Badlands

Ana//26// Portugal//slytherin// Masterlist

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Masterlist

(Masterlist is currently under construction) (Requests are open)

Gladiator ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───

The Fire of Venus

Outer Banks ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

Stormbound

The Walking Dead─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

Keep Breathing for me // Daryl Dixon

Criminal Minds─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

Harry Potter─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

Laughter Lines // Fred Weasley

Marvel─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───

Stranger Things ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

Top Gun: Maverick ─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

Supernatural─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

Billy The Kid─── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

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Stormbound 𓆉 1 ⋆｡˚𓇼 ⋆｡˚𓆟  // obx

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

A single drop of sweat rolled down my forehead and decided to land on top of the page that I had so fondly been drawing on for the last couple of minutes. 

It was windy but apparently not enought to mask the hot weather that was sorrounding us. My feet kept dangling from the balcony where I had been sitting for the last minutes, my hand coming to sweap away the loose strands of my dyed blonde hair and I tried to clean any remains of sweat out of my forehead dropping the pencil on my open sketchbook. 

The drawing wasn't terrible at this point but it would be better if my model wasn't swinging from side to side as he stood on top the roof, a beer in his hand that he ocasionally brought to his lips.

"That's what? A three story fall to the deck?" Pope asked as he toyed around with a nail gun, his eyes looking up to my brother as he kept swinging his foot of the edge "I give you about a one-in-three chance of survival" 

John B hummed, his finger going in between his lips and then turning against the wind to see where it was pointing towards "should I do it?"

I took the pencil in between my fingers again and went back to shading the curls on his head "please do jump, I always wanted to be an only child"

I felt a nudge agaisnt my shoulder, making me lift up my eyes from the paper to meet the blue eyes of one of my best friends. He was smiling at my remark. It had been at least an hour of goofing around the house before they turned to drinking beer and playful banter. 

"Ill shoot you on the way down" Pope spoke again, this time holding the nail gun and pointing it towards my brother. 

"You're gonna shoot me? Make Ana's dreams come true?" he played around on top of the roof. 

I shook my head from side to side as a faint smile making it's way to my lips as I kept shading his sim burnt curls. I could feel JJ as he took a sip of his beer and leaned down to see how my drawing was coming along.  This had become a bit of a habit lately, coming to this side of the island and seeing what they're building. Seeing the contrast of the two sides always made me realise how lucky some people are just born and just as these thoughts popped into my head Kiara stepped outside ranting about how this house was going to have fancy Japanese toilets and how this once used to be a turtle habitat. 

She was almost a paradox.  Born with so much money and power on this side of the island yet, here she was. She chose to hang out with us despite what her parents thought of us. She was a kook but in her mind she was born to be a Pogue. She had the power of choice and it baffled me that she would use that to hang out on the side of the island where everyone seemed to struggle. 

"Can you please not kill yourself?" She asked as she looked up to my brother who was still on the roof.

"Don't spill that beer. I'm not giving you another one" JJ said aloud from where he stood next to me, his eyes never leaving the page that I had been drawing on.

Just as he said this I heard John B curse soon followed by the sound of his beer can crashing down on the ground below him making me sigh and shake my head. 

"Hey, ah, security's here. Let's wrap this up" Pope was near the balcony looking outside making me look towards where he was standing. 

Sure enough we started to hear the far away shouts of the cops who had probably been warned of our traspassing. 

"Boys are early today" JJ shugged the last of his beer before reaching a hand out for me to grab "let's go DaVinci"

We quickly made our way down. John B slid of the roof without harming himself and gently squeezed my shoulders jumping up and down as if he was excited about this whole ordeal. 

JJ was taunting the police men as usual as we took off running through the house and running towards the road where the twinkie was parked.

I jumped in after John B. as he took the drivers seat and quickly turned on the van. 

"I swear that one day I'll let them get caught" I spoke as I looked around and didn't see JJ and Pope anywhere, spotting only Kiara as she jumped in the back keeping the door open as we waited for the boys to pull up. 

My brother laughed and Kie soon followed with the same amused laugh as I just shook my head, a faint laugh crossing my lips as well. 

When the boys finally arrived they decided they still werent done with taunting the police that kept chasing us and that was just a reminder of my daily life with the pogues. 

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

My feet were swinging as I sat on the hammock that was hanging outside by our big tree. The sun had come out hours ago and I couldn't sleep all that well so I decided to get outside and try to sleep out here. It used to work when I was a kid. My dad would swing both Jonh B. and I and soon enough we would both be sleeping in this same hammock, but now nothing seemed to help me relax. 

I knew the reason why  coulnd't sleep today tho. We had a meeting today that could very well end our happy times and get us into some shit foster system.

"Penny for you thoughts?" I looked to the source of the question finding my brother looking at me with a beer in his hands. His shirt was nowhere to be seen and he still had traces of sleep all over his features. 

"The meeting is today bird" my hand came up to my eyebrows as I rubbed them trying to get some frustration off. 

He cursed under his breath, his eyes locking on his bare feet as he sat next to me on the hammock. We stood like that for a while, just rocking back and forth and looking ahead of us into the water. 

Dad had been missing for way too long now, presumed dead after only 3 months and the only adult who was supposed to be responsible for us, our uncle, was to busy living his own life to look after two kids who lived in the wrong side of an island. 

"What if-" I started gently shaking my head at the thought that was about to come out of my mouth "what if they split us up?"

My brother stopped slouching. His eyes went wide as he took my head in between his fingers making me look at him.

"Hey! Don't even think that okay?" I tried looking away from him but his fingers that were still holding my chin brought me back to him "I mean it! No one, and I mean no one is ever gonna split us up!"

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Stormbound // ⊹ ࣪ ﹏𓊝﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖

"hey bird hand me that paddle please"

"daddy why does John get a nickname and I don't?"

my father looked at me, his eyes focusing on my tiny form as I stood by the door. My arms crossed as I shied away from the strong sun

"I thought we settled on Raven sweetie"

"But raven's are mean birdies"

"they're just misunderstood birds sweetie, but alright we can pick another until one day you might appreciate raven how about that?"

A smile had settled on my lips

"Why does she get to choose?"

"Because she asked John. We all have choices, we just need to learn how to take them. How about Sparrow? Tiny bird just like you and you even get to sound like that pirate you like huh?"

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➳ Stormbound // OBX

The one where Ana Routlege finds herself in a treasure hunt.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

Ana Rose Routledge is the twin sister of John Booker Routledge and they are about to be in trouble. Their dad has gone missing and is now presumed to be dead and the only family member that is supposed to be taking care of them is also nowhere to be seen. 

That is when they embark on a treasure hunt that will change their lives and perspectives on life on the Outer Banks and brings her a new dilema:

 which is one worse? loving a pogue or a kook?

WARNINGS:

I do not own Outer Banks or any plot line or character. All I own are the original characters and some plot ideas that may differ from the tv show. 

This fic will contain some violent scenes, description of blood, drugs, death, swearing, sexual themes and scenes and throughout, if you're not comfortable with these themes don't keep reading.

This also contains major spoilers for Outer Banks.

Copyright © All Rights Reserved to @NitahFonseca

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Stormbound Masterlist

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Stormbound

⊹ ࣪ ﹏𓊝﹏𓂁﹏⊹ ࣪ ˖

𓆉 1 ⋆｡˚𓇼 ⋆｡˚𓆟 

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Fire of Venus // 𖥸 Chapter 6 𖥸

#Anna’s POV#

I had stopped counting the days. There came a time where it was just useless to do so so I just stopped. Sometimes it would take weeks, other times it would take much longer for my father to return from one of his conquests. 

Caracalla had told me that he had gone to Numidia and then proceeded to taunt me about him not returning from there, obviously this conversation had involved him carding a cup of wine on one hand a whore on the other while his damn monkey sat on his shoulder as usual. 

