This chapter sticks closer to the book than the movie, but its not huge just electronic device usage and where R slept for the night.
Chapter 2 Julie ~Night of Airport Departure
Julie knew it wasn't exactly healthy for her to think of R this way. I mean he's a freaking corpse and they could never really be together since Julie had to live in the Stadium to be relatively safe. She couldn't practically stay with R when she already had a life and other people who care about her in the Stadium. She was going to ask R before she left if they could set up some kind of meeting place in the city for them to still be able to see each other after she returns to her home.
After dinner she and R just relaxed on the couch in the living room and listened to some music on her iPod.
"After listening to some of these songs on your record player R, they jus don't sound the same they're kinda shitty," Julie looked up at R's chin. When they had first come over R sat on the couch and Julie had plopped herself right next to him, placed one ear phone in her own ear and the other in his cooler one, and then leaned her head to rest on his chest. Although there was no heartbeat to be heard, it was still comforting and both readily welcomed that feeling. They listened to thirty odd songs while leaning against each other in comfort, before Julie yawned.
"You…Need…Sleep," R's quiet rasp was still heard by the blond haired girl, and she reluctantly lifted her head and turned the iPod off. She and R both stood up and made their way upstairs hand in hand. When she let go of R's hand in front of the final two doors in the upper hallway. She checked both for actual furniture in the room, in case she needed to block the door, and a locking door. The room on the left turned out to have more furniture that could easily be moved in the case of actual corpses or boneys breaking in.
She felt safer with R closer to her, so instead of pulling bedding from the opposite bedroom and having him lay on the floor, he laid on the side of the bed closer to the door, again just incase anything got through before they could get out. Since becoming close to the zombie, she has always felt safer with him in the general vicinity, i.e. on R's plane at the airport either being a row or two from each other or sleeping on the floor near eachother. So with her head on R's chest and an arm around his torso, she happily fell asleep.
Was going to leave it there, but then it would be pretty short.
Just as the sun was coming above the horizon, Julie was just waking up from her peaceful sleep when she heard a faint ba-bump from the makeshift pillow underneath her ear. Julie kept completely still and strained her ear to try to hear that sound again from the other occupant of the bed that clearly should not have any sort of heartbeat, as no blood moves through his veins. After a while there was another faint ba-bump, this time she was clearly awake and not tired at all. Julie continued to lay there just straining for that sound that should not be coming from the corpse-like person beneath her head.
The ba-bumps kept getting more and more frequent as some time passed. Carefully she lifted her head to gaze upon his face. R's face looked less pale than ever before, and there was a slight rose tint to his cheeks that clearly has never been there for the entire time that Julie had known the zombie. Even more carefully she cupped his cheek, which R leaned into subconsciously. She quietly gasped as he definitely felt warmer than before but Julie was not completely sure if it was from her proximity, laying under covers all night, or from the unimaginable that seems to have happened. She was going to leave R without a goodbye, thinking it would be easier, but decided to wait until he awake to see his eyes. He may have a heartbeat, but the infection may show in his eyes, then he'd never be able to go to the Stadium with her! Julie disregarded her last thought and snuggled back into R's chest, quickly fading away to the rhythmic sound of life under her ear.
They were startled awake by the bedroom door slamming open against the wall. Two very familiar men burst in with guns ready to take out any threats. She kept her arm firm on R's chest to try to keep him from sitting up, hoping he could take this hint and not react terribly to the sudden intrusion of somewhat heavily armed men.
This is all I have prepared so far, but no worries still have the inspiration flowing for this.
Cheers,
Mickey
