The Mount, Ex-Los Angeles

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The last time anyone from Fandom had been in Kathy's LA, the heroes had been living inside the walls that surrounded Paramount Studios, with the exes and the South Seventeens laying claim to everything else. Since then, they'd expanded; the Big Wall pushing the borders out almost a mile in all four directions. In some spots, it was hard to tell that there had ever been a zombocalypse; the streets were clean, the buildings repaired, the blood all scrubbed away. There was a proper school, lots of farms and gardens, several churches, and even a small library. The studio was still the heart of the community, but people had started to spread out and settle. It was still a tight fit, several thousand people into one square mile, but honestly not much worse than Los Angeles used to be, back before the world died and reanimated again.

Life had fallen back into a rhythm again. People got up, got ready for the day. Kids were sent off to school, adults took themselves to various jobs, though there were fewer sales people, baristas, and aspiring actors and a lot more guards, scavengers, and farmers these days. There was a brewery down on Larchmont and a still over on Monroe. Burns Park let people enjoy a bit of nature where the kids could run around and burn off steam and a Gold's Gym practically against the Big Wall. That was where the Unbreakables spent most of their free time, with curious gawkers watching them put more and more weight onto the machines.

It was a bustling little community of survivors, as safe as a place could be, surrounded on all sides by millions of undead waiting to find a way inside to devour them all.

[For them that are there! NFB, and please wait for the OCD is up! Previous entry Next Entry]

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Re: Thursday

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Talking to Max hadn't... actually been that bad, but he could save that discussion for another day.

"You don't have to thank me," Dante said quietly. "You deserved the break. And you deserve these. So..."

Re: Thursday

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"Deserved or not," Kathy said, looking up at him, "you're the only one who went and got them for me. Only one who thought to go get them for me. So yeah, you get thank yous."

Re: Thursday

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante sighed softly and glanced around the room. Everyone was back... yeah. This could wait. "I'll tell you the whole story later," he said. "Right now, I'm wiped... you look wiped..."

Re: Thursday

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"Only because I've been worrying myself sick over you," Kathy said, but she sounded way more happy than upset.

She also didn't bother to put the tin down. "Wanna go lay down in my closet? I moved the water so you should be able to stretch out."

Re: Thursday

[rebelseekspizza]

"Now that's the nicest invite I've ever heard," Dante said, draping an arm over her shoulders. "Let's go."

Re: Thursday

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Kathy leaned up and kissed him, leading him into the bedroom and the safety of her closet. And when she fell asleep, it was in his arms, with her tin safely wrapped in hers.