Walking Dad One Shots # 21

Merle Finds Out

This is a continuation of the previous chapter

Daryl backed Beth towards the table and worked open the buttons to the shirt she was wearing instead of her pajamas without breaking their kiss. Once the buttons gave way he pushed the shirt down and broke the kiss as he kneeled down and pulled her panties off, tossing them over his shoulder as he quickly stood back up and lifted her up so she could sit up. Beth pulled him back to her mouth, kissing him frantically. To say that everything was working out would be a lie, they were certainly getting along and living together wasn't even terrible in the littlest of ways, but Beth was still too scared to go home for the rest of her things. She had only spoken briefly to her sister, hanging up quickly when Maggie had tried to talk about her Dad. Daryl wasn't too worried about it, if Beth wanted to talk about he was pretty sure she would but if she wanted to avoid the hurt and try to move on he wasn't going to stop her. He nipped at her lips as her hands drifted down to his pants and Beth opened her mouth so he could slide his tongue against hers as she worked the zipper down.

"Lay back." Daryl said against her mouth as he kneeled on the floor. Beth dropped to her elbows and pulled her bottom lip between her teeth as he lifted her legs over his shoulders, tugging her closer to his mouth. Her head rolled back as soon as his tongue started working at her clit and her legs were soon hugging the sides of his head, muffling the tiny whines and moans leaving her mouth. Beth reached down and grabbed him by the hair, tugging him where she wanted him and holding him there. Beth let her eyes close and moved gently against his lips and tongue lost in the slow build up she was feeling in her stomach. Neither heard the front door open or the steps towards them.

"Oh Jesus fuck! You knocked her up?" Merle said as he barged into the kitchen. Daryl quickly pulled Beth to his chest to shield her body. "He don't got a lot of money, so you might want to rethink your stance on Roe vs. Wade." Merle said walking up and getting in both their faces. Daryl stood up and walked Beth over to the hallway, once he set her feet down on the floor she ran to the bed room and shut the door.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" Daryl asked as he walked back to the kitchen and gave his brother a shove. Merle shoved him back into the wall. "She ain't a gold digger."

"Are you telling me this was planned?" Merle screamed grabbing two fists fulls of Daryl shirt and backing him back to the wall.

"No planned, but it ain't like it's the worse thing that could happen!" Daryl said wrestling free. "Fuck what would you have me do?"

"I don't know, pull out?!" Merle said. "Daryl walked over and opened his door.

"Just get the fuck out." Daryl said. "I'm in a good place and you are going to ruin everything." Daryl said. "I was dreading telling you. Whenever you needed to step up and be my brother you've always failed, I didn't expect anything to be different this time."

"Are kicking me out of some pussy?" Merle screamed. "She's been here at least 2 months, and not one word from you." Merle added moving towards the door. "I can forgive not telling me when you're getting a piece of ass, but not telling you're having a kid?"

"And have you come here and upset it's mother?" Daryl hollered. "Jesus fuck Merle! She ran to the bedroom crying! You were screaming like you were going to hit her!"

"I wasn't going to hit her, I was going to clock you for being such a fucking idiot!" Merle said walking out the door into the yard. Daryl watched while he kicked over the stack of wood he had for campfires and as he walked over to the huge oak tree and break a shovel against the trunk. He rolled his eyes and walked down the hall to the bedroom and knocked.

"Who is it?" Beth squeaked out.

"It's me." Daryl said opening the door. He saw a big lump under the blankets on the bed and walked over sitting down. "You need to get a Hell of a lot better at hiding girl." Daryl said trying to break the ice. "Merle's a hot head. Don't worry, he'll get on board." Beth pulled the blanket down slightly and gazed up at him.

"Daryl I've never been more humiliated in my life. He saw everything!" Beth said pulling the blanket tighter. "He hates me for ruining your life." Beth added throwing the blanket back over her head.

"Well we don't know if you've ruined his life yet Blondie." Merle said from the doorway to the bedroom.

"Merle…" Daryl started say when he noticed Beth tense beneath the covers.

"I speak only he truth and you know it." Merle said. Daryl left Beth on the bed to stalk back out to the kitchen. "Playing house while she gains half her weight is not going to prepare you for what life is going to be like when that baby gets here."

"I am not going to gain half my weight!" Beth said from under the blankets. "All that's going to change is there'll someone else screaming and hollering making me cry instead of you."

"Come on Merle." Daryl said once he realized that Merle had no intentions of leaving. "Let's take a walk."

