Very AU. No Zombies. Daryl/Oc. Daryl and Merle were taking in by their Uncle Jackson and Aunt Anna after their father almost kills them in drunken rage. They were raised around a group of bad ass men on bikes that's feared for a reason. Years later Daryl is an 18 year old young man that wants nothing more than to continue to work next to his Uncle and brother and ride his bike to his heart's content. He's healed over the years thanks to his new family but trusting is still something that doesn't come easy for either Dixon brother. One day while going hunting with his bow he stumbles across a beautiful red head crying in the woods with a split lip Daryl becomes enraged when he learns this angel is abused like he had been by her father with no one to save her like he was saved. They strike a secret friendship where Daryl meets her every day when she runs to escape her father and he falls in love with his angel. Let's see what happens when her father goes too far and she learns safety and protection being with a Dixon and finds happiness at Daryl's side. I will also pair Merle/Beth and Merle is 21 in this and Daryl 18.
Daryl sighed as he reached the woods. He came there almost every day to hunt after work just to find peace. After years of living with his Uncle and Aunt and actually having a decent life for once Daryl still needed that time to himself in the woods. He was still damaged due to his father's up bringing but his family had helped a lot. He was healthy, happy to an extent and free of his father.
Daryl and Merle both worked with his uncle in his shop at the bottom of their large property. They both still lived at home in the large house that was there safe haven years ago. Neither really wanting to leave, ever. His Uncle had talked to them a while back about building their own homes on the property once they were ready to settle down some and they both agreed they just wasn't ready for that yet.
Today had been a hard day. They were overworked and had a prick come in that wanted his car fixed asap. They had to work double-time to get it done so the asshole could leave. So yeah Daryl needed his woods time tonight.
When he didn't find anything to track for over an hour he turned to head the long way back when he heard the sounds of crying. Creeping around the trees he was stunned to see a girl was sitting against a tree with her knees draw up to her chest and crying. Concerned Daryl walked forward and cleared his throat. When her head snapped to his he was stunned by several things.
Once she was stunning. Pale skin, Green eyes and dark red hair and she was also hurt. Bruised arms and a split lip.
"Ya alright?" he ask walking closer but slowly so not to scare her. Nodding she wiped her eyes and looked up at the young boy in the leather vest with long hair and a cross bow. She'd seen him around town some but never talked to him. Everyone in town knew who he and his family was. They were feared for good reason and no one bothered them.
"Yes. Thank you." She said and Daryl nodded and took a seat in front of her.
"I'm Daryl Dixon." He said handing her his handkerchief he always kept in his pocket. She took it with a smile and wiped her face and handed it back.
"I know who you are. Everyone does. I'm Abby Keller." She told him and he nodded Keller was the name of the prick that came in tonight.
"Ya get in a fight or something?" he ask motioning to her lip. She winced at the thought of her lip ad touched it gently and sighed.
"Something like that I guess. I ah. I come here to escape ya know. Stay until dark and then sneak back home. I've never seen you here before though." She said and he nodded
"I normally don't hunt on this side of the property. Thought I'd see what was over here today. No luck though." He said with a shrug before taking out a pack of Marlboro's and lighting one. He offered her one but she declined.
"Oh. Is this your property? I'm so sorry I can leave if I have to." She said and he shook his head.
"Nah sweetheart you're good. No one but me comes out here anyways. Who you hiding from anyways?" he ask and she blushed looking down.
"You ever wished you had been born to different people?" she ask and he nodded.
"Yeah. My old man was a bastard. Tried to kill me and my brother before you uncle stepped in and had him sent to jail so yeah I wished I had been born to my uncle instead of the prick bastard that they call my father." Daryl said and she nodded playing with the edges of her shirt.
"Yeah I feel ya on that. I got a prick bastard for a father too." She said in a deep sigh and for some reason rage like he hadn't felt in years rose to the surface.
"Your father did that to ya?" he ask his body tense. She looked over at him noting his change in tone and nodded and flinched some when he cursed loudly in anger.
Seeing her flinch had him trying to calm some not wanting to scare her as he smoked another cigarette once he was finished with the first one.
"How long that been going on?" he ask and she shrugged.
"Since my mother died I guess. That was 3 years ago, round the time we moved here. He's so angry all the time. Sometimes he stays gone for days for work or just because but then he comes home sometimes and nothing I do or say makes him happy. He was always an ass but he never hit me until after my mother died. I don't know. But I only got 6 months before I turn 18 and can get the fuck away." She said and Daryl gripped his bow in his hands wanting to find that man and put an arrow through his fucking face.
