A_Scott68
Sunny Grimes was supposed to be the bright one.
Shane Walsh was supposed to be the dangerous one.
Neither of them were supposed to be anything.
Not to each other.
She was Rick Grimes's little sister - all warmth, wildflowers, stubborn hope, and the kind of smile that made people believe things might turn out okay.
He was Rick's best friend - volatile, fiercely loyal, impossible to ignore, and always the first to understand just how ugly survival could get.
For years, whatever existed between them stayed buried beneath history, bad timing, and every reason in the world not to touch it.
Then the dead started walking.
The rules disappeared.
The world burned.
And somewhere between hospital corridors, blood-soaked choices, sleepless nights, and the constant fear of losing the people they loved, Sunny and Shane became something neither of them could keep pretending away.
Because surviving the end of the world is one thing.
Finding the person you'd burn it down for is another.
And maybe the apocalypse wasn't where everything ended.
Maybe it was where they began.