Important Story Note: When you get to the wolf transformation part, think of how the wolf pack in Twilight transform. Look up a gif of Jacob going to wolf form. That's what I mean by wave. None of that painful transformation stuff, eeeh, no! I hate that kind people created. xD


Little Red and His Big Bad Wolf

A Walking Dead fanfic

Chapter 2: Loving a Wolf

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The boy boldly walked slowly closer to the stranger behind the tree and looked at him curiously.

"You're new. How long have you been standing there?" The young boy asked.

Daryl cleared his throat nervously and came out from behind the tree, now in plain sight.

"Not long." Daryl replied.

"What are you doing here? Just wandering around or trying to find shelter?"

Daryl guessed he wasn't in the house with the other people when he and his group came to set up camp here.

"The people in the house are letting me and the group stay here a while."

The boy lifted a brow. "Group? What group?"

Daryl smiled and shook his head. Yep, definitely wasn't around for it. Daryl motioned with his head in a silent 'follow me' gesture and began walking back the way he came. The boy followed in wonder of what this man was talking about. Once they rounded all the way back to the front of the house, Daryl stopped and the boy's jaw dropped. There were eleven people in the front yard with tents and other camp supplies littering the yard. The boy looked to Daryl.

"There's a lot more of you than I was thinking when you said group. This many people survived out there?" He said stunned.

"Yep, not easily, obviously, but we made it," Daryl turned to the boy then and held out his hand. "I'm Daryl. You are?"

"Glenn." He said and shook his hand as he leaned against a pole of the expansive porch.

When their hands touched, a rush of pleasant energy went through them. Daryl noted that it was the effects of the mate bond establishing itself. They stared at each other in a happy daze, the world seemingly disappearing and only them two being present. They both snapped out of it after a few seconds, though, and took back their hands, Glenn lightly chuckling nervously.

"So you live here?" Daryl asked.

Glenn nodded. "Yeah," Glenn chuckled. "Actually, I was like you not long ago," Daryl looked at him in question.

"I was out there surviving too before I came across this place. But unlike you guys, I was alone,"

Daryl's eyes widened. He didn't want to think about his mate out there all alone.

"They took me in and said they'd let me stay with them a few days. Since me and Maggie grew into great friends, the rest of the Greenes trusted me enough to take me in as one of their own since I was surviving by myself out there. And I've been with them here for, I'd say...two months."

Daryl blinked in amazement. "Wow. Who's Maggie…and the Greenes? The people inside?"

Glenn nodded. "Yeah, they're the Greene family. Maggie is their oldest daughter and now my best friend. She has a younger sister, Beth. There's Jimmy, Beth's boyfriend. A married couple Patricia and Otis who are Maggie and Beth's aunt and uncle. Then there's Beth and Maggie's father Hershel who is the owner of this land."

Daryl nodded taking it in. "So six people…looks like they did good on keeping people alive too."

Glenn smiled. "They're very protective…and smart. You seem like a pretty good guy. I'll see if I can get Hershel to trust you so you all can stay in the house rather than out in the open of danger."

Daryl smiled. "That's kind of ya, kid, thanks."

"Mmhmm. Well, I'm gonna go inside a sec to change. I'll be back out in a minute."

Daryl grinned. "I'll be waiting."

Glenn's smile grew wider to a grin as well. "I'm sure you will." And then Glenn went inside.

Daryl had a good feeling about this. If Glenn was flirting back, then surely he's interested in him too and will be more inclined to accept the mate bond…and accept him. Glenn came out of the house a moment later. The towel put up and now changed out of the trunks and had jeans on with his dark red shirt and lighter red hoodie.

"Kay, so what do you wanna do now?" Glenn asked.

"How about you help me gather firewood."

Glenn smiled. "Kay, sure."

While Glenn looked on the ground for fallen wood and Daryl chopped down small, thin trees, Daryl got distracted a few times by Glenn being in his line of site and bending down with his waist to pick up the fallen twigs and short chunks of wood. After the fifth time of him doing that, Daryl rushed over with wolf speed and shoved Glenn against a tree, making him drop the wood in a pile.

Glenn looked up at Daryl and was about to ask what the problem was when he noticed something out of the ordinary. Daryl's eyes….they were no longer blue. They were…..silver.

"Damn, kid, ya really got ta stop doin' that." Daryl growled in a purr.

"D-doing what?" Glenn was struggling for words right now at the sight he was seeing.

