Rick Grimes dies blowing up the bridge. Rick Grimes wakes up in the hospital he was first in years ago. Well, this might not be real, but he's not going to squander the opportunity to save people he'd lost. Time travel fix-it. S1-3 major spoilers, S4-9 minor spoilers. Rickyl.
When Carol decided to finally divorce Ed, she thought that she and Sophia were free of him. When he barreled back into their lives, she and Daryl worked up a plan. The only possible plan. It was time for Ed Peletier to disappear. (An AU inspired by prompts from celestial nova and LeviathanBlue, as well as the song Goodbye Earl. Can be read as Rickyl or gen. Warning for Ed's mouth)