Title: Dawning
Author: Lipstickcat
Pairing: Het (canon for Shawn/Abigail)
Rating: PG-13 for gore
Disclaimer: They aren’t mine. I promise to put them back when I’m done playing.
Note: 1,600 words. AU zombie!verse. This is angsty, involves character death, gore, and children. Its not a happy fic. Written for dial_a_psychic, because I give the nicest gifts to the people I love ;P

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( Nobody wants to go to a crime scene at a school )

Can I requisition some boleadoras? Please?

(6WS)

Wow, I'm a little stunned. I woke up this morning to discover that Lassie has been nominated for "Choice Drama/Action Writer" in the Arpea Awards! I'm seriously surprised and gleeful over this. I want to thank whoever nominated me and give them the biggest hug ever for making my day!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Now, obviously, I expect you all to go and vote, because Lassie likes to win at things! ;D

When reports of the virus started filtering onto the news, he hadn’t taken it seriously. It was no crime, plenty of people didn’t take it seriously, and it all seemed like an elaborate hoax, hyped up by a media that was bored by the lack of people getting killed that day…

… Week…

… Month…

It took less than twenty days for the first case to be diagnosed in Santa Barbara. It had travelled from Chicago to the West Coast in less than a month and as the news reports followed its progress, he had been forced to sit up and pay attention. Everyone had.

Still, he didn’t really believe it until he saw the hooker, the one on the beach, sucking on entirely the wrong part of her John’s body… He’d shot them both and it was the first time the Chief commendated him on killing an innocent person. Not that he made a habit of shooting innocent people through the head. But, that had been a pretty spectacular shot – killing two birds with one bullet.

Once it was here though, there was no cure, no way of getting rid of it and it spread so fast. People were dumb, they made themselves vulnerable. Maybe they liked being brainless consumer sheep and just wanted to go that last step.

He was not going down without a fight, though, and he had enough weaponry to smear a few zombie brains over the department’s cheery Mediterranean décor before they got him.

They should call it The Sucks.

6WS

At least Sweet Lady Justice hadn't left him yet.

Let me just clarify this for anyone who wasn’t paying attention the last three times. I don’t give a rat’s ass how much paperwork I need to fill in – I’ll use another day of my accumulated leave and do it in my own time if I have to. I don’t care if it takes a whole battalion of Dudley-Do-Rights to escort him down here. I want Despereaux incarcerated where I can see him!

I’ve been chasing him for six years. He’s my collar, gun or no gun, and I want him in a Californian High Security facility where I can keep an eye on him.

Does anybody have a problem with this?

…Uh… Chief?...

(JSI)

Damn airport won't release my gun!

6WS

As he sat on his lonely bed and turned the simple gold band over in his hand, he thought; if this is what moving on is about, he’d rather spare himself yet more of the pain stabbing across his chest, and not bother.

....Two elephants dancing on a bell......... I'll go get another appointment with the station shrink.

*struggles to aim with wounded bicep*

(6WS)

I’m sure when his mother gave birth to him she had big hopes for his future; I’m never happy watching some young punk bleed out over the floor, but my duty is to the people he was waving the gun at, not his mother.

Sgt. (Lady) Harriet Makepeace, from the British "crime drama", Dempsey and Makepeace. Forget Charlie's Angels, there was a strong, assertive woman. Harry was a pin up for any young rookie. I even named one of my lovebirds after her.

I admit that these days I have a bit of a soft spot for Detective Olivia Benson, from Law and Order:SVU, but she's not a patch on Makepeace.

......Can I borrow a games console?

6WS

Your Fortune Is: Passionate kiss like spider web, soon lead to undoing of fly.

Follow these wise words carefully.

.............. Right...............