Daryl's bone tired but he pushes through to await Maggie's return home. The unexpected guest might be the last blow he can take though. Third place 'Best reunion/fix-it' Moonshine Award Winner.

Beth's alive but she's not Beth, not really. Daryl knows it and he's going to have to learn to accept it. He just wants one piece to hold onto before she goes.

Season 12, episode 6: "celebrating the life of Asa Fox." Mila just wants a moment away from inside the house, a suspended moment of nothingness to deny the loss of her best friend. Dean doesn't quite get the message.

To lose everyone and rely on only each other, how can two people resist one another? Out there on the road, it's a wild kind of love. Second place 'best on the road fic' in the Moonshine Awards!

Maya Jenkins has a relatively boring life running her fathers trailer park. Until Frank Castle rolls through the gates.

A late-night talk around the fire leaves Beth confessing a deep secret to Daryl, and he promises he will do everything he can to help her. In the midst of this revelation, he starts to understand his true feelings for Beth.

Rick's just looking for some sleep, but when Daryl and Beth get loud next door, it doesn't look like that's happening any time soon.

There's a numbness that comes with losing people. There's a numbness that comes at the end of the world. Even then though, there is a spark and with a spark, Beth wants to light a fire.

"S'so fuckin' wrong boy I don't even know where to begin kickin' your ass back into shape." Merle, back at it again with his mouth. Being Daryl's deepest consciousness, his closest friend, his worst enemy. Fuck off, Merle. "

Calm. How can she be calm when her hands are shaking with nerves? How can she be calm when she's about to see Daryl again? To tell him she's alive. Alive and here. Bloody and bruised but here, with him. Who could ever be calm in the face of that?

"Beth braces her hand against the counter and breathes. Her calm is instantly disturbed by the rap of Daryl's knuckles against the wood. She squeezes her eyes as he mumbles, "we should talk." "Talk?" She laughs and when it comes out her mouth it's all twisted and cold. "Talk about the fact that I can't ever give you kids? That what you wanna talk 'bout?""

Daryl's losing it and Beth doesn't know how to help. All she can instruct is that he breathe.

Arianna Locket is a twenty three year old woman who doesn't know how to make sense of her life. With new information coming to light about her world, she questions everything and understands nothing. Travel with Arianna as she relives her life and contemplates if it's all real. A certain blonde haired boy constantly pops up, forcing her to re visit their shared night of passion.