Disclaimer: I don't own The Walking Dead or anything related.

Note: When I originally wrote The Road Ahead as a submission to the U.S.S. Caryl’s Music Lyric Drabble/Fanart challenged, I’d intended it as a oneshot. Then I wrote a smutty second chapter. Then the idea for this story would not leave me alone. I’m keeping the songfic submission up as a oneshot, but here is a story inspired by that one. The first chapter here is that same one, only without the song lyrics. The second chapter here was re-written without the smut. (If you'd like to read the original smutty second chapter, it's still on my tumblr http://jc-shadow.tumblr.com/post/67063418131/oops-i-wrote-a-smutty-second-chapter). From the third chapter on is the rest of their journey.