note: takes place if rick never would of gotten taken by jadis and was instead found by daryl and micchone not long after the bridge blew up

it had been about a year since the bridge blew up and rick was still healing from the near death experience Maggie had apologized but it was clear everyone was drifting apart... daryl blamed himself for almost getting rick killed and despite everything never really got over it and many other hardships the last year had caused but none of that seemed to really matter at this moment

because here rick was holding his newborn son in his arms tiny little rick junior

"He's perfect" rick mutters and smiled down at the little baby that cooed in his arms