He loved to try and get some sort of reaction out of me, this I had already learned from my time being at the Palatine. Wherever I would go he would try to follow and to rile me up and this would often had to be stopped by Geta who seemed to almost always be at the right place at the right time. 

Ever since our encounter at the pond Geta had seemed more distant, even colder if that was even a possibility. He would spend his time in his chambers or at meetings or even at their parties, the very same ones that I had stopped attending. 

There was no point in partying and celebrating Rome or the emperors when all I could think about was the possibility that my father would be shaking hands with Pluto himself. And then there was Lucilla who also seemed as cold as our home without my father in it. There was no laughter, no color and no feelings surrounding that place, maybe that’s why I had been spending more time at the colosseum with the company of men who were deemed ruthless and deadly. 

They seemed more alive than anyone surrounding me at the moment, and that was were I was standing at the moment, sitting in the middle of a circle of men as they ate their meals and chatted to one another. 

“You gonna tell us a story girl?” Aulus asked. 

He had been eating silently from his plate for a while before looking at me intently. He had almost become a confident in these last times. There seemed to be no real difference in our age, but his face almost told otherwise as it was filled with dirt and scars from his previous battles. He was a survivor as he liked to remind me whenever I seemed to be showing any type of pity. 

Many times these men that I had grown fond of would stumble into their evening story time with fresh blood still on them, open wounds and a broken soul accompanying their broken bones. Aulus was no different. He had told me about how he was taken from his family many years ago, his father had died in this very same arena by hand of another gladiator and he had no word of his mother ever since. This far he had been lucky, and much like their healer, Ravi, they had earned my trust. 

“Which one do you feel like hearing?” I asked, straightening my back as more eyes feel upon us. 

“You know my favorite” he smiled at me, his top lip still swollen from his last fight. 

“I don’t think they wants to listen to Cupid and Psyche again” I frowned. By no means was I against telling this particular story, in fact it had been my favorite for as long as I could remember breathing. But it was romance and one thing I had learned is that romance, however nice and lovely, would not bring these people the strength they needed to fight. Most that fought for love ended up dying or with a broken heart. 

They needed stories of strength, courage and even about rage. They desperately needed it. 

“We all know it’s your favourite as well” Ravi said as he placed a hand on my shoulder as he sat next to me “ain’t that right fellas?”

Everyone cheered around me, some laughing and others starting to chant around for me to tell the story. 

“You’re all cheering now but you know once it gets all about love you’re gonna be nagging me to tell a different one!” 

And with a loud sigh and a look around the room I proceeded to tell my favourite story of how cupid had fallen for a mortal girl. 

· · ─ ·𖥸· ─ · ·

#Hanno’s POV#

The gods were ruthless. I had learned many years ago and they kept proving me right at every turn I took. My feet had already grown tired from running away and my hands calloused from all the years of work. I could already breathe at times when I remembered the ghosts of my past but then I would look at her. My wife, Arishat, had taught me without even realizing that I could breathe from time to time. 

The fields were almost familiar from a ghost I once knew, the crops were finally coming in and I could hear the laughter of the people in the village. Life was good. The gods were not. 

There was a moment of peace, where I was holding my wife in my arms and kissing her lips as if I had never tasted them before and then the horns came, that blasting sound only meant one thing, it was time to fight. 

I had heard about the raids of nearby lands and there was only one name attached to all the massacre going around, Rome. That damned empire that no one could get away from was making its way back to me, to my home and my people. It was time to fight. 

Then it all seemed to happen so fast, the blood and screams. There were boats wrecking our walls and men clad in roman armor climbing inside and killing everyone around me. I fought. I fought hard and then I remember her falling, her body going limp and then mine being engulfed by water. 

It was cold. It was empty and brought me a fake sense of peace as I saw my now deceased wife standing near the water’s edge and leaving me. No trace of pain in her face as I tried to run and call out her name. She was gone and I was trying to reach her, but there was a voice. Some unfamiliar voice that called out my name and said the same thing over and over until everything went black again. 

“Come find me.”

A/N

Hanno has arrived

Thank you all for reading this so far, hope you enjoy it!

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➳5 // Demons

chapter song: Demons by Imagine Dragons

"I wanna shelter you but with the beast inside there's nowhere we can hide'

➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳➳

#Ana's POV#

The first few days of waking up in a tent brought back the old camping memories, after a while it started to annoy me and now it just doesn't matter anymore. Now I'm just used to sleeping on the floor always on the look out for any movement outside causing me to be lacking a few good hours of sleep every night.

My tent was next to my brother's and Lori's so that if anything was to happen I'd be close to them. But this also meant I could listen to what was happening on that tent and they could hear what was going on on mine, and lately I've been listening to some conversations between Lori and Shane that I haven't been too keen on.

I got up lacing my boots and stepped outside my tent stretching my back hearing it crack and held my hair in a ponytail securing it with the hair ties I always have with me on my wrist. If I was going hunting I didn't really need my hair to be getting in my way all the time. Moony seemed to have notice I was awake because he also got up stretching himself and shaking his fur around before heading out following behind me.

I got in the RV where we kept some of the food and grabbed something for breakfast eating it quickly and trying to get some food for Moony too as I saw before going in that people were already surrounding the cars getting ready to leave for their supply run.

Daryl was with the group as Glenn tried to talk to them to give them instructions about the city but no one seemed to care about what he was saying as they were all chatting with each other. "hey look! Sleeping beauty's awake" Merle cheered while clapping his hands a couple of times before heading towards me and placing his arm around my shoulders "You gonna keep an eye on my lil bro today uh? Just no fuckin' in the woods without big ol' merle yeah?"

He let out an obnoxiously loud laugh right by my ear making me want to punch him in the throat to shut him up. His laugh was also so loud it was capable of waking up more people up and making them start to come towards us.

"This is way too many people for one run" Glenn started to complain "if it was only Ana and I it would be much quicker and safer"

"Ya know a lot about being quick with Ana don't ya chinaboy?" Merle smirked making me roll my eyes and Daryl to scoff, placing his crossbow behind his back as he looked at me once and nodded his head towards the woods telling me it was time to go.

"Well good luck to all of you" I started trying to rush out as I saw Shane and Lori heading over "Glenn try to get me some black jeans will you?"

And in that moment I wish I really could turn invisible because before I knew it Lori and Shane had their hands on my shoulders making me turn to face their not so happy faces. In that moment I also felt like I was 14 again and tried to be cool and sneak out of the house just to forget my dad is actually a cop, needless to say that I never tried sneaking out after that small incident.

"Where are you going?" Lori asked looking at the small group by the cars and then at Daryl that was standing closer to the woods looking back at me not really wanting to get in between us.

"Hunting" I stated while trying to get out of their grip but Shane only put a little more pressure turning his sleepy face into one of warning me not to try to escape again "I'm gonna hunt with Daryl, what's the problem with that?"

"And you think that's a good idea?" Shane started relieving the pressure on my shoulder and placing his free hand on his hip as he stared at Daryl and then at me "being off alone in the woods"

"I'm not alone" I let out a sigh pushing Lori's hand of my shoulder this time "besides I go to the city all the time with Glenn and neither of you seem to care"

They both shared a look with each other like they were reading each other's minds making me seriously want to throw up at the sight in front of me.

"Want you back at night" Lori stated letting go of my shoulder.

I let out a sigh and quickly looked around trying to find my brother. I saw him next to sophia sitting on the little table and went up to him as fast as I could giving Daryl a look that was a mixture of 'sorry' and 'wait'. He seemed bothered by all of this but I couldn't really care.

"Hey Carl can I ask you a favor?" I asked as I approached both of them placing my hands on Carl's shoulders and lightly kissing the top of his head.

"Yeah?" He looked up at me with a smile on his face.

"I'm gonna go hunting with Daryl but Lori is telling me I need to be back at night" I started and he quickly seemed to catch what I was going at.

