Considering putting this one somewhere maybe. Muse is not happy...

[lerner]

Let me get this straight... You want to put me somewhere... and your 'reason's' are so that I can 'redeem myself?'

You've put me through enough hell for what I did. Trying to punish me as you see fit – You don't have the right to play god anymore.

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D: !!!!!!!!!!! *BRINGS BACK TO LIIIIIIIFEEEEEEES*

[imadeit]

He got out didn’t he? He’s with my people now. (She would look at the woman before her, the woman who in the end got the very last of them both. Still Beth wasn’t afraid, didn’t show any sign of it. Instead she just stiffened her tiny form, kept her posture straight as she shook her head)

Ya wouldn’t have been fine, Dawn...(She whispers softly as large eyes begin to water but still remain haunted and determined) Noah wouldn’t either. Don’t work that way. Thangs were never right back there and they sure as hell wasn’t gonna get any better if I walked out that hospital just fine. Noah wouldn’t had stayed, Rick woulda just came back for ‘im. Yer people woulda hurt ya, if not worse...

(Large, bright eyes stayed along the woman, just waiting for Dawn to try any little thing. Honestly Beth didn’t blame her, hell she was pretty much expecting for the woman to lash out. Rather it be screaming, hitting her or something far worse. She didn’t know just what this place they were both in happened to allow. Either way she was strong and she would make her final stand as she had the very first time something like this happened)

You and yer officers were treatin those poor people like shit! All of ‘em. Keepin ‘em there gainst their will, tryin to act like ya’ll were playin hero. Things were fallin part back there way before Rick and the others came to get me and Carol. Ya just don’t wanna admit it. When that man came after ya like he did...(Her voice trailed off at that)

Things happen the way they should. They just do. Maybe we were suppose to die together? Sometimes that’s just what it takes...

(Dawn’s last words were enough to make Beth’s large, bright eyes begin to sparkle with hot, wet tears. Both of them knew Beth sure as hell wasn’t a killer, she never had been. Maybe that was why she couldn’t stab the woman in the throat but either way she had stabbed her.)

Didn’t know that they were gonna kill ya. Just like I didn’t know ya were gonna kill me but...(a pause). It ‘appened that way. It just did....

I'M ALIVE! Ugghhh this week has kicked my ass royally

[lerner]

( Dawn would give a broken smile at that. She remembered how they all came in there so sure they were gonna do their little trade – Licari and Shepherd for Beth and that other woman – neglecting to see that they also owed Noah as well. It was a stupid move on that kid’s part to leave in the first place…But she knew… She’d look up at Beth again. )

Yes. He ‘got out’, Beth. But the part you’re leaving out is that boy couldn’t hold his own out there. He needed someone to take care of him, to protect him. Noah had no problem coming back to me – where I was protecting him. ( and like she said before they always come back. ) Now that I’m gone? Where else could he be protected like that? Boy was just doing what was best for him in the end, even if it was leaving with ‘your people’.

( The girl’s expression didn’t go unnoticed to Dawn. She too was also haunted and determined from what happened. Far as she was concerned things were starting to turn around until those last moments went down… )

Everyone would have been fine, Beth…Everyone… ( She’d shake her head at that as her voice trailed. )

Things were going just fine there until you started stirring up things. How many times did I had to step in to save you just so things wouldn’t… ( Dawn would shake her head again feeling frustrated about how the whole thing was a constant uphill battle. ) Things needed to work a certain way back at that hospital. I told you this before. Why can’t you understand that?

( Her eyes drifted to the ground again. ) Even if that man did come back for him, they wouldn’t have succeeded. Wouldn’t have worked the way you think it would. ( Oh Beth, how she thought she had her and her officers all figured out. She’d almost laugh at that but a broken smile kept it in, instead a short breath of air escaped. She’d look back at the girl before continuing. ) Those people needed someone to lead them. Wasn’t anyone else back there that could. They wouldn’t have done anything.

( She’d be quick to add to what Beth started about with her comment about O’Donnell. )

–When ‘than man’ came after me I knew what had to be done. For me and for you. It’s like I said, Gorman and O’Donnell were bad people. The world won’t miss them. The rest of them wouldn’t have hurt me. But if they found out about what you did…Your safety? ...I wasn’t gonna let that happen. Not after what you did for me.

…But I guess it doesn’t matter now, does it?

I don’t know if things really do happen the way they should. But we’re here now. What ever this place is, we’re here and gone from the world we were in before. It didn’t need to be that way Beth.

Awwww! *pets you softly* :)

[imadeit]

(Oh to see that broken little smile form along Dawn’s pretty features was enough to make Beth’s large eyes narrow, fist clinching by her sides even tighter, enough to turn knuckles white. If only she had another pair of small scissors tucked away somewhere but again that wouldn’t solve a damn thing. There wasn’t anyone around to kill Dawn this time, the woman was lucky for that at least but the anger she was feeling was enough to make her take another step forward, only inches away from the woman like she had been the very last time they were face to face like this.)

Noah did good out there. Found my friends, found my family, brought ‘em back there to save me. He did good, did good. He was makin it out there just fine. Kept away from yer officers, kept ‘imself hidden. Reason he came back with Rick and everybody was to save me. Came back cause he knew where the hospital was, came back to help. Didn’t come back cause he was weak or scared, didn’t come back to you. (She was say lowly, though it sounded more like she was hissing the words out as she stared Dawn dead in the eyes, as if she were daring this woman, her killer to say other wise)He’s strong, might not know it but he is. He’s with Rick, Daryl, my sister, they’re gonna take real good care of ‘em, might even get ‘im back home where he wants to be, where he belongs. Either way, he’s safe. He’s protected.

(And she would stand by that. Rick was a good man, good leader, she would never think other wise. The whole group was a strong set of people, they would be able to help Noah, keep him safe. She then shook her head at Dawn’s words, loose hair falling along her still cut and gashed face)

Ya know damn well that ain’t true. Everyone wasn’t gonna be fine, never was. ...(She would go to say)


(Now it was her turn to give a little smile once Dawn admitted that Beth had been stirring up things. Of course the girl didn’t really see it that way, she was just simply seeing things as they were, how they had been back at that hospital and they sure as hell weren’t good things) Didn’t stir up nuthin...(She would reply softly) Just ‘appened to see things as they were back there. Things might have hada work a “certain” way but didn’t mean that way was right. How those people were treated back there, how they couldn’t leave. Girls gettin raped like that by yer people....ain’t nuthin to understand. Wasn’t gonna let that ‘appen to me. Was protectin myself.


(The girl would just glance down herself, eyes roaming along her old boots for a moment. Oh how Dawn underestimated the group who came in to save her, how she knew nothing about Rick, Daryl or anyone. She then would slowly look back up herself, a small smile forming along her lips) Ya don’t know Rick like I do. Don’t know none of ‘em. Noah woulda got out there no matter what and you, you woulda died either way. That’s how Rick works. Those people needed a leader that was gonna keep ‘em safe. Not someone who was just gonna stay by and turn her head like she didn’t see nuthin goin on. Just kept pretendin that everything was alright....

(Yeah, she said it)

Yer so fast to think they wouldn’t? So fast to think that those people ya call friends, ya call yer best officers wouldn’t turn their backs on ya, wouldn’t hurt ya at all? (She laughs a little at that) This world changes people. It does, ain’t know stop that. We are who we are now and those people back there....(She points behind her slightly) didn’t give a shit bout you. Not anymore....

....Guess not, huh?

Don't know where we are, how far we are neither but we're here. Don't really know how but...(a pause as she shrugs a little)

Lots of things didn't need to be the way they were back there but they were, weren't they?