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~ Author's Note ~
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Some smut and discoveries ahead as you can probably tell from the chapter title lol.
Hope you likey!
Chapter Eight
- Revelations -
Beth could admit it, she was nervous.
But she was also incredibly turned on and excited to do this, she just hoped she did it right, and made it feel really good for him.
She caught his eyes as she went to unbutton his shirt and he helped her as she worked from the bottom while he worked from the top so they met in the middle. She explored his strong chest and stomach with her curious fingers, lips and tongue as he threaded his fingers in her hair and whispered her name like a prayer.
She looked up at Daryl as she proceeded to unbuckle his belt and open his jeans, and she saw his eyes turn into pools of darkness. He caressed her face before his thumb began tracing her lips, she flicked her tongue out to touch it and the blue of his eyes was engulfed by his blown pupils. His thumb pushed into her mouth and she swirled her tongue around it before sucking on it teasingly and she saw his throat work as he swallowed.
Beth slowly released his glistening thumb and cupped him through his boxers making him hiss. She pulled his jeans and boxers down and off his legs to toss somewhere in the corner and her gaze caught on his hard cock resting on his stomach above his balls.
She licked her lips and wondered how she was going to fit him inside her mouth without hurting him with her teeth. She heard him groan and as she looked up into his eyes she trailed her hands up his thighs and pushed in between his legs.
"Christ girl, you sure?" His voice was a deep rumble that trembled slightly.
She leaned down to kiss the tip of him and she felt him twitch against her lips making her smirk up at him before pulling away.
"Fuck, you're a little tease, y' know that?"
She gave him the most innocent look she could muster while being completely naked and he scoffed at her antics.
"Ain't falling for that again." Daryl shook his head at her and she smiled as she gripped his cock in her hand to stroke him slowly and gently causing him to hiss in a breath. She gripped his balls in her other hand before licking her lips and moving them closer to the head of his already glistening cock.
Beth didn't move her eyes from his blown wide pupils as she flicked her tongue out to taste the salty tang of him before swirling her tongue around the tip and wrapping her lips around him to slowly suck him in to her mouth.
"Fuck girl." His fists clenched the sheets and his jaw fell open at the sight of her and the sensation she was creating before he felt the scrape of her teeth.
"Mind your teeth sweetheart," he gasped, Beth blinked and hummed in recognition before adjusting her lips and pulling him from her mouth.
"Sorry." She swallowed and caught her breath.
"Nah you're alrigh. Y' didn' hurt me." He gulped as she stroked him, pulling the foreskin back and sucking him into her wet mouth again and his head fell back as he rested on his elbows.
Her pace quickened, and soon she started using her hands as well as her mouth making him moan before biting his lip. He threaded his fingers into her soft hair as her head bobbed up and down on him.
"Use your tongue girl," Daryl growled and she hummed before following his advice and part of him wanted to kick himself because he would like this to last longer but with the way his cock was pulsing in her hot mouth he knew he wasn't going to last long at all.
It was a lot more complicated then she ever would have dreamed; she had to mind her teeth, use her tongue, remember to breath through her nose, swallow the build up of saliva in her mouth and suck, all at once. But it was worth it because it created noises from him she had never heard him make before and she could see in his eyes how much he was enjoying what she was doing. It made her feel powerful to pull those moans and grunts from his lips, to see his hips jerk, feel his cock pulse and twitch and feel the grip of his fist in her hair fighting to not control her bobbing head.
"Fuck Beth, m'gonna cum," Daryl growled, and he didn't want to mistakenly keep her mouth on him forcing her to swallow his seed, so he released her hair to grip the sheet beneath him. But she didn't move, she just kept sucking his cock, her pace quickening and her eyes flashing up at him and he looked at her desperately as he tried to stop his hips from roughly pumping up into the back of her throat; he didn't want to hurt her.
"Beth, Jesus fucking Christ m'gonna cum," he warned her again, but she still didn't move and fuck he was cuming. He bit his lip to keep from shouting out his release to the whole fucking prison as agonizing pleasure shot right from his dick to spread throughout his entire being like fireworks under his hot skin.