"You're not really coming back at night are you?" I gave him a smile as he completed my thoughts "are you gonna be alright?"

"I will, I promise okay?" he nodded his head looking around and then back at me "just tell Lori I'm fine for me, oh and keep an eye on Moony will you?"

And with a last kiss on his forehead and a small smile at Sophia I told Moony to lay next to the two younger kids and left to meet Daryl at the entry of the woods.

"Took ya long enough. Let's go" 

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Hunting with Daryl sure was eventful. Most of the time was spent in silence only being filled with the common Daryl grunt and head nod to show me which direction to go or where to place my feet so I wouldn't scare the food away. It was also me watching as he placed the hunted animals around his belt like a prize he had just won. Daryl could be a lot of things, but he was a remarkable tracker and hunter.

I would find myself looking down at the ground and trying to step on his steps while trying to keep my ears and eyes alert at the same time. I still wasn't that good at it, but I've been way worse than I am now and I think he also knows this because he wasn't checking up on me that many times. 

I also had the change to test out my new skills of throwing knives and successfully hit a squirrel that was on his way up a tree. It made me feel pretty bad about myself but it put a grin on Daryl's face which I knew was a rare sight. 

Daryl had found some deer tracks but it was getting to dark so he decided we should follow them in the morning and find a place where we could get some shut eye. So we walked for a while trying to find some kind of shelter where we could actually lay down and somewhat be comfortable. I knew that wasn't really going to happen but we still tried looking for some place nice.

We had a little fire in front of us and I helped Daryl skin some squirrels and cook them as we ate in silence not saying a word.

"I'll be on first watch" he said looking at me and then at the burning red flames in front of him "get some rest kid"

"I'm not a kid" I smirked before laying down on the floor trying to move around to get comfortable but nothing seemed to be working as some rocks were just pressing hard against my head. 

"Could ya stop movin'?" Daryl asked with an annoyed grunt

"I'm not comfortable" I moved around even more as to prove my point and now also getting annoyed myself.

He let out an annoyed sigh this time as he lightly grabbed my arm "come here".

And the next thing I knew he was sat down with his back against a rock and my head was resting on tight making my breathing quicken at the sudden human contact. But eventually my eyes felt heavy and sleep took over my body.

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➳4 // Home

chapter song: Home by One Direction

"I'll make this feel like home"

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#Ana's POV#

I think I'm not wrong when I say that we all started to feel like we should call the camp our new home, after all we were quite safe up here far away from the geeks.

Our group also got bigger as we found a couple of people and let them join us.

Dale and the sisters were the firsts to join us. Dale told us how he found them on the road and sticked together when it all went down. Shane had tried to go to the city one day to grab some supplies when he found them trying to fix something on Dale's RV. Shane helped and then there were three more people in our camp. I don't have much of a relationship with Andrea but we do talk whenever we're together, but I guess neither of us trusts each other that much to let our guards down. Amy is nice, too nice which sometimes sets me back a bit because no matter how much i try to see her survive all of this I can only see her kindness being her end. Dale however is a very sweet man and he's the one that lends me books so I wont die out of boredom.

Not long after came Glenn and T-Dog. I don't know exactly how they found us but I'm glad they did. T-Dog is a really cool guy that always tries to bring the mood up, especially at dinner time when we're all surrounding the fire trying to get warm for a couple of hours before having to go and lay down in our tents. Glenn is the one I'm probably most grateful for, if it wasn't for him I'd really be dying out of boredom. He's close to my age so that could be one of the reasons as to why we hit it off so easily, that and the fact that in our first ever proper conversation we joked about how bad the pizza at his old work place really was. He's the one who goes on the city runs for supplies given the fact he knows the city like the back of his hand and I've been lucky enough to be called his right hand and be invited by him to go on runs.

Then came Jacqui, Jim and the Morales family and more people and all of the sudden the group was like one big family living all together and working to keep us all alive and safe. 

To keep us all doing something we all work around here, either cooking or washing clothes on the river. The Dixon's did most of the hunting and sometimes Merle would be the one asking me to tag along like he did in the first day. He would also give me tracking lesson which I knew would come in handy some day.

I've also been trying keeping up with my training on how to throw knives, this still being kept a secret from Lori, since I couldn't really shot a gun due to the loud noise it would make and I'm proud to say I've somewhat managed to get the hang of it. 

Dad had taught me how to shoot a gun, this also being kept secret from Lori, so I couldn't really stop thinking about him.

It has been more than a month and I still couldn't grasp the idea of him being dead and not here with us. I even missed the small fights he and Lori had, cause at least I could hear his voice again even if it was when he was yelling and then laughing it off and putting on a smile so that Carl and I wouldn't have to worry.

So some nights as everyone would be around the fire, I would sit further from them letting the memories take over me until someone would try to come up to me and actually made me talk. They would eventually give up when seeing that I was gonna stick to being silent and just leave me alone. But that didn't happen tonight.

I had been sitting on the log for a while getting little light from the fire behind me where everyone was laughing around, having the good time of the day. My thoughts were cut out by the sounds of branches breaking beneath someone's feet as they approached me. I took a deep breath getting ready for the small attempts of talk that someone would try to make with me. What I did not expect was to see Daryl taking a seat next to me on the log with what seemed like a cooked squirrel in his hands.

Neither of us said anything for a while and that seemed to be a regular thing between us. Silence. The only movement he made was to bring the squirrel to his mouth and chew on it finishing it rather quickly before throwing the now meatless bones onto the ground. 

"You goin' on the supply run tomorrow?" he asked just slightly above a whisper and I thought about his question for a while,

Me and Glenn were supposed to go to the city to grab some clothes for the group and see if we could get our hands around more supplies for the group but before we knew it everyone seemed to want to tag along this time, making Glenn pissed and making me not wanting to go at all. 

"I think I'm just gonna sit this one out" I answered "why do you ask?"

"Merle's goin'" he stated as if it was the most obvious thing ever. I looked at him expecting him to explain what he meant with that and he seemed to have noticed my starting as he let out a big sigh "you comin' huntin' with me"

And without saying anything else he stood up and left as I watched him passing the group of people that had stopped their laughs to look at us and enter his tent without looking back. 

Seems like I'm going hunting with Daryl Dixon then.

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Fire of Venus // 𖥸 Chapter 5 𖥸

#Anna’s POV#

The palatine had started to feel like a second home by now. Time seemed to pass slowly and quickly all at once whenever I was within its walls. 

Emperor Geta insisted I stayed around most of the time. At first he showed me around his favorite places, he grew patient with me and almost kind, but that only happened when there were no prying eyes around the two of us for when there were he was back to his ruthless persona. 

Both him and Caracalla were slowly spiraling into madness about how much empire they wished to have. I tried talking to Geta, making him see how much the people he already had needed them, but he wanted more. And the more Geta wanted, the more Caracalla wanted. It was an endless cycle and not even I could break it. 

Truth is, I was no one inside or outside these walls. 

The men in the coliseum started to trust me and warm up to me after many moons of visiting them and telling all the stories I could remember. They asked for their favorite ones over and over again and I obliged, they seemed happier for the time I was there but then there would be some kind of grand celebration in the arena and I would have to see the life drain out of their eyes once they were slaughtered, and Geta and Caracalla would cheer and compliment me on making them fight even better. 

I didn’t make them fight better. I gave them no special skills with swords or shields or any sort of weapon, I only gave them an escape from the place they were trapped in. I saw their dreams and hopes and heard their own stories of how broken they had become and then saw them met their end by the hands of others. 

Another endless cycle that I could not break. 

My spirit had been down for the last week and it had only worsened when Geta told me the news of my father’s departing to go on yet another conquest. 

