When the mundane world went to hell, the Adversary took advance and tried to imprison all the fables of Fabletown. However, the Big Bad Wolf and Snow White managed to escape and ran away to Macon. How can they keep their true nature when there are mundies around them?
I'm not a fan of Crossovers, but… Hell, I HAD to do it XD The Walking Dead was my first Telltale Games Lover e_e, but The Wolf Among Us was definitely my TRUE LOVE XD And I thought.. "What if I mix…? OMG"
And that's how this fic was born.
Haha, I hope you like it!
Don't expect me to update too soon, I have a lot of fics to continue XDD
HERE WE GO!
ALERT: The events of "The Wolf Among Us" never happened in this fic, in "The Walking Dead", we're placing in the Episode 1, got it? Wii, maybe we'll see Faith, Lily, Lawrence… Yupi!
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own The Walking Dead Game nor The Wolf Among Us. They belong to Telltale Games Series e.e And, the cover image is NOT mine either. This belongs to "Bembiann", from deviantart.
Episode 1: Fates that bind
Part 1: Here we are
How could that happen?
They still couldn't understand it.
They never could understand the Mundy World, but now that place wasn't the mundies' anymore. Those things, suddenly, coming back, for something to bite, eat, swallow and tear the mundies… even their own people. He still remembered the horrible feeling when Snow White's sister, Rose Red, was eaten in front of them.
That wasn't the worst thing: the Adversary came to force each fable to come back to the Homelands like prisoners, of course, if they wanted to live. Many of them accepted, some of them refused, but they were taken anyway.
However, a few of them, like those two, ran away, searching for a better place in the Mundy World.
The Big Bad Wolf and Snow White ran away, with all they had. The old Secretary of the Mayor saved a sword that she kept for a long time, and of course, some things to survive for the moment.
That situation would just last a couple of days, they hoped.
"Do you think the others will be okay?"
He didn't answer. He wasn't going to lie to her. He didn't want to do it, and he couldn't do it. Anyway, he wasn't sure about anything anymore. Snow looked back at the direction where the building was. That place they used to work. And… the place where she saw her sister being eaten by those monsters. For first time in a while, she felt tears in her eyes.
Bigby Wolf frowned. If there was something he really hated, that was the scent of his friend's tears. It was frustrating to him the way that he always had to smell Snow, no matter how far she was, he still could smell her, he knew her feelings, and now he could sense her sadness, her confusion and fear. He stared at her and tried to say something, but nothing came out from his mouth.
Even, they couldn't talk. Those monsters were attracted by the noise, which was why they were hiding in a room of that hotel: The Open Arms.
Before they could arrive there; they found bodies of mundies and fables half eaten. The mundies were the ones who came back to life, their partners didn't. First, fables weren't humans; second, they discovered that the bites didn't kill them or turn them to those things, in case one of them got bitten, this fable would have the same symptoms that mundies suffered before their death, but fables never died because of the bite; and third, fables could just die in case they were completely eaten by them.
Bigby raised a hand and put it in Snow's shoulder. She looked at him with those icy blue eyes, now full of sorrow. The old Secretary moved towards her friend and rested her head in his shoulder.
"Thanks."
"Why?"
"You're still here." She mumbled. Bigby just nodded in silence. He never was good about using comforting words.
"… We'll have to leave Fabletown."
"What do you mean? Will we go to another city or something?"
"Maybe… maybe the fables that escaped thought the same."
"… Makes sense. People who ran away from The Adversary want to be as far away as possible. From him and everything. Where are we going to…?"
"… I don't know, but we'll leave as soon as we can."
Snow didn't argue about his plans. She just sighed deeply and closed her eyes.
Snow grabbed the wolf's fur tightly. Bigby had been running through the streets for hours since they woke up. She had a bag with his clothes in it and the supplies they had. She was wearing jeans, a white blouse and sneakers for the road, God, running with heels and skirt didn't sound good, so she decided she needed comfortable clothes.
The wolf suddenly stopped, causing a tight grip and a gasp from Snow.
"What's wrong, Bigby?"
"I smelled mundies. Normal mundies." He explained. "We can't let them see us like this."
"You mean… see you like this."
"Well, when you put it in that way…" He mumbled. "I can smell some medicines from a drugstore. Do you need them?"
"Do the mundy medicines work on us?" She raised an eyebrow when she got out from the wolf's back. She saw Bigby walking to a building and he hid there.
"I don't think so, but… I can smell food too. And obviously we need it. Well, you need it more than me, I can stand it." The fable stared at him in silence, until she nodded.
"What are you going to do with those mundies?" She asked. "You're… not going to kill them or eat them, are you?"
"Come on, Snow." He frowned. "I'm not as bad as everyone says I am." Snow just sighed.
"Ok, I'm sorry. It's just… This situation is overtaking me." Snow pinched her temples.
"Don't worry about it." Bigby turned into a man again, but he was still hidden. "Give me the bag?"
"Uh, sure…" The princess blushed a little.
Once Bigby turned into a human again and got dreesed, both of them walked through the street, but stopped immediately when they saw many walkers near the Drugstore.
