1 - 20 of 135 Works in Paula Cohen
Navigation
Listing Works
-
Tags
Summary
Bookends season 4 mission 4. Spoilers for season 4 mission 4.
Five is sick of living so close to everyone, and the whole gang is getting on each other's last nerves. Five is grumpy and does not try to hide it, and everyone is pretty miserable.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,029
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
- Hits:
- 7
-
Tags
Summary
“So,” he says, and though he means to sound firm his voice trembles. Five still doesn’t look at him. He tries to find some other feeling in his chest besides the burning. Compassion for Five having been coerced at gunpoint by Simon in the woods. An understanding that they’ve all made mistakes.
He can’t find it.
—
Five and Sam, falling apart and growing back together. -
Tags
Summary
It’s Sara’s first birthday, and her moms can’t agree on the best way to celebrate safely. A trip out of Noah Base feels risky with Sigrid’s forces everywhere, but growing up underground is a hard life too. Perhaps with the help of the Noah Base crew, Sara can still have a happy birthday after all.
Fluffy family fic, set in Season 5.
Series
- Part 1 of Birthday Girl
-
Tags
Summary
Sam feels disconnected from Five- something’s bothering her and she isn’t talking about it. Then she is captured by Ian, and he has no way of reaching her at all. Sam wants his girlfriend back.
Spoilers for all of season 5; Established 5am, Sam POV.
-
Tags
Summary
Letters from Runner Five to various characters in the ZR universe.
Series
- Part 1 of Letters from the Apocalypse
-
Tags
Summary
Sam Yao has always been an optimist, but that was before.
Spoilers up to s9m30, canon divergent from s9m28 or so.
Sam is imprisoned and experimented on. He doesn't expect a rescue. -
The Gravedigger And The Nightingale by birchwoodheart (doubleDerivative)
Fandoms: Zombies Run!, Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
25 Feb 2025
Tags
Summary
Faced with a hostile takeover of Abel, Five and Sam are on the run and injured. They find refuge by the sea— a reclusive settlement called Armistead. They begrudgingly let the two in on a good word from one of their runners, and they quickly find themselves in a veritable paradise. But, there’s more than meets the eye to the self-sufficient residents, with mysteries afoot around every corner. Can Sam and Five convince them to help take back Abel, or will the enigmatic town become their new home? Five just hopes their past doesn’t catch up to them.
aka
A love letter to my wife, who has not stopped talking about the zombie apocalypse for eight months.
-
Tags
Summary
“You see the building? Head straight for it. If the door’s not open, I’ve given you the code, which I should never have known. Paula always said breaching security protocol like this would get her fired in the end. But because I knew the code, I could sometimes sneak in when she was working late and… [laughs] She liked that.” - Maxine in Season 1 Mission 13 Clip 3
Maxine visits Paula at work on one of the many evenings she stayed late, trying to convince her to come home.
-
Tags
Summary
Peter goes to jail for the murder of Santa Claus.
Well, not really, but it kinda feels that way.
Janine is miffed that he's gotten himself into this situation, which throws off her meticulously planned Christmas dinner party.
Gift for @vfdcatlady on tumblr for the ZR Secret Santa 2024 exchange
Vaguely set after s8 but no real spoilers after, say, s5 that I can think of!
CW: minor injury, quarantine -
Tags
Summary
Sam's musing over Five's scars at the end of Season Two. The poor girl has been through so much.
Oneshot I wrote about my Five’s scars, aka, the song Legend by The Score got to me as I was rerunning the end of Season Two last week
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 988
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 41
-
Janine and the Abel Suggestion Box: Love (Season 6) by SidewaysStar
Fandoms: Zombies Run!
23 Nov 2024
Tags
Summary
Love comes in many forms- romance, platonic love, love for a township, and love for someone who’s gone but might one day return. There’s lots to rebuild in Abel after the events of season 5, but the love Abel residents have for each other is as strong as ever.
