(Read this one-shot first!)
Or: the Return of the Evil Dead au
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The forest is cold, and it’s wet, and it’s fucking miserable. Roier is barefoot and in his goddamn pajamas and his neck is bruised and he’s cold, he’s so fucking cold, but-
“Guapito! Come back!”
But it beats the cabin and the talking corpse inside.
Cellbit is. Dead. He’s dead. He’s dead and he wants Roier to be dead with him. Which is crazy, right? He and Roier have (had?) only been together for a year, and dying together is a pretty big commitment.
Except. Except they aren’t dying together. Because Cellbit is already dead. He died while Roier was in the goddamn shower, and now he’s weird. Dead. He’s dead.
Roier’s chest heaves as he pushes his way through the storm and towards where he thinks the cabin’s shitty little toolshed is. When he and Cellbit had first arrived, Roier had gone to check out the shed and he had seen a chainsaw hanging on the wall and he had laughed about how fucking creepy it was, taking a picture and posting it on his Instagram and going back to the cabin and forgetting all about it.
But his phone is in the cabin. Where Cellbit is. Where Cellbit’s corpse is. Because Cellbit is dead, and he’s awfully set on making Roier join him one way or the other.
The rain is like needles against Roier’s skin, but he just grits his teeth and deals with it. Cold rain? Easy. Murderous zombie boyfriend? Scary.
Does Roier actually know how to use a chainsaw? No, but.
Would a chainsaw even work on a dead guy? He’s already dead!
Roier slams himself against the shed’s door to open it just as the realization hits him that his Cellbit is dead. He’s fucking dead. Just like Bobby, only Bobby got the luxury of being buried.
He stumbles into the shed and slams the door shut behind him. After a moment of vague panic-thought, he pulls a tool chest in front of the door to block it.
No windows, just the door. The blocked door.
It’s only as Roier leans against a wall and puts his face in his hands that he realizes that he’s crying.
“What the fuck,” he gasps, eyes stinging.
He pulls his hands away and wipes at his tears furiously, borderline slapping his own face because maybe he’ll just wake up. It’s all a dream! He’s going to wake up and he’ll be in his bed back home and Cellbit will be alive and breathing next to him and he won’t be dead and-
The wall next to Roier’s head explodes as a pale fist punches through it.
Roier, frankly, screams and pushes himself off the wall, tripping his way across the shed and pressing himself against the opposite wall. Unbreathing.
The hand in the wall flails around for a moment before retreating. And then Roier watches as a pair of his socks is pushed through it. They tumble to the floor and roll to his feet as if pulled on a string.
“You forgot your shoes, pendejo,” Cellbit laughs. But it isn’t his laugh, but it is, but it really fucking isn’t- it’s too harsh, kinda like a screen door scraping against itself.
Roier stares at his socks. They were a gift from Jaiden. For Christmas. They matched hers. And Bobby’s. Bobby hated it. He wore them, anyway.
His head snaps towards the door as it suddenly rattles on its hinges, curving inwards like it’s rubber as something presses against it from the outside. If he looks hard enough, he can see the imprint of his dead boyfriend in it like he’s a goddamn cartoon. A hand presses into the door, streeeeeeetching it as it- as he reaches for Roier.
And then the door snaps back into place, and it’s quiet.
Roier swallows. He’s crying again. He wants to go home. But home’s why he’s here in the first place, isn’t it? It was too quiet. Cellbit had suggested a vacation, he knew a place out in the woods his sister owned. A vacation sounded nice. But now Cellbit is dead, and Roier’s starting to realize why Bagi had disappeared seemingly off of the face of the earth just a month ago.
He looks around the shed. Chainsaw. He wants… he wants the chainsaw. Maybe he can’t kill his freaky zombie boyfriend again, but he sure as hell can slow him down long enough for Roier to at least try and make it to town.
God, he’s thinking about cutting his boyfriend up with a chainsaw.
But the chainsaw isn’t on the wall.
Vaguely, Roier can hear himself laughing. He stumbles to where the chainsaw used to be, and he presses both hands and his forehead against the wall where the chainsaw used to be, and he slams his hands against the wall where the chainsaw used to be, and he screams.
Okay. Okay! No chainsaw. But how fast can a zombie be, really?
