Chapters: 62/?
Fandom: The Walking Dead (TV), The Walking Dead
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daryl Dixon/Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon & Rick Grimes, Rickyl relationship, Background Glenn Rhee/Maggie Greene, Background Carl Grimes/Beth Greene
Characters: Daryl Dixon, Rick Grimes, Carl Grimes, Judith Grimes, Glenn Rhee, Maggie Greene, Beth Greene, Michonne (Walking Dead), Hershel Greene, Mentions of Merle Dixon - Character
Additional Tags: Inspired by The Walking Dead, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Domestic Fluff, Sweet, Cute, Family Fluff, sweet smut, Rickyl, Daryl's PoV, Awkward Daryl, Daryl In Love, POV Daryl, Protective Rick, Parent Rick, Domestic Bliss, domestic Daryl, Love, Friendship, Fluff, Parent Daryl, First Kiss, First Time, Mentions of Merle Dixon, Friendship/Love, Rickyl Writers' Group Bingo 2016, Chapter 41 for RWG Bingo for fresh coffee, Post prison no Terminus, Hershel is still alive, Select characters met up after prison fell but did not go to Terminus, Mentions of past abuse
Summary:
Daryl's life'd gone ta shit long b'fore the world did. Them dumb dead bastards walkin' 'round ain't the worst kind a monster he ever seen. Got the scars ta prove it.
Grew up with nothin' so's he ain't missin' shit now. Knew what it was really like ta go without. Fend fer hisself. His whole damn life. So's campin' in the woods an' holin' up at the prison were fancy by Dixon standards. An' when they lost that, too it don't mean nothin'. 'Long 's he still had Rick.
Daryl'd lived a lotta places growin' up. Shacks mos'ly. Even outta Merle's truck one time. Ain't never had no place he'd call home, though.
'Til Rick. 'N he were kind an' good. Treated Daryl like he were worth somethin' an' not no trash. 'N Daryl realized home ain't no four walls an' a roof. Home is where the heart is.
