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Life is a countdown that we can't see.

Keith x Dave ship fanfic, my first non-au fanfic, hope you enjoy!

(20 days until Savannah outbreak)

Keith was having a good day, the sun was shining, he just got out of the ER and he was going work with his boyfriend Dave and best friend Ellis.

Man, it was good to be-

He tripped over a tool box that he failed to see.

"Ah fuck."

Before he hit the floor, someone grabbed him.

"Come on man, ya just got out! don't knock yerself out AGAIN!" it was Ellis. His best bud.

He was wearing one of the twin hats they both had and the yellow shirt from their band, 'the Bullshifters'. Keith used to have one too, but made the mistake of wearing it the day he tried to make fire works. Keith smiled as Ellis got him back on his feet.

"Heh, sorry dude. Didn't see the toolbox."

"You need to pay attention man, Dave has been suggesting that we get ya eyes checked."

"Ellis the last thing I need is to go to more doctors."

"Are you sure? I think you'd look great with glasses." Another voice said from inside.

Keith turned to see David. His plain white, button up shirt and dark grey pants complementing his cherry red glasses that shone in the sun. Dave adjusted his glasses, allowing Keith to see his cornflower blue eyes as he smiled at him.

"How are you Keith?"

"Hey Dave, same old same old." Keith smiled as he stared lovingly into David's eyes as Dave stared back. He had missed this, if he could he would stay there forev-

"Keith and Dave? Earth to Keith and Dave? We got work to do!" Ellis chuckled.

Keith and Dave both stopped, both blushing furiously.

"Um, see you after work! Love you!" Dave spluttered, picking up his notepad and going back to accounting.

"Love you too!" Keith cried back as he rushed off to the car they'd be working on today.

"I should record you two doing that one of these days." Ellis grinned as he grabbed a replacement wheel for said car.

"Shut up." Keith sighed.

(15 days until Savannah outbreak)

The news said that Pennsylvania had been hit by a sickness called the "Green flu". Weird name in Keith's opinion, but hey he wasn't a...

"Darling?" Keith asked

"Yes mon cœur?" asked Dave

He loved it when Dave called him that.

"what do you call a... um... sickness scientist?"

"There's quite a few words for that, but in this case it would be an epidemiologist."

"Thanks" Keith said, kissing the top of Dave's head.

"Your welcome love."

The sun was coming through the window, illuminating the room. The light wasn't too bright, and Keith smiled as it hit the picture of his family that he had hung in the room.

"You think you should get out of bed?" Dave asked, not moving.

"Nah. it's too nice to go outside, I'd rather stay in here with you." Keith answered, "Besides, we always have tomorrow."

Then there was a pause.

"Wait, why only me?"

"Because today is the day you retake your driving test."

"FUCK!"

He rushed out of bed, getting dressed as the love of his life laughed good naturedly from under the covers.

(10 days until Savannah outbreak)

Not much more news had come from Pennsylvania. Keith felt that meant that things where calming down.

Dave thought otherwise.

But for now they were putting that beside them, It was Keith's little brother Steven's 10th birthday. and they tried to keep things like the eternal wet blanket that was mainstream news away from him.

They knocked on the door of Keith's childhood home. The door was opened by his older bother, Paul.

"Hey love-birds, How's things?"

"Not bad," Dave said "I've been studying for my final accountants exams and Keith has passed his driving test again."

"How many times do have to lose it before you aren't allowed to take it again?" Paul joked.

"I don't know man, I'll find the limit some day." Keith said.

They walked into the old wooden house, the paint was a light blue was covered by the pictures of friends, family and places. The floor was a polished oak at one point, but had been worn away with time. Windows from other rooms where lighting up the hallway, it was mostly empty as any tripping hazards were removed whenever Keith comes over.

He had missed his old home, not that he disliked living with his darling of course. But he couldn't help but remember the good times as he passed his now emptied room, that had become a study for their Dad, who was a doctor.

Ah, his room.

Somehow the room he never got injured in.

