A Secret Affair (Daryl Dixon) ON HOLD

Chapter 5

4 weeks.

It had been 4 weeks since the night she had given Daryl her innocence. 3 weeks six days since the last time he looked at her. And 2 weeks since he spoke to her, not like he was talking to her before that, just a few words here and there but 2 weeks ago she had snapped. She demanded to know what his problem was, why he wouldn't look at her or talk to her. She had yelled and stomped her foot but he had remained silent staring off like she wasn't even there.

And it passed her off....

"You know what?" She snapped as she looked down at him. "You really are a piece of shit." His eyes narrowed slightly and Beth snorted. "I can't believe how stupid you are! You're a white trash good for nothing bastard. I-"

"Shut up!" Daryl shouted lurching to his feet. "You ungrateful little bitch. You want to know why I don't talk to ya anymore?" He was seething, hands clenched in fist at his side's arms shaking in anger. Beth nodded slightly and he spat at her feet. "Cause I got what I wanted.from ya." Her eyes widened.

"You...you..." He cut her off as he yanked up his crossbow and slung it over his shoulder.

"I know. I'm a bastard. Stupid red neck. Ya can't say nothing I ain't heard before." His eyes locked with hers for a second. "But you, ya worse than me. What kinda church girls fucks someone nearly twice her age? Ya daddy would be so disappointed his precious Beth ain't nothing but a who-" She slapped him.

Hard. Her hand ached as tears slide down her cheeks.

"I hate you Daryl Dixon!"

Beth sighed. He had stormed out after that and now they where reduced to this. Strangers sharing a house. Strangers scouting for supplies. Just strangers. And it was killing her. There where so many times she wanted to tell him she was sorry but when she would finally work up the courage to shed remember his words to her and back out. She wasn't apologizing to him in till he apologized to her. Beth sighed and finished loading the basked in her arms with medicine from the shelf before she scanned the almost empty drug store looking for anything else they night need. Her eyes caught on something on the floor and she bent Dow. to pick into up. Her cheeks slammed when she saw what it was. Condoms. She tossed them down then eyed them warily. She didn't have a doubt I. Her mind that Daryl would never touch her again but what if she found someone else? her hand snagged the box up and she stuffed them in her pocket. Better safe than sorry. She stood up continuing to look through the mess when. something else caught her eyes. And it made her heart race as her mind frantically thought back to the day she had slept with Daryl. they hadn't used a condom either time. Her hand shook as she reached out for the pregnancy test.

"Just in case." She whispered to herself as she snatched the box up and stuffed it into her other pocket. She glanced around again as she made her way to the front of the store. There really wasn't anything else in hear worth taking so she would move on to another store. Or so she thought.

Just as she pushed the door open it was slammed back into her causing her to drop her basket and land flat on her back side. Her hand automatically went to the knife at her side but before she could pull in something cold pressed against her head.

"Wouldnt do that if I was you girlie." A deep southern voice said from above her. Beth gulped, hand dropping from the knife at her hip and eyes looking up at the man with the gun to her head. He was large, greasy hair hung bellow his ears and his beard was just as long. Dirt covered him from head to toe and he reeked of sweets and blood.

"Wh..what do you want?" She finally managed to asked causing the man to clock his head and smirk.

"I want what every man wants." He said as he stepped forward. "Been a long time since I seen a woman." Beth's yes widened as what he was saying registered in her mind. He was going to rape her. She sucked in a breath when he slipped his gun into his vest pocket and began unwrapping his pants.

"This is gonna be fun." The man muttered. Beth scurried to her feet hand whipping out her knife causing him to laugh. "come on now girlie. what ya gonna do with that?" Beth's. eyes narrows

"Nothing." She whispered right before she let out a blood curling scream a second before the man's hand connected with her jaw.

Daryl jerked up right when he heard the scream aiming his crossbow around. That sounded like Beth. He hoisted his now full bag onto his shoulder and ran for the drug store. He skidded to a halt when he saw Beth laying in the floor panting blood covered her face and shirt, which had been torn nearly in two. Laying on the ground beside her was a large man, dead, for Beth's knife was lodged into his head. He glanced back at her to find that she was looking at him.

"I..I screamed....to distract em...a walker heard..." She gestured to another corpse to the right. "He..He turned to kill it and I....I..."

"Its okay." Daryl said as he bent down and picked up her basked of stuff. "Are ya hurt?" He asked as he rose to his feet. Beth shook her head as she too stood up. She looked down at her self a grimaced as she held to two ends of her shirt together with shaking hands. Daryl s eyes narrowed.

"Theys a cloths store up the way I'll get ya some more." She didn't say anything just nodded. Daryl sat all the supplies on the floor and hoisted his crossbow. "ill be right back. Stay here." Again she only nodded. She watched as he ran out of the store. Her eyes traveled to the man she had killed and to her knife sticking out of his head. She stepped forward and grabbed the Hilton her k.life and yanked it out. She whipped the blood on her torn shirt and shoved the knife back into her belt. And then she waited.

Daryl pushed open the door to the house and they both hauled supplies in. Beth automatically grabbed the new clothes Daryl had grabbed for her and made her way into the bathroom. She tossed off her torn shirt then removed her knife from her pants as she was pulling them off she remembered the two boxes she pulled out the condoms and sat them on the counter. The. She pulled out the pregnancy test. She held it in her hands staring blankly at it for a moment before she flipped it over and read the back. Her brow furrowed as she read. It said the test can determine pregnancy up to three weeks after the conception date. It had been four weeks since her and Daryl had had sex so if she was pregnant the test should be able to tell her. She took a deep breath and ripped open the box pulling the test out.

"Just in case." She whispered.

I'm so sorry for the long wait. as you know I've been sick and still am but I'm getting better. I will have another chapter up probably later today or early tomorrow morning. Thanks again for reading!