Well here is todays, thank you again for the reviews and the follows and favourites, please keep them coming as they really do motivate me, slightly more dramatic than mushy this time. Love to you all xxx

That night when everyone was tucked up in bed Beth snuck out to the barn, she opened the door quietly and closed it behind her, a hand turned her around quickly and a body pushed her against the door, she gasped.

"Only me" he soothed her brushing her hair from her forehead.

"How did you know?" she asked.

"Don't take a genius to work out you weren't going to stay here" he stated.

"I was worried" she sighed into his chest.

"Maggie said" Beth looked up at him "She told me you weren't sure how I would react, it's not my fault I didn't graduate, so I dropped it all don't need it now just finish my training and we can be together again" he whispered to her.

"So well I will see you on the holidays, if you don't get bored waiting for me." she pushed her arms around his waist enjoying the closeness of him.

"We going to stand here all night or you wanna sit down?" he asked her.

"Sit down" she smiled Daryl guided her towards the back of the barn and placed his hands over her eyes. "What are you doing?" she asked him.

"Surprise" he said, she could hear the smiled in his voice, as he drew her to a halt he uncovered her eyes telling her to keep them closed, she resisted the urge to open them not wanting to spoil the surprise, she heard him fumbling around then he said she could open her eyes. Beth drew in a deep breath, then let it out.

"Daryl!" she smiled up at him, he shrugged his shoulders not wanting her to make to much of a fuss, on the floor was a blanket, with a bunch of roses led out for her a bottle of what she guessed was champagne and some strawberries, then she saw a small portable Dvd player, confused she looked to him for an explanation.

"Well never finished that damned book, thought we could watch it together" he pointed to the blanket and she curled up with him.

"If I didn't know better Daryl Dixon I would say you were trying to seduce me" the words were out of her mouth before she realised what she had said, at this point he was over the other side of the blanket staring at her, his face bright red but she couldn't tell if he was angry or embarrassed by her statement. "I didn't..." she began and went to take his hand he snatched it away from her.

"Beth" he looked away from her "I wouldn't do that" he said then stood up "Look I don't actually think this was such a good idea, perhaps another time, kinda tiered, got to be up in the morning you know." he shrugged, he got up making for the door.

"Daryl?" she called after him "Daryl please" he just kept walking he pulled the door open and walked away from her closing it slightly behind him "Daryl I was only joking." she whispered tears in her eyes.

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Daryl strode away, he couldn't understand his reaction to her, he had wanted it to be nice for her, he had wanted to hold her, to kiss her, to make her his but as soon as she had said that he had panicked, he had never been intimate with anyone before not like he was with Beth, but to go that one step further had never really occurred to him, is that what she expected? She had expected him to seduce her into bed like he Zach and Jimmy would have done? Was he like that? Was he really a Dixon? Did he put his dick before his brain? All these questions ran through his brain, his thoughts overloading his system, he felt bile rising in his throat at the thought of being like his father, he had heard him at night, bringing home some tarty waitress or barmaid from their local bar, screwing her then telling her to leave, Merle was exactly the same no respect for the women he pulled, he had even gone as far as on Daryl's 15th Birthday bringing a woman home, so he could 'gain experience' Merle had said, but he had bottled it and ran, he had ran into the woods and sat there for two days to be sure she had gone, she had touched him and he hadn't liked it.

But it was different when Beth touched him, he knew she wouldn't hurt him, he knew she would be tender, but he was scared of being hurt, physically, mentally. Daryl climbed onto his bike starting the engine, it was a long ride back to his apartment, he pulled away his brain still scrambled. You can take the boy out of the house but you can't take the house out of the boy, his ghosts would always haunt him, he was sure she felt the same way about him as he did her, and he was so sure he would be able to deal with the fact that she was going away, but he wasn't so sure he could if they slept together, that was it, that was his problem.

