Beth
The world ended a first time on a beautiful day and Beth's world ended a second time also on a beautiful day.
That day, just before her home shook with the impact of bad news, she saw a flower. A flower that wasn't there before. A flower that was growing. It was maybe the apocalypse for the human kind but the world was still as it was. The world didn't change, people did.
A good exemple of that arrived just after that discovery.
Everything shook, a few of the towers in the prison collapsed and the entire structure of the prison trembled even after the shock.
Beth immediately understood the state of the day was just a way of blinding her. Making her think everything was fine but it was not.
She ran in the direction of the second front gates, as well as everybody else, and saw what was wrong.
She should have known, she should have.
He wouldn't just let it go. He was a man after all and men had a thing with their egos. They couldn't accept loosing. The governor was no different, just a man.
Beth had a theory, she thought that dignity was the most important thing a man had. It was made up of course. That's what toxic masculinity was after all and what was happening in front of her was a perfect exemple of that.
He lost so he came back with a tank. Pathetic.
What was a man not ready to do to save his dignity ?
The question was quickly answered as the governor showed the hostages. Her father and Michonne.
There was nothing that man wasn't ready to do and this realization sent cold shivers down her spine.
The imminent danger her father was in made her gag as it was so painful that her body fought against herself.
She felt the lump in her troat as she tried to keep herself from crying. She doesn't cry anymore and for now, everything was fine.
If she looked at the sky, she could almost convince herself that nothing was hapening. She could push it and convince herself she was still at the farm, riding a horse and feeling the sun on her face.
Unfortunately, she couldn't because she couldn't look away from the scene that was playing in front of herself. She felt useless. Her father, one of the most important person in her life, was in danger right in front of her and she couldn't do anything to help. To stop it from happening.
She felt only slightly better when Daryl discreetly pushed a rifle on her back and she took it without breaking eye contact with her father.
She didn't actually know if her father was looking at her from this distance but she liked to think he was.
Her breathing stopped at the same time as her heart when the blade shone as the governor lifted it up and it felt like the world stopped spining, waiting to see what would happen. The time froze and then everything happened too fast.
The light blinded Beth enough that she didn't see it when it happened but she saw the aftermath. Her father's head cut but not even entirely for it to be seperated from the body of her beloved father.
She screamed as her heart started beating again painfully fast. The pain was overwhelming and filled her entirely. It was unbearable
Guns started to fire and she didn't even feel herself lift her own and start firing. She just did it with all the pain and anger she felt.
It wasn't fair. None of this was fair.
Chaos followed.
Rick disappeared, the tank entered the prison, breaking the gates of what was not long ago her home. A safe place in this wild world.
