Daryl held his breath as he stared at the screen in front of him. He knew there was a chance she could say no, a chance that she wasn't even a she, that he'd been talking to someone who wasn't what they said for the last few months, but he decided after letting his eyes trail over Beth Greene's body that enough was enough and he needs to move on.

He likes this girl well enough, has a lot in common with her and enjoys talking to her, but somewhere in the recesses of his mind he can't help thinking about what might have been with him and Beth.

He thought that things had been going great with her and, the weekend Shawn was out of town, he had asked her out to the bar, hoping he knew that was his way of asking her on a casual date. She'd seemed happy enough that he'd asked, had agreed to meet him there and Daryl had found himself jiggling his leg nervously at the bar a good half an hour before she was due to show up. Except she never did. Daryl waited until 2 hours had passed before he gave up. And the next time he saw Beth Greene, she was giving him the cold shoulder like she was the one that had been jilted. Daryl had made it his mission after that to purposely annoy his best friend's sister, the perfect way to hide his heartache at her spiteful rejection.

Daryl averted his eyes back to the screen to where it indicated that musicismylife was typing. He squeezed his eyes shut, willing the answer to appear. He opened his eyes then let out a sigh.

musicismylife is now offline.

So much for not being rejected anymore. Daryl knew that it was a long shot, they had only been talking for a few months and had no idea what the other looked like but they definitely had a connection. He closed his laptop with a sigh and crawled into bed, images of faceless girls and Beth Greene swimming around in his mind until sleep claimed him.

Beth stared at the last message she had received from her hunterguy. She knew she didn't really have the right to call him hers, especially after successfully ignoring his request to meet last night. Beth knew that she needed to move on in her life, that there had been no one she was remotely interested in since Daryl, but the thought of meeting someone she barely knew, who she had met online, didn't quite sit right with her. And besides, if Daryl Dixon found out that she had met someone online, she'd never hear the end of it. She stared at the message from last night for another minute before shaking her head and scolding herself mentally. This didn't mean that they had to stop talking, she would just tell him that she wasn't ready to meet yet.

Beth was getting herself ready for the day when she heard the tell-tale rumble of Daryl's motorbike heading towards the farm. She closed her eyes and threw her head back, sighing to the ceiling and praying for patience. She wasn't sure she could handle Daryl's teasing remarks today, especially not with the way she had been feeling since last night, dreaming of meeting her mystery guy, only he looked exactly like Daryl. Beth took her time getting herself ready, hoping that Daryl would be gone by the time she was done. Instead, Melody arrived before Beth was even downstairs and worse than Daryl's teasing was listening to him flirt with her friend. She could hear Melody giggling on the front porch and rolled her eyes at the transparency of her friend. She loved Melody but it was times like these when she wished she was a little less effected by Daryl Dixon's charms. Beth ran down the stairs, hoping that Melody was ready to just leave immediately. She swung through the front door on to the porch where Daryl was leaning casually on the railing while Melody pushed herself softly in the swing, fingers twirling in her hair. Beth rolled her eyes again and wondered briefly if it was possible for them to roll straight out of her head.

"Mel! You ready?" Beth tried not to let her irritation show at her friend openly flirting with her nemesis on the front porch of her house.

"What?" Melody turned to look at Beth, blinking a couple of times before she processed what had been said. "Oh, uh, yeah, I mean, we could just stay her, if you want."

Beth fought the urge to roll her eyes for a third time as her friend's gaze slid longingly back to Daryl who was now smirking at Beth with his arms across his chest. Beth pointedly ignored the way his biceps looked and silently cursed the man for never wearing anything with sleeves.

"Yeah, Greene, why don't you and Melody here stay at the farm today. Y'know, me an' Shawn was gonna go work up a sweat fixing that tractor that yer old man's been whining about." Daryl raised an eyebrow at Beth as his smirk grew and Melody's eyes widened, turning to Beth with an almost pleading look in her eyes.

"Nope. Sorry. Goin' swimmin' at the lake. Come on, Mel!" Beth started down the steps of the front porch, ignoring the sigh of defeat from her best friend. Beth stopped at the bottom of the steps and turned back to look at Melody who was smiling shyly at something Daryl had said. Daryl turned his gaze on Beth, smirking when he realised she had seen the exchange, like it was all for her benefit.

"Try not to fall in today, Greene." He shouted after her as she moved away from the house, Melody trailing along behind her. "Wouldn't want you givin' everyone another eyeful of the girls."

Beth stuck her middle finger in the air without even looking back and her frown deepened when she heard Daryl's deep laugh. When they were almost at the lake, and Beth had stewed enough over Daryl 'jackass' Dixon, she pulled her phone out of her bag and pulled up hunterguy's number, sending him a short text.

Sure, I'd love to meet.

A/N - So, I know it's been super long since I last updated and this is wicked short but I kinda just lost the drive or even the ability to write after Coda and I've only recently gotten back in to the Bethyl fandom. I'm still heartbroken and not even optimistic enough to be on Team D but I've decided that i wouldn't let it ruin my love for this ship. Hopefully, updates will be a bit more frequent now and, with any luck, a little bit longer. If anyone is still reading this then thank you!