This story begins the day after the season 5 finale, directly after Abel is reclaimed, and continues until after "Catch Us If You Can", when Janine returns to Abel. It is the last story in the Abel Suggestion box series.Sam Yao POV first, and later Janine POV
Series
-
Tags
Summary
Noah Base enjoys a game night, where Paula, Maxine and Peter win a game of charades and Jody loses her last nerve to Amelia in Never Have I Ever. Meanwhile, Sam is too lost in his worries about the missing Runner Five to participate. Perhaps a heart- to-heart with Janine would help, if he can find her, that is. Sam POV, Season five, shortly after the mission “Drive My Car”.
Series
-
Tags
Summary
Janine must lose her mind a little to convince everyone she’s losing her mind. But she’s okay. Right?
Season Four of the Abel Suggestion Box series, Janine POV
-
Tags
Summary
Runner Five is stuck in Abel township under the rule of Sigrid and Ian. This fic will give us a better look into what Five really went through, and the aftermath of the horrible things that happened while Five was trapped there.
-
Tags
Summary
Amelia’s the worst and Runner Five’s determined to let Janine know it. Abel township residents turn on Jody. Paula and Sam bully Kefilwe. No one hates Five more than Five. There’s a lot of bad feelings going around, and it’s up to Janine to restore the peace.
Janine POV, season 3. Each chapter focuses on hatred towards a different character (Amelia, Jody, Kefilwe, and Five)
Series
-
Tags
Summary
Sam Yao's annual Abel Township Holiday party is always a big hit, but everyone's favorite operator just isn't feeling it this year. What do you do when the township's main morale booster is running on empty?
-
Christmas Amelia by Kelzebub for CatsOutOfTheBag, Bubosi, delucadarling
Fandoms: Zombies Run!
24 Dec 2023
Tags
Summary
Down to the wire and I stole the title from Rofflenet. It may change!
Amelia is visited by some ghosts who have some things to say to her about Christmas. There are kittens at some point.
This was what happened when I tried to write 5am fluff for my Secret Santa request. It barely has Sam or Five in it, and it's barely fluffy. They didn't want angst, so I tried to go light, but... well, it's based on A Christmas Carol, and set in the zombie apocalypse. It couldn't be helped!
Hope you all like it!
Vague spoilers up to about s9, you may not even recognize them as spoilers if you aren't up to s9 because it's a future fic and a bit canon divergent. I tried to avoid them to the extent possible! -
Tags
Summary
Sam has done his best to make Sara's first post-zombie Christmas perfect, with help from Five. But what did Sara wish for most of all?
A "stocking stuffer" for ZR Secret Santa 2023. I hope you like it, Catty @Runner5Anna! -
Tags
Summary
Janine convinces Five to restart a pre-apocalypse project. In doing so, she unintentionally reawakens past pain and present problems. In the zombie apocalypse, nothing stays buried forever.
or
“Did you finish your coursework prior to Z-Day?” Janine said instead of any of the questions Five had planned for.
Five stared at her. At the very least, this was a factual question. She could do facts.
“Yes,” Five said.
It was, technically, correct. She had finished her coursework. Well, she’d dragged herself through the power of caffeine, late nights, and screaming through her coursework. The screaming in PhD programs was impressively varied. There was screaming because it was 3am and she was never going to get to sleep again. Screaming because the coffee machine had broken. Screaming because in her sleep deprived state she’d impaled her foot on a rusty nail. Screaming (happily) because she’d gotten an article accepted for publication. Screaming inside her head at her life choices.
“Excellent,” Janine said, unaware of the list of screams Five was mentally compiling.
-
Tags
Summary
"I wanna be happy. I'm ready to walk into a room without looking for you." - Letter to an Old Poet
After the tragedy of Season Two, Abel has to rebuild, and Five along with it. And though they have finally managed to admit their feelings for each other, Sam realises that what he wants and what Five can give are two very different things, and maybe Five is not the person he'd believed them to be.
AKA: Two very traumatised people try to love at the end of the world
(A novelisation of Season Three will focus mostly on the moonchild arc, but follows the whole series of events. Sam and Five are together at the start of the fic)
Series
- Part 2 of It's an old song