Hope || Bethyl Fan Fiction [UPDATING+EDITING]

chapter twelve

Beth's POV

I wake up with fear pulsing through my body. 

'I'm dead' I think to myself as it continues to feel like I'm floating in a vast dark space. Death isn't like this though, I mean I hope it's not. If it is, what am I going to do for the next eternity?

Suddenly, I'm pulled back to my senses and I'm blinded by a light.

"What the hell?" I groan and lick my lips, my mouth feels dry.

"This is amazing, truly incredible," Jordan says from behind me, "You have just saved humanity, well actually I did. But you helped," he pats my shoulder and puts a light in my eye.

"I was dead wasn't I?" I ask him and try to pull away from his grasp but he pushes harder on me.

"Yep,"

"How-" he cuts me off.

"Let me show you rather than explain," 

My head is lifted up so I am sitting up, and a small television turns on. A video begins to play with me in it, strapped to a table and unconscious. I can already tell that it's me from when he killed me, not too long ago. Then he takes a large syringe and jabs it into my arm. Nothing about this is making sense, I was dead and yet here I am, alive watching my dead self get a fucking flu shot. The tape picks up speed, and my body gets up. I start walking around and shuffling. I'm a walker.

Then Jordan walks into the room and shoots me with a dart, causing me to fall asleep. Next thing, the tape jumps forward and I'm back on the table. Then I wake up.

"What the fuck was that?" I yell and gape at him.

"Allow me to explain. A while ago, I injected you with a special serum. The science behind it is far more complicated to explain in a short amount of time. But it allowed you to be immune to this walker disease thing. Obviously, when I lethally injected you, you died and turned. But that dart, had a corresponding antidote to turn on the dead brain cells in your brain, and make you human again. It makes no sense to me, trust me on that. But fuck! It worked! You never died, your heart only stopped long enough for your breathing to stow, and for brain cells to be killed off. Then in that process, your body thought you were dead, but your brain remained active and fully operative and responsive. Making you a walker," he says extremely quickly and urgently. 

"That's not possible, that's bullshit," I scoff at him, "What did you really do to me?"

"Like I said, I basically almost killed you, turned you to a walker, then brought you back. You're welcome," he says smugly and smirks down at me.

"What the fuck?" I mutter under my breath and shake my head in confusion, "This is a load of shit, I don't believe you,"

"You don't have to,"

Daryl's POV

"You don't understand we have to find her now!" I yell and Rick motions for me to quiet down.

"We will, but first we must set up a camp and find some safety or there's now way we are making it through the night," Rick says and puts a hand on my arm.

"There's a town a few miles that way, it's small and seems pretty empty," Maggie says.

"That's where we should head," Rick says and continues talking.

I zone out and think about Beth, I don't want her to be taken away from me forever. I need her. To hold her at night while she sleeps, and protect her. I'm sure she doesn't need me as badly as I need her, but I don't care. I have this craving for her, this drive to always be by her side. It's the only thing that matters, she is the only thing that matters. I would die for her. 

"Daryl keep up," Maggie says to me and I nod. 

Images of her terror on Beth's face as Jordan took her away from me keep running through my mind. It sends chills down my spine and makes me sick. I'm going to kill that bastard, even if it's the last thing I do.

A/N

I'm so sorry these updates are small, but I feel like if I try for longer chapters I won't update as often and I feel that if I update regularly but in chunks it will be better than like I have been. So stick with me, for this book is not nearly over. I promise it will get better once I get it where I want it to be, until then keep reading and stay strong with me.

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