He met her through her brother-in law Glenn, one of his fireman colleagues. They had met on a Sunday night when the season finale for a show that Glenn was super fan off (and practically tried to make everyone he knew watch) aired. Glenn had thrown a season finale party for the show that night and invited Daryl, and a couple of their other colleagues, and well Beth. Correction Glenn had forced Daryl to attend the party, and Maggie, Glenn's wife, forced Beth into going as well. "You need to get out more," the couple had told them both on the separate occasions they tried to convince them. And it was true both Daryl and Beth really did need to get out more. The two were practically over invested in their jobs, their volunteering, and hobbies.
Daryl was a man that liked to keep himself busy. He dedicatedly worked on his company's construction projects. He volunteered, with a great purpose, in the town's fireman department, and on the weekends or when he had spare time, or when the season was upon him he invested his energy on hunting. Daryl's number of friends could be counted with both of his hands. Daryl's number of appearances to events thrown by said friends could be counted with one hand though. Daryl, in all honesty, was a man that enjoyed his privacy. He was a man that pretty much rather keep to himself and do whatever he had to do than go out and socialize with others. Yes, he did socialize with his coworkers. However, that was something he had to do and had no problem doing. If he was going to work with those men and risk his life alongside them, when he volunteered with the fire department, then yeah he had to get to know them. A level of trust was needed in that job.
He also socialized and got to know the people that worked for him. After tirelessly working to start his own construction company, Daryl made sure that he knew who was working for him. He always thought that the business owners who did not know their employees were plain stupid. True a drug test and background check affirmed employers that the people who they were hiring were good or bad but those test could only tell a person so much. No, Daryl thought that if he was going to trust his employees to work for him he had to know them. He did not invest many back breaking hours building and tarnishing the beliefs about the people with the last name Dixon to have some envious employee sabotage his hard work. There were always people like that, the envious ones, who destroyed what others had because if they could not be successful that no one else could be, Daryl would know, he worked alongside a few of them before.
Beth, on the other hand, was both introverted and extroverted. She did socialize and attended events that her friends threw, but she, in all honesty, liked to have moments just to herself. She liked to have moments where she could freely think and let her thoughts and creativity manifest themselves in the pages of her journals.
Beth owned a music store. She loved and was immensely passionate about music that when she was growing up she could never imagine herself doing anything that did not involve music. So she, like Daryl, opened a business in their small town. She had always complained that that was what their town was lacking, a place where people could go so they enjoy the beauty that music brought to the world. She knew, when she opened her store, that today's impressive technology made it easier for music to be accessed, but she thought a physical place where music could be found was needed. It was needed because sometimes people just needed to escape to where the music was. She, also, gave piano and guitar lessons in her store though to make ends meet. However, she mostly did it because she relished in teaching people how to make music. Her store also held a stage that allows people and her to sing their music and showcase their talent; she loved to hear what the people, who also shared a love for music, did too. Her sister Maggie had once told her that her store was better for a big city not a town like theirs, but Beth did not believe that though. She believed that music was needed in every place no matter the size.
So by investing their time in their jobs both Beth and Daryl rarely saw the scene of a get together. They were too devoted to their respective occupations that they did not even have the time to date, and that was something that greatly bothered their friends. Their friends thought that those two needed some love in their lives. Yes, they had the love for their professions but they believed that they needed someone who once in a while would distract them from their work. Everything is not perfect for a business owner, and Beth and Daryl's friends and family believed that too much stress and worries was going to exhaust the two, and that was why Glenn decided to throw his season finale party. He threw it because he believed that that hour was going to be the best hour in television too, but he also threw it because after a conversation with Maggie, the couple came to the conclusion that maybe Daryl and Beth could work for one another. A person had to be blind not to see it. There was something about them that made Maggie and Glenn see that maybe, just maybe, they were what the other one was lacking. "Daryl's roughness could roughen up Beth some," Maggie had said as she and Glenn planned their get together, and Maggie was right as Glenn said. Beth needed some roughen up. Beth was strong, a business owner had to be, but Maggie's little sister still needed some help being tough. Beth, several of times, was sabotaged by petty employees who thought they could run her store better than her, and that was something that greatly bothered Maggie. 'Who could know better about music than Beth?' she thought.
"And you know what, Beth's sweetness could really soften Dixon up," Glenn had added as he made sure that their living room surround system was working properly, and Maggie quickly agreed. Maggie had meet Daryl in one of those parties that the town threw to thank the firemen and women, and there Maggie had seen firsthand how closed off Daryl Dixon was and how sour he played himself to be. Maggie was sure that Beth could help Daryl with that. Her little sister was the polar opposite of the man. She was sweet as anyone could be and she really had a knack of making people forget about their facades by how open and non-judgmental she was with them. It had been settled then, Beth and Daryl were going to meet at their finale party and they would forget for a while about their jobs and they would see that maybe they were made for each other. Maggie and Glenn had never been more excited; they just really wanted happiness for those two.
So that Sunday night after all their guests arrived, Maggie and Glenn made sure that Daryl and Beth were introduced and sitting next to each other. Someone really had to be blind if they did not see that the instant that Beth and Daryl met eyes sparks blew into the air. The two hit it off really fine that Sunday night. They conversed about the fact that they were forced to attend the party, as well as, the fact that they had absolutely no idea what was happening in that show even after Glenn enthusiastically explained every plot, plot hole, theories, character, and small detail there was about the show. They spoke about their respective business and their scorching passion for them. They had spoken plenty that night that Glenn had to irritably tell them to be quite because the show was beginning.
And well after that, Daryl Dixon and Beth Greene were pretty much inseparable. Maggie and Glenn had been right; the two were what the other need for themselves. They fitted like a puzzle. Not only did they support each other in their businesses, they also gave the other the comfort and the love they need. And as they sat in their couch two years later watching the season premiere of the show that Glenn sucked them into, Daryl could not help but wonder how he gotten so lucky, and Beth as she cuddled into him she could not help but remind herself that she needed to thank her sister and her husband for making her leave her store and go watch TV.
"Still can't believe that we are here, or that you love me at that," Daryl gruffly exclaimed as he buried his nose in Beth's hair.
"Well it's not my fault I fell in love, you tripped me," Beth then declared as she grabbed his hand and kissed it. "Literally!" she then exclaimed with a giggle.
And that was true, because, yeah, maybe Maggie and Glenn had set up their meet, but what had sealed the deal in their attraction in one another was the fact that Beth literally tripped over Daryl as she returned from getting them more drinks. She tripped because as she returned from the kitchen, she was absorbed by what was occurring on the screen of the TV just like every guest of the party. She was absorbed because as she returned she watched Glenn's favorite character, the one he swore would never die on the show, hit the sack. And Daryl, who too was absorbed by the TV, and did not see Beth walk to her seat as he moved closer to the TV causing her to trip over his legs and land on his lap. However, the fact that she was on his lap went unnoticed since Glenn wailed a screeching shriek as he watched his favorite character be stabbed numerous times, and when they did acknowledge that she was on his lap he could not protest at all because first of all she fit perfectly there, and second the fact was taken quick out of their minds since they started furiously laughing at Glenn's poor expense since the face he wore, as the screen went to black, was priceless.