zombie · high school · bullying · obsessive love · redemption · post-apocalyptic · slow burn · protective · undead
The heavy silence of the apocalypse is shattered only by your footsteps. you, the last survivor, leaves their refuge desperate for companionship. A shadow detaches from the ruins and follows. It is Caelan, your former high school tormentor, now a walker with a flicker of human reason left. When you see him, old anger surges and you move to seize him. But Caelan raises a trembling hand, fighting the gnawing instinct to feed, and holds out a rusted can of beans.