Just three days later the two of them were already on their way, because Daryl wasn't able to say no to Beth's beautiful, expectant eyes. Just like always and nothing will probably ever change that.

If he was serious, he even didn't want to contradict her, because he liked the thought about being with her alone for days already now. It was probably her best idea since that one early spring night, when she had climbed upstairs to him into the guard tower.

Even when Daryl was with her in the very first second, he still had his doubts. Not about himself or her, but about what the other will think and say about their plan. If her family will let her go anyway. "What about your father and sister. Don't you think they won't be so happy to let you go? Even for days? Don't you think they will gonna be too worried about you outside there?" He had asked her thoughtfully that night in the library.

"Yeah, they will be worried about me. Don't matter if I'm inside the fences or outside, they are always worried about me." Beth told him with rolling her eyes, but also a smile on her lips. Of course Daryl knew so too and also about that Beth sometimes hated their overprotecting way, but at least she had a family who loved her and was worried about losing her every second of their lives.

Knowing what she meant, he had smiled right back down at her. Beth's situation was curse and blessing at the same time, he knew. "But I'm old enough and they can't stop me. They have to accept it, if they want or not. I really want to spend some time with you alone, Mr. Dixon." Beth finally went on, showing him one of her best, sleepiest smile she could still manage.

Also Daryl's smile had grown bigger, when he eyed her under his chin. "Me too girl." He had whispered, before he leaned down and kissed her lips for one more time that night to deside everything with it, before they finally got to bed.

Already next day Beth had told her family about their plan. When the two of them met by breakfast, she had already talked with Hershel about it. "What did he say?" Daryl asked curious and worried at the same time. "He was kinda proud about me trying to find stocks for the winter on my own." Their excuse really seemed to work, something Daryl hadn't believed in first.

Relieved he had leaned back into his seat and looked over to the old man. "He also said, that he knows I will gonna be alright when you are with me." Beth suddenly added with a bright smirk on her lips, trying to hold back a laugh. Giving his best to suppress his own wide smile, Daryl bit down on his lower lip, when he only imagined about the fun they will have.

Daryl's presentiment about that Maggie won't take it so easy, was more than just right when he was on his way to Beth's cell that afternoon and heard the two Greene sister talking. Quickly he hid himself behind the next corner and even when he didn't want to listen to their conversation, he still had to when he didn't want to get caught.

Maggie didn't seem so happy with her sister's plan, she even tried to talk her out of it, but the younger Greene answered determined "It's already planed Maggie. Daryl and me will go on that run. It wasn't a question and I'm not waiting for your permission. It's already decided and you just have to understand and accept it."

Beth had really become a woman during the way, Daryl had to admit. Her being and actions right now just showed him once more. She had changed a lot since the farm and he was so proud about her. She had grown from the shy, young farmer daughter, into a strong, brave woman, who exactly knew what she wanted and didn't let herself tell otherwise.

But Maggie still seemed to not being able to recognize the changed, tough woman in front of her. In contrast, the older Greene probably still didn't want to accept her sister's plan, when she said "I hate the thought about you being all alone outside there, but you have Annette's stubborn and also daddy's. But if you will come back with just one scratch, I will..." Maggie finally trailed of, leaving the unspoken warning hanging in the air.

Daryl could really imagine Beth rolling her eyes right now, before she response "I won't be all on my own outside. Daryl is with me and will take care of me." The two sisters shared some more words, before he could hear Maggie leaving the room.

Only when the older Greene passed by Daryl's hiding place without seeing him, he got it that also Glenn was with her. The Korean hadn't said even one word during the sister's conversation. Daryl just wanted to finally slip inside Beth's cell, when he could hear the couple talking, before they left around the corner.

"Don't worry so much Maggie, Daryl is with her. Nothing will happen to her and he will watch out for her, you have heard Beth." Glenn tried to calm down his wife, before the older Greene response a little angrily to him "Yeah, hopefully he won't take too good care of her."

Maggie's words let Daryl's blood freeze for some moments, next to the rest of his body. With widened eyes he asked himself, if they maybe suspected anything about their secret or even worse, they even already knew about it all.

But if Daryl was serious it was really more than just a little suspicious, that just the two of them wanted to go on a run for days. So it really shouldn't shock him that people counted one and one together and came to that decision. And Daryl didn't know why, but he decided and promised himself, to not tell Beth anything about what he had just heard. He didn't want to ruin her great mood and excitement about their run and time together.

Just two days later they were already sitting in their pick up and even when Daryl was already driving since two hours, he still didn't know where they wanted to go, where or what their destination was.

He was tensed the whole time, since he had heard Maggie and Glenn talking that one afternoon days ago. Daryl only started to breathe again, when after saying good bye and Beth had hugged her family, they got inside the car and he saw the prison gates inside the review-mirror getting tinier and tinier.

