Thank you for taking the time to read this, it's totally AU, got a bit of a thing for those at the moment, sorry if that upsets all. First things first I do not own twd or any of it's characters or Daryl would go without clothing a lot on the show, please review as it helps a lot to know people enjoy my stories, I have no update schedule it just happen's when it it happens. xxx
Beth sat on the floor of her new bedsit, the grunge and grim surrounding her bringing tears to her eyes, how had she got to this place?
They had left together, two youngsters in love, the world at their feet then they had come to this town, he said he had a job, he had a place for them to live and she had believed everything he had told her, she pulled the pillow up to her chest looking at the photographs scattered around her, memories of their life together, he had been her world she would have followed him to then ends of the earth, even when her parents had forbidden her, her sister had warned her, even her brother Shaun had beaten him badly to try and frighten him away but she had packed her things and disappeared in the dead of night, she wanted to marry him, have children and all she got was a broken heart.
The tears flowed freely down her face, she was alone, scared and without a red scent her name, what the hell was she going to do? She had rent to pay at the end of the week and no way of making it up, sighing she stood up a walk in the fresh air that would clear her head of all the doom and gloomed surrounding her, pulling her jacket on Beth walked from her small room and slid down the stairs silently past the managers office and out through the door, then put her head down against the pouring rain and walked, the tear's continued to flow but she was disguised in this weather.
"Beth? Beth Greene?" her head shot up no one here knew her, then she spotted her a dirty blonde haired woman, it took her a minute then she realised who it was.
"Andrea?" she asked as she was swept into the older woman's arms.
"Oh my, I didn't think I would see any of you ever again, I thought..." she stopped talking "Bloody hell Beth your soaked what are you doing out here?" Beth shrugged at her sisters old school friend. "Come on let's get coffee, get you in the dry." Andrea guided her down the road towards a local diner.
"Andrea I can't" Beth hesitated outside by the door.
"My treat" she said shoving Beth through the door unceremoniously and walking her towards a booth "Order anything, we have so much to talk about, catch up on, oh how's your sister? Did she marry that Glenn guy? What about your parents they were always so good to me." the waitress walked over to take their order, Beth order a coffee and Andrea looked at her for a few moments. "Make that two coffees and two cheese burgers with everything." she smiled over at Beth.
Beth could feel her face flushing with embarrassment "You don't have to." she tried and Andrea brushed it to one side.
"Got me a fantastic gig at the moment" Andrea shrugged "So tell me everything" Andrea sat back, Beth watched her for a moment and then for the next hour and a half Beth told her everything, when she finished she sat back feeling so much better just for getting it off her chest, she watched Andrea pull a wad of cash from her pocket throwing some on the table to pay their bill, then indicated to the waitress to come over. "Can I pinch a piece of paper and a pen?" she asked the girl, handing Andrea her order pad the girl picked up the cash poking it into her apron front, Andrea swiped the first piece of paper from the pad and handed it to Beth, giving the waitress her pad and pen back she thanked her. Beth read it then raised an eyebrow at Andrea "Be there at 6pm tomorrow night, don't be late" she threw some cash on the table indicating Beth to pick it up, "Pay the rent you owe and get yourself something a little risky, no Catholic school girls work at this place. You landed yourself a job." Beth couldn't believe it.
"Thank you." she said tears starting to burn at her eyes again "Thank you so much" she whispered.
"Don't thank me yet you haven't seen the place yet, but it will help you get up onto your feet." Beth nodded.
"Any worse than Ol' Will's at home?" she asked Andrea, she watched as the older blonde thought about it for a second then she smiled at her "some nights but they tend to keep it under control"
"Well I worked there for years" Beth was happier than she had been in months perhaps this was it perhaps this would finally be her fresh start, they walked out of the diner together, Andrea giving Beth a huge hug before she ran back to her bedsit and nearly beat down the door to the managers office ready to pay him for overly priced room.
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Beth was out the back of the bar when the man came in, she had been getting bottles to restock the shelves, she heard him shout about getting the money out of the till then Andrea screamed "I ain't telling ya again bitch next time I will cut your throat." that confirmed a knife not a gun life was getting a little better.
