Chapter 7: No Secrets On The Third Floor

Conversation over dinner had Rick and Daryl deciding to leave at in two mornings. Beth stayed out of it, but the guys knew it was for the best. Daryl was healing up fine, the extra hands needed around the place had thinned and Abby made it seem as if they had overstayed their welcome. Mostly Daryl but Rick felt it to. On some level their being here had unsettled the balance of this island community.

"We'll wrap it up tomorrow night and leave the next morning." Rick was back in charge of things, laying out a plan.

Daryl knew he was right and even though he didn't have anyone to get back to, they both did. "Cas said an hour by boat, maybe I can get that worked out." He liked the idea better than walking or trying to hot wire cars. They could be in Savannah by mid-day.

Beth paced in the kitchen as the guys talked. Her butt was a little too sore to sit and she loved the feeling of it. Rick kept his eyes down, he didn't look at her when Daryl was there. They sipped coffee and talked about a game plan for finding there people once they got to the city. "Ya okay to travel?" He glanced down to Daryl's side.

If his stiches could endure the sex he had been having then walking and killing walkers, travel would be easy. He nodded.

"Did ya ask if she wants to come with us?" Rick had been watching Daryl and Cassie as closely as Daryl had been watching him and Beth. No secretes on the third floor for sure. He had figured out that Abby and Cassie were done and Cassie had been displaced. "She might not be welcome by the Mayor anymore." Daryl just shook his head, he hated knowing that he was the cause of Cassie's mess.

"I'll talk to her." He got up grabbed the thermos that Beth had prepped for him, she also found some jerky that they had made and put it in a bag for him. Always the caretaker.

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Rick and Beth went up to their room, she laid face down on his bed and waited to see what he was going to do. Rick saw the bottle of hand lotion on the bed side and picked it up. "I was hoping you could rub some on me." She smiled her wicked smile.

He flopped down on her bed, well it had been hers for the first night they were but it wasn't anybody's now. He held the bottle in his hand. "Cause I needed a reason to want to touch you more." He dragged his arm over his eyes. He had fucked this up all, abandoned his family, almost lost his best friend, violated the patriarchs' daughter six ways to Sunday, she had chanced too much just by being with him. He felt her climb into bed with him he wanted to push her away, to send her back to the other bed. He moved so they could share.

"Stop acting like you did something wrong Rick." She hated that he wore his pain on his face. Always had, and now it was pain that they had created together. Only she didn't think it was pain, she thought what they had done together was beautiful, even if it was a little different. "Every time I look at you I feel bad about what we are doing. And I hate that." She knew from the start that he would have a hard time seeing her as the woman she had become but she couldn't take the look of regret that he seemed to be mastering.

This wasn't a fight, it was simply a conversation. Rick twirled her hair through his fingers. "I know." He wanted to say more but he didn't know how to string the words together. "Turn over." No more talking, he just wanted to touch her again. She unbuttoned her pants and he worked them down to her hips, her ass wasn't red anymore just maybe a little swollen. He poured some of the lotion right onto her skin and she jumped at the coldness. He traced patterns in the lotion then went for a full-on massage, she purred at his touch.

More of the cool lotion and he rubbed her skin till his fingers found his way into her pussy. She was wet for him, warm and tight. How could he stop being with her. In a world gone to shit where he had lost so much, these moments with Beth were his refuge. She seemed to understand him on the primal level that he needed to have. Maybe they could still find ways to sneak around. Maybe Hershel would understand. Rick knew it would never happen.

He spread her legs and slid off the bed so that he could get a better angle at licking and sucking her, Rick dragged her to the edge with him. She tasted heavenly. Beth moaned as his tongue found her most intimate places. She was being louder than normal, she needed him to know how much she love what he did to her. She slid her arms behind herself and clasped her own hands behind her back, self-restraining. Rick did not miss what she had done and it made him hard, dripping to be inside of her.

His fingers fucked her deeper and she lifted her ass just a bit for a better angle. "Take me daddy. I need you inside me." She was fidgeting with desire and he wasn't going to give up this opportunity. Rick had every intention of taking her but at his pace tonight. He wanted to make this last as long as possible. He continued licking her pussy, gently sucking and fingering. She came without warning and he swallowed it all. Just as she thought he might give her body a rest he would change position and start again. She came over and over and never once gave him the release he needed. He loved the way her orgasm took over her body including her face, she'd chew at her lip and her eyelids would flutter. He would never forget that face.

