I'm back...as you know if you read my other fic "Want Me Too" that I had to take some time off but I am thinking I am back for good now. Hope you like this chapter as much as I do :-)

"So they were really eating people?" Beth exclaimed in a whisper as they walked thru the woods around Alexandria. They had been out there for a little over an hour and Daryl had started telling her about what had happened in between the time they lost and found each other. She had seen a lot of things since the turn, but people eating other people still made her shiver and want to vomit.

"Yeah, ya said ya saw the signs when ya and Morgan hadta turn around. We saw 'em too. Thought it might be worth a shot. Thought it might be a good place till Rick saw the guy had Glenn's watch and then I saw one of 'em had my poncho….so it went to hell real fast and they shot at us. Eventually we realized they were not shooting to kill, they were herding us like cattle. But by then it was too late. They rounded me, Rick, Michonne and Carl up and put us in a train car. That's where we found Maggie, Glenn and the rest of 'em" Daryl said softly as he kept his eyes down, tracking the footprints of a buck that Beth had found just a few minutes earlier.

"Sanctuary for all my ass" Beth said in a whisper as she shook her head. Daryl raised his gaze at her and smirked. She really had been hanging around him too long. "So Carol saved you? How?"

"She blew up a huge gas tank and then just started shooting up the place. We were tied up and getting ready to have our throats slit when the explos…."

"What the hell you mean you were getting ready to have your throats slit?" Beth spit out, anger flashing in her eyes as she stopped dead to look at him. She had already heard most of this story before, bits and pieces from different people but this was totally new to her. Daryl's eyes caught hers for a moment and then looked back at the ground, wishing he had not said anything. She didn't need to know all of this. She had enough of her own memories to cause nightmares.

"It was no big deal" he said, knowing it was not going to be enough, but hoping it was. He didn't even get to step away before her hand was on his arm, stopping him.

"No big deal? You think about to be killed is no big deal?" She asked him, her eyes still blazing, anger now mixed with fear in them.

"It's not like we are not always about to be killed out 'ere" he grumbled out. He knew this girl….his girl….was not going anywhere until he explained what happened so he sighed and looked up at her. "They took me, Rick, Glenn and Bob out of the train car, tied us up and took us into a warehouse. They made us kneel over a troth with a few other guys from I guess a different train car. They had already killed the other guys when Gareth came in"

"Gareth was the asshole that ran the place right?" Beth asked her hand still on his arm. It grounded him, helped him tell this story. He couldn't help the smirk that formed on his lips from her cussing again.

"Yeah, that's him. He took the gag out of Rick's mouth and asked him what we had hid in the bag in the woods outside Terminus. We had hid Rick's gun, another crossbow, and a few other guns and knives we got off of the assholes I was with before I met up with Rick" he saw her raise her eyebrow and he shook his head "another story for another time" as he took her hand and started walking slowly toward the tracks again. "Rick told him what we had and that there was a red handled machete that he was going to use to kill 'em with. Asshole thought it was funny. Bet he wasn't laughing when Rick killed 'em with it" Daryl said with a smile growing on his face.

"You didn't see him do it?" Beth asked

"Naw, I was out with Carol looking for a certain blond haired girl. Can't remember her name though" he said with the smile still on his face. She smiled a little back, but her eyes got this distant, far off look to them as she turned her gaze back to the ground and started walking again.

"So Carol got you out? The explosion happened obviously before any of you could be killed" she asked, her head still down. He knew him mentioning that he was looking for her did something to her, knew it brought up so much that she still needed to talk about too and he wanted to ask her about it, but for now he would let it go and humor her with answering her questions.

"Yeah, they were just about to hit Glenn when the explosion happened. We got free and got everybody out. Met up with Carol out in the woods and she took us to where Tyrese and Judith were. Everybody was reuniting and I just stood back and watched" he said, his voice turning sad which caused her to stop and look back at him.

"Why? Weren't you happy to have everybody back?" she asked

"Not e'rybody was back. Was missin' the most important part for me" he said, just above a whisper as he raised his eyes to look into hers. They were filled with a swirling of emotions and her heart clenched at his words and his eyes.

"Oh" was the only thing she could think to say. She smiled shyly at him and rose up on her toes, kissing him softly on the lips. Before she could pull away, she felt his arms snake around her waist and pull her to him, his lips pressing into hers with an urgency. She melted into him as his arms tightened around her and his tongue gently glided across her lips, asking for entrance. As their tongues softly stroked each other, she felt his hand move up her back, tangling into her pony tail. Just as he started to move her toward a tree beside them, a twig snapped and they both froze. Instantly they broke apart and grabbed their weapons, looking for the source of the sound. After a second, the most beautiful buck Daryl had ever seen walked out into the opening beside them. Beth's breath hitched when she saw it and slowly turned to look at Daryl just as his gaze found hers. He slowly took his crossbow off of his shoulder and silently asked her a question. When she nodded, he smirked and handed her the crossbow. He watched her position it as a wave of memory took over him, remembering the last time he had seen her like this. He watched her line up her shot, take a few breaths to calm herself and then released the bolt. He held his breath as he watched it sail thru the air and hit its target. She didn't get it directly in the heart, but it was close enough to drop the deer.

"I did it Daryl" she cried happily as she jumped up and down and threw her arms around his neck, kissing him quickly.

"Yeah ya did. Ya did good Darlin'. Now let's get it back to Alexandria and we can get it butchered" he said, his own smile on his face. He was so proud of her in that moment. She just nodded at him and took off toward the deer, her smile bright and her pony tail swinging. He followed behind her, basking in her happiness and thinking that no matter what happened with either of them while they were separated, whatever they had to do to survive, it got them back to each other and there was no place he would rather be.