Beth swallowed as he erupted in her mouth, hitting the back of her throat and he came so hard and so heavily some of it escaped her lips to trail down his pulsating cock. It didn't taste great, but it didn't taste bad either and it was Daryl - his pleasure - so she swallowed him down and slowed her speed to gently bring him back down to her.
He laid on his back with his arm covering his eyes and his chest heaving in deep fast breaths.
"You okay?" she asked him, feeling a little concern until he slowly removed his arm and pushed up onto his elbows with a grunt.
"Fuck girl, you're gonna give me a heart attack one o' these days." He smiled and shook his head, Beth smiled happily.
"You alrigh?" he asked frowning at her.
She giggled. "Why wouldn't I be?"
He shrugged, touching her face and stroking her chin with his thumb before wiping it on his shirt, she blushed and looked away.
"Y' didn't have t' … you know." Daryl bit the side of his thumbnail, now it was his turn to blush making her smile softly and shrug.
"I wanted to." Beth paused before asking shyly, "So was it okay?"
"Okay? Fuck Beth, y' were amazing," he answered incredulously, and she beamed.
"Good, because I really liked doing it." She smirked at him when he gulped from her response.
Beth then shivered from the cold that suddenly passed through her naked body, travelling from her red knees touching the concrete floor up to form goose-bumps across her scalp and she rubbed her arms.
"Fuck Beth, come 'ere." Daryl gripped her arms and pulled her up to sit on his lap and wrapped his arms around her.
He hissed as her skin touched his. "You're fucking freezing. Shit, I'm sorry girl."
When he saw her scraped knees his jaw clenched and his eyes darkened, and not like before from arousal. Beth could tell he was angry, really angry with himself.
"It's okay Daryl." She burrowed into his heat and he wrapped the blanket around her shivering shoulders and rubbed her arms and back before kissing her head softly.
"Nah girl, you'll catch your death," he growled unhappily. Warmth seeped into her from the friction of his hands rubbing her and the heat from his body touching hers.
His fingers traced her scraped knees that didn't hurt her, not even a little but he scowled. Beth touched under his chin to raise his eyes to hers and kissed him softly. "I'm fine Daryl really, it's nothing." She shook her head and smiled showing him how amused he made her. "Next time, we'll put a pillow down, okay?" She smirked.
"Next time huh?" He raised his brow in question.
"Well I mean if you don't want to…" She made to leave his lap and he quickly pulled her closer to him and nipped her neck making her giggle.
"That tickles." She smiled, laughing at his playfulness before catching his eyes with hers, and the way he was looking at her made her unable to look away from him.
"What?" She tilted her head in curiosity.
"Nothin'" he replied, but he didn't move his eyes from hers.
"There is something, why're you lookin' at me like that?" She smiled at him softly, but he looked down at his hand that rested on her knee, his thumb stroking softly.
"Just wonderin' what the hell I did to be so lucky." He shrugged and cautiously glanced back up to her suddenly widening eyes.
"Oh Daryl." He looked away again and she placed her hand on his cheek to bring his eyes back to hers.
"You deserve better than this, better than me," she told him, and he shook his head while looking at her as if she had grown horns. "You do, you're a great man and you deserve a great woman, I've hardly done anything with my life." She snorted. "I can hardly even shoot a gun Daryl." She swallowed at her admittance. It was true, she had started to learn at the farm but then nobody had ever offered to teach her after and she'd never asked, she had been afraid that they would turn her down and tell her without meaning to what she had really thought about herself; that she was useless in this world and she would die if this place ever fell or she left the walls on a run.
"Hey, don't talk like that. I don't want anybody but you and I'm being a selfish bastard takin' all these firsts from y' that you should be doin' with someone better than an old trailer trash redneck like me," he told her sternly.
"You don't talk like that, the only person who thinks that about you, is you. I'm surprised you didn't laugh me out of your cell that morning the way I came on to you." Beth blushed at the memory.
"Best thing that ever happened t' me," he murmured while looking straight at her and her eyes watered at his sweet words. "Hey, didn't mean t' make y' cry sweetheart." Daryl's arm tightened around her and his hand cupped her cheek to brush away the tear that slid from her eye.
