doctor Who: Rose/Nancy, comfort
Doctor Who: Harriet Jones/Ursula Blake, detection
Doctor Who: Reinette/Nancy, imperial
Doctor Who: Sarah Jane/Ace, education
Doctor Who: Ace/Susan, broomcloset
Doctor Who: Sarah Jane/Harriet Jones, sonic
Doctor Who: Reinette/Ursula, lipstick
Doctor Who: Nancy/Ursula, shock
Doctor Who: Susan/Sarah Jane, confusion
Doctor Who: Doctor/Jack, "I knew it." "I knew you'd say that."
Doctor Who: Doctor/Shakespeare, "Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

Due South: Stella/Ray K, zombies on Prom night
Due South: Fraser & Ray K, my partner's dietary changes
Due South: Fraser & Ray K (or F/K), "just because Dief's a zombie now doesn't mean he's not still very fond of you"
Due South: Elaine & Frannie, in case of emergency
Due South: consulate staff, fortifying

Ender's Game: Valentine/Peter, computers

Firefly: River/Saffron, playing games
Firefly: Mal/Kaylee, the needs of the moment
Firefly: River/Patience, horses
Firefly: River/Saffron, sanctuary
Firefly: River/Inara, fear
Firefly: River/Lenore, ressurection

Friday Night Lights: Tyra and Landry, "don't worry, I've seen this movie"

Gilmore Girls: Miss Patty, Taylor, and Kirk, survival of the fittest
Gilmore Girls: Lorelai/Christopher, family

Grey's Anatomy: Derek, the conflicts of being a neurosurgeon zombie
Grey's Anatomy: Izzie, baking
Grey's Anatomy: all of the interns, trapped in the on-call room.
Grey's Anatomy: Mark/whomever your heart desires, repopulate

Harry Potter: Snape/Harry, "Get down and stay down."
Harry Potter: Ginny/Draco, "need me to save you again, do you, Draco?"
Harry Potter: Ginny/Fleur or Fleur/Bill, curse-breaking
Harry Potter: Fleur/Bill, "you 'ogwarts students are useless when it comes to ze undead"

Heroes: Sylar, the more things change...
Heroes: Peter/Nathan, sacrifice(s)
Heroes: Peter/Nathan, "No more excuses, Nathan."
Heroes: Petrelli clan, whatever it takes
Heroes: Peter/Claire, hero worship
Heroes: Hiro/Ando, not like it is in the movies
Heroes: Peter/Claire/Nathan, noon

The Hitcher 2007: Grace, cost of living
The Hitcher 2007: ensemble (Grace, Jim, and Ryder), desperate times call for desperate measures
The Hitcher 2007: Grace, summer break
The Hitcher 2007: Grace and Ryder, "so he's not just my psycho stalker anymore, he's my UNDEAD psycho stalker"
The Hitcher 2007: Grace and Jim, my boyfriend's back
The Hitcher 2007: Grace and Ryder, eighteen-wheeler

House: ensemble, There's no cure for dead.

How I Met Your Mother: ensemble, at least it's not Sasquatch
How I Met Your Mother: Barney, always be prepared
How I Met Your Mother: cast, Barney Stinson: zombie hunter
How I Met Your Mother: Barney/Robin, shotgunning zombies is a lot like laser tag
How I Met Your Mother: Ted, worst blind date ever

Into the Woods: Cinderella/Rapunzel, the perils of a princess
Into the Woods: Cinderella/the Baker, necessity

Jericho: Johnston Green, bootmarks
Jericho: Mimi/Stan, headless chicken
Jericho: Jake, out of gas

Land of the Dead: Riley/Cholo, pre-movie. "We take the risk to bring in things people need. Not to make a few extra bucks selling liquor. You used to know that."

Lord of the Rings: Boromir/Faramir, "I'm just a messenger."
Lord of the Rings: Aragorn/Arwen, "you've still got that sword, right?"
Lord of the Rings: Aragorn/Arwen/Eowyn/Faramir, "how it's done in Rohan"
Lord of the Rings: Aragorn/Boromir/Arwen, "nothing's fallen off, so I cannot say that I see any problems here, Aragorn"

Marvel Zombies: Hank/T'Challa, need

Muppets: any, how felt digests

nip/tuck: Christian, is there nothing he won't do surgery on?

The Office, Phyllis and Karen, Vance Refrigeration

The Parent Trap: Annie/Hallie, together

Passions: Teresa/Ethan, another scene for the montage

Princess Diaries: Mia, movies

RPF (Actors): Liam Neeson/Anna Popplewell/William Moseley, "never thought I'd have to do this again"
RPF (Actors): Sean Bean/Sophia Bush, "macho trip aside, I know way more about cars than you, and we need to use this one"
RPF (Big Brother): ensemble, can a zombie win $500,000?
RPF (America's Next Top Model: any, "at least the girls are eating"
RPF (Fall Out Boy): pete/patrick, guitar strings
RPF (Panic! At the Disco): spencer/brendon, candle light
RPF: Joss Whedon/Summer Glau, running barefoot
RPF: Joss Whedon/Tina Majorino, shaved heads
RPF: Avril Lavigne, honky-tonking*
RPF: Pink, honky-tonking*
RPF (Actor): Patrick Dempsey, "They have to touch my hair to get to my brains!"
RPF (Actor): Kate Walsh/Katie Heigl, trapped in a bar
RPF (Actor): Katee Sackhoff, high heels
RPF: Summer Glau/Amy Acker, inexperience
RPF: Iyari Limon/Sarah Hagan, real life's not supposed to be like this

*honky-tonking, [info]pirateygoodness explains, for those not in the know, is the time-honoured technique of killing a zombie by hitting them about the head with a (preferably acoustic) guitar. It's AWESOME.

Roswell: Max, his sister is a what?

Runaways: Karolina/Nico, chance(s)
Runaways: Gertrude/Chase, good-bye(s)
Runaways: ensemble, "Okay, don't be mad but..."