Daryl didn't know what he had expected to happen, he just wanted to get away as quickly as possible. Only after miles, he finally got it how worried Merle had told him to watch out and come back as a whole, both of them. Not only Beth had a family, who worried and cared about her, also Daryl had his brother back. The brother he had always wished for, but he had never ever dared to ask for.

"Come save back home, my son. And watch out for my little Bethy." Hershel had told Daryl with his kind, deep voice, while he had tapped his shoulder. "I will, don't worry about us. Beth can take care of herself, she is strong. But still, I will protect her." He secured the older man, who just response with nodding his head "I know she is and I know you will."

Since over one hour Beth was singing to the songs from the CD, while she stretched out her arm by the opened window next to her and sometimes she even held her head against the driving wind, so her blond locks were flying in the wind. Daryl didn't want to bother her happiness, but he really had to ask, because he just couldn't drive until sunset without knowing where they will spend the night.

"Where do you want to drive? Where do you want to get girl? I just can't follow the street all day long." Daryl finally asked out loud, watching her from the corner of his eyes, like he had already done the whole drive long.

A smile was still on her lips, when she tilted thoughtfully her head. "If I'm serious, I have no idea, Mr. Dixon." Her truthfully, sweet answer caused him to laugh out loud. "I have thought you have made that great, big plan for the run since days? I mean, at least you have told everyone so." Daryl asked her with raised eyebrows, already knowing that it was just part of their excuse, just another white lie.

"My great, big plan was to spend some time with you alone. And as you can see it has worked out, Mr. Dixon." Beth answered playfully, before she eyed his profile. Daryl just smirked then, still not getting it how some pretty, smart girl like her wanted to spend her precious time with him alone, voluntary.

He was deep inside his thoughts, when Beth suddenly said "Let us do something new, something we have never done before. Tell me Mr. Dixon, what have you always wanted to do?" Of course, in Daryl's life were many things he had wanted to, but most of these wishes and dreams had already died even before he came to school. And he never ever dared to dream about any new ones in his life again.

After moments of staring at the empty street, he finally shrugged his shoulders and told her "Don't know." It only caused Beth to title her head even more, when she said disappointed "Oh c'mon, Mr. Dixon. There just has to be at least one thing you would like to do. Kind of dream."

He looked back down at her, right into her beautiful eyes, when a thought suddenly crossed his mind and caused him to feel sad and his mouth angles slowly went down at the same time. Even when they have already spent so much time together, after all the times they were intimidate, Daryl still didn't really know anything about Beth's life.

About her dreams, wishes, hopes, thoughts. Her biggest fears, hates, what scares her and gives her nightmares. What was her favourite food, colour, animal? Simple questions children ask each other, he didn't even know about her. Beth's past, how she had grown up, how her mother was, her brother.

And she also didn't really know anything about him and even when this would have terrified him just months ago, Daryl had the need to tell Beth everything she wanted to know from his life. He wanted to open himself for her, to let it all out. He also wanted to get to know her, really get to know her.

"Daryl? Are you alright?" Beth's soft voice suddenly got to his ears and quickly Daryl shook his head, trying to get these thoughts away from his mind. "Huh?" He finally asked back, already forgotten about what they have actually talked about.

She smiled sweetly back at him, before she let him know "Don't matter, forget it Mr. Dixon. Maybe we should get into the next village and search for some useful things, before we will find a save place to be for tonight." Beth had probably got his discomfort and his thoughts about his past, even when she didn't know much about it. But because of his scars, she knew it wasn't a very good and child friendly time.

Daryl was thankfully for her understanding and try to take his dark thoughts away from him. And suddenly he remembered about their conversation from before again. He wanted to thank her for her compassion with asking "What about you girl? I bet there also has to be at least one thing you have always wanted to do, but you were never allowed to."

Beth's smile grow even bigger, when she answered "I bet the warnings from my parents to keep myself away from older men and watch out about the things they want to do to me, I have already failed badly." Her statement and big smirk caused Daryl to laugh out loud and finally forget his unhappy thoughts completely.

"Yeah, it seems like that girl." He answered her with a knowing look. "But it was probably also one of my best decisions ever." Beth let him know, before she smiled lovingly up into his eyes, which caused his cheeks to blush badly.

After they both had got silent again and Daryl just thought, that Beth will start to sing along to the songs again, she said out of nowhere "I need a drink." Confused he eyed her, not knowing why she was telling him so. Still uncertain, Daryl took the bottle of water, which Beth would have also reached easily, and held it into her direction. "Here." He told her and got even more confused, when she suddenly began to laugh out loud, while she took the bottle from him.

His forehead was into waves, because Daryl still didn't get it what was so funny about this all. Beth let him wait with her answer, till she had taken a big swallow from the clear water. "No, I have meant a real drink. With alcohol."

