AU. Rick Grimes has left everything he knows behind in the wake of his family's tragic death. New to the neighborhood, his eyes land on Michonne, his next door neighbor with a mysterious past. And they never leave her. As he dives deeply into a sinister, dangerous case, Rick falls deeply, intensely in love with the woman he's watched from his window since he arrived.

Rick Grimes is former military/special ops and tasked with protecting a famous actress, the one and only Michonne. Totally inspired by the movie The Bodyguard.

"She knew, in her gut, if she started something with Rick, it wasn't going to end with a one night stand. For either of them." Richonne short story. Pre-apocalypse AU.

Rick and Michonne have been navigating a relationship for five years now, all while trying to put the world back together. After a turn of events that shakes their family to its core, their marriage experiences a long, dark night of the soul, and they have to figure out how to put themselves back together.