Title: A Dead Heart Beats Again
Rating: T
Pairing: Nora/R
Summary: I had always thought Julie was the one who saved me and helped return my humanity, but it had always been her, the girl with the insane curiosity and sarcastic sense of humor. Now I see Julie was not my soulmate, she was simply a tool meant to guide me to my true destiny.
Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything from Warm Bodies!
AN: This is my first time venturing in to the fandom of Warm Bodies so this is like a test run to see if I am any good at it. I always liked the idea of Nora and R together so I decided to write them. I was saddened to see nobody else has written anything for them so hopefully this will spark other writers to write for this particular pairing.
Human. Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people. The word itself holds so many meanings. it was simple yet complicated at the same time. I had once been human before the infection spread and then I had been what the remaining humans had called a corpse. By the medical definition of the word I had been dead. I had no need to consume human food, I no longer slept, and my social activities and interactions were limited to a few grunts and groans. I had merely existed during my time as a zombie. Then I had met Julie on a hunt and at the time I thought it was love, but now I realize the feelings I had for her were friendship and nothing more. That was cure; humanity, love, and friendship.
After civilization had been restored somewhat, Julie and I had realized we were only ever going to be friends. She found with love with one of the recently cured zombies she had grown up with, but thought dead and gone after the outbreak. Of course I was happy for her, but with Julie moving on, Marcus spending more time with Emily, the human female he had fallen for when she helped him with his umbrella, I was unsure where that left me. I had no human family left alive that I could remember and the few friends I had were either busy with their new human life or in some sort of relationship. As happy as I may have been for them, I was left feeling utterly alone.
Then Nora and I started spending a lot of time. She was the head nurse at one of the rebuilt hospitals and had offered me a job helping some of the cured patients get used to human life again. I had jumped at the chance and actually found it rather enjoyable. I had always wanted to help people, that much I remembered, and now I was finally getting the chance to do so. Anyways, since Nora had gotten me the job, we worked together closely at times and I started to see her as more than just my boss. I started to see her in the way I once wanted to see Julie.
The dark haired woman happened to be smart, beautiful, funny, and dedicated in a degree I had never seen before. Nora had great taste in music and the fact I had once eaten brains along with other organs did not seem to bother her in the way it had with Julie. Nora never shied away from the topic because she knew it had not been something I chose. She did whatever she could to help me regain my memories and she never got frustrated when she had to explain something to me more than once. Nora, in a sense, was the female version of me. We understood each other in ways that shouldn't be possible.
It was when she had the flu and I was taking care of her that she admitted to loving me. It was when I had flu, having caught it from her, I admitted to loving her back. All this time I had thought myself in love with Julie and it had been Nora. Nora had been my cure; Nora brought my dead heart back to life.
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