Daryl and Carol write to one another while she's away at sea.
Post 9x16/Pre 10x01, and after the story "home"
“Forgive me for trying,” she says, voice shaking. “Everyone else was moving on, you’d gone off, I did what I had to. To keep going. I had to make a life for myself.”
“Yeah? And where does that leave me?”
(Time jump between 9.05 and 9.06; references the flashback in 9.14 “Scars.”)
“I know ya said you was feelin’ lost but…” he cautiously raises his eyes to look at her. “I know who you are.”
Post-ep for 9.16: "The Storm"
It may really by the end, this time.
OR: What if Carol and Daryl experienced the events of “One More”?
(10x19 rewrite with our favorite characters)
**Partially rewritten as of 3/29/21. New version added as Chapter 2**
“This place is a graveyard. Nothing left here for us but ghosts.”
Post-ep for 5.08 “Coda”
“I hope you know I do have your back. And maybe one day I’ll have your trust, too.”
Or: the little ways in which Carol and Daryl take care of each other.
Season 2/3 Interlude and Post-ep for 3.06 “Hounded”
“So... what happened?”
“With the Wolves? Sounds like you already know.”
“After,” he says, voice lowering to a grumble.
She looks up at him then, seeing him eying her earnestly. She sighs heavily. “Seems like you already know that too.”
“Wanna hear it from you.”
“Why? Cuz I hear so much from you?”
Post-ep for 6.09 “No Way Out”
If he’d only stopped to think it through, take a breath, take one fucking breath, maybe he wouldn’t be tied up in the back of a van, bleeding out from a bullet wound. Maybe his friends’ lives wouldn’t be in danger.
Maybe hers wouldn’t be.
What if Carol was in the lineup the night that they met Negan? Canon divergence as of 6x16 “Last Day On Earth”
Judith furrowed her brow and looked down at the newspaperthat they had been huddled around. Her eyes immediately went to the headline in all capital letters.
“WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE FOR THE MURDER OF COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS.
REWARD $10,000 EACH”
In which the cabin scene in the 11B finale goes very differently and leads to all things unexpected and necessary
Canon divergence starting 11x16
Nobody ever likes to talk about what comes after.
Or: After the final battle with the Whisperers, Carol and Daryl clear the invisible rubble.
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