I had been wondering in the gardens for who knows how long, the sun was still high up on the ground and sweat had been starting to form itself on my forehead and it was becoming quite uncomfortable. The pond had started to look good by now, the water in it seemed to almost be calling out my name as I slowly approached it, discarding my sandals somewhere in the way as I slowly dipped my feet in. The feeling of being refreshed was instant but there was still the sun heating down on me and burning at my shoulders and arms. It was almost like it was taunting me to the point of no relief. 

My father was leaving and Apollo seemed to be taunting me with these scorching sun rays. 

Without even realizing it I had walked further into the pond to the point where the water reached my waist. My hands danced around the water enjoying the coolness it brought me and slowly I dipped my body down until my head was fully submerged. 

For a moment I felt peaceful. Like I had not to worry about my father leaving yet again and have the uncertainty that he would ever return to us. That he was going to have to tear more people apart and bring home their screams etched into his memory for as long as he lived. Everyone that wanted to see could see it but everyone just cheered him on and ignore the truth that lived behind his eyes. 

My mind was nowhere near here until I heard my name being called out making me pop my head out of the water as fast as I could. I brought my hands up to my eyes and then to my hair, trying to get the water out so I could see better who had called out to me, and then after a few seconds of adjusting back to the light I saw the emperor with wide eyes as he stared down at me in the water. 

He was alone which was unlikely for him to be. Both him and Caracalla were chaperoned by someone to make sure they stayed alive and somehow well, the only time where they seemed to be alone was in their own chambers and when they yelled out at the guards to leave them be, which, thinking about it actually happened more often than not. 

His hand was shading his eyes and they squinted due to the strong sunlight as it reflected on his pale skin. It was a rare sight to see them outside, they were often hiding out from the sun rays as a way to keep their godly appearance unlike my father whose skin had been kissed too often times by the scorching sun and sands. My own skin was pale but not as pale as Geta’s as I stared at it right now. 

His dark eyes kept squinting as he slowly approached the edge of the pond, still trying to shade himself with his own robes that could barely do the job. 

“What in the gods are you doing?” He asked as he looked around the gardens, probably to make sure that I would not be seen in such a state as I was still a guest at his home. 

“It’s very hot” I spoke as my hands threaded the water around me, the fabric of my white tunic flowing around me “and I guess I needed to clear my head”

“To clear your head?” His head kept looking around frantically as he took his sandals off and reached a hand out to me “come now, before someone lays eyes on your state”

My head tilted as his statement as a thought popped into my head. 

I got closer to the edge, not enough to stop being covered by the water but just enough to feel near him. My eyes locked on his hand and then back at his face. 

His scowl was the same it ever was these last months. Hiding in plain sight who he seemed to be. 

For the last months I thought he had begun to show me his true colors, that there was something actually inside him that made him not be untouchable and not as mad as he passed out to be. There were lesser parties that he attended and no more whores seemed to hang around his chambers. The wrath on Caracalla was becoming untamable and Geta seemed to not care. There had been a shift and for a split second every day I wondered if it was because of me being here. Was I the reason he seemed human? 

“Is that an order emperor?”I slowly lifted my body out of the water, the drops falling down my hair and down my chest who was now in full sight due to my dress now turning clear. 

He gulped. 

“Why is it that Venus is so temping?” He spoke almost only to himself but I still heard him and saw the way he took a deep breath before starting to come into the lake, making me step back just enough “why are you now retreating?”

“I thought you didn’t like the sun, much less the water of a common pond” he came closer to me making slowly step back until I felt the deep of the lake. There was nowhere else to go unless I wanted to be under water by that point. 

The water was at my shoulder blades and barely reached his chest making me realized just how taller was in comparison to me. 

His hand reached out and for a split second I held my breath. He seemed to notice as he stopped his movements and looked me deep in the eyes. 

“I apologize for you fathers departure” he adjusted the sleeve on my dress that had slipped down due to the water “but I will say these words and mean them: I vow to you and you only that you will be under my protection. No harm shall be done to you.”

Then he did something new. 

He placed a kiss on my check before turning around and leaving me there all by myself once again. 

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➳ 3 // House of Gold

chapter song: House of Gold by Twenty One Pilots 

"will you buy me a house of gold?"

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#Ana's POV#

    Camping was something I enjoyed doing. Sleeping in tents, telling stories around the fire, it was a little thing we used to do all together for fun and to bring us all together. Now we were doing it for surviving reasons. This was one of the only thoughts going through my mind as I helped setting up the tents on the ground.

    There were five tents in total and the only left to put up was the Dixon tent since they were busy collecting logs to build up a fire for us. So once I was done placing my things inside my tent, I stood up dusting my hands off on my black skinny jeans and started walking towards the two brothers.

    "Need any help with that?" I asked pointing towards the tent that was still laying flat on the ground.

    Both of them looked at each other and then back at me remaining silent for a whole. Merle was the one breaking the silence dropping his logs on the floor and patting his brother's shoulder.

    "Well then" he started with a smirk "you go help the girl out and I'll go find us a new truck, kay baby brother?"

    Daryl only answered with a grunt and a shrug of his shoulders, placing the logs on the big pile being more careful than his brother was and gesturing for me to go help with the tent.

    "So ya grab there" he gave me directions as I helped him set the tent up.

    After a while of almost yelling about wether or not I was pulling to the left instead of pulling to the right the tent was up and Daryl had set both his and Merle's stuff inside. I watched as he was now sitting on the tent, cleaning some of his arrows.

    "What ya lookin' at?" he said, bursting me out of my thoughts

    "Oh, nothing, I-" I was interrupted by the sound of a car stopping right by our camp

    "Look what I found little brother!" Merle said, his arm resting on the open window of a gray-blue old ford truck, with the biggest proud grin on his face "hop in, let's get dinner"

Daryl stood up, examining the truck and nodded his head, jumping in the passenger seat. Merle looked at me and nodded his head towards the back of the truck.

    "You comin girlie?" He said

    "Me? Hunting with you two?" I laughed slightly

    "You scared to?" Daryl said, looking at me

    "I ain't scared of nothing" I smirked "Just give me a second" I said

    I made my way to Carl's tent, only to find him sat with a book on his hands and Moony sleeping next to him.

    "Hey, what's up?" I asked

    "Studying" He almost groaned

    "Oh good luck with that" I laughed "Hey, will you look after Moony while I go on a hunt with the Dixon's?"

    "Sure" He said, his eyes focusing on the book

    "Thanks, you're the best" I ruffled his hair a bit making him mumble something as I got out and got back to the Dixon's.

    "Shall we?" I said as I jumped in the new truck.

    Merle drove off as I sat on the back of the truck. The roads were mostly completely empty, with nothing but a few geeks occasionally coming out of the woods as we drove past them, but some would be filled up with abandoned cars, making us go back and take another road. It was all so weird to try and figure out in my mind, I couldn't piece together that dad was gone, and I kept wondering about Nina. I shook my head, maybe trying to shake the thoughts away and I felt the truck slowly stopping.

    "Short ride" I said, jumping out the truck

    "Let's get some dinner" Merle said, grabbing his knife

    Daryl got out the truck and adjusted his crossbow.

    "Watch and learn doll" Merle said as we went further into the woods.

    I stayed back a little, watching them. I could shoot a gun, but that would be too risky, the noise would call even more of them. And I've been learning how to throw knifes, been practicing at every hidden chance I get, cause I know it would cause a storm with Lori. So I choose to just observe today, I noted the way they both took their own way, one to each side of the decided target, the way they'd move quickly, but silently. I tried to learn from the situation and tried not to get bit in the process.

    We left just as the sun started to set, to make sure we'd get to camp before it was night. They got us plenty of dinner that day, and as we all sat around the fire, Merle couldn't keep his pride to himself, and everyone just laughed silently and ignored him by the 3rd time he mentioned the amount of food they got. Everyone seemed to be in a good mood, I was sat next to Carl and Moody eating dinner as Daryl told his story of how he went squirrel hunting once and found a chupacabra. Of course the majority laughed, some shook their heads but he kept his position.

