Much Ado About Nothing

Chapter 2

Beth huffed as she lifted the last bag from her trunk and carried it up the steps of her trailer. Moving into the small space while filming was the only part about the job Beth didn't love. She always missed her apartment, her bed, her nice hot shower with amazing water pressure. The plan was to film for three months, so it really wasn't that bad, but she was going to be in heaven when she got back to her apartment.

She set the bag on the table until she could get to it later. She hadn't brought a lot of things, just her computer, some books, some photos, and a few outfits to wear on days she wasn't filming. She was about to go find Maggie when the door to her trailer opened and Daryl walked in, looking as smug as ever. Beth scowled at him as he sat on her small couch. "You know, civil people, with manners, knock."

He smirked, his blue diamond eyes cutting to her. "Yeah, well you know as well as I do that there's nothing civil about us."

Beth rolled her eyes, grabbing the bag she'd just brought in and moving it back to her bed. "Did you need something or did you just come in here to stink up the place?" She set the bag down and turned to look at him again. "Honestly, when was the last time you took a shower?"

"You're once to talk. I can see how greasy your hair is from here."

Anger started to get the better of her. Beth's hair was not greasy, and he damn well knew it. He was just baiting her, trying to piss her off, and it was working. "If you just came here to be an asshole, you can leave. I have things to do."

The way his lips quirked up and his arms folded over his chest, drawing his shirt tight pissed her off to no end. Why the hell did he have to be so damn attractive? "What's wrong princess, you can dish it, but you can't take it?" He got up, rolling his eyes. "I can't understand how everyone can adore you so much. You must put on one hell of an act."

"And you don't?" Beth snapped. "Everyone thinks you're this handsome, charming gentleman. They don't know that you're just a giant pain in the ass."

Rick sighed, running a hand through his hair and looked at Glenn and Maggie. They'd all heard the shouting and had to come to see what was going on. They all knew that having Beth and Daryl working on the same movie together was going to be difficult, but they'd all thought that they'd at least get through the first day without going at it with each other. "This is going to be one long filming."

"I can't understand why they even hate each other," Glenn muttered. "They're practically soul mates."

"Have you lost your mind?" Maggie shook her head and looked at Glenn. "In what universe are they soul mates?"

"He has a point," Rick interjected. "The sexual tension between the two of them is one of the reasons they work so well together." He just wished they could do it without all of the fighting. An idea popped into Rick's head just then, an idea that might be able to solve all of their problems. "Both of you, my trailer, now."

Rick left the bickering actors and headed for his own trailer, Maggie and Glenn following, albeit reluctantly; afraid that if they left Beth and Daryl alone together they may just kill each other. He opened the door, letting the two managers inside before following. "I have an idea."

"What kind of an idea?" Glenn asked, sitting beside Maggie on Rick's couch.

Rick smirked, crossing his arms. "We get Beth and Daryl to fall in love with each other." He was quiet pleased with his plan, and from the smirks Maggie and Glenn gave him, they were as well.

"That's genius, but how do we do that?"

Rick leaned back against the table. "By being incredibly sneaky." Rick began to explain his plan to them, hoping and praying that this would work.

Beth ran a hand through her hair as she walked off the set and headed back to her trailer. She'd just finished filming her first scene, and thankfully it had been one without Daryl in it. She couldn't stand that man. She just wanted to go back to her trailer and fall asleep.

"We don't have a lot of time; Beth could be back any second." Beth frowned, hearing her sister's voice coming from inside Beth's trailer. "Are you absolutely sure about this?" Maggie asked. Beth wanted to know who the hell she was in there with, and why they weren't in Maggie's trailer.

"Positive. Daryl is in love with Beth."

Beth nearly fell over, her interest more the piqued now. Glenn had to be on some kind of drugs, or drunk at the very least. There was no way he was telling the truth.

"How can you be so sure?" Maggie asked. "All they do is fight. That doesn't really sound like love to me." Beth nodded; at least her sister didn't seem to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

"He told me. All of the fighting and the insults, they're just to hide how he really feels."

"Maybe we should tell Beth."

"No, we can't tell her. Daryl said that if she ever found out he'd just deny everything."

Beth frowned. Why would Daryl deny it? She heard Maggie sigh. "It's probably best that we don't, Beth would just mock and tease Daryl about it." Beth glared at the window she was hiding under. "I love my sister, but she can be a real pain in the ass sometimes."

"So what are we going to do about Daryl?" Glenn asked.

"I'll talk to him; tell him to keep fighting his love for Beth. Eventually he'll get over her and move on."

"That's a good idea." Glenn's phone went off. "It's Rick," he told Maggie.

Beth head them coming and swore under her breath, quickly running around to the back of her trailer to hide. Once Maggie and Glenn were out of sight, Beth quickly went inside her trailer and locked the door.

Daryl was in love with her? Even though she'd heard it from her own manager, it was hard to believe. There was just no way. She sat down on her couch and thought about it. Maybe Daryl was in love with her. He was the one who almost always started their fights, hell, half the time he came looking for her. It would be a great way to cover up his true feelings.

Beth smiled a little. Daryl being in love with her really wasn't that bad of an idea. After all, he was handsome, talented, and there was something about his insanely intense blue eyes that always gave her butterflies. Maybe she could be in love with Daryl; it wouldn't be the strangest thing that had ever happened.

Deciding that she would at least test this little theory, Beth headed back to take a shower, her mood drastically changed, and a slight anticipation of when she'd get to see Daryl again.

Daryl sighed, watching John McClane perform some death defying stunt in a hope to beat the bad guys. Those were the kind of movies he loved doing. Something with plenty of action and violence. But, he had to made money, so here he was, filming the feel-good chick-flick of the year with the one person he hated most. Life really was a bitch sometimes.

He sighed and looked at his phone. It was almost time for him to head to the set to film his scene. "Sorry, McClane, gonna have to beat the baddies without me."

"Maggie, you can't be serious."

Daryl muted his television, hearing Rick outside of his trailer. He was supposed to be on set, so what the hell was he doing here with Maggie? He smirked to himself. Maybe Beth was going to quit the movie.

"Of course I'm serious, Rick," Maggie hissed. "Why on earth would I make something like this up?"

Daryl heard Rick sigh. "I just can't believe it."

"I know, but it's true. Beth is in love with Daryl."

Daryl fell out of his chair. He had to have heard Maggie wrong. There was no way she'd just said that her little sister was in love with him.

"What are we going to do about this?" Rick asked.

"I don't know, maybe we should tell Daryl?" Maggie suggested.

"Absolutely not." Daryl glared a bit. Rick didn't have to sound so scared about telling him. "Do you have any idea what Daryl would do if he found out? He'd make her life a living hell." Daryl rolled his eyes, now Rick was just being over dramatic.

"So what should we do?" Maggie asked, her voice laced with concerned for her sister.

Rick sighed. "We don't do anything. Beth will get over Daryl soon enough. Besides, he's not good enough for her anyways." Rick's phone started to ring. "I've got to get back to the set."

Daryl waited until he was sure they were gone before getting off of the floor. He smirked to himself as he dusted off. So, little miss perfect was in love with him, was she? Daryl supposed it made sense. In an effort to hide her love from him, Beth was pretending to hate him. And he was attracted to her, even a blind man would be.

One way or another he was going to get Beth to admit that she was in love with him. The one thing he didn't know for sure as he walked out of his trailer and headed to the set, was that now he didn't feel so bad about having that sex dream about Beth.