Shakespeare (As You Like It): Rosalind/Celia, danger
Shakespeare (Taming of the Shrew): Kate/Bianca, discipline
Shakespeare (King Lear): Reagan/Cordelia, silence

Six Feet Under: David and the difficulties of keeping your brother in his grave

Star Trek DS9: Jadzia/Ezri, dessert
Star Trek DS9: Ezri/Keiko, science
Star Trek DS9: Kira/Damar, "Oh, any excuse, really."
Star Trek DS9: Winn/Dukat, "You aren't dead now, so stop complaining!"
Star Trek Voyager: Naomi/7, lieutenant
Star Trek Voyager: Janeway/Chakotay, "THIS is what it took?"

Supernatural: Sam/Dean, "When the forest burns along the road like God's eyes in my headlights...."
Supernatural: Mary/John, "just because we're dead doesn't mean we can't keep an eye on you boys just fine"
Supernatural: Missouri Mosely, chainsaw
Supernatural: Bobby Singer, beer
Supernatural: Sam and Dean, pillows
Supernatural: Sam or Sam/whoever you want, kitchen chair
Supernatural: Dean, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Supernatural: Dean/anyone, cellar

Ugly Betty: Marc and Amanda and how to be chic though dead

Veronica Mars, Wallace, some people are actually less scary as zombies
Veronica Mars, Mac, do smart brains taste better?
Veronica Mars, Keith, there's a new sheriff in town
Veronica Mars: Madison Sinclair/Cindy Mackenzie, bonds of hatred
Veronica Mars: Madison Sinclair/Gia Goosman, contest
Veronica Mars: Lauren Sinclair/Ryan Mackenzie, youthful indiscretion
Veronica Mars: Lauren Sinclair/Grace Manning, toothbrush
Veronica Mars: Gia Goodman/Veronica Mars, sleeping bag
Veronica Mars: Lizzy Manning/Meg Manning, laptop
Veronica Mars: Veronica/Parker, pillow
Veronica Mars: Madison/Parker, relief
Veronica Mars: Veronica Mars/Cindy Mackenzie/Madison Sinclair, anger
Veronica Mars: Lilly Kane/Madison Sinclair, cheerleader
Veronica Mars: Madison Sinclair/Cindy Mackenzie/Lilly Kane, television
Veronica Mars: Madison/Mac/Parker, lights out
Veronica Mars: Lilly Kane/Cindy Mackenzie, grace
Veronica Mars: Carrie Bishop/Madison Sinclair, Australia

The West Wing: Josh Lyman, this bill is never going to pass

Wicked: Elphaba/Nessarose, sorrow
Wicked: G(a)linda/Nessarose, socks

Winnie the Pooh: Pooh, brains instead of honey

X-Men: Kitty Pryde/Celeste Cuckoo, bomb shelter
X-Men: Celeste Cuckoo/Phoebe Cuckoo/Mindee Cuckoo, mind control
X-Men: Rachel Summers/Madelyne Prior, time bomb
X-Men: Kitty Pryde/any student, pedagogical ethics
X-Men: Kitty Pryde/Emma Frost, the importance of argument
X-Men: Scott Summers/Celeste Cuckoo, a very bad idea

X-Files, Mulder/Scully/Skinner, "It could always be worse."


Crossovers
Arrested Development/Princess Diaries: Grandmere & Lucille, "we're going to need far more vodka"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Buffy/Gunn; "the way it works in the movies"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel: Buffy/Fred; "makeshift stronghold"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/DCU: Rupert Giles/Kara Zor-El, training
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Stella Kowalski/Rupert Giles, break from the research
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Benton Fraser/Buffy Summers/Ray Kowalski, target practice
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Buffy Summers & Stella Kowalski, invisible scars
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Firefly: Amanda/River, calculus
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Peter or Buffy & Peter, prophetic dreams
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Claire, "You can kill vampires? Cool."
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Claire, the importance of good hygiene
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Claire, never underestimate a former cheerleader
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Faith/Jessica, hot chicks with super powers
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Wesley/Mohinder, finding a solution
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Dawn & Claire or Dawn/Claire, while the super heroes are away...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes: Buffy/Peter: Kicking heads solves any number of problems
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Hitcher 2007: Buffy/Grace, dealing with undead psychos
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Dawn Summers/Count von Count, understanding loss
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Dawn Summers/Scooter organizational structure
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Fred Burkle/Rizzo the Rat, pancakes
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Faith/Kermit, last hoorah
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Muppets: Rizzo the Rat/Amy Madison, before thee let the unclean thing crawl
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/RPF: Dawn Summers/Summer Glau, protection
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/RPF: Dawn Summers/Anna Popplewell, crossbows
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supernatural: Buffy/Dean, "is Joan Jett girlpowery enough for her highness?"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supernatural: Buffy/John, "can we talk about my Daddy Issues some other time?"
DCU/BSG: Kara Zor-El/Kara Thrace, frak frak frak
DCU/Sesame Street: Kara Zor-El/Supergrover, cape styles
DCU/X-Men: Kara Zor-El/Kitty Pryde, leadership
Doctor Who/Firefly: Saffron/Rose Tyler, deceit
Doctor Who/Firefly: Inara Serra/Mme. de Pompadour, hiding in a closet
Doctor Who/Heroes: Claire/Martha; "unkillable one goes in first"
Doctor Who/House: Martha/House; "medical impossibility"
Doctor Who/House: Martha/Foreman; "so your boss is a zombie"
Doctor Who/Indiana Jones: Martha/Indy(/Ten); "it's always something with you"
Doctor Who/A Room of One's Own: Martha Jones/Shakespeare's Sister, summer days
Due South/Princess Diaries: Lars & Ray K, weapons discussion
Due South/Princess Diaries: Mia & Diefenbaker, partners
Due South/Princess Diaries: any/all, the Genovian Royal Family's Canadian stronghold
The Hitcher 2007/Heroes: Grace/Claire, final girls
The Hitcher 2007/Angel: Grace/Gunn, "how fast does this truck go?"
The Hithcer 2007/Supernatural: Grace/Dean, "your car might be in danger"
Land Of The Dead/Supernatural: post-movie, Sam/Dean/Riley (gen or slash), A meeting at the river
Muppets/Dark Angel: Max/Miss Piggy, being a diva
Muppets/RPF: Gonzo the Great/Tina Majorino, playing it by ear
Muppets/RPF: Miss Piggy/Joss Whedon, you have some nerve
Muppets/RPF: Rizzo the Rat/Summer Glau, I worship at your feet
Muppets/RPF: Michelle Trachtenberg/Fozzie the Bear, shields
Muppets/RPF: Joss Whedon/Kermit the Frog, "lovers and dreamers and zombies"
Muppets/RPF: Amy Acker/Rizzo the Rat, ballistic missiles
Muppets/X-Men: Emma Frost/Miss Piggy, immovable object
Muppets/X-Men: Jean Grey/Kermit the Frog, it's now or never
Supernatural/Shaun Of The Dead: ensemble, "We're going to the Winchester!" "You're - wait, what?"
X-Men/RPF: Emma Frost/Tina Majorino, let me demonstrate
X-Men/RPF: Joss Whedon/Kitty Pryde, speaking truth to power
X-Men/RPF: Kitty Pryde/Tina Majorino, we are teh awesome
X-Men/RPF: Kitty Pryde/Summer Glau, let's do this

