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I’d rip my brains out for your love.
Gerard way, is a writer who is currently working on a comic. He’s writing a comic book called “Umbrella Academy” while in his room. His room is pretty messy, with sweatshirts on the floor, and scraps of trash and wrappers. Gerard isn’t the cleanest person, and right now he is just focused on getting this book done. It feels like he hasn’t gone out of bed in days, as he is passionate about his work. As his pencil scribbles down every idea, since he is just writing a rough draft, a loud noise blares in his ears.
It’s coming from his phone, his eyes dart to the device as a message appears.
“WARNING-APPOCLAPYSE!!”
Gerard immediately picks up his phone off his bed as he reads the message,
“Currently a virus has been spreading in Russia, that makes humans have brain and flesh eating tendencies, makes their skin rot, and basically turns them into real life zombies, currently there is a mass amount of people in the United States struggling with this virus. Please stay inside, and plan for numerous days!”
Gerard’s face scrunches up in confusion. “A zombie apocalypse?” The man questions in his head, “How the fuck is that happening in real life? This must be an April fools prank.”
He tosses the phone on his bed, but far from him. It in fact, is not April but the middle of August. He doesn’t really look at calendars, or his phone or anything that often. And even if he did recently, he forgets what day it is. He lives through the day like normal, he gets up, cooks some ramen, and as he’s pouring the boiling water into the cup of noodles he gets a call. He ignores it until the caller calls him over 5 times. He looks down at his phone and sees it’s his brother, Mikey calling his phone.
He immediately calls him back and Mikey's voice fills the room.
“GERARD!! I was at the carwash, and a zombie broke my fucking window, I'm currently running away and their multiplying!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!”
On screen he sees his brother get chased by like 5 zombies. Luckily they are the stereotypical, slow zombies so Mikey is likely ok. Gerard still is skeptical and convinces himself it’s a prank. Until he looks outside, and holy shit. All the houses around him have smashed windows, blood on them, and he even sees organs splattered across the sidewalk. He lets out a scream at this gory sight.
He freaks out a bit in his head until he gets a text from his brother, Mikey.
“I just found a bunker with a lot of other humans! It's 100% safe you need to get here immediately! The address is 123 676767 Milkfic street.”
Gerard slams his front door open and runs to his car. He starts it and goes over the speed limit just to get to the bunker. It’s underground so he opens the hatch and goes down the ladder. He doesn’t think the bunker is the safest since there is no passcode to get in but whatever. Micheal runs to Gerard and hugs him in a tight embrace as Gerard awkwardly smiles,
“Oh my god!! I'm so glad you're safe! I was worried you would get eaten on your way here!”
Mikey exclaims, showing genuine relief on his face. Gerard keeps that smile on his face and says,
“I'm so glad you're safe, from that facetime call it looked like you were done for!”
Mikey lets go from the hug and starts talking to the others in the bunker. Gerard does the same. After around 5 minutes a guy, around 40 years old speaks up,
“Hey, this bunker doesn’t have any storage, or a kitchen.. Where’s all the food?”
After the guy says that there is silence, followed by panic. Nobody has food, or is there food in the bunker! Everyone searches the room for any source of food. At one point people are crying because they know they will have to be in there for days. Mikey decides to be a good human being and says,
“I can just quickly go to the store and try getting as much food as possible! I know the risk but I don’t want any of us to starve. Especially since there are children here!”
Everyone cheers at his bravery, but the 40 year old man speaks up again,
“Are you insane? Have you been outside? I saw a zombie claw open a woman's chest and ate her stomach while ripping out her bones. It was a bloody mess! You really think those ruthless zombies are going to go easy on you just because you care about us? Oh please we’ll see you dead and cut open in the middle of the highway.”
That makes Mikey hesitate. The room panics again until Gerard says
“I don’t care what happens to me, I can get us some food, if I don’t come back, I don’t come back. But we all need to eat.”