Daryl couldn't stand men that beat on women and to find this pretty angel was hurt by her own father like he had been it made him boil with rage.
"I can take care of him for ya. Make sure he don't do nothing no more." He offered and Abby chuckled and gave him a small smile.
"No. you don't need to get involved. I can handle it. He only hits me from time to time. Most of the time it's just words. But if you wanted to meet me here when you have free time to just talk I'd like that. It's nice to have someone that understands to talk with, ya know?" she said and he nodded.
"Yeah ya got it." He told her and she smiled.
That was the start of their daily friendship. No one knew of it. They only ever met in the woods at the same spot every day. At first she was shocked he came all the time but then she came to like seeing him in his leather vest and crossbow over his shoulder. He was very handsome and very sweet when he talked to her. Most of the time they just talked about their day or if it got bad at her house she tell him about it and he offered to take care of it for her every time but every time she just said she could handle it. He did however, give her his cell number to call if she ever needed him for anything. She took it with a smile.
After a month or so of meetings Daryl found that she was the light of his day. Abby Keller was what he looked forward to at the end of the days. He looked forward to her wit, her smiles and her honesty. How she never looked at him like he was a piece of shit or feared him because of who he was. She knew about his past, he never kept anything from her and she never kept the bad things about her past from him and she never treated him different for it.
He'd fallen in love with her and he knew there was no other angel out there for him but Abby.
When they had their first kiss it was beautiful. It had started raining but neither of them wanted to leave yet so they stayed and got soaked. She looked beautiful with her hair went and clothes sticking to her and he couldn't help himself. He leaned in and she met him the rest of the way and they kissed for the remaining time that evening.
Daryl may have had a few and I mean very few one night stands in high school but no women made him feel the things he felt for Abby. She was his light in the darkness and she was it for him. She was his girl and when he told her that a few days after their first kiss she just smiled and said 'then that means your my man than.' And he never felt happier in his life.
Merle and his Aunt and Uncle had noticed Daryl spending more and more time in the woods the last few months and when he did he came back with a smile on his face. Merle and Jackson wanted to know what was going on so they followed him one night and when they saw he was meeting a red headed beauty in the woods they smirked at each other. About time.
"So little brother. When was ya going tell us and the piece you been meeting in them woods every day?" Merle ask him at dinner one night and Daryl went deadly still for a long time and Merle started getting alittle nervous. His brother had a wicked deadly temper.
"How'd you find out? Someone in town say something?" he asked in a worried tone and Merle frowned.
"Nah. We followed ya earlier. Wanted to see why you was spending so much time in there and never bring out any kills." Merle said and Daryl seemed to relax some.
"Her names Abby." He said and his Aunt smiled wide.
"Oh that's a pretty name. What's she like?" Anna Dixon ask and Daryl blushed slightly.
"She's perfect." Is all he could say before getting up and leaving the table. Merle looked at him like he was buts but Jackson and Anna just smiled. Seems there baby boy has found him a women.
"So when we going to get to meet this perfect girl?" Jackson ask him in the shop the next day. Daryl froze and sighed before lighting a smoke and looking over at his brother and Uncle. The rest of the crew already headed out for lunch.
"I don't know. It's complicated." He said and Merle snorted.
"How complicated can it be Daryl?" he said and Daryl gritted his teeth.
"She's got a fucking bastard of a father like we had Merle. That's why she goes to the woods every night to hide from him. I meet her there over a month ago. She was crying and her lip had been split. Every time I go to meet her I don't know if I'll see her hurt again or not. That's why." Daryl spat before tossing his rag down in anger and leaving.
His Uncle found him standing in the back punching on the punching bag outside and he walked up and watched for a minute.
"Ya love this girl Daryl?" his uncle ask and Daryl stopped and nodded.
"Yeah." He said and Jackson nodded handing Daryl a smoke and taking one for himself.
"Why anit ya come to me about this bastard already. You know we could have taken care of it by now." Jackson told him and he nodded.
"I offered when we met and I offer every time I have to whip blood off her face. She's afraid if I get involved I'll be hurt or in trouble or something and she's not 18 yet so she's afraid she'll be sent away." Daryl told him and Jackson nodded.
"Who is her father?" Jackson ask.