YAY ZOMBIEFIC! I am ridiculously sleepy, but first thing tomorrow, I'll be going crazy myself. Don't wait on me, though.

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[info]shadowkitty
2007-05-18 12:28 pm UTC (link)
Damn you you're making me want to write! I never want to write!

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[info]juleskicks
2007-05-18 02:37 pm UTC (link)
It's like a brain-melting virus, the power of zombiepocalypse fic.

braaaaaaaaaains

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[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 10:06 am UTC (link)
maybe I should have asked you whether my story counted before I comment-posted it.

I think it might just about. I mean, Jean Grey does rise from the dead, right?

Or have I missed something and only zombie 'pocalypses count? (big blue undead guy)

*eeps*

Uh, your turn now

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[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 10:10 am UTC (link)
*reads through jules's previous entries in search of clarification*

Why didn't you tell me it was zombies? It is not freaking obvious when your connection takes ages to download the image and your brain takes ages to download from sleep.

Bad pimp. No biscuit.

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[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 11:17 am UTC (link)
ta-da! zombies!

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Deja Vu (Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Hitcher 2007: Buffy/Grace, dealing with undead psychos)
[info]museumwindows
2007-05-18 06:46 pm UTC (link)
"You ever had a fight with your boyfriend so bad you just want to smack him?" Buffy asked, staring outside. "'Cuz if so, then I've got some good news for you."

"Yeah, whatever," Grace answered. They'd run here, and she was panting hard. "What the hell is going on out there?"

Buffy reached into her bag -- thank God she'd thought to grab it; her favorite hairbrush was in there too and she didn't want it all zombie-cootie-contaminated -- and retrieved an axe. She handed it, handle first, to Grace. "You're gonna want this. I didn't even know vampires could become zombies."

"What?" Grace asked, elbowing Buffy out of the way so she could look through the little window in the door. "Oh my god," she said.

"Yeah," Buffy said, pulling out the Scythe for herself. "Pretty much."

"Come on, girls, time's a-wasting." Angelus was smirking. John was just...lurking. And also smirking. Apocalypses tended to bring poetry out in Buffy. She was deep like that.

"I thought zombies were supposed to be..." Grace gestured helplessly, nearly chopping the door down as she did so. She stared at the axe, having apparently forgotten she had it.

"Well, I don't think they're supposed to be. Look, you wanna kill our psycho undead exes or not?"

"He's not my ex." Now Grace looked pissed off.

Buffy grinned. "Whatever," she said, and hefted the Scythe as Grace tried to mimic her stance. "Don't get mad at me just because your ex and mine teamed up."

"He's not my -- "

"Save it for your honey, honey. I'll clear a path, you get to the guns at the end of the corridor. Sound like a plan?"

Grace kissed her. Hard. There might've been tongue.

Buffy stared at her. Grace grinned. "He's not my ex," she said. "But I could use a shotgun."

Buffy considered this, and tilted her head. "I like you," she said, and kicked the door down.

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"Doctor Who"/"Firefly": Saffron/Rose Tyler, deceit. PG.
[info]catslash
2007-05-19 01:23 am UTC (link)
"What are you doing?" Rose Tyler swatted the other woman away, staring incredulously. Saffron scowled.

"Homophobia is so twenty-second century."

"It's not like that! Just I think we've got bigger problems right now than your libido!" The door was creaking ominously now with each blow that fell from the other side of it, and it wasn't that Rose was unfamiliar with desperate, last-ditch, no-hope situations. It was just that when she was in them, the Doctor was usually in them as well, or right outside them working to make them go away. But the last she'd seen of him was him hollering as she'd fallen out of that little spaceship, which had then flown away. She hardly discounted the probability that he was working on the problem from the ship, but, well. That was far away. Relatively speaking.

And the zombies were not.

"Right, then," she said, tightening her grip on the solid length of pipe in her right hand. She didn't continue, because what was there to say? Nice knowing you? Make sure to swing real hard? I bet getting eaten alive really hurts?

"Oh, for gods' sake," Saffron said. She grabbed Rose by the shoulders and swung her around to face Saffron, back to the door. "Here's a little something to remember me by."

Rose only heard the first few words, though; the rest were drowned out by the deafening crash of the roof being torn open. Both women looked up, agape.

The Firefly hovered just above them, with the Doctor and Captain Reynolds looking down through the open hatch. Each dropped a rope down, yelling something along the lines of, "Grab on!"

Not that they needed to be told. Rose grabbed the Doctor's rope and Saffron took the Captain's just as the door gave way, along with substantial chunks of the wall, and zombies came pouring in.

"GO, GO!" Captain Reynolds hollered. The ship began to rise, the women dangling from their ropes. Rose just had time to kick at a zombie with designs on her ankle and they were off, the remains of the small shed dwindling away behind them.

The men braced themselves and hauled their ropes up. Rose grabbed the Doctor's outstretched hand as soon as she was able and he launched himself backward, ending up with the both of them in a relieved pile on the floor. Rose smiled giddily down at the Doctor.

"You know, I've about had enough of these close calls. Of all the people in the universe, I'd think your timing would be a bit more comfortable."

