AN- being it's Saint Patties day I just had to update so here it is.
"Are you alright?" Harper's voice made Beth jump.
"I'm sorry." Beth said quickly as the woman came into view, "I was just looking I mean I haven't seen family photos since we had to leave our farm. I got to close and Judith grabbed this one."
Harper kept her smile and bent down, "It's alright accidents happen." The woman quickly picked up the glass from the frame and placed it all back on the table.
"Who is this man?" Beth asked handing Harper the photo.
"That would be Murphy." Harper's smile changed into a sad wistful smile, "Liam's father."
"But I thought that Connor was?" Beth looked over at the woman who was still staring at the photo.
"By blood Connor is Liam's uncle, but Murphy died before Liam could meet him and Connors always been there for us when the dead began to walk we just thought it would be easier to pretend to be married." Harper told her still not looking up from the photo, "I miss him." She said softly as she touched his face, "He was such a good kind man."
"I'm sorry." Beth told her, as questions seemed to rush to her mind. Why did that man look so much like Daryl? Thinking back to the hick that was at the prison she could easily point out why the man in the picture was different, but couldn't figure out why they looked so similar. The man in the picture looked happy, he had a bigger smile then Daryl even knew how to make. The man in the picture wore a cross around his neck showing a sign he was religious. Daryl always made fun of god, claimed there was no such thing.
"I just wish he had a chance to know his son I know he would have made an amazing father." Harper sighed as she made sure she didn't cry, "At least now they are together I know Liam and Murphy are waiting for me and one day I will see them again."
"Not many people hold onto faith in this new world." Beth said, "I mean from what I know it's only my father and I that still believe out of our whole group."
"It's all I have to hope for." Harper told her as she looked up from the picture, "That some day I will see them again."
"Daryl always said there's no reason to hope or pray." Beth told her, "He said god turned his back on everyone here."
"Well Daryl is wrong." Harper told the girl, "Connor and Murphy taught me that god works in mysterious ways. Some may not understand, but he always finds a way to make his point." She looked up at Beth. "I hope one day even in this awful word you will be able to find the kind of love that he and I shared. Everyone should experience it at least once in this life."
"So you and Connor." Beth frowned, "Aren't in love?"
"We love each other." Harper told her, "But no we aren't 'in' love."
"Are you sure he isn't in love with you?" Beth asked she saw the way that Connor looked at her.
"He loves me because I am his family." Harper told Beth, "He isn't looking to fall in love. We are simply all each other has." Harper sighed, "Connor knows there is no room left in my heart for another. I loved Murphy with all my heart."
"Are you sure he is dead?" Beth asked, "Positive that he didn't just like fake his death to not have to own up to the responsibilities of having a wife and kid?"
"Never." Harper she said her eyes on the picture, "Murphy would have never done that we always spoke of one day having a family together. He would fake his death just to get away he would never leave his family, not me, his son, or his brother." She paused, "It has been years but I still remember ever Saturday he would let me sleep in and go to the kitchen where he would make pancakes. He would bang around that kitchen and when he was done he would call out to me 'come and eat some pancakes.' And when I didn't get up he would come to the bed and lean down whispering, 'baby come eat.' And they way he would whisper, the way his voice sounded in my ear I would fall in love with him all over again."
The front door closing and Connor walking into the hallway interrupted the two.
"Hello ladies." He said looking tired. Beth frowned as much as she appreciated him letting her stay here and keeping her away from the governor she still didn't like him. Not after all this was his fault. She wouldn't need to be protected against the governor if Connor hadn't abducted her.
Harper kissed him and smiled, "Do you want something to eat?"
"Yeah." He said glancing at the picture in her hand, "Where'd you get that?"
"it was behind a photo in a picture frame I completely forgot I tucked it there when I was trying to get as many pictures as I could from our home." She told him
"You looked so happy back then." Connor said without thinking.
"I was." Harper looked at the photo and back at Connor, "Every dream I ever had was coming true that was taken right after he proposed to me."