"Bendin' down like that. You got too sexy of an ass to just be bendin' down carelessly like that. You'll get jumped by more than walkers if you keep that up."

That made Glenn speechless even more now and also made him blush intensely. "I-I got what?"

"Ah, c'mon, I thought it was obvious by now that I'm interested in you."

That got Glenn snapped out of his shock and wonder enough to speak. Hearing that Daryl has feelings for him made a smile appear on his face.

"I'm interested in you too. But….sorry to get off subject and break the mood like this, but…..why are your eyes silver now?"

That broke the lust cloud Daryl fell into and he blinked in surprise. "My eyes?"

"And how did you move so fast? I didn't realize what even happened until I felt the bark against my back and the feel of you pinning me. I had no reaction time what-so-ever, you were moving so fast."

'crap.' Daryl thought. He didn't realize he had fallen into his wolf instincts to the point of them showing so openly. Sure, he was going to tell Glenn about what he was, but not now. Not literally right after they met. He has to now though. There is nothing ordinary he can blame his inhuman speed and different eye color on that he will believe. So he has to tell him right here and now. 'Just great.' He groaned in displeasure in his mind. Daryl dropped his hands so he's no longer pinning Glenn and took a step back just enough so they're not in each other's personal space as much.

"I'm um….I'm….gosh," He paused a moment, Glenn watching him curiously in wonder.

He met the boys eyes. "This is gonna be hard for you to believe," Daryl started. That got Glenn to swallow nervously.

"I'm a…a wolf."

Glenn stared at him for a few seconds before taking in a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

"Yeah….that is hard to believe…..but I'm leaning towards believing it more so than not since zombies are walking around and you just quite literally moved at the speed of light and now have a completely different eye color than you did a few minutes ago of which, might I add, is impossible for humans to have."

Daryl smiled happily at that. This might go over easier than he thought.

"That's a relief." Daryl chuckled out.

"Can….can I see?" Glenn asked hesitantly.

"See?" Daryl asked a bit confused.

"See the…wolf thing." Glenn clarified.

"Oh…yeah….but let's get further in the forest first. Don't want any accidents."

Glenn looked at him uncertainly. "Accidents?"

"My group shootin' me."

Glenn then understood. "Oh, right."

Once they got into a reasonable amount of tree cover from the others, they stopped.

"Kay, ready?" Daryl asked Glenn.

"Yeah."

And with that, Daryl phased. It happened in a blink. Surely if Glenn did blink, he would've missed it. Daryl's body transitioned smoothly in a wave from human instantly to this huge six foot blonde-brown wolf with those striking silver eyes. The huge wolf looked up at him after he phased. When he looked at him Glenn could instantly differentiate Daryl from a regular wolf simply from just looking at the eyes. Even though Daryl was in wolf form, his eyes still held human intelligence.

"Wow! That is….so amazing!" He said in excitement.

Daryl's wolf eyes sparkled with happiness at his acceptance. Daryl then looked at him as if verbally expecting something else from Glenn. Glenn laughed in understanding of what Daryl wanted.

"You wanna know my opinion of what you look like as a wolf?"

Daryl nodded his big wolf head. That made Glenn laugh again. It was so weird seeing a wolf react intelligently to human words.

"Well, I think you look incredibly stunning." He said affectionately.

Daryl's mouth opened and his tongue hanged out in a show of happiness and rushed Glenn gently knocking him down and licked his face. Glenn went in a fit of laughter from the huge tongue licking him.

"Okay! Okay! Love you too!"

Daryl stopped licking once he heard that and stared down at him. Glenn was panting from all the laughing as he stared up into those big silver eyes that currently showed surprise in them. Glenn smiled.

"Yeah…..I love you." He panted out.

Daryl phased back, not moving from his position he was in as a wolf over Glenn, now blue eyes gazing down at him.

"Really?" Daryl replied feeling stunned. This was seemingly too good to be true.

Glenn smiled at him reassuringly. "Really."

Daryl huffed in a smile and moved one of his hands from next to Glenn's head down to take Glenn's hand in his firmly.

"I love you too. I always had this whole time. I just avoided saying it since we just met, and I knew it would be awkward if I said I loved you right after meeting you. Also thought I'd freak you out sounding so strong so fast."

Glenn held Daryl's hand just as firmly the same instant Daryl did.

"You're right, it would be awkward to say that then….but I wouldn't have cared…'cause I felt the same the whole time too. Ever since I saw you at the pond I had this strange, strong feeling of love towards you…as if I've known you for years and developed feelings for you over that time."

