Chapter 4 – Confrontation

Authors note: Oh my god, have you guys seen the season 5 trailer ? Hehe, it looks amazing! Death predictions, I'm thinking Glenn…if y'all have read the comics you'll know why haha. What about Beth? Am I gonna have to change my story DX, aha just kidding, who knows what will happen. Like usual can y'all leave your reviews to what you thought of this chapter, the next chapter will be up in a couple of days

Thanks – Kayleigh c:

Beth lay with her eyes closed and Sam's petite head resting on her shoulder, she opened her eyes gradually at the sound of shuffling feet. She widened them to see the silhouette of someone, it was fairly dark and she couldn't make out exactly who it was, she lifted her head slightly and winced her eyes to make out that it was the silhouette of Joseph, he was trundling around the room, almost pacing, he was biting his fingernails frantically and quietly whispering to himself.

"Jo…Joseph?" Beth stammered, her voice was tired and cracking slightly. He looked up and stopped suddenly, he stared right at Beth, who had now sat up and adjusted Sam's head to fit onto her lap. She rubbed her eyes and yawned. "What're you doing?" She frowned at his blank expression.

No reply. He shook his head and turned around only to begin pacing and biting at his nails again.

"Joseph" Beth said bluntly, she wanted his attention now.

Still no reply.

"Joseph?" She stood to her feet, stumbling slightly, carefully resting Sam's head on the floor and reaching for the wall. "Jo…?" Tilting her head as she slowly shuffled towards him, she followed the wall with one hand, whilst she reached out with the other. She got a few inches away from him when he stopped dead in his tracks, this made Beth flinch, and she pulled away her hand. "Jo-"

"No don't! Don't come near me…it's over ha-ha! Don't you understand? All of it. Gone" His voice was sharp and unfriendly, he held his head in his hands and shook slightly.

"Gone..? What do you mean?" There was no reply leaking his lips. "Jo-" She crept closer and extended and arm out to place her hand on his shoulder.

"No!" He screamed and flung himself around to throw Beth's hand off of him; Beth was expecting everyone to awaken. She stared at him with her eyes wide, she had never seen Joseph act like this, he was just a sweet guy who had lost people like everybody else.

No one awoke.

"Jo…Joseph what's wrong?" Beth's voice was unsteady; she was scared. What just happened? She thought.

"You don't understand, you will never understand! Nobody will!" He held Beth's shoulders and gripped them tightly. He shook her frantically, like he was trying to shake the life out of her.

"Hey…Jo listen…it's alright, just, just take your hands off of me-" She held his hands where they were placed and attempted to loosen them slightly, all this did Beth found, was anger him.

"NO!" He left her standing there quite shaken and ran over to the wall; he frantically thumped it with his clenched fists and started yelling.

"GET ME OUT, GET ME OUT OF HERE!" He bellowed and managed to wake up the whole of the sleeping train car. Ellen sat up quickly and her eyes darted to Sam, clearly being her main priority and dashed over to where Sam was laying, she held her in her arms and stared worriedly at Beth. Addy had grabbed hold of the remaining children and sat huddled in a corner, she glared at Beth as if having a conversation through their minds, Beth imagined her saying "Do something".

So she did.

She scurried towards Joseph, grabbed his arms and held them tightly behind his back, he struggled for freedom and jolted himself backward knocking Beth down to the floor. She felt defeated, but Beth was tenacious and jumped back up to grab Joseph once more. She took hold of his arm and held it tightly and flung it around his back, he yelped in pain but still attempted to throw her off. She was persistent and held tighter; he desperately tried to loosen her from him but everything he tried failed. She could feel herself slipping as he flung himself forward, she felt herself clutching tighter as she urgently attempted to stay hold of Joseph, he grunted as his golden necklace hit him in the face from all of the commotion and she jumped on his back, kind of like an insane piggy-back.

Unexpectedly a large shunt of the floor made Beth loosen her grip from Joseph and he managed to relieve himself from her grasp, he exhaled as he ran toward the train car door which began to rattle as they got lowered, he put his hands up to it and stared at it almost like a rabid dog stares at its new found food and a large jolt knocked him flying into the side of the box, Beth sat up and blinked a few times before hearing the common sound of chains being removed from the train car door, she glared at the light and noticed the same two men at the entrance, one had a flashlight fitted onto the end of his AK, whereas the other man held one in his hand, they both looked at each other and nodded, then back at Joseph, they lowered their guns and grabbed hold of Joseph's arms, they yanked him out of the train car and Mary appeared in the doorway.

Beth could hear Joseph faintly behind the train car and his voice was getting further and further away. "Where are you taking me? What's going on? Where's everyone else?"

Mary put one foot in the train car and leaned into the darkness, Beth made eye contact with her instantly. "Beth? It's time for you to see G now" She called out to her and Beth slowly stood to her feet. "I didn't think she was serious…" Beth thought and slowly walked closer to Mary. "Ah, my dear there you are! Come with me" She grinned and led Beth out of the train car, Beth turned back to see Ellen. "Be careful" she mouthed to her and then looked down at Sam who had her face buried in Ellen's jumper.

Beth stepped out of the train car and Mary shut the door behind her, whilst she locked it up Beth realised how dark it was, her eyes hadn't adjusted and she could only see a small patch where a dim light shone from a faint streetlamp, underneath the lamp she noticed three men, one of which was Joseph, she was sure of it, his body structure was so distinct you could pick him out in a 'Where's Waldo' book. She winced her eyes and saw him being kneeled down by the men with AK's.

"What are they going to do to him?" She turned around to see Mary walking back from the train car, she fumbled around in her dirty apron and pulled out a flashlight, she handed it to Beth and took out a smaller one which she held. "You're gonna need this, it gets dark out" She ignored Beth's question and started walking in the opposite direction to Joseph. Beth held back and stared at Joseph, the men got closer and she saw Joseph holding up his hands and waving them frantically like he was surrendering to them, yet they still got closer.

Beth widened her eyes as she saw them go in front of Joseph's body and she lost sight of him entirely, she felt a rush of panic for her friend and began to swiftly walk towards him, only to get pulled back by Mary, she had a firm grip and glared at her before shaking her head, she then let go and gestured Beth to follow her, she did as she was told and trailed after Mary, giving one quick glance to Joseph before turning back and lining her flashlight up with her hips and pointing it directly forward. Even though every part of her body was screaming at her to go back, she clenched her fists and blocked out the thoughts. She sighed deeply and kept on walking.