"Fucking Dave Keller. Prick that came in not too long ago to get is car fixed." Daryl said and Jackson nodded and his lip turned up in a snarl. He knew alittle more about Dave Keller than his nephew did. He was a bastard. Rumor was he killed his wife and had a bad drinking and gambling problem.
"Yeah he's bad news baby D. What happens when he goes too far? What happens when he stops seeing your girl as his daughter?" Jackson ask and Daryl's blood ran cold.
"I'll fucking kill him." Daryl hissed and Jackson nodded.
"When that happens. If you plan to do something about this prick you come to me first. Well do it together." Jackson told him and he gave a nod.
"Bring her to the house soon. You aunt's gonna want to meet your future wife." Jackson said and Daryl rolled his eyes but nodded with a small smile on his face.
"My family wants to meet ya. They followed me out here the other night and saw us. They been asking me about ya." Daryl told her later on. She was pleased to see she wasn't hurt tonight and she had kissed him deeply the moment she saw him striding towards her.
She bit her lip nervously for a moment and he tilted her chin up to look into her eyes.
"Hey, why ya so nervous. Ya know they won't hurt ya right?" he ask and she nodded.
"What if? Well, what if they don't like me Daryl? What if they don't want you with a damaged girl like me? What if?" she rambled and Daryl kissed her to shut her up.
"They will like ya. They already do because I love ya. They only want me happy and you anit damage." He said and she gasp when he admitted to loving her. He hadn't don't that yet.
"You love me?" she ask and he nodded. He was surprised when she launched herself at him and he fell back on the ground with her on top of him kissing him deeply. He ran his hands up her back and buried his hands into her hair and pulled her against him more. They hadn't don't anything other than kissing because he knew she was a virgin. She'd told him that a while back and he wanted to go at her pace. He wanted her that was for sure but he'd wait forever if he had to but her on top of him was causing some issues.
"Damn girl. If I'd of known your attack my ass like that I'd have told ya a while ago I loved ya." He chuckled and she laughed as she let him sit up but he kept her in his lap.
"I love you too Daryl Dixon. Always." She whispered into his ear and he stared into her forest green eyes for a long time before nodding. Always, he liked the sound of that.
"So when do you want me to meet them?" she ask and he shrugged.
"Your call baby. Whenever ya want." He said and pushed hair behind her ear.
"My father is leaving for a trip tonight so I can come tomorrow if yall don't have plans." She said and he nodded.
"I'll met ya here at noon." He told her and she nodded.
When he met her the next day at noon he almost choked on his breath. She was breathtaking. She was wearing a long flowing skirt and spaghetti strap green shirt that made her eyes and hair pop. Her hair was hanging down and wavy to her low back and she had on sandals.
"Damn." He breathed and she blushed as he looked her over and kissed her.
"Do I look ok? I wasn't sure how to dress to meet your family." She said and he chuckled.
"You look perfect sweetheart. Let's go and don't be nervous. It's just my family and some of our closest friends. My Aunts having a cook out." He said and she nodded and grabbed her hand and linked their hands together and pulled her towards his home. As they got closer she could hear talking and some background music planning and when they came out of the woods she was stunned at the beauty of the land and the house.
"Wow it's beautiful." She told him and he nodded.
"Yeah. I always thought so too." He said and pulled her around the front of the house.
Abby could see several bikes park in the front yard and she knew one was Daryl's he'd told her all about his bike and she always wanted to ride it with him.
She also saw several men standing and sitting around drinking beers and laughing and talking. Most of them where wearing leather too but some had on regular clothes but they all smiled widely when they saw Daryl and the pretty red head rounding the corner.
He felt her nerves as they approached everyone and he squeezed her hand in comfort as he pulled her closer towards him.
"This is Abby." He said and everyone nodded. She blushed at everyone's gaze and waved.
"Hello." She said and they chuckled as they watched Daryl put his arm around her in comfort and Jackson knew he'd die for this girl.
"I'm Jackson Dixon. Daryl's uncle. This is Merle is brother and these are a few of our family friends. My wife is inside dying to meet you." Jackson said shaking her hand gently and she smiled widely and nodded.
Daryl took her inside and she was bombarded with his Aunt hugging her and asking her all kinds of questions.
Daryl sat at the kitchen table and watched as Abby and his aunt talked and Abby even helped her cook.
"I love to cook." She had told his Aunt and his Aunt just ate that shit up. When Daryl knew she'd be ok in there with this Aunt he walked back outside to smoke and see what the others were doing.
