Aug. 6th - The First Fence (BtVS/TWD/CM)
Title: The First Fence
Author: 3am_moonlight
Rating: Gen.
Crossover: The Walking Dead & Criminal Minds
Timeline: Post-Chosen, S3 for TWD, between S7&8 or early S8 for CM. Assuming TWD begins in 2012.
Characters: Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane, Jennifer Jareau, Henry LaMontagne, misc TWD characters.
Disclaimer: Property of Joss and whoever owns TWD & CM.
Summary: The group breaches the first fence in their quest to conquer the prison.
Word Count: 1041.
Notes: Follows ' Lost in the Woods'. Sophia was lost in the woods on Day +66 after the Global Outbreak. I've skipped S2 and the whole time on the Hershel Farm. This begins on Day +300, or the first ep of S3.
"It's a prison," Stephen deadpanned in an annoyed voice when Rick showed them the building.
"It's a prison with a bunch of walkers outside, and probably even more inside," Faith added in an irritated voice. She was probably forcefully reminded of her own stay in one of California's correctional facilities. Not a good thing for her state of mind. "I won't live in a cage." Buffy silently agreed but chose not to comment. Aside from the prison part, it was a good temporary place to stay if you ignored how visible it was and how easy targets they would be if they camped there. Anyone with a good rifle could hide in the forest and use them for target practice and chances were they wouldn't know until someone was already dead. And that was if you didn't account for all the stray walkers who would no doubt congregate around the outer fence because of the commotion two dozen people would make.
The argument escalated from there but in the end, they decided that the two Slayers would clear the field using the Scythe and Faith's sword. Rick would join them with a long-bladed knife and Daryl would cover them with his crossbow. Over the long winter, the two women had proven themselves as extremely capable fighters and because of this, no one contested Buffy's plan. While the four of them ran over to the gate on the other side the rest of the group spaced themselves around the fence and tried to attract the walkers and then stab them in the head with their knives or other sharp objects. All the yelling sounded odd to Buffy, she'd gotten used to everyone trying to be quiet so they wouldn't attract anything.
The walkers had been undead for nearly a year by the looks of it and had most likely not been able to feed on anyone during the intervening time. It meant they were slow and easy to kill. What made them dangerous was how many there were. Still, the Chosen Two got some exercise and an outlet for their bloodlust, and the group got a semi-safe place to stay for the night. It also meant they saved their bullets, which was good for two things; one there were a limited number of them and therefore needed to be used sparingly, and second, it meant less loud noises so they wouldn't attract even more of the walking dead. Both good things as far as they were concerned.
There were only twenty of them now; the Grimes family, the Greene family, Andrea, Glenn, Daryl, Carol and her daughter Sophia, T-Dog, Jimmy, JJ and her son Henry, Steve, Lenny, Leighanne, and the two Slayers.
The group had lost four people while escaping from the Greene Farm, which was a lot better than it sounded given the huge herd which had somehow managed to sneak up on them without anyone noticing until they were already nearly surrounded. Before that, they had lost another two people. The last she'd seen of it had been the main house engulfed in flames. Only a little bit of pre-planning on Faith's part had ensured they all ended up at the same place afterward.
Faith had taken one look at the open area and insisted on several escape plans if, or rather, *when* the walkers would show up. After having the obvious pointed out to them, namely the open farm with little or no fencing to protect them, they all agreed to a backup plan if/when something would go wrong. All the plans included a rendezvous point in case someone got separated from the others. It was a good plan and when the farm was overrun it turned out to be a great idea as both Andrea and Jimmy had somehow ended up left behind when everyone else escaped by car. Or in the case of Daryl and Carol; on his motorcycle.
Buffy and Faith had spent the winter teaching everyone, including all the children, four-year-old Henry being the only exception, to fight. They'd started with bladed weapons, continued with how to use whatever happened to be nearby as a deadly weapon if they needed it, and then they'd trained them in unarmed combat. Both Rick and JJ had helped out with the latter. Rick because he was a former sheriff and JJ because she'd been a federal agent pre-apocalypse. Faith had somehow talked Daryl into helping her teach them street fighting. Anything that would give them that little extra that would ensure they survived to see another day.
In between moving around looking for something more permanent, trying to find food and water to keep everyone alive, and trying to avoid both walkers and other survivors they had also managed to learn first aid, basic hunting, how to break into houses, picking locks, how to hotwire a car, and a number of other useful things. Really, if anyone had told Buffy Summers that she would regularly break into houses and steal food a year ago she would've called them completely insane.
And now they were planning to break into a prison. The mutinous expression on Faith's face didn't bode well, but there was nothing she could do about it at this point. Rick was right; it was safer than the houses and other places they had stayed so far. It had two rows of fences, a field they could grow vegetables on, and a barricaded building they could live in. It wouldn't work long-term, sooner or later the fences would fall, but for the immediate future, it would do.
Her sister-Slayer wasn't the only one who disapproved of their would-be new residence; both Daryl and JJ seemed unhappy as well. Neither was difficult to guess as to the reasoning. Not that the rest of them were all that ecstatic either, but they looked more at the security it provided than its former use.
They had got inside the first fence and tomorrow they would tackle the walkers inside the second fence, but for now, there was hot food and tepid water. All she really needed to do was ignore the rising tension between a heavily pregnant Lori and her estranged husband and things just might turn out okay.
