Ok going to be honest not sure about this but it was a choice to make so I made it, hope you enjoy it xx

Beth's eyes slowly opened the light causing her pain, owww, she thought as her eyes adjusted to the light her head was thumping, it took a few minutes to realise she was staring straight at Merle Dixon, what the hell?

"Merle?" she asked her voice weak.

"Didn't think you were ever going to wake up girlie, you snore some." he snorted at her, she rolled her eyes at him, some thing's never change.

"Why exactly are you in my dorm room?" she started to stretch, her aching limbs.

"Ain't your dorm room blondie, it's a hospital wing in the college, they stuck you here last night." he explained, she looked at him confused.

"And why would they do that?" she asked collapsing back on the bed with her hand over her eyes.

"You don't remember?" he asked her, she started to shake her head but decided that the pain would be overwhelming.

"No, I went out with Michonne, we were going to get food and watch a film, with her boyfriend Ty and his friend Bob, we were in a bar, after that I don't know." she spoke without looking at him trying hard to remember everything.

"So you don't remember ringing Daryl?" he asked her chuckling.

"No, I rang him? was I stupidly drunk? is that why your here?" he was really laughing now, she was worried what had she said?

"Think I will go and get him, he was talking to that dorm mistress of yours, I will let him explain everything to ya" he left the room laughing, why was he laughing? after a few minutes she heard the door open again.

"Beth?" she looked up slightly, Daryl was stood at the end of her bed he looked nervous, confused, there was something else hiding that he wouldn't let completely surface, but she recognised it, she had seen it many times on his face, it was hurt.

"Daryl, I am sorry I worried you, getting myself that drunk, you must have been pulling your hair out, Michonne must of dropped me off here, thing is I really don't remember drinking that much." she placed her hand to her mouth thinking.

"Beth you weren't drunk, someone spiked your drink." he looked up at her expectantly.

"Someone...who would have done such a thing? I mean Michonne is my friend and she never went near my drink, I brought the first one myself and then..." Beth went silent trying to remember and then what, what had happened? Bob she distinctly remembered he went to get her a soda. "Bob got me a soda, but it tasted funny, I thought someone had put vodka in it or something" she finished she watched as anger engulfed him, his fists opening and closing beside him "Daryl he wouldn't have done anything so silly, he's a newly qualified doctor" she tried to reassure him.

"Hmmm" his thumb shot up to his mouth "Ya don't remember being on the phone to me do you?" she shook her head no "Thought not, shame really coz you said some telling things." he was staring at her, his eyes burning into hers.

"What did I say?" she asked nervous about the answer.

"You told me you wanted to come home." he said.

"Is that why your here? Come to get me?" she cocked her head to one side, if he knew anything about her he would know she wouldn't be leaving her any time soon.

"No, I came because you also said...it don't matter, I am here because I needed to know your ok, I need to make sure nothing like this happens to you again while your here." she frowned at him, he was keeping secrets from her, had she told him something stupid?

"What else Daryl? Your hiding something." she demanded.

"Idonknow" he said quietly.

"Daryl!" she was exasperated with him, sometimes he was frustrating, he could make her so angry, she watched him for a few minutes while he wrestled internally with his own demons, perhaps she had told him she didn't want to be with him any more, it wasn't unlike her, to say stupid stuff when she was drunk, but she really didn't know what she would have been liked drugged too, as she had never taken anything in her life.

"You told me you loved me, you told me you wanted to come home, you told me you wanted me to be your first." he bleated out, his face was bright red when he finished he dropped his eyes to the floor.

"Oh" Beth sucked air through her teeth, stupid, stupid girl. "Daryl I..." she didn't know what to say.

"It's ok, I get it you were off your nut, it's fine, I say dumb shit when I am pissed, you were drugged, I understand Beth." his voice broke a small bit at the end of the sentence, showing his insecurites.

"You really don't understand do you Daryl Dixon, all this time and you don't understand me at all." she threw the covers off of her, being glad no one had seen fit to take her jeans off, she stood carefully and made her way to the end of the bed.

"Daryl" he wouldn't look at her so she pushed herself in front of him "Your infuriating, you irritate me to no end, you never say what is on your mind, you hide all the time." she was shouting at him hitting his chest with her hands, she couldn't understand why she was suddenly so angry with him. "Sometimes Dixon you are a fool." His eyes shot up to her at the same time as his hands grabbed her wrists.

"So you go off to college and now I ain't good enough for you?" he whispered.

"Daryl" she sighed "What are you talking about?" she could feel her body becoming heavy under the strain of being stood for so long, she walked slowly back to the bed and Daryl followed her lifting the cover for her to get in then he sat on the side of her bed looking into his hands.

"You haven't even been here a month and your out on a date with another man." he said to her "You hardly rang, I sent you loads of messages and you never answered." he spoke to his fingers.