"Yeah, but you're a lot happier to see me this way," he grinned, and she laughed and got to her feet.

The reunion a few feet away was rather less amicable. Saffron and Captain Reynolds were glaring at each other, each with the posture of one who couldn't decide whether to attack or prepare to be attacked.

"You were going to kiss her, weren't you?"

The Doctor glanced over at Rose. "What?"

"I think she's a little gay," Rose explained.

"If only," Captain Reynolds said darkly. To Saffron, "You've got that knockout juice on, haven't you?" Her silent glare was enough answer. "You were gonna knock that girl out and use her to distract 'em so you could escape."

"I'd be fool not to try."

"Wait, what?" Rose interrupted, but the Doctor was nodding along.

"Serum in the lipstick, right?" Saffron gave a surly assent and the Doctor grinned. "Fantastic."

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X-Men: Rachel Summers/Madelyne Prior, time bomb (rising from the dead counts, right?)
[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 10:03 am UTC (link)
Rachel's been making little trips like this for a while now.

She always picks her moment carefully.

When Kurt isn't doing something stupid, like diving off the top of the light-house or flirting with Megan. When Brian really can't find his Johnny Walker anywhere. When Meggan's watching that new soap-opera on the BBC and Kitty's joined her because she thinks she can learn something about British culture from it.

Kitty's already learnt some new cuss-words to use on Brian when he does find the whiskey.

So, here is she is, sitting in the clouds over Alaska.

She's very careful not to let the spikes of her suit - her slave suit, her hound suit, her suit - pierce the cotton-wool tufts. She doesn't want it to rain and give her away.

She's sitting over Anchorage, playing with her baby brother as his mind reaches out like questing fingers.

There are times she can kid herself that this universe is just a parallel where she was born a boy. Where Rachel is spelled C to the H to the R to the I to the S to the T to the O to the P to there H to the E to the R.

Brian muttered about parallel universes and a hundred thousand Captains Britain last time he was drunk. Rachel just figures his physicist's brain was trying to explain seeing double.

And that moment - the one when Rachel almost believes - is the one when the clouds always part. It's like karma is blowing them apart. Karma's a bitch.

Except for, you know, Karma who she heard about from Kate in the camps. Nobody knew what had happened to Karma until they'd invaded that building - the one with everything she needed to change the past - and walked through the room with the bottled brains. Kate went strangely silent when they passed one marked Ramsey; Rachel hadn't asked. Living in the X-Mansion with Magneto and the gang, she found out soon enough why. There was no sign of Karma.

Rachel pretends that she cannot hear Madeline's words in Christopher's mind.

She resists the temptation to twist them.

But, that's when it always falls apart. Like karma needs to remind her that she's in a universe where her mother and her father never married and settled down and made babies. Baby. Rachel. A universe where Rachel doesn't even get to meet her mother. Something about alien planets and unimaginable power that her friends don't quite manage to lock away in their thoughts. Charles Xavier had taught them to do that. That it doesn't quite work makes Rachel nervous.

She shouldn't hate Maddie. It's not her fault that she's the embodiment of everything Rachel wanted but could never have.

Rachel would like to think that she's a time-bomb about to blow up in Scott's face. Not Rachel's father's face. Never his face.

She remembers his fear when he first saw the hounds. It was delicious. It was just what her masters wanted.

And then something catches her mind's eye from Jamaica Bay.

Rachel smiles. The countdown has begun.

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X-Men: Rachel Summers/Madelyne Prior, time bomb (this time with zombies)
[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 10:55 am UTC (link)
Some things are like bad pennies. They keep on turning up.

Like people, who think that you're hosting an all-night party, for instance.

Or zombies, who think you're hosting an all-night brain party. Same difference.

Rachel knows the dead don't just rise. You need, bare minimum, telekinesis and a lot of concentration if you want to get the walk right.

Telekinisis could not account for this number of zombies. Plus, vocal chords are really hard to manipulate.

"Brains," they gurgle.

Kitty's turned intangiable and is ramsacking the light-house for anything useful. Like a sonic canon. Or a tub of zombie-be-gone.

Brian has some very strange friends; hence the not-parties.

Brian's dad was something in exotic weapons research, proving that Brian's ability to do things that bite him in the ass is genetic.

Brian didn't make the zombies; they're not interested in Brian's ass.

Not that it isn't a nice ass, it's just the rest of him.

Meggan started freaking out hours before the zombies arrived. Screaming "mummy" and her hair kept resculpting itself into something very Bride of Frankenstein.

Kurt had insisted everyone watch the Bride of Frankenstein a couple of weeks ago. Rachel isn't ruling it out as a cause.

Brian is punching a whole bunch of zombies in the brains.

Rachel floats out of their reach and tries again to establish any telepathic presence controlling these things. Any presence. Rachel doesn't think telepathy had anything to do with the rotting flesh and rampant hallitosis.

The zombies are trying to make a pyramid to reach her. They must have got fed up with chasing Kurt. Rachel doesn't want to think of the alternative.

Rachel floats a little higher and tries to balance her chakras.

There.

A patch of darkness.

Why don't bad pennies stay put? Even after your mother's kicked seven kinds of hell out of them and sucked off their phoenix force.

That sounds kinky. So not. It's just Rachel had been turned into a shop mannequin at the time and a demon was trying to marry her.

Rachel follows along, trying not to give herself away with the whole flaming-wings thing.

Good thing Maddy is pretty distracted trying to get some of her zombies to right the stones of Darkmoor. Brian says that the stone circle made him into Captain Britain. Rachel's more inclined to believe that it was a co-incidence, his twin Betsy's a mutant, right?

Rachel has nothing against provocative clothing but Maddy really looks a tramp.

Not Maddy, the Demon Queen, or something that looks very much like her.

Rachel isn't sure how to stop this. She's a telepath/telekinetic. She could either pick all the zombies up and dump them somewhere, call in a distress call to her dad, or blow their brains out and see if that slows them down.

It's not as if Kitty can't raise X-Factor if she gets this wrong.

Just not here. Maddy hasn't noticed her, but if she starts blowing brains out, she's going to be pretty obvious.

She quickly flies back to the light house and sits on the roof.