Beth waited a few minutes, she wanted to make sure that Merle and Daryl were out of the house before she quickly got out of bed and dressed. There was no way she was going to risk having Merle see anymore of her than he already had. She didn't know what to do. She was trying not to take anything Merle said to heart, she had a feeling that if Daryl didn't want her there, baby or not, she wouldn't be there. He'd have let her get a room at the Outlook and helped her out financially only.

"You can't be like that with her." Daryl said as they walked along the edge of his property. "Merle she's been through the fucking ringer and I want her around."

"Been through the ringer? She's living off you!" Merle scoffed.

"Merle her dad kicked her out." Daryl said explaining the situation.

"Wait her Paw is Hershel Greene?" Daryl nodded. "Her Daddy owns half the land south of the river and she's leaving her rent free?"

"It ain't about money!" Daryl said. "And it ain't rent free, not that it's your business but she pays me money off each pay and splits the grocery bill. Stop thinking she's looking for a free ride."

"I'm telling you it's weird. A girl like that doesn't have any friends she can stay with? She has to fall in your lap?"

"It's my kid." Daryl said calmly. "Ain't her friends' responsibilities. It's ours" Merle rolled his eyes and sat on a tree stump. "This in no way has any impact on your life. Why are you so bent out of shape?"

"I'm not bent out of shape. I am waiting for the other ball to drop. Just like everyone thinks we're trouble, I think this is only going to lead to heartbreak."

"We both know that this might not be more than friendship." Daryl said looking at him. "We'd both still just be hooking up on the weekend, maybe working toward something if she wasn't pregnant, maybe not. There is a baby and we are going to be in each others lives."

"Oh so you're going to have her around you might as well be fucking? How are you going to feel if she comes home and says she has a date?"

"Merle she's like 6 months pregnant, she ain't looking for a date." Daryl said trying to hide how much he hated the thought of her telling someone else about her day, making them laugh and kissing them.

"Not now numb nuts, 5 months from now when she leaves you with the kid to head out with her girlfriends and comes back with a few phone numbers."

"She won't leave the baby." Daryl mumbled. "She's already planned her maternity leave, and she's planning on working right up till she gives birth to get the most time off with the baby. If she can, look Merle, I know you think you're looking out for me and I know you hate change. You need to get used to her being around and me being with her."

"Just so I can listen to you bitch when she leaves? "

"She won't leave if you don't chase her away." Daryl said turning and making his way back to the house. "She's a good thing Merle. I got something to come home to now. Someone to take care of and someone who tries to take care of me."

"You don't need anyone, you need to remember that you're a fucking man." Merle said. "Women are a good fun time till they beat you at the game and pin you down."

"Look if you can't be nice and civil, we can't be starting up Monday dinners or hunting together on the weekends." Daryl added. "Least not till the baby comes."

"Oh yeah cause when the baby comes she's going to take you off the leash she put you on." Merle said following him through the woods back to his house. "Do you even know the amount of hassle a baby is?"

"What the fuck do you want me to do Merle? Leave him at a fire station?" Daryl snapped. "I know there is more to having a kid then having a bed for him."

"Yeah cause we had the best examples to follow." Merle said.

"Is that what you're afraid of? That this is going to turn me into him?" Daryl asked. Merle looked away. "I won't."

"You think any guy thinks he's going to be a terrible father? The first time that little hell raiser does something to set you off you sure you won't haul back and hit him? Slap her around when she talks back to you?"

"Yeah, I'm sure." Daryl said walking up his stairs and slamming the door behind him leaving Merle on the outside. "Beth?" Daryl called out making his way back down the hall. He found her sitting in bed reading through one of the books she had checked out of the library.

"Hey." Beth said marking her spot and setting the book aside. "You alright?" Darryl nodded and stretched out next to her on the bed. "Your brother gone?" Darryl shook his head.

"He's pouting in the backyard, spewing bullshit." Darryl said. "Just don't take anything he says personally." Beth ran her hand over his hair pushing it out of his face.

"He thinks he's protecting you." Beth said softly. "Not everyone is out to get you. Why does he think that?"

"Cause he's a miserable guy who's lived a hard life, some of it self inflicted." Daryl said. "He's used to people only wanting us—him around if they're being useful and to place blame on."

"He needs to start thinking more highly of you. I mean I don't know him at all; maybe he is a bad person. I know you aren't." Daryl gave her a look. "You aren't." Beth said stubbornly. "And I'm not just saying that cause of the situation we're in."

"I'm glad you're comfortable around me and everything but we don't know everything about each other—"

"Yet." Beth interrupted only for Daryl to reach up and cover her mouth.

"Or how I used to be." He finished uncovering her mouth.

"I don't care how you used to be. That doesn't have any affect on me. I care about who you are now. That is who I met, that is who I am getting to know and that is all that matters."