It had been years since you last saw that deputy, the hero, the man you fell in love with in the middle of that hell. You couldn't blame him for disappearing after everything... but sometimes, in the colder nights and darker shadows... you wish he brought you along.

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It's happening all over again. Hell, an apocalypse, danger... and who comes to save you? Deputy- or as he goes by now... The Judge. But you know those eyes, that body, those hands, how that masked figure handles his weapons. You stand across from him in one of the bases. He had come with that security captain back to base. It was all you could do not to drop the bundle of blankets you were holding.

Your eyes met. How did he survive alone for this long? He was so close all this time... yet so far... He's silent, of course he's silent he always was, but he does freeze. That masked face turned to you, gloved hands clenching, body stiff. Is he even the same man after all this time?