Blood & Bluebell ||Shane Walsh x OC||

[Touch her and die but he's the one who'll die if he can't touch her]

Shane Walsh has known Willa Grimes since she was 12 with braces. She's Rick's baby sister - off-limits, 12 years younger than Rick, 9 years younger than him. He's spent 2 years trying not to want her.

She just moved back to King County for the summer.

And she's done waiting for him to be good.

Willa Bluebell Grimes - 24, art school dropout, bartender, Rick Grimes's baby sister.

She left King County at 18 and swore she wouldn't come back. Now she's 24, broke, back in her brother's hometown for the summer, pouring beers at The Rusty Nail and sleeping in Rick's old sheriff tees.

Shane Walsh - 33, King County Deputy, Rick's best friend since the academy.

He's known her since she was a kid with scraped knees. Watched her grow up. Told himself she was off-limits. Failed.

For two summers he's kept his distance. Been good. Been the brother she never wanted.

Willa is done letting him.

It's July 2010 in Georgia. It's hot. It's boring. Rick is working doubles, Lori is pregnant and nesting, Carl thinks his aunt is cool, and Shane can't stop looking at Rick's little sister like she's the only thing that makes sense.

A small-town, forbidden, best-friend's-baby-sister romance. Shane Walsh gets his redemption arc - but he has to earn it first.

Before the dead rose. Before the world ended. There was this summer._