"I know, you can be so sweet sometimes Daryl Dixon." She smiled before kissing him, wrapping her arms around his neck and tilting her head to kiss him deeper. The blanket fell from her shoulders and Daryl righted it back on her without stopping his sweet kisses.
When they pulled apart for breath he asked her shyly. "You my girl Beth?" And she had to control herself before she shed more tears at his question; like it was even a question in the first place.
"Yes Daryl, as long as you'll have me, I'm your girl." He stared into her eyes before kissing her again. Beth then felt him harden against her thigh and was about to help him out when they heard a little cry from Judith downstairs stopping their deepening kisses. She sighed resting her head against his and he chuckled.
"Better get you dressed and out of here," Daryl whispered while caressing her back and thigh.
"Yeah." She sighed again; she was getting sick and tired of this sneaking around thing.
Beth left her comfy spot on his thigh and proceeded to get dressed after handing him his balled-up jeans and boxers and he took them with a smirk. As she dressed herself he watched her, and when she turned her back to him to bend over and step into her panties she heard him groan and when he lightly smacked her ass with the back of his hand she turned and gave him a fake outraged look before shaking her head at him causing him to laugh. She loved that sound; the sound of a real laugh was so rare from Daryl it made it that more precious and real when he did it.
Beth finished dressing and kissed him softly before whispering her goodbyes and peeking out of the cell to check that the coast was clear. When she silently made her way to her room she had the biggest smile she thought she had ever worn lighting up her face.
Michonne was standing outside enjoying the cool morning air brushing across her skin. It was sunrise and she was on her way to replace Rick in the guard tower when she spotted him up there looking through the binoculars at something. Odd thing was he wasn't looking outside the gates, he was looking inside. Michonne instantly felt adrenaline begin to pump throughout her body and her hand instinctively went to the handle of her trusty katana but just as she gripped it she saw what Rick was looking at and it wasn't walkers or enemies - no Governor anywhere to be seen - it was Daryl standing by his bike over at the spot they parked their cars and he wasn't alone, Beth walked out from behind a car with Judith on her hip smiling about something or other.
It wasn't an odd scene, Michonne had often seen them around each other - especially when Judith was there pulling on Beth's braid - and the prison was a small packed place, but what was odd was the fact that not only was Rick watching them like a stalker, Daryl was smiling, and not his usual smirk or half smile but really smiling.
It was odd to say the least.
Daryl laughed at something Beth said while placing his hand on the small of her back and then he gently, lovingly, kissed her forehead before they disappeared behind a car Daryl was no doubt working on. Michonne just stood there and wondered if maybe she was having a really strange but vivid dream, did Daryl Dixon - scowling, grumpy, not liking to be touched Daryl Dixon - just laugh out loud and voluntarily touch… no… kiss Beth Greene?
She looked around and thankfully no one else was out yet since it was still so early and when she looked up at Rick she noticed he wasn't watching them anymore. Michonne worried for a second that he might tell Hershel of what he saw, Rick was a father and she knew he still saw Beth as a little girl and not the grown up she's always been in Michonne's eyes. She thought that girl was wise for her years and she suspected it had a lot to do with how Hershel had raised her.
She doubted Hershel would be happy to find out from someone other than his daughter that she was …. whatever Beth was doing with Daryl Dixon behind her father's back. Michonne didn't usually like to get involved in other people's business but she liked Beth, she was good and sweet, and she grudgingly admitted she liked Daryl too and this had the potential to become a serious situation if handled incorrectly and she didn't want to see that happen.
Decided, she continued her way to the tower to take over watch but before she did that, she needed to have some words with Rick Grimes.
Rick was lucky Daryl didn't look up and see him creeping on them a moment ago. He felt stupid doing it, but he was still a cop at heart and cops were curious and hated mysteries. Well, mystery solved, it was Beth that Daryl was secretly seeing and after seeing Daryl so happy next to her, after seeing him kiss her gently without hesitation he really got it, he understood them being together better now.
The hatch door to the tower pushed up and Rick saw Michonne make her way inside. He liked Michonne, she was tough and smart, but he wished she wouldn't leave for such long periods of time in her search for the Governor, he always worried she may never come back when she did.
