Season 5 Bethyl

Loss for Words

Loss for Words

Driving home, Daryl feels better knowing that, though he left an asshole and will need to apologize, he'll make it up by bringing home their family. The thought of never knowing if they'd see them again seems to disappear, but the pain of losing Rick, his best friend and brother, he feels bad and terrible. He doesn't know how Carl's so strong to just move on, but he finds that the group as a whole is going to be okay once they get home to Beth and the kids. 

The closer he gets to home, the more uneasy he feels. He feels his gut wrench and twist with some unknown feeling. Picking up the speed in the truck and trailer, that is packed with things they need, the others pick up the speed also and soon he stops and opens the gate and they enter the compound. He doesn't hesitate to hop from his vehicle at the sound of screaming and crying. Rushing inside he looks around for the sound and Maggie and Glenn are right behind him. Paul comes running to him and he picks him up when he finds him crying at the bathroom door.

"What is it buddy? What's wrong?" He asks and Paul just keeps crying and points to the bathroom door that is shut and now he hears her crying and screaming picking up. Putting Paul down, he slams his body into the door and starts to panic. "Beth! Beth! Open up! Beth!" 

With no answer but a bloodcurdling scream he keeps trying to break down the door and him and Glenn are body-checking the door together, but the person who made the house used the hardest strongest wood around, which is keeping them out.

"Beth, baby open up! Open the door!" Now Judy has come out and Michone and Carl pick her up and Tyreese comes to try and open the door. All three pushing hard against the door. 

"Is there a window to get in through?" Carol asks and as the guys hit the door one more time and Daryl's about to run out to the window, the screaming from Beth stops and the crying begins. With one more shove against the door, it falls to the ground and Daryl climbs over the door and into the bathroom as guys move the door. 

He freezes in his spot, as he finds Beth laying in a tub of water and tearfully holding a small baby in her arms. He's out of breath and his chest is rising rapidly and his mind is going in circles as he drops to his knees and just slowly reaches out to see if this is real life and not a mean dream. When he grazes his hand across the baby and the crying slowly turns into a low whimper, he just sits back on his heels. Shaking his head, he grabs a two towels, one for the baby and one for Beth. 

Getting up, he grabs his knife and cuts the umblical chord and the others come in, causing Beth's heart to race even more. When she sees Maggie holding a baby in her arms and everyone else holding close in the small bathroom, she starts to cry from joy. 

"Beth..." Maggie says with a small smile and Beth just cries even more with a small laugh coming through. Daryl just hunkers low beside her and the baby. Everyone keeps smiling and some just cry from joy. 

After getting some space to deliver the placenta, and tie off the baby's chord, and getting Beth dressed in dry clothes, since she really only slide off her pants and underwear to deliver the baby. Helping her out to the couch, Daryl can't stop looking at the baby laying in Beth's arms. Everyone gathers around and Carl brings Judy and Paul out from their room so they can see the baby.

"Mommy!" Paul boisterously exclaims as he sees her and then he freezes in Daryl's lap as he looks closely at the baby curdled in a blanket in her arms. "Is that my Baby!"

"My baby?" Judy asks as she points from Carl's arms at the baby.

"Haha, yes, PJ. Judy. This is yer baby sister." Beth sweetly says as she looks at everyone. "Daryl...we need a name."

"I...I don't know." He shyly says as he kisses her temple and everyone just smiles and leans into one another. 

"What was yer mother's name?" Someone in the group asks and Daryl just looks at the baby.

"Emmalee Rose." He says sadly.

"Emmalee...that's cute." Beth says as she looks down at the small sleeping child who has light blonde hair that looks like peach fuzz. "Would you hate it if we called her after yer mom?" 

"...No... I think it would be vey nice to call her Emmalee Rose. If you like it of course." He says as he kisses the child's head.

"Then it's settled. Everyone, meet Emmalee Rose Dixon." 

After Beth and everyone catches up and hears about Paul- Maggie's- and everyone is settled in their rooms to sleep or scattered across the living room, Beth and Daryl lay in their room with Emmalee in her crib sleeping contently. Pulling her into his arms, Daryl kisses her over and over again and she just tiredly lays into his side.

"I'm sorry how I left you today. I should've been there with you." He says as he looks down at her and kisses her collar bone.

"I'm not. If you would've stayed then we wouldn't have our family back. This is the one time I can really thank you for being a jerk. Haha, thank you for finding them." 

"Baby, you are more than welcomed. I'm so proud of you for doing that. Yer so strong, baby. So strong baby." 

"You taught me to be strong. Can we go to sleep now? I'm really tired...that took a lot of energy." She tiredly says and he laughs, kissing her lips and then switching off the bedside lamp and they go to sleep, happy and content with how today went.