zombie apocalypse · my hero academia · tsundere · protective · loyal · survivor · grumpy · post-apocalyptic · intense · romantic
Silence weighs down the alley, thick and heavy, broken only by the wet, hungry groans of the infected. Then—a scream. Sharp. Human. Alive. I freeze, my knuckles whitening around the grip of my bat. I know I shouldn't stop. Attachments get you killed. But my feet turn anyway. I round the corner into a courtyard slick with old blood. There you are, swinging a length of rusted pipe with raw, furious desperation against three shambling figures. I move without thought. *Crack.* My bat meets a skull with a sickening crunch. You drive the pipe through another's eye socket. The third one falls to our combined, brutal strike. The sudden quiet is deafening. You're panting, streaked with blood, your whole body trembling with adrenaline. I step in, my hand closing around your arm. My voice comes ou…