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1. The Grimes Family by CanonCannon

   Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 May 2023

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Daryl Dixon & Rick Grimes
   • Daryl Dixon/Rick Grimes
   • Daryl Dixon/Negan
   • this is a Rickyl bromance fic
   • Lori Grimes/Rick Grimes
   • One-Sided Rickyl - Relationship
   • Daryl Dixon
   • Rick Grimes
   • Shane Walsh
   • Rick Grimes' Parents
   • Merle Dixon
   • Will Dixon
   • Lori Grimes
   • Childhood Friends
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Child Abuse
   • Drug Use (Implied)
   • Negan Being Negan
   • not a Negan fan
   • Rickyl Bromance
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Homophobia
   • Homophobic Language
   • Straight!Rick
   • Gay!Daryl
   • Bi!Negan
   • Friends to Brothers
   • not friends to lovers
   • Found Family
   • Self-Indulgent
   • zero understanding of how law enforcement operates
   • homophobic violence (briefly described)
   • Injury Recovery
   • Hospitalization
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • sexual relationship between a teenager and twenty-something teacher
   • (not romanticized or condoned)
   • Consent Issues
   • did I mention I hate Negan

   Summary

   Rick and Daryl's friendship at 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16, and a found family with the Grimes.

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   “Could- could Daryl stay at our house tonight, then?” Rick asked tentatively, an idea he’d been nervously formulating since the last time Daryl showed up at school pale and wincing. “Shane spends the night on school nights sometimes, and the other kids laugh at Daryl, when he comes to school hurt.”

   “I hope you don’t laugh at him.”

   “I don’t,” Rick said uneasily, because he also hadn’t stepped up to defend Daryl. They didn’t really hang out at school—Daryl hung out with the other kids who lived in Oak Hollow trailer park, the younger siblings of his brother’s friends. The bad kids.

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Turn

   Language:

   English

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