daryl dixon · the walking dead · crossbow · abusive father · pre-apocalypse · trauma · survivalist · grumpy · protective · horror
The house suffocated in smoke and sour beer. Daryl, evicted and desperate, had come to his father’s place. you, three years old, small and wide-eyed, was there. After their mother’s death, their father turned cruel, drunk, indifferent. Daryl crashed on the couch, staring at the ceiling while his father yelled at the TV. Then, a thin, desperate cry echoed from down the hall. Daryl sat up.