[fic] the song of the dead; lost, ensemble; pg13

[krickets]

title; rating: the song of the dead; pg13
fandom, characters; wordcount: jack, kate, sawyer, charlotte, daniel, juliet; 456
notes: for valhalla37 who wanted tropes

The storage room door opens with a thundering boom and Jack is nearly trampled by the bodies rushing in behind him: Juliet, Kate, Daniel and Charlotte squeeze their way past him and into the small enclosure.

"Hold the door, Doc!" Sawyer's voice calls from a little ways a way, and then he stumbles into the room, Jack slamming the door shut behind him.

"You might wanna brace yourselves," Sawyer says, catching his breath, his hands on his knees.

The group sets to work, Jack, Kate and Charlotte holding the door closed tight as a series of bangs and screams and moans comes from the other side. Juliet, Sawyer, and Daniel begin moving shelves and other heavy objects to block the way.

"Are they chanting?" Charlotte says once they have the door secure.

"Sounds like it," Kate nods.

"What are they saying?" Jack asks, listens closely.

"Well if it's all the same to you all, I'd rather not fucking know," Sawyer says.

"I agree," Daniel nods.

This scene goes on for minutes, the voices and the banging rising and rising again.

"They seem to be moving on," Juliet says when the noise finally stops.

"What in the hell was that?" Kate asks.

"I've definitely never seen anything like that," Charlotte pipes in. "Have any of you?"

The group exchanges looks, a few people shrug.

Then, "I have," Jack says, his eyes meeting Juliet's. She has too. "They look like...," he starts.

"Corpses," Juliet finishes for him. "They look like corpses. The level of decomposition is startling. It's amazing they can walk," she continues.

"Now wait just a god damn minute," Sawyer interrupts. "You're not talking about--"

"Zombies," Daniel says, and a sudden quiet falls over the group. "Those were definitely zombies."

After a moment of silence, Sawyer grabs the nearest blunt object.

"Well, we sure as fuck ain't staying in here."

The others follow his lead, finding anything that could be used as a weapon. Kate picks up a broom and unscrews the handle from the base. Jack breaks apart a crate, hands weapons to Juliet and Daniel. Charlotte picks up a long pair of hedge cutters and slings a rope around her shoulder. Sawyer finds a hammer, another broom handle, and a small saw, hands them to some of the others. He keeps the broom for himself.

"The armory's not too far from here," Kate suggests, obviously unsatisfied with their weaponry.

"No. It's too risky," Juliet shakes her head.

Daniel nods, "They were all gathering in that part of the compound."

"The sub," Jack says.

Charlotte agrees, "It's our best chance."

Sawyer puts his ear to the door, listens for a moment, looks back towards the others.

"Ready?" he says.

One by one, they all nod.

Comments

[gigglemonster.livejournal.com]

This is fucking awesome!!
You should totally write a sequel :D

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahha, thank you. Doubtful! But thank you!

[angela-weber.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I LOVE this. Totally cracky, but the characters' reactions are also totally believable! You're awesome! :D

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was fun to come up with dialogue for everyone. Really unsure about some of their voices but I tried! :)

[colourmayfade.livejournal.com]

ZOMBIES!!! My favorite trope. ♥ Love this.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, it's a pretty good trope. I am actually really jonesing for some claire/jack/sawyer zombie fic after I had this insane jawyercita/resident evil crossover dream the other night, haha.

Thank you!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

God, I love zombie fic.

And zombie fic featuring pretty much all of my favorite characters? AWESOME. :D

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I struggled to get all of these guys in there for valhalla37!

Thank you!

[gabi-sm.livejournal.com]

I agree.
Sequel, please!
I'm just too curious!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. I don't know if I could do a sequel. I can tell you that the journey to the sub would not be as uneventful as they imagined, that we might meet up with some of their other friends [claire, miles, richard?] and that Juliet would probably be the first to get eaten, lol.

[gabi-sm.livejournal.com]

I think you don't like Juliet very much. lol

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahah, unfortunately you're right.

[weatheredlaw.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of my attempts to finish read World War Z. I love zombies, but they give me nightmares. XDD Good job. I think I sequel would just sort of kill how perfect it is.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of that. I'll have to look it up.

Thanks!

[valhalla37.livejournal.com]

THIS IS SO, SO AWESOME.

God, I LOVE zombie!fic, and this is so damn cool. And I love that you got so many awesome characters in here -- Sawyer's voice and Jack and Juliet recognizing the zombies for what they were was especially awesome -- and that it ends at kind of the height of the action, so the whole thing's got this great air of tenseness. So, so fantastic -- thank you so much for writing this! :D

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Oh whee! I'm so glad I got this right. It took me a while to come up with what trope to use and how to involve all of these characters. I actually had this weird resident evil/lost [really just jack, claire, and sawyer] dream right before I wrote this, so that's what sort of solidified my choice of trope, lol.

Glad it was fun for you and that you enjoyed it!