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1. The Whites Of Your Eyes, Turn Black In The Low Light by Berserker2166

   Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi
   • Work in Progress

   26 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Daryl Dixon/Negan Smith
   • Maggie Greene/Glenn Rhee
   • Rick Grimes/Michonne
   • Other Relationship Tags to Be Added
   • Daryl Dixon
   • Negan Smith
   • Dwight (Walking Dead)
   • Simon (Walking Dead)
   • Emmett Carson
   • Harlan Carson
   • Glenn Rhee
   • Maggie Greene
   • Shane Walsh
   • Rick Grimes
   • Michonne (Walking Dead)
   • Carl Grimes
   • Rosita Espinosa
   • Eugene Porter
   • Carol Peletier
   • Other Character Tags to Be Added
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Domestic Fluff
   • Romantic Fluff
   • Fluff
   • Captivity
   • Mental Breakdown
   • Mental Anguish
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Daryl Dixon Needs a Hug
   • Daryl Dixon Needs to Use Actual Words
   • Hurt Daryl Dixon
   • Emotionally Hurt Daryl Dixon
   • Slow Burn
   • Protective Negan Smith
   • Negan Smith Being Negan Smith
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • --NOT BETWEEN DARYL AND NEGAN
   • Found Family
   • Blood and Gore
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • Attempted Sexual Assault
   • Panic Attacks

   Summary

   Daryl Dixon has survived a lot, but captivity at the Sanctuary is something else entirely. Negan expects defiance, resistance—anything but the unsettling silence he’s met with. It doesn’t take long for him to realize that Daryl’s scars run deeper than the ones his men left behind. What starts as a game of control shifts into something more complicated as Negan finds himself drawn into a puzzle he didn’t expect to care about solving. And Daryl? He’s spent his whole life learning that trust is dangerous—but maybe, just maybe, survival doesn’t have to mean enduring alone.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Scars Speak Louder in the Sunlight

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   71,464

   Chapters:

   47/?

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   Kudos:

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