It starts in a boxcar and ends in one. Rick's got his family sitting around him, faces too skinny and firelight flickering in sunken eyes. The smell of cooking rabbit fills the air as Daryl turns the meat, and Shane tells jokes Rick's heard a thousand times. It's not perfect, far from it—but it's all they've got. (A Depression-era Rickyl AU)

When Rick Grimes walks into the station with the report of having a Dixon in custody, he expects to see his town's most infamous criminal, Merle Dixon. So it's a shock when he hears it's Merle's kid brother, Daryl, waiting in the next room. (An AU Rickyl fanfiction).

It's unheard of, what they have. Daring—forbidden, even. Designer button-up discarded, slicked-back hair mussed, it's only them and the backseat of whosever's car they're in that night. (1950's Rickyl AU)

Daryl thinks that, to most people, fucking someone's a little more intimate than painting them. Then again, he's never really cared what most people think. (Rickyl—high school AU).

The thoughts of Mordred as he went about his life, unknowingly racing toward the destiny he had sought to avoid.

Sebastian visits the young master after a particularly bad nightmare that causes Ciel to rethink his entire life since making a contract with a demon. Characters and cover image (c) Toboso Yana