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Natura Nihil Frustra Facit – Prologue

Summary: Sixty years after the end of the modern world, the earth is ruled by nature. With winter on its way, Emma Swan knows that survival isn’t just a matter of the fittest; it’s a matter of doing whatever it takes to stay alive. And sometimes, that means opening yourself up to the unexpected – even if the unexpected is a stranger named Killian Jones. A post-apocalyptic CS AU. 

Rated: M

Also available on FF.

(A huge thank you to @nowforruin for beta duties and support and just being generally awesome and encouraging me while I wrote this!!!)

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They say the world as they knew it ended sixty years ago.

Civilization crumbled, technology failed, and everything
that was thought to be their salvation quickly collapsed. Within three months,
ninety percent of the world’s population was dead. Within a year, it was
estimated that less than fifty million had survived. That was just a guess,
though, because no one could say so with anything approaching certainty. With
no government, no authority, there was no national or worldwide consensus. Laws
and any sense of order fell by the wayside. Anarchy took over. The population
took a further hit.

They say that the end came not in fire and brimstone, nor
in ice and shadow, but in the inevitable uprising of the earth, of Mother
Nature herself against the pestilence of humanity.

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