"Shit…"
"Think you can handle them?"
"Yeah." His eyes turned yellow when he showed Snow his claws. "However, do you agree?"
"What do you mean?"
"The mundies can see us, and maybe there are fables around who work for the Adversary. We can't let them catch us."
"Yes… I guess that's true… You can destroy them at your way only when no one is around." Bigby nodded. "Do you smell someone?"
"Just the people that are in the drugstore, that's all."
"Good, then…" Snow pointed the zombies. "Go."
Bigby just obeyed her orders and run towards the undead ones. With his claws, he shredded them into multiples pieces. When the Big Bad Wolf ended his job, he looked at his bloody hands. He frowned.
Snow walked to him.
"Are you okay?" She placed a hand on his shoulder.
"…" He inhaled deeply. He hated the smell of blood, but now… He really despised it. "The smell… It's nastier than before, if you ask me… Kind of… Rotten."
"Oh…" Snow pressed her lips together. "Shall we come?"
"Yeah, but the front entry is blocked." He signalized. "I think we should try the emergency exit."
"Good idea."
Bigby frowned.
"What's…-"
"Shh…" He cut her off softly. He got close to the door, hearing voices.
"Did you tell anyone out there who you were, or that you were tied to this place?" Bigby recognized a feminine voice in the other side of the exit door.
"No. I've been sticking to first names for a reason."
Bigby raised an eyebrow.
"What are they talking about?" Snow asked. She just could hear mumbles.
"I'm not sure of what, but it seems… serious."
Bigby decided that whatever was happening in there, it was not their business. He just needed to protect Snow.
Resolving that in his mind, he knocked the door.
"What the…?"
"Hello? Somebody…?" Snow asked. She knew Bigby wasn't so… sociable.
The Big Bad Wolf assumed that the people inside moved something, or so he heard… They finally opened the door.
There were three in the room. Two adults and a child.
"Oh, she's so pretty!" The little girl exclaimed once she saw Snow.
Bigby suppressed a smile when he saw his friend blink, a little taken aback by the kid.
"Umm, thank you, sweetie."
"Who are you?" The brunette woman asked, distrustful.
"I'm Snow. He's Bigby." The princess smiled. "We were looking for a place to hide for a while…"
"… I'm Carley."
"Name's Lee." The older man placed a hand in the girl's head. "This is Clementine."
"Hi…" She smiled a little.
"Hey there…" Snow kneeled to her level. "How are you doing? Are you okay?"
"Yes… Lee protects me…" Her smiled grew.
Snow looked up to Lee.
"Are you her…?"
"No, I found her in her treehouse. She was by her own."
"Tough girl." Bigby muttered, gaining Snow's attention.
The princess smiled. Bigby told her about his past, how he had to handle himself alone, without his mother and his brothers. Maybe he liked Clementine because of that.
"Anyway… Can we stay?" Snow asked. Lee and Carley exchanged doubtful glances. "Just a few hours. We'll leave later, we won't bother you again." She insisted.
"It's not that you're bothering. The thing is… There are more people in here… And maybe some of them won't like that idea."
"What's the deal? They prefer people dying?" Bigby crossed his arms.
"Well, kinda." Carley smirked. "They're assholes, but… You know."
"We're useful. I have this." Snow showed them her sword.
Both humans gasped.
"Holy shit…"
"Swear."
"Where did you get that?" Asked the brunette.
"I… It's a family thing." She lied.
"Woah… It looks pretty good. You know how to use it?"
"Yes, I attacked those thing with it a couple of hours ago."
"Well, I guess you're right. You people seems very useful." Both Lee and Carley stepped aside to let them in.
Snow smiled and thanked them. Bigby remained silent, examining the room. There was a mattress covered in blood. He frowned.
"Bigby?"
"I'm fine." He replied with a husky voice. "Goddamn, I need a cigarette." He muttered.
The smells were driving him mad.
"Really? You look rather pale… You weren't bit, were you?" Carley frowned.
"No, its… Let's just say Bigby has a sensitive sense of smell." Snow intervened.
"Is that right?" Asked Lee.
"If you ask me, I'm kind of a wolf." He joked.
"What the fuck?!" Lilly exclaimed when she saw Lee, Carley and Clementine walking out of the other room with two strangers. She stood up and walked to them. "Carley, what the HELL?! You keep letting people get in here without MY permission."
"Well, it's not like the place is yours." Bigby growled.
Lilly frowned.
"Bigby." Snow adverted him in a nagging tone.
"Lilly, they were by their own outside." The brunette reporter replied. "Besides, they could be helpful."
"The hell they…"
"Miss." Snow interrupted her. "Please, we'll be here a couple of hours. Then we'll leave you and your group alone. Please…"
The woman stared at the princess a few seconds, trying to see a hint of lie in her eyes.
"… Fine." She sighed. "But you'll leave later. Understood?"
"Yes." She smiled. "Thank you so much."
"I'm Lilly."