But that was in the past. Now, it was Steven's day.

They went out into the back yard. The grass was covered in confetti from before they got there, the tree's and chairs each had a a different coloured balloon. Keith knew that Steven's seat was the one with the purple balloon, as that was his favourite colour.

The table for the gifts was placed under the old plum tree. The adults where sat under there, talking about various adult things. The kids were over by the food table, on the other side of the yard.

Steven was with his friend's, they had made a fort around the table with a sign that said "fort food" with the 'r' around the wrong way.

Dave went to see the adults and put the present for Steven (a remote control car), on the table. Keith went to see Steven and add to the food pile.

"Halt!" Said a small voice, It was Steven's best friend Daisy. Her strawberry blond pigtails rested on her shoulder as her sapphire blue eyes stared out at him.

"Who dare approach? State your name 'n purpose!"

"My name is Keith, I come with Hershey's bars."

Keith heard the sound of children's voices from within the cardboard fort.

"You may enter! Open the gates!" Daisy said from behind the cardboard.

Keith had to get on his knees and shuffle in, but was met by foam swords.

"Congratulations! You are a prisoner!" Said Alexander, another one of Steven's friends.

"Oh no." Keith said. Trying to not smile.

"Oh yes!" said the red head boy, "Now you will see the king!"

Steven shuffled forward.

"I am the king!"

"Wow, hello king!"

"Hand over the chocolate!"

"I guess I have no choice."

He handed over the Hershey's bars and sat in the small handmade castle, watching happily as his little brother and their friends ate the 'ill gotten gains'. As he was put in 'prison' to be 'saved' by Paul later.

It was good to see his brothers again.

(8 days until Savannah outbreak)

His back still hurt from crouching in the cardboard fort from two days ago, but if he told Steven that he'd cry from guilt. He was sensitive like that, although he had began to become numb it Keith's many accidents like everyone else he knew.

"That's for the best" Keith thought to himself as he drove Steven to school. He didn't want his baby bro to be upset over things not in his control. Specially when it happens every other week.

"How you doing back there bouncy ball?" Keith asked, Steven rarely sat still, much like Keith. It looked like they also had ADHD like him, but he hadn't been diagnosed yet.

"Good." Steven says. He was kicking his legs in excitement. Unlike most people he liked Mondays because his favourite lesson was on. Drama.

Steven loved song and dance and plays. He liked watching old movies in his free time, (although he was too sensitive for their parents to let him watch anything sadder than a Disney movie because otherwise he'd be brought to tears) and he was good at acting.

The boy loved school. Unless it was math. That brought him to tears for a different reason. Keith could relate.

His little brother was jumping up and down in his seat.

"Hey, try not to do that in the car ok?" Keith said,

"Aww" was Steven's reply. Keith felt like a hypocrite for that, but it was better than him getting hurt.

"Remember what we say about me when I'm in charge?"

"Do as you say, not as you do."

"Correct!"

They pulled up at the school. God was he glad to not have to go there anymore.

"Have a good day Stevie!" Keith waved as he stopped the car to let Steven leave.

"Bye Keith!" Steven waved back as he ran to Daisy, who'd just been dropped off.

Now that Steven was gone, Keith turned on the news.

"The silence from Pennsylvania has spread throughout the country. as people start to question the government on the blackout of information from the quarantine zone, videos of people attacking each other have been leaked from personal satellite's. The borders to Mexico and Canada have been closed, as well as flights to other countries such as Australia, Britain and-"

Keith shut the radio off.

While Dave listened to the news like it was a life line, it made Keith feel like he was drowning. If you paid attention to every bad thing the news talked about you'd think the world was about to end.

He stopped at the empty road, no one was coming from any side. The anxiety of what was happening in other cities with the green flu lead to quite a few people staying home. Of course while a lot of people in this city would likely be walking around even if it was illegal, the number of those who stayed inside was enough to mess with the normal traffic flow.

it didn't help that the news of the green flu and the following riots were scaring off tourists.

