That gunshot left her with more than one scar. Wounded and wary, Beth looks at the world with new eyes. The girl she was and the woman she's become are at odds. Her instincts are telling her a lot of things. What they're saying the loudest is that Daryl is the only one who can understand her pain. And that he might be the only thing that can help her heal.

Elena has her life all mapped out, but after disappointing news, she's forced to take in the mysterious Damon Salvatore as a roommate. Can the arrangement work? Sure. As long as she can accept his past, embrace his demons and maintain a firm grip on her heart. AU. AH.

"And when the pieces came together, when time unfroze itself and he realized with a gut wrenching, sinking feeling what had happened—what he had just lost—Daryl Dixon felt everything that was holding him in the present disappear in a cloud of blinding rage. 'I see red... everything is red. Everything I see is red.'" Fix-it fic for Coda - follows basic story arc of Season 5.

..Daryl/Beth.. S4. It's been just them for fifty four days. Fifty four days of getting closer. Fifty four days of walking, still trying to find any of their family, still trying to not just survive. But to live. Fifty four days before Beth starts coughing and Daryl knows that he'll do anything to get them another fifty four days together.