I'm Holding On To You

I'm Barely Hanging onto You

Everyone ducts down as the hospital explode. After the explosion, everyone gives a little laugh and starts hugging each other. After hugging all the people in the group he called family, Daryl goes over to Noah who was holding Carol.

"You're okay!" Daryl says as he pulls a limp Carol to him for a hug.

He hugged her for a few more seconds before he gave her back to Noah and another medicine kid with a ton of tattoos that Daryl didn't remember the name of. They placed Carol on the ground in a sitting position.

"Where's Beth?" Maggie asks frightened.

Daryl looks around hating himself for not realizing Beth wasn't with the other kids. Now he was frightened because she should have been with them. Daryl looked at Rick who was wide-eyed.

"Where is she?" Maggie asked frantically shaking Noah.

All Noah could do was look at the now blown up hospital. All of a sudden Daryl's voice became logged in his throat. Maggie screaming and crying broke out in a run the same time as Daryl. Rick caught ahold of Maggie before she got far. Daryl could hear Rick scream his name but he kept running to the hospital in disbelief. All of sudden his knees gave out from under him. He was a good distance from the group. If a walker was to come out he would have been killed easily.

"BETH!!!!!!!!!!" Daryl screamed at the top of his lungs.

Daryl kept screaming Beth's name for what seemed like forever. Nobody went to him though. Everyone was either crying, shocked or looking for walkers. Out of nowhere, Beth's voice came into his head from their night at the moonshine still.

"Your gonna miss me so bad when I'm gone, Daryl Dixon."

Remembering her say that broke Daryl. He started crying and screaming. The group was shocked by what they were seeing. Carol was a bit jealous that Daryl was acting this way. She even wondered if he acted that way when he thought she could be dead. All of a sudden everyone saw a shadow move from the debris of the hospital.

"Oh god," Rick said.

"Daryl!!!!!!!!" Carol screamed.

Daryl turned around and with blurry eyes saw everyone aiming their weapons in his direction. He turned around to the shadow of a figure stumbling over the rocks before walking in his direction. He could tell that it wasn't a walker because it walked as he did. Daryl blinked a few times trying to figure out if he was hallucinating hearing the figure speak.

"Daryl Dixon!" the figure called.

That voice he would have recognized anywhere and only one person called him by his full name. It wasn't until he saw the long blonde hair with the one-sided braided and oval face that he knew it was her. It was Beth.

"Beth????" Daryl yelled.

"Daryl!!!" Beth yelled back.

Beth tried to running but couldn't move that fast. Daryl got up and broke out into a run again his mind going a mile a minute having flashbacks of Beth.

(Daryl grabs Beth's hand after she flips him off and Beth says 'What the hells wrong with you? Do you feel anything?')

(Sitting on the porch of the moonshine still. Daryl says "I'm just tired of losing people". Beth says "Me too".)

("I don't cry anymore Daryl," Beth says to Daryl in the prison.)

("I know you look at me and you just see another dead girl")

(Beth goes up and hugs Daryl and says "I'm glad I didn't say goodbye. I hate goodbyes." Daryl squeezes her shoulders and says "Me too")

(Daryl="I ain't afraid of nothing")

(Beth="I'm not leaving you")

("Don't hmmm." "What changed your mind?" Beth says smiling. Daryl just looks at her intensely.

"Oh," Beth says quietly staring back)

("And now, god forbid you let anybody get to close." Beth says overlapping with the memory when Beth pulls out of the hug at the prison)

("What do you want from me girl?" Daryl yells at Beth. "I want you to stop acting like you don't give a crap about anything. Like none of the people we lost meant anything to you." Beth yells back.)

("I could have done something." Daryl says starting to cry while Beth comes up from behind and hugs him.)

("Beth!!!" Daryl yells chasing the hearse with the cross on the back.)

After what seemed like forever to get to each other. Beth threw herself into Daryl's arms. Knowing Beth was alive and he was holding her caused his body to react from the adrenaline rush. His legs gave out and he fell on the asphalt. To help the fall not hurt so much, Daryl put his hand out but that just ended up getting scraped. He still held onto Beth who fell on top of his legs.

"You're alive," Daryl says pulling away looking at Beth.

"So are you," Beth says crying.

Daryl wipes her tears away and pulled her back into a hug. A small sense of joy and hope filled him right now. He knew that he would have to let her go eventually but for now, he just needed her.

"I thought I'd never see you again," Beth tells him in his ear.

"Never gonna happen. They only way you going to stop seeing me when either one of us are dead." Daryl said before mentally smacking himself.

"I'm holding on to that, Daryl Dixon," she says burying her face in his neck.