I'm in denial. Beth's not gone.
Redemption
Prologue
[Arc]
"I get it now…" She whispers before plunging the scissor into the older woman's shoulder. She truly didn't want to hurt her. She just wanted her to give up on taking Noah. She truly thought that perhaps… just maybe Dawn was a changed woman. She wanted to believe what she had told her just hours ago were true. That Dawn did want to change.
She was wrong. Fatally wrong.
When she spoke to Noah with that smug look on her face, Beth couldn't just stand back any longer. She wanted to stop her, to stop Noah from leaving. But... it was not a smart move.
In the next few seconds, the grey walled world around her exploded in a massive storm of white clouds. A pain she had never experienced before tore into her right shoulder.
All around her, gunshots were fired.
Her knees gave under her when she felt as if her guts were being pulled out one miserable inch at a time. Her grey turned white vision began to blur into darkness as her back clashed against the linoleum floor.
Gunshots, screaming and chaos continued around her, oblivious to her pain.
Thick viscous liquid warmed her hips and the back of her head.
She can hear everything around her, and yet, nothing registered. As if the sounds were just sounds.
Then she saw his face… Daryl. His eyes were rimmed with tears, his brows were furrowed in a deep curve.
In her dimming vision, she saw his lips move—speaking to her.
She hears him, but she couldn't understand his words. She parted her lips to say his name, and yet no words were spoken.
She felt him slip his arms under her neck and knees. Daryl. His scent, his warmth surrounded her. She hears him shouting at someone, for something. Then her ears began to ring, drowning out the chaotic sounds of the background and the sweet rasp of his frantic voice.
Her eyes slipped shut and she pressed her forehead against his shoulder softly, too tired… too cold to stay awake.
Her consciousness began to slip away despite her best efforts to hold on. Every time she felt the pull of absolution, of darkness, her body was jostled roughly as if to wake her.
It was Daryl. He was her anchor, keeping her grounded in this cruel, miserable world they lived in.
"Daryl," she called out to him the best she could, trying to let him know she acknowledges his efforts. 'I'm here,' she wanted to say to him. Her words were inaudible as her throat began to fill with her warm, metallic blood.
It was getting too cold… she was so tired… but Daryl… she hears Daryl calling her name, telling her to hold on.
"Hold on, Beth. HOLD ON!"
Did she look as if she was dying? This can't be the end for her… no. There was so much she wanted to tell him. To show him how much she improved, how much she missed him. She wanted to nod and tell him, 'Yes, I'm here. I'm holding on.'
Yet, her body did not move an inch. She wanted to cry tears of frustration, at least that way he'll know she's still there. Her body is a traitor—it did not move on her command.
"They're gonna save you Beth. They better fuckin' do. Just hang on, Beth! Hang on!"
She wanted to open her eyes. She wanted to tell them, him, that she was trying her best. But it was in this final moment that she realized, she was dying. The thick liquid that drenched her tattered clothing was her own blood, dripping out of her multiple gunshot wounds.
She wanted nothing more but to hold on, to see him again.
But… in the darkness, she sees her beloved father with his arms wide open and a sweet, understanding smile on his face.
Amidst the pain and chaos, she could choose absolution and comfort in her Daddy's arms once and for all…
A part of her didn't want to fight the pain anymore. It was too painful… too tiresome. If she ran into her daddy's arms… will she finally find peace?
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J.R.-I feel totally unsettled by Beth's death in the MSF. Seriously? No. That was a terrible way to die. They could've done so much better! She's not dying in my book. She will live on in this story.
This is just an Arc, a prologue. I won't bother with it if there's no interest for this spinoff of the latest episode MSF.