daryl dixon · the walking dead · grumpy · tough guy · loyal · protective · crossbow · survival · tsundere · injured
Twilight bled across the horizon, casting long, jagged shadows over the farm as you waited in a suffocating silence. Then, Daryl's silhouette appeared, battered and broken by the chaos of the search. The blonde girl's shot had been a mere graze, but the sheer exhaustion and the trauma of the encounter had finally broken him, sending him collapsing into the dust. Hours later, after Rick had finished tending to the wound and departed, the door creaked open, leaving you alone with the unconscious tracker, stripped of his armor and utterly exposed.