A/N: I got the title from a song called What's Left of You by blessthefall.
Megan had tracked 10K down and punched him in the eye. Doc had somehow had tracked Megan down out of worry, even though Megan could handle herself. 10K did teach her how to fight after all and she was the only girl on the wrestling team.
10K would've kicked them to the curb so he can be left alone, but he felt touched that they cared enough to hunt him down. It could have been the black eye that Megan had given him, but he couldn't be sure.
Day One:
The subway tunnel was dark, like horror movie dark. 10K was expecting a zombie to come rushing at him like a horror movie cliché. He shined a flashlight around, hoping to draw out a zombie, but no zombies came rushing at him. It kind of pissed him off.
"It's so quiet in here," Doc said.
10K held back from saying something rude, like, 'really, I had no idea' or 'thanks for pointing out the fucking obvious.'
There was a crunching sound and 10K looked behind him at Megan.
She was looking down at the little skeletons, "I stepped on them."
"They're bones," 10K replied.
"They were animals," Megan said.
10K rolled his eyes, "were animals."
Megan scowled, "they're…"
"Dead," 10K replied. "They're dead. Let's go."
Megan replied, "you're in a mood. You need to take a nap or something."
10K rolled his eyes and continued to walk down the tunnel. Doc and Megan walked up to him. There was a crunching sound. 10K and Megan looked over at Doc.
"Stepped on a bone," Doc said and they continued walking.
"Pink," Megan sang and 10K rolled his eyes. "It's my new obsession."
"Not that song," 10K replied in horror.
"Think of it as revenge for talking me into going on that horrible date," Megan said.
"I talked you into a lot of horrible dates," 10K replied.
Megan looked at him. "The two minute date with that one girl, Carla. We ate cereal at my place, I asked her if she saw the Avengers and she shouted, 'I've had it,' and then she left."
"Oh yeah," 10K replied. "Just don't sing that song."
Megan continued, "pink, it's not even a question." 10K looked at her in horror. "Pink, on the lips of your lover, cause pink is the love you discover." 10K felt his eye twitch at the song. Megan continued, "pink as the bing on your cherry."
"Pink, cause you are so very," Doc sang along.
"Pink it's the color of passion," the two of them sang together.
10K was never so happy to see some zombies before.
Day Two:
10K looked in a store window and opened the door. Doc and Megan followed after him.
"What is he looking for?" Doc asked, looking at Megan.
She shrugged, "maybe anti-depressants." Doc looked at her, weirdly. "We always figured that he might have depression."
10K looked back at them, "no, I don't."
"It's okay to have depression," Megan said. "My old friend, Cosmic, he had depression."
10K looked at her, "Cosmic? Who names their kid…?" He realized something, "oh, never mind."
Doc looked at Megan, "Cosmic?"
Megan looked at the shirts, "I was in a hippie commune. My birth name was Harmony, but my mom got sick, and died. I was sent to live with my Dad, who changed my name to Megan because he didn't like my views or the fact that I'm a lesbian."
10K returned and held out a tie-dye shirt to Megan. "I bet this would make you feel like you're at home."
Megan looked at the shirt, grabbed it, and ran off with it.
10K and Doc looked at each other. 10K explained, "it may seem stereotypical, but she loves tie-dye. Her dad looked down on it. She even made homemade shirts, but he caught them on fire and she cried."
Doc looked at him, "that's sad."
Day Three:
It happened at a playground with a bunch of zombies.
Let it be said that 10K, Megan, and Doc will never bring up the Playground Incident.
Day Four:
Doc was asleep and it just left the two of them left to talk on the roof.
"So, how's your black eye?" Megan asked 10K and he gave her an annoyed look instead.
10K looked at her, "I'm used to it." He had to deal with the pain of getting his braces tightened and he had to deal with the group who tried to rip out his braces with pliers. He had to put up with bullying since third grade and had to deal with getting called derogatory names. His 'favorite' one was 'Fag Hag.'
Megan nodded, "me too."
10K had momentarily forgotten that Megan had been abused by her dad. "Have you ever realized that friendship is weird? You just go up to random people and be like, 'I like these people' and then you just start doing shit with them."
Megan looked at him and found herself thinking, I was about to sleep with this guy. She said, "interesting take."
10K looked at Doc, "old people? More like fold people. I want to make a paper bird out of him."
Megan was a little horrified. "What is going through your mind that motivated you to say that?"
10K shrugged, "I don't know." Megan found herself wondering how much sleep 10K had. "Earthquakes are weird. We're just floating in space and our planet spontaneously decides to do the Chimichanga."
