bad things happen to good people. ❀ carl grimes x oc ➸ season 1 [in the process of being rewritten bc yikes] started: august 2020 finished: january 2023

Avery is an independent, strong-minded 16 year old girl with the rest of her life ahead of her. Well, hopefully. Avery's survival skills and independence keep her alive, but how long will it last her? As she begins to lose hope, a sheriff, a redneck, and a boy with bright blue eyes knock down her door and flip Avery's life around. Having already lost her family to the walkers and her group to The Governor, Avery struggles to connect with this new found family, scared she'll only lose them too. Avery needs to decide whether to face her fear of not belonging or to shield her heart away from hurting forever. Time isn't on her side as her own sanity forces her to decide at the drop of a fly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Completed June 2022 This story includes mature content Copyright and all rights reserved to me, NotSoFreakingSuper, Alida M 2014. Please don't copy or steal any content. I do not own The Walking Dead, its story, or any of its characters. Any and all scenes of similarity that I have rewritten are originally created by The Walking Dead.

"Ain't never had someone properly look out for me." He continued, hands on the wheel. "I don't know how to be... you know... what ya need me to be." "A Dad?" She filled in the space for him. He just kind of nodded. "Yeah. That." "I don't really know how to be looked after." She spoke as well, bringing her feet up onto the seat and crisscrossing them. "So I guess we're both even." -------- Diana is a girl on the run from both the walkers and her past. One day while traveling alone through the woods a certain archer mistakes her for a walker and shoots her. Despite her protests the group tries to get to know her. But Diana wants her past to stay IN the past. All she knows how to do is run. She and Daryl don't like each other until he realizes: she's just like him. Disclaimer: this is FOUND family! They are NOT related by blood.

*book one to the murky series* |under editing "Look at you, how did you end up like this?" She never knew she'd end up the monster she's always feared. the walking dead | carl grimes | book one: the murky series ──────⊹⊱✫⊰⊹────── #1 : rickgrimes 10/26/22 #1: ronanderson 11/17/22 #1: chandlerriggs 12/1/22

"All hope is lost Carl." "Not for you it's not."

In which they meet in a world that has gone to waste. [ Carl Grimes ]