Gift of Hope

Chapter 1 of my new story, this is a Life is Strange/Until Dawn crossover, featuring the Until Dawn characters in Life is Strange's setting. So, just to clear up a few points, no rewind, no tornado, Dark Room currently still active. Anyway, this is just the introductory chapter, introducing the Until Dawn characters as they get settled in to Blackwell, anyway, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own Life is Strange or Until Dawn or the characters from either one.

Chapter 1

It was another day at Blackwell Academy, yet despite appearing much like any other day, there was much buzz and speculation amongst the students. This was due to the arrival of not one or two, but ten new students. These ten students all made an impression the moment they arrived and the interest still hadn't died down.

They'd all come to Blackwell for varying reasons, yet it was clear they all knew each other well and had been around each other for a long time before arriving at the school. The group, of which there were four boys and six girls, were all settling into their dorms, as they did so, two of the girls ended up meeting Juliet Watson in the hall.

Juliet was a tall girl with dirty blonde hair, brown eyes and fair skin. After introducing herself and welcoming the girls to Blackwell, Juliet observed them carefully. They were both of average height, although one was slightly taller than the other.

This taller girl had long golden blonde hair which she tied back in a simple bun, hazel eyes and fair skin. She had a slender but curvy figure and seemed rather athletic.

The other girl had long auburn red hair and green eyes, as well as pale skin, she too was slender and also seemed a little shyer than the blonde.

The blonde girl smiled. "It's nice to meet you Juliet, I'm Samantha Giddings, but, everyone just calls me Sam. This is Ashley, Ashley Brown."

"Hi." Ashley replied with a smile.

Juliet grinned, already her journalistic urges fed her curiosity regarding the duo.

Anxious to feed said curiosity she casually asked.

"So, what brought you guys here?"

Ashley was the one who answered. "We just...We all had, different aspirations but, mostly in the Art field. Different types of art, theatre, photography, painting and drawing, things like that...That's when we found out about Blackwell."

"Just a relief we all got in, was easier for some of us, to be honest." Sam added; before turning her head. "Oh, hey, Jess, over here."

Juliet followed Sam's gaze as saw the young woman she had called over. This girl was also blonde, although her hair was more of a sandy colour than Sam's, she also had green eyes and medium bisque complexion.

Juliet bit her lip, the girl was clearly beautiful and the way she walked, her stance, all pointed to her knowing how to use that beauty to her advantage.

'I better make sure Zach keeps his eyes where they should be.' Juliet noted to herself.

She quickly cleared her mind however as Jess joined them.

"Jess, this is Juliet, Juliet Watson." Sam introduced them. "Juliet, this is our friend, Jessica Riley."

Jess grinned. "Hey, nice to see you, oh and please, just call me Jess."

"Gladly." Juliet replied.

While still remembering her mental warning, she noted just how friendly Jess was and was certain, or at least hopeful, that they'd get along well.

Meanwhile, at another part of the dorms, three of Blackwell's 'elite' students, all members of the school's famous Vortex Club, were gathered. All three were females, two had blonde hair, although one wore hers cut short and had brown eyes, the other had long hair and blue eyes. The last girl had dark hair and eyes and some Asian features. These three were Victoria Chase, the short haired blonde, Taylor Christensen, the long haired blonde, and finally, the dark haired girl, Courtney Wagner.

"So, that's them huh…?" Courtney asked.

Taylor nodded grinning. "Yup, the Washington Twins."

They were both watching as two girls were talking outside their neighbouring dorm rooms. Both girls were almost completely identical, both having dark brown hair, brown eyes, olive skin tones and even similar builds. Only a few differences helped tell them apart, one of the girls had only chin length hair for example. The other wore her hair longer, as well as wearing glasses and, thanks to her tank-top making it visible, a black butterfly tattoo on her upper right arm, just below the shoulder.

"Yeah, that's them, Hannah and Beth Washington." Victoria confirmed. "Hannah's the one with the glasses...Now, are you sure they'll be worthy?"

Courtney almost laughed. "Victoria, they're the daughters of Bob Washington, the movie director, I honestly don't see..."

Victoria rolled her eyes. "Yeah, that's true, but maybe, that makes Beth worthy, makes their brother worthy. But that girl Hannah, look at her...Urgh, Max Caulfield is more outgoing that she is."

Neither of the other two said anything, unsure how to react to that.

Victoria turned away, shaking her head; it may have sounded snarky, but she was just stating a fact when she made her comment about Max. She knew her fellow student was so painfully shy at times it seems unreal. Yet other times, she was almost the opposite, it got so confusing.

"Hey, watch it!" She snapped as someone walked into.

She did not expect the sharp response she got. "You watch it, bitch, you're lucky I'm busy."

She stepped back, startled, angry that someone would dare talk to her like that. She took a careful look at this sudden new enemy and was even more startled to see it was one of the new girls. The girl was tall, Asian with shoulder length black hair and brown eyes, she had an olive skin tone and definite curves, Victoria was infuriated to find herself feeling jealous of the girl.

She also knew who she was. 'That's...Emily Davis...'

Shaking her head at Victoria, rolling her eyes, Emily turned and stalked off towards her dorm room. This left Victoria somewhat anxious as she realized; unlike all the others she had dealt with before in the past, she doubted it would be easy, if at all possible, to maintain any sort of dominance over the girl, and that was not something she was looking forward to discovering the truth about or not.

Meanwhile, in the boy's dorms; the four guys were standing together, talking to some of the other boys. One such student observed things with a glare however. He carefully took in the appearance of the four boys. All were tall, all had reasonably good builds, although two were more muscular than the others.

He knew their names and could therefore associate the names with each appearance. For example, he knew the dark skinned boy with short black hair and black eyes was Matthew Taylor, AKA Matt.

There were two others, one had dark hair, light tan skin and dark eyes, the other was blonde with brown eyes, fair skinned, his hair styled in a faux-hawk. Those two were Michael 'Mike' Monroe and Christopher 'Chris' Hartley respectively.

The final member of the group was a young man with short dark brown hair, brown eyes and an olive skin tone. This was the one who raised the watcher's ire, for he was the one garnering the most attention. Joshua Washington, otherwise known as Josh, the son of the big-shot movie director.

Shaking his head at this, the watcher, Nathan Prescott, turned and left the dorms, ahead of the other students as the bell rang, signalling the start of the first class of the day.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.