"I remember you two bursting into the apartment laughing like a pack of wild animals." He smiled, but then glanced at Beth and let his smile fade. "I should go get cleaned up."
"Alright." Harper said as she placed the picture back down on the table next to all the other photos. "I'll have to remember to put that one in it's own frame."
Beth followed Harper to the kitchen again where she made a bottle for Judith. The two sat in silence for a moment, but then Harper spoke,
"You don't like Connor do you?" she asked
"No." Beth responded, "He ripped me and Judith away from our families." She paused, "to me he is just a small step better then the governor, but not much."
"He is far a better man that the governor." Harper said frowning, "He does what's right and just."
"If he was truly a good man he wouldn't blindly follow a monster." Beth told her but then looked down knowing she shouldn't be talking this way yet she couldn't help it.
"He does what he must to keep me safe." Harper responded softly knowing all to well the girl spoke the truth. The Connor of the past would have put a bullet in the governor a long time ago, but this new man that had been born since the end of the world happen and even since Liam's death wasn't the MacManus brother she had known. "He'll keep you safe to."
"I was safe at the prison." Beth sighed, "I was safe until he took me here."
"He was just doing what he thought best, none of us could guess that some people there were decent and not criminals." Harper argued for Connor.
"Then why doesn't he let me go?" she asked, "Why can't I go home?"
"Because." She sighed, "Connor can't just let you go the governor knows about you, if he lets you go he would get in trouble they would think he was jumping ships and it would make our life here end."
"I just don't want to see anyone get hurt." Beth said softly, "They will come for me and when they do I fear people on both ends will get hurt"
"You really believe they can get inside these walls and take you back?" Harper asked looking over at her.
"I know they can, they came and got Maggie and Glen out they will be able to get me." Beth sighed, "If they show up at the door here don't try and stop them I don't want you to get hurt. I do like you."
A knock at the door made Beth jump she heard Connor go to the door and a familiar voice begin speaking. Where has she heard it before?
"Har add one more for breakfast." Connor said as a blonde woman followed him.
Beth eyes widened as she saw the woman that followed Connor. "Andrea!" she exclaimed.
"Beth?" The blonde glanced at Beth and then to Connor confused, "Why are you here?" she asked looking back to Beth.
Beth glared in Connor's direction, "He took me from the prison I went for a walk with Judith and he cut a hole and grabbed me."
"I thought she was being held there against her will or out of fear I thought I was doing her a favor." Connor sighed.
"How many times do I have to tell you they aren't bad people over there?" Andrea shook her head, "Just scared if only we could have real communication with them I'm sure we can learn to live peacefully and not having to kidnap each others people."
"From where I sit." Beth frowned, "It seems we've kidnapped no one and now these people have taken four of us."
"Liam." Connor said, "You took him first."
"Daryl found him and as soon as he found out that Liam's parents weren't dead and lived here he brought Liam back." Andrea argued. "Beth does have a point, but if we can sit down and talk with Rick I'm sure we can find a peaceful solution."
"There is no peace until I have the man with the arrows before me and I kill him." Connor sat down at the table.
"This isn't talk for breakfast." Harper sighed
"He'd kill you before you even had a chance to take a shot." Beth almost growled.
Connor narrowed his eyes he didn't think anyone was a better shot then himself or Murphy. The only one that was a match for him was his brother and his brother was no longer on this earth. "No one." Connor muttered, "Can out shoot me."
"A little full of yourself." Andrea said sitting down, "But Daryl is a good shot even his bow against your gun I'm not sure who would win. And if it isn't his bow then you should worry about his knife he has a huge one and he's very skilled with it."
"Again." Harper said sharply, "This isn't talk for the breakfast table."
"Sorry lass." Connor responded he then turned and looked at Andrea, "How do you know the girl?"
"You know I used to be part of that group living in the prison. That farm I said we got separated on that was Beth's father's farm." Andrea told him, "We met there." She looked over at Beth, "That baby." She paused, "Isn't yours, right?"
