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1. Save Me by lightninghawke

   Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)  

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

   21 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Daryl Dixon/You
   • Daryl Dixon/Reader
   • Daryl Dixon
   • Reader
   • Daryl Dixon's Dog
   • Original Animal Character(s)
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Heavy Angst
   • Blood and Injury
   • Suicide
   • Animal Death
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Self-Harm
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
   • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert

   Summary

   In the back of his mind, he could hear your voice. No good horse crosses the rainbow bridge with their tail. Your breath tickled his ear as you spoke, a comforting weight against his shoulder as you pressed into his side to hide away from what came next — but when he turned, there was nothing left beside him.

   [Bad ending AU]

   Series

   • Part 2 of The Horror and the Wild

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   3,645

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Kudos:

   15

   Hits:

   228