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[dixonink]

meagsteph replied to your post “By a Thread - Epilogue” 

 Really great and interesting ending. Am I correct to assume there will be a sequel, then? It seems with the Shane text and that last snippit that there will be… really excited if so. Great story. 

Thanks! And yes, there will definitely be a sequel!

[everaftercaptainswan]

meagsteph replied to your post:Man’s Best Friend Daryl owns a cat. Said cat has a...

Absolutely loved this. Great job.

ah gosh thank you XD

[ladyilliya]

meagsteph answered your question:GUUYYSS. I’m leaving on vacation tomorrow!! I will...

Just Pretend by Emily Kinney. Maybe Beth writes it out and Daryl finds it in her cell, or hears her singing it in the shower when he’s being pervy or stumbling across her. LOL.

Song and lyrics belong to the amazing Emily Kinney (x).

Daryl walked towards the showers, eyes instinctively searching every open doorway he crossed. Despite having the relatively safety the prison provided, he still couldn’t drop the habit, didn’t want to either, they’ve lost a lot of people who’ve just let their guard down.

As he approached the bathroom, he heard a soft voice, someone singing, and wondered who would be awake at this hour, as the moon was high in the sky when he left his cell.

When he breached the entrance to the room, he heard the voice more clearly, as well as the sound of water. It was Beth, he would recognize her voice anywhere, she must’ve woken up and decided to take advantage of the empty showers, exactly what he was trying to do.

He thought about giving her some privacy, heading to the cell block and waiting till he heard her return before coming back, but he also wanted to stay and listen to her sing.

She started a new song, and whatever he was debating of doing went out his mind as he heard the first verse.

“Humid night, I wake at 3, all wired What's a girl to do if she's not tired?”

Her voice sang out clear with a bit of a mischievous tilt to it. It was different then the songs she usually sang, he didn’t recognize it either, wondering if she had written it herself or was just making it up as she went along. He decided to wait where he was, just inside the entrance, if he squinted a bit, he could almost see the outline of her body through the sheets they had hung for use as shower curtains.

As she continued to sing he felt his eyes grow wide at the words coming out of sweet little innocent Beth.

“Crunch up my blankie, I put it between my knees I curl my toes and I give it a good hard squeeze”

He was forced to remember that Beth was by no means a child, even if she was young when they first met, she was older if not significantly in age, but mentally, after all their struggles.

“I just pretend, just pretend, I can taste your sweat I just pretend, just pretend, you can hear my breath”

He found himself wondering who she was singing about. There weren’t many men here close to her age, not since they lost Zach. In fact, besides Carl or her father, the only man she really spent any time around was himself.

He shook his head, it couldn’t be him, he was too old, too rough for someone like Beth, who despite the trials she’d overcome, was still remarkable innocent for the world they live in.

“My body and brain have been reelin' From this unanswered sexual feelin' You never thought this girl could make such noise”

His feet started moving without his control, moving closer to her voice, pushing curtains aside until he was only separated by one. Because that last line reminded him of something she once said to him. About surviving even though she wasn’t Carol or Michonne, how before that he didn’t really think anything of Beth, not wanting to get too close to her because he didn’t think she was strong enough to make it.

“You got me pinned up against these mirrored walls”

At that he thought she was just making it up as she went along, because he glanced to the mirrors that lined the walls in here. Once he did, he froze, as his eyes had found another's in their reflection, staring at him from beneath the spray of water.

She smiled at him, and without reaching to cover herself or make a move to get him to stop looking, she finished;

“I just pretend, just pretend but this next part’s not fake”