It takes little reasoning to know that a woman of Beth Greene’s station needs must marry. If only her choice could have been someone of higher station than the Grimes family stable boy.
First Christmas in the funeral home and Beth wants a tree. Which makes it okay for Daryl to want a tree, even if he’d never tell her. And then it becomes okay to want all kinds of other things.
Before didn’t matter anymore. All that counted was that they were together. Just two opposite souls standing at the edge of the world, holding hands and maybe hoping for more.
3rd Place Best Prison Fic for 2016 Moonshine Awards