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She loved him before he ever put on a badge. He married someone else. Then the world ended, and for nine days she grieved a man who wasn't even dead - because her brother lied, and some lies cost you years.
Josephine Walsh survived King County as a sheriff's dispatcher who could talk anyone down from anything except her own heart. Now she's surviving the apocalypse the same way: steady voice, steady hands, and a silence about her brother that's going to cost her everything eventually.
Rick Grimes came back from the dead once already. She's not about to let him do it again without her.
Slow burn. Heavy angst. He was never supposed to be hers - until he was.