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1. The Horror and the Wild by lightninghawke

   Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   27 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Daryl Dixon/Reader
   • Daryl Dixon/You
   • Daryl Dixon
   • Reader
   • Original Animal Character(s)
   • Daryl Dixon's Dog
   • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff
   • Blood
   • Injury Recovery
   • unnamed animal death
   • Death
   • Gore
   • Mutual Pining
   • Lack of Communication
   • Age Difference
   • reader is canadian
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • Slow Burn
   • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
   • Gender-Neutral Reader-Insert

   Summary

   Ghosts have always lived amongst your secluded prairie home, even before the dead wore flesh to wander. This was your life, a life you preferred even before... until a ghost in living flesh stumbles into your life and you're stuck within a force of nature you do not want to — and cannot — escape from.

   Or; Daryl stumbles into your life and neither of you quite understand what feelings he brings during the shortening autumn days.

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Horror and the Wild

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   24,401

   Chapters:

   8/8

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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   Bookmarks:

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