Sh*t! What have I done?! I started a new fic! You people don't understand. I have poor writing concentration and the plot bunnies are torture! I could've made this a Drabble Goodness drabble but the amount of writing involved for this idea wouldn't allow for it. I will try my best with this one since my other fics are almost wrappin' up. But I just had to write dammit!

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or TWD. Nothing ever beats canon anyway.

"Beth? Beth?!"

Maggie was calling out frantically as the hospital halls were being scoured. Rick and Daryl were being far more cautious then they were as they checked each room. In each one, the result was the same...dead or walking dead. The latter were quickly finished off but what disturbed the trio more were the details. The dead in the rooms wore hospital scrubs and the bars on the windows and the locks on the doors meant that they had been held against their will in these rooms...possibly to die.

Rick and Daryl were already fearing the worst for Beth, but Maggie was too busy going up and down the halls calling out for her sister, not caring who heard.

"Maggie?"

The voice was soft but recognizable.

"Beth?"

"I'm in here."

Maggie turned a corner into the first room. The sudden joy of seeing her sister for the first time in so many months caused her to overlook the obvious differences in Beth...until they hugged. She stepped back in shock and nearly tripped on the dead body on the floor. It was that of a doctor with a scalpel stuck in the back of the head. She looked back up at Beth, confused and horrified.

"Oh god, Beth...what happened to you?"

Beth didn't know what to say. It was more complicated than what it seemed but she wasn't surprised by her sister's reaction. How was she going to explain this to her? And the others? Were they here? How was she gonna explain this to them?

"It's...it's not what it looks like."

"What it looks like? Beth, look at you!"

"I can explain. Please..."

Maggie could see her sister breaking under the pressure and embraced her sister again. "It's okay...it's okay. You don't have to tell me now."

"I can't run."

"I know," said Maggie. "Just let me go get Rick and Daryl and we'll get you outta here."

Oh god, Beth thought. Daryl was here? Daryl had found them? "No, please! I can't let them see me like this!"

"You're not gonna be able to hide it," said Maggie.

"Please, Maggie..."

Maggie sighed and then looked around the hospital room. She opened the large cabinet and found a foldable wheelchair and a blanket. She helped Beth onto the wheelchair and the used the blanket to cover her up to her chest.

At that moment Rick and Daryl found them in the room. "Beth!"

"Rick!"

Daryl was unable to say anything, he was just speechless. "Maggie, why didn't you call out for us?"

"I was just...too happy I guess," said Maggie. "Beth can't run."

"It's alright," said Rick. "I think I saw a medical van outside. I'll bring it to the entrance. Daryl, make sure they get there."

"Uh...right," said Daryl. But he was too busy looking at Beth. As relieved as he was to see her for the first time in months, he could tell something had really changed about her but he couldn't put his finger on it. She broke the silence. "Daryl, you found them?"

"We...kinda all found each other," he said giving her an assuring smile. "We'll tell ya about it after we get outta here."

Maggie pushed Beth in the wheelchair and they followed Daryl out into the hall. There were very few walkers to take out along their and then Beth realized something. "The doctors...did you kill them?"

"Just the ones that shot at us," said Daryl. "The others were already dead. Looks like walkers got 'em."

While Beth was relieved she was also scared when she heard the news. It was going to make telling the truth alot harder. All the while, she could sense Daryl eyeing her as if he knew she was hiding something. That was soon forgotten once the got to the doors. Rick had the medical van ready so Beth never had to leave her wheelchair, thankfully.

About 30 minutes into their drive, they saw a massive herd of walkers fast approaching the road and Rick was forced to put on the brakes. He made a sharp turn and nearly avoided collision. "Sh*t! That's our only way back to the group."

"We'll have to hold up somewhere for the night," said Maggie. "This herd's not gonna clear up for a while."

Rick drove around and found a nearby auto garage. All but one of the garage doors were closed which made Beth feel better because she could stay in the wheelchair. Once the van pulled into the open garage, Rick and Daryl got out to secure the area, then closed the last garage door.

"See what you can find," said Rick. "I'll take first watch."

"You okay, Beth?"

"Yeah," she told Maggie. In truth, she was starving, but she knew better than they did that there was little that could be done about it. Daryl was mulling around pretending to scavenge. He waited patiently until Maggie had walked away from Beth and then he approached her cautiously.

"Hey."

"Uh...hey."

"You haven't let go of that blanket since we found you. You cold or somethin'?"

It didn't take long for Daryl to catch onto Beth's hesitation. She had held the blanket to her in an unusual position ever since he saw her. She was pulling onto it very tightly like she was trying to stretch it out.

"Alright. I'm done with this." Daryl reached out to Beth's hand. "Stop! What are you doing, Daryl!"

"Tryin' to find out what you're hiding from me, girl."

"Please, don't!"

When Daryl pulled away that blanket, he would've been prepared for anything. After what the others had experienced at Terminus, he would not have been surprised to see Beth with her legs missing.

But this...he wasn't expecting at all.

Her legs were thankfully still intact. She was in the same scrubs as the other captives in the hospital wore...except her belly was sticking out, looking swollen. His mind drew a blank and then he realized, if his math was right...

...she had been missing for eight months.

Beth started to break the moment she saw Daryl go pale. What was the point, she thought. She couldn't hide her pregnancy forever.