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?

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

*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…

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

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 & 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 Still posting, just not weekly

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.

In the months before the beginning of the apocalypse, Daryl finds himself homeless, alone, and with no direction. An adult Beth is struggling to balance her job, sick parents, and the farm. Feeling like the world is suffocating her, will taking a chance on a stranger change everything ? Can these two save each other before they must do anything to survive. AU then ZA

Neither of them had fit in the world the way it was; neither of them was ready for what it had become. But here at the end of the world, Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier would find in each other and in themselves the strength to survive. The story of their friendship through the early seasons.

In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, Gino searches for a Safe Haven in Atlanta. Joining Rick's group, he faces walkers and ruthless humans, testing his resolve. As they inch closer to safety, Gino discovers the strength of unity and the will to survive against all odds. (AU).

If I could write the Richonne Reunion, this is how I would write it

Dr Abigail Carmichael lived for two years of the outbreak in a bunker raising her twins. Join her as she impacts the lives of Rick's group. Her past with Negan and her love for a special cross bow wielding redneck

Daryl's intention was just to play along with Negan's game until he got the chance to escape the Sanctuary. His situation becomes more complicated when he forms a bond with a woman's who's husband he was responsible for killing. Old loyalties will be questioned when Daryl is forced to chose between his former group and his new life inside the ranks of Negan's army.

The horrors continue in Cecilia's life and now they just don't have to worry about the walkers but people too. Great challenges and tragedies will test her like never before, will she be able to keep fighting or will it be too much for her? Sequel of: Barely Surviving, I recommend to go read that part before this one.

Companion to "Don't Try to Wake Me in the Morning." The Saviors are rescued by a fearless group of warrior children and their adult leader, Lucy. They soon discover a danger that their rescuers face, a mysterious force of the wild woods. An unrelentless danger that soon threatens the Saviors' world, pitting unlikely groups together in a fight for survival. (NeganxOC Slow burn)

Daryl didn't like her. Or maybe he just didn't like the fact that she wouldn't get out of his head. She's a high flyer. They're from different worlds. But she keeps flying into his world & he finds himself inadvertently drawn to her time and time again. Doesn't help that Merle is into her best friend. AU (no zombies/pre ZA). Daryl/Tahlia (OC) fluff & slow burn. Mandrea too.

(MATURE 18) This is a 'What If' story. After the horde overtakes Alexandria, Sam and Jesse die, but Ron decides not to shoot at Rick and survives. Ron's deep hatred for Rick and Carl will boil over, but what happens if he doesn't act so rashly? Will Carl be able to prove to his dad that Ron isn't dangerous, just broken? This is a RonxCarl story.

They all were lost. And then he died, but he woke up again and it wasn't to begin his life as a walker. No the moment everything went dark it came back too damn bright and he was back where it all started. Rick couldn't have hallucinated the whole damn thing, not when the walkers were out there in the hospital just like before. So he had to plan what he would do next. RG/DD

Alternate take on the fight scene in S1E6 of Dead City; Negan and Maggie's fight takes a steamy turn.

Carl just died. Now Rick has no one left. But he doesn't have the time to mourn as he is taken prisoner by Negan, who doesn't know what just happened.