    "I ain't lyin', I saw it with my own eyes" he said, getting slightly annoyed at how funny everyone was finding it.

    So he then chose to wash us with all the details of a blood-sucking dog, as If it would make it any more believable. Everyone seemed to realize that agreeing would be the best option to make him stop with the details.

    "Ya see dead people walking around nowadays and ya can't believe in a damn dog, I know damn well what I saw" He said, giving up on his story.

    Everyone finished their dinner and made their way to their tents, I got behind everyone else.

    "Ana, are you going to bed?" Carl asked from his tent, half open

    "I'll go in a minute, don't worry" I said, as I gave him a little smile.

    I heard his tent zip close as I sat down next to the fire, trying to warm my hands up. My mind was a blur these days. I'd sometimes get the urge to call for my dad but I remember he's gone and I'm forced to fight back tears that always seem to be ready to come out. Nights aren't great for me, as I wonder where my friends might be, if they are still around. I wonder what happened to Nina, and I just get to the same conclusion every night, that wondering is not something I should be doing. So I stood up, burned the fire down and made my way to Carl's tent, opening it up slightly.

    "Hey, you still awake?" I whispered

    "Yup"

    "You okay?" I asked.

    He shrugged his shoulders and looked up at me.

    "Will you sleep in my tent tonight? I don't like the noises" He whispered

    A small smile appeared in my face.

    "Yeah, I'll grab my blanket"

    So I did, and got back to his tent, as I lay down.

    "Thank you" He smiled widely at me

    "Goodnight buddy" I said, smiling as I gave him a kiss on the forehead

    "Goodnight" He yawned as he drifted to sleep

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➳ 2 // Alphabet Boy

chapter song: Alphabet Boy by Melanie Martinez

"you think you're smarter than me"

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#Ana's POV#

When the morning came, we decided we couldn't stay still anymore. Shane told us we needed to move to a safer place and he was right, we needed to protect ourselves, protect Carl. So I mentioned the mountains, being a higher place I thought it could be safer. Standing in the road wasn't any good anyway.

So we were now facing up the mountain, I had Moony on one side and Carl on the other, Lori, Shane, Carol and Ed kept their distance all the way up, mumbling to each other, as Sophia and Carl chatted. All of the sudden Moony starts running after a dumb bird, and stops ahead of us. As I look closely I notice someone staring at him, and as I fasten my pace I realize he has a gun aimed at Moony.

"Hey! What the fuck!? Stop!" I started screaming and running towards the dog

"You scared the damn dog! Had my dinner all propped up!"

"What the fuck?!" I got down on one knee to check if Moony was alright, but quickly stood up again "That ain't dinner! That's my dog"

"Everything's dinner nowadays sweetheart" The man said, with a grin on his face, putting the gun back in his trousers

"It's a dog! My dog! So I'd appreciate if you'd stayed away from it"

"I'm just sayin', it'd be a feast, wouldn't it lil brother?"

As the man said this, a slightly shorter man steps up from the trees. Short hair, a brown sleeveless shirt and a crossbow on his back. I crossed my arms and looked at them straight in the eye.

"Don't need to give me that look, wouldn't want such a hot chick mad at me now would I?" The oldest smirked

"Well you just tried to eat the hot chick's dog so yeah I might be pissed" I tilted my head up

In this moment, Shane and the rest caught up with us.

"Hey, what the hell is going on here?" He said aggressively, pushing me back so he'd stay in front of me, facing the two guys

"Wow girlie has her own bodyguard would ya look at this?" The guy kept that ongoing smirk on his face

"Yeah, she does. Why don't you just leave and we'll call it a day, uh?"

"It's fine Shane" I said, putting a hand on his shoulder and looking at the guys and then back at him "We should find a place to stay, let's go"

""We're settin' a place up, there in the quarry, girlie and her dog could bring some food, make up for my huntin' today"" He said, instantly getting a look of disapproval from his so called "lil brother"

""We do need a place to stay. But I ain't your bitch" I said

"Whatever floats your boat, sugar. C'mon" He headed towards his bike

I rolled my eyes and everyone started approaching their respective rides, and Lori stepped up.

"Who are they?" she asked.

"Merle Dixon" The oldest said, with a proud grin on his face "And that's my lil brother, Daryl"

"They say they know a place, we should go and see it. We could really use a place to sleep that isn't a backseat of a car" I said turning to Lori

She looked unsure at first, but it left as quickly as it came.

"I guess checking it out would be worth it Shane, it's gonna get dark in no time and this really isn't a good place to spend the night"

"So let's go then" I said, turning to the Dixon's "lead the way"

I made my way to my jeep and opened the backseat for Moony to hop in.

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"Why would ya even invite a damn girl to our camp?" Daryl said to his brother

""don't ya see what I see lil bro? Look at this group"

"What about it?" Daryl said, apparently clueless

" Damn you darlene you need to pay more attention. They won't make it so I say we take what we can. Can even share the gurl she seems like a good one"

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"Okay so who's gonna give my lil bro a ride? Only got one bike" Merle said, loud and proud.

"We don't have any space left" Shane immediately answered

"That jeep sure seems pretty empty if ya ask me" Merle said, pointing at my jeep

""If he promises to keep his feet off the dash then sure hop on" I said pointing at the passenger seat

Both Shane and Lori looked at me in disbelief.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Lori asked

"I don't see the problem in giving him a ride"

"We don't even know them Ana, not gonna happen" Shane established

"It's just a ride! My god. And besides Moony knows how to bite someone's ass when told to" I assured them

"You heard the girl, hop on brother" Merle laughed

I got in the car telling Moony to lie down in the back as I sense Lori going by my window, looking as Daryl sat down in the passenger seat.

The ride was filled with Daryl's examination of every single aspect about the situation; he looked at Moony, the car, me, everywhere you could imagine, as if he was trying to untangle my mind. So I broke the silence.

""So there are two of you and you only have one bike. Correct me if I'm wrong but that's just dumb and impossible"

He was taken by surprise by my attempt at a conversation.

"Well, we had a truck, but it's fucked now" he complained

"I think I'll scream if that happens to my jeep"

""We'll it probably ain't gonna last much longer"

I gave him a death glare and focused back on the road

"I'll make you walk up the mountain" I said

"Okay okay, I'm just sayin" he answered, raising his arms slighty

"Well Malfoy didn't like it and neither did I" I said, fighting back a small smile

"You named your damn car?" He said, looking at me as if I was crazy

"Some guys name their dicks and people seem to be fine with it so yeah I named the car" I got a little defensive

"Fair enough"

I looked at him and back at the road as we both stayed in silence for a while.

"So, how old's he?" He asked, pointing at Moony

"He's three. Dad and I rescued him when he was a pup"

"Your dad, he's some protective guy ain't he?" He broke it

"My da- wait Shane back there, he isn't my dad"

"Oh, so where's your dad?" he said, not showing much interest

"He's..." I tried saying, as I gripped the steering wheel and shook my head "Shane told us he's dead, he got shot on duty"

"Oh shit, sorry" He said, looking away

"I think he's okay. He needs to be"

"Yeah, I guess"

"I think we're here. C'mon" I said, stopping the car

And as I stopped the jeep I watched him opening the door and leave without looking behind, not even a glimpse and that was exactly what I expected him to do. That was probably exactly what I would do if I was him. So in that first moment where I saw him walk away and go towards his brother I knew Daryl Dixon was a broken person

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➳1 // Car radio

chapter song: Car Radio by Twenty One Pilots

"there is no distraction to mask what is real"

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#Ana's POV#

I remember when I was eight years old and was told to pack all my belongings, which were close to none at the time, but still, I remember opening the suitcases that were given to me by the police officers and fill them with what I had. I left only bad dreams behind and went to a new and better life. I thought that would be the last time I was leaving something behind but I guess I was wrong.

