Beth and Morgan sat down, tired. They were both happy to finally be stopping. Morgan gave a huge yawn and stretched.

"You can sleep if ya want." Beth suggested, noting his heavy eyelids.

"We should make a fire and set snares." Morgan shook his head.

"I'll go set the snares and get wood." Beth stood up quickly. Morgan tried to argue but he stopped himself – she had a determined look on her face. He'd learnt that he could not argue when she had that look. They had stopped but Beth definitely had her mind on their mission. Morgan smiled instead.

"Okay, I'll skin these." He nodded towards some squirrels.

Humming softly, Beth walked through the woods. Every few moments, her humming would halt and then restart, causing her to knit her eyebrows together. The song kept escaping her. She stopped and chewed on her bottom lip, trying to recall the full song. In the silence, Beth could here soft footsteps and muffled sobbing. Curious, she moved forward, drawing her gun. She stepped out from behind a tree, raising her gun to the person, just in case. As she went to speak, she screamed and dropped the gun on the ground. In front of her was a brunette, hanging from a tree. Beth had come just in time to see her eyes snap shut and a final breath fall from her lips. Beth started to breathe very quickly, panic setting in. She look around wildly, looking for a way to get the person in front of her down. She rushed towards the hanging body, searching for a pulse and trying to reach up and untie the noose. With a huge sigh of relief, she found a pulse.

"Okay, okay… How do I get her down?" Beth muttered breathlessly. She looked up at the branch and at the trunk. It didn't seem too hard to climb up, so she did. Once on the branch, she scooted forward quickly. She pull her machete from her waist and brought it hard across the rope. Two swipes and the rope broke, sending the woman to the ground. Beth slipped off the branch and untied the rope with shaking hands. She stared into the woman's face, waiting, for what seemed like forever, before she took a huge gasp. Silently, Beth cheered. She awkwardly gathered the woman into her arms and half carried, half dragged her back to the camp. Hopefully Morgan knew how to fix her properly, her breath was raggedly and sounded pretty bad.

"Morgan!" Beth called, huffing and puffing. Morgan stood up, alerted by the worried and urgency in her voice. He ran towards her, not expecting what he did see. He slipped his arms around the woman and lifted her off the ground, carrying her directly into the camp.

"What happened?" He asked Beth, checking the woman for injuries.

"She hanged herself." Beth whispered, watching everything Morgan did. Morgan placed his hands on her throat, feeling for the damage. The woman coughed and red spittle spilt onto her lips. Morgan wiped it up and looked at Beth.

"I think she's damaged her throat, but she's still breathing. Go get the water." He pointed vaguely in the direction of the canteens. Beth grabbed them quickly then ran back, handing them to him. He lifted the woman up, tipping some water into her mouth.

"Why'd you get her down?" Morgan faced her. She was staring at the woman, worried etched all over her face.

"I don't know." Beth whispered, sniffing softly. "Is she okay?"

"She will be." Morgan bundled up his coat and placed it under the woman's head.

"She just needs rest." He reassured Beth. Beth nodded slowly,

"Okay, this there anythin' I should get?" She asked Morgan, her eyes not leaving the woman's face.

"Fire would be good." Morgan gestured to the lack of fire wood in the pit he had dug. "But I will go get it."

"No." Beth stood up, placing a hand on his shoulder. "You stay with her in case anythin' bad happens. You're the medic." Morgan agreed, settling close to the woman while Beth disappeared back into the woods.

Glenn was on watch, mainly because he wanted to be awake when Maggie got back. He had started to worry. When he had voiced his worry initially, everybody assured him that Maggie was fine and would be back soon. Now that night-time had well a truly settled, others were getting restless. Glenn looked up as Tara approached him.

"Hey. Should we start looking or..? Is this still okay?" She glanced at Rick as she spoke. Rick shook his head,

"No, it's not okay. We'll send out a group." Rick said, standing up. The group looked towards him. Glenn stood and went next to him.

