Hello again! And welcome to my story!

I noticed a distinct lack of any zombieverse fan fics. And since that is my favorite AU ever, I decided to write one myself. So this is an all-human, zombieverse AU.

I was writing some of this chapter after midnight and I never have any of my pieces beta'd, so I apologize for any mistakes.

Also, I do not own any of the characters, nor do I own the idea of the zombie apocalypse. I only own the plot.

Enjoy!

Alec supposed it really shouldn't have surprised him when it happened. Everyone expected it so much, and some people actually were ready. Most people, though, had shrugged it off as something that young people had created so that they could imagine the end of the human population being a seemingly supernatural event. They all imagined that it would be epic; and in a way, it was.

He always shook his head at the idea of the zombie apocalypse. He didn't prepare for it, didn't think that there was a chance that it might really happen. But when his school was evacuated because people had started getting bitten and biting others. The infection was spreading quickly. As soon as Alec saw that it was real, he got his siblings in high school and then got in his car and got their little brother Max.

Max had asked them what had happened when they got onto the road. Alec didn't know any other way to answer but the truth, so that's what he told him. Max's response was a better one than they had expected. He seemed to understand and didn't panic. The first thing he said after Alec had explained was asking where they were going. The group of siblings sat mostly in silence as they rode to their house. Alec figured that they could find some useful supplies. Especially since their dad had made them practice with weapons growing up.

As soon as the car pulled up into the driveway, Alec knew that something had gone wrong. The door was broken and he could see a knocked-over table through the window. "Wait here," he told his siblings as he got out of the car and went into the house. There was a gun in the dresser in the living room. He grabbed it and was glad that they kept it loaded. Taking the safety off and keeping the gun pointed in front of him, he searched the large house.

As Alec was walking up the stairs to go through their rooms, he heard a groaning sound coming from his father's office. He cocked the gun and slowly pushed open the door the rest of the way. His nanny, Hodge, looked up. Except it wasn't Hodge, not really. He was infected; Alec could tell from the signs. He had eyes so glassy they were almost purely white. His skin was grayer that usual. The main thing that made Alec sure of it, though, was the bright red, still bleeding bite on his arm.

When the thing sprung at Alec, he automatically reacted and shot. It hit the creature in the chest and it stumbled back. Alec got stuck with the choice of killing it now or fighting it and having the chance of being bitten. Alec chose quickly and shot the thing's head. The bullet killed it and it fell back onto the ground. Blood started pooling around the creature, so Alec decided to get out of the room as fast as he could.

Alec walked through the rest of the house to make sure that there were no more of the walking dead. When he was sure that the house was empty except for him, he went back to the car. "Get what you need. We can't bring too much." They all went off into their own rooms. They grabbed a couple changes of clothes each that they stuck in the trunk of the car. The three oldest siblings also packed backpacks full of food, water, medicine, gauze, bandages, flashlights, batteries and their cell phones -which they would only use in emergencies. They also armed themselves with guns and hand weapons. Izzy grabbed her whip, which she had been learning how to use since she was twelve. The three of them grabbed machetes for when they got too close to the walkers.

With all of their supplies stored into their bags and car, the Lightwoods started out on their trip. Alec was glad he got the car out when he did. In his rear-view mirror he could see a horde of newly turned going down the street. They weren't slow like all of the movies implied. The car went down the streets, twisting and turning down seemingly random streets, most of which Alec had never been on. He tried to avoid the streets that were too busy and full of cars. Traffic wouldn't help their chances of living through the day.

"Do you think it's like this where Mom and Dad are?" Max asked as they were driving down a mostly deserted street. Their parents were almost always somewhere other than home on business trips. They stopped bringing the children along when Alec was around eight years old. That's why they had hired Hodge; so that he could watch over and raise their children while they did not. They were on another trip at the time. They were who-knows-where doing who-knows-what. Maybe the infection had reached them. Maybe it had not. Alec didn't know how far it had spread yet. He just knew that it was spreading fast.

"I hope not," Jace said from his seat beside Alec. He was looking out the window, watching all of the buildings they passed. He was probably thinking about how they were going to have to change. How fast they were going to have to grow up and relearn to live. Alec knew he was.

As the car started moving away from New York City and into less crowded cities, Alec thought over plans. They were going to have to find a place that wasn't too crowded and didn't have a lot of infected. They would have to always carry their weapons on them. The older siblings would have to teach Max the lessons he needed to know. They would have to a lot of things to live through this if they were going to survive. First thing first, though, was getting out of there.

