THE END IS NEAR -daryldixon (REMASTERED VERSION)

✰ THE END'S NOT NEAR. ITS HERE.

Bo Howell spent ten years running from the girl her father made her-trading rifles for rolling pins, survival skills for therapy sessions, and her childhood name for something that didn't taste like blood. At twenty-eight, she owns a bakery, rescues a cat, and has almost convinced herself she's normal.

Then the world ends.

Suddenly, every instinct she buried becomes the only thing keeping her neighbors alive. The anger she worked to control? A weapon. The ruthlessness she swore she'd never use? Necessary. Her father's brutal lessons? Horrifyingly accurate.

Now she's got a gun, a traumatized kid who claims her as family, and a slow-burning thing with a redneck tracker who's just as damaged as she is. The apocalypse doesn't care that she wanted to be soft. It only cares that she knows how to survive.

And Bo's starting to realize: you can't outrun what you were built for.

!! THIS STORY IS A REWRITE FIX IT FIC, OF MY OWN FIC! The end is near 2.0 !!