Seventeen Zombie Apocalypse AU

🧪Twenty three🦠

Vernon lowered his arms from his face, squinting at the figures in front of him, barely able to make out their faces due to the light being shone in his face. The male holding the torch, directed it down and Jihoon turned his torch on as well, allowing more light to spread across the room.
"Vernon?" The second male asked. He had messy jet black hair that reached his ears and a thin fringe that brushed just above his eyes. The male next to him had longer hair than him that had been dyed blonde and angelic looking features on his face.

Vernon was speechless as he stared at the two males in front of him, his eyes shifting between them. The room was uncomfortably silent, the others in the room confused at the interaction happening in front of them.
"why do you know everyone we run into??" Mingyu spoke up, breaking the silence and directing his rhetoric question towards the American.
"Vernon is that really you?" The dark haired male asked again, this time receiving a small nod from Vernon.
"are you going to tell us who they are or are you just going to continue to stand there and gawk at them?" Jihoon asked impatiently, becoming frustrated.

"uhm yeah sorry...that's Jeonghan" he said as he gestured to the blonde haired male who gave a short nod in return. Soonyoung's ears perked up at the name, remembering hearing it somewhere but not sure where exactly. Vernon then turned his attention to the other male,
"and this is...Seungcheol" he introduced the dark haired male as, not fully believing he was standing in front of him. Everyone's eyes widened at the name,
"Seungcheol? as in Y/n's brother Seungcheol?" Seokmin asked, waiting for confirmation from Vernon. Seungcheol immediately furrowed his brows,
"how do you know my sister?" he asked, his tone defensive. Vernon quickly interjected,
"These guys let us stay with them when all this shit started, they're our friends" Vernon explained.
"Us? is Y/n with you?" He asked, his eyes lighting up with hope.

"yes...well she was....we got separated from her on our way here, I'm sure she's fine though, she's probably back at our base by now" Soonyoung said, trying to reassure himself more than anyone else that she was okay. Soonyoung gained Seungcheol's attention,
"so you're saying you don't know where she is?" he asked, glaring at the males he was unfamiliar with.
"At least you know she's okay and that's she's alive, they were with her not that long ago" Jeonghan tried to reassure, which seemed to calm him down slightly.
"I knew she was alive but it makes me feel better actually hearing it from other people and knowing for sure" he mumbled, offering an apologetic look to the others in the room.

"You know...she hasn't stopped looking for you, she talks about you everyday, you're actually pretty famous back at our base" Mingyu laughed, causing the older boy to smile, he was glad his little sister cared as much as he did about finding one another.
"Oh and we bumped into Joshua not that long ago, he's back at our base as well" Vernon informed, causing both males to sign in relief.
"Thank god...I was worried we wouldn't see him again" Jeonghan uttered, a sad smile on his face, he clearly worried a lot for his best friend while he was gone.

"What were you guys doing here anyway?" Vernon asked.
"The same thing as you I assume, we came here trying to find answers on why everything's gone to shit, but we couldn't find anything" Seungcheol answered, feeling as though they wasted their time looking for answers that weren't even there in the first place. But he supposed that if they decided not to come, he wouldn't have bumped into Vernon's group and wouldn't be able to find his sister quicker than he wanted to.

"You can come back with us if you want, it's going to take us a while to make it back though so we should get going now if we're going to leave" Soonyoung interrupted, his tone flat and somewhat tense. His feelings were conflicted, he was happy that Y/n would finally be able to reunite with her brother whom she's been looking for this whole time, but he was also worried that she would end up leaving them now that she got what she wanted. He didn't want her to leave. And as selfish as that sounded, he didn't care, he didn't want her to leave him behind, he enjoyed her company and wanted it to stay that way.