A/N: I'm sorry the last chapter was so dark but just as a warning, there will be more of that in future chapters. Not this one though. Hopefully y'all find this to be a bit more...hopeful...maybe?

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*Flashbacks will be in Italics.

Chapter 10

"Where do you want me to put her?" Rick asked when he brought Beth back to the camp.

"Over there in that tent," Maggie said, pointing towards a tent that wasn't close to the others.

They had set up a tent far enough away from theirs that Beth wouldn't feel trapped when she woke up but close enough they could keep an eye on her.

As soon as she was in the tent, Carol and Sasha inserted an IV. Bob had suggested keeping her medicated but not sedated for a few days so she could get used to bein' around them.

Maggie was in Daryl's tent with him and Caroline.

When Daryl brought Caroline back, she was cryin' hysterically so they both tried to calm her down.

"My mommy don't love me," she kept tellin' them.

"That's not true, sweetie. She just needs to get better," Maggie assured her.

Daryl held Caroline close to him all night.

"She's been out for two days, do you think she's awake yet?" Maggie asked, looking towards Beth's tent.

Bob shrugged, "We gave her a good bit of meds. She could be out for a few more days."

"Shouldn't we at least check on her?" She asked.

Bob looked at her and then at Daryl, "Only one of you should go. We don't know how she's gonna react and we don't want her to get scared of us."

Daryl and Maggie looked at each other and without discussing it, Daryl stood and started towards Beth's tent.

"Wait," Michonne said, "if she's awake, she'll need to eat." She handed him a bowl of beans and he nodded.

Carol handed him a bottle of water and two pills, "See if she'll take these."

Caroline, who was with Judith and little Beth playin' with a doll, started walkin' towards Maggie when she saw Daryl heading to her mama's tent.

Beth slowly woke up to the sounds of people talkin' and children laughin'.

She started to panic until she realized she was alone. She didn't recognize the tent but at least no one was in there with her, though she figured someone was probably outside keepin' watch.

She didn't want them to know she was awake so she laid there reliving things she had tried so hard to forget.

Her hands wandered under her shirt until her fingers found the scars on her stomach. She flinched at the memories that scarred her skin. They had taken her Caroline from her.

She sat up when she heard the zipper of the tent.

Daryl stepped in and stared at her, lookin' at him with fear in her eyes.

She shook her head and started cryin'. He looked like her Daryl but she knew it wasn't really him. What did he want?

He slowly moved towards her, "I ain't gonna hurt ya. I...I brought ya somethin' ta eat." He held the bowl out to her but she didn't take it.

He put it down in front of her before he sat down and looked at the ground.

"I'm sorry for everythin's that's happened ta ya. An'...an' ta Caroline." He told her, though he knew she probably wasn't listening.

"I love y'all, always have, even 'fore I knew Caroline. I knew you were pregnant when they took ya from me."

He looked at her to find her studying him. She was listening. Or maybe he just wanted her to be.

He pushed the bowl closer to her, "Eat."

Beth wasn't sure what he was gonna do to her. She was hungry but she was afraid to eat but when he told her to, she became afraid of what would happen if she didn't.

She held the bowl and took a bite and then another.

Daryl smiled as he watched her eat.

When she was finished, he handed her the bottle of water and held the two pills in the palm of his hand.

"Can ya take these for me?"

She shook her head and scooted towards the back of the tent.

Daryl lowered his head and wiped his eyes, "Bethie, please take these. Ya need ta get better. Caroline needs ya. I need ya."

Reluctantly, she reached for the pills and took them. She didn't know what they were but she didn't care. Maybe they'd knock her out so she wouldn't have to feel what she knew was comin' next.

Daryl watched her take the pills before he left her tent.

Beth stared at the wings on his vest as he was leaving.

She closed her eyes tightly, "Daryl," she whispered to herself.

She wiped her eyes and crawled over and unzipped the tent just enough she could see outside.

Everyone looked familiar. Everyone except a few people.

She saw Caroline run into Daryl's arms and wrap her arms around his neck. She wanted this to be real.

"Beth," she heard someone callin' and she froze. She watched but no one came to her tent, instead she saw a little girl.

"Beth," Maggie said, "you and Judith share with Caroline. She's y'all's cousin. Okay?"

"Judith?" Beth whispered. Was it her Judith?

Of course she knew Judith wasn't actually hers but she had loved her just the same.

"How was she? Did she take the pills?" Maggie asked Daryl when he sat down.

He shrugged, "Yeah, she took 'em. She's scared. Don't think she knew who I was."

Maggie sighed, "Well, maybe those pills will work and we can get our Beth back."

Daryl nodded and tightened his arms around Caroline.

"You know, to work through whatever's wrong with her, she's gonna have to talk about what happened," Rosita said to everyone.

They all agreed but those who knew Beth agreed they weren't sure they wanted to hear about it.

"What if we give her some journals to write in?" Tara asked. They all looked at her. "I was just thinkin', Daryl keeps the journal she had been writing in so why not get her some more. She'll be able to write down anythin' she wants and maybe it'll help her."

"There's a problem with that," Carl said.

"What?" She asked.

"We don't have any journals. We'd have to make another trip to get some."

Michonne stood up, "I think it'd be worth it to try that. I'll go in the mornin'."

Tyreese and Tara volunteered to go with her.

Beth sat there for hours watching everyone and cryin' to herself.

She wanted to get Caroline and run as far away from them as possible but she remembered what happened before.

They'd find them, just like they always did.

Somethin' was different though. Caroline seemed to be happy for the first time in her life.

"Maybe she's safe here," Beth told herself.

She decided that she'd leave when she had the chance. And as much as she hated the idea, she would let Caroline stay with these people.