We've All Got Jobs To do.

Chapter 1.

Beth sighed as she made another lap around the cafeteria area of the prison, lightly bouncing the fussy baby. Judith was only a little over a month old, and she was not exactly sleeping, it was more like she rested and recovered to continue to whine and cry all hours of the day. It was late at night and Beth knew that everyone else was trying to get some sleep, Maggie and Glenn were out on watch, Daryl had just returned from watch, Carol had to be up in approximately 3 hours to start breakfast for everyone, Beth was supposed to help her with some cleaning an laundry, Rick, Carl and her dad were exhausted from trying to till the prison yard and get the ground ready for planting seeds for a garden. Not that Rick would have been much help with baby, he still could barely look at his little girl, Hershel had tried placing the girl in Rick's arms more times than Beth could count, and Rick always passed her back to Beth almost instantly. Judith fussed for everyone but Beth, she'd let Daryl hold her for a few minutes at a time, but she'd start to wail if Beth got too far away. Beth tried humming and swaying back and forth with the baby's cheek placed against her chest, her daddy and Carol had told her that skin to skin contact was soothing, and if Judith could hear Beth's heart beat, sometimes that would calm her down. Beth sighed again and walked over to the pot of water she had on a small gas hot plate Daryl had found and placed a bottle in the now warm water to warm it up for the baby, she continued to hum and sway keeping the baby's cries to a minimum volume while her bottle heated, she heard the door open and Daryl make his way in to the eating area, he sat down at the table and chewed his thumbnail looking at Beth. He noticed how run down and thin she was, he knew that she was barely sleeping, and he felt bad for the girl.

"I'm going on a run tomorrow with Glenn," Daryl mumbled, "there anything you need? Short Round and I saw some type of baby store on the way back a few days ago, looks pretty untouched, we're taking the truck. You think she'd calm easier with any fancy baby gadgets?"

Beth pulled the bottle from the hot water and tested it on her wrist, she dropped a few pacifiers in the water to sanitize and sterilize them, then sat beside Daryl and popped the bottle into Judith's little mouth, the baby immediately began to greedily drink the formula. "If you could look for one of those baby slings or carriers that'd be great, "Beth replied softly, "More formula is always welcome too." Beth wiped at Judith chin with one of the bandana's Daryl had brought back for Beth to keep in her pocket for all Judith's spit-up and drool. "If there's room in the truck and the area is clear, maybe you and Glenn can bring back a rocking chair? Those soothe babies right?"

"I'll load as much baby stuff as I can into the back of the truck, lots of those receiving blankets and different sized clothing right?" Beth smiled and nodded her head. Daryl put his arm around her shoulder, "Anything you want at all? We're hitting up a Target too."

"Is Maggie going with you? I can always use some girl stuff." Beth replied as she leaned her head down against Daryl's shoulder, "If you see any sports bras, just grab them all, every size. All the women here need new bras, sports bras would be easiest."

"You know I don't care about looking for girly shit." Daryl replied with a smile "besides, I just make Glenn go get the tampons and bras." Judith finished her bottle and had finally dozed off, Beth moved her to her shoulder and lightly rubbed her back until she burped, thankfully not throwing up any of her milk, "you should just go lay down in your bunk with her in your arms, get some sleep. " Daryl pulled a small notebook from his pocket and started writing down a few of things that Beth had asked for. "I'll get you some new clothes if there's anything close to your size."

"Thanks' Daryl, you should get a few new shirts for yourself too, I'm helping Carol with the laundry and every time I scrub your tops I worry they'll just fall apart."

"Yeah, yeah, Rick and the boys have already requested that I grab as many button up shirts as I can, all sizes, materials and some basic undershirts. Everyone is pretty hard up for clothes after winter on the road, and clearing the prison twice and getting it livable". Daryl put his thumb back in his mouth and chewed at the skin a little more, "you know that office across from where my cell is?" Beth nodded her head, "I've been thinking, since it has solid walls and a door if I clean it out I could set it up as you and Judith's room, that way you wouldn't have to go so far away when the baby fussed. I don't like you going off by yourself, we ain't alone in here you know."

"I'll start cleaning it out while you and Glenn are on the run, that way anything you guys bring back can go right on up there, Judith and I need a project for tomorrow between naps, I'm sure that Maggie or Carl might be willing to help." Beth replied as she made her way over to a dilapidated couch that hey had hauled into the cafeteria from the tombs, lying down with Judith in between her body and the back of the couch. "Wake me up when you leave ok? I'm just too tired to walk on back to my cell."

Daryl got up to cover them with a hooded sweatshirt that was hanging off the railing by the exit, then sat down close by and grabbed some of the sticks he had found and started making bolts for his crossbow. He worked at them for a few hours, he looked up as Carol made her way into the room and held his finger to his lips and pointed to where Beth and Judith were sleeping Carol smiled and went to boil water for the oatmeal. She started to get her ingredients out and Daryl made his way over to her "Who picked all these berries?" he asked tensely, remembering a conversation he had recently with a certain blonde about how bland the hot cereal was with out anything sweet to add to it.

"Beth and Judith picked a few buckets of the wild strawberries that grow by the fences yesterday, well Judith sat in her car-seat while Beth picked them. Don't worry Daryl, Maggie went with her and worked the fence while Beth picked the berries. She was careful. She likes doing little things for you, makes her feel like she's reciprocating all the things you do for her."

