Zombie Tommyinnit : I'm So Cold

The Beginning

(Set 10 months earlier before the first chapter. Currently December. Trigger warnings: gore, depictions of suicide, death, and zombies. If i forget any, please let me know!)

Wilbur POV:

It was a calm, cool winter day. The branches rustled and snow drifted. It was like a winter wonderland. That was the day everything stopped. All four of us were at the park having a snow day. Tommy was having a snowball fight with techno and me and phil were attempting to build a snow man.

I can still remember it vividly. The calm before the storm. The laughs before the screams. We were all just having fun, before a rugged cry went through the air. I swung my head up, taking my focus off the giant ball of snow. There i saw it. I still have nightmares to this day. A person in a blue coat, smeared with blood on the ground as another person attacked them. We didn't know what to do. Another person ran up and started hitting and pushing the attacker off of the man is the bloody blue coat.

That's when i saw their face. The attacker wore a yellow scarf, drenched in blood as flesh and red covered their mouth and in their teeth as they let out a horrendous growl.

That's when phil yelled at us to get back to the car "kids! G-get back to the car, NOW!" He yelled, grabbing my arm to pull me up from where i was kneeling in the snow. I saw fear cross phil and tommy's face, even techno was looking worried.

"Dad, what's going on?" Tommy said, trying to hide his fear, but i could tell he was anxious. "I don't know toms, let's just get home" phil replied, and we all followed him back to where our car was parked, getting strapped in our seatbelts quickly.

It all felt like a blur, driving through the streets and i could already tell everything was going wrong. On the side walks there were more people attacking others and biting them. "What's wrong with them?" I heard techno mumble to himself. I was wondering the same thing, and I'm positive tommy and dad were thinking the same. But we all ended with the same answer. We don't know.

Suddenly the car skidded to a stop, as we saw someone falling from a building. "Don't look!" Dad said to us as the body hit the ground, blood splattering against the cement and the side of our car. The body fell right next to our car and I looked out the window, seeing the body crushed by gravity limp on the ground. I froze in my spot, breath catching.

Dad quickly tried driving away from the body, avoiding driving over the dead body. I kept staring, and i gasped when i saw the body start to get up as we drove away. "Th-the body is moving! Their alive!" I yelled in shock. It became silent again as we all froze. "Bodies don't get up from falling that height will... they fell from a 10 story building. It isn't possible..." phil said, talking as though he needed to convince himself of that more.

We continued to drive down the hectic streets, soon pulling into our driveway of the house. It was a nice house, we moved in 6 years ago when me and techno were 16 and tommy was just 10. Now we're 22 and tommy is 16. We were planning to go to college soon. We had gone to get jobs right out of high school to help dad with the bills while tommy was still in school. Now it felt like college was so far away. This may be the start of the end.

We quickly made ourselves out of the car, rushing into the house before phil slammed the door shut and locked it. "Boys, go to your rooms and pack up your essentials. We're going on a trip." He said and we ran to our rooms.

Before i opened my door, i felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned to face tommy, who wore a worried expression. "Wilbur... what's going on? Why did that person attack people?" He sounded like a little kid again, it made me frown. I pulled him into my chest, hugging my little brother tight "toms... don't worry okay? I'm not sure what's going on, but i know we'll be okay. I'll make sure to protect you, alright? All of us will keep you safe. You're okay.." i whispered, running my fingers through his golden strands of hair.