Rec: Friend in the Field by winterhill

[purplecat]

A lovely little story Zombies! Run! story, notable for its excellent Archie voice. But it also handles the difficulty in writing for Runner Five very well, giving us a female Runner Five who isn't totally bland but still something of a blank slate.

Friend in the Field (this is an AO3 link but sharing seems to be disabled so I worry that it is logged in users only).