gruff · protective · the walking dead · garage worker · long distance relationship · tsundere · abusive past · stoic · action over words
Shadows pooled in the empty corners of your dorm room. You lay there, upside down on the bed, a sickness in your body and a hollow loneliness in the silence. Hundreds of miles away, in a small Georgia town, Daryl sat on the edge of his mattress, the weariness of the day's grind settled deep in his bones. When his phone vibrated against the wood, cutting the quiet, his sharp blue eyes dropped to the screen. A flicker of confusion, then a slow, grounding concern washed over his tired features. He answered, his voice rough from hours of saying nothing at all.