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    "I crouch like a crow, contrasting the snow, for the agony, I'd rather know" - Blindsided, Bon Iver

    As the group who escaped from the fall of Camp Maren make their way North, they endure hardships. Many hardships. Survival is all that's left for them. But even in the worst of times, there can be good. Lana Maren struggles to learn that. Joel Miller struggles to accept it.

    This is the second section (not including the prologue, Outbreak Day) of the Blindsided series.

    Edited with new chapters as of August 8th 2026. Update schedule is every Sunday ♡

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    13 Aug 2026

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    Her hairs are standing at the back of her neck, her skin prickles all over.

    She dresses quickly, her heart now pounding harder in her chest. Maybe she’s having a heart attack.

    When she exits the laundry room dressed someone grabs her harshly, an arm wrapping around her neck. She’s pushed into the wall hard and she whimpers. Her body is caged in by someone much larger and stronger, her back against someone’s chest. She tries to claw at the arm pinning her by the throat, knowing the person could strangle her easily.

    “I thought I was goin’ crazy.”

    She thinks her entire world ends. It’s the man from the store, who’s helped her more than anyone ever has. And this is how she’s been treating him. Repaying by breaking into his home, stealing his food, using his personal space as her own.

    She thinks now the devil wants to collect.

     

    Or: Joel takes in a stray.

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    Joel tenses up behind you. “Funny,” he says. With your hands cushioned against his neck, you feel the grate of his voice in his throat. “This is the best you’re gonna get unless you wanna be butt ass naked to share heat.”

    It should be a joke. But the way he says it… doesn’t sound like a joke.

    You smother the initial shock in your voice. “So what, we’re gonna fuckin’ huddle for warmth?”

    “Would you rather freeze to death?” Joel asks. You look up at him from where you’re curled into his side and find no gleam in his eyes. This isn’t just some knee-slapper for him. Joel Miller is being completely, irreversibly serious.

    “I’d rather something less like Naked and Afraid, Joel!”

    Joel is the only guy you know with four wheel drive in the rarely-snowy state of Texas, so it seems like a no-brainer to have him pick you up from work — until his truck breaks down, leaving you two to the classic 'huddle for warmth' solution.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    " "That okay with you?" Joel asks you, shoving his hands into the pockets of his jeans.
    "Yeah," you answer, "anything you choose is okay with me."
    It’s more honest than you necessarily wanted it to be, but you find it hard to care when Joel seems so tuned into you. He watches you and nods.
    "Do you think that’s strange?" you ask, all of a sudden worried he finds your need for a lack of autonomy revolting, or pitiful. Joel’s eyes are glued to yours, when you look up at him.
    "No," he says softly, "I think you’ve been made to question yourself way too much. Creates stress and pressure I’ll gladly take away if I can."

     

    When your mother asks you to take Joel to a family wedding, you start opening up to him in ways you haven't with anyone else.

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    Arthur tilted his head, mind obscured with the mere action of simply looking at her, in all her prepossessing glory. Her body, all lithe and at peace, had an almost quieting appeal to the man. As if her figure sprawled across the mattress was a daisy that'd been pressed into the page of a book; pretty and futile, preserving the memory of her perfection sunken into the sheets and under his skin. Arthur wanted to capture this image of her: every feature, every freckle and bruise, even those little red strands of hair floating in loose tendrils across her pillow. All of it. But all he could do was stare, and that seemed to be enough.

    Being pulled from the comfort of her Great Aunt by the Van Der Linde gang in a train robbery gone sour was troubling, but Lavinia Cornwall would not waver.

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