The next day Aaron showed them all the places in Alexandria and finally he told them, that almost every one could get a house for their own. An own house. No one said anything then, they were all just speechless. Aaron almost began to laugh, because of their big eyes.

Rick, Michonne, Judith and Carl got the big house, in which they were sleeping last night. The next one was Maggie's and Glenn's. Carol, Tyrese, Tara and Eugene had the one a few houses away. Sasha and Bob the next and finally Abraham and Rosita had their house on the end of this street.

Now there were just Beth, Rose and Daryl left. Aaron showed them his house, which he had with Eric together. It was a nice, little house at the end of Alexandria. "And this one is yours, if you want it?" Aaron pointed to the house at the opposite of his. The house, which he meant, was bigger than his, but not so big like the house from Rick and Michonne. It was just perfect.

Daryl looked down to Beth and he could tell, that she already loved it too. Daryl never thought before, that he will ever be the owner of house one day, the owner of a house like this one. He just saw such houses in movies, never in real life. They were always looking so perfect and untouchable for him. But now he had one of these houses. With Beth and Rose together, with his little family.

"It's perfect Aaron. Thank you." Beth hugged Aaron. "What are you guys waiting for. Look at your new home." Aaron said with a wide smile. Beth looked with big eyes up to Daryl and the sparkle in her eyes was even brighter. She took his hand and together they ran on the porch of their own house, Rose still in Daryl's arms.

It was even better than Daryl had imagined it. They had a nice, modern kitchen and a little dining room next to it. The next room was their big living room with a comfortable couch and an old piano next to the big window. Now Daryl knew why Aaron had given them this house. They had a bathroom down- and upstairs. Two little, empty rooms upstairs and a bedroom with a big double bed.

Beth cried tears of joy and squealed every time they entered a new room. She hugged Daryl and Rose as often as she could and she probably won't never stop smiling. Daryl's girl was happy.

It was almost sunset, when Rose asked Daryl with her big eyes "Daddy, I have found something in the bathroom and I don't know what it is?" Daryl looked confused, but he still took Rose's tiny hand and followed her upstairs. When they entered the bathroom he didn't know what she meant. Everything was looking like a normal bathroom.

"What's this daddy?" Rose pointed with her tiny index finger to the bathtub. His little girl had never seen a bathtub before. Daryl sank on his knees and told his daughter "That's a bathtub sweetheart. You can bath yourself in it." "Can we do that?" Daryl thought about it a few seconds before he answered "Yes, why not."

He let some warm water in the bathtub and also gave some soap into it, Daryl couldn't remember the last time he had taken a warm bath, or when he had clean water from a water tap or even soap. Daryl helped Rose getting out of her clothes and then he started to take off his own clothes. Daryl was just wearing his boxers anymore, when he noticed that they needed some towels. Saying to Rose that he will be back soon and she should wait, Daryl ran out of the room, into the bedroom, where he thought, that he could find some towels.

Beth was in the bedroom too, packing out their stuff, when Daryl ran into the room with just with his boxers on. She began to laugh then, with all her heart. Daryl hadn't heard her laughing like that since a long time. "What are you doing Daryl?" She asked still laughing. "Rose doesn't know what a bathtub is, so I wanted to show it her. We just need some towels." Daryl said it like he had done something wrong.

Beth came closer to him then and framed his face with her warm hands "You are the best father in the world, you know that?" She kissed him softly on his lips and said still with a big smile in her face "Get your towels Dixon and then run back to your little daughter."

With also a big smile in his face, he grabbed some towels from the clothing box and ran back to Rose. She was still waiting at the place Daryl had left her and smiled up at him like her mother before. Daryl placed the towels next to the bathtub and finally he helped Rose carefully into the warm water. Daryl was sure, that he will never forget the look in her face, when her toes finally touched the warm water.

Not thinking too much about it Daryl took down his boxers and followed her into the bathtub. Rose was playing with the warm water, the soap and the bubbles all the time and Daryl just loved it watching her. He also took her in his arms and she washed, still with a big smile in her face, his dirty hair. Daryl helped her to get out all the soap in her own hair and when he noticed, that Rose began to shiver, he knew that it was time to go out of the water.

Daryl wrapped her tiny body in one of the soft towels and he also dried her hair with another and finally he did the same with his hair and bound one towel around his waist. Daryl picked Rose up in his arms and took her out of the bathroom into their bedroom and on the mattress of their bed. "Did the two of you have fun?" Beth asked them happily.

"Yes, a lot of fun." Rose answered her mother with a big smile. Daryl could see how Beth's eyes were wandering from his feet, then to the spot where the towel was around his waist, up to his belly, his chest, to his arms and finally to his wet hair and face. Beth giggled, when she noticed that Daryl had caught her starring at his body.

"Daddy can you read a bedtime story for me?" Rose asked with her cute voice she used every time she wanted something. It was always working by Daryl. "Yes, sweetheart. I will go downstairs and look for one." But before he could leave Beth handled him new boxers.

Beth helped Rose getting into her new pyjama and watched Daryl from the corner of her eyes, when he put down the towel and took on his new boxers. Daryl had found a book downstairs in their living room and he was just on the way to the bedroom again, when he met Beth in the corridor. "I will also take a bath." She told him. Daryl just answered her with a long, sweet kiss. Beth's soft fingers found his belly and he could feel how the skin there began to burn. Beth finally let go of his desired body and before she left into the bathroom, Beth looked over her shoulder at him with her big eyes. Damn, how much he loved her.

Rose was already in bed and cuddled herself into the blanket, when Daryl entered the room. He lowered himself next to her on the mattress, crawled to her under the blanket and leaned his back against the pillows. Rose cuddled herself into his side, when he began to read the bedtime story for his little girl. When Daryl was reading about a little girl, who was sleeping in her own bed in her own room, Rose interrupted him "Daddy can I have a room for my own with my own bed too?" "If you want that, sure you can baby girl. I will build you a bed." Rose smiled up to him and laid her head back on his chest.

Daryl kept on reading, till he felt Rose's breathing getting regular and his little baby finally fell asleep. Beth still wasn't back, so he carefully placed Rose away from his chest and down on the bed and covered her tiny body with the blanket. Before Daryl got up, he placed a little kiss on her rosy cheeks.

He quietly went out of the room and entered the bathroom. The view he got there, made him smiling like a little kid. Beth had also already fallen asleep in the bathtub. Daryl quietly went back to the bedroom on his tiptoes and searched for something to wear for his girl. He finally found a big man shirt, but it will work anyway and new underwear. Daryl went back to Beth and before he woke her up, he watched her peacefully, sleeping body a few more moments. Her beautiful body, how her chest rose and fell, how her mouth was opened a little bit. He could stand here forever.

But then he remembered, that she was laying like that for already too long and that the water was probably already cold. So Daryl carefully woke her up and finally Beth was looking sleepily at him. "Come here sweetheart." He whispered and took her in his arms and out of the bathtub. Beth even smiled to him, but Daryl knew, that she was still half in her dreams. He quickly dried her body and hair with the towel and helped her to get in the big shirt and her panties.

Daryl took her bridal style in his arms again and carefully he carried her already asleep body king-sized bed. He placed Beth gently next to Rose under the sheets and pressed a lovingly kiss on her forehead.

Finally he laid himself on the other side of the bed and made sure, that the blanket covered both of his girls. Finally he whispered into the darkness "Good night my girls."