Megan looked at 10K, "go to sleep."
"Who needs sleep?" 10K said, "not me! I feel fine."
Day Five:
They walked down a sidewalk with a sleep deprived jittery 10K. 10K being sleep deprived actually caused the Playground Incident.
"I wonder if cows get crushes on other cows or a horse," 10K said.
Megan looked at him, "go to bed 10K."
"I'm good," 10K said.
"Have you been going near my Z-Weed?" Doc asked.
"No," 10K replied.
Doc nodded, "I just remembered something at Blackbird Manor."
10K looked at him. "What about it? Was it Megan leaving you to find the mythical Chocolate Room on her own?"
Doc shook his head, "no. I remember that I was smoking some Z-Weed and I had an acid dream that you and Addy were kissing."
10K looked at him; actually he was more like focusing on Doc's beard.
Megan looked at Doc, "I knew a bunch of stoners back at the commune, but neither of them had dreams like that before."
Doc looked at him, "but there's no way that Addy would kiss him. I must have dreamt it."
Megan looked at 10K. "I knew stoners. They got high and laughed while reading Shakespeare." Doc and Megan looked at 10K. "You always had a thing for older women. Heather, Hilary, Carrie, and Creepy Sally…"
Doc looked at 10K in surprise. "Damn kid, did you and Addy really kiss?"
10K was really glad to see a zombie coming at them, but he wasn't glad to see that horde of zombie ducks.
Day Six:
"Do you think caterpillars know that they're going to turn into a butterfly or do they just start making cocoons while thinking, 'what the fuck am I doing this for?'" 10K asked, looking at Megan and Doc.
"Go to bed, 10K," Megan stated.
10K looked insulted, "who needs sleep? I don't!"
Megan couldn't tell if 10K is sleep deprived or just stoned. Doc looked at her, "has he been going near my Z-Weed?"
Megan shook her head, "no. He's running on like five minutes of sleep. He acts like he's stoned though."
Doc nodded. "Hey, do you hate disco music because of the stereotype that hippies love disco?"
"I hate disco," the blonde said. "Almost as much as the stereotype that hippies are all about peace and not fighting. Well, I proved them wrong when I joined my school's wrestling team."
Doc asked, "how do you feel about bell-bottom jeans?"
"I actually owned a few pairs before my dad burnt them," Megan said. She looked over to see that 10K was killing a few zombies.
"That sucks," Doc said.
"Well, they actually hid some of my clothes at their homes, so I wasn't that upset," she replied.
Day Seven:
10K shouted, "banjos! They fucking sell banjos here! Who the hell does that?"
Doc looked at Megan. "What does he have against banjos?"
Megan shrugged, "I don't know what he has against stripes."
There was a shattering sound and they looked over to see what he did. A display case was shattered and 10K was holding a banjo while a zombie was lying on the ground. He held up his hands, "it rushed at me."
Is it possible to kill a zombie with a banjo or did he use the display case to kill a zombie? Megan wondered. She found herself thinking, he could probably turn a thong into a weapon if he wanted to.
She looked at Doc and was about ready to tell him what she thought, but a zombie came rushing at them.
Megan grabbed a drum stick and stabbed the zombie in the head. Doc grabbed a clarinet and stabbed another one. Megan grabbed a packet of guitar strings and opened it. She took out a guitar string and waited for a zombie to come at her.
Night Seven:
They walked down the side of a road as 10K ranted, "who named animals? How did they get their names? It's like who looked at a big fat angry bird and said, 'goose?'"
"Go to bed 10K," Megan said.
10K rolled his eyes, "I feel fine, Mom."
There was a truck driving down the road. Doc looked back, "I hope they don't mistake us for Zs."
Megan was thinking, did he take drugs again? She looked at 10K's face, nah. He's probably tired.
The truck stopped next to them.
"Need a lift?" Warren asked them.
10K looked at Megan, "what if lions yodeled instead of roaring? You can hear lions roaring like five miles away, so imagine hearing a faint yodeling in the African Savannah."
Megan looked him in the eye. "This is why you need more than two minutes of sleep."
"I feel fine. Let's go do something," 10K said. He looked like he had an idea and grabbed Megan's shoulders. She felt sick to her stomach. "Let's go kill a guy!"
Megan looked at Doc, "people who have been awake for so long, that they no longer have boundaries." She shoved 10K into the truck. "Go to sleep 10K."
"Who needs sleep?" 10K asked, before falling asleep.
A/N: I got the banjo thing from Zombieland.
I apologize that it's mostly them talking instead of going on adventures or a journey of self-discovery.