"No." Beth smirked, "Lori and Rick's baby."
"Why do you have her?" Andrea asked.
"I will always just be the little girl that tried to kill herself." Beth said looking down at the baby, "I wasn't much good at anything else so why not take care of the baby it was the safest job until." She glanced at Connor, but then she met Harper's sharp gaze. "Until it wasn't." Beth finished not wanting to upset Harper with more unsavory conversation about Connor.
"You tried to kill yourself?" Connor asked earning himself a slap to the back of the head from Harper.
"You don't go asking people that!" she scolded.
"It's alright." Beth looked down at the baby then back at the table, "When my mother died I just didn't see much point in trying to live anymore this world just seemed to awful, but I ended up realizing I did want to live, but I don't think anyone will ever see me as anyone but the little girl who lost her mother and tried to off herself."
"We all think about it one point or another these days." Andrea told her, "Remember I did as well?"
"And me." Harper looked at the girl, "I tried a few weeks ago."
"Sometimes it takes getting to that point to realize you do want to live." Andrea said softly.
"I know." Beth said, "But you have to admit I'm pretty useless when it comes to helping out unless it's cooking or taking care of the baby."
"Then all you have to do is learn." Connor told her. "Learn to shoot, learn to fight."
"Yeah maybe if I knew how I could have fought you off." Beth muttered
Connor grinned, "Las, even if you knew how to fight you'd be no use against me."
Harper cleared her throat giving a warning to the two that she didn't want to hear anymore arguing. "Why don't we take Judith for a walk?" she asked, "And let Connor and Andrea get to work."
Beth nodded and followed Harper from the room happy to leave Connor.
As everyone got the weapons they needed to go get Beth and Judith back Daryl stood in the doorway of the boy's cell. He was still sleeping peacefully. Daryl couldn't tear his eyes from the boy he was worried, worried that if he wasn't watching him the boy would get worse. He couldn't understand why he was so protective of the boy, but he couldn't help it.
"You ready?" Rick asked as he walked up next to him.
Daryl nodded without brining his eyes from the child.
"You don't have to go." Rick said slowly, "If you want to stay with the boy?"
"Ain't doin' no good here." Daryl muttered, "You need me out there."
Rick couldn't argue that. Having Daryl by his side would be the best possible answer. No matter how good anyone else was with a gun with the walkers it was different when there were people shooting back. Daryl was the closet he had to having a partner once more. He often wondered why Daryl didn't panic when he was being shot at, he often wondered why Daryl didn't seem new to getting shot. Yet he knew it was best to not question the other man. "I do." Rick finally said, "I do need you out there, they have Judith. I don't even want to think what that man could be doing the Beth let alone a baby."
Daryl turned to look at Rick, "Don't think like that." He said, "Andrea is there she won't let no one hurt Beth or the baby."
"I hope you're right." Rick fell into a silence for a moment then turned to leave, "I just want to hold my little girl again."
"You will." Daryl muttered.
"You'll understand it one day." Rick told him, "If you ever have a child you will know the fear that comes when they are out of your view."
Daryl looked away from Rick, "I already know."
"What?" Rick asked turning back.
Daryl thought about just walking away, but something pulled him to tell Rick that he had once had a child. "My brother and I went to jail not long before all this happened." He cleared his throat, "Left a girl behind she was pregnant and had the baby while I was away."
"You have a kid?" Rick asked.
"A son she sent me a picture once." Daryl shrugged, "But not no more."
"I'm sorry I never would have thought." Rick could see now why Daryl took to this boy. He could see now why Daryl out of his character had searched for Sophia.
"What's done is done." Daryl grumbled, "let's go get the girls back." He turned and left the cell quickly not wanting to talk anymore regretting opening up to Rick even that small bit. He wasn't the type that talked to others not anymore. Life was getting confusing now he was stuck between being two men. He couldn't help letting his old self slip up a few times especially with that boy in the other room. He stopped when he got outside the prison doors and stood by the car waiting for Rick. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a picture it was old and folded, but it was the last he got before he and Connor had escaped from prison. He touched it gently. The photo held an image of Harper holding their son smiling. Her blonde hair fell over her shoulder as she smiled at the camera the baby in her arms sat up smiling at the camera as well his eyes matching that of his mothers.