"She's a very sweet and pretty girl Daryl. And she adores you." Jackson told him as he walked up. Daryl nodded in reply.
He stood around and talked with the guys his uncle was friends with. Hershel Green who Merle was trying to talk his youngest Beth into a date. She was playing hard to get and they were enjoying watching Merle fumble to try and impress this blonde. Hershel also rode bikes with Jackson, had for years and there farm back up to the Dixon farm. Rick Grimes and Shane Walsh top cops of the town also good friends of the family. Help cover up a lot of shit for them in the past but they owed his uncle for things Daryl didn't even want to ask about.
Tyreese, T Dog worked at the shop with Daryl as well as Michonne. They were there with their families too. It was nice to have people they trusted around them so much.
After a while his brother bet him into a wrestling match and when it was over he looked over to see Abby had come outside and had been watching them fight. Daryl smirked as he walked over and bent down and kissed her in front of everyone not caring what they thought.
"I was wondering something while watching you." She said and he tilted his head to the side.
"Can you teach me some of that? To defend myself?" she ask and he nodded. He should have showed her a few things long ago.
They spent the time until dinner was done with him showing her a few moves and everyone watching them from the porch cheering her own when she was able to knock Daryl to the ground.
"She's a sweet girl. Too bad her father's a bastard." Shane said and Jackson nodded.
"I'm just waiting for him to go too far and Daryl to snap. Then she'll be staying here and Daryl will be much happier. He worried about her when she's not in his sight." Jackson said taking a drag off his smoke as he talked with his closet friends. Shane and Rick nodded and Hershel hummed in agreement.
"You don't mean too far as in?" Rick ask and Jackson nodded.
"She's a beautiful girl. It's only a matter of time and when that happens he's a dead man." Jackson said and they nodded.
"Call us when ya need us man." Shane said clapping his shoulder and Jackson gave a nod.
After dinner Daryl wanted to be alone with Abby and took her up to his room on the top floor. She looked around and Daryl stood in the doorway as she ran her hands over everything. He liked seeing her in his room and wanted it all the time. When she sat on his bed he walked over and pulled her against him as they just laid there in each other's arms.
"Shit." Abby said when she woke up a few hours later. It was starting to get dark outside and Daryl jerked awake behind her. They had been sleeping so well together they neither of them realized they had actually slept.
"Ya ok?" he ask and she scrambled off the bed to get her shoes on.
"I got to go. I might just beat him home. I had a great time and I hate to leave but I got to run." She said and he nodded and followed her out. He took her as far as there meeting spot and watched as she disappeared into the trees and back home.
He walked home slowly and passed her family on the porch. Most of there friends still there and would be well into the night.
"She get home ok?" his aunt ask and he nodded and went to his room, the day had been so prefect.
Daryl was woke again that night but it was close to Midnight this time, he could hear his uncle and his three friends still on the porch laughing. His phone was ringing loudly on his table and he flipped it open not recognizing the number.
"Yeah." He said with a yawn.
"Daryl." He heard the broken voice of his angel on the phone and he jolted up in the bed.
"Abby. What's wrong?" he ask already out of bed and slipping his vest and shoes on. He grabbed his knife and slide it in the holder on his hip and headed for his bow when he heard what he had been dreading.
"He tried. Daryl. I can't. I need help. I'm heading to our spot. Please I'm scared." She cried and he tensed in rage.
"I'm on the way baby." He promised and hung up the phone, crossbow in hand and bounded down the stairs and burst out the door.
"Daryl? What happened?" Merle ask running out of the door dressed after him.
"Bastard is dead." He yelled running full sprint towards the woods. The men knew this was it and headed after him.
Daryl got there first being way faster then the others but his brother wasn't far behind. Abby saw Daryl running towards her and she launched herself into his arms. Daryl pulled back and looked at her and uncontrollable rage filled his body.
Her clothes were torn, her face was bruised from being hit, hair messed up and she had hand prints on her upper arms.
"HE tried. He was so mad at me. Wanted to know where I'd been. I told him at a friend's house and he told me if I was going to act like a slut he'd treat me like one. He'd never before. I used what you showed me today and got away. I was so scared. I'm sorry to have to get you involved." She cried and when Merle and the others got a look at her they hissed. The rage on Daryl's face as he hugged her to him was like none they'd ever seen.
"Hershel. Can you take Abby back to the house and let Aunt Anna look her over?" Daryl ask and Hershel nodded as he walked over.
