There are dead bodies on the ground, but none of them is hers.

For the Nine Lives First Kiss Challenge. I've chosen the scene from 3x06, when Daryl finds Carol in that cell after thinking he won't see her again.

Daryl looked down at his hands. They were covered in blood, the same blood that soaked his clothes and fell on the ground with a macabre rhythm. He didn't know how much was his and how much was theirs, but he knew one thing: she was safe.

"Carol...?" he called, her name being the only thing that could keep his mind sane.

Silence.

She leaves at night, at the hour of thieves. The only thing that stays behind is silence, always silence.

Between S06E14 and S06E15.

For the Nine Lives Challenge. What if Daryl had returned to Alexandria right after the events from JSS (6x02)?

Pirate AU, inspired in the XVIIIth century.

She was Carol Peletier, and her name was legend. Captain of the Sophie, tales were told about how she was a merciless pirate and a cold-blooded woman. The stories about her and her crew were known in every harbor, and nobody could tell truth from legend, not even her.

Outside, rain was falling and cleaning a dirty and cruel world. Inside, two people were looking for what that world had denied them all their lives in the arms of the other.

I can’t lose you too.

(After S6E15 but not following the canon from S6E16. No spoilers)