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1. Calm during the Storm by prettygrimey

   Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Rick Grimes & You
   • Rick Grimes/Reader
   • rick grimes & reader
   • Daryl Dixon
   • Glenn Rhee
   • Maggie Greene
   • Carol Peletier
   • Rick Grimes
   • Carl Grimes
   • Judith Grimes
   • Tyreese Williams
   • Sasha Williams (Walking Dead)
   • Michonne (Walking Dead)
   • Abraham Ford
   • Jesse (Walking Dead)
   • Eugene Porter
   • Tara Chambler
   • Rosita Espinosa
   • Spencer Monroe (Walking Dead)
   • Deanna Monroe
   • Gabriel Stokes
   • Denise Cloyd
   • Tobin (Walking Dead)
   • Jesus (Walking Dead)
   • Rick Grimes Needs a Hug
   • Good Parent Rick Grimes
   • Rick Grimes is Trying His Best
   • Age Difference
   • The Walking Dead Prison
   • Aftercare
   • Violence Against Walkers (Walking Dead)
   • Slow Burn
   • Size Difference
   • Explicit Language
   • Sexual Tension
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Mutual Pining
   • Found Family
   • Emotional Baggage
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Heavy Angst
   • POV Rick Grimes
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Infant Judith Grimes
   • Slow Build
   • Slow Romance
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Hurt Rick Grimes
   • I don’t know where this is going to go
   • Please Don't Hate Me
   • Sad Rick Grimes
   • Reader protects Rick
   • Grimes Family 2.0 (Walking Dead)
   • Strangers to Friends to Lovers
   • I Will Go Down with This Ship
   • I need this sad man
   • Alexandria Safe-Zone (Walking Dead)
   • Small bit of Merle Dixon
   • Hurt No Comfort
   • Angst and Feels
   • Emotional Hurt
   • Female Reader-Insert
   • AFAB | Assigned Female at Birth Reader-Insert
   • Whump
   • Reader is whump
   • Emotional Whump
   • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

   Summary

   You always calmed Rick, throughout the camp, the farm but the first time he noticed truly it was after Lori’s death.

   Almost as if fate had brought you together.

   He would do anything to protect the one calm thing he had.

   Series

   • Part 1 of The Storm

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   34,562

   Chapters:

   10/?

   Comments:

   5

   Kudos:

   45

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