He climbs out of the bunker, his hands reluctant to grab on each bar of the latter. Once he is out there he climbs into his car and starts to drive. One he drives for around 3 minutes a zombie throws itself on top of Gerard's car, causing him to swerve into the grass. The zombie flops onto the ground and Gerard runs it over, twice. He then drives to a nearby convenience store, grabs a bag and starts stuffing it with every item in reach.
As he loads the contents of the shelves into his bag he feels a sharp pain in his leg. The pain is unbearable and he lets out a yell. He immediately looks down and sees a rotting corpse, a zombie. It seems skinnier than most zombies. But Gerard grabs a bottle of mountain dew and swings it at the zombies head. The zombie passes out right then and there. He exits the store and goes back to his car. But he freezes immediately once he hears a scream that sounds human. He pushes the car door open and looks around. He goes back into the store. The zombie yells,
“PLEASE! JUST HELP ME!”
As the zombie pleads, Gerard is really confused. He has only heard zombies grunt and make weird mumbly noises. Never full sentences. He looks down at the zombie and looks it up and down. The zombie stands up, Gerard realizes how much it looks human. The only inhuman feature is the rotting skin and the blood covering his face.
“I’m barely a zombie, I’m super hungry. I haven't eaten since I got this virus and I'm starving. I won’t eat you; I just need food.”
The zombie says, looking desperate. Gerard feels sympathy even though the zombie is nonhuman. But Gerard looks down at the bag in his hand and remembers if he doesn’t go back to the bunker, they will all think he’s dead. So Gerard goes back into the car and the zombie jumps in. Gerard is in a rush so he just lets this happen.
He returns to the bunker, once he climbs down the latter everyone looks at him, and then looks at the bag of stuff in his arms. Gerard dumps the contents of the bag onto the floor. Some people reach for food but most want to save the food until they really need it. Many people thank Gerard for his bravery.
The time in the bunker is boring, there is literally nothing to do. So Gerard pulls out a notepad and a pencil and for hours works on writing comics. But Gerard cannot stop thinking about that god damn zombie! In fact, Gerard even writes a short story about it. In the middle of the night Gerard slowly climbed up the bunker ladder and went outside.
The zombie was waiting for him. It was in terrible shape, still hungry but the zombie told Gerard more about itself.
“My name is Frank and I was at a concert during the virus outbreak, I got bit pretty quickly. I just haven’t found anyone to eat yet.”
“Why haven’t you eaten me? You have had multiple chances too. I even led you to the bunker, couldn’t you sneak in or something?”
Gerard asks. Gerard does not want to be eaten but he was curious why Frank didn’t eat him even with the opportunities.
“I don’t know.. It’s just something about you kind of stopped me. But maybe you could sneak back into your bunker and give me someone to eat..?”
Frank replied.
“You want me to let you cannibalize someone?!”
Gerard answered.
“Well yeah, kind of.”
Frank said back. Gerard thinks about it a lot. He doesn't want to let this random stranger eat someone, but something about Frank pulls him in.
“This seems morally wrong.”
“Let me put it this way, you bring me people, or I starve so bad I eat you.”
Gerard’s brain works overtime, he is debating doing this in his head. But eventually he reluctantly snuck back into the bunker. He nudged someone awake.
“Hey, I heard Zombies are allergic to moon light.. Want to have a walk? I need a break from all of this.”
Gerard says. The other person is super skeptical but then just goes with him. The second the other guy exists the zombie eats him. Frank uses his claws to claw out his eyeballs, the fingernails crush the eyes like grapes. Blood squirting everywhere like juice. Frank pops the eyes into his mouth and digs though his eyes until he reaches the brain. He digs his sharp(ish) teeth into the juicy meat. Gerard gags a lot. He can’t stand the sight. He rushes back into the bunker like nothing happened.
He is deeply traumatized but doesn’t think any less of frank. Franks hunger for flesh grows and grows. THe next day Gerard sneaks out of the bunker.
“Thanks for last night, I really was hungry..”
Frank says, dried blood on his lip.
“That was a one time thing though.. I am probably going to be scarred for life.”
Gerard replies, his eyes are kind of wide.
“What? But I'm still hungry. And there’s so many more people.. Come on please?”
