This is a story about found family, the evil that wears the face of innocence, mental illness and recovery. Its a story about being pushed to the brink of insanity and the journey one must take to come back from it. it is a story of getting hurt and healing, it's a tale of love, acceptance, freedom and humanity. It's the dancing flame, the blazing sun and birds soaring around them.

As the CDC's final days approach, Edwin Jenner finds himself responsible for the life of a mute orphan. With suicide off the table, he needs to find a way to keep her alive, even if that means tagging along with the people he nearly murdered.

Blood on Vesper Greene's hands was something she was used to seeing. From fighting in back alleys and warehouses surrounded by spectators to fighting for her life surrounded by the walking dead, will she be able to keep fighting for her life? What happens when she finds out a deep family secret? And what if a certain someone fights their way into her life?

"I don't know why I do the things I do. Never did. I'm a damn mystery to me." Merle makes a discovery that has him questioning everything he knows. How will he handle this new world where life and death are locked in some kind of terrifying embrace?

Following the death of Lizzie Samuels, things become complicated as the FBI get involved, meanwhile everything they've already endured makes the group of friends wary and trying to recover themselves. But they don't know if Lizzie's killer is still active or not, leading to more fear.

Everyone is a searcher. Will Rick be able to find what he is searching for?

Rick is content with his life until he meets her. Multiple pairings and characters. Slow burn Richonne. AU.

Calla Dixon lost what she cared for the most at the beginning of the apocalypse. She's always one step behind her husband, Daryl, and trying to keep their son alive. She's twisted and warped the new world they exist in changing her. Philip Blake becomes fascinated with her. Only Philip doesn't realize just how much he'll regret ever meeting a person with the last name Dixon.

Snipits from "Learning Their Emotions" before it is published. Instead of heading to Atlanta at the start of the apocalypse, Merle(38) and Daryl(27) head for an uncles homestead where they find a small prepper community. There they will find long lost family, odd characters, and an introspection no one asked for. Rating may change. Daryl/OC Merle/OC

Daryl adopted a young lad named James he changes his life forever

Sequel to Blood Ties: Survivors and Saints. A/U version of Daryl's spinoff: In Barcelona, Spain. Daryl, Caroline, Katherine, Murphy and Connor encounter a Grimes. Who is he? In Paris, Carol and company search for Daryl and Caroline. Once they are reunited and return home, there is one more reunion. But will it be a happy one? Boondock Saints belong to Troy Duffy.

*I do not claim any ownership of The Walking Dead, or any content owned by Robert Kirkman, Image Comics, or AMC. Merle hated the pretty white fences and the pretty white walls. He hated the preppy white folks and their honour student bumper stickers; he wanted to throw baseballs through their shiny wide windows. So why did he stay here? Maybe it had something to do with a girl.

'I love you! I love you with a fever! you and me, To infinity and beyond.' It was the last week of your senior year when you wrote that letter. You were 17 and naive. That was a long time ago, 15 years to be precise. The world has gone to shit now. It belongs to the dead and the cruel. So, to see him again, standing there, with a crossbow aimed at your head…

Rick and Michonne will always find each other. In every universe. In every dimension. In every timeline. In every life. AU Oneshots.

Arlynn "Lynnie" Cho never asked for an apocalypse to happen. She never asked for her already horrible life to go underground, but fate has ways of messing with people. Now she has to join a new family with her brother in search of a meaningful life. Maybe... Just maybe... she'll find love and a ray of sunshine along the way. RATED M BECAUSE OF CUSSING, NO SMUT OR LEMON

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.

Shane survived being stabbed. A year later, he ends up in the same train car as the man who tried to kill him and the group he was once with. Shane must now prove to them that he is a new man and earn their trust once more. The group must learn to trust him once again as they hear more about the year Shane was on the road. Together, they must survive and some must find redepemtion.

After a car chase and a fierce fight in an abandon building, Rick and Negan both wake up attached to a chair. How are they going to escape and what does their psychopatic kidnapper want with them? [Set during S08E12]

It was Beth's first time in Atlanta by herself when the world decided to end. When she lost her way home, she winds up meeting a crossbow-toting man with steel blue eyes and a smile that gives her chills. This is not your typical Bethyl story - imagine if Daryl were more like Merle.

Danielle escaped from Woodbury and made it to the prison, hoping to find a safer place. Her motives seem pure but Daryl didn't fully trust her. Still, sometimes it's better to keep your potential enemies close. Loosely follows both TV show & comics. Daryl/O.C.-Rated M for Non-Con triggers (Not by Daryl of course!), Language, Violence & random smuttiness **New Chapter each Sunday!**

The CDC just blew up in our faces. Literally. My ears are ringing. I'm hungry, tired, massively hung over and stuck in a truck with Dixon who hasn't acknowledged my presence since we made it out of Atlanta. Which is funny because just 14 hours ago he was all about my 'presence'. Like- all about it. Hi. I'm Hazel, and this is my apocalyptic diary.

Tea spent her life being the odd man out. Having spent her younger years suffering abuse for being autistic and ADHD, she came into the apocalypse ready to take on the world all alone if she had to. Neither she nor a certain redneck expected to be pulled towards the other, but at the end of the world, who can say no to love?

Ace had been alone for almost a week before she is found. After the dead have risen, she gets offered a place in a camp overlooking Atlanta. If only the group would listen to her, she may be more skilled than they believe. TWD Fanfiction - I only own the OC and a few characters down the line.

Starts in season 4, 23-year-old Brady survives the prison's destruction and, in seasons 5-6, joins Alexandria to navigate the challenges of adapting to "normal" society after years of post-apocalyptic life. She struggles with anxiety due to past experiences but Daryl is ever the helpful/watchful 'older brother' and eventually OC/OC. Better than it sounds.

In Smithton, Georgia, Daryl Dixon is a particularly popular topic of discussion, and speculation. He arrived here just about four years ago, back in 1950. Beth Greene is new in town, and although she and Daryl Dixon are very different people, they have one thing in common. They're both hiding something...This is 1950's era Bethyl. Daryl Dixon and Beth Greene AU no ZA Bethyl Love