Hey, oh! It's a new story!
Here's how it's gonna go: the first nine couples/songs have already been picked out, but I need ya'll to give me suggestions. Pick any Walking Dead couple you want to see, canon or fanon, and a song for the theme. Chapters ten and on will be all up to ya'll.
For the first chapter, we have Lori and Rick in tune to "Haunted" by Evanescence. This would take place at the end of Killer Within.
The Walking Dead Couple Shuffle- Chapter One: LorixRick
Rick felt his knees give in. He could hear the faint sounds of a baby in the distance. His baby. There were so many people staring at him, depending on him for words. They had lost so much already to this post apocalyptic world, and now Rick had nowhere else to turn to. He had thought that everything would be okay. That he and Lori could take their time forgiving each other. But all of that hope was false, now.
The wailing grew sharper, and the former deputy drew tighter into his ball. There were still many murmurs around him, calling his name, telling him to get up.
It'll never be okay, Rick thought to himself. The love of his life died thinking that he hated her. He never hated her he just needed time. Time, however, was not an option anymore. Either you lived in that moment, or you just died off.
Rick opened his eyes, only to see Lori staring back at him. She sat on the pavement where he was curled up into a ball, watching him worriedly. She wasn't real, that much he knew off the bat.
His daughter's cries were at a distance now, only to be replaced by a constant sound of a heartbeat. He flipped over on his back, only to be helped up and taken inside of the prison. All the way through, Lori followed him. He saw her dressed in her wedding dress, with her brown hair cascading down her shoulders.
Rick slid down the wall in the common room, burying his face in his hands. Even with his hands covering his eyes, he could still see Lori. She was everywhere he went, just watching him. His body began trembling; the former deputy wouldn't respond to anyone, or anything. Again and again, he would hear the wailing, the heartbeat, and finally… he heard ringing.
He wasn't going insane. He had just lost his wife.
He wasn't going insane.
Rick got up, despite all of the noises in his head. While his friends were all looking to him in worry in reality, the only thing he could see was Lori staring back at him.
The former deputy clamped his eyes shut and began to count to ten. It would be all over, in just ten seconds. He wouldn't see her, because she wasn't there.
She wasn't there, dammit!
When those ten seconds were up, Rick opened his eyes. He began to see the faces of his friends again, and for once, he genuinely smiled. He watched as Daryl climbed up the stairs to the catwalk. Maybe everything was going to be okay.
As his eyes stopped on the catwalk for a second too long, though, there she was again. Rick fell to the floor, whimpering into his little ball once more.
How was the first chapter, ya'll? Remember, ideas/ suggestions would be loved!