When Nicolas comes across Theo's small cottage out in the woods, he's badly injured, starving, and probably on the brink of both death and insanity. A infectious, deadly disease has wiped out most of the population and society, nearly everyone is dead in America now. If this new, post-apocalypse world has taught them literally anything, it's to be scared of what desperate people would do for a bit of food, water, and shelter- so why the hell is it so easy for them to trust each other? ____________ This story contains Mentions of smut Cursing Violence Blood Mentions of death, blood, and violence