He felt almost pleased that he had worked out his problem now he had to work out a way to get over it, Merle would tell him to stop being a pussy, to get his shit together and just stick it to her, he could hear his voice clearly in his head, turn the bike around lil brother, go back to that barn and just fuck her senseless, make her scream for you. But then after he did would he be able to let her go? "Shit" Daryl said out loud, he shook his head to clear it, he rode the rest of the way to his apartment, pulled his bike inside the garage and went off upstairs, fucking weird could have sworn I hadn't left the light on, he rolled his eyes, Merle had to be Merle.

"Merle this ain't no fucking halfway house for you to bring women" he said as he kicked the door open and stepped into the small living area, his eyes came up and locked with a set of almost identical eyes, a set that still gave him nightmares.

"Dad" he said.

"Darlenea" his father continued to sit there.

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"Your not allowed here" Daryl stated "Uncle Jess and Merle, they told you to leave me alone, they said" he was fiddling with his phone in his pocket, pressing the button on the side of it to make the emergency call to Uncle Jess.

"You think they can stop me little boy, your an ungrateful little shit, I give you life, I fed you, I watered you, I gave you a roof over your head and how do you repay me, you take a little blonde bitch to your bed and you suddenly think you are better than me, better than my family." he yelled standing up.

"Look I don't want to get into this with you Dad, I mean it wasn't like that, you hit me, the belt remember?" he asked.

"You telling me I don't know what I doing, telling me I ain't a good father?" he was screaming now standing up and prowling towards Daryl, Daryl's eyes darted to the small kitchen he backed up until he got to the counter, pressing his hand to it he sprang over the top of it, landing lightly the other side putting it between them.

"Dad please, I ain't your problem any more" he put his hands up to surrender.

"That's where your wrong, as long as I am alive I will find you, I will bring you home, that by the way is why I am here, so go and get your shit and get your arse out to the truck. How had Daryl not seen his truck? How the hell was he going to get out of this one alive?

"Dad I can't just go, I am working now, got me a job in the garage" he prayed that Jess would be here any minute.

"You will do as your told boy" Daryl made to run from behind the counter get back out the front door and down to the garage, but his father as always caught him and brought him to the ground with his mass of weight. He punched Daryl in the rib cage winding him, Daryl doubled over with a groan, then the punch came thick and fast, he closed his mind, shut himself on the inside and went to his happy place, he saw her face there, he saw her perfect skin, her delicate features, the way her hair spilled from it's pony tail and dropped around her face, her lips when she bit at the bottom on.

"Beth" he whispered as his mind went black, suddenly he felt lighter, the pain had stopped he opened his eyes a crack and noticed that his father was on the floor, his Uncle Jess pinning him down with his body.

"Daryl I want you to go to my house, take my truck and leave" he stated Daryl went to protest but Jess stopped him "I said leave, my brother and I need to have a little chat, one that has been coming for along time. Your Aunt will be there she is expecting you, just go Daryl" Daryl looked down at his father.

"Don't leave me Daryl, don't let him do this to me, I'm your Dad" he pleaded.

"My Dad" Daryl shouted at him "Your not my Dad, your not my family, I don't want to know you, I don't want to have anything to do with you ever again." holding his side he walked away from the scene, getting in Jess's truck he didn't look back, he didn't regret leaving him. He pulled up outside Jess's house and his Aunt opened the door.

"Come on Daryl lets get you cleaned up, that damned man, I hope your Uncle deals with this once and for all." she pulled him into her kitchen, plonking him down on a stool she went off to find something to clean him up with, he pulled his phone from his pocket and dialled Beth's number.

"Hello Daryl" she sounded tired, he heard her sniff.

"You crying?" he asked her.

"No just woke up" he could tell she was lying.

"Sorry to wake you I just I needed to hear your voice, I needed to know you would answer the phone" he stated.

"Of course I would, we are friends aren't we?" she asked him.

"Yes" he breathed "Beth I...go back to sleep I will talk to you in the morning"

"Good night Daryl" she said and he closed his phone, a few seconds later a text came through from her.

I do too Daryl.

Was all it said, he smiled to himself, then breathed in deep as his Aunt pulled the bandage around his ribs tightly.