A/N: ONC 2023

Axel thought his life in a quarantine zone was safe until he sees a girlfriend he thought had died and can't stop thinking about her flesh...

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The quarantine zones were built to keep the virus away, to protect the survivors. But when Axel sees Riley in an alley, after thinking she died from an infection a year ago when the virus first hits, Axel begins to see the quarantine actually protects them from nothing. The sickness is too close to home.

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ONC 2023
PROMPT #6 -- "Can we go back to the start when we were all strangers in the dark?"
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