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Executive Decision, I'm really not gonna be dealing with zombies in the Fandamonium AU. I haven't even decided if characters from movies like World War Z, Contagion, The Walking Dead, etc will be included.

The current logical reasoning behind this is that almost all zombie apocalypse movies would've been included in the Level/Stage 1 Merge and because of this IRL everything would be over run. However, I simply negate this by saying if the zombies were allowed to continue through the merge, they would kill everyone, so their universes and/or dimensions were basically disintegrated. And any that made it through would've been wiped out by an anti-paradox effect within over lapsing universes, or if it overlapped with the base universe, it would be simply disintegrated as the universe is trying to survive the merge and taking out zombies or at least their universes is enough to keep the subsequent merges going and facilitate the end of the universal life cycle. This does not include zombies from certain fandoms, such as Supernatural where they are seen on occasion, but includes fandoms such as Warm Bodies (where the zombies mostly become human again) and Marvel's Zombies from the What If Episode and comics.

Based on the song Happy Xmas by John Lennon, linked below.

Gigi stands, gathering the last of her things. This is it, her final final exam of the semester. After this she's off to her room. She just has to move everything over to her car and she'll be good to go. She'll leave by three and be home by six. Hopefully people will have their Christmas lights up. She's planning on listening to Christmas music on the way home. She's made a playlist: there's the obvious classics, some Bing Crosby and the War is Over song by John Lennon, even the Wiggles have a couple Christmas songs she's thrown in for good measure.

Dr. Scisser takes the exam. Gigi glances up at him for a split second. His glasses lenses have a couple water spots on them, which make her notice the ones on her own glasses. Hopefully she hasn't packed her cleaning cloth too far away.

"Thank you." he whispers.

"Merry Christmas," Gigi turns to head up the stairs.

"You too."

The campus is already a ghost town. Hers is the last final of the day and the last final of the week. It is nice that they only have the eight and ten am finals on Tuesday, but it makes getting a check out time really, really hard.

She treks up to the parking lot where she keeps her car first. She has to drive around the block and she listens to Feliz Navidad as she does. Gigi manages to find a spot right outside of her dorm building, and she pulls in. She drags her backpack in with her, to repack it with her snacks.

All of her suitemates are gone. Evie moved her stuff to her sisters off-campus house the day prior and is already checked out; and Gwen and Ames are leaving for the airport.

It's melancholic, seeing her little pile of a duffel bag, backpack, and suitcase. She's going to have to bring her two blanket projects out first, so she does that. After those are in her trunk, she takes everything else out in one trip. She finishes tidying up the dorm, unplugging everything and turning off all the lights. She double checks that the bathroom is stalked, and all the cleaning supplies are tucked under the bathroom sink. The shower is dry and even the ice machine is unplugged and clean. She eats a couple Slim Jim minis, waiting for the RA to come check her out.

Check out goes off without a hitch, and Marge wishes her a Merry Christmas. Gigi smiles gently and waves as she hurries down the steps. Her car doesn't have auto start, so she sits inside for a few minutes, letting it come to temperature like an oven in which she's the bun.

She plugs her phone into the aux cord - it's an old car - and sets up her play list. As she shifts into gear White Christmas begins to play, but the dreary sky above doesn't promise even a speck of snow between here and home.

Gigi instead makes her way around the block before skipping the last few seconds of the song. Next in the que is Happy Xmas. The plucky mandolin, or whatever instrument that is plays as she rolls down the big hill, stopping at the stop sign at the bottom. A cop car passes her, headed up the hill. Gigi waves before pulling out, turning so she can stop at the Scooters on 4th street. She gets a small hot mocha, tips the baristas a dollar, and restarts the song.

She drives through the rest of town with the song on repeat, smiling as a couple tears try to escape her eye. The semester had been hell, but she's survived it. Her war is over, if only for the time being. Just one more semester and she can start nursing school.

The thought terrifies her, but she'll just have to take it one step at a time.

Evie can't reach her parents. They live near Chicago though, which doesn't surprise me. It sounds like Chicago got hit pretty hard. Gwen and Ames got through to their parents in Texas after a couple hours of trying. I haven't reached my parents yet, but I got my little sister. Sounds like she found my brother after their whole school went to shelter in place in the locker rooms under the school. That was safer than we were for sure.

Alright, that's about it. Reports are trickling in but the school doesn't have wifi right now. I'm sending this from my phone. If anyone has any info from where they're at, or just for the US as a whole, that'd be greatly appreciated.

Gianna Elizabeth Daley is a sophomore pre-nursing major from Goddard, Kansas. She loves crochet, knitting, writing, old movies, music, fandoms, and mixology. She is also a barista at one of the on-campus coffee shops, Holy Grounds.