"You ready?" Glenn asked suddenly almost making Daryl jump. He frowned and shoved the picture in his pocket.
"Hmm." He grumbled as he climbed into the truck Rick and Glenn following.
"It was nice to walk through a real town." Beth smiled as she picked Judith out of a stroller that Harper had gotten. "Judith has never seen one and it's been so long since I have."
"Is this a life you could get used to?" Harper asked.
Beth frowned as she put Judith on her hip, "It seems nice here, but my family isn't here." She paused, "And the Governor is."
"He's not as bad as you think." Harper tried to say.
"I know different." Beth told her, "And so do you."
Harper wanted to argue it, but knew the girl was right. She didn't like the man and couldn't argue for him no matter how much Connor tried to argue for the man. Ever since Connor had gotten into protecting the town he seemed to turn a blind eye to the man that made her feel scared made her feel unsafe.
"You know before all of this." Harper said softly, "Connor would have never stood beside that man."
"This world changes a lot of people." Beth told her adjusting the baby on her hip.
"I never would have thought it would change him." Tears filled her eyes it had been so long since she had anyone to talk to. Especially about Connor. "You think so poorly of him, but I promise he was a good man one of the best I had ever met."
"I never said he wasn't." Beth said softly.
"I can see it in your eyes when he's around there is a fear and a hatred for him and it brakes my heart to know he became a man that someone like you could fear." She tried to stop tears that began to fall down her face.
"Someone like me?" Beth asked.
"He used to look out for people like you, average people he was there for. He didn't put fear in innocent people he put fear in bad men he put fear in those that hurt others and now here is working for a man he would have ki-" she stopped herself.
"Where you going to say kill?" Beth frowned. "Was Connor a cop before this?"
Harper brushed the tears away, "What he was before doesn't matter anymore, what he is now does. I just wish you could see the good side of him. Maybe one day you will."
"I never will." Beth said, "He took me from my family."
"I'm sorry." Harper said, "If I could get you back there I would but I don't know how to sneak out of this place, how Liam always got out I will never know."
"I know and you don't have to worry about getting me out." Beth told her, "Just when they come for me don't try and make me stay."
"You are so sure." Harper said, "How are you so sure they will come here for you?"
"Would Connor come for you?" Beth asked.
"Of course." She responded.
"How?"
"Connor would always come for me. I don't know how to explain it but it's why they broke out of prison to come back. I was in trouble and they risked everything to come back." Again she wanted to slow her mouth down.
"Prison?" Beth frowned.
"It wasn't what you think, they were both good men." Harper told her, "Connor just can't find his path right now, one day he will again. God will speak and Connor will answer."
"How can you be so sure he will be the man you used to know and not the man that I know?" Beth asked.
"Faith." Harper told her, "Like I said earlier we all need faith. I believe that Connor will find the path he once knew. Before all this we were church going people every Sunday."
"So was I." Beth smiled, "My father he wasn't always a great man he used to drink and even went to jail over night a few times, but he became a good man realizing that wasn't the life he wanted." She looked at Judith then back at Harper, "This world hasn't changed him he seems like the only one I know that has held on to his faith without questioning it at all not even for a moment."
"Some people believe strong in their faith, I've faltered so has Connor but with any hope in the end we can all end up where we once were." She told Beth.
"I see my faith now." Beth told her, "I have it and that is why I know my people will come for me, my family will come."
"Your father?" Harper asked
"No he can't." Beth told her, "He was bitten on the leg so the others cut it off so the infection wouldn't spread. He can't travel anymore. Our group has stayed because we couldn't run between him and Judith we just can't up and leave even with this place's shadow of danger."
