Fic: The End of the World As We Know It

[lost_spook]

This is for belantana, in honour of her enduring love of anything involving zombies or the end of the world.

Story: The End of the World As We Know It (Looks Pretty Much the Same to Me)
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 3205
Characters/Pairings: Lynda Day, Spike Thomson, Sarah Jackson, Julie Craig, Colin Mathews, Tiddler, Frazz Davis, Kenny Phillips

Comments

[belantana]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU SPOIL ME, MY FRIEND, YOU REALLY DO. What is this and where has it been my whole life!

“Don’t you read the horoscopes? Frazz predicted Pisces would be facing a surprise invasion of the undead at work. By a freaky million-to-one chance, he turned out to be right.”

Heee! Statistically, someone has to be right one day!

“I’m sorry?” said Lynda. “You mean, what are we going to do about the fact that the rest of Norbridge seems to have suddenly switched to a diet of brains?”

You know my mind went straight to President Bartlet saying BRAAAAAAAIIIIIIINS -

Lynda - I think I might be turning into one of them!” Colin put a hand to his face. “Nope. Still seem to be okay. That’s a relief.”

Oh, Colin YAY, and I am not quoting the rest because it's FULL of one-liners of awesomeness and wit and hilarity, and I am still giggling, and YES OF COURSE Kenny steals a plane and flies it across the world, and on the way back to Australia they totally make an unscheduled stop to check out some weird radio signals eminating from

[lost_spook]

Firstly, I should say I replied to this comment yesterday, but apparently LJ ated it. Hmm

[belantana]

Awwwwwwwww, I have such a big grin on my face that you wrote me un-birthday fic! That's so lovely! And me with never even finishing your proper-birthday fic...

Pffffft, you are quoting timeline incongruities at me? A mere trifle! We can make up an eight year gap easy. (I am totally taking you seriously on this story, by the way - when I've got a decent way through The West Wing I am going to be firing you questions/ideas from all angles.)

I'm especially excited about series 6 now you mention that! But I have sooooo long to go... US seasons are so long! At the moment I'm nothing but pleased at the prospect of so many unwatched episodes ahead of me, though. Lols at you mixing up canons in your head. :D I seem to be managing to keep them pretty separate, which is unexpected - except for when Spooks explicitly mentions the President, of course.

[lost_spook]

:-)

Yes, but you can have more zombie apocalypses this way... :lol:
Umm... Okay, should not have mentioned that, right. :-D

Well, it's only one bit. I am mostly not getting things confused, but Harry and Jed Bartlet are both in charge and tend to be moral and quote things, so you can see where I could get confused on occasions. However, just watched an ep where the British were warmongering and the US were trying to peacekeep. (This had me raising my eyebrow a lot, but i remembered the WW is an idealistic fantasy on top of everything else, and let it pass. Also, suddenly in this last serious, we seem to have suddenly gained a female PM who owes a lot to Mrs Thatcher. I think they're a tad out of date...). And asked, "And have we had anything from British Intelligence?" I kind of expected Harry to walk in next thing, even though it would really be Jools or someone.

[paranoidangel42]

I'm not that excited about zombies, but I did like this. I love Lynda finding ways to cover it and fight it and convince Kenny to steal a plane, and Julie's new low in her taste in men, and Spike's one-liners, and Colin's epiphany.

[lost_spook]

Heh, thanks. You will see my actual opinion of zombies in themselves (as opposed to being the generators of impressive fanfic that belantana keeps reccing to me) in the way that not one single zombie actually appears in the story. (I know... *cough* :lol:)

Thank you! Glad you liked it. Once the thought occurred to me, it just had to be done.

[stellastars]

Honestly, I'm left sort-of speechless by the awesomeness of this fic and I'm reduced to trying to convey my reaction with fake!math equations. My initial reaction was...
(Press Gang + Zombies) = (!!! + :D + ♥)

To put this more coherently, I loved this story and here's a short list why:

1. It has everything an excellent Press Gang episode could possibly have plus zombies.
2. The lovely references to Spike/Lynda. See especially:

“I’m indestructible,” said Lynda. “I thought you knew that.”
Spike moved aside for her. “Never prove me wrong on that one, okay?”
“I know,” said Lynda, leaning towards him. “And you stay pretty, okay?”
“I’ll die trying, boss.”
(♥ ♥ ♥)

3. The one-liners. Truly, you nailed the humor of the show.
4. Colin's epiphany, Sarah's brains as potential commodities, Kenny's plan to steal a plane, shout-outs to Chrissie and Kerr, etc., etc., etc.

In summary: I really enjoyed reading this fic!

[lost_spook]

Aw, thanks for the lovely review - glad you enjoyed it. Your fake maths equations are very expressive. :-)

No zombie stands a chance against Colin and Lynda, and Spike. Heh.

[dbskyler]

That was . . . scarily plausible, actually. After you get over the assumption that there's a zombie apocalypse, I could see all of this really happening, especially the parts with Lynda.

LOL at the undead horoscope, and Lynda asking for a more cheerful one just in case!

[lost_spook]

Wow - you read it! :-)

Thanks - glad you enjoyed it!

(Talking of plausible, I realised afterwards that I had the phones still working, but... it's a pretty recent zombie invasion... and it wouldn't be Press Gang if the phones didn't work. oops.)

[dbskyler]

Well, not that I'm up on my zombie apocalypses, but why would the presence of zombies affect the phones? Until something broke and no one was around to repair it, I'd assume they would still work.

[lost_spook]

That was sort of what I was thinking, but the phone networks go down pretty quick in a disaster, one way or another... Not in this case, of course. :-)