Fic: Watch the Fall of Humanity (11/12)
Title: Watch the Fall of Humanity - Chapter 11 (Aftermath)
Author:
mirrored_illusions aka
3am_moonlight
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Rimfrost - Trude Brænne Larssen (Books), The Walking Dead (TV)
Rating: Teen & Up.
Timeline: Pre-season one/season one of TWD, about a decade post-BtVS, centuries post-Rimfrost.
Characters: Buffy Summers, Rime Kvitrev, Andrea Harrison, Glenn Rhee, Daryl Dixon, misc. TWD characters.
Pairing: Implied Rick/Lori and Shane/Lori, and implied Buffy/Daryl UST if you want to squint that way.
WC: 13, 840 / Complete.
Disclaimer: BtVS belongs to Joss Whedon, Rimfrost is the property of TBL, and TWD belongs to whoever holds the copyright. None of the above is yours truly, unfortunately.
Warnings: It's a zombie apocalypse, people. Killing of zombies, death of infected humans, etc.
Author's notes: Not beta read. Sorry.
Other links: AO3 | FF | TtH | WDFF
A/N: This is written for the 2016 Fic-A-Day Challenge over at TwistedShorts on LJ / TtHFanfic.org.
A/N 2: I'm finally reposting this fic to DW and LJ; it only took two months! Oops?
Summary: Buffy and her friend Rime are in Atlanta when the walking dead first rise and start eating people. Two months later they are still there, but then they meet some survivors from a camp outside the city.
When all was said and done it had turned out that their little group of survivors had been reduced from 35 to 15. Among the dead after walker ambush were Merle, Daryl’s older brother, and Ed, Carol’s husband and Sophia’s father. The day after the ambush Morales and his wife, Miranda, decided to take their chances on the road and drove off with their two children to try and find some of their relatives.
Over half of their group had ended up dead because there had been no real leader and no one besides Buffy had even tried to teach anyone self-defense, and then with the Morales family leaving their little community were floundering. This was when Buffy decided to step up and take over leadership before someone else got the same idea. Shane was too unstable to lead anyone, including himself, as his obsession with Lori grew and he let his responsibilities to the group slip by the wayside. Rick wasn’t ruthless enough to be at the top of the food chain at this point, and so far seemed unwilling to make the harsh decisions that needed to be made in order for them to get by.
Still, she had learned from her mistakes in Sunnydale and she had also learned from some lesser mistakes afterwards while they were trying to remake and rebuild the ICW, so she made her own little ‘council’ consisting of the ones who had actual survival skills; meaning herself, Rime, Daryl, Rick, and Andrea. Buffy was a natural leader and an incredibly strong fighter; Rime had over a millennium's worth of healing and medical skills, although the group believed her to be a young looking newly graduated doctor; Daryl could track, hunt, and fight, including extensive experience with a crossbow; Andrea, and to a lesser degree Amy, knew how to fish; and Rick was just a leader type.
It wouldn’t be easy to lead them this way, but compromises were a way of life no matter how you looked at it. Although if she was completely honest with herself then she only allowed Andrea on board so she wouldn’t put up a stink for being left out. The woman had some serious inferiority issues, and an odd need to prove herself to be one of the ‘boys’. Rick was only a member because she suspected it would split the group if she didn’t allow it. Lori would take her husband’s side, and who knew who else might side with them.
She was pretty certain that Glenn, Andrea, Amy, T-Dog, and Daryl would side with her when it came to who should lead the group, and she also believed that they would side with her regarding the decision to make sure everyone learned at the very least the basic skills needed to survive in this new world. Dale could go either way because of his pacifistic views, but Carol seemed likely to follow Daryl.
When they left the Quarry Camp they had driven off in five vehicles; Buffy’s Jeep, which she drove and had Rime and Jacqui as passengers; Rick drove a station wagon with Lori and Carl as the passengers; Dale drove his RV with Glenn in the passenger seat and Andrea and Amy in the back; Shane drove a Jeep by himself; and Daryl drove a motorcycle.
On the 63rd day after the outbreak they arrived at the CDC hoping there would be someone there who had answers. A cure. A plan. Something. However they had been disappointed; the only person left in the entire building was a Dr. Jenner who was rather unhelpful in that regard. He did however allow them to eat, shower, and stay the night. All of which had been greeted with great enthusiasm; none of them had had a shower in longer than any of them wanted to think about. In truth Buffy had appreciated the shower more than she had appreciated the food and even the coffee.
According to Dr. Jenner there was no cure, he was the only scientist left at the CDC, and he had lost contact with the outside world sometime before they arrived. In the end they’d had to break themselves out of the building as it had gone into lockdown in preparation for an in-built self-destruction program. Closed and heavily armed doors, even the enhanced ones secure buildings like the CDC had, was no match for a Slayer. Even among the panic it had caused a lot of staring when she simply hit the reinforced window a couple of times before it shattered into a thousand pieces.
This time they managed to get away from the disaster with only one voluntary loss, as Jacqui chose to stay behind with Dr. Edwin Jenner as the Center for Disease Control was destroyed for safety reasons as decided pre-apocalypse by whoever decided those things.
The day after a decision was made to reduce the number of vehicles as there was too little fuel already and they didn’t need that many cars anyways. After some back and forth it was decided to keep the RV until they could find another one like it to switch it with. Dale would drive it, and Glenn, Andrea, Amy, and Shane would ride with him. T-Dog would join the Grimes family in the Station Wagon, while Carol and Sophia would join Buffy and Rime in the Jeep. Daryl would ride ahead on the motorbike, something Buffy was a little jealous of as she missed her own bike.
