THE WARMTH
OF A NIGHT
SURVIVED

by disturbedia

ALICE DUNLAP ALWAYS FOUND the rising sun to be kind of peculiar. Something about the nature-driven, constant reminder that time—that life always, just, continued on. Even after life, itself became such a rarity on earth, time kept on going, relentlessly demolishing everything in its path.

It was an unstoppable force that humans used to find several ways to dread, before everything fell. With time came wrinkles, and wrinkles meant aging. And aging, for most, was a bit of a fear. Time was seen as the plague that set the basis for everyone's existence.

And time made no exceptions. Not even when the world seemed to turn itself inside out.

No matter how much had changed or how many loved ones Alice Dunlap had lost, the clock still managed to tick. Just an empty silhouette, looming atop the setting sun, that left darkness to consume the memories of the ones she loved. And despite everything that the girl would go through on one, given day, the next morning the sun would still, somehow, shed its first light.

In Alice's day and age, though, one would've been considered extremely lucky to live to see the sun rise to illuminate the day where they'd finally develop wrinkles. What was once seen as a sign of the dreaded aging process—which led to life's inevitable expiration date—became nothing short of the miracle of cheating a near-certain death.

But, in order to make it to the day where Alice Dunlap would live to see such an age, she had to learn to accept the rise of the sun, and everything—every memory, everyone she'd ever lost—that would vanish along with its first spill of light. She had to somehow find a way to keep going, despite the many reasons that she had to give up.

And although the sensation was seen as nothing short of a blessing, the rising sun—to Alice Dunlap— would always burn as nothing more than the warmth of a night survived.

C A S T

𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙹𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗 + 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚝 𝚀𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚜:
𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐩

𝚁𝙹 𝙼𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚜:
𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐩

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𝑵 𝑶 𝑻 𝑬 𝑺:

1) this book will contain mature themes such as language, blood, gore, non-descriptive nudity, depression, etc.

2) I do not own AMC's the walking dead, nor do I claim to. I only own my original character(s) and plot lines aside from the show.

3) my beautiful cover was made by @drwstarkey a few months back and I AM OBSESSED WITH IT SO GO FOLLOW HER AND READ HER BOOKS!!!!

4) I'm using two face claims because one is too old and one is too young to cover all five seasons that this fic will cover. I'll probably use Sterling for season 4 and then Margaret for the rest.

5) RJ Mitte (AKA my bf) is my face claim for my OC's brother, and his cerebral palsy is a part of his character. He does have cerebral palsy IRL, but does not need crutches like he does as Walt Jr. in Breaking Bad. However, the way I'm writing him will lean more towards how he acted as Walt Jr.

6) my graphics, OC's, plot lines, etc. are my own original ideas so pretty please do not plagiarize, but feel free to do a work inspired by mine, as long as you DT me so I can spam it!! also I will probably be adding more graphics to this part as the story progresses.

7) I don't use any physical descriptors of Alice (or at least I think I haven't) so that you guys can imagine her as yourselves, if you'd like

8) I have another Carl Grimes fanfic called Extinction Event so go check it out if you haven't already ;)

A/N

omg hi guys!!

just when you thought my other fic was done, another just pops up LMFAO!!

anyways this fic is finally here!! WOOHH!! I can't begin to describe how excited I am to start this TWD fic actually having an idea of what I'm doing!! (unlike how I was when I started Extinction Event)

I got this whole idea for a fic over six months ago, and if you can't already tell what it's about, let's just say apparently Robert Kirkman HIMSELF literally verbatim confirmed the theme of this fic that i interpreted from the show all on my own. so basically this fic is canon. I don't make the rules.

and if someone can tell me where I got my OC's last name from, I'll literally propose to you

also sorry for anyone who got a DT and has completely forgotten that they responded to my announcement a few months ago :p

anyways I hope you guys enjoy this fic and stick around to see the plans I have in place for Alice and Carl !!!!

- disturbedia