Title: The Cemetery Dawn
Author: StrangePhenomenon
Rating: R
Characters/Pairing: Eventual Puck/Kurt; other minor pairings
Genre: horror/angst
Warnings: Character death and gore. Also: slash and femslash.
Spoilers: All episodes that are out, to be safe. MORE OBVIOUS SPOILERS IN THIS PART FOR 'NEVER BEEN KISSED'.
Disclaimer: All characters and settings (except those of my own creation) belong to Fox.
Author's Note: Title comes from the wonderful song Magenta by Hooverphonic. Summary: Zombie AU.
Word Count: 339
Kurt
Looking for somewhere safe, yet again, they run into another surprise, and that surprise is Karofsky and Brittany. Santana shoves Brittany against a wall and kisses her, prompting an appreciative murmur from Puck. Finn just stares, mouth open so wide Kurt stifles a brief spurt of laughter.
The rest of them are eyeing Karofsky warily, because although life-or-death situations should override personal issues, they really don't. To his credit, Karofsky doesn't start anything, merely shuffles his feet and returns Kurt's gaze calmly, ignoring the others.
[ strong hands on his shoulders and lips much softer that he expected, and whatever Kurt has felt in the past, in this one frozen moment he understands perfectly, and the weight of it is so much that he gets the hell out of there before it breaks him. ]
Kurt looks away sharply, face flushing not from embarrassment or misplaced lust, but from the intensity of the memory, intensity he can still see in every line of Karofsky's body.
Mercedes is staring at him. He doesn't think he'll be able to stand it if she asks him anything, so he breaks the silence, and his voice is rougher than it should be.
"Did you – see anyone?" And yes, it's a deflection, but he still wants (needs) to know.
Karofsky nods. "Miss Pilsbury. She – " It's a moment before he continues.
"There was a bunch of use hiding in the cafeteria. But someone opened a door and they got in. Almost no one escaped. She got us out, but she got left behind."
They can all hear the sorrowful reverence in his tone, and Kurt looks at him with something like respect.
A few minutes later when they start to move again, he can't stop thinking about the look Karofsky gave him, the unabashed intimacy, and that's probably why he wanders away from the rest of them. When Kurt finally realizes his mistake, he looks around to see no one he knows, and a monster at the end of the hallway staring at him, all blood and torn clothes and endless hunger.