She measures her breaths, finds her centre, worms her way into Kurt and Brian's minds to check on the position of the rest of the zombies.

She counts down like a time-bomb ticking calmly, waiting to explode.

Then she feels the phoenix-force curled up in her belly and she lets it loose.

The results are pretty spectacular. Kurt finally slows down and starts picking chunks of decompossing brain out of his hair.

Rachel reels the power back in and feels for Maddy.

Nothing.

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Re: X-Men: Rachel Summers/Madelyne Prior, time bomb (this time with zombies)
[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 01:41 pm UTC (link)
Please don't tell me I hit the comment limit. Argh! I've just noticed that I've lost the punch line!

*cheats*


But she's a bad penny, she'll always turn up.

And Rachel will be waiting for her.

there, punchline!

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Benton Fraser/Buffy Summers/Ray Kowalski, target practice:
[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 12:18 pm UTC (link)
"They're just zombies," the blonde said, waving her hand dismissively, the hand with the huge freaking chunk of wood in.

Ray ducked. He didn't want to end up dust like those things that made his day one hundred and ten per cent more interesting.

His days were quite interesting enough with the Mountie in tow.

"It's not like they're smart or anything," she continued, "Back in Sunnydale, we have zombie jokes."

Ray can believe that, if every blonde California chick from Sunnydale can kick zombies' heads off; then he'd make zombie jokes too.

Why did the zombie stare at the orange juice? Because he was looking for brains

It doesn't quite work. Maybe that's what it is. Graveyard humour.

For reasons not to be explored at this juncture, Ray Kowalski is in a crypt with Fraser, Diefenbaker, an english professor type, a perky redhead, and a really trigger happy blonde monster killer.

Interesting doesn't even cover it.

Fraser's listening to the professor guy and the redhead talking about deactivation spells. She's getting some really strange shit out of her baby-pink back pack; so it looks like they're serious. Fraser is talking about shamanic rituals and skin walkers and asking whether they could adapt...

Dief's growling at the barred door. The scratching on the other side is really getting on Ray's nerves.

Ray stares at the blonde.

He's not going to ask the question.

"They'll break through eventually. Like I said, they're not smart. It's not like they're going to try the roof or windows or anything. They're just going to keep hitting the door until it breaks down."

Zombies. Maybe Ray will break down first.

She nods at his gun. "You know how to shoot that thing?"

Ray nods back, grinning like Diefenbaker with a purse snatcher.

"Neat. You need to get them between the eyes. If I've got my guns right, that's got about 10 rounds, right? I used to date this guy, and it was all about his gun..."

This is like going a hundred rounds with Frannie. Ray rolls his eyes.

The girl give the universal signal for "whatever".

"You're not going to have time to reload. Looks like we need to get some basic zombie-ed in, because I'm not letting you get all brain-crunchy-eaty on my watch."

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Buffy/RPF: Dawn/Anna Popplewell, crossbow
[info]alixtii
2007-05-19 01:32 pm UTC (link)
The Cold Truth

Anna cocks her crossbow, aims, and fires.

The zombie horde shambles forward unfazed.

"I really don't think this is the most effective weapon we could have," she notes as she loads another bolt and prepares to fire again.

Dawn just nods, frowning, as she surveys the situation. "Retreat," she orders. "We need to get to safety."

Anna just fires another ineffectual crossbow bolt. She doesn't want to give up, not yet. "But what about--?"

"There's nothing we can do to protect them if we're dead," Dawn answers. "If we can save ourselves, we can figure out a way to get to whatever was used to raise and control these zombies, and destroy it." Dawn's voice is cold and hard as steel, as always. This is what a world of magic brings, Anna knows now.

She liked the children's stories better. "And how many people are going to die in the meantime?"

"A whole lot," answers Dawn, looking down at her empty handgun and slipping it back into her purse. Dawn isn't above lying to her Slayers, but most of the time she is depressingly frank. Children--for Dawn isn't really all that much older than Anna herself--still play general to armies in the real world, but here they lose their innocence in the process.

"But a suicide run isn't going to save them either," Dawn continues. "Come on, run!"

And Anna was off, running, her Slayer strength pumping her legs to push her forward despite the hideous gash in her left leg, away from the force that threatened to consume not only her but the world, alongside the only woman in the world she trusted to be able to save the world, again, while people Anna could not save met a fate she could not prevent.

Susan had it easy.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Stella Kowalski/Rupert Giles, break from the research
[info]buzzylittleb
2007-05-19 01:44 pm UTC (link)
Giles threw his hands up in disgust. The city of Chicago was being stormed by the undead, and what would local law enforcement do? Nothing. He had thought that such an attitude was unique to Sunnydale, where the police were none-too-bright and very much interested in their own survival.

Here, however, he saw men frustrated that there was no law to cover such an eventuality, which, their commander explained limited them to crowd control and evacuations.

The attorney sitting on the man's - Lieutanant Welsh's - desk looked at him intently.

Her hair was the same blonde as Buffy's, but that was where the similarities ended.

I think I read that the Canadians outlawed participation in civic affairs by the dead in 1813.

"Man, those Candians," mused one of the detectives, a weasly man with a miasma of greese about him, "they have to think of everything."

The civilian aide turned on him, "Unlike you, nose-breather, I'm surprised you don't have a thinking brain dog or something."

As the Lieutenant tried to contain the argument, Giles and Ms Kowalski went through the surprisingly comprehensive collection of law books stashed with the Lieutenant's bowling trophies. A surprising number of them concerned Canada and Canadians.

Giles would have asked why everyone was so particularly interested, no, fascinated by Canada; but time was of the essense.

"There!" She stabbed one perfectly manicured finger into the page. Her skin had the faint indications of a wedding ring, but truly, Giles was not thinking of that at all. Or anything of the possibilities that might open to him.

"I might be missing something, but what help is a Canadian law?" Rupert had been so caught up in the frenzy of the search that he had not stopped to think.

"The solution is simple! We just cede the city to Canada."

How could Rupert not have thought of it? Maybe some zombies had fallen in the reservoir and infected the water.

This was the plan?

