The Bruises We Shared

DARYLXREADER

• Childhood friends to lover
• Slow burn
•Trauma bonding
•Emotional wrecking love

Mature content ahead, 18+ !!

Warnings: Talks of abuse, lot of Flashbacks, drinking, smoking, killing (obviously), death, talks of SA.

Start from Pre apocalypse to beginning of outbreak, to time skip of the Prison-Commonwealth and maybeee another book of daryl's spin off??
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Cherry Aria McCoy grew up in a house that felt more like a storm than a home. After her mother walked out just before her seventh birthday, everything unraveled. Her father drowned himself in anger and alcohol, her older brother disappeared into drugs, and Cherry was left to learn how to survive in the cracks of it all.

That same year, her father lost his job and dragged what was left of their lives across the country to a quiet, forgettable town in Georgia. It was there, right across the street, that Cherry met Daryl Dixon. What started as two lonely kids circling each other turned into something steady, something safe. They grew up side by side, stitched together by scraped knees, shared secrets, and the kind of loyalty that doesn't ask questions.

But survival has a way of pulling people apart.

After high school, Cherry finally reached her breaking point. Tired of the chaos, the neglect, the feeling of suffocating in a life that was never really hers, she ran. No goodbye. No looking back. Just gone.

Years pass. The world ends.

And somehow, in the wreckage of everything, Cherry finds him again, at a prison surrounded by the dead and the living trying not to become them. Daryl isn't the same boy she left behind, and Cherry isn't the girl who ran away.

But in a world where everything has fallen apart, they might just be the one thing that still knows how to hold.

Find out more by reading the bruises we share !!