We All Have Our Scars (bethyl)

Chapter 10

Beth POV

I wish I listened to Daryl. He was right. He didn't want me going on the run, but I went anyway. He didn't trust Chip, but I believed Chip to be my friend.

And now I'm abandoned with no weapons and no ride back to Alexandria. I didn't plan on telling Chip while we were on the run.  But Chip tried to kiss me.  He tried to kiss me knowing I'm a married woman with a family.  I couldn't stand that he disrespected Daryl like that! My lips are for Daryl to kiss and no one else!

It wasn't long before I heard the groan of a walker.  It was only one and my rage caused me to nearly tear it to shreds with my bare hands.  Then, after I covered myself with walker blood and began my slow trek back to Alexandria.  The smell made me very nauseous, but with no weaponry it was the only way I'd survive.

Daryl POV

I couldn't take it.  When that asshole said Beth didn't make it, I killed him.   I knew he was lyin'.  Then I thought, 'What if she's gone cause he killed her?'  I collapsed on the ground, not carin' that all of Alexandria saw me sobbin' on the ground like a baby.  Many people lost people that were important to them and if Beth was really gone, well hell, I jus' lost my world.

Later that night, Maggie stepped into my room.  She looked like she'd been cryin'.

"Rick said they didn't find her," Maggie said.  "If she's gone, you know we'll all be there for you.  But you have to be there for Vada.  Yer her Daddy."

I nodded.  I went into Vada's nursery and picked her up from her crib.  I fell asleep in me and Beth's bed holding Vada to my chest. 

'Please baby,' I thought to myself.  'Don' make me do this on my own.  Come back to me Beth.'

Beth POV

When Spencer opened the gate for me he said something to Roger, who was his guard shift partner and Roger ran off.

"You ok?  You bit?" Spencer asked with concern.  I shook my head no.  "Your husband has been a basket case.  Killed Chip.  What happened?"

"Chip made a move on me, I turned him down, so he hit me, took my knife and gun and left me fer dead," I told him.

Seconds later Daryl was hugging me and kissing my face.

"Daryl, I'm covered in rancid walker blood," I laughed.

"Don' care," Daryl said.  "Ya came back to me.  Don' care if ya smelled like this ferever."

Daryl finally let me have a shower.  And then after spending time with Maggie and Glenn and a few close friends like Rick and Carol, Daryl, Vada and I cuddled in bed.

It wasn't long before we tucked Vada into her crib in her nursery.  And after that we made love.  It wasn't long since we had, but when you're faced with the possibility of never being this close again, days could feel like years.

We don't know what is in store for us tomorrow.  We don't know what's in store for us five minutes from now.  Which is why we need to cherish each moment we have with the ones we love.