"Why didn't the others just leave him behind?" She asked, "The governor said if you all just left he would allow you too and instead they attach us?"
"I don't know how many times I have to say it." Beth sighed, "We aren't just a group traveling together we are a family every one of us. Even Daryl no matter how much he likes to pretend he's apart from us that he isn't one of us he is. He fights for everyone there he gets us food he protects us. Rick and Daryl don't go out looking for a fight, but they will finish one if our family is threatened and by brining me here, by brining Judith here Connor picked a fight with them. Even though I don't want any unnecessary blood shed by what he did he has brought it upon this town. They will come for me and they will fight how ever hard they need to."
Before Harper could reply the front door banged open quickly, "Harper!" Connor called as he hurried inside. "Get into the safe room the wall has been breeched by walkers."
"Be careful." Harper told him worried
"Always man." He gave a small smile then he hurried out of the house shutting and locking the door as he left.
"Safe room?" Beth asked.
"It's the bedroom, bars on the walls and a strong door to lock behind us the walkers can't get through it if they get in." she told her, "Come on lets hurry who knows how many go it."
Beth nodded her head as she followed the woman into the other room.
The Governor heard the yelling and gunshots. He had told Connor that there were walkers that breached the wall but in truth it was the other group. He needed Connor outside the house; he needed Connor to send his pretty little wife and their visitors into their safe room. He smiled as he watched his men go into the house and splash gas all over the kitchen. This would kill two birds with one stone. He would enrage Connor if the wife died and blame the fire on the men in the prison, but the girl and baby would die as well. This would enrage those other people. He needed the strife he needed to make his people believe in him again and agree to end the other group. He wanted their supplies and most of all he wanted them dead. They went against everything he preached to his town. They were living in that prison just as safe as his people were living here. He didn't like how such a small group could clear that prison; he didn't like how they didn't fall under his command. He had to put to rest all those who went against him. He had seen how well Connor could shoot. The governor was a smart man he knew Connor wasn't the type that could just kill innocent people he had to make them look bad he had to make Connor hate them. If they killed his wife than Connor wouldn't be stopped he would attempt to kill everyone responsible, The Governor had to do was make sure Connor thought it was the outsiders and not him. He grinned as the men walked out of the house as it began to go up in flames.
The two women didn't know how long they sat in the room, but they could hear the yelling from outside and the sounds of guns. Judith screamed with the commotion going on around her. Beth tried to sooth the child but nothing seemed to help. Then a smell reached her that set off all kinds of alarms.
"Harper." Beth said quickly as her eyes fell to the door of the room, "You said there is no way to get out of this room other than that door right?" she asked.
"Yeah." Harper told her, "We are safe here."
"Is this room fire proof?" Beth asked.
"No, why-" Harper started to ask but the smell seemed to reach her as her eyes fell on the smoke coming in from under the door. "That's not good."
"Beth!" a yell echoed from outside the house, "Where you at?"
"Daryl." Beth hurried to the window. "In here!" she yelled, "Daryl."
Daryl appeared at the window, "The one house on fire?" he growled, "Where's the baby?"
Harper rushed over to the closet and pulled out three bandanas as the smoke filled the room it was beginning to get hard to see.
"Take her." Beth handed Judith through the bars, only the baby could fit through the bars. Daryl took the baby and turned
"Rick!" he yelled, "over here!"
Rick came rushing over as he saw Judith in Daryl's. "Thank god she's alright."
"Ain't got nuthin' to do with God." Daryl growled. "Now get 'er outta here. I'll get Beth."
"No I'm not leaving any of you behind." Rick told him.
"Go." Beth told him, "Get her out of here, bullets are flying it's safer if you get Judith far away from here."
Rick didn't want to leave but he knew she spoke the truth he nodded his head and hurried away the baby in his arms.
"Listen girl." Daryl growled, "Can you get outta that room?"
"I can try but there is a lot of smoke coming under the door." She told him.
