While the world is in flames, the last thing Carl expects is to be alone with Merle Dixon in the middle of it all.

You never expect that your life is going to begin when the world is ending, but that's just what it did.

It'd been a long long time since her curiosity had been piqued. Even more so since a mortal caught her very own eye.

Daryl and Morgan head back to Virginia with their new family. The two men must reunite with their friends and show them the men they have become and help their new and old family get to know each other and deal with new problems as they arise as they build their new home and try to save as many people as possible. Trust, will, and love will be put to the test as they return home.

A prequel is coming after this,. A fiction where Rick leaves Alexandria with his Family after slitting Negan.

With Merle missing and the CDC exploded, Daryl wants to return to Blood Mountain, to the backwoods neighborhood he once called home. He'll be leading a rag tag band of survivors, including the lost little girl he rescued and her grateful mother. (Cannon through Season 1 episode 6, then AU.)

Set end of season 10. Carol struggles with a new unhealthy coping mechanism in attempts to punish herself for her guilt and pain. Focus is on Carol's struggles and relationship with Daryl. Trigger Warning: Deals heavily with self-injury. No pairing. Carol-centric. Rated T for graphic descriptions of self-harm and profanity. Reviews appreciated.

In this sequel to Just Like Animals, Gareth and Sadie are met with a whole new challenge when a new common threat forces them to team up with some old rivals just when they've finally started to settle down in their newfound sanctuary of Alexandria.

AU: After saving Sophia from the Walkers, the group heads to the Greene Farm.

"I get the feeling being tough killed you a long time ago." Carl x OMC. Chapter warnings included.

The world is in chaos. The dead have risen and are feasting on the living, and survivors must join together in order to escape the impending doom that they are faced with. The only twist? YOU create the survivors. (Set in an AU universe, with appearances from canon characters to come.) Slots Open: 6/10. Rated M for violence, blood and gore, language, and other mature content.

Candace Jenner's compassion changes everything about the survival of the Grimes and Walsh families, as well as giving her distraught husband a reason to live. Add in one grumpy, antisocial redneck who can't figure out why he's fascinated with a former librarian (although Merle has a few obscenely unhelpful suggestions about that), and survival in the apocalypse is a lot more viable

T-dog makes a different decision on the roof in Atlanta. He decides to risk his life for the man who threatened to kill him hours ago. This choice sets up a string of events that will result in death, life, love, and trust. As the Dixon brothers learn to trust, Shane must come to terms with his best friend being alive and losing the woman and child he loves.

Snapshots of how Rick and Michonne came to be. Companion piece to "(she is) love" but can be stand alone.

Ava and Rick have been through hell to find each other. Finally, they have safety within the Prison, but after everything they've been through, can this really last? Will Ava find the family she lost? And who will they lose along the way? They've survived so much, but can Rick and Ava survive the end of the world? Sequel to Between the Living and the Dead.

I'm supposed to say that this is the story of how I died, but I guess the universe has a sense of humor. Those walkers ate me. Somehow, someway, this isn't the afterlife. I've been brought back to the beginning of the apocalypse. Is this a second chance, or a curse? How can a story that's ended still keep on going? Eventual Daryl/OC asexual romance. Rewrite of Back to Basics.

Caryl, AU. Mandrea, AU. It's backwards love, but it'll be love all the same. Western. Mail-Order Bride.

It was easier when the woman and kid were just part of the group. It was easier when they were nameless faces. But, not now. He couldn't ignore it any longer. Not now that he knew their names.

This time, Daryl's hunt for Sophia goes the way it was supposed to. (An AU inspired by a prompt from celestial nova, beginning during Chupacabra and stretching to post-Pretty Much Dead Already. Can be read as Caryl or as gen... reader's choice)

Post Season-2 AU: Unable to tolerate Rick's unraveling sanity during the cold winter spent wandering, Carol sets out to redirect his attention to a different way of coping. Unfortunately, happiness is fleeting in the apocalypse.

..Daryl/Beth.. Random one-shots from my various Daryl Dixon and Beth Greene stories.

Two strangers at the beginning of the apocalypse share an important connection but are fated not meet and instead go down two different paths. Fate however has bonded these two through one shared commonality, Carl Grimes. After years of separate hardships and tragedies for both Rick and Michonne, will fate finally draw the two experienced warriors together?

For Bree Evans, the apocalypse hit during a school trip to Atlanta. Separated from her schoolmates and desperate to find answers about her missing family, the college student stumbles upon Negan's Sanctuary. She finds out the hard way that, during the apocalypse, the living are to be feared more than the living dead. Negan X OC x Merle.

Now updated and revised. Two years before the outbreak, Daryl had unexpectedly come to Katie’s rescue. Now, she needs him again. Only this time he has no idea she’s in trouble or that she’s even alive. This is the story of Katie and Daryl’s blooming friendship and her desperate escape to get back to him.

Beth escapes her Grady kidnappers before they reach the hospital, only to cross paths with a man she hasn't seen since before the farm fell. Life on a sailboat seems safer than on land, and it leads her and Shane to an adventure neither of them expected to find in the apocalypse before they're finally reunited with their families. Part of the Lost Deputy Collection.