It would be REALLY easy to go through that red light. Keith delved into his pocket. Dave had left a note for when he had thoughts like this. He pulled out the small note, upon it read.

"NO. love Dave <3"

Keith sighed.

"The things I do for love."

(4 days until Savannah outbreak)

"You look amazing darling!" Keith assured

"Are you sure?" Dave asked, he was wearing a pale red suit to go to the Savannah counsel meeting.

"Of course! Even if you didn't, which is quite a feat for you by the way, those guys love you."

"Can't say the same for them" Dave muttered.

The majority of the Savannah council were racist.

Dave had originally not wanted to join, but eventually did to help weed out the old men who really had no business being there. (without murder)

The meeting was about how to deal with the approaching Green Flu and the rumours surrounding it. The news was all over the place with what was happening in the quarantine zone, with different stations saying different things about the lethality of the green flu and how it spreads, even what it did to someone once infected. CEDA denying a lot of things didn't help either.

Something the news agreed is that the 'flu', which many were claiming it wasn't one but something far worse, was spreading at an terrifying rate and that the government was organising evacuations for many major cities.

Including Savannah.

Dave and the rest of the council was going to organise with CEDA agents where to put the evacuation points, how many helicopters are needed to evacuate people, etc, to help as many people as possible.

"You'll be great Dave." Keith said, gently pressing his forehead against Dave's.

Dave smiled nervously, "Thanks Keith."

They both kissed and Dave left.

Watching him drive away into the centre of the city, Keith was called by Ellis.

"Hey man, how's things?"

"Hey Keith, Dave's gone to the meeting right?"

"Yeah he just left."

"Man, I wanted to wish him luck."

"You can call him when he gets back." Keith shrugged.

"I can't believe that the government's making us leave!" Ellis complained. None of them had ever liked the government and institutes of power in general, for a wide range of reasons. But this was a time that Keith was forced to say:

"It's better than the alternative. You wanna get stuck in Twilight zone?"

That's what people on the street called the quarantine area. On account of no one knowing jack shit about whets going on in it and the info that has slipped threw the cracks was vague and ominous.

"Maybe if they TOLD us what we were running from I'd agree with ya. But Ma's already out of town visiting family in Alaska, I don't wanna leave all our shit alone." "I'll come over and help you hide your stuff under the floor boards tomorrow if it makes you feel better."

"That'd be great, thanks man."

"Anytime."

"I'ma get back to ya later, I'm working on the apocalypse-proof truck." "Alright. Have fun!"

Ellis hung up. Leaving Keith to look into a sky where the city lights choked out stars.

(1 day until Savannah outbreak)

Keith had volunteered to help escort/herd people into the whirly birds. His family was evacuating from Steven's school and had suggested that he come too. But Keith wanted to make sure as many people got out as possible.

There were a lot of zones and from the looks of it the whole thing was a rushed mess. Course he would know, Dave spent an hour crying over how bad it turned out.

"They put one on a hotel that had thirty flights of stairs, THIRTY!" His lover had cried into his arms. "They didn't even have wheel chair access!"

The good news was a lot of people were volunteering to help others. Granted it wasn't an overwhelming amount. The line up was about 10 people including him, but that's was because most people assumed that CEDA could take care of everything.

Keith didn't trust the organisation of something this big left only to CEDA. Especially after Dave crying into his arms about how badly the meeting had gone. Not that it was only CEDA's fault, from what Keith could gather the Savannah council had been unwilling to let people land whirly birds in Forsyth park because "That would ruin the lawn." but allowed places like the previously mentioned 30 fleets of stairs hotel. Some poor souls would be left for dead there because of how long it'd take to get there, he knew it.

The whole thing was a mess and Keith just wanted to make sure everyone possible could make it out safe.

The line reached him.

"Name?" asked the man in front of him.

"Keith Murphy"

"Volunteer or emergency evac?" emergency evac was registering for the priority list. being disabled, immunocompromised, ect.

"Volunteer." Keith answered

"Oh thank god." whispered the man, that was not the reaction Keith had been expecting.

