Ideally, Derek thinks they'd be married by now. They've been together for almost two years and they've known one another even longer still than that. Ideally, they would live in the Greene farmhouse. Ideally, Hershel would still be alive and Derek and Glenn would've taken over the farm for him so that he could retire in peace. Maggie and Beth would have been pregnant together. There would be children running around the farm without a care in the world, because ideally, there wouldn't be a thing in the world to care about because the world wouldn't be all fucked up.
Ideally, Derek would've met Beth under better circumstances and they could be happy all the time instead of just in little pockets of time when things are okay for a little while.
They don't get to have ideal anymore; no one does. So what they have has to do and Derek will take it because he loves her and he intends to make every second count. He's seen what happens when people don't do that.
When he feels Beth starting to slide off his back, Derek crouches a little so that she won't have to drop to the ground to reach it. He laughs a little, looking over at her when she comments about the soap. "So I can smell like your girlfriend instead of your boyfriend?" he teases. He wishes Maggie was around, because he'd like to be something more to Beth than a boyfriend by now, but he won't ever do it without at least Maggie's blessing. Neither of the Greene sisters know that he has Hershel's blessing already; has had it since before he and Beth were even officially dating, actually. Hershel is the reason Derek even started to look at Beth the way he looks at her now. But Hershel is gone. Now, he feels like he needs Maggie's seal of approval before moving forward the way Glenn had.
"I guess I'd rather smell like your girlfriend than a mountain man," he adds with a smirk, moving toward the creek and peeling his shirt off as he moves toward the water, draping it over a large boulder. "You gonna make me test the temperature first again?" he teases, looking over his shoulder at her.
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Ideally, Derek would've met Beth under better circumstances and they could be happy all the time instead of just in little pockets of time when things are okay for a little while.
They don't get to have ideal anymore; no one does. So what they have has to do and Derek will take it because he loves her and he intends to make every second count. He's seen what happens when people don't do that.
When he feels Beth starting to slide off his back, Derek crouches a little so that she won't have to drop to the ground to reach it. He laughs a little, looking over at her when she comments about the soap. "So I can smell like your girlfriend instead of your boyfriend?" he teases. He wishes Maggie was around, because he'd like to be something more to Beth than a boyfriend by now, but he won't ever do it without at least Maggie's blessing. Neither of the Greene sisters know that he has Hershel's blessing already; has had it since before he and Beth were even officially dating, actually. Hershel is the reason Derek even started to look at Beth the way he looks at her now. But Hershel is gone. Now, he feels like he needs Maggie's seal of approval before moving forward the way Glenn had.
"I guess I'd rather smell like your girlfriend than a mountain man," he adds with a smirk, moving toward the creek and peeling his shirt off as he moves toward the water, draping it over a large boulder. "You gonna make me test the temperature first again?" he teases, looking over his shoulder at her.