"I'll go in the front door, try and meet me stay low to the ground." He ordered. He hurried away from the window.
"Here." Harper said handing her two of the bandannas. "Tie it over your nose and mouth it will help." She looked around Beth, "Where is Judith?"
"They weren't walkers that breached the walls." Beth told her, "Rick and Daryl were here they got her out." She frowned as she tied the cloth around her face, "I'm surprised you didn't hear them talking. Anyways it doesn't matter Daryl is trying to find a way into the house, we have to get out of this room."
"If we opened the door it could make the fire worse it could jump strait into this room." Harper told her.
"It's our only choice." Beth told her. "Come on!"
"MacManus!" one of the men called, "We lost them somewhere in the town."
"We will find them." Connor told him.
"It's not just that we lost them." The man told him, "It's your house its up in flames."
"What?" Connor yelled as he took off running from the wall.
"MacManus where are you going?" Another yelled as he spotted more walkers outside the wall being driven closer by the noise going on inside. But Connor didn't answer his mind was only on Harper and the fire that was attempting to take her from him.
The woman coughed as they tried to find their way through the burning house. The smoke was thick and neither seemed to have a good enough mind set to know what direction to go in.
"Beth!" Daryl's voice called out through the smoke than followed by his own coughs, "Where you at?"
"Over here!" she yelled hoarsely as the smoke became to strong forcing a fit of coughing she couldn't stop. She crawled in the direction of his voice. "Harper this way." She said weakly. She could tell the other woman was behind her, but Harper didn't answer.
"There you are." Daryl growled as he pulled Beth to her feet near the front door. Beth couldn't fully understand what was going on. She coughed as she hit the fresh air and blinked as the light hit her eyes. "You all right girl?" he asked. Beth nodded then began looking around her.
"Where is she?" Beth asked weakly
"Who?" Daryl asked.
"The woman whose house is burning she was just behind me." Beth told him
"Wasn't no one behind you." Daryl told her.
"But she was!" Beth coughed, "She's still in there!"
"Ain't our concern." Daryl muttered, but something pulled his eyes to the house something made him want to go back inside. He tried shaking off the pull, "We gotta get outta here." He told her.
"I'm not going if she's still in there!" Beth pulled the cloth from her face.
Daryl made a sound that sounded like a growl. "Fine, but ain't doing anything but brining her out." Daryl let go of Beth and turned to the house right before he went in he yelled, "If anyone starts comin' you run." He told her, "find Rick and the others don't you wait."
Beth nodded her head.
Daryl hurried inside the house holding his arm over his face his eyes scanning the living room he had found Beth in. He got down low as his eyes scanned the floor the girl Beth said was in here couldn't have gotten far. He moved forward as blonde hair caught his eyes a girl laid on the floor a bandanna over her nose and mouth the same way Beth had hers. He hurried to her side as more flames began to spread and picked her up. "Alright girl." He growled as he tried to over come more coughing, "Let's get you outta here." He carried her through the house ignoring the pain from the fire that hit him as he got closer to the front door. The girl felt limp in his arms he wondered if she was even still alive.
Beth ran to him as he got outside "I hear men coming!" she said quickly.
Daryl placed the girl on the sidewalk away from the fire as he looked back at the house he could see the roof collapsing.
"Daryl!" Beth said quickly, "You're hurt, your shoulder is burnt."
"I'm fine." He said quickly.
Harper slowly opened her eyes she didn't know fully what was going on everything seemed foggy. She couldn't make out much other than the sky she turned her head to see someone kneeling beside her, a man and Beth.
"Daryl you are burned that's not fine!" Beth told him.
Harper tried to make sense of the man kneeling by her, but what she saw didn't make sense. The man almost looked like Murphy she tried to speak, but her throat was dry she couldn't make any words come out. She tried to keep her eyes opened but her head was pounding and the light hurt. She closed them again.