"Daryl, I wasn't on a date, I went out to celebrate with my room mate on her win at fencing, I wouldn't go on a date with anyone other than you" she said sincerely, he looked up at her, she couldn't read the look in his eyes. "As for messages, Daryl I have only had two from you since I have been here, I thought you had found someone" she shrugged.

"Sent ya loads, asking ya how you were doing? Perhaps your room mate ain't the person you thought she was." he suggested, then he sighed "You really weren't on a date?" he asked her and she shook her head no.

"Beth I ain't no good with words so if you want me to tell you I love you, I can't Beth, I ain't that type of person, you know how I feel, you know why I am here, you know I have felt the same way since the first time we met" she knew this was hard for him, opening up to anyone was hard for him.

"Daryl?" he turned to look at her, she grabbed hold of the front of his shirt and pulled him towards her, she kissed him hard, she forced him to open his mouth to give her access to him, she nipped at his bottom lip with her teeth, running her hands up threw his hair, she felt him relax against her, kissing her back, his tongue fighting with hers, they pulled apart for a minute breathing deeply, staring at each other.

"Wow" she said smiling.

"Yeah" he agreed tentatively.

"What?" she asked him.

"What do we do now?" he asked her "Taken us so long to do that, now I don't know what to say to you, ain't never kissed anyone like that." he confessed.

"Well you did it very well." she couldn't help but smile at the small embarrassed smirk that appeared on his face. "All there is now is for you to ask me to go steady with you and we can run off into the sunset and get married." she laughed at the scared look on his face. "I am joking, help me get up, I need to go back to the dorm and get changed, then you and that brother of yours are going to take me for breakfast." she stood up slowly, making her way to the door, as she opened it she found Merle leaning up against the wall, looking down at a very sheepish Ms Peletier.

"Can't leave you on your own for two minutes can we?" she said to him, she turned to her dorm mistress "Can I go now?" she asked her.

"We are going to have to discuss what happened, but for now and because you are with these two men who have begged me not to call the police, I will let you go." she blushed when Merle lent in quickly and kissed her lightly on the cheek "Are they staying around for a while?" she asked Beth, Beth looked at Daryl then back to Ms Peletier.

"I am guessing the answer to that question is yes, they will probably be looking for jobs to do, Daryl here is a mechanic, Merle is...Well Merle is pretty much Merle" she grinned at him as he flashed her a warning look and she laughed.

"I have a friend who runs a garage I could speak with him and find out if he has anything for you" she grinned.

"Oh that would be great thank you." Beth was excited to have both her boys close to her, especially now. "Come on boys you need to be treating me to food" she pulled them both out of the wing and went off towards her dorm room, as she opened the door she discovered Michonne and Tyreese in a compromising position, she coughed to let them know she was there, they moved quickly and led still looking at her.

"You disappeared last night" Michonne said not keeping the disappointment out of her voice.

"Not really someone spiked my drink, I spent the night in the hospital wing" she explained as she pulled some clean clothes out of her wardrobe, missing the look Michonne gave Tyreese.

"Bob was really disappointed he didn't get to spend more time with you" Beth raised an eyebrow at her friend.

"I bet he was" she sighed "Where is he anyway?" she asked curiously.

"Oh liked him did you?" Michonne teased, she didn't seem all that bothered that Beth had spent the night in the hospital wing, or that her drink had been spiked perhaps Daryl had been right. "He will be back in a minute"

"Oh goody I can't wait to see him, there is something I wanted to discuss with him" she picked up her things and went off into the bathroom and changed into her jeans and a cropped t-shirt, as she walked back into the room she went to sit on her bed then she spotted him, Bob, stood sheepishly on Michonnes side of the room, he walked over and sat down on her bed next to her, Beth fumbled with her laces on her boots, while he sat next her with a huge Cheshire cat grin.

"How are you today?" he asked her.

"Much better than I was yesterday, I have to say" There was a bang on the door and Beth stood up with a big smile.

"Visitors?" Michonne raised an eyebrow at her.

"You could say that, come in" she shouted Daryl came through the door first, closely followed by Merle, Bob's eyes grew huge and he stood making his way over to his friends.

"That him?" Daryl asked Beth and she nodded, Merle stuck his hand out taking the much smaller man off his feet.

"Think it's clever do you little man?" he asked the now trembling man "Only way you can get yourself laid is it, drugging little girls, find it fun do you?" he dropped Bob onto the floor and Daryl stepped over to him.

"Look at her again, go near her, touch her in anyway and I will personally see to it that will loose your arms." he drew his arm back and punched Bob as hard as he could then he turned to the couple still led in the bed "Beth will be coming back here for tonight, but tomorrow she will be packing her stuff and coming with me, my brother and I will take care of her from now on, you ain't no friend to her if this is the sort of trouble you cause." taking Beth's hand he pulled her from the room, Merle turned to follow them, then stopped looking down at the man on the floor, he kicked him as hard as he could.

"Give ya something to remember me by" he chuckled as he walked out the room.