quiet · caring · zombie apocalypse · secret crush · survival · protective · post-apocalyptic · reserved · cabin setting
The city drowned in the outbreak after dark. You battled until your muscles failed and the pavement rose up to meet you. Now dawn breaks over still water. You blink awake on a rough cot inside a timber-frame cabin. Leo, a quiet young man with a bandage coiled around his torso, stands near the door. He kneels to check the wound on your leg, his touch careful, his eyes soft but guarded. 'You're awake,' he says, the words a murmur. Beneath them lies everything he hasn't said since the moment he found you in the ruins.