"WE BOTH KNOW I'D BE DEAD BY NOW IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU." "DON'T SAY SHIT LIKE THAT." daryl dixon x fem!oc carl grimes x fem!oc

Family isn't always something you're born into. Sometimes it's something you find, and once you do, no matter how many times things fall apart, it's people you'll always come back to. Casey and Ellie have always relied on each other. But when they're pushed beyond the walls and forced to travel with someone they don't trust, what should've been temporary doesn't stay that way for long. In this world, things change. People do, too. And sometimes, the ones you never meant to need are the ones you end up holding onto.

Daisy Jo Servopoulos had been burdened by ghosts her entire life. She wondered often about what it would've been like to know her older siblings Sarah and Jackson and experience their parents from before. Before guilt and grief became something stitched into every quiet moment. Every time she let herself imagine it for too long, she stopped. There wasn't much point. She was the child born because civilization collapsed and life found a way to continue in the ruins anyway. No birthday parties. No first days of school. No family vacations. No photographs hanging on walls from a world that would've had room for her. The only person who had ever made Daisy feel like she belonged anywhere was her mom. And now Tess was gone too, probably somewhere in whatever came next, content to rest with the family she had loved and lost long before Daisy was born. Somewhere she couldn't follow. That left Joel. Absent. Quiet. Careless Joel. The man who happened to be her father. Daisy had spent years imagining the version of him Sarah must've known. The father who rest bedtime stories, planned camping trips, and carried his little girl on his shoulders. She was certain that man had existed once. But she wasn't Sarah. Instead she was the reminder of everything that came after. The child born by accident into a world that had already ended. So when mom died and Joel became the only family she had left, Daisy couldn't imagine anything crueler than being forced across the country beside the man who had never really wanted her in the first place. All while escorting an immune girl she didn't trust and couldn't forgive. As far as Daisy was concerned, hope had died with her mother. But the world had a stubborn habit of proving her wrong. Somewhere in between abandoned cities, endless highways, infected, and impossible choices, tiny moments began slipping through the cracks. The sort of moments that started to look like family. ©️vrotwritings The Last Of Us Fanfiction

You've lost everything, your family, your name, your grip on the past. You live in the shadows, clutching a flask like a lifeline. Then Javi, Richmond's new leader, steps into your life, forcing you to face what you want buried. Javi X Female Reader!

To ache is to be alive. Rosita Espinosa. Sasha Williams. The Walking Dead (2010)

in which... 12-year-old Valerie Dixon is already a force to be reckoned with. Raised by a drug addicted, single father and his crossbow-wielding brother, dealing with hunger, lack of sleep, and no real place to call home, Valerie had a lot on her plate. And that was before the dead started walking.

Indigo Price was supposed to be dead. She wasn't supposed to survive, but fate clearly had a different idea. Now her blood might be the key to saving the world, humanity, and all its faults. Dragged out of hiding by the Fireflies, she gets shoved into the care of an angry smuggler who has a strange disliking to her, and a past he won't talk about. Indi had a simple plan: stay quiet, stay alive, and don't trust anyone. Especially not him. But the road ahead is long, twisted, and way too traumatising for a 14 year old. She doesn't know whats worse; dying young- or surviving like this.

: ̗̀➛ "𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭." wesley greene just wants to be a little boy in the normal world again, but as he's pushed into a brutally difficult manhood, the hope he had for the earth slowly fades away into something harder. overtime he stops dwelling on the past, and focuses on moving on in the hellhole of this universe, no matter how hard it is. he has only three goals in his unfortunate life. survive, protect, fight. started - 6.29.25 ended -

Luke should've died. Instead, Sage pulled him from the lake. Now they're stuck with each other - and a mess of trust issues, unspoken feelings, and kids to keep alive. But Wellington isn't safe. Secrets run deep. And the man in charge might just be worse than the world outside. A Season 2 fix-it about grief, survival, slow-burn romance, and the weight of doing the right thing - even when it hurts. Originally posted on AO3 under the same name and user. Warning it does contain eventual smut Graphic violence as well.