This is something I was playing with, I got a nice message on Tumblr about my older Carol/younger Daryl fictions so, I got to work on it. So what would happen if Carol and Daryl met on Tumblr? Let me know what you think xoxox Krissy

Sophia said it would be fun, and that all the kids were doing it. Carol wasn't convinced that it was a good idea for her though, she wasn't a kid. Sometimes, bless her heart, Sophia forgot that her mother wasn't one of her friends and damn that was a such blessing.

They were as close as close could be and Carol was grateful, even if Sophia got her involved in things sometimes that were way out of her comfort zone. This was the age where kids were pulling away, but Sophia wanted to be with Carol more and more.

That made her heart sing, Carol had done it right, her fourteen-year-old wanted to do things with her mother and include her in he life. Carol knew why, or at least she thought she did. But she also knew that she had worked hard raising Sophia and giving her everything she didn't have as a child.

Carol was raised by emotionally indifferent parents and although to her horror she had married just the same kind of person, she didn't fail Sophia. Her beautiful girl was emotionally well adjusted and happy and she loved to be with her mother.

That made Carol so happy and made the years of suffering with Ed worth it. It was worth it all.

They had a bad year, both of them and that was part of it, Carol knew that. This was how Carol ended up with a blog. She hadn't had the heart to say no to Sophia when she asked to make Carol one. Sophia knew her mother was a writer and she knew her father had burned all of her poems and stories that night they left.

The girl wanted her mother to write and be happy again, having been into fandoms and fanfiction, Sophia knew her mother would love Tumblr.

Sophia had been doing it since she was younger, and as her mother of course Carol knew all about it, knew that and she and her friends were always on the internet. Carol should have known right from the jump that she was out of her element though, and now it was too late.

Sophia had set her up on Tumblr and now she had a blog dedicated to what she loved most, after Sophia of course. Carol's Grunge and Doc Martens was the name of her blog where she was free to worship Eddie Vedder, Kurt Cobain and all of her TV shows that she loved. She wrote poems sometimes too and posted them, a forgotten love that Ed didn't hesitate to tell her was worthless.

He had been wrong about everything and he would die if he knew she was actually putting her work out there for people to read. Secretly she hoped somehow he knew. She wanted him to know that he hadn't beaten it out of her and he hadn't killed her talent.

So Tumblr changed her and made her brave.

It was freeing and she met so many cool people from the fandom's she was involved in, from all over the world. She was involved in several writing groups and chatted with people all of the time. And there were two really special people in particular that she never would have met if she didn't go on Tumblr.

As much as she had feared change it had changed her too.

As a child of the nineties, when music was good and life was easy, Carol had trouble releasing her younger days from memory. There were no cellphones or Twitter the, but life certainly went on didn't it?

This annoying Tumblr thingy made it easy to remember days gone by and a life that was once so full of hope. Before her life was turned upside down.

The internet was new back then and now it was so different. There were so many ways to communicate with people. Sophia always said it was time she caught up to the real world. In some ways Carol agreed with her, in others she didn't.

At thirty-five and with a teen age daughter, she didn't think she had any business being on Tumblr or Twitter but here she was.

She could never say no to Sophia, now that it was just them. They were free and no Ed to tell them no about everything and anything, and so she allowed Sophia to put her on the internet.

Even at fourteen Sophia thought her Mom was the coolest thing ever, with her tattoos and pierced tongue, but in reality Carol felt used up. Her marriage to Sophia's father that they both nearly lost their lives in had worn her down. Carol's ex was a cruel, cruel man and he was somebody else's problem now.

Ed was remarried to the dispatcher for the police department of their old town. She moved into Carol's old house two months after Carol and Sophia ran in the middle of the night. They ran for their lives that night, away from one of his rages.

Clearly, Ed knew Kelly before Carol had left but he denied it over and over again. They met on E Harmony, he said, after Carol left, which was pretty convenient, and Carol didn't believe that for a minute. Frankly Carol was glad to be rid of him anyway and with a new wife to keep happy, he had no time to bother them, and that was just fine. As soon as he was out of their lives Carol started getting the tattoos and piercings he had always forbid.

She started to wake up and live again.

Sophia had blossomed into a beautiful girl when they were out from under Ed's thumb. They both had actually. But Tumblr, at her age, she just wasn't feeling it.

Still with her earphones on and Soundgarden and Pearl Jam playing she jumped feet first into the internet. She just wanted to do something different for once and this was different alright. Soon she met a lot of people, other fans of her bands and writers, and she had made a really good friend in Canada. That was a wonderful perk as far as she was concerned and they spent most of the day talking via email, when Carol wasn't teaching class.

The internet was an incredible thing now, but there were times she was very happy she had parental controls on what Sophia could do.

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There were far too many men on Twitter sending out pictures of their junk, and she disabled that feature on Sophia's and her account, no Dm's period. Still people she didn't even know followed her and gave her shout outs. It had to be the avi of Harley Quinn that her bestie, Teagan in Canada had made for her.

Harley Quinn was hot as fuck, Carol knew that. She was everything Carol thought she wasn't, really. Maybe Harley was what she aspired to be, someday. Carol wasn't sure where the DC villain worship fit into her life, but she didn't need to figure it all out in one day either.

She just always loved her and now Sophia did too, and the countdown was over, they were going to the movie tonight. They had been waiting forever it seemed. They were going to have a blast too. There was so much to look forward to now.

It had to have been the picture that drew him in, and maybe one day she would ask him. Daryl sent her a tweet making fun of an apple music link she posted for Sex Type Thing by The Stone Temple Pilots. Of course he hadn't known who they were, he was almost ten years younger than her.

Carol was highly offended and told him to go to hell and get better taste in music on the way down. And that was how she came to meet a gamer who was quite a bit younger than her.

He played the games Sophia and her friends played, COD, Left for Dead and Bio-shock and at first she thought he was some teenage twitter whore, but he wasn't. He was indeed twenty-seven, like he told her and he lived in Georgia, which might as well have been the moon. It was ironic that two years ago Carol had lived an hour away from him and now they were sixteen hours apart.

That was probably a good thing, because this was the last thing Carol needed.

Carol and Sophia had relocated to upstate New York after she left Ed, the more states between them the better. She missed the ocean of Savannah, where they used to be and now she had a friend there, which she didn't have before. She found herself missing him and she didn't even know that his voice sounded like.