Chapter 7
Daryl carried the lumber for Beth's new bed to the office and started to nail it together, he looked up when Beth walked in with Rick. Beth walked over and put Judith in her crib and then immediately took down the white curtains and moved the darker ones that had been facing C block over. Rick picked up the white ones and re hung them for Beth before sitting down.
"Daryl we got a problem, I need you to stay calm and listen while Beth tells you what happened." Rick replied. "In fact hand over your knife." Daryl's cross bow was lying against the wall by the door and Beth moved over to stand in front of it.
"What's going on?" Daryl asked abandoning the bed frame. "What happened?" Daryl replied standing up and backing away, not handing over his knife.
"Everyone's fine Daryl. Just give Rick your knife and I'll tell you what happened. It's going to upset you, and I just want you to listen and promise not to storm out of here after I tell you." Beth replied. Daryl moved over the desk and took his knife out and left it on the desk before moving back and leaning against the wall. He figured this was where Beth would leave him, tell him that she didn't want to be together anymore, that him yelling at her had scared her off. He couldn't believe that Rick and Beth thought he'd use his knife on them, "I was outside doing laundry, when I turned around to dry it I realized that Carter had followed me outside." Beth whispered, barely loud enough to be heard.
Daryl felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He looked Beth over, looking for any sign of bruises marks of any kind. "What the fuck happened?" He asked loudly. Judith started to whine. "Tell me!" Daryl screamed over the baby.
"He started to walk towards me and I told him to stop. He told me he wasn't breaking any rules, that the yard was a shared area. He than thanked me for the show I had put on the night before. The candlelight created shadows on the white curtains; he could see everything we were doing. He than asked he went on runs and got me things of he could do what we were doing. Then he said if he had been the one in here last night I wouldn't be walking right." Beth replied before moving over to calm Judith down. "He scared me and made me nervous. He didn't touch me Daryl; but I'm afraid of what he might eventually do. I know it's not fair, but I can't stay here with him here. I can't." Beth replied and moved over to sit on the futon with Rick.
Daryl walked over to the door and was about to storm out, but he heard Beth crying, and remembered that she had asked him not to leave.
'You have to take care of this Rick. If you don't, I will and I guarantee that me taking care of it will cause a lot of problems." Daryl all but spat before he moved over and sat on the desk. "What the fuck are you going to do?"
"I am going to pack of small bag of supplies and send him on his way. He'll be message for the other prisoners. " Rick replied.
"That's it? You're going to give him supplies and send him out? Rick you were a cop. You know exactly what he would have done of he had got the chance." Daryl spat. "You send him out with supplies, he won't go far. He'll wait for us to be gone on a run or something come back, not only to finish what he started with Beth, but with a vendetta against us to. Shane was a threat to us and you loved him, but you took care of the threat."
"What do you want me to do Daryl?"
"I want you to put a bullet in his head! We've been feeding and supplying medication for those free loaders, protecting them with our watches and one of them does this? Use him to put the fear of God in the other inmates. You say we've gone back to medieval times? What would happen if low born scum got out a line back then?"
"Stop it!" Beth cried. "We can't even decide what to do. We need to tell everyone what happened. Everyone. We can decide as a group about what to do. I don't want him here. That's my vote. I don't want him coming back either."
"Come down to the guard tower. I'll have Carol, Maggie, Hershel and Carl met us out there. We'll fill them in and decide what to do." Rick replied as he walked out of the room, leaving Daryl's knife on the futon.
"What exactly did he do and say. I know you were holding back." Daryl asked as he walked over and grabbed his knife before sitting down close to Beth.
"Does it matter? Wasn't that version bad enough?"
"It matters to me Beth! Just tell me. I need to know. I am not going to think less of you. This wasn't your fault. Carter is the one that was watching you and made you uncomfortable isn't it? I should have made you tell me. I should have taken care of it then!"
"And I told you if he did anything again I'd come right to you and let you know. And I did!" Beth exclaimed. Daryl just looked at her. "When I turned around with the laundry, he asked if I was lost in my own world, and started to walk towards me, and like I said I told him to stop right there. He called me a slut, thanked me for the show. He asked if I'd let him," Beth stopped and looked at Daryl, he looked strangely calm. Beth didn't want to continue.
"If you'd let him what." Daryl asked.
"If he went on a run and brought me back a pack of gum if I'd let him eat my sweet pussy." Beth looked down and blushed whispering the words.
"So not only did he threaten to fuck you until you couldn't walk, he also insinuated that you're only fucking me for supplies?" Daryl walked over and picked up his crossbow. "Grab the baby. We are taking care of this now."
Beth put on her sling and slide Judith back into it before walking over to the door Daryl help open, when she walked by, grabbed her arm and tilted her head up.
"I swear on my life I won't let anything happen to you. If Rick doesn't take care of this, and you want to leave. We'll leave." Beth laid her head against Daryl's chest and breathed. "I hope it doesn't come to that, but where you go I go."
Beth and Daryl made their way to watchtower, and caught the end of Rick filling everyone in on what had happened. Daryl filled them in on what had happened the day before.
"Beth why didn't you say anything before?" Maggie asked hugging her sister. "I'll kill him myself." Maggie replied picking up a rifle. Rick took the gun away.
"Beth not saying anything is my fault." Carol replied. "She told me she didn't like the way some of the prisoners were looking at her, and that they made her uncomfortable. I told her looking wasn't a big deal."
"You told me to tell Rick if they tried anything. I did. Don't blame yourself Carol. I was too embarrassed to tell you about everything."
Hershel had remained quiet through the whole conversation. He's want for Carter's blood went against everything he believed in. Life was sacred; there were too many threats in this world to let one fester in the world.
"This is not an easy decision, life is precious, but my daughters safety against a strangers? He can't be given another chance. There are some rules that don't need to be explained. He knew it was vile and wrong. He did it anyway." Hershel replied.
"Beth's already said she doesn't feel safe with him here, if he stays she's leaving, and if she goes, I go to." Daryl replied.
"If we just send him out or kill him the others might riot." Glenn replied. "We need to let them know why were decided to send him out."
"You really think they give two rats asses about each other? Once they find out how far back he pushed any progress any of them had made in regards to gaining our trust they'd likely string him up themselves." Daryl replied.
"Are you saying we let them deal with him?" Maggie asked. "Can you all act like men here? He violated our trust; he sexually intimidated my little sister. I am not going to take a chance of him doing it again!"
"No Glenn's right." Rick replied. "Daryl and Glenn come with me. Bring your riffles. We go to tell the prisoners that Carter has to go and why. If any of them have a problem, they can follow him out the gate."
Author's Note
I am gutted by the mid season finally. As of right now I have no intention of even remotely following the direction of the show. Writing this chapter was had, and I am sorry it's not as long.