"It's ok baby. Go with Hershel. I got this." Daryl told her kissing her head. She nodded and let the older man wrap his jacket around her shoulders and steer her back towards the Dixon farm.
Daryl was not in the mood to talk as he stalked towards her house following the trail she made as she ran from it in fear. The closer he got the madder he became and his family could do nothing to stifle that anger. Dave Keller was a dead man.
When Daryl got back home Abby was sitting on his bed in his shirt and boxers, hair wet and his Aunt had patched her up the best she could and she was waiting on him.
When he came in setting his weapons on the desk she looked over at him in alarm.
"What happened?" she ask as he took off his vest. He'd cleaned the blood off him down stairs before coming to her but he still needed to shower. He kissed her head as he headed to his shower.
"Your safe now baby. That's all you need to know. He met an unfortunate accident in the woods and you're going to be living with us from now on. Well pack your things tomorrow." He told her and she nodded as he walked into the shower.
She didn't want to know anymore. She just was glad nothing would happen to Daryl. True to his word on one questioned anything when she packed her things and moved in with Daryl. That was a true showing of how powerful the Dixon family was in this town and Daryl proved to her that no one messed with his girl and lived to tell the tell.
She slept safely in his arms that night and the nights that followed. She'd never been happier then when she was with Daryl. They never talked about her father again and Daryl never made her feel bad for what he had to do. To him it was what he had to do as a man to protect his women and he'd do again over and over if it was needed.
One day Abby walked down to the shop like normal to bring the guys the lunch she and Anna made and when she walked in Zach the new guy that was training decided to test out the Dixon temper by sliding up to Abby when she walked in.
"Hey there. I'm Zach." He said reaching forward to touch her cheek but a half gloved hand grabbed his wrist first and he turned to see the pissed off face of Daryl standing there smoking looking at him like he was dead meat.
"The fuck you think you're doing touching or talking to my women." He ask and Zach paled. Abby felt a shiver of pleasure go through her at the protective and possessiveness in Daryl's face as he started the blonde kid down. Once Zach walked away quickly Daryl wrapped his arm around Abby and held her against his body until she had to go back up to the house. Abby was damn near weak with want after that display.
When Daryl got home that night with his brother and uncle he went upstairs to shower. When he came out about to pull a shirt over his head he stopped dead in his tracks. Abby was sitting on her knees in the middle of the bed with only one of his button down shirts on that was only button with three buttons. Long red hair splayed out around her and she was looking at him with a sexy ass look at had Daryl going rock hard at the sight she made.
"What's up baby?" he ask her walking towards her and tossing his shirt to the side.
"Your family has gone out for dinner. Wanted to be alone with you." She said and he raised a brow at her.
"Oh." He ask and she nodded biting her lip.
"You were so sexy today the way you got possessive over me with Zach. Made me hot." She whispered in his ear and he groaned, gripping her hair in his hands and pulling her into a kiss.
He kissed and worshiped her body that night. Bring her to release with only his mouth and fingers before she gave him her virginity that night. They pleasure she felt after the small amount of pain was out of this world and they came together several times that night before waking up naked in each other's arms the next morning.
After that they couldn't keep their hands off each other. They hand been caught by Merle and Jackson all over the property several times and Jackson decided it was time to start building them their own house. She was a beautiful girl but Daryl got real possessive over her and they didn't want to have a fight on their hands if they were to see too much of Abby.
Abby and Anna went into town one day to grocery shop when they ran into Beth Greene. The object of Merle's love.
"Hey Beth." Abby waved and Beth walked over and talked to her. When Abby got home that day she walked down to the garage and walked up to Merle and handed him a piece of paper. He took the number and looked at her confused.
"Beth said to call her when you can. She'd like to talk about a date if you're still interested." Abby said and no one had ever seen Merle move so fast to get to the phone.
"How'd you do that with Beth?" Daryl ask her and she shrugged.
"Told her she was being a bitch for treating him like that. That he loves her and has been doing loops for her only to be rejected each time. Ask her how she'd feel if he decided she wasn't worth the trouble and move on. Guess it hit home with her." Abby said and Daryl chuckled at his feisty kitten.
The day both Daryl and Merle got married in a double services was a huge party for everyone. Jackson and Anna both teared up as they watched the boys that not long ago had been beaten almost to death finally get there happy ending with their new wives. It was an amazing day for everyone involved. Life came full circle for these bad boys. They finally founded there angels to show them heaven in a world that had only showed them hell.