A/N: I'm only going to give one disclaimer, it is implied to carry throughout the entire story. If you don't recognize it, it's mine. If you do, it's Danny Boyle's. Or someone else's. Parts will stick true to the movie, but others will be incorporated by my own imagination. If you don't like it, then you can fuck off.
Prologue
No one saw it coming, the virus.
War in the Middle East, riots in the streets, murders and domestic abuse. That was our world, desensitized to it by the internet and video games.
Then a small article in the Daily Mail - a few chimpanzees in the zoo were sick. It was only placed there because of dwindling ad sales; no one paid attention or cared. A few weeks later, there was a bigger article (only slightly) about testing the chimps. The threat of Ebola was spreading, the threat started to spread quickly. The infected chimps became famous as they were removed from the zoos and brought into a treatment center.
Radical groups, animal rights activists, believed they were being tested on with chemicals and poisons, and tried desperately to free them. But security was tight on the animals, no one wanted them loose. There were rumors that a few did get in, but no word of freed chimps spread across the journals.
And then one day it stopped.
There were no new reports on the chimps, there were no reports at all. All broadcasting had stopped because it was coming through your doors, through your windows. The threat of Ebola was no longer only a threat; the virus had spread to humans. It spread more quickly and efficiently than any cold or flu.
Airports, bus terminals, subways - the lot were shut down.
If you weren't Infected, you were being attacked.
Survivors were dwindling to single digits - all they could hear was screaming.
And then there was silence.