Archive of Our Own ^beta

Chapter Text

!!WARNINGS!!

This is a Zombie Apocalypse AU, which means:

- simping
- love
- strong language/cursing
- dark theme
- minor dark humor
- some kinky thoughts
- mentions of a near death experience
- mentions of an abusive relationship
- mentions of sex
- sex
- strong language
- cursing
- corpses/dead bodies
- blood
- gore
- violence
- death
- angst/heavy angst
- drugs
- alcohol
- abuse
- panic attacks
- anxiety attacks
- starvation
- dehydration
- hallucination
- torture
- murder
- attempted murder
- cannibalism
- mental illnesses
- possessive behaviour
- kidnapping
- attempted rape
- forced relationship
- abusive relationship
- captivity
- crime
- kissing
- human experiments
- experiments
- sleeping with someone
- forced feminism
- human shield
- human sacrifice
- committing suicide
- depression
- self-harm
- forced self-harm
- self-hate

I will most likely need to put more. If I forgot anything please do tell me.

Chapter Text

Wilbur couldn't believe his bad luck.

First he accidentally stepped on a cat's tail, then proceeded to almost get run over by a bus, forgot to lock his apartment door, so he ended up getting robbed when he got back home, his landlord decided to be a shitass today and threw him out of the complex and the worst one of the day, was when one of the strings on his guitar broke causing him to curse out loud in front of a christian mother.

So now he's stuck sitting on a bench in a nearby park, looking angrily at his phone and sourly searching to see if any of his friends were available at the moment, to come and pick him up.

As he was looking through his phone, trying to search for any nearby hotels so he would have a place to crash in for the night, he stumbled across one of his and his girlfriend's- now ex-girlfriend, since Sally decided that he finally wasn't good enough to keep around anymore- photos of them smiling and cuddling together and started deleting them without a second of hesitation.

He was actually meaning to break up with her a while ago, because things weren't working between them and she was getting more and more demanding and kept on buying more and more expensive stuff with his own damn money.
But in the end, he never could bring himself to bring it upon the table, since he was too afraid of her reaction.
See, Sally goes to the same college as him, and in the said college everyone sees her as their little innocent star. So if he didn't do as she says, she could very easily make up a story about how he's abusing and hurting her, and have fucking police bringing him to custody the very next fucking day.

Hell, at times he's worried she'll do it just for the heck of it and then watch him get beaten to death by others on the college grounds.

But that wasn't important now, as he waited for his friends to come pick him up.
As he expected they laughed at him as soon as they reached him, but luckily enough for him, they soon decided to stop their teasing and try to actually cheer him up.
But sadly knowing them, Wilbur was not amused or surprised at the slightest when they brought him to a fucking Zoo of all things to cheer him up. As they started walking in he realised that in the end he was too tired to try and start protesting or resisting, so he quietly followed them in.

Besides, on the bright side, he did love animals...well most of the animals. Yeah, looking at you anteaters.

So that's how Wilbur a few hours later, found himself watching a pair of sloths (idk if they're usually in groups or if it's just a singular one on display at all times) slowly climbing a tree, with his phone battery dead and his friends nowhere to be seen.

Whatever curse has been bestowed on him for today, seemed to of have been lifted when a very fucking cute boy with soft-slightly-longish-brown-looking hair and beautiful piercing blue-sky eyes, tapped him on the shoulder. Wilbur assumed the mesmerising being standing slightly behind him was talking as he saw their soft looking lips starting to move, but he for some reason couldn't hear anything, as he was too busy admiring the divine being that was blessed upon him.

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Techno was having a confusing yet annoying day today.

First, he was rudely aweken by some horney neighbours having sex at 2 in the fucking morning.
But it got better when he went out to the animal shelter across his apartment to stay with the animals for a little while. (Yes the animal shelter was opened at that time, and yes the owners did let techno just come in and start playing with the animals, as they are very fond of him and he helps calm the animals down a lot.)

He sadly had to leave soon enough since he had an early start at his college today. Although he might have just stayed if he knew that as soon as he got to his collage, his professors would send him to a nearby Zoo straight away, to write an essay about his experiments with every damn animal. He had to write for the whole day about every move they made and how he felt about it. (Was tempted to delete this whole chapter, not gonna lie.)

