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AU, no ZA, slowish burn with enough angst to make any cup overfloweth. Warnings for language, eventual smut, references to death, trauma, abuse, alcoholism, crime and prison, grief, and emotional infidelity. Most of OG team family will appear, we will spend a lot of time inside the mind of Beth Greene, a woman who has suffered loss and survived with the support of her now-fiancee, Zach - a successful lawyer with a lot of love in his heart but a glaring lack of awareness that Beth is not all-in with his fantasies of their life together.
Daryl Dixon is a man mostly forgotten by the people in the rural outskirts of Atlanta, which is why after many years, he returned, filling in as a farmhand for Rick and Lori Grimes until he can find his footing and overcome all the darkness that haunts him.
Beth and Daryl team up to prep Rick's horses for long overdue veterinarian care to be provided by Beth's dad and brother. Somewhere between the small talk, shared silence, work, and occasional banter, each begin to find in one another a sense of solace and comfort they've never known - and both struggle to reconcile who they've been, and who they are now.