Gift of Hope

Chapter 2 of my Life is Strange/Until Dawn crossover, going to meet some more characters now, and a brief hint at one of the pairings.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Life is Strange or Until Dawn, nor any of the characters.

Chapter 2

As they began walking to the cafeteria Sam couldn't help but smile as she turned to the girl walking alongside her. Said girl was roughly the same height as her with shoulder length brown hair, blue eyes, pale skin and freckles, she was also rather skinny.

"Thanks for helping me out, showing me around and all, Max." She said warmly.

Maxine Caulfield grinned and nodded. "It's no trouble, glad to help."

As they walked Sam reflected on how she and Max had met in her first class. She also found out, by pure good fortune, that they had the same classes throughout the morning up till lunch.

'After we got to talking and Max seemed, less shy, she was more than happy to show me around thanks to that.' Sam noted with a grin.

It was when they entered the cafeteria that Max perked up again.

"Oh, there they are." She said. "C'mon, I'll introduce you to some of the others."

Sam grinned. "Okay, lead on."

She followed the girl across the cafeteria towards one of the tables. She took note of Chris and Ashley already sitting at the table with five other people. As they approached Chris and Ashley both smiled when they saw her. Meanwhile, the others in the group all nodded and smiled at Max. One of them, the only other guy at the table, grinned, his whole face lighting up as Max reached the table.

Said young man was taller than them both, with short messy brown hair and brown eyes; he had a somewhat lanky build and an aura of softness around his being. Sam noted that this young man and Max had already looked happy, but upon seeing each other, that happiness had only increased, this led to her forming a possible thought about the two of them, although she decided to wait and see if it was true.

So, she quickly took in the remaining four people at the table, all girls. The first was seated next to Chris and was around the same height as Max, she had blonde hair tied in a neat bun, blue eyes and pale skin, she was rather slender and demure, her manner of dress conservative.

Another girl was seated between Chris and Ashley, with a third on Ashley's other side. The girl sitting between them wore glasses, had brown medium length hair and eyes and dark skin, while the girl next to Ashley was fair skinned with black partially dyed hair and brown eyes, also wearing glasses.

The final girl, seated across from the others, smiling as Max took a seat beside her, with the other boy on her other side, was slightly taller than the other girls, she had shoulder length dyed purple hair and brown eyes, a chubby build and had a look that said quite plainly that, while open and friendly, you got her mad, you'd regret it.

Taking a seat by the young man she'd noted first, Sam greeted the table as Max began introducing her to the group and vice-versa. So it was she learned she was right, the boy she saw was Max's boyfriend, Warren Graham. As for the other girls, the blonde was Kate Marsh, Max's best friend.

The dark skinned girl was called Stella Hill, the black haired girl was Brooke Scott and finally, the purple haired girl, Alyssa Anderson. Max was then introduced to Chris and Ashley too and soon they all began talking, enjoying their lunch and Sam almost laughed.

She was here with Chris and Ashley on their first day, and already they had made friends and joined the group as easily as if they'd been here for a long time. She wondered if the others were faring as well as they were.

Unbeknownst to any of the others, even each other, two members of the group however were finding themselves confused, due some strange feelings they were having. Biting his lip, trying to act natural, Chris nevertheless couldn't help but glance out the corner of his towards Kate.

'We've only known each other starting today, but...She's remarkable, a truly wonderful person and, and...' He caught himself. 'Whoa, what am I even thinking, we've just met?'

Little did Chris, or indeed anyone know, Kate was having similar thoughts about him.

Stalking towards the cafeteria exit, Emily rolled her eyes. She might have expected to find Matt already chatting with Logan Robertson and Zachary Riggins, the football players.

'Should've guessed, well, now I know Matt's gonna be on the team.' She noted. 'Well, better get to...oh for god sake.'

She glared as she was confronted by the sight of Mike and Jess hanging out near the entrance to the cafeteria. The fact that Mike broke up with her was bad enough, but breaking up with her for Jess had just been a case of twisting the knife. Her former best friend has shown little care for Emily's feelings in the matter too, which just made it worse.

Now she saw them, practically glued to each other while talking to other people. Emily had found time to at least get to know their names. Two of them had the typical look that screamed 'skaters'. She knew them to be Justin Williams and Trevor Yard. Meanwhile Jess was talking with Juliet Watson and Dana Ward.

Emily rolled her eyes at that. 'Of course, beauty queens, cheerleaders, reporters...typical.'

Glancing around the room she spotted all the others, even Hannah, Beth and Josh all gathered at the same table, with a group of other people.

Before she could decide what to do however, someone suddenly grabbed her shoulder and spun her around to face them.

"What the hell…?" She gasped then saw them. "Oh, you."

It was Victoria Chase. "We need to talk..."

Shaking her head Emily replied calmly. "We really don't."

"You need to learn how things work around here..."

Emily however stepped forwards, getting right in Victoria's face. "Is that a challenge, bitch, because you're nowhere near as intimidating as you think you are."

"Excuse me!" Victoria gasped; well aware they had an audience now. "If you think you can..."

"I can and I am." Emily snapped. "Now, get out of my way and stop bothering me, or I'll introduce you to the palm of my hand, got it."

With that she turned and stalked off, leaving the cafeteria, not even glancing in Mike and Jess' direction.

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