Gerard sighs, he does not want to do this but seeing frank sad kills him inside. He lures another person.
This time Gerard immediately runs down back to the bunker to not watch. But Frank bites open his forehead and peels the skin off, revealing the skeleton and muscle. Frank’s teeth tear into the tender meat.
Gerard starts a routine of this. Every night Gerard gets someone to take to Frank. The amount of missing people becomes increasingly noticeable, this causes panic.
One night Mikey talks to Gerard, “I’m horrified by what's happening, why are so many people disappearing? I think there is a vampire inside here!!”
Gerard reassures Mikey everything will be ok.
“I don’t know what is happening Mike, but we will be ok in the end trust me.”
Later that night Gerard sneaks another person out to Frank. But Gerard did not realize Mikey was still awake. When Mikey realizes the person did not come back, he knows what Gerard did.
That morning Mikey tells everyone,
“I saw Gerard take a guy outside and he hasn’t returned.. I know Gerard is my brother but…I think he is a zombie or something..”
Mikey is kind of shaky and scared while saying this. Gerard is upset he got caught, he goes defensive.
“I went outside with that guy to get fresh air and I witnessed the trauma of watching his head get fucking eaten, and in return I get accused of killing him by my own brother!!”
Gerard storms out. When he sees Frank he starts crying.
“I hate you! You are making me bring people for you to devour!! This is sick!”
“Then why are you bringing them? It’s your choice I’m not forcing.”
Gerard pauses fully when Gerard says that. Before Gerard answers Mikey comes out.
“Look dude I’m sorry I should've never accused you I was-”
Frank tackles him and starts eating him in front of Gerard. Gerard sobs and shoves Frank off him. But it’s too late.
Frank killed Mikey.
“WHAT THE FUCK FRANK!!! OMG I CANT BELIEVE THIS!!”
Frank sees Gerard sobbing next to him and genuinely feels sorrow. For the next week Gerard never leaves. In the bunker all he does is cry and mourn his brother. He can’t believe this happened and he is in so much sadness.
He eventually does leave the bunker. He stares at Frank.
“I am genuinely sorry, I did not know that was someone who you were close to.. I can make it up to you.”
Frank says.
“HOW? How could you possibly make it up to me! After you killed my brother! You evil vile cunt!”
Gerard yells back.
There is a long pause.
“Head?”
Gerard slaps him in the face.
“You think head could make me forgive you after killing my fucking brother? You ate Mikey right in front of me, I saw the light leave his radiant eyes and you want to give me head?”
“Well, you’ve been helping me all this time I just thought that’s what you wante-”
“Of course that’s what I wanted! BEFORE you killed my fucking brother!”
Gerard Way runs into his car and leaves. While this is happening Frank opens the hatch to the bunker and climbs right in. Somehow nobody owned any guns so he could just eat peoples brains. When Gerard got back he shot Frank numerous times in the head, chest and mouth. While the bullet collided with Frank’s already dead, rotten body the only thing Gerard could think about is Mikey.
After those bullets, Frank is still able to move and talk. Since the undead can not be killed. Frank looks Gerard dead in the eyes and says
“You let me eat all these people, I don’t know why you did it, but the fact is you clearly love me and I can’t un murder your brother. Where will we go on from here?”
Gerard just shoots him over and over and over and over not caring if he dies or not. Eventually Gerard remembers that Frank's right. Gerard sacrificed so much for Frank so he should get something in return. In the room filled with all these corpses, and dead bodies, Gerard takes his pants off and Frank pulls his underwear off and begins sucking Gerard's cock. It’s bigger than average. Frank goes pretty fast and gags on it.
After this Gerard just walks out with the gun, debating whether he should pull it on himself. Because he let his brother die and at least a hundred people die just so a zombie can suck his cock. But then Gerard notices something. There are a bunch of humans outside and no zombies. Life is back to normal.
Gerard attempts to live a normal life, make comics, meet new friends but the constant memory of his brother dying plays back in his mind over and over and over. And as for Frank, he decays in the basement.