Hello you beautiful people!

This chapter is going to be one explosive chapter! I am so happy for this to happen, I think you guys have been waiting for this as well. Daryl and Beth are going to FINALLY tell Hershel about their relationship.

What do you think Hershel is going to say or do?

You're going to have to read this to find out!

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Disclaimer; I'm really trying here guys but The Walking Dead still doesn't belong to me OR Daryl Dixon... sucks!

Home Is With You; Chapter 15

Beth
It's been three days since the horde of walkers followed Daryl, Merle and Andrea back to the prison. We stuck to Rick's plan and stayed inside and didn't light any candles at night. Judith had only cried twice but it didn't seem like they heard her. Most of the horde has moved on but there are still a few stragglers, Daryl thinks that those walkers can either sense or smell us in the area but they don't know where we are. Daryl wants to go out there and kill the walkers that are left, there isn't many left, about 30 or so which is good considering there were about 200 of them. Daryl thinks killing them will actually help us with future walkers and hordes, because of the smell of rotting corpses and the smell of death; it will act like a barrier so other walkers might not come this way or if they do they will leave the prison alone. Rick isn't sure that it's a good idea because we can't send everyone out there to kill the walkers so we'll be outnumbered.

The argument has been going on for a couple hours now, Merle of course agrees with Daryl but I think that is to piss Rick off more than anything. Daryl does have a point but so does Rick. My daddy can't go out to fight the walkers, someone has to stay here with Judith and I don't really think Carl should go, he needs to focus on just being a kid... he thinks he's grown but he is still a kid. I know Daryl will make some argument that will make me stay here because he won't want me out there. However, Daryl's plan is a good one and we do need to get rid of the walkers out there before they attract more and we're in a bad situation.

The sun is starting to set and everyone is tired of the argument. Rick has decided that we'll call a vote on it tomorrow and go from there. Since being on lockdown Daryl and I have hardly had a few moments to ourselves and I miss him. I miss his kisses, his arms around me and his smell... I know it's silly considering he's still here and alive but I do miss him.

I started making my way to my room when I saw him give me a wink, I started to feel excited! I smiled at him and went into my room and waiting, it means that he's going to either come and get me or send me a message. It's good to know that he's been missing me too. I watched as he walked past my room and dropped a little something, I picked it up and it was a note scrawled in his messy handwriting.

I need a shower tonight

That was the message, he was having a shower tonight when everyone was asleep and he wanted me to join him. I smiled to myself before screwing up the note and hiding it before anyone else could see it. I became excited; I got butterflies in my stomach as I thought about what was gonna happen... the thought of his hands roaming over my body and kissing him so passionately that he couldn't doubt how much I loved him. I got the same feeling I got the first time we were together, my daddy once told me that you know when you're with your 'forever' is when you get the same feelings for them as you did the first time.

Everyone was asleep and Daryl was already in the showers, I heard him a couple of minutes ago going there, I grabbed my shower stuff and towels as I made my way to the showers. The butterflies built up the closer I got and when I was stood outside the showers listening to the water running I had to stop myself literally running in there and pouncing on him, although, I'm fairly sure Daryl wouldn't mind that.

I went in and saw him standing there under the running water, he sensed me and turned to look at me with a big smile on his face, I matched his smile and practically ripped my clothes off leaving them in a pile on the floor and then went to join him under the warm water.

"Glad yer could make it," He said as he placed a kiss on the top of my head.

"Always," I whispered back before smashing my lips onto his, he kissed me back instantly.

Our tongues were in a battle for dominance and I was winning for once. I remembered our last time together in the shower and how Daryl had ruled that but this time, it was my turn to show Daryl who was in charge. I pushed him back until he was against the wall of the showers and as my lips started to leave his lips in favour of his neck, I felt his excitement against my stomach. My hands started to wonder down towards his member but stopped when we both heard someone walking towards the showers, Daryl turned the water off and I grabbed my things and ran to hide behind a wall. Daryl wrapped a towel around his waist when the door opened.

Merle came in with a towel in his hand. He stopped when he saw Daryl and he looked at Daryl with a suspicious look.

Daryl
Merle walked in the door of the showers with his towel and he looked at me with questions in his head, I could see it in his eyes, he knows something is up. I took a sneaky look on the floor to make sure that Beth hadn't left anything lying around but then I spotted her bra, I looked back up to Merle but he had spotted it to, he raised his eyebrows at me.

"Merle-"

"Hey, you wanna dress up like a lady then you do that," He told me and I was surprised, if this had happened before the end of the world, he woulda beat my ass and took the piss out of me for wanting to be a woman.

"Not like that," I told him and I looked out to where Beth was hiding and motioned for her to come out, she had her pjs on and came out "Me and Beth, we're seein' each other but no one knows... only Michonne and now you," I told him.

"Well little brother, I gotta admit I'm glad you don't wear those lady clothes," Merle said with relief and I rolled my eyes at him.

"Don't tell anyone." I begged.

"How old are you?" Merle asked.

"Nineteen... Daryl's not a pedo!" Beth argued angrily and I grabbed her hand to pull her back, she was ready to step toe to toe with Merle.

"Jus' askin'." Merle said with his hands up in surrender.

