Seeing as at the moment my two main fandoms are Until Dawn and The Last of Us, I thought I'd try my hand at writing a crossover fic involving both of them. This idea has been brewing for a while, but I just didn't feel motivated to write until now and I've had loads of homework recently. If any of this doesn't make sense just tell me in the comments and I'll try and fix it, and let me know if you would like to see more.

Oh, and just a sidenote: the prologue is set in 2013 so the Until Dawn gang will all be aged 16-18 because they're aged 18-20 in the actual game, which is set in 2015.

Chris

15:47

Birch Grove High School, Alberta, Canada

Thursday 26th September 2013

It was an average September day in Alberta, and Chris had almost finished his last class of the day. He tapped his chewed up pencil on the desk. Somehow he felt that wave refraction wasn't quite as important as the newspaper article he wanted to show Ashley. It spoke of a strange new infection that had been spotted in all four corners of the world, and no one knew what it was or where it came from.

The harsh ringing of a bell could suddenly be heard in the distance, and Chris practically leapt up from his chair. He made a move to go out the door, but not before being stopped by the professor. "Christopher!"

Chris froze in his tracks. Now? Really? He groaned inwardly and turned back around to face Professor Lewis. "Yes, miss?"

"I haven't seen any homework from you this week, Christopher. I expect it to be in tomorrow or I'm going to have to give you a detention. Is that clear?" Professor Lewis folded her arms.

Chris nodded. "Yes, sorry, I - well, there's no excuse for not doing my homework. I'll do it tonight." And before she could stop him, Chris had left the classroom and was making his way to the English classrooms where Ashley would be. He looked around for a few moments before spotting the redhead sitting on a lichen-covered bench.

"Chris! Hey, come over here." Ashley waved at him. Chris flopped down next to her and sighed. "Ugh, Lewis is onto me again."

Ashley grinned. "Well, if you did your homework on time she wouldn't have to nag you!"

Chris rolled his eyes. "Anyway, I may or may not have some exciting news for you, if you shut up and listen." He pulled out the newspaper from his bag and pointed to an article:

ADMITTANCE SPIKES AT AREA HOSPITALS!

300% Increase due to Mysterious Infection

Ashley looked at it in horror. "Do you think it's serious? I mean, if it wasn't serious why would it make the front page?"

Chris shrugged. "I'm sure they'll be able to get it under control soon enough. Or they'll find a vaccine, I don't know."

Ashley nodded. "Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sure we'll be fine."

Oh, how wrong they were...

Emily

2:13

Emily's House, Alberta, Canada

Friday 27th September 2013

A piercing shriek awoke Emily from her slumber. Head throbbing, she got up and went to the window to see the house opposite to hers on fire. "What the fuck? Oh my god, what happened?"

She hurriedly pulled on some pants and rushed down to her front yard. People were running down the street and screaming while other people were chasing them. Except these people looked wrong. They had glowing red eyes and blood pouring from abscesses on their faces and necks. Emily looked on in shock, having absolutely nothing to say for once.

Finally she found her voice and shouted: "What the hell is going on?" but no one paid attention. No one, that is, apart from one of those freakishly deformed people with the red eyes. It tackled her to the ground and made a throaty groaning noise. Emily squealed in disgust and horror. "HELP!" She cried, but no one cared about her enough to save her before themselves. Oh my god, I'm going to die, I'm going to die! She closed her eyes and braced herself for the end.

The gross sound of a knife hacking into flesh caused her to open her eyes again. The creature fell to the ground, dead. Emily looked up to see who her hero was. "Matt?!"

The young jock held out a hand to help her up. "Are you okay, Emily? Are you hurt? Please tell me you weren't bitten by one of those things!"

Emily shook her head in a daze. "I don't - I don't think so...What are you doing here?"

Matt turned round to see if there were any more infected people chasing him. "I was running from them." He gestured to the nearest infected, who was walking with a lopsided gait about two hundred yards away.

"Oh my god, Matt, we need to get out of here right now!" Emily moaned, grabbing his jacket sleeve and tugging on it a little too roughly.

"If we can get to a safe place I could try and call someone? I still have my phone with me," Matt suggested.

Emily sighed. "Yeah, that would probably fucking work if the cell wires hadn't been destroyed," she said sarcastically.

Matt held his hands up in defence. "Sorry, I didn't realise they were down."

A thought suddenly occurred to Emily: her car keys were in the pocket of the pants she had just put on. "Matt, come with me, we're taking the car."

He raised his eyebrows. "Is that a good idea? I mean, it might not be safe to drive with all these people and infected everywhere."

"Oh come on, Matt, you're going to pussy out on me now? Just get in the damn car."

The pair travelled down the road for a few minutes before coming to a stoplight. In the distance, Emily could see the roads were completely full of cars. "Jesus christ, we're never going to get out of here," she muttered.

"Maybe we could take a left into Jessica's street? She said her parents weren't home this week and she can't drive, so maybe we should pick her up?"

Emily agreed, and span the steering wheel. They pulled up outside Jessica's house, and they both gasped. The windows in the front of the house were all smashed and the door had been broken down. And Matt wasn't totally sure, but he thought he heard screaming. "Oh my god, Jess! Matt, we have to find her!" Emily cried.

Matt climbed over what remained of the front door and helped Emily through. "Jess? Jessica, are you in here? Hello?" Emily called out, panic rising in her voice and in her gut.

"Help me!" The pair span round to see Jess attempting to fight off one of those creatures in her kitchen. Matt quickly took out his knife and stabbed it in the back of the creature's neck. It made a wet choking sound and collapsed, blood pooling out around it in a strangely beautiful way.

Jess regained her breath and got to her feet. "Thanks, Matt. Do you guys have any idea what's going on?"

Emily grunted. "I've got some notion."

The others looked at her, confused. "So what should we do now?" Jess said. Emily glanced at her watch, only to see that the face was shattered and one of the hands was missing. "Oh no! Ugh, this was a present from my dad before he left us. Oh no, oh no, oh no!"

Jess and Matt looked on sympathetically. "Emily, I know you're upset but I really think we need to leave now. Maybe we could go to Mike's house? See if he's still there?" Matt said. Emily nodded in agreement and they all piled into Emily's car again.

It was only a short drive to Mike's house, which reassured Emily a little. She looked at her watch again in annoyance, which meant her eyes were off the road for a couple of seconds. Long enough for her to not notice the van speeding towards them, directly in their path...

Hope you enjoyed the prologue! First chapter of the actual story will be up soon.