In the ruins of Atlanta Delilah Brooks survives alone until gunshots on a department store rooftop lead her to a handcuffed furious Merle Dixon. Against her better judgment she frees him forging an unlikely alliance with the crude dangerous redneck who slowly becomes her fiercest protector. As they navigate the dead world together arguing, scavenging and learning to trust fate pulls them toward Hershel Greene's farm. There an accidental gunshot wound thrusts Delilah into Rick's group, reopening old wounds between the Dixon brothers and testing fragile new bonds. In a story of survival found family and moral grayness Delilah must decide who she becomes when the living prove deadlier than the walkers.

A/N: This is the updated version of FYD <3 Y/n L/n was your average college student before the world went to shit. She lived in Atlanta with her childhood friend, Glenn, and had never once left the city after she had moved there, apart from the occasional visit to see her Mother, whom was hospitalised in another state. However, the end of the world changed that, forcing her to leave the city and wander the highway. Permanently. When the city was overrun, she was separated from Glenn and forced to flee the city, which she hadn't left for years. With no idea where to go or what to do, she simply wandered down the highway. And though she may have been a city kid, she was far from useless. She was used to fighting for her life and she was used to being alone, so to say the very least, she could handle whatever the end of the world threw at her. Equipped with her trusted bow, Lucy, and her fathers vintage revolver, she was ready for anything. Dead or otherwise. A few months after the 'End', Y/n eventually came across a lost little girl, and a group of survivors hurled up on a farm. She never was a people person and never got along too well with others, but she couldn't just abandon the girl. Would she find a home in this group? Would they become family? Or was she doomed to wander alone? Would she ever reunite with Glenn? Her family? And would she and a certain redneck ever get along? UPDATES: DAILY. This is a fem!reader fic, but you can ignore gender if you like<3 Hopefully, you'll enjoy the story! If there's any mistakes let me know. And just enjoy!<33 NOTE: Obviously all characters belong to the walking dead, apart from any oc's or storylines I may add!

Yandere Carl Grimes x Female Reader After meeting [Y/N] at the prison, Carl immediately takes a liking to her and makes a promise to himself that he'll do any and everything to keep her safe within his arms. ... Ignore the shit cover, I'm not used to making fanfics where the love interest isn't an anime character, so I had to change my style a bit ;( plus, I wrote this story on an impulse so this cover was whipped up in less than 10 mins on photoshop ... The story starts with Carl and [Y/N] both being 15 (I aged them up to get the story going faster), but I promise, no 13+ or 18+ things will happen (*cough* lemons *cough* limes *cough* ) until y'all are both past the age of consent (so 16 basically) I try not to follow the story too closely, especially since the addition of a new character (you) is bound to throw things off the show's regular course, so PLEASE don't make any comments like "ThIs DiDn'T hApPeN iN tHe ShOw" because I intentionally am not following the show. I'd find it boring if the only difference was that you're there. ... I do not own any of the art or music used in this story unless specified otherwise. If you are the artist behind anything I use in this story and would like your artwork or song to be credited or taken out of the story, just PM me, and I'll happily oblige. I do not own the The Walking Dead universe. I do not own any of the characters. I only own the writing of this story and the plot, as well as whatever characters I specify are my OC's that I've added to this story. ... !!!Disclaimers below!!! This story will contain fluff, blood, DETAILED gore, violence, adult/sexual scenes (aka lemons/limes (probably just limes)), strong language (this is The Walking Dead for crying out loud), mentions of suicide, angst, etc. Started: December 30th, 2020 Finished: TBD

𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐱𝐨𝐧 𝐱 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐦, 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡. Y/n Walsh, the loving and beautiful wife of Shane Walsh and Rick's childhood bestfriend(more like sister). What happens when Rick is shot, and a few weeks later the world falls into chaos.

𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲, 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞, 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡. 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐝, 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞. 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥. 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭. 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲... 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐤. 𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫. 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝. 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨. 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰.

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 ⇝ 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝖺 𝗐𝗈𝗎𝗇𝖽𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝗈𝗒 𝗂𝗌 𝖻𝗋𝗎𝗇𝗀 𝗈𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖿𝖺𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋'𝗌 𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗆, 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖿𝗂𝗇𝖽 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋𝗌𝖾𝗅𝖿 𝖻𝖾𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖿𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖽𝗌 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝗈𝗒-𝖻𝗎𝗍 𝖺𝗌 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖻𝗈𝗍𝗁 𝗀𝗋𝗈𝗐 𝗈𝗅𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝖼𝗅𝗈𝗌𝖾𝗋, 𝗌𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗂𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗋𝖾𝗅𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗉 𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗇𝗀𝖾𝗌 𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗋𝖾𝗅𝗒.