"Ms Kowalski, I know you have your ex on speed-dial. Tell him to get the Mountie here, five minutes ago. This city is becoming Canadian."

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Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Stella Kowalski/Rupert Giles, break from the research
[info]wal_lace
2007-05-21 05:48 pm UTC (link)
Best. Anti-zombie strategy. Ever.

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Re: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Due South: Stella Kowalski/Rupert Giles, break from the research - [info]buzzylittleb, 2007-05-23 08:37 pm UTC
The Bunk Bed Redemption (Grey's Anatomy: interns trapped in the on-call room, PG)
[info]ijemanja
2007-05-19 04:08 pm UTC (link)
"So," Meredith said. "I had a brain surgery with Derek on this afternoon. That's ironic or something, right?"

"No," Alex said.

"It is," George said, reaching up to pat the ankle hanging over the edge of the bunk. "Because you were going to be poking around in a patient's brain and now the patients are trying to... you know. Our brains."

The silence was broken by an occasional muffled moan and the scraping of disfigured limbs along linoleum.

"Dude," Alex said. "That was deep."

Izzie, squashed between the two boys because Cristina called top bunk for her and Meredith, kicked him. "Shut up, Alex."

The bunk beds were shoved across the door to ward against incursion. Izzie was still annoyed. She never used to be a bottom bunk girl.

"Shouldn't we do something?" she said. "Aren't we doctors who help people?"

"Doctors," Cristina said.

"Not Buffy the freaking Vampire Slayer," Meredith added.

"Those people didn't rise from the dead, it's like a virus or something. Which means it can be treated."

"We're going to synthesise viral antibodies in the on-call room?" George said gently.

"Uh, last I checked we were surgeons?" Cristina said, not so gently. "We don't cure diseases, we cut them out. Burn and purge. You want to treat the groaning masses out there, you should have gone medical."

"Or R&D," Meredith said.

Izzie ignored them. "We could crawl out through the air ducts or something."

"Except," George said, "Going out there at some point would most likely include meeting some of those... people. And we're still not action heroes. Called Buffy or otherwise."

"Speak for yourself," Alex said. "I could take 'em."

"I know what we can do," Cristina said brightly, "Why don't we vote Alex out of the room? All in favour?" Her head hung down suddenly, one arm outstretched. She took in Izzie and George's raised hands. "Hey, it's unanimous."

Alex made a face. "Bite me, Yang."

She made a face back, before moving out of sight.

"So we're going to what, just sit here?"

"Yes." Four voices, simultaneously.

Izzie sighed. She would have been up for crawling through some air ducts. Just, she wasn't going to do it by herself.

The door rattled behind them. A moan sounded nearer than the others.

"Someone'll be a hero, Iz," Meredith said. "Someone will save the day, they always do."

"That, or the government will nuke the place." No one spoke. Alex shrugged. "Don't you people watch movies?"

"Shut up, Alex," she said, but she grabbed his hand this time in favour of violence.

There was a blow, as if something was throwing itself at the door, and she took George's arm and put it over her shoulders.

"Are you two getting all touchy-feely up there, too?" Alex asked.

"No," said Cristina.

"Yes," said Meredith.

"Meredith is touching. I'm tolerating."

George said, "This could be the end of the world."

They all thought about that. The thumping grew louder.

Cristina spoke first. "I wish I'd gotten more surgeries."

"I wish I'd eaten more chocolate," Izzie said. "And carbs. I freaking love carbs."

"Should've had more sex," was George's contribution.

"Should've had less." Was Meredith's.

"Seriously?" Cristina asked.

"Well. No."

Another pause.

"Alex?" Izzie prompted.

"What? I have no regrets. Except maybe spending the last moments of my life with a bunch of pathetic, whining losers."

"I think somebody needs a hug," George said.

"This apocalypse sucks," Alex grumbled. "If we're really gonna die, the least we could do is get laid first."

Izzie disentangled herself and got up. "Come on."

Alex brightened. "Seriously?"

"What? Ew, no." She glared at him. Then at George, for good measure. "If we're going to die, then we're going to do it in the top bunk."

"Excuse me?" Cristina said as Izzie pulled herself up.

"Move it!" she ordered the boys.

They moved. Sometimes it was good to be the crazy one.

Once she was plastered against Meredith, with George smushed in the corner and Alex and Cristina jostling for position, she felt better.

This was how it should be.

The next blow was hard enough to rock the bunk beds forward a little. Something splintered.

"Someone better take off their shirt, is all I'm saying. Dude, elbow."

"Hey," Meredith said. She was squinting up at the ceiling. "Isn't that an air duct?"

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Re: The Bunk Bed Redemption (Grey's Anatomy: interns trapped in the on-call room, PG)
[info]wisdomeagle
2007-05-20 12:38 am UTC (link)
Heart. This is quite awesome.

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Re: The Bunk Bed Redemption (Grey's Anatomy: interns trapped in the on-call room, PG) - [info]ijemanja, 2007-05-21 05:44 am UTC
Re: The Bunk Bed Redemption (Grey's Anatomy: interns trapped in the on-call room, PG)
[info]fox1013
2007-05-21 04:15 am UTC (link)
Dude, this is AWESOME. For serious.

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Re: The Bunk Bed Redemption (Grey's Anatomy: interns trapped in the on-call room, PG) - [info]ijemanja, 2007-05-21 05:46 am UTC
Re: The Bunk Bed Redemption (Grey's Anatomy: interns trapped in the on-call room, PG) - [info]tornyourdress, 2007-05-21 10:11 am UTC
Re: The Bunk Bed Redemption (Grey's Anatomy: interns trapped in the on-call room, PG) - (Anonymous), 2007-06-12 09:56 am UTC
Re: Panic! At the Disco, Spencer/Brendon, candle light, PG-13 for zombies
[info]i_amthecosmos
2007-05-20 08:26 pm UTC (link)
"I'm saying it's not that bad." Brendon lit another candle and grinned at Spencer.

"Not so bad how? We're trapped in a cabin in the woods, which are filled with brain-eating zombies. I'd say this is pretty fucking bad." Spencer glared at Brendon, then went back to fingering his gun.

