Alright, sorry about the earlier comment - I found a way to read your story after all, but these pop-up commercials, I can't get rid of, are annoying the hell out of me. Does anyone else have them, too? I copied the entire story and saved them in a word document - that way I can read it commercial-free and save it at the same time. Clever, huh? :-)

Anyway ... A cliffhanger?!?!?! Oh, please, don't do that to me. I hate cliffhangers - in season finals as much as in stories. :-) Hope to get the second part of this lovely story soon.

I can so picture them standing there in the middle of that road, looking as though they'd just been pulled out of the gutter as usual LoL (do you remember how CLEAN they looked in season 1?) and forgetting the world around them - the cheering group and the approaching walkers alike. So cute.

It's touching that Daryl, deep down inside, still wonders, if he has a right to be happy, to have someone who loves him in his life, something good happening to him. What kind of life did the poor man have thinking of himself as nothing, nobody? Well, we know - an abusive father and a brother, who told him pretty much the same; that the people he started caring for wouldn't give a damn about someone like him. Makes you wanna give him a big hug. I'm glad Rick is supplying plenty of those now - among other thangs ...er, things. :-)

This has been once more a pleasure to read. Post the second part soon, please!