Amanda, 25, is dating Shane Walsh, 30. Shane is smitten by Lori, 31, Ricks wife. Rick, 30, is clueless. While on the line of duty, Rick saves Amanda's life and ends up in a coma. While in the coma, Amanda stays by his side, keeping him safe. When Rick awakens, he's unaware of what is going on. Him & Amanda embark on a journey to find Lori and Carl. On this journey, the two can't help but develop feelings. - ****REWRITING IN PROGRESS

The world has ended, and survival is no longer just about fighting the dead. In Crossfire, every choice cuts deep - between loyalty and betrayal, fear and courage, love and loss. In a world overrun by the dead, Y/N has fought tooth and nail to survive - alone, after being abandoned by someone she trusted. But everything changes when Rick returns to her life, shattering everything she thought she knew. Now torn between the brooding Daryl and the man she knew from before the world ended, Y/N is caught in a dangerous love triangle, where every decision could be her last. As the group's fragile trust begins to crack, the line between love and survival becomes razor-thin. Because sometimes the most dangerous fight isn't with the dead at all... it's with the living, and with the choices that could tear them apart.

Janey is a young woman with a bold heart, tough mindset and a certain motherly instinct. She's known Rick and Carl since Carl was just a baby, she attended his mother, Lori's funeral. After Lori died when Carl was a baby, Janey took lots of care of Carl when Rick was at work. Although Rick never got over the feeling that something about Janey was odd, Carl and Lori loved her. Carl is now 12 and Janey is 26. She was picking Carl up from school when she was told his father had been shot. Just a week later she found herself on a packed highway with Rick's friend Shane and Carl. When the outbreak hit, they fled to the city. Things have changed, Shane and Janey are the ring leaders of their new group. What happens when Rick finds the group? Find out by reading.

Rick Grimes was always there for his sister, Leona, when she needed him, so upon hearing about his injuries resulting from a high-speed chase, she dropped everything to visit him in the hospital. Nothing else mattered - not her happiness, and certainly not her future as an artist states away. Her brother and his small family were the only people she had left in her life, and she'd be damned if she let something as trivial as the dead starting to rise stop her from keeping them safe. Daryl Dixon spent much of his life on his own, surviving off the good graces of strangers and stealing what he needed to survive until he could find odd jobs in different towns. His older brother, Merle, had been a near-constant companion as he grew older, only left on his own when his brother found a woman he liked and ran off for a week or two. When the dead started to rise, he spent no time finding his brother, ditching the lady Merle had spent the past few days with, and taking off. Finding one another was nothing more than chance, and gaining one another's trust over time was no easy feat, but as it grows clearer that not just anyone can be trusted, Leona and Daryl find themselves staying together. For survival. ➸︎ #1 in #daryldixonfanfiction 03/27/25