Her statement just caused Daryl to be even more bewildered, he almost forgot about that he was driving for one quick moment, because he still didn't understand what she meant with that. "Huh?" The hunter finally asked back, only getting Beth even more amused with saying so.

"I have never drank any alcohol before and it was you, who has asked me about something I have never done before and what I still wanted to do in my life. And I want to have one alcohol drink at least once in my life." Daryl had thought about something very different, something not so crazy and dangerous like that. For example to go swimming all naked, something more fitting to the sweet girl next to him. They were in a damn apocalypse and Beth wanted to drink alcohol?

"You can't mean that serious girl." Daryl asked her maybe a little too scornfully, also with that small laugh which had left his lips while speaking, because Beth's voice got silent suddenly and her look wandered to the road in front of her.

He hated himself in the second he got her expression. She was sad, maybe even disappointed about his reaction. Even after all Beth was young, so much younger than him. Daryl had already tasted alcohol so often and much in his life and he also knew what it could do to you. He only had bad experiences with alcohol and he didn't want Beth to also get one. Daryl wanted to save her from it and maybe also himself.

There were way better things to do than getting drunk. He wanted her to save from this bad experience, but he also didn't want to make her sad. "Beth. I.." Daryl tried to form an excuse, he didn't want to be so harsh to her. But he didn't have to say it out loud, because Beth obviously hadn't even heard his voice, while she was still looking dreamily out of the windscreen and suddenly said, like she was far away with her thoughts.

"It was because of daddy. I didn't want to disappoint him or even make him sad." Instantly Daryl knew about what the girl was talking about. He remembered about that evening back at the farm, when Rick and Glenn got away to look for Hershel, while Beth was fighting for her life.

"Just imagine his face, when he would see me at parties with one of these red cups with an alcohol drink inside made me always refusing it. I just couldn't do it, couldn't bring it over my heart. Didn't want to make it even more difficult for daddy, because I don't blame him for anything."

Daryl eyed Beth's profile deep, because once more she proved strength and how less selfish she was, even when she was younger back then. After watching her for moments, he finally let her know with a soft voice "I bet we will find some in the next village."

His voice had obviously brought Beth away from her thoughts, when she quickly moved her head into his direction and eyed him curious and excited at the same time. Trying to get to know if he really meant it serious. "But I have to warn you. It sure as hell won't taste that great like you think."

A smile began to grow on her lips, with which Beth thanked him for his support. With a new, better mood she made herself straighten up in her seat, watching out for the next little village.

They had driven just a few minutes, when she suddenly pointed with her index finger to her right and said all excited "Daryl, look. Don't golfers like to get drunk?" He followed her look and saw the big, old golf club from far away. He thought a few moments about it, till he finally answered "Yeah, let us see if we will find something for you there."

The area around the club seemed to be clean. No walkers, no living people. But still all tensed and ready to get attacked, the two of them got inside the well locked building. It told them, that it was kind of shelter for some once and these still had to be inside, alive or dead.

The very first room was shocking, not for Daryl but for Beth next to him. Dead bodies were laying everywhere inside. And not only on the dirty floor, they were also hanging down from the ceilings, with a rope around their throats and some walkers were even still alive. This scene got Beth all shocked and sad, but still she helped Daryl to look trough their stuff to find any useful things.

Every dead body inside here was once very rich and probably also respectable in the neighbourhood, because when they all got inside here, they have taken their treasures with them. Old pictures were leaning against the walls, expensive looking sculptures seemed so out of place on the worn out, dirty furnitures. The clothes they had with them or were even still wearing and the much money and jewellers, which were lying around everywhere.

Before, this would have been Daryl's and even more Merle's biggest dream to find a left place like this, with all these precious, expensive things inside. But right now, in this world, it was all worthless.

Still, Beth and he looked trough the insignificant stuff and the girl got the hunter's attention, when she watched a little wooden box since moments. Daryl didn't want to watch her, he wanted to give her some privacy, so he kept on searching, while he still eyed her from the corner of his eyes. Just in case.

Beth looked at the small box in her hands close, even traced the notches soft with her fingertips and when she did finally open it, Daryl could see some tears building up in her pretty eyes. He didn't need to ask himself long, why she was so touched suddenly, when she pulled two wedding rings out of the wooden box and eyed them between her fingers in the faint light carefully.

Daryl gave her some more moments, till she got the two rings back into the box and packed it together into her bag. He didn't want to ask her why she was doing so, why she wanted to take them with her. Because first she didn't know he was watching her and second it was none of his business. It wasn't like she was stealing them, because they didn't belong to anybody anymore.

When they were finally finished with searching the room for any useful things, they had only found some cans of food, Daryl just wanted to leave for the next, when Beth held him back with saying that they should kill the last walkers, which were still hanging alive from the ceiling.

