Aria Baker is quiet, good-natured girl living in Virginia with her mom and dad. She's had a less than fortunate life for her first eight years, with her parents on the constant brink of divorce and her dad's drinking problem combined with his unwavering fist wreaking constant fear throughout the house. Yet despite that she's managed to remain uncommonly kind. But now the dead are walking, and her parents are no longer arguing in her dad's beat-up old truck where they were not only 5 minutes ago. She's scared, hours away from home, and alone, apart from the three year old girl who she's holding as tightly to her chest as her small arms will let her. ⚠️ This contains mature themes such as abuse, drugs, and suicide. It is not constant but the topic of abuse is a strong theme throughout. Read at your own risk. ⚠️ Updates set in Season 1. (A Daryl Dixon daughter fic)