Darly woke up with the hot sun burning his face. He his vision was blurred and his body was limp. Then he noticed a strange sound but instead tried to focus on what happened before he passed out. But when Hershel's last warm expression came to mind he quickly stopped his trail if thought. His heart felt heavy and so did his head. He then finally felt annoyed by the strange noise enough to find the source and turned his head to see Beth. He knew it was her because of her long flowing blonde hair that was glistening in the hot Georgia sun. He didnt know anything about her really, she watched the baby and helped Carol... He knew he didn't even want to think about her, he didn't even want to hear her name. Darly could feel his blood begin to boil; the memories of lost loved ones and that annoying noise Beth was making was driving him crazy. He reached over and flipped her over to see what exactly she was doing. Beth's face was flushed red, she must had been sobbing earlier but now she was whimppering.
"Oh thank God I thought you died!" Beth shouted wrapping her arms around him.
Darly instantly tensed up from the sudden physical contact. Darly didnt hate hugs he just didn't have a lot of experiences with them. His dad would just smack his head when he looked for physical comfort from him. He hugged Carol alot... He mentally cursed himself for thinking of her again. His mom used to give him hugs, he remembered she used to be so warm and smelled like clean cotten. And now Beth, the baby girl that watched over another baby girl gave him warm hugs too. Then Beth slowly began to pull away and began to clean her face.
"Im sorry," she replied in a weak voice, "we were running for so long and you just pass out and I tried to wake you up and..." Beth couldnt finish her sentence before tears returned to her eyes.
"It's okay." Darly replied hoarsely. He didn't really know what to do but he knew he had to comfort her. He placed his hand on her shoulder and said, "I ain't gunna leave you. I ain't gunna let anything touch yah either, you aint gunna be alone."
Beth let a faint smile warm her face for mere moments before she dropped her head quickly in shame.
"I know I just feel so pathetic and scared... I couldn't even save my own family."
Darly froze when Beth said that. He thought that exact same thing when he saw Merle for the last time. Darly quickly stood up and pulled Beth up to her feet with him.
"Shut up." Darly said dusting her off, "don't talk about that kinda shit yet."
"Cuz we got a job to do." Beth said getting her gun off the ground.
"Which is finding a place for the night." Darly replied trying to get a feel of where they were.
"I think I know a place." Beth said walking away from him in another direction.
Darly watched her for a moment and her steps seemed confident so he trusted she knew where she was going.
"Lead the way girlie."