She finally pushed his face away from her, she never though she would do such a thing but she needed a break from his mouth and the way his beard scraped her thighs. "Kiss me." He crawled up her body and she licked at his face, he was covered in her juices and she knew how much he enjoyed when she tasted herself on him. "Fuck me Rick. Please, I need your cock inside me." No young voice, only her mature tone to go with her mature words.

He obliged her, he wanted to take her bareback, not barrier between them, but that was a bad idea. He stroked his cock while she slid the condom onto him.

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Two nights in a row Cassie was waiting for him when he got to the watch. She had nothing else to do but wait for him. She leaned on the far railing and looked out at the tree line. She felt like her senses were keener since she had trained a bit. She was bent at the waist, elbows on the rail waiting for him to get closer and she was delighted when he grabbed her hips and pulled her ass to his straining cock. He rocked against her, hard and ready for her.

"Missed you too." She wiggled back against him.

Their time at the beach had made Daryl comfortable and playful, both things he didn't know how to handle, but he went along with the feelings he was having. "Who says I missed you." He humped slightly against her ass and she let him. He leaned into her and kissed her shoulder.

She laughed at him for being a smart ass, "Fine. I missed your cock. The rest of you, ehh." She found his hand and pulled it to her breast, she modeled the action she wanted him to take and he followed immediately. He rubbed her tits through her shirt and she loved the way they always felt like teenagers in the back seat of a car, trying things out. "Wanna fuck?"

She seemed tuned into the feral side of Daryl. "Yeah." He went for the buttons on her pants and let them slide down to her ankles. He wanted to take her hard and deep and this position was perfect. He took the condom out of his pocket and dropped his pants. Jeans bunched at his ankles he entered her without more than a cursory check to see if she was ready first, he wasn't being rough, just wanton. He needed to feel her squeezed around him. She was tight, as if they hadn't done this just hours before. She pushed back into him and they quickly found a rhythm that was good for both of them. "Gonna cum quick." He wasn't ashamed to admit it.

"God yeah." She was on the edge and knew that once he started to spasm and spurt she was done for. She took his hand in hers and brought it to her mouth, she bit gently on the fleshy part of his hand as she tried to stifle her moaning of her own orgasm. They were coming together. He bucked into her and she welcomed it.

By the time they were done and settled into the rocking chairs the wind had picked up, he covered them both in a blanket and they watched out over the view. He held her hand under the blanket.

"Not much longer." He squeezed her hand.

"I know." She had been dreading this conversation but it had to be had.

Daryl swallowed hard, "Come with us?" It was not at all what she had expected. She thought for sure that they were going to ask if they could stay. Which she still wasn't sure how she would handle, but this was better.

"You sure you want me to come with you?" She looked his way to read his face.

Daryl laughed. "Always like it when you cum with me." He had a boyish smirk, she loved it. "Yeah. If you want. Four's a good number." He traced his fingers along the back of her hand.

The offer seemed like a good idea. There was no real place for her here without being with Abby and Abby was not going to take her back after all of this. But Cassie was not built for the life it took to walk across a state killing walkers and fighting to survive. Hell, Daryl was a pro at it and somehow he had managed to get shot. "I don't know." She wanted to flat out say no but she couldn't.

"Think about it." He wasn't going to beg her or plea his case, but Daryl didn't want to leave this place without her. He really enjoyed having someone to have sex with, sit quietly with and honestly, he was falling hard for her. He really did want her to come to Savannah.

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Rick had pulled out and took off the condom just before he came. He wanted to paint her skin with him semen. Beth was wide eyed as she watched it spurt from him and land on her stomach then her breasts. He came hard and crashed next to her as she traced her fingers through the white streaks of cum and licked her fingers. He watched her, she was beautiful and dirty and his. He had marked her even if no one else would ever see it.

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Daryl ran into Abby in the kitchen the next morning, almost literally. He was going to grab two thermoses of water then hit the weapons shed. "Taking Cassie into the woods again?" Abby knew everything that happened on her island.

"She wants to train." He looked past her to the cabinet, he couldn't look at the woman he knew was hurting because of him.

Abby challenged his steps. She wanted to scream at him for ruining her relationship and for upsetting the calm in their isolation. He found that damn walker and killed it, first killing on this island. Daryl stepped past her and filled the thermos with water from the pump.

