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Congrats on finishing zomb au!!!! Read it from the first day it was posted and followed it every week after! Love our big gay zombie survival found family, i still have so many questions ! Clint and Nats backstory (the necklace and tattoo omg...) what happens when they get to the west coast?? Many thoughts head full zombie au was so good tysm for sharing it with us ❤❤

Thank you very much! I also love our big gay zombie survival found family.

So my ideas for the sequel were many and little all at once, but because I'm not going to write it, I'm happy to share my notes - (spoilers beware)

OTMC Sequel

-4-6 years after the original, a now late-teens Kate's POV

-The detective agency sorta worked out, but she's getting a little tired of finding people's zombified partners.

-Kate now has a real Lucky, who likes chewing on random limbs that he finds. Not exactly healthy, but it doesn't seem to affect him much. Garbage dog strikes again.

-Bucky and Clint are more or less vibing at this point. They're making noise about tracking down Sam, but they don't do much. They're happy. Clint's found-slash-made a ring and he's trying to rope Kate into helping him with the proposal

-Kate's trying to make her own 'team' (modelled after the 2018 WCA comic) to fight zombies and help people, because she's struggling to find her identity in all this.

-Wanda & co went back to the farmhouse after OTMC, but after a few years America comes to find Kate. Kate and America never actually got together after OTMC, and there's still a lot of weird tension there, even though America's now with Ramone Watts and Kate had a short-lived relationship with Eli

-Clint's been covering up his knee for all these years. Kate finally, finally sees it uncovered when Clint joins her on a supply run gone wrong, and quite understandably freaks out when she sees the bite from all those years ago. It's nastier than Kate's looks, but... still immune.

-Kate asks Clint if Bucky knows. Clint says they haven't talked about it, which is code for 'Bucky absolutely knows, but we have not talked about it and we will continue to not talk about it for the next ten years'

-Cue shenanigans involving zombies, meeting Gwenpool and Quentin Quire, Kate trying to reconcile with the idea that she's not the only immune person and that Clint and Bucky have been more or less lying to her all these years, general chaos and death, and the Wintyhawks wedding of the century (including a very bewildered celebrant Johnny Watts, and getting married in the middle of a massive fight a la Pirates of the Caribbean)

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An epilogue.

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“Bucky,” Clint whines. “Come here. Keep me warm.”

“It’d be more practical to find somewhere out of the rain where we can get dry,” Bucky says, glancing around at the buildings near them.

“You have no romance in your soul,” Clint says mournfully.

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“Ready?”

“I’m ready.”

“Alright. One, two, three – go.”

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“Do any of you know where Wanda went?”

He’s met with a sea of blank faces.

Great.

“Well, start looking. I’m not running a daycare for the rest of my life,” he mutters.

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“Can you feel it when I touch you now?”

“Nope,” Bucky answers shortly, as Kate tries to poke his left arm again and he blocks it with his other hand. “Cut it out. It’s still a prosthetic arm, it’s not magic.”

“You should’ve got one that shoots arrows,” Kate remarks.

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“Enhanced anatomy, huh?”

Clint gives him a dramatically saucy wink.

Bucky’s so startled by it that he laughs, his breath catching in his throat when Clint steps backwards and drops off the ledge.

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Chapters: 1/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.

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Bucky pulls out a cigarette. Lights it with a match and smokes it down to the filter, flicks it to the concrete and grinds it out with his heel before he grabs another and lights that as well. 

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Chapter 14 is live!

Chapters: 14/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Death, Murder, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Ethical Dilemmas, Slow Burn, Body Horror, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Psychological Torture, Drugs, Hallucinations Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.

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Chapter 9 is out!

Chapters: 9/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Death, Murder, Minor Character Death Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.

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Chapter 12 has arrived!

Chapters: 12/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Death, Murder, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Ethical Dilemmas, Slow Burn, Body Horror, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.

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Chapter Four Out Now!

Chapters: 4/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Death Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.

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It’s Chapter 11!

Chapters: 11/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Death, Murder, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Ethical Dilemmas, Slow Burn, Body Horror, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.

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Chapter 7 is Out!

Chapters: 7/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Death Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.

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Chapter 10 Out Now!

Chapters: 10/25 Fandom: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Kate Bishop, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Kate Bishop, Clint Barton Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombies, POV Bucky Barnes, Inspired by The Last of Us (Game), Inspired by Days Gone (Game), Blood and Gore, Graphic descriptions of corpses, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Accidental Child Acquisition, Zombie Apocalypse, Nightmares, A Whole Hullabaloo of Marvel Character Cameos, Heavy Angst, Eventual Happy Ending, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Death, Murder, Minor Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Ethical Dilemmas Series: Part 1 of Zomble: The Life and Times of Fucket Barnes Summary:

Since the end of the world approximately eight years ago, Bucky Barnes has been surviving. Not living, just surviving - you can't have both out here. He's kept his head down, he doesn't take risks, he doesn't associate with anyone unless he absolutely has to. The country's a corpse-ridden trainwreck and there's nothing anyone can do to fix it, not anymore. It's just Bucky, his bike, his cat, and his cabin of solitude.

Except that now there's this idiot kid running around.