Author: 3am_moonlight
Rating: Gen.
Crossover: The Walking Dead & Criminal Minds
Timeline: Post-Chosen, S3 for TWD, between S7&8 or early S8 for CM. Assuming TWD begins in 2012.
Characters: Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane, Jennifer Jareau, Henry LaMontagne, misc TWD characters.
Disclaimer: Property of Joss and whoever owns TWD & CM.
Summary: The group breaches the first fence in their quest to conquer the prison.
Word Count: 1041.
Notes: Follows ' Lost in the Woods'. Sophia was lost in the woods on Day +66 after the Global Outbreak. I've skipped S2 and the whole time on the Hershel Farm. This begins on Day +300, or the first ep of S3.
"It's a prison," Stephen deadpanned in an annoyed voice when Rick showed them the building.
"It's a prison with a bunch of walkers outside, and probably even more inside," Faith added in an irritated voice. She was probably forcefully reminded of her own stay in one of California's correctional facilities. Not a good thing for her state of mind. "I won't live in a cage." Buffy silently agreed but chose not to comment. Aside from the prison part, it was a good temporary place to stay if you ignored how visible it was and how easy targets they would be if they camped there. Anyone with a good rifle could hide in the forest and use them for target practice and chances were they wouldn't know until someone was already dead. And that was if you didn't account for all the stray walkers who would no doubt congregate around the outer fence because of the commotion two dozen people would make.
The argument escalated from there but in the end, they decided that the two Slayers would clear the field using the Scythe and Faith's sword. Rick would join them with a long-bladed knife and Daryl would cover them with his crossbow. Over the long winter, the two women had proven themselves as extremely capable fighters and because of this, no one contested Buffy's plan. While the four of them ran over to the gate on the other side the rest of the group spaced themselves around the fence and tried to attract the walkers and then stab them in the head with their knives or other sharp objects. All the yelling sounded odd to Buffy, she'd gotten used to everyone trying to be quiet so they wouldn't attract anything.
The walkers had been undead for nearly a year by the looks of it and had most likely not been able to feed on anyone during the intervening time. It meant they were slow and easy to kill. What made them dangerous was how many there were. Still, the Chosen Two got some exercise and an outlet for their bloodlust, and the group got a semi-safe place to stay for the night. It also meant they saved their bullets, which was good for two things; one there were a limited number of them and therefore needed to be used sparingly, and second, it meant less loud noises so they wouldn't attract even more of the walking dead. Both good things as far as they were concerned.
There were only twenty of them now; the Grimes family, the Greene family, Andrea, Glenn, Daryl, Carol and her daughter Sophia, T-Dog, Jimmy, JJ and her son Henry, Steve, Lenny, Leighanne, and the two Slayers.
The group had lost four people while escaping from the Greene Farm, which was a lot better than it sounded given the huge herd which had somehow managed to sneak up on them without anyone noticing until they were already nearly surrounded. Before that, they had lost another two people. The last she'd seen of it had been the main house engulfed in flames. Only a little bit of pre-planning on Faith's part had ensured they all ended up at the same place afterward.
Faith had taken one look at the open area and insisted on several escape plans if, or rather, *when* the walkers would show up. After having the obvious pointed out to them, namely the open farm with little or no fencing to protect them, they all agreed to a backup plan if/when something would go wrong. All the plans included a rendezvous point in case someone got separated from the others. It was a good plan and when the farm was overrun it turned out to be a great idea as both Andrea and Jimmy had somehow ended up left behind when everyone else escaped by car. Or in the case of Daryl and Carol; on his motorcycle.
Buffy and Faith had spent the winter teaching everyone, including all the children, four-year-old Henry being the only exception, to fight. They'd started with bladed weapons, continued with how to use whatever happened to be nearby as a deadly weapon if they needed it, and then they'd trained them in unarmed combat. Both Rick and JJ had helped out with the latter. Rick because he was a former sheriff and JJ because she'd been a federal agent pre-apocalypse. Faith had somehow talked Daryl into helping her teach them street fighting. Anything that would give them that little extra that would ensure they survived to see another day.
In between moving around looking for something more permanent, trying to find food and water to keep everyone alive, and trying to avoid both walkers and other survivors they had also managed to learn first aid, basic hunting, how to break into houses, picking locks, how to hotwire a car, and a number of other useful things. Really, if anyone had told Buffy Summers that she would regularly break into houses and steal food a year ago she would've called them completely insane.
And now they were planning to break into a prison. The mutinous expression on Faith's face didn't bode well, but there was nothing she could do about it at this point. Rick was right; it was safer than the houses and other places they had stayed so far. It had two rows of fences, a field they could grow vegetables on, and a barricaded building they could live in. It wouldn't work long-term, sooner or later the fences would fall, but for the immediate future, it would do.
Her sister-Slayer wasn't the only one who disapproved of their would-be new residence; both Daryl and JJ seemed unhappy as well. Neither was difficult to guess as to the reasoning. Not that the rest of them were all that ecstatic either, but they looked more at the security it provided than its former use.
They had got inside the first fence and tomorrow they would tackle the walkers inside the second fence, but for now, there was hot food and tepid water. All she really needed to do was ignore the rising tension between a heavily pregnant Lori and her estranged husband and things just might turn out okay.