Fic: What Doesn't Kill You [Exchange Gift]
Title: What Doesn't Kill You
Summary: James remembers when zombies came in stages, when you got points for each one you shot and when all you had to do was open secret doors to discover a new, practically infallible weapon. It was a time when the rules to live by consisted of joking 'double tap's and 'cardio!' because that's what zombies had been: a joke, something everyone laughed at and spent hours arguing about how to survive, featured in books and costumes at Halloween to get a rise out of little kids who screamed and dropped their sweets.
But when they stopped being a joke and actually became a reality, they weren't funny anymore and, frankly, no Xbox in the world could have trained him for this.
Characters/Pairings: Teddy Lupin/James Sirius Potter. Mentions of Albus Poter, Lily Luna Potter and Victoire Weasley
Genre: Non-Magical!AU, Zombie!AU, Apocalypse!AU and Angst (Goodness.)
Beta: xfortytwo
Rating/Warnings: Mature for language (they're teenage-ish boys -- it happens.), zombies (who EAT PEOPLE), suggested sexual themes and implied suicide.
Word Count: 8,413
Notes: I'm the super lucky girl who got to write for our amazing mod and, let me tell you, it wasn't half as awkward as I worried it would be but it was very, very tough. etacanis writes the most poignant version of Teddy and James I could ever imagine so, to try to work with characters she's mastered was nerve-wracking. Also, this world was entirely new to me and involved a lot of (wonderfully hilarious) hours of internet research and some very embarrassing flailing. I had no idea zombies were taken so seriously, guys...
What Doesn't Kill You @ AO3
Ciara // Hufflepuff // 280 Points
Summary: James remembers when zombies came in stages, when you got points for each one you shot and when all you had to do was open secret doors to discover a new, practically infallible weapon. It was a time when the rules to live by consisted of joking 'double tap's and 'cardio!' because that's what zombies had been: a joke, something everyone laughed at and spent hours arguing about how to survive, featured in books and costumes at Halloween to get a rise out of little kids who screamed and dropped their sweets.
But when they stopped being a joke and actually became a reality, they weren't funny anymore and, frankly, no Xbox in the world could have trained him for this.
Characters/Pairings: Teddy Lupin/James Sirius Potter. Mentions of Albus Poter, Lily Luna Potter and Victoire Weasley
Genre: Non-Magical!AU, Zombie!AU, Apocalypse!AU and Angst (Goodness.)
Beta: xfortytwo
Rating/Warnings: Mature for language (they're teenage-ish boys -- it happens.), zombies (who EAT PEOPLE), suggested sexual themes and implied suicide.
Word Count: 8,413
Notes: I'm the super lucky girl who got to write for our amazing mod and, let me tell you, it wasn't half as awkward as I worried it would be but it was very, very tough. etacanis writes the most poignant version of Teddy and James I could ever imagine so, to try to work with characters she's mastered was nerve-wracking. Also, this world was entirely new to me and involved a lot of (wonderfully hilarious) hours of internet research and some very embarrassing flailing. I had no idea zombies were taken so seriously, guys...
What Doesn't Kill You @ AO3
Ciara // Hufflepuff // 280 Points