She lost her over shirt, that had the bar name printed on it, pulled her hair down from the pony tail that she had put it in for her first ever shift at the bar, pulling her t-shirt as low as she could get it, she put her hand in her pocket grabbing the red lipstick that Andrea had tried to make her wear earlier and spread it thickly on her lips, taking a deep breath she looked around the room and spotted the bottle of Jack she was supposed to bring through early she took a deep swig and then decided in for a penny, in for a pound taking another, she tucked the knife that was kept out the back for opening boxes and such into the back of her very short skirt, pulling her t-shirt over the top then sent a little prayer up to whoever would be listening and walked back towards the bar.
Staggering towards the bar, she pretended not to notice the quiet in the room making a point of falling against the bar
"Tell me Andrea" she slurred "Why in Gods name is my glass not refilled, I only went to..." she turned towards the tall man with jet black hair and an eye patch over one eye who was stood looking at Andrea "Well hello sugar" she smiled and sauntered to him, pushing her boobs up as high as they would go "Finally" she sighed running her fingers up his chest "We have some real men in this joint" the man looked stunned at first but Beth bit her bottom lip innocently and battered her eyelashes, just as she had suspected he tried to pull her closer.
"Andrea a shot for my new friend" she winked and smiled at him then pointed to the bar, Andrea was shaking when she put the glasses down on the bar dropping one on its side the man generously put his hand out to upright the glass that's when Beth struck, swiftly she pulled her knife from behind her back and rammed it as hard as she could through his hand and into the bar, pinning it there.
"These are my friends, my new family and you try to rob them, big mistake pal" then she turned to Andrea "Best call 911 oh and that shot would be good right about now." The man was screaming, but she tried to ignore him till his other hand raised quickly with a gun in it she hadn't seen, that's when a pool cue smacked him over the back of the head and he fell to his knees, hand still secured by the knife she had put there early he looked like a piece of dead pig hanging from the barn roof at her father's farm, Beth turned to look at a set of pale blue eyes. "Thanks" she said "Didn't see that in his hand thought it was just that poxy knife he put down on the bar." He nodded at her.
"No problem Mam, glad to be of service" he stood still looking at her then pulled the knife out of his hand, wiping it with a red bandanna he handed it back to her "Pretty quick thinking" he stated.
"Grew up around bars, could pull a pint before I could spell my own name" she stood up from the stool she found herself sitting on and her legs went to jelly, the man caught her sitting her back on the stool.
"Brave thing you did" he said sheepishly "But ya don't gotta be rushing back behind the bar, Merle will look after Andrea, he has been for years anyway" When Beth turned her head, she could see Andrea curled into a large shouldered man, with greyish blonde hair, he was whispering in her ear and she was nodding, they both looked up towards Beth, she felt heat rising up in her cheeks when the man winked at her.
"Who's Merle?" she asked as the big man stepped towards them, picking up the so called robbers knife she watched as he drove it into the hand still resting on the bar.
"I am" he said looking at the younger man "Take blondie here home, we owe her, ring ya when the coast is clear" the younger man nodded and helped Beth to her feet guiding her out the back to collect her things that when she realised that he could see right down her top and she adjusted herself to compensate for her earlier state.
"Shit, I opened a bottle of JD, I didn't get time to tell them." she was looking over her shoulder trying to catch Andrea's eye.
"S'ok don't worry which one is it?" she pointed at the open bottle and he picked it without a word turning towards the back door so they could make an exit.
"You can't steel from them, I just put my life on the line to stop them being robbed." she was horrified.
"Ahhhh but ya see, when ya own the joint it ain't stealing" he pulled her towards an old beat up truck and opened the passenger seat, she climbed in without question and watched as he got into the drivers seat. "So where we going?" he asked her.
"Got a little bedsit in town" she sighed "But its a dive, that's why Andrea gave me a job, she knew my sister in school, it was kind of a favour." she explained then bit her lip why was she talking endlessly, she never spoke this much.
"My place it is then" he laughed "And don't worry I ain't no creep" he started the engine and then pulled away, that's when Beth actually thought about what was going on she was in a strange man's truck, driving to God's knew where and no one had a clue where they were going, her mother warned her there would be days like these.