Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Long, Long Time by quincette
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
06 Feb 2023
Tags
Summary
“I’m not infected.” When Nicolò stayed silent, he said it again, this time in Italian.
He still had his crossbow trained on the man as he watched him pull himself out of the hole using the rope tied to a pine tree not far from it.
The scanner flashed green. Nicolò carefully turned it off and tucked it back in his satchel.
“I’m Joe,” the man said, holding both arms up like he was surrendering. “I mean no harm.” His Italian was fluent. “I came by boat. It needed supplies, and I–I haven’t eaten for three days… I know it’s probably nothing compared to what happened in some quarantine zones, but–”
He had heard horror stories from the radio about the lawlessness of the mainland and beyond, where the strong and the prepared preyed upon the weak and the careless. But if the man meant to kill him for his cottage, chickens, two cows and a sad vegetable patch, he was welcome to them. Call it destiny.
———
Lone survivor Nicolò takes in a starving castaway for a few days. Not a long time at all.
Yusuf has been surviving the zombie apocalypse by staying on his boat, then he literally falls into a hole on a tiny Maltese island.