Zekaela

Zekaela is the het ship between Zeke Landon and Michaela Stone from the Manifest fandom.

Canon
Michaela Stone and Zeke Landon are connected to each other via the Callings.

Crosswinds
Michaela Stone experiences for the first time the "Find Her" Calling, in which she is transported into a blizzard and she hears a voice say "Find Her." She later realizes later on that the Calling she was having might be someone else's as the voice in her head is not hers.

Vanishing Point
After getting a Calling about a blizzard, Michaela joins her brother Ben, and his wife Grace in Tannersville New York to find Cal, their ten year old son who had disappeared. When Michaela arrives at the cabin, she sees a man asleep on the ground. She recognizes his coat from the Calling and she realizes that this was the person that she had been seeing in her Callings.

Later on that night, the man wakes up and instantly recognizes Michaela. He introduces himself as Zeke and tells them that he was hiking when a monster blizzard had come out of nowhere. Zeke was forced to take shelter in a cave where he was forced to burn everything that he had. He had a magazine and on the final page, was a picture of Michaela. Zeke tells her that her picture gave him the strength to live. An earthquake struck the cave, giving Zeke the perfect opportunity to escape the cave. As he walked through the blizzard, he kept repeating over and over again, "Find her." When Michaela and Ben learn that Zeke didn't know that Flight 828 had returned, Ben asks to see the magazine and Ben noticed that the magazine was published in December of 2017. Ben realized that Zeke went on his hike exactly one year ago. Zeke says that's impossible, that he had been out here for only two weeks.

Cleared For Approach
Zeke is not ready to return to the world so Michaela offers to stay with him at the cabin. Using her detective skills, she learns more about Zeke and what had happened to him. When the two of them experience a shared Calling under a starry night sky, Michaela thinks that they need to go back to the cave after they hear Zeke's voice say "Go Back!" Zeke at first wasn't sure if he wanted to go to the cave, but Michaela convinces him to go back. Michaela had gone to the bait shop to get supplies where she finds a missing persons poster for Zeke and learns from the owner of the bait shop that Zeke's sister Chloe had died in the area and he thinks that Zeke might've killed himself because of the pain of Chloe's death.

When Michaela returns to the cabin, she finds Zeke gone and she later finds him as he's walking along. She tells him that he had to trust her on the Callings, saying that the Callings want Zeke and Michaela to accomplish something together. Zeke reluctantly agrees to take her to the cave. While inside the cave, they get the Calling again and Michaela asks if stars mean anything to Zeke. Zeke pulls out the star necklace that he gave to Chloe for her ninth birthday and he tells Michaela the truth of what happened to Chloe. Zeke is also surprised to learn that Michaela had gone through a similar experience with her best friend Evie. Michaela was driving Evie home from a bar when Michaela, who was slightly drunk, crashed the car and killed Evie. Everyone had told her that it was an accident but she blamed herself for Evie's death. Zeke tells Michaela that there was a memorial that was built Chloe and he had never had the guts to see it and he thinks that is what the Calling wants them to do.

When they get to Chloe's memorial, Zeke gets extremely emotional and says that he can't do it, but Michaela asks him to tell her about Chloe. He does and it makes him feel a bit better. He asks Michaela if she would like to build a cairn with him. Zeke tells her that he and Chloe built them all the time. Michaela agrees to help and they build a cairn. Zeke thanks Michaela for helping him find closure from Chloe's death and they embrace, triggering the Calling again, except its Michaela's voice that says "Go Back!" Zeke agrees to go back with Michaela to New York. Zeke takes off the necklace and puts it on the cairn and tells Chloe that he loves her.

Later that night, while they were hiking, Zeke and Michaela find a petrograph on the side of a cave of two people standing under a starry night sky holding hands. At that very moment, Zeke and Michaela were holding hands when lightning flashes above them in the starry night sky, symbolizing that there was something more to them than they realized.

Upgrade
After returning to New York, Michaela lets Zeke stay in her apartment for as long as he needed to. At first, Zeke was hesitant about staying with her, but she convinces him to stay after she explains that the petrograph was about them. That night, Zeke gets a Calling about a growling wolf and Michaela takes Zeke to Ben's house the next day to see if they could get answers about the Calling. Later on, Cal draws for Zeke the wolf lunging at Michaela, who was standing next to the armored truck when at that very moment, Michaela was at the East River, witnessing the armored truck that had been submerged in the river for three days being pulled up from the river. When she opens the door, the driver, James Griffin lunges at her and growls at her like a wolf.

