Stronger - The Walking Dead Fanfiction

Part 4: Did It

As they walked, Beth spotted an apple tree and went on her toes to reach higher to pick five good apples from it.

"As you already know, we have nothing left to eat... other than this," Beth said throwing an apple at the redneck who took a large bite as soon as he caught it, "we can collect tins and drinks from houses nearby," she paused, "orrrrr we can go hunting!" She sang out.

"You not ready yet, Greene." He shook her arm off his.

"But, you can teach me, right?" She persisted, "Shouldn't be that hard. In fact, I doubt it'll be hard at all to teach, and to learn."

"Listen, I learnt to do what I do now all by myself," he blurted, "nobody taught me anything."

"What, what do you mean?" She questioned.

"You need to learn for yourself, I ain't always gonna be around to tell ya what t'do." He spat, altering the tone of his voice.

"You're planning to leave me?" She said softly.

"Listen up, Greene," he said roughly, "yu know I won't leave you. But you also know as well as I do, we're all at risk o'death. And if I die first-"

"You're more likely to survive than I am. You're not afraid of anything. The way you kill those walkers, It's almost like," she paused trying to find the right words, "it's like an easy game for you."

Daryl let go of her fragile arm.

"I'm not who you think I am." He fumed.

"Then who are you?" She raged, "Who are you Daryl Dixon?".

There was no response, he had no reason to give her an explanation.

"Let's go." He said, turning his back to her and throwing the eaten apple away.

Beth had enough of never getting any answers from him.

"No." She retorted, "You're gonna listen to me. Answer me." She demanded.

"The fuck you think yu're talking to?" he fumed, now facing her.

"I don't know. You tell me, Mr. Dixon." She flouted.

"Let's go hunting. I'll fucking teach ya," He growled with anger, grabbing her arm.

"Get off me." She cried, his hand was gripped around her arm.

Daryl guided her through the endless forest, through the mud and spiky bushes. He spotted a deer munching on grass peacefully behind a tree.

He forced the crossbow into her hands and inaccurately aimed it at the poor animal.

He made her shoot, she missed the deer and instead hit an oak tree, alarmed, the deer run away.

"I fucking told ya, ya couldn't do it. It's 'cus your daddy ain't here to teach ya," he blurted.

"Shut up, Daryl!" She cried.

"Why? Cause I ain't your daddy, cus I ain't family. Cus I'm not gonna kiss yo ass and act like everything is gonna be fine?"

Beth started to cry once again, successfully pushing him off her all at once.

"You're a dick," she sobbed, "you never care about my feelings, or anyone's. It's all about you." She fumbled, tears running down her cheeks, "You don't know your own fucking strength," she agonised, looking at Daryl's handmark on her left arm.

Daryl felt as though there was nothing he could do or say, so he stood there and watched her sob into her hands. He felt devilish anger rushing trough his veins but he never intended to hurt her, his violence was just genetic.

"You haven't got the right to hurt me like that... Or anybody at all. You have to control your fucking temper," Beth yelled courageously, still sobbing.

Beth walked away from him, no longer wanting his company. She didn't know where she was heading, she just wanted to get away from him.

She was crying as quietly as possible so she wouldn't be heard by the awful creeps.

She heard a noise coming from her right. From behind a rusty brown car, four walkers with bloody lips, sinking eyes and dead skin crawled out, making their way towards the lonely girl.

She pulled the gun out of her front denim pocket and repeated Daryl's words.

"Be firm. Be firm. Firm. Firm. Firm." Daryl's words echoed in her head.

"Be firm," she confidently whispered to herself .

Without hesitating, she pulled the trigger four times; one after another, as the couple of walkers dropped dead onto each other, sounding out their last growl.

"I did it," she rejoiced looking down at the corpses, "I did it."

Daryl was now standing behind her, observing her actions; he'd been keeping up with her pace and watching her from a few meters back, just in case something happened and she needed help, it was the least yet the most he could do.

"You did it," he shot her half a smile.

She turned around, "you saw that? I did it!" She sang out with pride, forgetting about her anger towards Daryl and putting her hands on the side of her head with disbelief.

"Looks like yu don't need me anymore." He said calmly, he held crossbow on his left shoulder.

"I do, Daryl. Of course I do," Beth said smiling. She ran to approach him, "I'll always need you Daryl." She said sweetly, looking into his eyes and smiling.

Some seconds later, he cleared his throat awkwardly.

"We need to find somewhere safe to sleep, the sun's about to set." Beth said, drifting away from him and looking around.

"In the car," Daryl suggested, pointing at it.

"It's old and rusty." She complained, looking over at the wheel-less vehicle parked just behind a chunky tree.

"Better than nuffin'," he mumbled.

"That's true. But how are we both gonna sleep in that thing? Seems tight," she complained once again.

He ignored her complaints and went over to open the car doors, hung by rusty hinges. Inside there were empty tins tossed on the carseats and a pair of old keys.

The sun had set, letting the moon take over the cloudy skies.

They were both in the car, sitting on the uncomfortable backseat; chewing on their apples and looking at the world outside.

Daryl was sat with his legs open and hand in between them. Whereas Beth had her feet on the seat and was snuggling with her blanket.

Beth moved closer to Daryl and placed her head on his shoulder, offering him half of the blanket.

"Beth," he whispered.

"Mm-hmm," she hummed.

"About today... I err," he started.

"Don't talk about it, I know it wasn't your intention to hurt me, you were right. I was being too demanding," She confessed.

"I'll, erm... Make up for it," he promised.

She smiled then fell asleep on his shoulder like a beautiful, peaceful and pure angel.

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Get ready for an intense chapter 5. Thanks for reading :)