For Daryl Dixon [part 1]

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Beth's P.O.V.

Two days. Two days Daryl had been out there all alone and every second that past I felt myself lose a little piece of me. My mom, Jimmy, my dad, Maggie, and now...now Daryl. I couldn't let that be true. I stood up from the fire and grabbed my gun and knife.

"Beth. Where are you going?" Rick called after me.

"I can't just sit around not knowin'. I can track now. I'm goin' to look for him and I'm goin' to find him." I said not letting him stop me. I grabbed the keys to the truck and pulled the door open.

"I'll go with her." I heard Ashe say and I felt my heart drop. That was the last person I needed to show up to rescue Daryl with.

"No." Rick finally said. "We'll all go."

This stopped me and I waited before getting in the truck.

"I won't have us splitting up anymore." He said and walked over to me grabbing the keys. "You and I will go get another car so we can bring everyone."

I nodded and got in the passengers seat. I waited for Ashe and Sasha who were coming with us now. We drove a little ways into the woods until we found the dirt road where they saw the RV on their way back from their trip. It took all day to finally get it to work. Glenn drove it back with Sasha and Ashe and I drove back with Rick.

"You know we'll see him again." Rick said breaking the silence. He said it as if he needed to hear it himself too.

"I know." I said trying to reassure him and myself.

Rick put his hand on mine as we drove and I felt the warmth of his hand surge through me. I held back tears and tried looking out the window to help the emotion pass.

"You really love him don't you?" Rick asked softly looking over at me.

"I do." I said with a smile. I never thought I'd be admitting this to Rick who was old enough to be my father, but then again so was Daryl. "I know it doesn't make sense to anyone else but it does to me."

"Nothin' makes sense anymore." He said and then got quite as if he was thinking about something. "This world is so full of bad things happenin' and finding something good...like Daryl finding you...that makes sense." He smiled for a moment and then said, "My father used to say that without the bad the good would disappear, but I don't think he was right. Because without the good the bad doesn't disappear, it just gets worse...Daryl's had a lot of bad things happen to him and if he never found you...well, I think he would have just gotten worse. You're the good in him. He needs you. That's why I know we'll find him because he won't give up. He'll keep fighting for the good, he'll keep fightin' for you."

I didn't say a word thinking of what he had just said to me. I was surprised Rick had ever thought of Daryl and I like that and it made me happy to know he approved. He understood what we had was more than a young girl looking for protection or a lonely man looking for occasional comfort like Carol thought of us. He knew it was much more than that. I couldn't stop the tear from rolling down my face now thinking about him.

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Daryl's P.O.V.

"Found this on our way down from where were stayin'." I said to Dwight and Lexi now as I picked up the motorcycle covered by branch I had put over it on our way down with Rick. I knew it still worked and now I had a can of gas to get it going. Dwight and Lexi had introduced themselves after I saved their asses and started following me back to our camp. I still wasn't sure how the group would like me bringing in new people considering how many times we've been wrong about people but I tried not to worry about that, yet.