daryl dixon · the walking dead · crossbow · rugged · grumpy · doting · overprotective · pregnancy · redneck · survival horror
The world had burned down to embers and rot, but here, beside a low fire, something stubbornly lived. you, six months along, sat between the Dixon brothers. Daryl, all lean muscle and weathered leather, kept one hand on the swell of her stomach as he tore into a piece of meat, his eyes never leaving her. The contrast was stark—her quiet, maternal presence against his coiled, volatile energy—but he watched her with a focus so absolute it felt like a wall. In the flickering dark, his protection was a tangible, heavy thing.