After a quick vote they picked a direction and just started to drive.
Author:
mirrored_illusions aka
3am_moonlight
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Rimfrost - Trude Brænne Larssen (Books), The Walking Dead (TV)
Rating: Teen & Up.
Timeline: Pre-season one/season one of TWD, about a decade post-BtVS, centuries post-Rimfrost.
Characters: Buffy Summers, Rime Kvitrev, Andrea Harrison, Glenn Rhee, Daryl Dixon, misc. TWD characters.
Pairing: Implied Rick/Lori and Shane/Lori, and implied Buffy/Daryl UST if you want to squint that way.
WC: 13, 840 / Complete.
Disclaimer: BtVS belongs to Joss Whedon, Rimfrost is the property of TBL, and TWD belongs to whoever holds the copyright. None of the above is yours truly, unfortunately.
Warnings: It's a zombie apocalypse, people. Killing of zombies, death of infected humans, etc.
Author's notes: Not beta read. Sorry.
Other links: AO3 | FF | TtH | WDFF
A/N: This is written for the 2016 Fic-A-Day Challenge over at TwistedShorts on LJ / TtHFanfic.org.
A/N 2: I'm finally reposting this fic to DW and LJ; it only took two months! Oops?
Summary: Buffy and her friend Rime are in Atlanta when the walking dead first rise and start eating people. Two months later they are still there, but then they meet some survivors from a camp outside the city.
When all was said and done it had turned out that their little group of survivors had been reduced from 35 to 15. Among the dead after walker ambush were Merle, Daryl’s older brother, and Ed, Carol’s husband and Sophia’s father. The day after the ambush Morales and his wife, Miranda, decided to take their chances on the road and drove off with their two children to try and find some of their relatives.
Over half of their group had ended up dead because there had been no real leader and no one besides Buffy had even tried to teach anyone self-defense, and then with the Morales family leaving their little community were floundering. This was when Buffy decided to step up and take over leadership before someone else got the same idea. Shane was too unstable to lead anyone, including himself, as his obsession with Lori grew and he let his responsibilities to the group slip by the wayside. Rick wasn’t ruthless enough to be at the top of the food chain at this point, and so far seemed unwilling to make the harsh decisions that needed to be made in order for them to get by.
Still, she had learned from her mistakes in Sunnydale and she had also learned from some lesser mistakes afterwards while they were trying to remake and rebuild the ICW, so she made her own little ‘council’ consisting of the ones who had actual survival skills; meaning herself, Rime, Daryl, Rick, and Andrea. Buffy was a natural leader and an incredibly strong fighter; Rime had over a millennium's worth of healing and medical skills, although the group believed her to be a young looking newly graduated doctor; Daryl could track, hunt, and fight, including extensive experience with a crossbow; Andrea, and to a lesser degree Amy, knew how to fish; and Rick was just a leader type.
It wouldn’t be easy to lead them this way, but compromises were a way of life no matter how you looked at it. Although if she was completely honest with herself then she only allowed Andrea on board so she wouldn’t put up a stink for being left out. The woman had some serious inferiority issues, and an odd need to prove herself to be one of the ‘boys’. Rick was only a member because she suspected it would split the group if she didn’t allow it. Lori would take her husband’s side, and who knew who else might side with them.
She was pretty certain that Glenn, Andrea, Amy, T-Dog, and Daryl would side with her when it came to who should lead the group, and she also believed that they would side with her regarding the decision to make sure everyone learned at the very least the basic skills needed to survive in this new world. Dale could go either way because of his pacifistic views, but Carol seemed likely to follow Daryl.
When they left the Quarry Camp they had driven off in five vehicles; Buffy’s Jeep, which she drove and had Rime and Jacqui as passengers; Rick drove a station wagon with Lori and Carl as the passengers; Dale drove his RV with Glenn in the passenger seat and Andrea and Amy in the back; Shane drove a Jeep by himself; and Daryl drove a motorcycle.
On the 63rd day after the outbreak they arrived at the CDC hoping there would be someone there who had answers. A cure. A plan. Something. However they had been disappointed; the only person left in the entire building was a Dr. Jenner who was rather unhelpful in that regard. He did however allow them to eat, shower, and stay the night. All of which had been greeted with great enthusiasm; none of them had had a shower in longer than any of them wanted to think about. In truth Buffy had appreciated the shower more than she had appreciated the food and even the coffee.
According to Dr. Jenner there was no cure, he was the only scientist left at the CDC, and he had lost contact with the outside world sometime before they arrived. In the end they’d had to break themselves out of the building as it had gone into lockdown in preparation for an in-built self-destruction program. Closed and heavily armed doors, even the enhanced ones secure buildings like the CDC had, was no match for a Slayer. Even among the panic it had caused a lot of staring when she simply hit the reinforced window a couple of times before it shattered into a thousand pieces.
This time they managed to get away from the disaster with only one voluntary loss, as Jacqui chose to stay behind with Dr. Edwin Jenner as the Center for Disease Control was destroyed for safety reasons as decided pre-apocalypse by whoever decided those things.
The day after a decision was made to reduce the number of vehicles as there was too little fuel already and they didn’t need that many cars anyways. After some back and forth it was decided to keep the RV until they could find another one like it to switch it with. Dale would drive it, and Glenn, Andrea, Amy, and Shane would ride with him. T-Dog would join the Grimes family in the Station Wagon, while Carol and Sophia would join Buffy and Rime in the Jeep. Daryl would ride ahead on the motorbike, something Buffy was a little jealous of as she missed her own bike.
After a quick vote they picked a direction and just started to drive.