The survivalist Sniper and the handy Redhead
AN: First chapter will be more of a summary what happened differently in season1.
Next chapter should be a relatively normal one, for those who don't know my writing style, I move pretty close to the episodes and will take original text out of the episodes.
Disclaimer: I don't own Z Nation or any of its characters.
Summary: Addy breaks up with Mac in episode 9. 10K stays at the womens camp instead of Mack and during their journey to California they fall in love.
Episode 9: Addy has the break up talk she dreamed about with Mack before she falls asleep and when she wakes up Mack and half of their provisions are gone, so she catches up with the team on her own.
Episode 11: Addy catches up with the team without Mack and tells them about what happened during their ride to the womens camp. The rest of the episode happens as in Canon except for Mack not being there and her agreeing to stay easier.
After Episode 11:
"Stop the car, this doesn't feel right. I'm gonna stay behind a few weeks in case Addy comes to her senses and wants to continue on with the mission. You heard her on the road, all her hope and reason to life is tied to this mission." 10K says.
"That's true, but kid..." Doc pleads.
"Don't worry about me Doc, I've survived over 2 years on my own before I met you guys, so I think I can handle a few weeks. And if she doesn't decide to follow the mission anymore, I'll come catch up with you guys by myself." 10K replies.
"10K don't do this." Roberta says.
"Sorry Roberta I gotta do this. I already failed to save both my father and Mr. Stubbins and I can't leave another person I care about hanging. Go on with the mission I'll catch up with you. Good luck and see you in a few weeks hopefully together with Abby." 10K yells as he jumps out of the truck and takes off running towards the mountains around the camp.
"Oh that kid, but I don't think we can change his mind, he's hurting and needs a break himself. Plus he's a survivor he'll find us, we have to trust him and if Abby goes with him they should have no problem getting in contact with citizen Z who can help them find us." Doc says saddened by 10Ks decision to leave the group.
"I hope you're right." Cassandra says and starts driving again.
"How come no one listens when I say never get off the boat?" Murphy asks them but gets ignored.
During the 3 weeks till the nukes Addy lives with the women in peace and helps with the daily chores and is often involved in expeditions, where they are looking for other women.
10K after jumping off takes off towards the mountains surrounding the camp and looks for a good spot to camp out.
At the end of the day he has luck and finds a cave which is close to the river that runs through the camp and decides to make this his new home for the time being, so he sets a few traps, signaling him if a Z is nearby and makes himself a fire to warm up and gets to sleep.
The next day he decides to go explore the surrounding area and after climbing to the top of the mountains he notices a few small towns on the other side of them. Guessing that if he wants to look for some equipment and a ride he should do so soon, in case someone else wants to go raid in the towns. So he climbs down the mountain and explores the towns, kills a few Zs, finding some equipment like a shovel, some food and even an ATV plus gas he takes some of the light equipment, like a few cans of food with him and climbs back up the mountains. After he gets back to his cave it's already dark and he starts a fire again and taking out a map he found in a store he looks for a good route around the mountains to get the atv he hid somewhere on this side of the mountain to hide it and have it close. After finding a good route he gets some sleep.
In the morning he climbs over the mountains again and to where he hid the ATV. He starts it and takes the route he planned yesterday and hides the ride in between his cave and the road.
With this he thinks that the most pressing matters are dealt with and decides to check in with Abby, he only saw her a few times somewhere in the camp with his scope.
So he gets to the back of the camp which is resting against the mountains and checks out what the buildings uses are. After finding the house with the women's rooms he stakes out the windows leading out to the mountain side, hoping to get lucky and find Addy's room. In the evening he has luck and sees Addy walk into her room, and blushes at 'accidentally' seeing her change her clothes.
"Well she looks pretty happy, maybe I should be hoping that this works out for her but I just don't think it's gonna happen." 10K says to himself trying to get his head back on his own mission.
Taking out his backpack he gets out some paper and coal he collected from his fire and writes a short message for her.
'Hey, it's 10K I'm staying behind for a few weeks to make sure you will be OK in your new home. If you want to meet sometime, just write a time and place on the back of this note and stick it on the outside of your window.'
He wraps this note around a small stone and waits for her to open her window, which she does a few minutes later. Now he takes out his slingshot and takes aim at her bed, loading the rock with the message and shoots it, hitting the middle of her bed exactly.
Abby doesn't notice it right away but as she lies down to get some sleep she feels something poking her and grabs the stone, sees the paper around it and unwraps it. After reading it she gets up and closes the window looking out of it annoyed, trying to find 10Ks location. But after a few minutes she gives up, accepting that if he doesn't want to be found he won't be and lies back down to get some sleep.
The next few days nothing happened, till Abby goes along with an exploration mission. 10K, who is watching her a good portion of his day decides to follow her to make sure she'll be OK and gets his atv, following the trucks of the women from the side and with a good distance between him and the group. After following them to a town about half a days ride away he watches the women look for anything useful and women which survived. He gets up a small hill and lies down, like he does so often and takes out his rifle, looking through the scope and watches as the women manage to collect some food and are ready to leave, when a wall of Zs block their way back to their cars. He gets ready to shoot, but decides to only interfere if Abby is in danger, because otherwise he could cause problems for her.
The women fight their way through the wall of Zombies but Abby who is helping up a younger member of their group who stumbled gets cornered in by the Zombies, which block her way out.
10K deciding that now is the time to interfere takes aim at a few Zombies, which are the weak point in the wall and shoots them, hitting a perfect head-shot every time.
Seeing that the Zs are down Abby doesn't waste any time and grabs the girl, pulling her along with her through the gab in the wall of Zombies.
She then joins up with the women, who are all glad that she and the girl made it out alive. On the ride back she is constantly looking around hoping to catch a glimpse of 10K, who she guessed saved her back there, but can't catch a glimpse of him anywhere.
After they got back to camp Abby goes to her room and takes out 10Ks note which she hid in her room and writes on the backside 'Thank you.' She then puts this note on the outside of her window and 10K watching her with his scope smiles and after most of the women have fallen asleep he infiltrates the camp over the mountains and climbs up the house to Abbys room and sneaks in, grabbing the note along the way. He then puts a new piece of paper on Abbys table and looks over her sleeping form for a few minutes, gently brushing her hair back because it has fallen over her mouth and nose and she looked a bit troubled by that, and leaves the room, getting back to his cave and gets some sleep, not knowing that Abby actually stayed awake, because she was certain he would come get the note during the night.
"I didn't know 10K cared so much about me, that he'd actually leave the group and put himself in danger only to make sure I'm OK." Abby thinks after 10K left and then goes to sleep herself.
The rest of the time before the nukes was uneventful, 10K fetches some fish from the river, kills a few Zs coming close to his location and watches over Addy.
The only other thing which happens is, that about a week after 10K rescued her from the Zombies she gets out the paper and writes a meeting place and time on it because she wants to make sure he's still alive since he hasn't contacted her since the night he snuck in.
They meet up and Abby at first reacts annoyed at seeing 10K there but soon accepts that he's only being considerate and they talk for a few hours much to 10Ks delight since it's been quite lonely and he has started to fall into his old habits again which involves only saying about 10 sentences a day.
AN: Episode 12 and 13 happen as in canon except that 10K isn't there. Next chapter : S2 E1