He wouldn't have even waisted one thought to do so, because Daryl could have lived on with leaving them behind like that, but Beth couldn't and for her he did it without questioning it. He would do everything for her.

Thankfully the next few rooms weren't that sad, but also not much lighter, so they had to use their flash lights. They have found more food, even some medicine and in one room, which looked like a little shop, Beth found some new, clean clothes. They were both still biting on the cinnamon sticks Daryl had found, while the girl got around the corner to change into a new shirt and a thin, white vest.

While Beth was doing so, Daryl packed as much of the clothes as possible inside his bag. He had noticed that Beth was already finished with changing into her new clothes, because he had heard her behind himself, but no answer came when he had asked her if they could move on.

Quickly Daryl turned around to just see her standing in front of a dead walker. Beth had this look in her face again, which she already had in the very first room, while she was holding her flash light into the walkers lifeless face. Beth had compassion with all the dead bodies inside here, especially with the woman in front of her, who was wearing a sign around her neck with the writing rich bitch.

Daryl had almost reached Beth's side and wanted to take her arm to lead her away, because she shouldn't even see that, when she stepped forward and tried to take down the woman's body from the hook in the wall it was hanging on it.

Because Beth was too short to do it on her own, she finally looked over her shoulder and said back to Daryl "Help me take her down." He breathed deep inside his lungs, while he watched her with a tilted head. "Beth. It doesn't matter any more, she is dead."

The look she gave him over her shoulder then, caused his blood to freeze in his veins and his heart stopped beating for a few moments. Determined and with a very strong voice she told him "It does matter."

And she was right, of course she was. Maybe it didn't change anything for the dead woman any more, but it did for Beth, it did matter for her. Because Beth was one of the less good people in the world and with this she proved it to Daryl one more time.

Finally, he took the old blanket to his right and covered the dead body carefully with it. "You alright with that?" He finally asked Beth, after every part was covered. She only nodded in response, before Daryl shoved her gently out of the room and away from this sadness.

They still haven't found any alcohol, while they walked quietly trough the corridors, Beth in front of him. They had just entered a new room, when out of nowhere a walker attacked her and the blond girl wasn't able to reach for her gun, after she had let her knife fall to the ground unwanted.

Instantly Daryl let his crossbow also fall down, because it was way too dangerous to shot with Beth so close to the walker, and with his whole power he tried to get the bastard away from her.

When Beth was finally saved and the walker was laying on the ground, Daryl reached for the golf club laying on the ground right next to him and angrily he started to beat the ugly, half dead body with it.

But he didn't aim for the head to make it a quick end. No, Daryl did beat with his whole power into every part of the body he did reach. A sudden anger was rushing trough his body, when he saw the walker laying on the ground, who had just wanted to kill Beth. He hated these bastards so much, he had enough from them.

Enough from making Beth scared and also sad, enough from almost killing her, enough from just everything. They should all go to hell and let this innocence girl in peace, because she deserved so much more, so much better. Beth was outside here to help her family and friends, to help them to survive and not to die a stupid dead, because these monsters wanted to push their teeth inside her soft skin.

Daryl kept on beating the hell out of the already disfigured body. Inside his head was rushing the blood, he was in killer mode right now. Daryl's only destination was to revenge Beth and punish the walker for what he had wanted to do. His anger grow and grow with every time the gold club met the walker's flesh and blood was splashing trough the air.

"Daryl. Stop it! Daryl!" Beth was trying to hold him back, she did almost beg him, but he couldn't hear her. Daryl's anger had the upper hand over his own body and actions now. He just couldn't stop even if he wanted to. He had to finish his job, only then.

Being already breathless, he still kept on and with his last, powerful upswing and beat he hit the walker by its ugly face and Daryl could remember his own noises of anger, when he hit the already lifeless body one last time by its head and splashed a big amount of dark blood, skin and also part of the brain into the air.

Daryl was still trying to catch his breath when the anger slowly began to leave his body and he woke up again. The first thing he did with being himself again, was to search for Beth, being worried about her safety. She was standing in the corner of the room and first Daryl hadn't noticed anything wrong on her, because he was probably already used to people wear dirty, bloody clothes, but then he saw her before white vest and new shirt.

The last load of blood, flesh and whatever else it was, he had shot directly into Beth's direction and it had hit her without any advance. Also her face was covered with some dark red splashes now, while she eyed him with a mixture of disappointment, disgust and anger. But she didn't say anything, like himself. He was still breathless and didn't know how to excuse his acting.

Beth just took off her new and now dirty vest, whipped with the less, still clean material over her cheeks and throw it careless into the corner, before she walked past him into the next room. Being damn angry at himself, Daryl let his weapon fall to the ground right next to his work and after picking up his crossbow and the bag he had let fall, he finally followed her.