"Me and Glenn are hitting up a few shops on our run today, I'll try and make sure we get you lots of dry goods and cans of food. " Daryl then ran by his idea about the office to Carol.

"I think that's a wonderful idea, poor girl worries so much about the rest of us getting rest she trucks down here with the baby from dusk till dawn. She can't be getting more than 2 to 3 hours of sleep a day. That spoiled baby won't let no one else soothe her. The last time you were on a run she cried till she threw up when Carl held her while Beth went to grab a shower and change her clothes. Poor Beth was distraught to see how upset Judy was."

Daryl handed Carol the list he had started for supplies at the baby store, she took his pen from him and added Ora-gel and teething rings. "The sling is a real good idea, Judith is getting too heavy in her car-seat for Beth to be carrying around all day. You might want to get a portable crib instead of a real one though, it's takes up less room in the truck, and it's just as good. Beth think of the sports bras? She's a smart girl. Grab new underwear for everyone too, tea towels and hand towels make good cloth diapers, but grab some disposable ones too, I bet if Beth can keep her dry through the night at least the baby will sleep better."

"You think I oughta add some Xanax or something for Rick?" Daryl asked. "He still won't even look at his baby."

"I think he just needs more time, he asks how she's doing all the time now, he'll come around. You want to get something nice for Beth?" Daryl shrugged his shoulders; Carol rolled her eyes "Daryl even if no one else notices what's going on between you two I do. Get her a hairbrush. All that hair is hard to take care of with just her fingers. Grab some elastics if you see any. I think it's great that you two found each other in a time like this. No one is going to think any less of you for loving each other."

"I'm not sure her dad and sister will feel the same." Daryl replied, shifting his gaze across the room to where Beth was sleeping, he saw a little hand start shaking and walked over and picked up Lil' Asskicker, shoving a soother in her mouth before she would cry and wake Beth up, Judith furrowed her brow at Daryl, yawned and then promptly fell back to sleep. Daryl rocked her a few times before placing her back in Beth's arms, he knew she had to be tired, she hadn't even stirred when Judith was out of her arms. "I'm going let her sleep a bit longer." Daryl replied as he made his way back to Carol and helped her get things ready once the water was boiling. "Anything you can think of for that list?" he asked Carol again softly.

"Bars of soap, as many as you can get. The ones here the prisoners used are too rough to use on our bodies, Dove would be best, I'll make laundry detergent out of the other ones."

Daryl added it to the list and looked up as Glenn walked, accidentally slamming the door open, waking up both Beth and Judith with a loud bang.

"Sorry Beth" Glenn replied sheepishly "I got the truck cleaned out Daryl, we got lots of room for the haul today, Rick said he wants to come with us, get some more seeds and things for the garden."

"As long as we have room for the stuff for the baby. The point of this run was getting stuff to make it easier on Beth to take care of the baby."

"You guys don't have to make a special run for me." Beth replied as she mixed another bottle for the Judith and handed it to Carol to heat up. "We can manage until you go out again." Beth laid the baby down on a towel on the ground and knelled down to change her diaper, "It's more important to get stuff for the garden. Y'all should get canning equipment too, I can put up some of our harvest, it'll help in the winter with the food supply."

"Listen, Target will have some of the baby stuff we need anyway, and most of the gardening stuff. If we can get it all in one spot great, if not the baby store was closer to the prison anyway, Daryl and I will drop Rick off and go back out hit up the store." Glenn replied "I promised Maggie I'd help Daryl Beth. We all see how much of a toll taking care of Judith is taking on you, and we want help you anyway we can, it's not like Judith lets us help physically." Beth smiled and gave Glenn a one armed hug. She then sat down and started to feed Judith her morning bottle. Hershel, Rick and Carl made their way into the breakfast area, and sat with the group. Maggie came in shortly after and tried to take the baby so Beth could eat but Judith started to shake with rage at being out of Beth's arms, Beth immediately took her back and sat her in her lap against her stomach and ate a few bites of her cereal.

"What type of seeds are you hoping to find Rick?" Beth asked as she sipped the tea Carol placed in front of her.

"Anything we can find really, we'll try to grow anything." Rick replied keeping his eyes anywhere but on Judith. "Carl's going to help you clear out that office, Beth. I think keeping you close by is a better idea than you roaming around trying to calm Judith down." Rick looked up as the few prisoners made they're way in. They had relinquished their supplies and control to Rick and he allowed them to share the common areas of the prison, but they had to sleep in their own cell block, and if they set foot in cell block C, well they'd be thrown out the gate. They had agreed so long as they had an opportunity to earn their trust and become part of the group. Daryl hated the way that a few of the prisoners looked at Beth, Maggie and Carol. He pitied the prisoner that made a wrong move towards Maggie, but he worried about Beth walking around with the baby. Carol spooned out the oatmeal and smiled at Otto. Beth placed Judith in her car-seat and stood up, Carl came over and together they started to walk towards C.

"We're going to get started on the office Dad. Don't forget to bring me back a treat if you find any." Carl replied. Beth smiled. She knew he had to have been bribed to not have asked to go on the run. He was always trying to get out on runs. "Maggie said she'd bring up some buckets of hot soapy water for us. We'll get that place spotless for Judith's new nursery. You guys should bring Beth some nicer blankets and curtains for her new room. All those windows, she's going to want some privacy." Carl replied blushing. "I mean she does have to changed right?"

"Let's get going boys." Daryl replied "I want to be back and help with set up so the girls can be in there by tonight."