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1. Goodbye Stranger by JustRamblinOn

   Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)  

   • Not Rated
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   23 Aug 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Daryl Dixon/ Original Female Character
   • Daryl Dixon/You
   • Daryl Dixon/ OFC
   • Shane Walsh/ Original Female Character
   • shane walsh/ OFC
   • shane walsh/ you
   • Daryl Dixon/Reader
   • Shane Walsh/ Reader
   • Daryl Dixon
   • Merle Dixon
   • Shane Walsh
   • Rick Grimes
   • Lori Grimes
   • Carl Grimes
   • Carol Peletier
   • Sophia Peletier
   • Maggie Greene
   • Glenn Rhee
   • Beth Greene (Walking Dead)
   • Judith Grimes
   • Walking Dead Characters
   • You know - Character
   • All of Them
   • Morally Grey Characters
   • morally grey decision making
   • Illegal Activies
   • Motorcycle club
   • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
   • Drug Addiction
   • Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • non-linear storytelling
   • Flashbacks
   • multiple POVs
   • Slow Burn
   • Love Triangle
   • guess who still sucks at this
   • Angst
   • probably hurt comfort
   • possibly hurt no comfort we'll find out

   Summary

   Shane Walsh was supposed to be the love of my life. But who finds the love of their life in middle school and starts a successful marriage at seventeen? Certainly not someone like me, who craved adventure and danger and a life on the wrong side of the law. Seven years after I left him behind to return to Atlanta, all I wanted from Shane now was for him to sign the divorce papers so I could see what might happen with the interesting, intoxicating, infuriating Daryl Dixon. Which was the only reason I was in King County hospital when the world ended and the dead rose.

   And things only got weirder from there. My cop not-really-ex husband, my current maybe boyfriend, and me- street racer, car thief, card hustler, and gang member- at the end of the world- what could possibly go wrong, right?

   Series

   • Part 1 of Save It For the End

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   68,402

   Chapters:

   36/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   71

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