My hands were tight around the steering wheel causing my knuckles to become white from all the strength I was using to hold it, not really wanting to let go of it as I tried to process everything that was happening. My heart was pounding reminding me of my drive to the hospital not long ago. I almost felt like I was about to lose everything.

Moony, my german shepherd who was laying on the backseat, was the only one with me on the jeep and sometimes he'd place his head in between the seats and lightly bark at me to get my attention, he could feel something wasn't right, my smart little friend. 

Lori and Shane were in the car in front of me with Carl on the backseat now probably sleeping as it was getting darker outside and we had been stuck in traffic for what seemed like forever as we were trying to leave the city.

We'd all heard about what was going on but none of us had a real idea of what it really was or why it was happening. It was scary to think such a thing is really happening, people getting infected with this kind of virus and everyone was going mental trying to figure it out and I just couldn't help but feel like we're gonna lose it all. 

Dad's gone. Shane said he tried to listen to his heartbeat and told us about the blackout but it was, just like this entire day, a blur to me. I don't my life to become a blur, so maybe that was why I was holding my steering wheel so tight, my eyes squeezing shut and opening various times and focusing on various things in front of me.

No matter how much I closed and opened my eyes I just couldn't shake the feeling something really bad was gonna happen to us all.

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People were roaming the now full road, leaving and entering their cars as they tried talking to others but no one seemed to know a thing about what was going on. It was the second night stuck on this traffic jam and no one has really moved a feet since we got here. We did however meet another family with a little girl that Carl has been friendly with. 

I had been in and out of my car this whole time trying to get some shut eye and also some kind of information about this whole thing, but just like everyone else the only thing I got was the old broadcast about a safe zone but now even that was gone. There was nothing there anymore.

"What do you think boy?" I asked Moony looking over my shoulder seeing him chewing on a bone I had brought from him "we're so fucked"

Taking a deep breath and running a hand through my hair I opened the car door waiting for Moony to follow me as he always did and went to the car that was behind us where Carl was playing checkers with Sophia in the open trunk of the car. Carol seemed like a nice lady with good intentions and of course really caring towards her daughter, the same however, couldn't be said about the asshole of her husband Ed. As soon as I saw him I knew what type of a man he was so I didn't want any kind of interaction towards him what so ever.

Lori was also next to Carol against a car not really focusing on anything as she toyed around with her necklace like she always did when she was nervous and tried to keep her focus. As I was walking the loud sound of helicopters above us could be heard causing people to look up trying to locate the flying object but with not having much luck.

As soon as Carl saw me approaching them with Moony by my side he smiled his bright smile and I took a seat next to him on the trunk placing my arms on top of his shoulders while I lightly rubbed them and gave Carol and Sophia a small smile. It was the least I could do as they were being nice to my brother.

"I really like your dog" Sophia said behind a smile as she was looking at Moony that was now sitting by my feet and then looked at her mother " Are we gonna go soon?" 

"I don't know baby. I sure hope so" Carol said. No one really knew what was going on around here so no one knew where to go or when to go, leaving most people frustrated.

"I'm hungry" Carl said as he slightly turned his shoulders around to look at Lori making me sigh and rub at his shoulders a bit harder. 

We had brought some food with us but it was, clearly, not enough to last during this whole waiting time. Besides we knew that we should be saving it for wherever we were going.

"I know Carl we all are" she stated a bit coldly while still playing around with her necklace. 

I saw the look on Carol's face as she looked between us all, mainly now focusing on my hungry brother as she then cleared her throat " I can get him something to eat. Ed's into all this survival stuff we've got enough MRE to feed a small army"

This was something that made Lori's eyes light up and also caught my attention. She was offering us from her food, she was giving it to people she just meet. I also caught Ed's body language meaning he surely wasn't happy with his wife's kindness towards us.

"I think Carl would really appreciate it" I said giving Carl a wink as he smiled back at me. Looking behind me I saw Lori lightly nodding her head in appreciation and I just shrugged my shoulders not really feeling the need to nod back as I was just helping my brother out.

Carol stopped leaning against the car and went to the front seat where I could see her being abruptly stopped by Ed. I was, by this time, assuming he was really not happy about Carol's 'peace offering' and was probably bashing at her from doing so 

It seemed like Lori also caught on what was going on between the couple because she stood up from her position against a car and went to the car Shane was on. He had, just like me, been trying to get any news but it also seemed like he hadn't been lucky.

"I'll be right back kiddo" I said ruffling Carl's hair and then looked at both him and Sophia "will you guys keep an eye on Moony for me?"

They both nodded eagerly as I told Moony to stay there before turning my back and going to Shane's car where Lori was propped up against the opened window on the opened door.

"No, I mean theres nothing. Emergency broadcast system stopped, and that recording about the refugee center." I heard him say as I was approaching the car going noticed by both of them who still hadn't moved from their places "It's all gone" 

"I got nothing either" I stated leaning against the car and looking around me and then back at them.

"I'm gonna go up the road, see what I can see." Shane stood up leaving the car and closing the door behind him as Lori followed him "Will you stay with Carl?"

I nodded to his question as we once again approached Carol's car where where she came up to us with what seemed like cookies "Ed must have forgot to pack those MREs. I found these in my purse" 

I looked over and saw Carl and Sophia now playing with Moony's fur as they laughed at each other so I went over.

"What are you two devils doing to my dog?" I asked placing my hands on my hips and looking at the dog whose fur was now kinda spiked up "turning him into a punk?"

Both kids laughed at me and I just smiled sitting down as Moony laid with his head on my lap as we were now flattening his fur back. Lori and Shane approached us saying that they were going to go and look for someone who knew about what was going on and telling Carl to stay back with me and Carol.

"I want to come with you" Carl pouted as he looked down at Moony

"hey we'll be back before you know it okay little man?" Shane smiled at him and lightly ruffled with his hair causing me to wince my eyes at him. What was he playing at being all nice towards Carl? I certainly knew I didn't enjoy it one bit.

We had stayed in the trunk playing both checkers and occasionally playing around with Moony when the first was heard. It was the sound of an explosion and it was pretty obvious it was a close one making me look up from my game and Moony's head to equally look up as he started to bark.

"shh boy calm down" I said petting his head and getting up the trunk looking around seeing people start to move towards the woods where the sound seemed to be coming from "I'll be right back Carl okay?"

He started to say something but I couldn't hear it well as I started to leave the car going towards the source of the sound. People were standing in the woods as in front of us stood the city with helicopters over them. It was only at second look that I noticed what was really happening. The helicopters were sending napalm bombs into the streets of Atlanta.

My now slightly shaking hand moved up to cover my mouth as I stood there, shocked by what I was seeing. People next to me cried and gasped and in the middle of all of this I felt someone pulling me towards them, looking up to see it was Shane who had a crying Lori in his arms. 

But as he was comforting her and expecting me to also feel the need to be comforted I only looked at the both of them and back at the horrifying scene before me and turned my back leaving the woods behind and going back to my brother. The only thing muffling the cries around me being once again my beating heart and my fast breathing.

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➳ Introduction // Keep Breathing for Me

The air was warm as it has always been in King County, Georgia the only slight breeze that could be felt was actually not being enjoyed by Ana Grimes because that same breeze was the reason she was inhaling all the smoke leaving her friends lit up cigarettes. This was that type of situations that she did not enjoy at all. 

    She knew the smell of that awful smoke would stick to her brown hair and it would be a pain to wash off and hide the smell from Lori as she got home. The woman actually thought Ana would be capable of putting that damn thing in her mouth, you'd figure she'd knew better than that. 

    "I'm just saying a cigarette won't kill you Ana" one of her friends, the guy with the blond hair coughed out as he inhaled the smoke with a slight smirk on his lips "if anything it would help you loosen up"

    "yeah no thanks" she said waving her hand in front of her face trying to swat away at the smoke lingering around her face.

