Bleeding Love

Chapter 20: Introductions

Beth's POV:

I glance around at the people standing in front of me. These are the old people of Terminus? There's only about seven of them. The first person I lay my eyes on is Fae. As in Fae, freking, Dixon.

I feel my face go red, as I begin towards her, with clenched fists. She starts backing away, yelling out for Daryl to help. He hears her and places a tight grip on my shoulder in order to stop me from going any further at her. Me being so determined, I simply shove him off. At this he jumps right in front of me in a second attempt to bring me to a halt, only this time he succeeds.

Once Daryl has me calmed down, I look over at Fae and see that she looks scared, like scared of me... so I get in her face and say threateningly,

" Not some puny little teenager anymore, am I?"

Before she can respond some old guy comes out of nowhere and interrupts,

" Go somewhere other than here, Fae, just so someone doesn't get hurt..."

" Yes, Sargent."  she answers with a nod.

Sargent? He must be their leader... Once Fae's gone he turns to me and introduces himself,

" My name is Sargent Walter, and I run the show, have since the beginning"

" My name's -"

" Beth." He cuts me off. Then continues,

" I know who you are. Daryl and I have had plenty of time to talk while you were past out."

" Oh..." is all I respond.

I glance behind him and notice that all the people that had been standing there were still there except Fae. There's the southern drawl lady, two younger twin Chinese girls, an albino ginger,and some guy with a hammer on his hip and a base ball cap on his head. One by one they make their way over to introduce themselves.

" I'm Peg." Says the middle aged southern lady while giving me an uncomfortable bear hug. She steps back then and pulls the twins from behind her and continues,

" And these two beautiful nine year old girls are Paris and London. They're twins as you can see..."

They both smile and give me a small wave as she turns to them and tells them to go find some lady named Sarah. The ginger then steps forward and introduces himself,

" My name is Victor Friday. And yes, my last name really is Friday." He chuckles to himself then after he takes off in the opposite direction mumbling something about plant samples.

Then the Sargent returns to front and center and gestures toward the baseball cap guy,

" This is my right hand man, Dane Stack."

I smile at the remainder of people before me and whisper an apology for the way I had acted earlier. Daryl takes my hand and squeezes it then for reassurance as he states,

" I'm gonna take her back to her tent now, to get some more sleep, she needs it."

For sleeping as long as I had I was surprisingly still exhausted. Once we're far enough away I smile up at him and jokingly say,

" You should've let me beat her up... she had it coming from what she did the last time we saw her...you know I could've taken her now."

" I know you could've but seeing as they answered the three questions with acceptable answers, you and Fae will probably end up seeing each other every day. No need to start that with a physical fight. As much as I'd like to see her ass kicked." He replies

" So you asked the three questions?" I inquire

" Yep" He answers. After we get to the tent there's a moment of silence when I state,

" I can't live with her Daryl, and I won't."

He still dosent say anything so I mock her from so long ago,

" hey maybe if we leave her here, some walker will come along and eat her"

" Beth, that's not funny....and you know it." he says chuckling.

" Then why are you laughing?" I say laughing myself.

Changing the subject I say,

" I'm like starved, is there any food round here?"

" Get some rest, and I'll be back with something for you to eat" he answers walking off.

I nod my head and climb back into the tent, I had started in, just about an hour ago.