Roier’s eyes squeeze shut, and then he backs up from the wall. Slowly. Breathing, in and out, just the way his doctor said to. In, and out. In, and out. In-
The ground shakes.
Roier’s eyes snap open just in time for him to watch half a dozen skeletal arms erupt out of the mossy floorboards and start reaching for him, groaning and snarling and clawing hard enough to peel their fingernails off and draw blood.
“What the fuck?” Roier shouts. He skitters backwards, narrowly avoiding getting snagged by the ankle. “What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck- what the fuck kind of vacation is this!”
The arms don’t answer, but the door does. The knots in its wood twist into a deformed smiley face, and it says in a woman’s voice, “Join us, Roier!”
The arms swipe at him. One manages to drag its sharpened nails across his ankle, nearly snapping his Achilles tendon.
Roier swears and kicks at it, not really doing much damage with his, again, bare-fucking-feet, but he manages to make it flinch badly enough to allow him enough time to hop onto a table and pull his legs up beneath him.
He looks at the door, and he flips it off with both hands.
“Fuck you!” he yells. “You killed my boyfriend, culero!”
He’s shouting at a door. Cellbit is dead, and Roier is shouting at a door.
The hands in the ground all flip him off back.
Roier gasps and sticks his tongue out, a very normal reaction, actually.
But then the ground shakes once more and the arms start expanding into shoulders, and then torsos, and then legs and- ooooooh fuck.
Roier scoots back along the table until his back hits a wall of regular saws. But what the hell can a saw do against a guy? Or. A corpse. Corpses, multiple. It’s not like a saw is a sword!!
Still, he grabs one off of the wall behind him and takes in a deep breath. He isn’t going to die, but… but if he is, he isn’t going to go out easy. He isn’t Cellbit, he isn’t just going to let some fucking demons kill him!
The door screeches out a laugh, the swarm of headless zombies laughing along with it with the voices of a children’s choir.
Then, in Bobby’s voice, the door says, “What’s the matter, scared?”
And then Roier hears it, the buzzing.
And then the door screams as it’s slowly cut in half by a goddamn chainsaw.
“Selfish!” it wails.
The corpses all turn to face the… dying? The dying door, arms outstretched and annoyed as the door falls to pieces and goes blessedly silent.
Silhouetted by a flash of lighting and accompanied by an angry roll of thunder, Cellbit kicks the tool chest out of the way and trampled on the door’s remains as he enters the shed, chainsaw in hand. His eyes glow red, and his skin is so pale it’s bordering on a sickly blueish-purple, and his hair is a mess, but he sees Roier, and he blushes a dusty charcoal-y black.
And then one of the zombies swipes at him with a hiss, and his face twists into a grotesque caricature of itself, fangs and everything unholy.
“Stay away from my fucking fiancé,” he snaps, and then he lunges for the zombies with a sneer.
Even across the room, Roier gets a mouthful of decayed black blood as the zombie is cut in half and its blood sprays goddamn everywhere.
He has just enough time to cover his nose and mouth with the collar of his shirt before the next zombie is cut. And then the next. And the next and the next and the next, and Cellbit is insulting the zombies in Portuguese and Roier can’t move and he doesn’t know why and Cellbit has the chainsaw and he’s dead. Cellbit is dead.
He blinks, and the zombies are dead. Another blink, and cold, gentle hands are wiping the blood out of his eyes. A concerned frown, a soft kiss to Roier’s forehead.
“I brought you your shoes,” Cellbit quietly says. His hands cup Roier’s cheeks, his thumbs stroking the skin under his eyes. Another forehead kiss. “May I?”
Maybe Roier’s in shock, but he nods. He drops the saw, and he drops the saw, and he lets his shirt fall from his face.
Cellbit nods as well and lets go, shambling across the length of the shed. He crouches and picks up Roier’s socks- now soaked and bloody. He wades through the corpses and drops to his knees in front of Roier, looking up at him through sticky, clumped-together bangs. He looks almost normal. Alive, almost. But he isn’t. He’s dead.
Where’s the chainsaw?
Gently, he tugs at Roier’s legs until they’re hanging over the edge of the table, and he pulls Roier’s socks on for him, one at a time. It’s romantic as hell. Roier wants to throw up.
“I don’t want to die,” Roier says.