Hard Landing
Zeke and Ben meet Michaela at the hospital after learning that the same exact thing that happened with Flight 828 and Zeke happened again. Zeke meets for the first time Michaela's ex-fiance, Jared Vasquez. Jared and Michaela were a couple and before she went to Jamaica, he had proposed to her, but she wasn't sure if she had wanted to marry him. When she got back, she learned that he had married her best friend Lourdes instead. In Crosswinds, Jared and Michaela have an affair which Michaela later regrets because not only was she destroying Jared's marriage with Lourdes, she also destroyed her relationship with Lourdes. Jared is immediately suspicious of Zeke and doesn't trust him.

Later on, Zeke is arrested for trying to break into his mother's house. Zeke begs Michaela to trust him and she lets him go on the condition that he properly visits his mother by knocking on her door. Zeke eventually goes and visits his mother but it doesn't go as he planned.

Estimated Time of Departure
Michaela learns from Jared that Zeke had a history of run ins with the law after Jared had ran Zeke's fingerprints from the cup that Michaela had given Zeke to drink out of while he was being held at the precinct. Michaela knows about Zeke's struggles with addiction but she didn't know about his assault charge. She later learns that day after Zeke had visited his mother, that Zeke was at a bar when he saw a guy treating his supposed girlfriend in a disrespectful way. Zeke, who was pretty drunk himself, broke the guy's jaw. Zeke didn't want Michaela to know about it, worried that it might change things between them but she says that nothing had changed between them and she gives him a hug.

Zeke, Michaela, Ben and Saanvi all get the "Stop Him" Calling, which referred to Griffin. Knowing that Griffin needed to be stopped, Zeke had gone to an alleyway and illegally purchased a gun to kill Griffin. While at the news conference where Griffin was going to exploit the Callings, Zeke was about to shoot Griffin when Griffin started to spit out water and later dies.

Later that night, Jared confronts Zeke in Michaela's apartment, asking Zeke where the drugs are. Zeke denies buying drugs, but Jared finds a bottle of bourbon that Zeke had bought earlier, but never drank it. Jared tells Zeke that he and Michaela belong together and Zeke tells Jared that isn't true and Jared insults Zeke by calling him a busted junkie. Zeke and Jared get into a fight and Zeke pulls out the gun and tells Jared that this was he had bought to stop Griffin but also to protect Michaela. Jared and Zeke fight over the gun and the gun goes off as Michaela walks into the apartment, hitting her in the stomach.

Fasten Your Seatbelts
After Michaela is hit by the stray bullet, she fades in and out of consciousness as she has a Calling about Flight 828 crashing. Zeke is applying pressure to her wound while Jared calls for help. Michaela encourages Zeke to flee the scene, which at first, he is hesitant but he eventually leaves, much to Jared's displeasure. Michaela learns from Ben that the passengers all have a Death Date and she realizes to her shock and horror that Zeke has less than a year left to live.

Two months have passed since the shooting. Zeke has gone into hiding while Michaela recovers from her ordeal. Zeke has a buddy from Canada send Michaela a postcard to let her know that he made it across the border when in reality, he was hiding at his mother's house. Cal finds Zeke and tells Zeke, who had grown out his hair and beard to avoid detection from the NYPD, that he needs to be with Michaela because she doesn't have long to live and neither does Zeke.

Zeke finds Michaela in the street and tells her that he is turning himself into the cops after he learned from Cal about his own Death Date. Before he is arrested, he tells Michaela that he wished her met her in some other way, in some other time and who knows what it could've been. Michaela says that the shooting was an accident and he shouldn't be arrested for it, but he says that he needs to owe up to his actions with the little time he has left.

Fanon
On AO3, Zekaela is the most written ship for Zeke and the second most written for Michaela. It is also the second most written ship in the Manifest (TV 2018) tag.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Media

 * Why I'm Still Manifest-ing Michaela and Zeke as Endgame (PASTE MAGAZINE • NOVEMBER 2022)