14 Works in Pining Daryl Dixon

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    ✰ THE END'S NOT NEAR. ITS HERE.

    "How the hell 'ya learn how to do that? Thought you said 'yer parents were hippies."

    "No, I said my momma was a hippie. My daddy was a Libertarian Ex-Marine asshole."

     

    Bo Howell escaped her off-the-grid survivalist childhood only to find herself dragged back into it when the dead begin to walk. With a rifle on her back and a cat in tow, Bo must navigate grief, trauma, and the harsh truths of survival while tethered to a group of strangers she never asked for but slowly begins to care for.

    When loyalty means risking your life, and love looks like a man who doesn’t know how to speak his feelings, Bo has to decide what’s worth staying for and what’s worth walking away from.

    season one - done
    season two - done
    season three - currently writing

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    The prison is home, but the woods still call to him. Out there, Daryl finds a sign carved into the bark, one that drags the past back into the present and leaves him chasing shadows and running from past demons.

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    One bleeds, and cries, and dies, until the heavy echo of the container opens and sunlight floods in. Their heart is a chilling staccato in their chest, buzzing and swelling in their throat - until rough, hardened hands and squinty eyes arrive to hold their pieces together.

    They can't sleep - never could, even Before - but sometimes they close their eyes and heat blooms at their side, and they know he's come to rest, too.

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    Someone broken and grieving and so, so alone learns what it means to be whole again. Their sorrow scorches their tear ducts and splinters the streets below, but that's okay. It is - because sweet, honeyed hands are a balm on their rosy cheeks, their bubbled scars. Their torment is wiped away until all they feel are soft, sunny fingers and pillowed palms. They think this must be love. It swells in their chest and clogs in their throat, and they cry again - because they think this feels like home.

     

    A fic about healing and found family, featuring a very sweet and genuine slow burn -all through the eyes of my incredibly fleshed out OC. Slow and steady heals the heart and soothes the soul, as they say.

    EDIT 1/7/24: Fixing up chapters 2-5, so they may not flow the best atm.

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    Love and violence had always come wrapped around one another in my life. Until her. And I wasn't sure I knew how to untangle them.

    Dixon men loved in anger and fists and blood. I couldn't risk loving someone that way.

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    Naomi Payton was Daryl Dixon's childhood best friend. In truth, they were each others only friend. But sometimes growing up means growing apart and when Naomi's ambitions and Daryl's loyalty to his brother drive a wedge between them, the end of the world might be the only thing to bring them back together again.

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    In a world overran by the dead, Aurora Smyth carries the weight of survival on her shoulders, hunted by her past and wary of trusting anyone. Joining a ragtag group of survivors, she finds herself drawn to their struggles, strengths and weaknesses-- especially the brooding and complex Daryl Dixon, whose quiet determination mirrors her own.

    As the group battles walkers and the uncertainty of the world, Aurora learns that survival isn't just about fighting off the dead; it's about building connection with the living. But as her guarded nature clashes with the group's growing sense of unity, Aurora must confront her fears of vulnerability, loss, and love.

    with Danger lurking in every shadow and the weight of their pasts threatening to crush them, Aurora and Daryl bein to realize that in the world of chaos, it's not just about surviving-- it's about finding something worth surviving for.

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    Daryl wants the one thing he just can’t have.

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    “I get it,” Rick murmured, “if you don’t wanna talk about it.”

    Daryl didn’t. He couldn’t admit to the stupid, weak thing he’d done, not out loud.

    Rick’s eyes were still on him. “Just want you to be okay, that’s all.”
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    Set during S5 ep 10, 'Them'. Rick notices the cigarette burn on Daryl's hand and confronts him about it.

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    Daryl Dixon didn't really get why everyone was always so merry and bright, come Christmastime.

     

    Edit 5/13 holy shit the typos. I'm so sorry!

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    Whenever Daryl sees Rick grin, it chills him to the core. He's never seen a human grin like that before - never seen that gleam in a person's eye, or the unnatural glint of light off teeth that suddenly look far too dangerous to be blunted and useless.

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    Daryl has the personal honor of being the unwilling party to welcome the new kid to Alexandria High, little does he know, he just got a whole lot more than a busy morning.

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    Daryl goes to his new friend, Denise, for some advise and her words are enough to make Daryl finally act.

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    Daryl catches Rick relieving some stress, and can't quite stop himself from watching.

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    After pining for Rick for too long, Daryl's frustration forces his hand.

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    maybe it’s been there since the moment you laid eyes on her, metal bar gripped firmly in her hands and her man-sized shirt slipping off one shoulder, black curls escaping her haphazard ponytail. maybe ever since she didn’t hesitate to get your brother back, or trust you wholeheartedly — maybe you never stood a chance.
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    in which daryl wants rick, beyond anything.

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