"We should go looking for Maggie. Only a couple of us." He jerked his head in Glenn's direction. "Glenn, obviously, and I think Tara," Tara nodded quickly, moving to stand next to Glenn, "Tara wants to go. Who else? I'll be going to."

Daryl stood up, "I'll come." Sasha stood up too, nodding.

"Me too."

"Okay, everyone else, keep safe. Let's go." Rick started walking in the direction that Maggie had left in hours earlier.

The woman had no made another noise or moved in a very long time. Morgan hoped that she was simply overtired, not damaged beyond repair. Beth seemed much invested in her survival. Morgan watched her, wondering why Beth cared so much. There was no room for unnecessary kindness in the world anymore. The people had moved into the camp pretty silently, Morgan didn't even realise until he heard the sound of a gun's safety being removed.

"Stand up, step away from her slowly and drop all your weapons." A rough voice said. Morgan stood up and turned to face the intruders.

"I didn't hurt her. I found her like this." He couldn't see the group fully, they lingered in the shadows.

"Morgan?" Somebody stepped from the shadows, lowering their gun. Morgan squinted, unable to make out any features. They moved closer, into the light of the fire.

"Rick?" Morgan couldn't believe his eyes. He had been searching for him, but he thought it would've taken longer. Rick moved tentatively towards him.

"What happened?" He gestured to the woman on the ground.

"We found her hanging in the woods. The girl I'm with cut her down." The rest of Rick's group emerged from the shadows.

"Is she okay?" An Asian guy asked, looking very concerned. He spoke to Morgan but didn't look at him, instead he was moving quickly to the woman.

"Yeah, yeah… We gave her some water, she's breathin-" Morgan's explanation was cut off by an outburst.

"Why the fuck do you have this?" A man with shaggy brown hair practically roared. He brandished it in Morgan's face.

"Why?" He was holding up Beth's cross and the black biker's vest she always wore.

"It belongs to the girl I'm with." Morgan took a step away from the guy. His eyes were flashing wildly; Morgan had no doubts that if Rick wasn't here, this man would have shot him.

"What?" A black woman asked, looking very confused. Morgan looked around the group.

"Beth Greene…" He gestured at the cross. "We've been looking for you all, actually." He went into his pocket and pulled out the map. He handed it to Rick and Rick read it, his eyebrows knitted quite close together.

"Where did you get this?" Rick asked, holding it out to Morgan.

"Found it in a church." He looked up as he heard Beth return. "Beth!" He called out to her. She slowly entered their camp, snares in hand. She was looking around uncomfortably.

"What's happening?" She asked, moving towards Morgan. Everyone was watching her closely.

"Beth." The shaggy haired man said weakly.

"Beth, this is your group." Morgan explained. He pointed at Rick. "This is Rick Grimes." Beth smiled softly at Rick.

All at once, everyone seemed to move. Rick pulled Beth into a hug, not noticing or not caring at how she tensed at the strangers touch. The Asian man jumped up and moved quickly towards her, giving her a huge hug and looking at her face.

"You're alive." He stated, incredulously. She gave a weak smile. The two woman with the group wrapped her up in another hug. Everyone but the shaggy haired man had hugged her. Beth looked at him, half expectant, half wary.

"So do you hug me too?" Beth barely got the words out of her mouth before he swept her up in a hug. He held her tight and close, longer than the others, seeming afraid to let go. She wigged slightly so he conceded and released her.

Rick cleared his throat, gesturing to his group.

"We're all very confused. We saw Beth get shot in the head." He explained.

"Who is she?" Beth ignored Rick's statement, pointing at the woman laying down. The Asian man came to her, looking sad.

"She's you're sister. Maggie." Beth gave a little gasp, her hand covering her mouth. Her mind was spinning. She took a few shaky steps towards Maggie before her knees buckled and she fainted.

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