Series: Warm Bodies

Male: R

Glazed over blue eyes looked over the shambling bodies that filled the airport lobby. All around her bodies shuffled and grunted. A rattling sigh escaped her cracked lips, with a small groan she shuffled towards the dining hall.

This was her life now, well her unlife.

She didn't recall how she had ended up in the air port, just vague imagines of an evacuation and being on a plane for a very long time. Flashes of a young boy with brown eyes and black hair….an elder woman….

She scrunched up her face, trying to recall more yet it was like grasping at straws, or water.

It just slipped through her zombiefied fingers.

She grunted as she bumped into someone and looked at the person. She wanted to apologize, she knew it was rude to not apologize yet the words would not leave her mouth.

"Ah-or-orry-." Glazed over dark blue eyes met ice blue ones she had seen him around. Shambling around in his pants and red hoodie, sometimes hanging out with an older man that usually sat at the counter of the dining hall.

She wondered what his name was, did he even remember his name?

What was her name?

K-Ka….Kagura? No, that didn't sound right.

She knew it started with a K.

"Uh-uho-ooks." She blinked at the strangled sounds and turned to face the male again, he had replied…her lips quirked into a weird half smile that looked more like a grimace then anything.

"Yo-you…" She trialed off frustrated she couldn't voice her thoughts more. She hated this, this and eating people were the worst parts of being a 'zombie'.

There was also that void, that huge void that would never be filled. How she wanted to feel….

He seemed to understand her, a small light filing his eyes as he nodded his head. "I-y-ooouuu."

His lips slowly worked into a smile, the few light scars on his face moving with the motion, had those hurt? How had he gotten them? Pre death or post?

She hadn't even realized her hand had moved and was caressing his scars, running over the slightly raised skin. "H-hurrrt?" She was surprised that she was able to say so much, to get so much across!

His rough cold hand grabbed hers and pulled it from his face as he shook his head. "Noooooo mem...member." He hissed out the last of the word as he shrugged his shoulders.

"C-come." She tilted her head as he began dragging her towards an airplane, his home. He was one of the few to claim a 'home', she was debating finding a place to call home instated of just rambling around the airport but never really got around it.

It wasn't like she had much else to do, she wouldn't run out of time….the only thing the dead had to fear was becoming a Boneie.

She shuffled closer to him as she thought of the soulless things, even other zombies were afraid of them, they were just so empty. So hollow, she didn't want to become one of them.

Even if it meant eating humans, while she hated doing it she had to.

It kept her 'alive' and kept the emptiness away.

It made her feel alive, to relive their memories, to live through them and their experiences. She always made sure she ate all their brains, that way they wouldn't come back. No one should be forced to come back.

She hadn't even realized she had followed him into his home, only noticing it when he let go of her hand to shut the door behind them. She looked around the airplane looking at all the items that littered it. So very many…

Her fingers moved to caress the cool glass of a snow globe.

She remembered having one of these…when she was s child…

He stared at her, unblinking, watching as her eyes seemed to water yet no tears escaped them. He moved forward, placing a hand on her arm, there was something about her.

He had noticed her before, vaguely yet never paid her much mind. She was just another zombie, shambling around like the rest of them. He thought he was the only one, the only one who still thought, who tried to talk.

To live.

He was wrong; she had apologized to him for bumping into him and tired to hold a conversation with him.

He needed to get to know her.

"I-I'm R-rrrrrrrrr." He paused not recalling his full name just that it started with an R. He huffed, more out of frustration then need to, he was dead. He didn't need to breath.

She tore her gaze from the snow globe and met his gaze again, tilting her head. Rrrr? His name was Rrrrr? No…it couldn't be.

"Rrrrr?" The growl sounded almost scary coming from her and it made him shake his head.

"R." He pointed at himself before pointing at her. "Y-yoouuuu?"

She paused, trying to recall those few wisps of memories she had viewed not that long ago. A man, her…father…calling her…

"Ka…Ka..go…me." She paused letting it sink in, her name! Her name was Kagome!

"Kaagomay." He stuttered a bit as he tried to pronounce the foreign name, yet it rolled off his tongue and he liked it. He moved forward and grabbed her hand in his own.

"F-frieeennnddd?" He drew out the word, feeling like a moron for doing so but this talking again thing was newish and hard. He blinked as her fingers curled around his and she smiled up at him.

"Friends." He grinned right back and dragged her to sit in a chair as he moved around and turned on his record player, it was nice to have someone to talk to.

To have a friend someone who made him feel alive again, without having to eat them. He had found one in her and he was not about to let her go, to become a boneie or be killed by humans. He would protect her.

She was his friend, and secretly he wondered if they could one day become more? Was it even possible for zombies to feel love? If they could feel friendship then surely they could love...right?

As she turned to smile at him, patting the seat next to her, he could only smile back as he flopped into the seat next to her, loving the way she leaned her head on his shoulder. Trying to sing along to the song, though it sounded like a strangled cat he couldn't help but to think it was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard.

AN: Yes I saw the movie today with a friend and I loved it! Totally recommend it! I also have LOTS of ideas. So yeah. :D