"Well, we had enough time to get supplies before the zombies made it this far. We've got tons of food, candles, and ammo. I think we'll be okay." Brendon took his place next to Spencer, watching. Jon and Ryan had finished their shift and were asleep.

"We'll run out of ammo before they run out of zombies, Bren. It's too bad we couldn't take over a mall." Spencer's mouth twitched in a half-grin.

"Yeah, because that worked out so well in Dawn." Brendon suddenly pressed forward and kissed Spencer. "I swear, Spence, it'll be okay. We'll make it." He looks up and nods at a shuffling figure coming towards the door. "Heads up, first visitor of the night. Cover me from the window."

Spencer just nods, and Brendon goes to the door, shotgun in hand.

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Re: Panic! At the Disco, Spencer/Brendon, candle light, PG-13 for zombies
[info]clumsygyrl
2007-05-20 08:42 pm UTC (link)
awww panic!in the cabin [with the undead]

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[Sonic] Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith/Harriet Jones
[info]marginalia
2007-05-20 11:08 pm UTC (link)
When it began, Sarah Jane chose not to panic. Zombies were nothing new to her, after all, and ones that spread the virus through staggering about and biting people were an improvement, really. At the very least, they were vastly more obvious than those who devoured brains through video games or highly sugared sodas, and they could be dispatched with the careful application of a cricket bat.

She knew better than to trust the government to deal with it in any sort of successful manner, however, and when Mr Smith alerted her to the Prime Minister's open message to the Doctor, she was far from surprised. The magic words ("I'm a friend of the Doctor") gave her entrance to 10 Downing Street, and no sooner had the aide left the room than she was outlining her plan.

"There's no way to contact him?" Harriet asked, twisting her hands around the handle of her own bat.

"We don't need him. We know what he'd do. He'd find the conveniently close headquarters of the brains, pardon the expression, behind the invasion. He'd talk a lot, and then he'd do something tricky with his screwdriver." Sarah Jane flicked open her lipstick -- "Why he couldn't give me a screwdriver too, I've no idea" -- and took Harriet's hand, pulling her towards the door. "We're not going to talk, so it's going to go much faster for us."

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Re: [Sonic] Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith/Harriet Jones
[info]mymatedave
2007-05-21 08:06 am UTC (link)
very cool

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Re: [Sonic] Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith/Harriet Jones - [info]marginalia, 2007-05-21 07:07 pm UTC
Re: [Sonic] Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith/Harriet Jones - [info]buzzylittleb, 2007-05-25 09:49 pm UTC
Re: [Sonic] Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith/Harriet Jones - [info]alixtii, 2007-05-26 02:02 am UTC
Re: [Sonic] Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith/Harriet Jones - [info]hermionesviolin, 2007-12-28 03:01 pm UTC
Re: [Sonic] Doctor Who: Sarah Jane Smith/Harriet Jones - [info]leviathan0999, 2008-01-31 08:26 pm UTC
One Last Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club: Claudia, Kristy, Kid-Kit, PG-13)
[info]j_crew_guy
2007-05-21 01:51 am UTC (link)
The Kid-Kit was nearly empty. They had stopped using it to entertain the kids weeks ago, deciding that the contents were better put to use in other ways.

Fortunately, none of the children has been bitten. (Except for Jackie Rodowsky. The undead got him when they first came and with his clumsiness, he was easy prey.) They each told each other that they were going to snap the next time one of the kids asked why they couldn't go outside and play.

The power no longer worked. The radio, which ran on batteries, was carefully rationed. Each day, they would let one of the kids take turns trying to tune in a station for an hour, but all they ever heard was static.

Kristy tried not to think of her family, and what might have happened to them. Claudia is grateful that Mimi was cremated., but worries about her parents and Janeane. Neither of them wants to think about what might have happened to their other friends. Their nerves are shot, there's no way to communicate with the outside and the moans of the undead around the house are constant.

Claudia does her best to keep the children entertained, trying to get them to work on art projects. They're allowed to draw and paint on the walls as long as they're not near windows. At first, the children were delighted by this. Now, despite Claudia's best efforts, she's more likely to hear cries of "I want my mommy!" or "I want my daddy!" than giggling, playing kids.

Kristy has done her part too, entertaining the children with games and songs, but she has retreated to one of the few rooms in the house left with a door. The bathroom. She looks around.

Kristy came in here to think, to try and come up with one last Great Idea. After some time, of trying to tune out the moans and the cries, she settles on one.

Three children, plus herself and Claudia. It looks like she and Claudia will have to flip a coin, but otherwise, there should be enough.

Kristy hopes that Claudia loses. She exits the bathroom and pulls Claudia aside. Before she tells Claud the plan, Kristy whsipers, "I'm sorry."

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Re: One Last Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club: Claudia, Kristy, Kid-Kit, PG-13)
[info]fox1013
2007-05-21 04:16 am UTC (link)
Man, this is dark. And creepy. And yet FABULOUS and completely BSC-y.

Awesome.

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Re: One Last Great Idea (Baby-Sitters Club: Claudia, Kristy, Kid-Kit, PG-13) - [info]marginalia, 2007-05-21 05:42 am UTC
[Three Lies of the Silver Screen] Heroes: Hiro/Ando, not like it is in the movies
[info]marginalia
2007-05-21 03:24 am UTC (link)
They've seen all the movies -- Ando still has some of them on his iPod -- but it's so different. It's not that they're not prepared; it's that they're over-prepared. They know all the rules, but the world isn't following them.

The world can be annoying that way.

First, it happens slower. They didn't wake up to a whole new city of horror. Hiro isn't wondering if it would have been better to have been bitten, and Ando doesn't have to decide if he needs to chop Hiro's head off. They're still just them, and they know it in the same way that they know Nathan Petrelli isn't himself anymore and to not get too close to certain store clerks. "Keep the change" is becoming a mantra.

Second, they can get away. Being trapped and vulnerable is the key to the horror. It doesn't work when half of your team has power over time and space. Just because they can get away, though, doesn't mean they will. "Heroes don't run," Hiro says, and Ando doesn't know why. He wasn't arguing. They came here to save the world, and no one promised that the threat wouldn't shift. Either way, brains are going missing and it's up to them to stop it.