"Let's go." Daryl muttered, "We gotta get back to the prison. I have to get back to Liam." He stood up and glanced down at the girl. Her eyes were open for a moment before she closed them. He frowned in that quick moment seeing her eyes made his heart drop. He moved to pull the cloth from her face but as he did he heard a gun go off and felt pain in his burned shoulder. Beth screamed. Daryl let out a yell of pain. He grabbed his bow with his bad arm and took Beth's hand in his good one. "Run." He growled as he pulled her away towards the escape root.
Harper opened her eyes again and when she did she saw someone kneeling next to her, it wasn't Murphy but one of the neighbors.
"Harper!" Connor yelled as he ran up to her as she sat up. "What happened?" he got down next to her.
"I'm fine." She said weakly as it became easier to talk. "Someone got me out."
"Where's Beth and the baby?" he asked
"I don't know." She tried getting all her facts strait but her mind was still confused. Then she remembered Beth handing Judith through the window and Beth hurrying off with the man that she called Daryl. "She's gone" she finally said, "It wasn't walkers that breeched the wall was it?"
"Not at first, but all the commotion did bring walkers to the wall." He told her.
"Beth knew they would come she warned us." Harper put her hand on her head. "She knew it would end up being a blood bath."
"No one got shot." Connor told her, "No one living, well except the man that was kneeling next to you I shot him."
"Connor!" Harper looked up at him, "He saved my life and you shot him!"
"He had a cross bow!" Connor growled, "I'm only sorry I only got his shoulder."
"I don't even know you anymore!" She tried to stand up but she was dizzy."
"Easy." Said their neighbor, "you need to breathe slowly that smoke in there looked thick."
"He saved me." Harper looked in the direction he and Beth had run. "He said something." She tried to think back to when he was talking to Beth as he knelt beside her, "Said he had to get back." She frowned, "He mentioned Liam."
"Liam's gone Harper." Connor told her, "That man killed him."
"No." Harper said softly, "I don't think he did." She couldn't understand why she had seen Murphy she knew he was long gone, but in that moment the man that saved her seemed so safe. She knew her mind was playing a trick on her just like the last night those men had been here. Through smoke both times she had thought she saw Murphy's face, but she knew it couldn't be real.
"Never mind." Connor said, "They are long gone now, let's get you some help." He said as he helped her up seeing men arriving to help put out the fire.
Daryl ran with Beth in tow as far as he could without needing a brake before he stopped. He winced as he tried to keep hold of his cross bow. Beth looked at him,
"You're bleeding." She told him.
"That's what happens when you get shot." He growled. He knew once again it had been the same man to shoot him before. He had yet to lay eyes on that man's face, but with every moment he hated him more. Now that guy had gotten two shots in.
"We need to get back to Hershel." Beth said as she looked at his shoulder, but Daryl just leaned on a tree. Those eyes he had seen from that girl he had gotten out of the fire. He had seen her eyes for only a moment, but that had made his heart race. He had thought he saw his wife's eyes but then he had been shot and before he could look again he had to run before he was shot a third time.
"Daryl." Beth said, "Are you alright."
"Let's just get back." He said shaking off the feeling he had just seen a ghost. "Liam's hurt I need to get back to him."
"That woman you saved." Beth told him, "That's Liam's mother. They all think you kill him."
"Liam?" Daryl asked as he walked in the direction of the prison, "The Governor shot him I got him to Hershel just in time. I think." Daryl muttered, "He's stable at least."
"He's alive?" Beth asked.
"For now." Daryl muttered.
"Daryl!" Rick's voice called, "There you are. Beth" he smiled, "Good he got you out, Glenn is on the main road in the car let's go."
Daryl nodded his head. He gave one last look in the direction of Woodbury but shook his head as he shook the feeling away that he should go back. He had to move forward and get back to Liam. He had to forget about the girl he had saved as much as he wanted to believe she was his wife he knew she wasn't. Harper was gone he couldn't think about her anymore he had to think about Liam and not a woman who was long dead.
"Daryl!" Rick called, "You coming?"
"Yeah." He muttered as he hurried in the direction of the car.
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