You're Not Alone {A Walking Dead/Star Wars Crossover}

You're Not Alone

I saw two seasons of The Walking Dead and a few other episodes (which I watched out of order) a while ago. For some reason, TWD was brought up again (for unknown reasons). So this is something based off a roleplay I did with my sibling.

I don't own anything.
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Bodhi was a zombie. Not a regular zombie but definitely a zombie none the less. His skin was rotting off his face and three of his fingers were missing from the incident. A large amount of blood had spewed from his shoulder where he had been bitten, coating his clothes down that side until it reached the end of his ribcage. Flies were spinning around his decaying head and he couldn't find the strength to swat them away (they didn't really bother him anymore, anyway). His gait had become distorted in a way that it caused him to start dragging one foot behind as the other struggled to support his weight. He was losing his sense of touch. He could take bullets to his body (except the head) and it would feel like someone had just pinched his skin. Sometimes, he couldn't feel the pain at all. He might as well have been classified as a typical zombie.

But he was not a regular zombie.

Bodhi pulled himself along, a rope capturing his waist and tying him to the one and only person he loved with all his heart. He had intended to marry his lover. He had high hopes for a future that was bright and zombie-free, living his life as a married man. But fate didn't work in his favor, and in order to save his lover from a hoard of zombies, Bodhi pushed Cassian Andor to the side and took quite a few zombie bites to his shoulders, near his nape, and at his ankles. His body was battered and beaten by the hoard until Cassian shot them all down, spending the last of their bullets in an attempt to save him.

A week ago, the incident took place. And while Bodhi should have become full zombie just a few hours after he was bitten, he didn't. He was still human even in this rotting corpse.

Bodhi stumbled and fell over. Cassian whipped around, reaching out to stop his fall but thought better of it. The last thing he wanted was for Bodhi to take a bite out of his own flesh and even though he trusted Bodhi, he couldn't take the risk. "Are you okay?" Cassian asked softly.

The younger man nodded. "Yeah... " he said slowly, though he knew Cassian didn't understand his speech. "I'm so hungry, though." Bodhi felt his stomach send out spasms as he said this and he wrapped his arms around himself just under his ribcage.

Cassian sighed. "I know... I know... here, do you want some meat?" Cassian swung the small sack sitting on his shoulder to the ground and untied it. He pulled out a large piece of cow meat that he had scavenged from a meat cleaver's store. It had thawed since he stole it, which made it easier for Bodhi to eat. He quickly handed it to Bodhi.

Bodhi took the food eagerly and bit into it. The sweet aroma of meat filled his weakening olfactory nerves and a gushing of juices flowed into his mouth. The meat was so tender and delicious, Bodhi wanted to consume it all in seconds. But he didn't. Cassian had limited meat in that sack and he couldn't waste it. In an attempt to give Bodhi something to chew on that wasn't human, Cassian fed Bodhi animal meat nearly 24/7. This could have been the reason Bodhi wasn't a full zombie yet, though Cassian didn't count on it.

Bodhi busied himself with nibbling. As long as he chewed something, he could resist the urge to eat human flesh for a little longer.

They walked for a long time. Other zombies avoided them because they could smell the rotting corpse and the dead animal meat, not the fresh human flesh. That fresh meat smell was exclusively for Bodhi, since Cassain could only find a short rope to tie themselves together ("So you can keep up with me and I'll have you as my body guard through the zombie hoards," Cassian said). Bodhi had to walk within a few feet from Cassian and sometimes the smell of fresh human meat taunted his hunger.