    "Her dad's a cop dude you don't want to push her" the red haired girl let out a laugh and winked at Ana, enjoying the little and true attempt of a joke she had made "you might end up in cuffs and getting spanked"

    "I don't think it's the right time to get all kinky" the girl on Ana's right, Nina, spoke smiling at Ana and slightly rubbing her shoulder with her hand. She was one of the few out of that group whom Ana truly trusted or felt any kind of affection towards, so Ana returned the smile for the first time in that day.

    The group kept joking around and blowing smoke on peoples' faces and Ana felt the need to leave once the blond guy started to joke around about burning his cigarette on the girls hair as if it was such a funny thing to say. She didn't really enjoy him but she also didn't enjoy anyone else on that school. 

    Her train of thought was interrupted by her phone ringing in the pocket of her black skinny jeans bringing all attention towards her as she removed the phone from the pocket and looked at the screen with a scuff.

    Lori Grimes calling 

    "what the fuck does she want now?" she whispered under her breath only sharing a look with Nina who shrugged her shoulders and got closer to Ana to try to listen to the phone call

    "what is it Lori?

    "Ana you need to come now it'-"

    "I told you I'm hanging out with my friends t-"

    "It's your dad Ana".

    And she stayed silent for a while as she listened to the other line of the phone not knowing what to do. She didn't even notice how Nina stopped listening to the call stepping back and telling the others to back off and leave them alone. She also didn't notice her friend calling for her as she ran to her black jeep and yanked the car keys that got lost in her backpack to open it in a rush.

    Her father had just been shot.

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She had never driven that fast before, she had never driven without turning on her music to the max. This time she was driving fast and the only sound she was hearing was the blasting sound of her fast heartbeat on her ear drums.

    Her dad had been shot and it was hard for her to process this thought.

     She knew it was a possibility, that this could happen due to him working as a cop but she never wanted it to happen or even think about it. But today it had happened and she had no clue what to do except driving to the hospital to go and see her father. 

    Once she got there it was all a blur. Walking into the hospital everything seemed to be quick and chaotic for her as nurses were rushing from side to side with notepads on their hands and some people waited sitting on the blue hospital chairs. Some cried, some screamed she didn't know what else to do besides feel some sort of numbness taking over her.

    She rushed over to the closest nurse and asked numerous times for Rick Grimes, her voice shaking and stuttering her father's name as the nurse tried to hold the teenage girl by the shoulders to calm her down.

    "I'm sorry Miss, but Mr. Grimes is in surgery right now, it won't be possible for him to see anyone today" the nurse said, never letting go of her, trying to calm her down.

    "I'll wait. If I wait until the surgery is done I can see him, right?" the teenager's voice urged to fail as she began to feel her hands shake ever so slightly.

    "I'm afraid not. He really isn't stable enough due to his blood loss, I'm sure you'll be able to visit tomorrow"

    "Fuck no, I need to see him today!"

    A hand reached for her shoulder just as she spoke and she turned around to face Shane, Lori and her brother Carl.

    "It'll be okay, won't it Ana? He'll be okay, dad will be okay right?" The younger boy's voice was shaking and Ana was taken by surprise by the boy's sudden hug. She stepped back and held his shoulders as the 12 year old cried onto his sleeve.

    "Hey, look at me. Carl." His teary blue eyes locked on her brown ones "Dad's gonna be just fine okay? He just needs to rest a lot, but he's gonna be home in no time, okay? So stop crying, come here"

    Ana hugged her brother and as she raised her head. Her gaze meeting Lori's, a sympathetic look across her face, but Ana just shrugged it off.

    "We'll just sit here and wait 'till we can see dad, okay Carl?"

    The small boy nodded and sat next to her.

    "I'm sorry but it really won't be possib-"The nurse started, but was interrupted by Lori.

    "Kids, we need to go home, we'll just come back tomorrow" She said, her shaky hands giving away her nerves

    "I'm not going, I'm staying here" Ana said, surely

    "You're not gonna spend the night here, we will come back tomorrow"

    "Lori, you know damn well there's no point in trying to keep me from staying. Just go and take Carl, I'll be here tomorrow"

    She knew it was true; there was no point in dwelling it. The boy looked at his older sister confused.

    "You need to go, feed Moony and make sure he's okay, right?"

    Carl nodded and made his way towards Shane. Lori took a few steps towards Ana.

    "If you need anything, you call me, okay?"

    Ana nodded and they left.

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    Going through the hospital wasn't easy for Shane, as he tried to find Rick's room. People were running towards the exits and the military were shooting every moving thing. It was caotic. As he ran through the halls, he saw patients and staff getting shot at every corner. When he finally made it to his best friend's room, he knew he had to move quickly.

    "Let me get ya out of here buddy" He said, as he tried grabbing his unconscious friend, before realizing the machines were still on, we was still depending on them. He tried looking through the room, trying to find a solution, until he heard the door swing open and all he could do was hide behind the bed as the man on the door pointed his gun up, looking for signs of life in the room, but failing. So he went back out and closed the door behind him, allowing Shane to stand up again.

    "Listen to me" Shane said "If you're going to wake up, I need you to do it now, okay? Now! Please man, just show me a sign, anything! Please Rick"

    Just as he finished saying this, a loud explosion was heard and the machines were shut down. Shane looked at them, and back at Rick, a gaze of panic filling his eyes. He tries listening to Rick's heartbeat.

    Nothing.

    He got his hand to his face as he realized his best friend was dead. No words would come out of his mouth as he tried not to panic.

    "Okay, okay" he repeated to himself as he got his gun out and made his way to the door, only to face more military and geeks wandering. He looked back at Rick, there was nothing he could do, there was no point. So he closed the door and pushed a bed in front of it, to block it from the geeks and try to keep Rick's body safe. And never putting his gun down, he left.

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➳ Keep Breathing for me // Daryl Dixon

""If you die, I'll be the next to die. So keep breathing for me will you? "

I let the words out as if it was nothing, as if I'd said them a million times. But I haven't.

"You ain't dying anytime soon" He simply said, it being more than enough.

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Everyone had been hit by the sudden apocalypse and Ana Grimes was no exception as she was forced to leave everything she had ever known behind and restart her life over and over again living to fight the dead and fear the living

WARNINGS: 

I do not own The Walking Dead or any of the characters or plot lines of the show. All I own is Ana and a few other characters.

this fic will contain violent scenes, swearing, alcohol and sexual scenes so if you're not comfortable with any of these themes don't keep reading. If any chapter can be considered as triggering it will have a warning at the beginning.

this will contain major spoilers for The Walking Dead

This was a co-written fanfiction made by me and phantasticaf

Copyright © All Rights Reserved to @NitahFonseca and @phantasticaf

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➳ Keep Breathing for me // Daryl Dixon Masterlist

I started writing this one a long time ago on wattpad and it's still on going and I love it deeply so decided to share it here as well.

The first seasons were co-written and then I took over by myself.

Keep Breathing for me

Introduction

➳1 // Car radio

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Laughter Lines // 10 - The troll situation

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I had pretty much begged Roman to forget about the existence of the Malfoy letter. I had talked to him every day for what seemed to be weeks and each time we talked he would just shrug me off and tell me not to worry. I hand't written to our mother about it and I was starting to worry that maybe he had said something to her, but then again if he had she would say something about it to me, at least that's what I hoped for.

    John could tell I was stressing out and of course that so could Joanne, her being as observant as she was. They would bring me to the fields more often, to try and get me distracted and not talk about the Malfoy's but then the conversation would somehow always end up there and I would just get even more distressed about the entire situation. They really tried to help me, after even trying to tell me that maybe going to the dinner wouldn't be such a good thing, but they quickly changed their minds once I told them about the whole ideals that the Malfoy family had. 

