Only about a month or two after the end of her vengeance in Seattle, nineteen-year-old Ellie Williams wanders through the ruins of a world that has taken everything from her. Scarred, restless, and alone, she crosses paths with Cassian Holt - an assassin in his early 20's raised by the infamous Silver Fangs guild. Cassian is precise, ruthless, and utterly unreadable, a man who treats silence as both weapon and shield. To Ellie's frustration, he's also young, sharp-eyed, and dangerously pragmatic.
When Cassian demonstrates his strange "bio-weapon" - a mysterious vial that melts a clicker's jaw like acid - Ellie's suspicion only deepens. He insists it's nothing more than chemistry, but Ellie can't shake the feeling he's hiding something darker. Against her better judgment, she falls into step with him, the bratty survivor clashing with the hooded killer in a tug-of-war between trust and defiance. She calls him "Cass" just to get under his skin. He calls her "kid" or "brat" because it fits too well.
But in a world where love is a liability, where silence can mean survival, and where secrets can kill faster than Cordyceps Virus, Ellie finds herself asking the one question she swore she was done with:
"Can I let myself care for someone again - or will I just watch him die too?"
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I do not claim ownership of the characters in this story outside any of my originals, such as the Silver Fangs & Cassian. I just write for fun, guys. All characters are written as my interpretations of them, so Be warned.
Also, obviously, Mature themes included. Sex, Blood and Gore, Foul language, etc. You know the drill by now.
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"God, I have my father's eyes- but my sister's when I cry.
I can run, but I can't hide from my family line."
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Cara Miller left the community that she had helped her uncle and aunt build from the ground up- in the name of finding a missing friend in the ruins of the old world.
She soon comes to the realization that she had bit off far more than she could chew, when she is suddenly thrown into a battle that she never should have been a part of.
Love, sacrifice, selfishness and loss are the only things that she finds on her quest across the country after she reunites with her estranged father while he smuggles an immune thirteen-year-old girl across the country, in the name of finding a cure that could save whatever was left of the crumbled world.
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LOVE INTEREST(S): light Henry Burrell x oc,
Oc x Manny Alvarez
Oc x Jesse
SEASONS: 1-
EPISODES COMPLETE: 1 (not following Joel and Ellie in 1-4 tho!!)
CHAPTERS COMPLETE: 4
SEASONS COMPLETE: 0
IDEA: March 2nd 2023
STARTED: April 28th 2025
PUBLISHED: May 24th 2025
FINISHED: 🚧
WRITING STATUS: ongoing.