“It is his wishful thinking that her skin felt warm to the touch under his lips, just as it is his imagination that had him hearing her voice in his ears, a wistful lilt.” Beth Greene survives, but there is a long road to walk before she can find her family again.
Instead of going out and seeing the car with the white cross, Daryl leaves on his own to go wait for his girl, and Beth escapes the hospital with Noah at the end of “Slabtown”
She wanted romance.
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Months have passed and Daryl is still grieving Beth’s loss. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t forget her and the regret of everything that was left unsaid between the two of them. Set in the second half of season 6, inspired by Daryl begging Rick not to play that CD in episode 6×10. Depressing, but will have a happy ending, because Daryl and Beth deserve it.
With nothing but a hole in her head and a shredded nightmare of a life left to her, Beth goes back to the beginning, following ghosts. Meanwhile, Daryl keeps a fragile hold on reasons to live, and returns to what he left behind, following the light.
The rescue at Grady goes well, and Daryl gets a little overprotective of Beth one day at camp.
Daryl hears a group of ASZ spotters talking about an older man and young woman with scars traveling nearby. He takes a leap of faith to find out if it’s really Beth.
It’s a standoff. She stands with her automatic raised at them, finger on the trigger, gaze never wavering from her target. The man faces her, gripping the crossbow tightly, sweating as he does so. From across the short distance between them, Beth can see his hands shaking ever so slightly. Hers are rock steady.
He has to leave her body behind when the walkers come. He has just turned away and closed his eyes when hers snap open.
Living doesn’t get easier. But you get stronger.
Beth escapes the hospital and finds Daryl along the way.
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