"Rick says you are leaving tomorrow." Abby wanted to make sure they were all on the same page.

He nodded. He wanted to say that he had invited Cassie but it wasn't his place.

Abby turned her back to him, "Make sure you do. No need for you all to be staying." Her temper was peaking and she wanted to fight with someone.

She stormed down the hall and into the infirmary. Cassie was packing up a few first aid supplies for her training session, just in case. She looked blank as Abby stood in front of her. "I knew someday you would leave me for a man. I knew before the world went crazy. On our first date you scoped some guy at the bar."

Cassie knew the guy she was talking about. He had been so sexy and she thought the three of them could share a night, but Abby wasn't that kind of woman. All her friends had told her not to date a gay woman, it would never work.

"Daryl asked me to go with them tomorrow." If Abby asked her to stay, she wouldn't say no, but she didn't expect that to happen. She kept packing supplies including Daryl's antibiotics. She would bottle the rest of his doses for him.

Abby was shocked, she never thought of Cassie leaving. "Is that what you want?"

She had thought about all of her options. This one made the most sense even though it would take the most adjustment for her. She felt like she had gone through so much with Daryl already, why not make a go of things. Emotions were too raw to contain any more. Cassie's eyes welled up. Abby's heart broke watching her cry. She hugged her till the tears were gone. It was their final goodbye.

They met behind the barn he could tell she had been crying. "Ya 'kay?" They walked side by side back toward the tree line. She didn't say anything, just took the pack with water and food from him. He didn't need her to speak.

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Beth saw the clouds beginning to turn pink. Rick was sound asleep beneath her. She thought back to the night before, how he has gently restrained her, not enough to leave any marks, but enough to turn them both to fire. He made love to her, not just sex, but love. He filled her deep and she shattered around him. It had been a long time since he had been so completed by sex and Rick resolved at that moment that he could not be done with Beth. No matter what Hershel or Carl said, he would never be able to get past Beth.

She carefully crawled down his naked body making sure not to wake him. He was already half hard and she licked him from base to tip without using her hands. He cock stirred and she was steadily sucking him as he woke. "That's Daddy's good girl." Still half asleep Rick let her take her time as she played and teased. Shallow stokes alternated with gagging deep ones, she was getting better at it though. She knew with enough practice she would never choke, though he seemed to like it when she gagged a bit. Their difference in experience and her desire to be dominated would always fuel their relationship. He was fully awake as he came in her mouth and she submissively swallowed, savoring the taste as if it might be her last.

"You know I can't let you go Beth." Rick was putting it all out there, even if it scared the crap out of him.

Beth kissed him and he delighted in her naughtiness. She was going to be the only thing that got him through this shit world now. "Good."

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The sun came up and streamed into the room, Daryl and Cassie were tangled in limbs and sheets. He woke to the breaking dawn and kissed her hair. Her chocolate brown locks were all over him and he was content for the time, she had agreed to come to Savannah with them and Beth and Rick seemed pleased enough with the decision.

Her breathing changed, she was awake too. His hand found her nipple and he twisted and pulled. She sighed as he manhandled her and he enjoyed the sounds she made at his touch. "You sure the rest of your group will be okay with me being there?" She was still scared to leave her safe place.

Daryl licked her neck, sucking and kissing. "Fuck'em if they don't". He had never needed a woman in his life, not like this, and couldn't imagine leaving this one behind. He was happy that she had agreed to travel with them. He had denied her an orgasm till she said yes yesterday, licking her pussy after training even though she had protested that she was too sweaty for such intimacy. He had been surprised that she had been shy as normally she was the aggressor, but this sweaty, wild side turned him on. He feasted between her legs bringing her to the brink and back and told her that is she wanted an orgasm she'd have to agree to come to Savannah. She finally twisted in his hair and panted out, 'Fine I'll go just make me cum already!'

"Todd said he would drive the boat to Savannah and back. Any luck we will be back with your group by lunch time. Looks like we have a little private time left." She reached for his throbbing cock. "One more fuck before we lose it all together?" She stroked him and he rolled her onto her back.

Leaning close to her lips he spoke softly. "I could try. Somethin' more. Intimate." He wished he had learned to make love at some point in his years. He hoped someday he would.

Cassie pulled at the little patch of grey in his beard. "No, right now just fuck me Daryl. You're stuck with me now, we'll learn how to move love later." She kissed him deep and moaned loudly, there were no secrets on the third floor.