[The Walking Dead] Fiksh's Redemption

[The Walking Dead original female lead] [Fick x Merle] [Sweet, charming queen x scruffy, devoted puppy]

Saving Merle from cutting off his hand on the rooftop from the start was Fick's first gift to The Walking Dead.

Looking at the mysterious face from the East and the enormous white wolf before him, Merle felt his staunch atheism take a hit.

This woman had really appeared out of thin air.

"Damn... are you even human?" Merle was shocked and scared, but didn't dare attack. He was afraid he'd suffer the backlash of some mysterious Eastern power.

"Of course. Compared to a bastard like you, I'm practically the most human person there is." Fick shrugged.

Merle seemed to have found a kindred spirit whose tongue was every bit as sharp as his own.

∞

After the group was unexpectedly abandoned at the farm, Merle encountered the Governor again as he lay on the brink of death.

His cruelty and ruthlessness made him unbeatable in Woodbury, but everyone noticed that this iron-fisted squad leader always had a grimy little cat charm hanging from him. It looked completely out of place.

"I love you~" The cat charm was almost out of power, and Merle couldn't bear to listen to it.

He had a secret of his own that he could tell no one.

Besides Daryl, there was someone else he couldn't let go of.

That foolish, mysterious young woman from the East.

∞

"I love you~" A faint electronic voice came from belowground, successfully leading Fick to Merle, whom the Governor had locked in the basement.

He was so weak he was close to death, yet he clutched the bloodstained cat charm tightly, listening to its cold, emotionless electronic voice over and over.

If only... if only he could hear her say it...

"Merle!"

Just before his consciousness faded, Merle saw Fick running toward him.

Just like on the rooftop, his god had descended once more.

Theme: May you find your redemption here