"I'm Snow." She looked for the corner of her eye, expecting Bigby to say something, but he didn't. He kept staring at Lilly with a deep scowl in his face. "And… He's Bigby."
The woman with long brunette hair nodded and kneeled down again to check on his father.
"Well, that was…"
"She acted just like you and the others came here." Completed Carley, looking at Lee.
"Yeah…" He responded in an awkward way.
The reporter noticed it.
"Umm, please excuse us." She said to the newcomers.
"Oh, yes. Of course." The raven haired woman nodded. She grabbed Bigby by his arm and dragged him with her. "Come on… Let's see what can we get and meet the others."
The wolf nodded, but he still could hear Lee and Carley's voices.
"Look we didn't finished our little chat there. I just want you to know that I'll keep this to myself. Don't worry about it."
"Why would you do that? How can I trust you?"
"You don't have to. But I'm just telling you."
"Fine… Thanks."
"In case of something fishy, we could use these gauzes, bandages and disinfectant." Snow's voice made him come back to reality. He looked at her. "We'll just take some of this 'cause this group needs them too."
"Do what you think it's right, Snow. My only priority here is you not getting hurt."
Snow made a face, worried.
"What?"
"That's why those words bother me. You'd do anything to protect me, but you don't care if something happens to you."
"Who cares for the villain, Snow?" Bigby rolled his eyes.
"I do care, Bigby." Snow smiled warmly at him, provoking the Big Bad Wolf's heart stir. "You're my best friend. I don't want to lose you. I can't lose you."
"Then… You should know how I feel, Snow."
She remained silent, staring deeply in to his hazel brown eyes.
"Hey there, lovebirds."
Both of them turned to find a man with moustache and a hat smiling at them.
"I guess Lilly gave you shit back there? We heard everything."
"She's an asshole." Bigby said.
"Ha! I like your attitude." He laughed. "You seem tough, and we need someone like that. I'm Kenny."
"Bigby." He replied shortly.
"Your wife is…?"
"Oh! He's not… He's not my husband." Snow said, embarrassed. "We're just friends. I'm Snow." She blushed a little.
"Oh, shit! I didn't mean to… It's just… Hard not to think about it, you know? You two look so close, so I… Nevermind. Sorry."
"It's fine." Bigby finally said. He was taken aback when the moustache man asked that.
"Do you have kids, Kenny?" Snow asked, trying to forget the last question.
"Yeah, my family is over there." He pointed behind him. Snow noticed a blonde woman and a little brunette boy. "She's Katjaa and Duck."
"Duck?" Bigby smirked.
"Long story, pal." He shook his head. "So… How did you end up here?"
Snow pressed her lips. She was tired of lies, but they didn't have any choice. Besides, it wasn't like mundies were going to believe them.
"We were from New York." Bigby decided to talk.
"Woah, shit! Really? Why did you come here?"
"When this shit started, I guess Snow and I reacted fast and took a jet from an old friend."
"Where's the jet now? We could use it"
Crap.
"I don't think so. We crashed." He said shortly. "We don't want to talk about it, we lost too many people."
"Oh, uhh… I'm sorry."
"It's fine."
"Kenny." Lee approached them.
"What's up?"
"Glenn's trapped down at the motor inn."
"Fuck… What do you think we could do?"
"I think Doug is not good around these things, and you've got your family here. I'll take Carley and her dead-eye."
"If that's what you wanna do…"
"Somebody's got to."
"Snow, give me the sword." The sheriff asked to the princess.
"What?" Snow, Lee and Kenny said.
"I could join you if you need help. We can't take any risk, can we?" He raised an eyebrow.
"I don't mind." Carley walked to them, hearing all the conversation. "They got a sword and it's pretty helpful."
"A sword?" Kenny repeated, shocked.
"Oh, yes. Sorry if I didn't tell you." Snow drew her sword. "It's mine. My family gave it to me." She looked at her friend. "Bigby, you rarely use it. And I could go with them if you…"
"Snow, we talked about this."
"But I'm not helpless." She frowned. "I can take care of myself."
"I know. But right now, I want you to stay here. If I know someone who treats kindly and carefully a child, that's you."
"What do you mean?" Lee asked.
"Snow knows how to take care of a child. You can trust her to take her of…"
"Clementine."
"Yeah, Clementine. So? What do you say?" He asked. Lee seemed pretty insecure.
"Will I stay with the beautiful lady?"
They turned to see Clementine looking back at them.
"I uh…"
"You need to help Glenn, right? I'll be okay." She smiled. "Kenny is here, and the pretty lady is here too. She seems nice."
Lee stayed silent a couple of seconds, considering the fact of leaving Clem in care of Snow and Kenny. He knew the moustache man would take care of her, he had a son and understood what was like protecting a child with his life. On the other hand, Snow seemed really fond of Clementine, even if she met her recently, it was obvious.
It happened just like him.
When Lee met her in her house, he found a bond with her.
Maybe…
"Ok. Please, take care of her."
Snow nodded and sighed, giving her sword to Bigby.
"Good. So, ready to head out?"
Bigby shrugged and Carley nodded.
"Let's go."
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