Daryl Dixon/OC story. Slow burn romance. Following TV show beginning with Season 1. After being tossed around from foster home to foster home most of her life, Ace has never had much. She was used to being on her own. But once the world fell and her days were numbered, Ace finally finds a place to belong. Funny how it took the end of the world for her to get what she had always wanted. Turns out, the scariest part of the apocalypse is not fighting for your life, but learning how to love a hot-headed redneck and his chicken-shit group.