"Ok, you will be evacuating people on evac zone 18, in the business district. You need to be there by 8:00am and be ready to deal with possible unrest. Can you do that?"

"Yes sir."

The man sighed in relief. "Your a life saver kid, there's barley enough CEDA agents to man every station as it is.... You didn't hear that from me." He quickly added.

Keith shrugged, to say the truth he already knew, he had told his family but they all decided that it would be quicker to leave on a chopper than on the roads, as they would undoubtably get blocked with traffic, or at least that's what Paul said. Ellis said that his truck should get threw anything and Keith was inclined to agree.

After signing some forms the man gave him the address of the evac and said to be and Keith left. The card also said an email would tell him of any other volunteers that would be paired with him.

No email came.

(8:00 hrs until Savannah is overrun)

Keith thought back to yesterday, when he had been tasked with evacuating people in the business district.

"God that was a mistake." He thought to himself.

Not that he didn't want to help people. But two people that came to this evac zone didn't understand the concept of a line or sharing.

"I'm getting on!"

"No I am!"

"There's enough space for everyone." The CEDA agent he was paired with assured. "Please remain calm." She slowly moved them to the edge of the building to stop them from blocking the line.

Keith was busy leading people who WEREN'T fighting to get on one of the five large choppers, into said choppers. As the two old people, who looked like two CEO's of rival business, yelled their heads off not to get on, but seemingly so the other gets left behind.

It reminded him of customer service on black Friday and had he been the more vengeful type he'd may of been tempted to leave them both here just for reminding him of that dark time.

But that wasn't his style. He was a live and let live kind of person. Although that didn't mean he'd go out of his way to save someone who wanted someone else dead when innocent people where right in front of him.

So he shook his head and lead the next lot of people in.

(6:00 hrs)

The last chopper was almost full and the two CEOs were. Still. arguing.

Keith wondered if they even noticed that there was a world around them anymore, they were so consumed in their hatred that they didn't notice it.

They didn't notice the other helicopters leaving.

They didn't notice buildings in the distance catch fire.

They didn't notice the sounds of destruction on the streets coming steadily closer.

While the home Keith had grown up in was burning to the ground because of the unknown, those two continued with some petty feud.

They had been auguring for so long the CEDA agent had seemed to give up on evacuating them. Keith wasn't even sure the two would notice if they leave.

But by god, if he did indeed exist, Keith couldn't leave without TRYING to get them to look around and smell the burning reality. He sighed to himself, internally knowing this likely wasn't worth it. Either they'd both get on, or neither of them would.

"Hey, guys?" Keith tried to get their attention.

There was no change in the two.

"You two! The last chopper is leaving! You want on or not?"

One of them got louder and, was the other one growling?

"Um... Guys?"

The one that was growling tackled the other off the top of the building.

It happed so fast Keith didn't have time to react. He stood there for a good few seconds trying to figure out how or why that happened. They were mad, this world had gone mad.

They ran back to the chopper, just as the CEDA agent got on, and closed the door behind them.

"Were are the other two?" The agent asked

"One of them tackled the other off the building! I don't know what happened!"

"Where you close to them?" she asked immediately.

"Wh- No. I was still about 8 feet from them."

"Ok. Pilot! Get us out of here!"

That conversion was... over oddly quickly. Keith's gut told him that something wasn't right, not a common occurrence but never wrong when it's come up before.

But he didn't even know where to start talking about what just happened, and with the CEDA agent going to check on the others in the chopper he didn't feel it was the time.

He turned to the window slits to look at his hometown.

Keith had always loved fire, even if fire loved him a bit too much. So there was an odd beauty to seeing the world burn.

"How had it come to this?" Keith thought in melancholy. "The movies taught us it takes 28 days for the world to go to hell.... I guess they were a week off."

He sighed aloud, there was nothing for it now... God he hated feeling so responsible.

He looked to the street, unable to see anyone still left. from the traffic it looked like people had abandoned their cars to get away. He looked closer in a morbid curiosity.

