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Home Is With You: Chapter 5

Beth
"You sure you wanna go back out there after yesterday?" Maggie asked me as I pulled my boots on.

"Maggie, I'll be fine, I'm with Daryl," I replied and stood up from my bed.

"I know but you seemed so sad yesterday. I just don't want you to go out there if you're not ready," She said.

"Maggie!" I exclaimed "Stop babying me. I'm fine. I wanna go out there so that's what I'm gonna do," I told her and started walking out of my room, I heard Maggie following after me "If I wasn't ready then I wouldn't be goin'," I added.

"I just worry about you," She argued.

"I know you do but you don't have to, I'm a big girl now and I'm fine," I said as we walked outside.

I saw Daryl standing by the gate with my dad in a deep conversation, well I say conversation, my daddy was doing most of the talking and Daryl was just nodding along every now and again. I stopped walking and faced Maggie with a warm smile on my face "I'll try and bring you back some dinner," I added and Maggie smiled at me.

"Just make sure you and Daryl have each other's backs."

She wrapped her arms around me for a couple of moments and I hugged her back, I pulled away from the embrace and the two of us walked over to my daddy and Daryl who's conversation ended. Daryl nodded at me and I smiled back, he had his crossbow hung over his back.

"Beth, make sure you and Daryl look out for each other out there," Daddy said to me with his hands on shoulders.

"Of course daddy," I replied and kiss his cheek "We better go," I stated.

"I got her back." Daryl said to my dad and the two of us started walking towards the outer gates to leave.

The gates opened for us and we started walking out. Maggie, Glenn, Rick and Carl were at the fences making noises so that all the walkers there wouldn't come after us. I grabbed my knife out of its sheath and took out a couple of walkers that came towards us. Daryl used his knife to kill some walkers as well but we managed to get into the woods unharmed and out of view of the majority of the walkers.

As soon as it was just us two and we were out of view of the prison, I reached over and grabbed hold of Daryl's hand and linked our fingers together and we smiled at each other. Daryl had his crossbow in his hand and was still on high alert even though the woods were fairly quiet, walkers are anything but quiet, you can normally hear them coming from a distance but I guess that it's just Daryl being Daryl.

We didn't have to wonder too far before we came across a walker, it spotted us and started coming towards us and I noticed Daryl take a step back. He was going to let me take care of this one on my own but he was close by with his crossbow raised and ready in case I needed the backup. I held up my knife and took two steps towards the walker and slammed the end of the blade into its head and it fell to the floor with a thud. It wasn't a hard take down but I was still pretty proud of myself and I turned to smile at Daryl.

"Yer did good." He muttered and he started walking.

I managed to catch up with Daryl and I noticed that he was looking at the floor.

"Whatcha see?" He asked me.

I looked down at the ground where he was looking and studied it for a moment "Tracks," I stated "They seem all over the place, the feet are being dragged. Guessing it's a walker," I added and he nodded "Another set of tracks that also look like a walker, they seem to overlap in some places," I told him.

"Top o' the class," He replied with a grin "C'mon, we'll follow the tracks an' see if we can't catch us some walkers," He said and started following the trail.

"Thank you for this," I told him "I know you don't want me out here and I get why, if the situation was reversed, I would be the same. I just don't wanna have to rely on other people for the rest of my life, surely you would feel better too knowing I can take care of myself if you go on a run or something," I pointed out to him but he didn't reply "Thank you." I said again and once again linked my fingers with his.

We walked for another twenty minutes or so and then we found the walkers. There were four all together, we were following the tracks of two so the other two either just joined them or their tracks were covered by the other two. Either way, this was going to give me the chance I wanted to prove myself to Daryl that I could be strong and he could give me some pointers on my technique if I needed it.

The walkers hadn't heard us so Daryl communicated to me through signs. He indicated for me to go one side and he would go the other, which would give us an opportunity to trap the four walkers and have them as far away or as close as we wanted them to be. I went to the left and Daryl went to the right. The one closest to me heard me and started heading in my direction with all three other walkers following but I could still see Daryl, he was there if I needed him but I think he wanted to see what I could handle on my own before he jumped in. The first walker I took out with ease, the second and third came at me together. I kicked one away and stabbed one in the head. The one I kicked was lying on the floor and grabbed hold of my boot but before I had a chance to kill it the final one reached out for me.