Finally, neither of them are wearing a red shirt. They have a samurai sword, their intact brains, and each other. They'll make it through. They'll stop Sylar, they'll kill the zombies, and they'll save the world. Together.

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Re: [Three Lies of the Silver Screen] Heroes: Hiro/Ando, not like it is in the movies
[info]fox1013
2007-05-21 04:17 am UTC (link)
Ohhhhhh, Ando. And Hiro.

*heart breaks*

This is SO GOOD.

*sniffles*

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Wingman (How I Met Your Mother, ensemble, multiple prompts)
[info]fox1013
2007-05-21 04:06 am UTC (link)
"At least it's not Sasquatch," was the first thing your Uncle Marshall said when we all arrived at the bar.

Normally, your Aunt Lily's pretty accepting of everything your Uncle Marshall says, especially about Sasquatch, but I guess the hordes of the undead were getting to her by Day Sixteen of the infestation, because she snapped at him and said- well, it's not important what she said. Besides, I don't feel comfortable saying it to you kids right now.

Anyway, MacLaren's was starting to show signs of wear and tear. Half a dozen places on the wall had large, head-shaped dents in the plaster, and a few of the wood planks covering the long-since-broken windows were starting to fall away after the near-constant banging from the zombies, who- thank god- hadn't yet figured out how to turn a doorknob.

We were all sitting there, Lily and Marshall and me, when the air vent above us opened up and your uncle Barney slipped down, followed a moment later by your aunt Robin.

"How'd you guys do this time?" Lily asked.

"Seventeen!" Barney crowed.

"It's like playing laser tag against a bunch of twelve-year-olds," Robin agreed. "Zombie high five!"

She and Barney both made very slow, jerking movements towards the high-five position.

But after two beers apiece, they weren't in such high spirits. They had to break the news to us: All of the humans left in New York had to evacuate to a few centrally-located centers, where we'd all stay as safe as we could until the national guard could get the undead threat under control.

There was really no answer to that but more beer. (These were special circumstances, kids. If zombie hordes invade again, you can get drunk too, and I won't say a word.)

Three rounds later, we finally headed out through the air ducts and sewers to find our new home.

There weren't enough cots for everyone. Lily and Marshall shared one, obviously, but that left your aunt Robin and your uncle Barney and I, sitting side-by-side on a cot clearly meant for one person.

We all looked around, and we all zeroed in on the same stranger, a woman who was sitting on a cot by herself. Robin moved to stand up, but Barney put a hand on her shoulder.

"No," Barney said. "I got this."

He went up to the woman- pretty, dark hair, about a dozen bloody wounds that she had clearly gotten from the attacks- and said "Hi."

She said hi back, and looked at him suspiciously. His shirt was torn in several places, and his tie was almost undone, but he was, undeniably, suited up.

"Look," he said. "They're running low on beds here, and I couldn't help noticing you have a cot all to yourself."

"Yeah," she said. "Look, you're not exactly my type, so-"

"And I was wondering," he continued, and then he pulled me over before I even knew what was going on. "Have you met Ted?"

That was when I realized that Barney had decided to take his job as Apocalyptic Wingman seriously.

She eyed me for a while, and then said "No. I haven't." She smiled a little. "How'd you get that scar?"

"Oh, the zombies on 74th Street," I told her. "How'd you get your-"

"West 184th," she said. "It's okay, though. They're gone now."

We both smiled.

Barney, his goal accomplished, moved back over to steal some space on Robin's cot. I sat down next to this new woman, and we began talking.

And that, kids, is the story of how I met your mother.

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Re: Wingman (How I Met Your Mother, ensemble, multiple prompts)
[info]sluggirl
2007-05-21 04:45 am UTC (link)
I LOVE THIS. AND YOU. OMG.

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Secrets: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supernatural: Buffy/John, "can we talk about my Daddy Issues..."
[info]juleskicks
2007-05-21 04:32 am UTC (link)
"You had this the whole time?" he asked.

The guilt was, if she was honest, tearing her apart inside. Much as it had been for the past three weeks, as they were driving across the country and she'd had the prophecy stuffed in her pocket. "I made a promise," she said. Because guilt or no, seriously, who was he to get all high and mighty? "And you're not one of my people."

John stared at her a little longer, and then laughed. It wasn't a nice laugh. "Of course," he said. "But Daddy out there is."

"Giles, and yeah, actually, because hi, I've known him for about nine years now and I've known you, what..." She makes a show of checking her watch, which is bitchy, but she doesn't care. "Oh, that's right, four weeks. I should trust you why?"

She remembered her dream then, and didn't know why until she saw something flash at his collar. "Oh my god," she said, and reached for his shirt.

"Not here," he said, smirking.

"You wish," Buffy snapped, already grabbing the chain. "Oh my god, you had this the whole time?" She could even ignore the flashing of the amulet -- not easy, because god, tacky much? -- because she was so busy glaring at John. "And yet you were getting all high and mighty with me?"

John shrugged, unfastening the chain and handing her the amulet. "You're not one of my people," he said.

They glared at each other. Buffy was kind of aware of how close together they were. And also that she needed to work off some energy, and that he hadn't shaved in a couple of days.

Giles cleared his throat in the doorway, and they both turned to look at him. One look at his eyes and Buffy had to look away, because he looked kind of -- like he knew exactly what was going on. "It sounds," was all Giles said, "as though the two of you have a bit of explaining to do. I'd very much like to hear it."

"Yeah," she said, at the same time that John said the same thing. They looked at each other, and when he smiled, she felt a little better, suddenly.

Maybe this could work.

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Re: Secrets: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supernatural: Buffy/John, "can we talk about my Daddy Issues..
[info]heather13
2007-06-01 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Buffy and John? Yes, please.

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[info]irishmizzy
2007-05-21 05:27 pm UTC (link)
Maybe I flailed a little at that last line, because it is the BEST.

And oh, Barney, suiting up during the apocalypse. Never change.

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From Eroica With Love, PG-13
[info]mosellegreen
2007-06-22 04:02 am UTC (link)
I don't know if you even follow this fandom, but nonetheless, it is a zombie fanfic.

Like It's The End Of The World

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