Yearning

The world ended in blood, ash and silence. For months, Sibyl Grimes has survived alone in a secluded cabin deep in the Georgia woods, far away from the chaos of the dead and the cruelty of the living. With nothing but a pistol, fading hope and the desperate need to find what's left of her family, she's learned one thing; trusting people gets you killed.

Until she finds him.

Half-dead and unconscious in the forest, a stranger with tangled hair, bruised knuckles and a crossbow tightly in his hands. Against her better judgement, Sibyl drags him back to her cabin and saves his life; never expecting the quiet, guarded man she rescued to change everything. Daryl Dixon has spent his whole life surviving, never belonging anywhere, never letting anyone too close. But in the warmth of the cabin and the company of a girl just as broken as he is, walls begin to crack.

What starts as survival turns into friendship. Friendship turns into longing and longing turns into something neither of them know how to survive. In a world overrun by death, Sibyl and Daryl slowly discover what it means to live again and what it costs to love someone when tomorrow is never promised.

Tropes:
Strangers to Friends to Lovers.
Slowburn.
Yearning.
Heavy angst, soft moments, found family and love in the apocalypse.

Daryl Dixon x Female OC

Includes mature themes, violence, trauma, language and some suggestive/intimate scenes. Also, I do not own The Walking Dead characters, storyline or universe. All rights belong to the original creators.