Cellbit nods. He reaches into his jeans’ back pocket and pulls out Roier’s shoes, pressed together and flattened beyond all belief. God, they were expensive-
“I know,” Cellbit says. He shoves one of Roier’s shoes onto a foot and starts tying it. “I won’t let them kill you, I promise.”
He moves onto the next shoe. Roier can see his finger bones through his skin, half of them look to be broken. He can’t breathe.
“But-”
He’s cut off by a kiss, so sweet it’s rotten. Cellbit’s lips are chapped, of course they are. He’s dead, after all. The dead don’t carry lip balm with them.
Probably.
Against Roier’s lips and holding Roier’s face just so tenderly, Cellbit murmurs, “I’m the only one allowed to kill you. You’re my fiancé.”
Roier’s blood runs cold and he suddenly pushes Cellbit away, hopping off the table and looking for the goddamn chainsaw, where the fuck is the fucking chainsaw?
He freezes as Cellbit’s chin hooks over his shoulder, freezing skeletal arms looping around his middle and pulling him flush against a chest so caved in that Roier can feel Cellbit’s spine pressing against his.
“I love you,” Cellbit sighs. “I just want to be married to you, you know? I don’t get why you’re trying to run away from me.”
Roier lets out a shaky breath. Fuck, he’s going to cry again.
“You’re dead,” he replies. He swallows and looks firmly up at the blood-covered ceiling. “I can’t marry a corpse, Cellbit. That’s creepy.”
“Hey, wrong with two corpses marrying each other? It’s romantic!”
“It’s fucked up!”
“You said ‘yes’!”
“I was… confused!”
Because he was, wasn’t he? He still is. Twenty-four hours ago, he and Cellbit were in their bed scrolling through TikTok together. And now? Cellbit is dead. Cellbit is dead, and Roier is supposed to join him.
Cellbit huffs and turns Roier around to face him, hands firmly settling on Roier’s hips. He’s frowning, eyes still faintly glowing that hellish red. It’s almost attractive. Almost.
Almost.
This may require a different tactic. But what…?
Roier gasps, suddenly, face falling into shock. “Wait, I know why I can’t marry you right now!”
Apparently, dying killed half of Cellbit’s sexy little brain cells because he asks, “What? What is it?”
Roier bites his lip and looks away, forcing himself to wrap his arms around Cellbit’s shoulders.
“I mean, besides the ‘corpse’ thing,” he says, “I don’t have a ring for you. I can get used to us being dead, but I will not die before I get you a ring. I refuse.”
Cellbit hums thoughtfully. “I mean, it’s fine. I don’t need one…”
“No, you do! It isn’t fair!” Roier pouts, fighting down a smirk as he watches Cellbit melt the way he always does when Roier breaks out the puppy eyes. “How are all the other zombies supposed to know you’re mine if you don’t have a ring, too?”
‘Yours,’ Cellbit mouths. His eyes are wide and glittering.
Hook, line, and sinker.
Roier looks up at Cellbit through his eyelashes, fluttering them for effect.
“I bet your sister had one lying around in the cabin she wouldn’t mind us using,” he says. “We can go look for one.”
Cellbit immediately nods, a grin splitting his face wide open. Literally. It cracks open like an egg, teeth showing up to his molars.
“Guapito…” he whispers, reverent. At least this hasn’t changed in death.
Roier forces a smile. “Gatinho. Come on, let’s hurry, okay?”
He peels himself out of Cellbit’s hold and only halfway flinches as Cellbit takes his hand and trails behind like the lovesick fool he is. Was? Is.
On their way out of the shed, Cellbit picks up his chainsaw off of the floor with one hand. Fuck. Okay.
“What do you think about a spring wedding?” he asks.
It’s June now. Spring won’t be for another year.
Roier thinks back to the record and its promises of undead world domination.
This could be a problem.
“I think…” he hums, trailing off as they step out into the storm. The rain is cold, but not as cold as the pit in his stomach.
He looks towards the road back to town, unlit and probably super haunted.
Then, he looks back at Cellbit, who is looking at him with eyes as soft as the mud their car is stuck in. He’s mushy.
“I think that dying turned you into a pendejo,” Roier says, and then he jerks out of Cellbit’s grip and bolts towards the road.
“Hey!” Cellbit protests. “Rude!”
And then, once again, the chase is on.
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