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It was right at the edge of her memory. Daryl smoked his cigarette, watching Beth watching him. She spoke softly. “I know you, don’t I?”
He held her gaze, his eyes small and shrouded against the shadows thrown by the street lights. After a minute he tapped a long column of ash off the butt, looked away, and shrugged.
Beth huffed. “Well, I think you know me. Do you?”
Her stomach clenched as Daryl finally nodded, looking down at his shoes, at the sidewalk. “Took me a minute,” he said, dropping the butt and crushing it with his boot. “But I clocked ya.”
It was like a picture coming into focus. His eyes flicked up to hers, and he knew that she knew.
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Beth and Daryl meet the year before the dead rise.
It’s all about timing, in the end. -
The Governor, the Gulag, and the Girl, Beth Greene by Ardrahan
Fandoms: The Walking Dead (TV)
25 Feb 2025
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That family Daryl and Merle saved on the Yellow Jacket Creek bridge? Those were Dixons. Compelled to stick with his kin, Daryl does not return to the prison when the Governor attacks. There are consequences.
This time, the Governor doesn’t self-implode; he wins.
Six months later, Daryl’s found by the last person he ever expected – Maggie’s little sister. As for Beth? Well, Daryl’s just another complication. That doesn’t mean he isn’t worth fighting for.
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3rd place for 2024 Moonshine Awards Best Prison
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Frying Pan to Fire by rummy_cat
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
26 Jan 2026
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Sansa escapes King's Landing during the bread riots but ends up captured and brought to Harrenhal where she is reunited with Arya. She catches the eye of first Ser Gregor then Lord Lannister. This sets off a series of events that will reshape the realm, with ripples reaching the far north of Westeros and far south of Essos.
Tywin/Sansa is the focus for much of the early chapters. Additional POVs and plotlines come in later, but Sansa and/or Tywin will remain central characters throughout, their relationship a constant driving force.
This fic could easily be called: The Trials and Tribulations of Sansa Stark. It could also be called: The Trials and Tribulations of Everyone in Planetos, but since Sansa is the main character...
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30 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
An amazing read. Going by memory, by chapter 5 the story reveals itself to be far more than just "lets get Sansa and Tywin together at Harrenhal." Big questions are asked, challenging all the characters in ways very few fic writers are willing to do - and the story is VERY interesting! Full of twists and turns, I love this fic and the Sansa/Tywin dynamic - and I don't even ship them!
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Beth wakes up screaming in the back of an ambulance, dying not from a gunshot to the head, but from a suicide attempt. Walkers are nothing but a distant memory she can't forget and no one remembers. Three lonely years later, Beth is almost ready to accept the memories are delusions, until Daryl Dixon crosses her path for the first time.
And he knows her name.
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07 Jun 2024
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Come Sail Your Ships Around Me by LionsAndTigers
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)
22 Oct 2024
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A young boy refuses to part with his goshawk. A secondborn daughter is born first, and named heir. The story has been told over and over throughout the different lifetimes. The Song of Ice and Fire. This time will not be very different from all the lifetimes which came before it. But it's different enough.
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The Lord of Storm's End rides north with his brother and meets Lord Stark's young heir.
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17 Feb 2024
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to treat everything as if it were a nail by thingswithteeth
Fandoms: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars - All Media Types
07 May 2017
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Jyn Erso is raised as a hostage of the Empire. It matters less than it should. There are many different ways to rebel.
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15 Feb 2024
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Beth Greene is not dead. Though it is not for a lack of trying.
After eight long years spent in the CRM's grasp, struggling to find reasons to continue surviving, Beth finally finds her reason: Rick and Daryl are alive, and they are closer than she ever could've guessed. Now she must take advantage of her only opportunity to escape and track them down.
Along the way, she revisits all of the places that changed her into who she has become. And she is forced to remember who she truly is at heart despite how unrecognizable she finds herself.
But she has an unexpected ally along for the journey. Just the same as her, he is somewhat of a living miracle. Except he's no longer living... he's a walker.
[written for Bethyl Holidays Fest 2023 prompt: Silent Night]
Moonshine Awards 2023 Third Place Winner for Best WIP ZA, and Second Place Winner for Best WIP Reunion/Fix It!
Moonshine Awards 2024 Second Place Winner for Best WIP Reunion/Fix It, and Second Place Winner for Best Commonwealth/CRM/Season 9+!- Language:
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20 Jan 2024