Prompt Fill: In Terminus, Gareth tells Rick that, as ringleader, he must pick one of the group in the train car to be sacrificed, but Rick refuses. Gareth attempts to convince Rick to choose by using Daryl, who has obviously already been beaten. To them it's about enjoyment of causing people pain, both physical and mental, not about just getting food.

In the chaos of a walker ambush Carl and Sophia are separated from their parents, placing them in the care of Daryl Dixon, who is fully capable of surviving on his own but has no experience being a guardian. Will he be able to get them all back safely?

Exile's back up due to (surprising) popular demand.Takes place after Sophia is found in the barn.Daryl leaves the group & goes his own way after a fight with Shane.He runs into the group again after he has found his own place to stay. Can't they all just get along?Rated M for cussing,violence,nekkid Daryl moments,smut & whump.Eventual Daryl/Maggie much to my surprise. No Caryl.

Sequel to Exile. Daryl has left the group again and plans to head north but first he tries to find Merle. A betrayal brings new enemies against the group who want what the group has. No Caryl 'cause yuck. Rated M for cussin', violence, nekkid Daryl moments, gore, adult situations, shameless Daryl whump. Daryl/Maggie

"Carl Grimes, coming up the left side. He's approaching the hoop, dribbling fast—ha!" "And the crowd goes wild!" ... "I'm just saying. Maybe if you spent less time commentating your own shots—" "And doing what? Watching you get your butt whooped?" /CarlPatrick, playing basketball, being cute, when Michonne and Daryl crash the party.

What happens when the Governor gets his hands on those from the prison? It won't be pretty. Rick and Daryl have no idea of the danger they've put themselves in. Trouble from within the prison threaten to destroy everyone. Tempers flare and mistakes are made with devastating consequences. Some Caryl but major Rickyl bromance. Torture.

The Governor sends the prison group a message.

The Dixon brothers have an unspoken pact. Whenever one of them gets sick or injured, the other one has to look after them. Merle had asked him earlier if he thought he should see a doctor and found another thing that hadn't changed; Daryl's pathological fear of hospitals.

Years after their journey in "The Beginning with you", Daryl and Judith make their way in the world. Complete.

Prequel to 'The Last Part'. It had been four days since the prison had fallen and he had yet to see any sign of his group. Alone was not a new sensation for him... The baby in his arms shifted in her sleep - well, not completely alone.

Her breaths came harder and faster as she backed up away from the closing in herd. She felt hot tears build in her eyes, her heart hammering wildly against her ribcage. Suddenly a hand closed around her arm and she spun around, ready to fight. "Jesus, woman, it's me," a gruff male voice grunted.

What if Sophia wasn't in that barn? What if the group never found her before leaving the farm? What if instead Sophia happened upon a very unlikely ally, Merle Dixon, and the two had no choice but to rely upon eachother as they searched for the group.

Fill for a prompt on LJ, 'Daryl falls violently ill, it's just your run-of-the-mill cold/flu bug, but a particularly nasty case.'

He'd never belonged anywhere before but he'd found a place where he felt accepted. A place where people wanted him around and valued him. That's why it hurt so much when they threw it back in his face. One shot.

He'd been surprised when the teeth had sunk into his flesh. Not agonized or fearful, just surprised. The pain had come later.

After the group is forced to head west to escape the Governor and his men, Daryl is separated from the rest and stranded in the desert. Now, he must fight to survive and make his way back to his family, and maybe get some help from a few friends along the way. Daryl-centric with everybody else having a role to play. COMPLETE.

Daryl just wanted to have a contained night out with his brother but Merle attracts trouble like nobody he's ever known. Daryl can't help but get mixed up when a stranger tries to play his brother. Set before TWD, oneshot.

Judith Grimes and Daryl Dixon are the final survivors to remain from the group, struggling to make a life for themselves in the later years of the outbreak. This is a loose collection of short stories set in the decade after the show takes place, as Judy slowly grows up under his care.

Rick contemplates the group's next move as he awaits the return of Daryl and Merle but is forced to put those thoughts on hold when only one of the brothers returns. Takes place between episode 3x15 and 3x16.