A bolt flew across the air and the one standing walker dropped to the floor. The walker that had hold of my ankle was only a couple inches away from biting me when a large foot came down on its head. The walkers head exploded like a piñata and its mushy brain sprawled out all over the floor. I took a couple of steps away and Daryl grabbed hold of my arm.

"You 'kay?" He asked me in panic.

"Yeah I'm fine," I answered.

"Yer gotta be faster," He scolded "If two come at yer at once, move away, and yer quicker than they are. Move away until you got more space and then take 'em out. Yer don't have t' stay in one spot," He told me sharply and removed the bolt from the dead walker.

"Ok." I stated not wanting to argue with him.

Daryl and I continued on for another 10-15 minutes. Daryl was walking a couple steps ahead of me and then he stopped dead in his tracks, I nearly walked into his back. He started looking around the immediate area and I became worried that there was something out there, I couldn't hear a walker but something had Daryl spooked. He raised his crossbow and started scanning the tree line. I stood back to back with him and raised my knife.

"What is it?" I asked quietly.

"Someone's watching us," He replied in a whisper.

"Should we head back?" I questioned in panic.

"Nah, don't wanna lead anyone unfriendly home," He stated.

I got nervous but mainly because Daryl was nervous, when he was on edge it made everyone on edge.

"Hello there," A male voice said from the left, Daryl and I turned to face the man as he came towards us, Daryl used his hand to push me behind him before lining up his crossbow to take aim and shoot if need be, he wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger. The man had his hands raised and it lifted his shirt up slightly to reveal a gun and a knife attached to his belt. Two more men came out behind him with their guns raised at Daryl "Put the guns down boys," The first man said and they did as they were told, like soldiers.

"Jus' turn round and go, we don't want no trouble," Daryl warned.

"We don't want any trouble either. My name is The Governor," He said and it was obvious before he said his ridiculous name that he was the one in charge "What are you two doing all the way out here? Bit unsafe to be wondering through the woods," He added.

"We're doin' fine," Daryl replied.

"Do you have a camp somewhere?" The Governor asked.

"None yer business," Daryl told him.

"Whoa... someone is a little unfriendly. We just wanted to know if you got somewhere, if you don't, you're more than welcome to come back with us. We got us a place with big walls and armed guards," He said.

"We're fine thanks," I piped up trying to diffuse some of the tension.

"If you're passing that offer up, means that you got somewhere of your own," The Governor said and then he started looking at us so deeply, he was studying us. His eyes travelled up and down my body and Daryl stepped in front of me to shield me "You don't look like you've been sleeping rough, tell me about your group," He demanded.

"We don't have a group, jus' two o' us," Daryl argued.

"I have changed the way I think about a lot of things since the turn. One thing that hasn't changed, I hate liars and you're lying to me," He said.

"It's jus' us," Daryl repeated more forceful,l taking a very small step forward with his crossbow still raised.

"Liar... take 'em!"

Maggie
Everyone had just finished dinner and Beth still wasn't back with Daryl, I was getting worried and antsy and so was everyone else. We all cared about one another and that was the same for Daryl, we all cared about him and if something happened to him we would probably crumble and we would be devastated but he could take care of himself. Daryl knew how to survive on his own in the wilderness but Beth wasn't ready for that, she wasn't good at the surviving on her own, she needed people and there was nothing wrong with that but I was worried with her out there on her own. I know Daryl will take care of her best he can but they should have been back by now.

I was pacing and daddy was looking at me with a worried expression on his face, he was worried as well. Glenn was sat at the table sitting opposite my daddy and watching me. Rick was whispering with Carol about something, she nodded at what he said and then he started walking towards us.

"I'm gonna go look for 'em," Rick stated "I got a bad feelin' and I know Daryl, he knew when he had to be back by and he had Beth with him. He would have brought her back by now if he could've. I hope I'm wrong but it's better to be safe than sorry," He explained.

"I'm comin' with you," I said quickly.

"Maggie-"Glenn started but I cut him off.

"Glenn, that's my baby sister. I need to know she's ok," I told him.

"I'm sure she's fine, for all we know, they're just holding up somewhere to avoid a herd or somethin'," Glenn said with a shrug.

"What if it's more serious than that? I can't leave her out there," I told him with a tone betting him to argue with me but he didn't "You stay here and keep an eye on things here, maybe they're fine and on their way back but maybe they're not," I added.

"Stay safe," Glenn warned.

"I'll keep my eye on her." Rick said.

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