Daryl huffed out a relieved breath. That must be the mate bond too, trying to give clues to them both that they're mates. This whole mate thing was new to him, so he didn't know all the effects of it.

"Me too. It's 'cause we're mates."

"Mates?" Glenn repeated.

"It's an animal thing; nature's system to help creatures be happy. A mate bond is only formed if you've found the best person that you would be happy with."

"The best person…" Glenn said in thought. Then his eyes softened.

"…Oh, that sounds so romantic. Like we're created only for each other….oh, I love that!" Glenn gushed.

Daryl chuckled and leaned down to kiss him.


After making out a bit in the forest, Glenn and Daryl were walking across Daryl and his group's camp ground preparing a fire pit which only took a few seconds. It'll be lit at sunset. Once they were finished, they were approached by Merle.

"Hey, Daryl, where'd ya find such a fine lookin' thing." Merle said as he came right up to Glenn and grabbed his hand to stroke it adoringly.

Before Glenn could even protest, Daryl rapidly was right there doing it for him. Daryl shoved his brother's hand away from Glenn and stepped in front of his mate.

"Hey, hands off! He's not yours to touch." Daryl growled in warning. Not an animal-like growl, but he was getting close to it if his brother didn't back the hell off his mate.

Merle looked at Daryl surprised and amused at his brother's defensive and possessive reaction.

"Oh? And why is that, little brother?"

"'Cause he's mine, we're dating. That means he's off limits."

Merle raised a brow. "Really? A pretty little boy like that? Ya sure?"

"Merle." Daryl warned.

"And who are you wanting to be with, darlin'?" Merle asked Glenn suddenly who was watching the exchange from behind Daryl in wonder.

"Uh-I…I'm only interested in Daryl…sorry." Glenn said softly to the intimidating looking man.

Daryl looked at Merle with further pride. "You heard the boy, so back off."

Merle still looked reluctant to drop it, so Daryl took Merle's wrist and walked out of Glenn's earshot and began whispering heatedly to him. As this went on, an arm wrapped around Glenn's waist and he was pulled to an unknown chest. Glenn looked up at who this person was, surprise in his eyes.

"Hey, sweetie, where'd you come from?"

Okay, now Glenn was getting annoyed. He pushed at the man's chest in an attempt to break out of the hold, but the guy was stronger than him, so he was stuck.

"Will you let go of me. I'm not interested." Said Glenn still trying to get out of the man's arms.

"Ah, babe, come on, you haven't even given me a chance."

"Don't wanna." He said in frustration.

The man holding Glenn suddenly felt something against his head.

"You better let him go right now, Shane, or I will put an arrow through you. Don't think I won't." Daryl hissed menacingly while holding his crossbow to the man's head.

Shane let go immediately and held his hands out on either side of himself in surrender reluctantly. Glenn immediately walked away from the stranger named Shane and went by Daryl a little freaked out from people he didn't know just grabbing him. Once Glenn was safely by his side, he lowered his crossbow and Shane turned around, glared at Daryl knowing he doesn't stand a chance, and walked off. Daryl turned to Glenn, his threatening demeanor softening.

"You okay? Did he do anything to ya?"

Glenn nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. And no, he didn't do anything but try to sweet talk me."

Daryl nodded. "I have to do somethin' real quick, follow me."

Daryl walked to the middle of the camp, Glenn standing by him like he wanted him to.

"Y'all listen up! If anyone touches this boy right here," Daryl pointed to Glenn. "You're gettin' an arrow in ya, no hesitation. And we all know what it means when someone gets hurt in this situation we're in now. No one touches this boy 'cept me. He is mine and mine only."

Glenn was blushing so much at that; from the words and everyone staring at him. After Daryl was done speaking he turned to leave to his tent.

"C'mon, babe." Daryl said as he walked passed him. Glenn followed him contently, the blush still present on his face.

Man, if this is what it's like being with a wolf, then he's in for one interesting ride. A ride of which he doesn't mind being on, as long as Daryl protects him.


End chap. 2

*squeals* They are so adorable! I truly can't get enough of this couple. Here's a sneak peak of the next chapter: Glenn learns more about wolf behavior from Daryl and they bond more as a couple and Glenn gets the Greenes to start warming up to the group camping in their yard. A few week later Glenn tells Daryl that he wants to be turned and become like him while meanwhile, the Grimes family have personal issues arise causing Carl to be conflicted and vulnerable. Till next time. ^ - '