"Hey, it's all clear. Seems to be quiet for now," he told her as he handed her the binoculars.
"Wait a sec," she said before tilting her head in invitation to join her out at the railing. Rick followed without hesitation, curious about what it was she wanted to talk to him about.
"How long have you known about Daryl and Beth?" She smirked and raised her brows at him.
"Shit." Rick shook his head. "Couple days." He nodded. "You?"
"Saw you looking at something inside the gates with these." She held up the binoculars. "Looked over that way, saw them, saw Daryl kiss her."
Rick pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. "Y' can't tell no one. Daryl doesn't even know I know."
"I won't, I was worried you might. Guess you don't see Beth as a little girl anymore. When'd you figure that out?"
Rick snorted. "Couple days ago."
Michonne shook her head at him. "If they get caught by someone who doesn't know either of them they might think the wrong thing and tell Hershel, and that won't be good. Secrets don't stay secrets for long here," Michonne warned him but she figured he already knew this, he just needed a reminder.
"I'll have a word with Daryl." Rick sighed at the thought. "If you have a word with Beth."
Michonne was quiet for a moment before sighing herself and nodding. "Deal."
Beth was in the library looking for a new book to read when she felt a presence behind her. Turning, she expected to see Daryl since she hadn't heard anyone enter the room, but it was Michonne, and she was leaning up against the end of a bookshelf to her right.
"Oh, hi Michonne, what's up?"
"Expecting someone else?" Michonne smirked and she had a knowing look in her eye that made Beth fidget.
"Um… no." She laughed nervously.
"Not expecting … Daryl?" She whispered his name in amusement and Beth's eyes went wide. "Relax, I'm not here to lecture or tell anyone, I'm here to let you know that I know, and Rick knows too so someone else is bound to figure it out as well. Luckily Rick and I don't want Hershel to shoot Daryl if he finds out from the wrong person, the right person being ….?"
"Me," Beth murmured, and Michonne looked at her kindly before nodding.
"I know, I've just been… scared, what if telling him scares Daryl away? I'm afraid daddy will be disappointed in me as well, not for being with Daryl but for not telling him straight away. It just all happened so fast and I didn't want to complicate things with everyone knowing and-" She stopped her rambling to take in a breath and straighten out the book she had practically twisted into something not resembling a book anymore.
"Just tell Hershel the truth… or… end things with Daryl," Michonne advised her softly.
Beth's eyes widened, before she rushed out, "I can't end things with Daryl I lo-" Beth clamped her hand over her mouth and her eyes widened in surprise.
"Well, I guess you have your answer." Michonne smiled at her.
Beth slowly removed her hand and swallowed. "Yeah, I guess I do. Oh God." Beth suddenly needed to sit down.
Michonne actually laughed before steering her to a seat, and thankfully not the seat her and Daryl had used.
Beth loved him, she really did. She couldn't imagine being with anyone else, she just wanted to be with him and only him. The thought of leaving him, of something happening to him had her tearing up and so she thought of how he had looked at her that morning, how he had called her his girl, and her chest tightened. Yeah, she really loved Daryl Dixon and she needed to tell him, and her dad.
It was late afternoon and Daryl was about to take a break from tinkering with his bike when Rick approached him with a cautious look in his eyes. He stopped a couple feet from Daryl, before planting his hands on his hips and squinting into the distance. Daryl knew from the way he was acting that Rick had something to say, something he was sure Daryl wouldn't like.
"I know Daryl." Rick looked right at him as Daryl stood wiping his greasy hands on his red rag and his stomach plummeted. "I know about you and Beth, that it's been her you're seeing."
Daryl's jaw clenched and his head fell to look at his feet before turning his back on Rick to stalk a couple paces away and back again before rubbing his hands on his face. "Shit." He stopped and looked at Rick to see he didn't look angry or disgusted. "I didn't take advantage man I swear, I wouldn't ev-"
Rick cut him off with a hand on his shoulder and a fierce look in his eyes. "I know, you would never do that and Beth wouldn't let you, it's all good." He squeezed his shoulder again before slapping it. "I'm happy for you."
