I was a little nervous about sharing this particular fan fiction, due to almost hitting some of the characters close to home and huge Norman Reedus fan girls dream overload, but who hasn't wrote a fan fiction like that in all I hope you enjoy it. I do not own the walking dead or anything else blah blah yadda yadda. lets go!

Prologue

The phone was ringing over and over, echoing in the empty dark house, only but a soft faint sound of an old record playing Elvis Presley's 'In The Garden'

I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses

There was signs of a struggle in the living room. the coffee table flipped over, broken glass everywhere from the flower vase and floor lamp, white lacey curtains ripped off from the windows and torn, the family photos ripped off the walls and thrown down and broken, picture glass shattered, hiding the smiles behind the frames. After a long moment of the phone ringing the answering machine picks the call up.

"Hi this is Beth."

"And Jimmy!"

Beth's giggles in the voice recording as it continues. "Where not here right now, so please leave a message after the beep."

"Beeeeep" Beth and Jimmy both laugh, the answering machine cuts it off as it receives the message.

And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am his own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known

"Beth honey, its me Daddy. how are you doing darling? you missed our family dinner tonight, your mother and I were worried so give us a call when you can okay?"

He speaks and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing
And the melody that He gave to me
Within my heart is ringing

"We love you Bethy honey." the message ends at the sound of the click from Hershal hanging up the phone. Sadly...Beth wont be able to call her mother and father anytime soon, for she lays on the living room floor, unconscious and beaten. the only movement is the blood from between her legs as it spills and soaks itself on the living room rug.

And He walks with me
And He talks with me
And He tells me I am his own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known

I come to the garden alone...

Chapter 1

2 months later

The sounds of church bell fill up the Sunday morning air, as the country folk continu7e their chatter as they walk towards the small white church building. Maggie parks her truck at the end of the parking lot and scans the crowd for the rest of her family, green eye spots her father and mother chatting with the preacher while her father glances at the time in his pocket watch.

"Just in time." she says to herself and glances over to her baby sister on the passenger seat of the truck, her golden lose curls blow with the wind as it enters the open window of the door as Beth stares into nothing out. Maggie opens her mouth to say something but gets interrupted by the banging of the top by her brother Shawn.

"C'mon girls, or we won't get seats." Shawn called out as he jumps out of the truck bed, Maggie unbuckles her seat belt and reaches over to Beth to unbuckle hers, then gives her a gently rub on her left shoulder.

"C'mon sweetie, its time." she sweetly said to her as she opens her own door.

As they entered the church Beth was greeted by her father with a kiss on the forehead as her and her siblings sit at the bench behind their parents. Maggie and Shawn glared at the noisy old women of the church as they all glance at Beth with either disgust or pity, as they stick their noise high up in the air and continuing fanning themselves due to the hot Georgia heat. the preacher however looked at Beth with an approving smile, not hiding the fact that one of his church members is back for after not coming to church for so long. He then cleared his throat, making the church hush down on the chattering. "Good morning" he started as he fixed his tie. "Today we will be talking about the lords plan and the path he sets for his children."

Maggie reaches over to Beth's hand and gives it a little squeeze as she pays starts to pay attention to the preacher, but for Beth she simply continued to look down at her feet, soothing out the wrinkles of her floral white dress. "Many of us has faced many hardships in our lives. One is financially, worrying about the bills, about the loans, will we make it this month and so on. others is problems of health, of happiness of peace." The preacher paused for a moment and looked at Beth and the Greene family, "While few face the hardships of tragedy, friends and families, grieve and mourn for something broken, or even lost." He then looks away of the family and continues to pace around the alter as he continues to speak.

"No matter what maybe it is easy to forget our faith, some would even lose faith in our lord Jesus Christ. We our humans after all, it is in us to have doubt when life pushes us down; But remember folks, no matter hard these hardships tries to take us down, Jesus the lord is always with you, and will help you rise back up on to your feet and back to his path."

Some of the members murmurs 'Amen' in agreement as they continued to fan themselves.

"You see folks, the Lord has a plan for all of us and he is preparing us for that plan, He has already set the path for us on our very feet. We just got to believe in the lord and leave it in his hands. As it says here in your bible folks in Psalm 32:8 'I will instruct you and teach in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eyes upon you. ' it says so right here, we are never alone, our lord father has never given up on his children! "

"Praise Jesus" Beth's mother called out and Shawn called out agreeing with an 'Amen' Beth wished she was paying attention, trying to listen to the good words of the lord like before, but everything is just going in one ear and out the other. She continues to stare at her hands as she plays with the pages of her bible.

"However," He continues "some of us would wonder too far off from his glorious path and straight into sin." That got Beth's attention, her hands froze from there fiddling and her fingers twisted, as she finally glances up at the preacher.

"Drugs, sex, alcohol, money it's all planted by evil and it takes root into the souls, stray away from God's grace and in comes the consequences, the Lord will put a stop to it, like how your real mama's and daddy's did when we were young, the Lord will punish you, and then he will show you back the way again, holding your hand, helping you. Ever heard of the saying 'things happen for a reason'? That has truth in it folks, everything happens, whether it be good, or bad or tragic, the Lord has his reasons and it is not our right, the children of the lord to question his plans, but to have faith in him ."

And with that Beth slowly stands up and walk out of the church, ignoring the cold stares of their neighbors and the sad looks of her family as the preacher quotes another verse from the Bible. As she walks towards the back of the church building Beth tries to fight back the tears that threats to come out, she stops and takes a deep breath.

"This is ridiculous..." she thought to herself letting the breath out, she knew it was pointless to come to church, Beth lost her faith that night; the night she lost everything...knowing there is no way she can get it back..."God's plan, ha!" She says out loud as she crosses her arms over her chest. Some plan, she doubted God wanted this to happen, it couldn't be his plan for her and if it was than screw him, and the preacher too for being stupid. They both had a messed up sense of humor.

Beth took a few breathes, trying to calm herself down and not feed the fire within her that threats to burn again. Until she hears the church members inside starting to sing.

"As i went down in the river to pray

Studying about the good old way

And who shall wear the starry crown?

Good Lord show me the way."

Beth bit down hard on her pink lips and covered her ears, trying to block out the gospel singing of the church, but she can still hear them in her head.

"O sinners lets go down

Let's go down, come on down"

Beth closed her eyes tight shut and dropped to her knees shaking her head 'no', fighting with herself until she couldn't hold it any longer. She broke down in tears and broken sobs in front of the cemetery gates, never passing over to the other side..

"O sinners, let's go down

Down in the river to pray"