They stood outside listening to the bats chirp as Daryl took slow drags on the cigarette's he'd found on two rotted corpses up in the hills. Beth's thighs prickled in the cold but there was something pleasant about that feeling. The whole experience had made her more attune to nature, so much so that the cushy double bed that nestled itself in the warm cabin they habited in didn't differ much to the pleasure of the soft earth and the warmth from a low open fire.
"Do you ever miss it? Out there, I mean?" she asked as a cloud of smoke spilled out of her own mouth as her warmth breath hit the cold air.
Daryl looked at her from the side, closed his eyes and sighed "sometimes".
There was a long pause so she lent against the wall and stared up at the large full moon that lit up the forest below it.
"We're safe here though. S'all that matters." Daryl grunted as he slid down on his back to sit on the floor. "Come here" he motioned as he looked up at her, his cigarette jutting out of the side of his mouth. Beth hesitated as she pulled at the hem of her sweater. Daryl rustled around in his pocked for a while before pulling out a black bandana that he placed next to him. Beth crotched down and sat herself on the piece of material, Daryl's arm slid around her waist and pulled her towards him.

"See those stars?" he asked as his hand reached up to point to what seemed like an infinite amount of glowing dots in the sky. Beth attempted to match her gaze but he could tell she was at a loss so he removed his hand from her waist and cocked her chin up to look at the stars. He removed his cigarette from his mouth and stubbed it out so he could press his cheek against hers in attempt to align their gaze. "That's Orion" he explained, "See his belt and shield?"
Beth nodded. "My Daddy used to know the stars" she responded with a heavy heart.
Daryl felt the sadness in her. "Most country folk know, suppose its up to me to teach ya." He replied as he placed his arm on her waist again and gave her a quick squeeze that made her yelp and crack a small smile. "Whenever Id have too much at home, used to just come out here and look at the stars. Calmed me right down." Daryl said steadily. "Know all of them."

Beth placed her head onto his shoulder. "I would be dead if it wasn't for you," she stated as she looked up with her big pools of blue that filled with silver light under the moon. Daryl looked down at her and felt the tugs of his heart. God she was beautiful, and she was his. "You would have made it" he eventually responded with a sense of sincerity as he caressed her side. His breath becoming increasingly ragged as he explored the dips and curves in her frame in a way he had never done so before. They'd held each other before but it was also static and guarded. Eventually she flinched a little as his hand began to fall lower onto her hip which was semi exposed due to the position she sat in. "Sorry" he mumbled as his hand froze still. They both sat in silence for a few seconds until her hand came up from nestling against her head and ever so slightly, carefully and particularly pulled up the side of her jumper. Daryl's hand came to rest on top of hers as her jumper raised high enough to expose the side of her cotton panties and the line of her hip bones that jutted out slightly from her petite frame.

"It's okay" she stuttered as she looked up at him once more, this time her eyelids heavier as she blushed.
"Fuck" he thought. "I want to…" he responded in a low tone as his grasp tightened on her hand in anticipation, he grasped it and stood up taking her with him. "Lets go inside" he said.