Two months later Alec was getting ready to go out on a trip to the store before sundown. He, Max, Izzy, and Jace had all found a place that they were staying in for the moment. It had been announced that there was a city that was a safe haven from the infected. The problem was that you had to fight and survive to get there. And it was on the other side of the country from New York. While usually a trip from New York to Oregon would not take over three or four days including rest, it was taking much longer for them to make it. There were too many infected everywhere. They would have to stay in hiding when large hordes came through.

There used to be quite a number of survivors. The ones who were clever enough to stay off of the busy roads. The ones who were prepared. The ones who got out first. In the first large wave, the population of humans went down a lot. After the second one, many more people were lost. The third, nearly no one was left.

Now the siblings were on the border of Illinois and Iowa and staying in an abandoned house. It was mostly in tact, which was a good thing. The family had gotten out before the infected found the place. That meant that the doors were not broken, the windows still had full glass in them, and that the furniture was still in place.

Alec put his mind back onto his current mission. He and Jace were about to go out and search through the nearby grocery store to see if they still had anything left that could help the Lightwoods on their way. Izzy and Max were going to stay behind. Izzy complained about not being able to go out too before Alec explained to her that he needed her to guard the place and Max. While he didn't like leaving them there on their own, he disliked the idea of Izzy and Jace going out without him even less.

When the two older brothers were fully geared up, they started out for the store. They scanned the area around them the entire walk. Alec kept a look out for one side while Jace got the other. They worked well as a pair. Better together than with any other people. They walked through the doors and were glad for the daylight when they saw that the power did not work anymore -not that it did anywhere else.

Jace and Alec split up to search the area quicker so that they could get back before the sun went down. After that, they could trust only their flashlights to light their path. They knew from experience that that was neither an easy nor fun thing to have to do.

As Alec looked through the shelves for the things that they could have. He knew that it wasn't exactly fun running from zombies all the time, so he always got Izzy and Max things on his trips. Jace got his own things. Alec got the color nail polish that he thought Izzy might like best and was wondering down another aisle when he saw the last installment that had come out in Max's favorite comic book series. He grabbed it and stuck it in his bag when he heard a voice behind him.

"You like comics?" Alec didn't recognize the voice, and when he turned around, his hand automatically went to his blade. "Oh. Don't do that darling. I feel like surviving today." He finally spotted the source of the voice. It was a tall man -taller than even Alec- with odd green eyes that looked almost golden if you looked at them from the right angle. He was from some kind of Asian heritage, and he had a slight accent that Alec couldn't place. The man was around Alec's age, nineteen at most. The biggest thing that Alec noticed about him was that he acted like what he had just said was something you said to people all the time. 'He's beautiful,' a voice in Alec's head said.

"Umm... They're for my little brother." He gestured to the comic. He watched as the man walked towards him and looked at his open bag. He smirked when he saw something in there, Alec didn't know what it was. When the man straightened up, Alec asked what his name was.

"Magnus. Magnus Bane. And you blue-eyes?" Alec managed to stutter out his name, but he felt completely awkward and could feel that he was blushing. "Alec... Is that short for something?"

"Alexander," Alec answered. He blushed deeper when Magnus replied with a statement about how Alexander was wonderful name. He smirked again, which made Alec just feel even more awkward. How could this man talk so easily with others while Alec could barely get out answers because he was talking to a good-looking guy.

"Well Alexander," Magnus started. He ignored the correction of "Alec" that was sent his way as he continued. "Who's the nail polish for? Your little brother?"

"No, it's for my sister. She loves to paint her nails." Magnus scanned his eyes over Alec's body, not even trying to look like he wasn't. Alec felt like he was going to overheat just from his blush. He hid his eyes behind his bangs. It made his feel a little better, it always did. Helped him feel like he had some sort of barrier between him and the rest of the world.

Jace walked up to them at that time. "Hey Alec," he greeted. He looked over at Magnus. "Who's your friend here?" Magnus introduced himself while Alec tried to make his face become a more normal color. He didn't want to go back to their place with a bright red face. Izzy and Jace would tease him all night. He was glad that they knew who he liked though, and they didn't tease him whenever he talked to good-looking girls like they used to.

Alec managed to get most of the red gone and tuned back into the conversation to hear the words group, join, and some agreement. "Wait, what?" he asked, feeling behind. Jace and Magnus filled him in, saying that Magnus had been travelling alone since this thing had started and Jace asked Alec if he thought that they should let Magnus join them.

Instead of going back to their place with a large blush, Alec went back with a new addition to their team.

1. That took me forever to type.

2. That was the longest chapter of anything I have ever written ever. It was 2100 words long! (technically it was 2099, but it is close enough)

3. I really hope you guys like this story so far. It will be a multi-chapter story, so I'm excited for that.

4. As always, you don't have to review, but I would love, love, love if you did. They give me inspiration and help me to not procrastinate updating.

Carpe Diem,

IzzieGS