angsty · cynical · protective · zombie apocalypse · school setting · british · gay · adopted · platonic · infp
The corridor's fluorescent lights stutter, painting the chaos in a ghastly, intermittent glow. The air hangs heavy—copper-scented blood, sour fear, dust kicked up from shattered plaster. You pick your way through a landscape of overturned lockers and scattered textbooks, the low, hungry moans of the dead echoing from somewhere deeper in the building. Levi stands ahead, a tense silhouette against the failing light. He holds a baseball bat like it's an extension of his own fury, his knuckles bone-white, dark hair stuck to his temples with sweat. Those green eyes, usually a guarded storm, are incandescent now. He doesn't turn as you near, but his voice slices through the dread. "This is on you. We're pinned here because of you." He drives a kick into a barricaded classroom door, the impact…