Then he saw something, something big.

It was a fleshy, sunburnt thing, towering over the car's around it. Keith would of thought that he had hallucinated it due to stress if a women next to him hadn't screamed and pointed out the troll like creature.

(5:00 hrs)

The massive, horrid thing ripped the road out of the ground and threw the heap of rock straight at them.

The pilot tried his best to get out of the way, but there was not enough time to avoid the bolder in the first place. The tail was ripped of the rest of the vehicle like paper.

The impact almost made Keith fall out then and there. The rubble from parts of the asphalt covered him and would of filled his lungs if he hadn't stopped breathing from the shock.

"Mayday! Mayday!" The pilot said as they plummeted to the earth, Keith barely heard him over the screams of the others, he was so fuelled with panic couldn't hear if he was screaming too.

The chopper hit the ground.

(1:00 hr)

Keith woke up in pain. Not a rare occurrence to be fair, but this was a rare time that he woken up not on a bed.

He took note of where he could feel, all of his limbs felt terrible, but they moved when he told him too. So that was good. He turned his head, seeing human hand stick out from-

'Nope. Can't deal with that right now.' Keith's mind went as he turned his head the other way. 'Focus on you.'

He slowly got up, apart from the initial pain, there didn't seem to be anything he couldn't heal from. He felt a buzzing in his front pocket, his phone by some miracle had not been decimated by the crash.

He answered the phone.

"Hello?"

(00:60)

"Keith?!" Dave exclaimed from the other end. "Where are you?! I've been calling you for at least 3 hours now!"

"My whirly bird crashed! It was hit by.- God I don't even know, some huge fucking thing threw a slab of concrete at it! I survived the crash but I don't think anyone else did. I've been out that whole time."

(00:55)

"That's... Oh god that was your helicopter?! I saw that go down!"

"Where are you?"

"In a different one! I have Steven with me."

Oh thank God, was all Keith could think.

(00:50)

"Do you know where Paul and my parents are?"

"No, Last time I checked they were headed for evac with my family."

"And Ellis?"

"I don't know. Said something about his own way out?"

"Stay with Steve. I'll find a different evac point."

(00:40)

"Don't go t҉o҉ t҉h҉e҉ m҉a҉l҉l҉"

"What?"

"Don't go to the mall! I can see it being overrun from here!"

Keith didn't know what Dave meant by that, but he didn't have time to ask.

He realised Dave had said something.

"Dave you're breaking up"

"Steven wants to talk to you."

"Put him on"

(00:30)

"Keith?" said a shaky voice, it hurt his heart just to hear the boy like that.

"Hey Bouncy ball."

"Are you going to be ok?" This made Keith stop, he was never this direct.

"Of course! It's me after all! I always turn out ok!"

"Promise?" Steven sounded close to tears.

"I promise." Keith said. He knew he couldn't stay on for long "Stay with Dave, he'll look after you."

He heard a noise that sounded like a yes.

(00:20)

"OK, I'm going to find my way to you and everything will be fine ok?"

"And you won't let the monsters get you?"

"Nah, No monster could get me!"

His body had turned ice cold, he didn't know what was going on, but he didn't like what he was seeing when he looked between the lines.

But what could he do? He wanted to go look for the rest of his family, but that could lead to him getting into more danger. They could take care of themselves, Keith decided. They were smart people.

He breathed out, then spoke into the phone.

(00:10)

"I love you, ok Steven?" Keith said, knowing those could be his last words to him.

(00:09)

"I love y-" The phone cut out before Steven could finish. Keith quickly checked his phone, The battery was fine, but the connection had ceased to work.

(00:08)

He heard a noise, a scream from down the road.

(00:07)

He turned to look for the source of the voice, to see if he could help.

(00:06)

But the scream was swallowed up by a choirs of maddened roars

(00:05)

As he saw what could only be described as a title wave, Keith saw too late what Dave and Steven had meant.

(00:04)

Now all he could do was run.

(00:03)

He turned to do so,