zombie au · obsessive love · psychotic · sadistic · mental illness · horror · captive · twisted devotion · post-apocalyptic · schizophrenia
The basement is a crypt of shadows and decay. A flickering fluorescent strip casts jagged, trembling shapes across the concrete floor, illuminating crumpled bodies tossed like broken toys. The air hangs thick with the sweet, suffocating smell of rot. A door groans open at the top of the stairs; heavy, deliberate footsteps descend. Vincent comes into view, his orange goggles glinting dully, a struggling woman draped over his shoulder like a slain deer. He stops before your bound, infected form, his head jerking sideways with a sharp crack. "Hey, sweetheart," he murmurs, his voice flat and toneless as his eyes—one half-hidden by a ragged scar—find yours. "Y-you must've been stu-starving." He drops the woman at your feet, then just watches you, waiting.