Honestly he was tempted to just write whatever to be gone and done with, but as usual his professors put extra attention into grading his works, as they want him to be the perfect example of how a student should be.

It doesn't help that everyone hates him already because every teacher makes it so obvious, that he's their favourite, since he actually listens and follows in their classes.

But on the bright side, the animals were actually pretty nice to observe so it wasn't all that bad.

The night was starting to approach and the Zoo was starting to close, so he packed all his things and stood up to head towards the nearby library, to check over his work. But before he could actually step a few steps from his spot, he noticed a brunette absentmindedly staring at the now sleeping sloths. Now techno can't say that he knows a lot of people that have the patience to look at the slow moving animal for long, no matter how cute they may be. But what's getting kinda concerning is the fact that this guy isn't showing any signs of moving from his spot even though almost the whole Zoo is already empty at this point.

Techno slowly walked up to him and called out to the man a couple of times, with no luck of getting a reaction. He mustered the courage to take a few more steps so he was standing behind the male and decided to tap him on the shoulder. The male slowly turned around and techno found himself staring into deep brown honey like eyes and was met with a dazed look plastered on the strangers face, making him blush a little at the intensity of the gaze.

He gulped at silence, but still tried to tell the other the Zoo was closing and he should start heading home. The other didn't respond or react for that matter, at all, causing techno to feel more anxious and nervous about the situation. He tried shaking the others shoulder to get him out of whatever trance he was in but it didn't seem to work as the other just kept on staring at him.

Techno was just about to give up and go get the Zookeeper's to try and get the male to leave or call the ambulance to help or escort him, but was stopped when he heard the Zoo's siren go off intimidating that the Zoo was literally about to be closed and that if someone is still in there, they should get out now or risk getting locked in there for the night.

Techno quickly grabbed the brunette's hand and tried to pull him up to make him follow him while desperately calling out to him to get up and moving. The other still wasn't responding or moving so techno in a panic did the only thing he could think of.

He slapped him. HARD.

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Wilbur had no clue what was going on. One second he was admiring the beauty in front of him, and the next he was clutching the side of his face in pain.

He could feel himself getting dragged along by someone that surprisingly has very soft skin and smaller hands than him. If he didn't know the one pulling him was a male from the other's voice he would have thought a woman was the one dragging him away.

Once he came back to his senses and finally fully remembered what was happening, he and the- now that he has a good look at the cute male- shorter boy, were resting outside the Zoo's walls since they had to run to get out in time.

As he was about to apologize for his behaviour, the cute brunette- god damn it he has to stop simping for this man- beat him to it, when he started to hurriedly apologising and reaching out with his hands like he wants to touch wilburs face to observe the damage he caused and honestly Wilbur wouldn't say no if the other did- no, stop! Focus!- so he chuckled at the other's guilty looking face and told him that it was fine and that he himself should be the one apologising for putting the other in such a situation/position.

The stranger that undoubtedly saved him from being locked in a cold ass zoo for the night, seemed to relax at that for a second, but the next he was looking at wilbur with such anger wilbur was starting to worry he said something horribly wrong or offensive without realising.

As it looked like the other was about to make a move, Wilbur wondered if the other would slap him again. He honestly really hoped so, he quite enjoyed the sting he got afterwards- wait since when was he into this kind of shit?!- but only if it came from the other smaller male--

And Wilbur's thought process was once again cut short, by a pinch on his arm this time.

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Techno didn't know what to do again.

One second this stranger and him were apologising to one another, in the next techno was about to scold the other for his stupidity, but notice he was spacing out again.

He didn't want to slap him this time, not wanting to hurt him, since he clearly had some attention problems, so he decided on pinching the other on the arm, in hopes of getting him back to earth.

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Wilbur stared un-movingly at the shorter, and wondered if he should pretend to still be spaced out in hopes the other will have to slap him again, but soon abandoned the idea when he realised the other could just leave him or call the police. So he smiled apologetically at the other and apologised again for his rude behaviour.

The other sighed and looked at him in the eyes and opened his mouth to say something, when--