Raya is a nonverbal autistic eight-year-old who gets picked up from school after being expelled. Her mom finishes lighting a cigarette when there's a sudden bang nearby. Using it as an excuse to step away from the house and her kids, her mom goes to check it out. She never comes back. Raya and her brother, Junior, are left alone. At first, they stay inside, but the dirtiness of themselves and their home, the starvation , and constant fighting with each other force them to venture out. When they finally find a camp, the world only becomes more confusing. Raya has to navigate a world full of death while being autistic and nonverbal. People close to her die, and even those she isn't close to still die. This hell is supposed to be the end of the world at least it is for everyone else. To Raya, it becomes the beginning of something else. In all the destruction, she is finally understood and loved. It becomes a bittersweet new life. Her new life truly begins when Daryl Dixon starts noticing her. started 8/14/2025

Quinn Lockwood has always been running. It started when him and his brother moved to Florida. He didn't even think about stopping when he took his first "steps" or trying to get away from bullies after his baseball game. He certainly didn't stop running when he found out the truth what August and the other people. What they'd been hiding. Nor did he stop when the Horned Man appeared. But, after a quick stop for supplies, two survivors named Maggie and Glenn offered to take him back to their prison, promising shelter and food. Maybe, just maybe, it was time he at least try to slow down his pace and try to take control of his life. ⭑ Updates set in season 3 currently! Cover by Mel / sinclairs !! © justadroid [2026] Carl Grimes x Male!oc Started 12/20/24 Ended ?

Perfection is everything Yekaterina Romanoff is. She's perfect in every way that a person can be from everything down to the way she walked and braided her hair each morning, to the genetic markup of the cells inside her and the blood flowing through her veins. She was made with a specific reason, to be the best, and she was made by using the best both the Red Room and HYDRA had. She was the best, she was perfect in everything she did. That was until she was forced to work with The Winter Solider, the man who helped fuel her creation by giving her half of his DNA, to kill Captain America only for the plan to crumble when he remembers who he is. Leaving Katya with an unfinished mission, and on the run with her father.

-ˏˋ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜ, ɪ'ᴅ ꜱᴛᴇᴀʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛᴀʀꜱ.ˊˎ- Elodie Price had never heard the soft breeze of the wind or the sound of birds singing in the trees. After losing her older brother and her mother, the world had become grey. Ten years old, and already the universe had stripped her of everything. She couldn't see any reason to keep moving, no one to protect her. The Walkers would find her soon enough. With her hearing loss, she wouldn't even hear them coming. She could barely hear the world screaming around her. Her mother had always been harsh - never quite satisfied with anything Elodie did - and her brother distant. The little bits of love that trickled through, the faint scraps of affection, always seemed to slip through her fingers like water. She didn't belong. Not to them, not to anyone. So when she had come to the conclusion that maybe it was her turn to go, she never expected anyone to care. She never expected anyone to save her. Certainly not someone like Daryl Dixon. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰; ©𝙙𝙞𝙭𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙: 𝙛𝙚𝙗. 𝟭𝟮 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙: - updates set in season 5 (the earlier chapters truly suck in my opinion, so once you get to like chapter 10 or so it gets better :,P) DISCLAIMER: I do not own The Walking Dead, or its storyline. I only own my orignal characters.

Tiger Mallory is eight years old. Alone in the walker-infested woods of rural Georgia, with nothing but a knife and a dog, she knows her chances of survival are slim. If her sister was still here, perhaps there would be a little more hope for her, but Jackie is gone, and it's the sort of gone that people don't usually come back from. Not anymore. So, when a little girl comes running through her forest, Tiger decides to chase her. Out of boredom, hope or loneliness, she isn't really sure, but it suddenly gets a whole lot more complicated than just that little girl. Some bitchass cop and his redneck friend are looking for the kid too, and they want to bring Tiger with them. Just for now. Just until they find the girl. And really, who is Tiger to refuse? She's just using them, same way they'll use her. Maybe she'll survive a little longer with Rick Grimes. Hey, maybe she'll even find her sister.

Two different directions. One being left, and the other being right. Going right landed Kristofferson Vorobeva in Madripoor, and having no other choice than to fall back onto his old ways in order to survive after having freedom for the first time in sixteen years. Going to the left landed, Bucky Barnes having no other choice than to go back in cryo-freeze without ever getting a chance to tell Kristofferson what happened, or being able to keep his promise of finding him. Leaving Bucky with no other option than to send Steve Rogers to track him down and bring him to him so they can be together, even though Kristofferson has no paper trail that proves he even exists in the first place and hates him more than can fathom. Only for Bucky to turn into dust when Kristofferson is finally found, leaving him abandoned by him once more for the next five years without ever getting to explain to him what happened to get them into this situation in the first place. !! Please note before reading, this book contains themes heavy themes such as: graphic descriptions of violence, internalized homophobia, mentions & descriptions of blood, mentions of child abuse, mentions of alcohol abuse, panic attacks, manipulation, past and present physical abuse, past and present medical abuse, food restriction, mentions of past murder of a child/children, murder, thoughts of self-harm, suicidal thoughts & tendencies. If you are unable to handle these topics, this book will be triggering for you !! cross posted, and more frequently updated, on ao3

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