#nuclear decay

[spinef0ryou]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27824527/chapters/90915733

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

posted a new chapter the other day!

“Hey,” he said, looking over to Simon with a smile he knew was too sharp to be entirely humorous, “d’you reckon Scab still works for them?”

Simon returned his grin with a long, even look. “I don’t know,” he replied. His tone was full of warning, even though they both knew Edsel had the tendency to take a warning as a dare.

“If he does, I'd love to burst into his poky little office and tell him he can gargle my balls. No fucking consequences, cuz he ain’t the boss of me any longer.” Edsel sighed, looking away with a wistful smile. Scab had been a thorn in his side for years despite only a handful of months getting under his skin, and he’d never been very good at forgiving people.

[queerbauten]

Guess what I have stuck in my head

[spinef0ryou]

[spinef0ryou]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27824527/chapters/77694317

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The aquarium had become a second base of sorts for them, even with all the horror. The cultists preferred their farm area on the archipelago, finding it a safe haven they only left to antagonise the Suns and the Flood, and those gangs preferred big fortified buildings like the old prison. The aquarium might not be an ideal base - especially with the hotel they’d found - but it was a base with an easy way out of Seattle if they needed it, so they still kept it well stocked.

Lucia just wished that she didn’t have to come along on these missions.

[spinef0ryou]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27824527/chapters/77633639

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Supplies had been slowly dwindling. They were down to a week’s worth now, if that, and Joey was getting nervous because most of the suppliers had already left, so Wednesday and Acey were off on a supply run.

There were still a few suppliers left in the city. Wednesday favoured one of them; a strange man named Argyle who always managed to unnerve Acey.

The man was pretty harmless, living and working in the shadow of the city wall. He was vicious and capable when it came to killing Infected, but Wednesday had never seen him lift a finger to a person, despite how slick he could be sometimes. He was strangely calm, and admittedly that was unnerving, but Wednesday didn’t see him as the threat Acey did.

[spinef0ryou]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27824527/chapters/75977816#workskin

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Abbey was already thinking. “We gotta make this building safe first. I know we don’t have many spores, and we can close off the spored up areas, but Infected still get in all the time. We gotta block their entrances before we do anything. Then we extend our little safe bubble to a whole block, and then make a safe passage to the QZ limits so people can actually get in. If more people are here then we can expand even more, until we finally recapture the district.”

“It would be cool if we could recapture the whole quarantine zone,” Ryan sighed wistfully. “Like that gang in Des Moines.”

[spinef0ryou]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27824527/chapters/72377166

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The pile of gleaming metal next to him seemed to calm him, but mundane shit like cleaning and sharpening and polishing weapons always seemed to ground him pretty well. Repetitive tasks had always put him in a state of ease, where he was calm enough to think properly on other shit, away from distraction. They were regimented in a way that made everything else seem easy to deal with, ordered and neat like they could transcribe it to anything else.

[spinef0ryou]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27824527/chapters/69038199

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“Everyone wants some of Seattle.” He sighed, wondering if he’d made a mistake coming here.

Well, it beat the New York QZs, which amounted to something, so he decided he shouldn’t fuss over it too much. If the others wanted to leave they’d have voiced it by now, and they were safe in their base.