Title: Running Far, It's The Only Way We'll Save Us

Rating: T

Characters: Brittany Pierce, Tina Cohen-Chang, Santana Lopez, Mike Chang, Noah Puckerman, Sarah Puckerman, Quinn Fabray, Judy Fabray, Ensemble

Pairings: Puck/Kurt pre-slash, Brittany/Santana, minor Tina/Mike pre-het,

Genre: Horror

Disclaimer: I don't own.

A/N: I will finish this, I promise. If I don't send me many angry messages. Reviews are love. Title is from Remake Me & You by Diana Vickers.

Summary: You're still gone, maybe I should look for you. Hiding corners, baby I should be there too. Running far, it's the only way we'll save us. It's who we are, we'll see where it takes us. When zombies come, some will survive. Some won't. It's all too much. Things that would never happen normally, happen.

Kurt Hummel knows he is a badass. Well, he wants to be one. It's the same thing, really. Driving through the streets at high speed, hitting people, is badass. Well, they aren't actually people anymore. Zombies, it seems. He smacks into a really big one. Shit! The body rolls across the bonnet and he catches a glimpse of the face. Is it? Could it be? Finn Hudson, his step-brother to be? The car screeches to a halt as he jumps out and runs back to check. It is. Finn, a zombie. And dead. As dead as possible. Not zombie dead. Dead. Kurt feels he should do something, but what? And then he hears the roar of an engine. He turns around and sees a person - a live person - turning the car around and speeding down the street. He realises he left the key in the engine. Shit.

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Puck actually says a prayer when he catches sight of a large SUV, its engine running. People! He and Sarah stagger towards it and knock on the door. It's empty. He tries the handle, and the door opens. Yes! "Sarah, quickly. Here's a car!" Sarah runs towards him and jumps in. Puck lefts go of the handbrake and spins the car around. He's gathering speed when he sees a person on the ground, holding a body. Maybe he should stop. This person is live.
"Hey, can I help?" He asks quietly. His shock at seeing Finn Hudson lying on the ground is nothing when Kurt Hummel jumps up and hits him in the face. Behind him, Sarah whoops. "What's your deal, man?" he groans, rubbing his face. "That is my car!" Kurt exclaimed, "and in case you haven't noticed I just knocked down my step-brother." Puck looks down. That's Finn alright. "Is... Is he dead?"
"I hit him with a car."
"Right so, no need to go all drama queen on me. Want a lift?"
"It is MY car. I shall drive, thank you," he says, flouncing off to the car, before twisting back. "What shall I do with Finn?" Puck has no words. Even if they invented a cure, Finn was hit by a car. He was pretty messed up.
Kurt doesn't wait for an answer, but takes Sarah's hand (what! Puck wonders,) and brings her to the car.
"Coming then, Puckerman?"

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Brittany barely manages to get away from that creepy zombie - Coach Sylvester insisted all the girls did a Zombie And Other Creatures Survival Course. They learned how to escape from a bear - Brittany wasn't very good at it, she didn't like lying still - to escape a zombie. Brittany had this shit down. That was what Santana always said. Santana. Brittany made a mental plan - 1. escape zombie 2. save Santana. The zombie was at the foot of her bed. There was three possible escape routes: 1. roll left out of bed and make a run for it out the door 2. roll out of bed right and make a run for it out the door or 3. roll out of bed left and jump out the 2nd storey window. Brittany weighed her options. She had got the highest grade in zombie survival class. Coach Sylvester had called her a useless incapable blonde but she had also muttered good when Brittany karate kicked a blowup zombie before doing a cartwheel across the room. Brittany hadn't meant to do a cartwheel. She just did it because she was happy. Brittany decided option 3. was best. At the zombie survival class Brittany had been practising her running away from zombies when she realised the men in the zombie suits couldn't climb, so she had climbed up a hanging rope and hung there. Everyone forgot about her until Santana noticed she was missing. "Brittany, get down," Santana had called to her. Brittany really wanted to get a hug from Santana so she let go of the rope in excitement. Then she fell, landing on her feet like a cat. Brittany liked cats. Brittany's window was open, luckily. She liked a breeze. Sometimes, Santana visited her, climbing up the roses lattices. Rose lattices! She could climb down with them. Then she would break in the back door (part of the zombie class) and get her sisters tennis racket and her car keys. Yes, Brittany liked that plan. But the zombie had moved closer to her while she planned and was now on her left side, beside the window. Brittany's heart sank, until she realised she didn't know left and right at all. The window wasn't on the zombie side. So she leaped.

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Mike couldn't find Leah, his sister. Why hadn't he held her hand? He sat on the curb, ignoring the zombies in the distance, moving closer and closer. Why why why? He knew who had grabbed her. Peggy had taken a shine to Leah and the two were friendly. Peggy helped her bake cookies and buns and Leah painted pictures. Tim was jealous of their relationship. Tim also painted. Peggy never baked him cookies and buns. Getting rid of Leah would mean his wife would love him again.

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Quinn and her mother Judy are in Quinn's truck. Her mothers little Mini Cooper wasn't exactly suitable for this... setting. Quinn is driving, as her mother is currently shivering and shaking in the seat beside her. The cool, calm demeanour of earlier is gone, in it's place? A wreck.
"Family... Friends... Russell... " Words fall from her lips at random intervals.
Quinn's attention is diverted. "Dad?"
"We really should... See... Safe..." Judy opens her rucksack and pulls out her phone. Quinn can't stop her because she's after hitting a zombie. Again. Her mom has the phone up to her ear, but Quinn doesn't need supersonic hearing to hear that there is no dial tone.

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Santana knows her survival skills. Coach Sylvester was a fanatic on zombies. Brittany also knew her survival skills. But Brittany didn't have the best memory. She looks back at her phone. It doesn't even dial. She's going to have to find her herself. Best keep moving, she reckons, before they sniff her out. Beside her is a spade and a rake, and in her little pink handbag - which so don't go with her black silk pyjamas and white trainers - is makeup, money and a lighter. She considers throwing away the other stuff, but the lipgloss had cost her $20, and it was a Sue Sylvester approved product. There weren't many of those. And the money was about $70. So she kept it, as she got up and peered out of the door. Coast was clear, so she darted across the yard into her house, up the stairs like a devil, grabbing better clothes and a Sue Sylvester approved energy bar. She heads down, and out through the front door. The first thing she falls over is a dead body.

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Tina is shaking, still stirring her coffee. What to do? She has seen a few zombie flicks - Left 4 Dead and 28 Days. But then, most of that time was spent peeking through her fingers. She hasn't a clue. She knows they are moaning walking dead people. That's about all - except! She knows they need to be killed, and she knows how to kill people. With a gun.
Slipping in her hast to get to her parent's room, she runs towards it, and gets the hunting rifle from the closet, grabbing the box of shells and her fathers hunting hat to give it a real feel. Then she grabs some food, takes off her gorgeous skirt and slips on jogging bottoms, ties back her hair, and she is ready to go. She doesn't know that it's not a good idea to leave the house.