I gotta admit it was kinda hot to see Beth stand up for me like that, she was ready to fight a man for me, she was ready to fight Merle... she was brave and she was my woman.

"Look, I know I'm new here but your daddy doesn't seem like the kinda man who likes secrets. I'll keep your secret, I'm good with that but I think you need t' tell yer daddy cause he might kill Daryl if he finds out a different way." Merle said and left the showers.

"He's right you know... we need to tell your pops," I told her and she nodded "At first I weren't sure where this was goin' but I know I love you and your the one I wanna be with, we're gonna be together till you get tired of me," I said.

"I'm never gonna get tired of you," She told me and wrapped her arms around my waist, I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her as close to me as possible "We'll sit down with him tomorrow and talk to him, explain everything. He'll see how happy I am and he'll be ok," She said.

"Maybe I should talk to him first... I don't want him t' get angry at you for anythin'," I told her.

"No, we do this together... always together."

Beth
After Merle interrupted us last night in the showers Daryl and I spent an hour just talking about everything and planning how we were gonna tell my daddy today. We decided that the two of us would talk to him together on his own, without Maggie there, I love my sister but I need to talk to my daddy first. Daryl said the best time to tell him would be tonight before he goes to bed, that way my daddy can sleep on it and let it digest for a few hours before he has to see us again. I agreed that it would be a good idea to tell him tonight and give him time to let it sink in. I'm scared because I know what kinda temper my daddy has when he's pissed off, I don't want him to get mad at Daryl, I want him to understand how much Daryl and I love each other and how sure we are of our relationship.

Telling my daddy was one thing another thing is telling Maggie, I know she's gonna be pissed off with it, I know already but if we're coming clean about us we need to tell Maggie too. I told Daryl this and he agreed she needed to know, he's got a lot of respect for Maggie and wants to speak to her on his own. This time he wouldn't let talk; he said talking to her on his own was something he had to do. He planned to talk to her tomorrow morning, Maggie and Glenn are on guard duty tonight in the tower and he was supposed to take over in the morning so he was going to speak to her then. He's hoping that Glenn being there would calm any situation and maybe Glenn would understand or help Maggie understand it.

I can't believe I have to go through all of this to prove to my family I love someone. I know we should have told everyone when we first started seeing one another but it's like Daryl has said, we didn't know what was gonna happen. At first we were just sleeping with each other and easing stress but when it turned serious we should have come clean, keeping it a secret has made it hard to tell everyone and I know that this might be the biggest issue my daddy has, he doesn't like secrets and he doesn't like lying and sneaking around.

This was it. We were going to tell him. Oh shit... my heart was racing and my hands were sweating. Daryl was also looking worried and nervous; daddy was outside just watching the sun start to set. Daryl and I started walking outside to meet him and tell him, he didn't know this was about to happen.

"Daddy," I called out as Daryl and I started walking towards him.

"Hey baby, hi Daryl. Is everything ok?" He asked.

"Yeah everything is fine, just wanted to talk to you about something," I told him "I just have to come clean," I blurted out and he looked confused.

"Look Hershel, I want you to know that I never meant any disrespect," Daryl added.

"What's going on?" Daddy asked.

"Well... Daryl and I... we have... we... we have been seeing each other,"

"Seeing each other?"

"Hershel, I love Beth an' I want yer t' know that I would die f'r her, I would do anythin' for her," Daryl told him.

"How long?" Daddy asked.

"About five or six months," I answered.

"What?" Daddy looked at me and he looked pissed "You have been seeing him for that long you kept it from me, you've been sneaking around for all that time?" his face started to go red and I grabbed hold of Daryl's hand, he was about to blow "Daryl, leave me and Beth to talk," He demanded.

"Hershel-"

"Leave us!"

"I ain't goin' anywhere... I love her Hershel an' she wanted to tell you but I didn't want to. I wanted to see where it was goin' first and now I'm sure. I love Beth and I would die f'r her, I will do whatever I need to do to keep her safe and happy," Daryl explained to my daddy and he stood firmly in his place "Don't be mad at her... be mad at me," Daryl added.

"Oh I'm mad at both of you! How could you do this Daryl? Beth is only nineteen years old! You are a grown ass man, how could you do this to her? You aren't the one for her... you're not right for each other," Daddy said.

"I love him daddy. You don't know what Daryl has gone through for me, he is the one for me and he is the one I wanna spend the rest of my life with, no matter how long or short it is," I told him.

"I will talk to you both tomorrow."

I went to go after my daddy but Daryl pulled me back and we watched as he went inside and slammed the door closed. That didn't go as I had planned, I thought he would have understood or at least cared enough to listen to what I had to say.

"It'll be ok," Daryl told me as a tear slipped down my cheek.

"No it won't... he hates me," I said.

"He doesn't hate you, he pro'lly hates me but not you," Daryl said and wiped my tears away with the pad of his thumb.

"I should've spoke to him on my own."

So Hershel is pissed!

Is that what you were expecting?
Where you expecting him to be ok with it?
Will it all work out in the end?
How is Maggie going to react?
What will everyone else say?

You are going to have to tune in next time to see what happens next, there is so much about to happen! Relationships are going to be tested to the limits and family secrets are about to be revealed.

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