    I tried to focus only on my friends and not my problems and for a few moments everything was alright. John would be reading about constellations and I would bug him to try out for the Hufflepuff Quidditch team so we could play against each other, but he would always dismiss me of that conversation. He loved his starts and not sitting on a broom while chasing and being chased by some mean enchanted balls. He was however very supportive of me whenever I had practice, just like he had been last year when I had first met him. Joanne, just like her brother, could not be persuaded into playing the sport as she claimed that she could suffer a bad injury that could cause damage to her brain, and that was the most precious thing for her. So I gave up in trying to get them to join any team.

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    It was Halloween night and every student was gathered on the Great Hall as we had dinner. The hall was decorated for the festivities, with candy sprawled around the tables and pumpkins replacing the candles as they floated on the ceiling. Halloween was one of my favourite holidays, mostly because of all the prank wars that everyone would be pulling on each other. It was always more fun to watch than to be pranked and Slytherin had an open prank war with Gryffindor for ages now, and of course that the ginger twins were some of the masterminds behind all of it. 

    Everything was calm, like it had always been during dinner but then everything shifted very quickly. It started with my brother, who had been late for dinner and seemed sort of nervous when he finally took a sit next to me. I had asked him what was wrong but he just brushed me off and started to eat his meal, so I thought it was nothing to worry about. But then he started to fidget on his seat, his eyes moving from the food on his plate and then towards me, and back again and again and finally I had enough of the charades.

    "Roman what's the matter with you?" I asked, my body shifting so I could face him properly.

    He took a moment, his hands grabbing a napkin as he wiped his lips and then took a sip of the leftover pumpkin juice that was on his cup.

    "Are you gonna keep ignor-"    

    "We're going to have dinner with the Malfoy's this weekend" he interrupted me.

    My eyes went wide as my brain processed his words, letting it all sink in. 

    "Wha-what do you mean?" I asked, a million questions starting to flood my head "did you talk to mum? Did she say yes?"

    "I wrote a letter to Lucius Malfoy accepting his invitation" he said it like it meant nothing, his shoulder shrugging "mum has been warned of course"    

    "Mum as been warned?" Disbelief was now very much presence on my voice "what kind of game are you playing here Roman?"

    He had started to talk, to maybe try and give me some sort of explanation about his actions and why he had acted up when I had pretty much begged him not to but then the screams happened.

    The doors to the hall had been open with force as a distressed professor Quirell ran inside, his footsteps heavy as he kept yelling out.

    "Troll in the dungeons!" 

    The man ran erratically, yells coming out as he warned everyone about the eminent danger that we were all put in. Everyone knew that trolls were not friendly, in fact most of them were just very dangerous and aggressive towards humans, so as soon as the professor had fainted chaos installed on the room. 

    Students from every single table started to scream and get up, discarding whatever food they had been previously eating and now only focusing on where to run to and hide. My body did not react like everyone else, and I saw some people that had also remained sat down, but most of the first year's were running around the room like it had just caught on fire and it was then that Dumbledore spoke out bringing silence to a once chaotic space. He had instructed that each house was to be escorted to their common room as the professors would handle the situation themselves. 

    My brother had found my hand, clutching it on his own as we got together with the other Slytherins as we started to leave and make our way down to the common room.

    "Isn't it a bad idea for us to go to the common room?" Roman looked at me like what I had just said was he greatest stupidity ever told "I mean the troll is in the dungeons and do you know what else is there? Our bloody common room Roman."

    And as realization hit him, his hand held onto mine tighter.

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Laughter Lines // 9 - The Silver Boy

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Harry Potter had been sorted into Gryffindor and as to be expected everyone seemed to be very excited about that, the young boy had become a celebrity quite fast but if there was an eleven year old boy that I needed to worry about it was Draco Malfoy who had been sorted to my own house and had sat down at our table during the rest of dinner before being escorted to our common room. 

The Malfoy family was not a name to take lightly in our wizarding community. Everyone knew about their need for pure blood and believes in the dark arts, at least I knew about that dark past. My family used to be one of the oldest ones and one of the most respected for that matter, but then we were believed to be extinct with the death of our father and the imprisonment of my uncle who had strayed away from his family ideals at a very young age so somehow, all the family name glory went to the Malfoys who were related to us by blood. I knew Draco's mother was a Black once and I vaguely remembered the stories mum said about her and the other two Black girls and that made the Malfoy family related to my own and this was pretty much the part of the family that I wished to avoid.

Once I had started to become a little older mother started to tell Roman and I about some of the things our family used to believe in, and how ruthless they were towards other people and it wasn't appealing to me to even be near this boy because I knew that would be an open gateway for his parents to reach out to my mum and get some sort of twisted control over my family.

"Roman" I called out to my brother as we made our way down the stairs to the common room. He stopped walking, his head turning around to look at me as he motioned for Ivy and Alijah to keep on walking without him "we need to talk about the Malfoy kid"

"Yes, what about him sister?" His face seemed very unamused with the subject already, making it obvious that he had no concern whatsoever about the situation. 

"You do realize that his parents are gonna find out about us, if they don't already know of course" he nodded his head for me to keep going "Roman, this is something mum would want us to avoid. You know the Malfoy's and what they meant to our family and-"

"No" he interrupted, his hand going to his curls to try and keep them out of his face before he came closer to my face "We only know the stories mother told us, we can't just judge them without knowing them don't you think little sister?"

There was a smile on his face. He knew I would say he was right. That I never judged anyone before I actually got to know them, that I gave everyone a first chance and only then proceeded to make an opinion. But then, on the other side there was all the family stories, all the darkness that our father had died to try and avoid reaching his children. There was a strong indecision forming inside of me and my brother made sure to use that to his advantage. 

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For a few weeks everything was as normal as it could be. This year I was able to start my classes on Care of Magical Creatures and I have been beyond excited about that and professor Keetleburn has seen my interest on the subject and even allowed me to spend more time around the creatures that we would study throughout the year. The rest of my time was spent with John and Joanne and I tried to stay out of the common room as much as I could, mainly to avoid the little Malfoy kid as I even failed to mention anything on that matter to my mum whenever I had written her letters. 

My avoiding phase had however been completely wrecked that one night in the common room. 

The day had been nice, pretty usual for a day at Hogwarts. Everyone was going to their classes, pranks were still being thrown around in between each house and there was the constant whisper of Harry Potter and whatever he was already doing at Hogwarts. It was not that much of a shock when I found out that he had been picked as the new seeker for Gryffindor, but it did kinda make me nervous to have to go against him on match, mostly due to him pretty much being a celebrity and me being a full on villain in the eyes of everyone else. So given all the normality of my day never did I expect to be disturbed when I was finally inside the common room, my whole body leaning against the green couch in front of the fireplace and Roman, who had joined me in a session of relaxing. 

It was Draco Malfoy who destroyed my peaceful moment. The one boy I had been avoiding now stood in front of me and Roman, his back standing as straight as he could and a smirk on his lips making me bring my full attention to him, and especially to whatever could be on his hands as they were behind his back.

"Can we help you Malfoy?" my brother spoke, he had an arm draped over his face as he was previously covering his eyes in a way to have some comfort but had since moved his arm away so he could now look at Draco.

"Roman and Ana Black" he looked at each of us "it is great to finally meet some pure-bloods around here. I have told my father about you two and he now wishes to invite you to our manor for dinner"

"What?" I almost jumped out of the couch, my body going from laying down to fully sitting down.

The boy reached out his hands, showing a letter on each of them. My brother took his slowly, his eyebrows furrowing as he kept looking at Malfoy whereas I almost tore the poor kid's hand off. I had to make sure this was really happening. The one thing that my mother had tried to avoid so hard was about to become a reality and I was not ready for it. 

My hands quickly ripped the letter open, breaking the black seal of the Malfoy family and started to read the letter. There, on that pearly white paper, was written a formal invitation to the Black family for dinner and it was written by the one and only Lucius Malfoy himself. 

"I'll write to my father to let them know you've been invited, wear something appropriate of course"

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