Daryl and the Governor, missing scene.

"'I read somewhere,' Carol says. 'If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours at all.' But Daryl snorts. 'Fuck that. I come back, you best put a bullet in me.'" In which Daryl gets bitten, and Rick's not ready to let him go. Maybe for good reason. NOT character death. Part 3 of This...Thing series. Rickyl

Woodbury's men came to take the prison, oh they did. The survivors of Atlanta were outnumbered and outgunned. But they had one advantage: They were family. Family, you do anything for to keep them save. Or die trying. (After 3x15)

Merle knows those signs, he's seen their Daddy push Daryl to that point before. - Panic/Hyperventilating. Written for TWD kinkmeme, WIP

While searching for Sophia, a badly injured and disoriented Daryl is found by other survivors. Not sure where he came from and losing faith that anyone is looking for him, he finds a place within their group. When a chain of events brings him back to the farm, it's not the happy homecoming Rick and the others were hoping for.

When Andrea stands up to The Governor over his plans to kill Merle and Daryl, she finds herself taken out of Woodbury with one of the Dixon brothers and left for dead.

Before sending Daryl to the arena, the Governor decides to speak with him. Things don't go well for Daryl. Gen. Torture.

It's almost six months after they've started sleeping together that he gets her pregnant.

After being catch by the Governor, Daryl meet his older brother, Merle, again. The inhabitants of Woodbury clamour for seeing their spilled blood in the zombie coliseum, the blood of the last Dixons in the world. Oneshot located after Made to suffer.

After leaving the farm and while the group is searching for a new safe place, Daryl crashes his bike while avoiding a little girl standing alone and alive in the middle of the road. Gen, shameless Daryl whump.

Daryl's scars have an effect on Carol when he comes back from Woodbury, exhausted, and with someone else. Someone that doesn't play well with others. Daryl/Carol/Merle.

Liberty Dixon is the uber-smart, 13 yr old daughter of Merle, and niece of Daryl. She's just living the life of a fairly normal teenage girl, trying to get by with her drunken father and hard working uncle. But when strange things begin to happen and the whole world goes to hell, her life becomes a fight for survival and suddenly its not so simple anymore.

Jesse and Jane share an intimate moment in the shower before departing for New Zealand. Obviously a smutfic. Takes place between Chapters 1 and 2 of Deja Vu, but works as an AU standalone.

The Doctor and Rose are locked out of the TARDIS on the planet of eternal rain, which may or may not be the pee of the gods. Miserable and wet, they don't anticipate the Doctor injuring himself and becoming seriously ill.

The Doctor is shot and Rose doesn't know how to save him. How do you fix a bullet hole when the only doctor around is unconscious and dying?

What if Daryl hadn't regained consciousness that day, and was more injured than he originally thought? By the time the group realises that he never came back from looking for Sophia, it's already dark, and there's nothing that they can do. AU to 2x05.

"Everything hurt. Muscles, sinews, flesh, bone, it didn't matter. He felt like he'd been compressed into a single, all encompassing bruise."

Jesse listened to Jane's voicemail again and again after she died...but just once, he stayed on after the beep to speak his mind.

"Carol stared at the wall. She was lying on her side in an unfamiliar bed—a stranger's bed, abandoned until she'd taken it up the night before. It rested in an abandoned room. An abandoned house. A nameless town." When the group spends the winter in Daryl's hometown, Carol finds herself joining him in a dangerous journey through his past.

Gus sees something he wants.

He broke from the trees and sprinted out to the one rickety pier he'd seen jutting into the lake, intending as a last ditch effort to swim away from the walkers – he had no idea if they could swim, but doubted it.

As the apocalypse crashes down around them, Daryl and Merle only have each other in the flight from their childhood home. The struggle to survive brings out the anger, resentment, and love that forever tie them together.

In the weeks before the world fell apart, Daryl made a friend. The nightmare began with her. Note: this is NOT a Daryl/OC fic, though I now realize the title may give that impression.

He'd been rummaging through one of Winnebago's cupboards when he'd found it.

Something's gonna happen to her. Or something's gonna happen to him while trying to prevent it. It's just as inevitable as the next sunrise.