laurel haynes in extant life → [ masterlist ]
For most people, the world ended on Outbreak Day. The infection spread and, in a matter of days, people went from living to surviving. For Laurel, it was the opposite. Her life hadn’t been particularly tragic or dark; she’d merely existed. She went where she was told and did what was expected of her. There were good days and bad days, laughter and tears. She kept to herself and checked off the appropriate boxes of her life, but with no real understanding of where she was going. What did she want? What did she love? What was the point of it all? The only tragedy was that it took the downfall of society for her to find out. Laurel wasn’t callous enough to say that the pandemic had made things better. Every day brought the same question: is it worth it to keep going? But the pandemic also brought her to Frank, who’d given her...everything. Friends, family, safety—a life in the middle of chaos and destruction. He’d given her purpose: helping others find theirs.