Daryl looked at him closely before sighing and dropping his head in relief, and the relief was so strong it brought tears to his eyes so he again walked away to self-consciously wipe them away before stopping in front of a smiling Rick.
"Thanks man." Daryl coughed, Rick nodded and then smirked at Daryl making his body tense.
"Michonne knows too," Rick admitted, and Daryl groaned making Rick chuckle.
"Listen man, I don't mean to stick my nose in your business but…"
"You're goin' to anyway," Daryl finished for him.
"Yep." Rick nodded and Daryl exhaled roughly.
"Alrigh' let me hear it." Daryl crossed his arms in preparation.
"Y' need to tell Hershel." Rick decided not to beat around the bush as he knew Daryl hated that.
"Shit," Daryl replied and dug the heels of his hands into his eyes. "Fuck, I know."
"It's better if he doesn't hear it from someone that might get the wrong idea," Rick told him kindly.
"Yeah, I know man." Daryl sighed, he didn't want to think about that though. "How'd you find out anyway?" Daryl wondered.
"I heard Maggie and Beth having a similar conversation to the one we had, put two and two together. Bit of a shock honestly, didn't know for sure until I saw you two here earlier, saw you kiss her." Rick smirked at Daryl, raising brows in question and to show his surprise at Daryl's actions.
"Yeah that was stupid, wasn' thinkin'. Fuck, Hershel is gonna kill my ass," he groaned.
"Y' don't know that Daryl, just be honest and respectful. You'll do fine, but you should probably tell Beth before you do."
Daryl looked at him incredulously, "I ain't stupid Rick." Rick raised his hands defensively.
"Alrigh', just trying to help."
Daryl sighed at himself and nodded at Rick. "I know man, thanks."
"You love her?" Rick suddenly asked him making Daryl's breath catch and his heart start to race.
"Fuck, I dunno." He scuffed his booth along the concrete ground scattering pebbles. "Ain't never felt like this before, how do y' know if you're in love?" He glanced up to see Rick looking at him closely.
"Y' just figure it out. You want to be around her constantly, you think about her constantly, you want what's best for her even if it isn't you. You'd die for her, kill anyone that even thought of hurting her in any way, and you want to make her happy, provide for her, spend the rest of your life with her making her happy. That's what love is." Rick shrugged a bit self-consciously.
Daryl realized he felt all of that and more, Christ he was really and truly fucked, and he couldn't be happier about it.
Beth was alone in her room sitting on her cot thinking of what she had just realized not an hour ago, she was in love with Daryl Dixon.
She knew they needed to talk and they needed to do this right, so they had to figure out some stuff, but first she needed to know if Daryl was ready to take the next step with her and tell her dad everything, come out in public as it were. She hoped he did, she thought maybe he did, she prayed he did.
Beth was nervous, but it needed to be done.
They had just finished dinner and as she sat there sorting through her thoughts she saw him walk past her cell. "Daryl." She swallowed her nerves down and he stopped before looking over at her in surprise, he had obviously been caught off guard which shocked her, he must have been in deep thought.
He slowly walked to her cell door, but he didn't enter.
She smiled softly at him "Can we talk?"
"Yeah." Daryl nodded. "Library, tonight. I got guard duty in an hour, meet y' after?"
"Okay," Beth replied.
Daryl stood there just looking at her for a while and she looked at him and she knew tonight would be the night that they decided to either stop sneaking around and make it official between them or it was the night he broke her heart and told her that they shouldn't to this anymore. She didn't know which it would be and butterflies erupted in her belly. She was scared-scared that Daryl would think he was doing the right thing by letting her go, scared that he would come to the realization that she was just a silly little girl.
Someone called Daryl's name and he smiled softly at her before nodding and turning to leave.
Beth lay down and tried to nap until their talk later, but she couldn't, all she could think of was how after tonight things were going to change, everything was going to change.
~ Author's Note ~
I know that was a lot of little parts and perspectives, so I hope it didn't throw you off too much.
So, as you can tell a big talk is about to happen and I think we all know what they'll agree to do about Hershel so look forward to that talk also.
Let me know what you thought? What you're looking forward to reading? That would be wonderful!
Thanks guys have a great day and see you next time! 😊
Edited: 05/May/19
