Someone To Confide in

*****Jolene's dream*****

"No!" Jolene screamed her lungs out as The Governor was shooting everyone in the prison. "Rick! Clementine!" Jolene looked to them in terror as The Governor walked up to them and shot them in the head. "No!"

"You should know better, running only takes you so far until it catches up with you again." The Governor pushed Jolene up against the wall, squeezing her neck tightly. Jolene gasped for air, she felt herself fading.

"You killed them, you killed them all. You brought this upon yourself for being the coward that you are!" The Governors voice echoed through her barely conscious ears. "Jolene!"

*****End dream*****

"Jolene!"

Jolene immediately jumped out of her bed and pulled the knife out from under her pillow.

"Jolene, hey, it's okay. It was just a dream." Glenn gently touched her shoulder to calm her down.

Jolene stood by her bed, panting in cold sweat. "Wha, what?"

"It was just a dream." Glenn moved his hand off her and took a step back.

"Right…right, yeah, I know. You're okay, Rick's okay, Clementine's okay, it…it's just a dream. I know that." Jolene rubbed her hands down her face, wiping off the cold sweat.

"Came to tell you we're leaving in a while so you might want to get ready. Can I get you anything?"

"No, no, I'm fine. I'll be out in a few." Jolene turned her back to Glenn and grabbed her clothes to get ready for the day.

Jolene walked outside to the prison yard after she freshened up and bumped into Rick.

"Hey Rick, I forgot to give this back to you yesterday." She pulled out his Colt Python and handed it to him.

"Hold on to it, you'll need it for today."

"Okay. Are we all ready to go?" Jolene looked into his eyes.

"Daryl's checking the car, should be ready in a few minutes. You sure you wanna come with us? I would feel better if you stayed here."

"I'm sure; it's a beautiful day for a run." Jolene looked up to the blue sky with her right hand hovering over her eyebrows to block the sun in her eyes.

Rick couldn't help but stare at her, the way the sun lit her up. His eyes had a mind of their own, he just had to gaze down at her body as she was looking up to the sky. He didn't want her to go for safety reasons but was glad to have her by his side.

"Rick, I've been doing a lot of thinking and I think Clementine should learn how to use a gun. I'm not saying that she should have one but to know the mechanics of it. I know she's young but I think I'll feel a lot better if she knew. You never know, anything can happen. Do you think you can show her?"

"You want me to teach her?"

"Well, yeah. You're a great teacher, you taught me well." Jolene looked to him.

Rick nodded slightly. "Okay."

"Rick, can I talk to you?" Lori popped out of nowhere and stood right in front of Rick.

"Do you mind?" Lori looked to Jolene, hinting her to give them their privacy.

"Yeah, I kinda do mind. You can take your conversation somewhere else. It's a huge prison, I was here first." Jolene stood up for herself.

Lori couldn't believe what she just said. "Rick." Lori looked to Rick waiting for him to defend her.

"Don't." Jolene looked to Rick as he was about to speak. "I'm not leaving because of you…" Jolene now stared at Lori. "I'm leaving because I need to talk to Clementine." Jolene walked past Lori and out of their vision.

"Clementine?" Jolene walked behind her as she was sitting down on the concrete floor, coloring in her notebook.

"I drew you something Joe." Clementine ripped out a page from the notebook and handed it to her. "It's all of us, our new family."

Jolene stared at the drawing. She drew everyone in the prison. "That's beautiful Clem. Ima keep it forever." Jolene folded the drawing and put it in her pants pocket. "Sweetheart, I've been doing a lot of thinking and I think you should learn how to use a gun."

"I don't want to." Clementine continued to color.

"I know, I'm not a big fan of you using a gun either but…"

"I used one before, I don't want to use it again and I don't want you to go. Why can't you just stay here with me?" Clementine looked up to Jolene.

Jolene didn't know how to respond to that. This was just too new for her; she didn't know how to talk to children and was a little on edge on the fact that Clementine admitted to using a gun before. "Okay, so you used a gun before and I know you probably don't want to talk about it but you know I won't judge you right. If you need to talk I'm here for you and I have to go out there."

"No you don't. You can just stay here. No one is forcing you to go."

"I have to go for reasons you don't understand, I…"

*Whistle* "Ready to go?" Daryl hollered out to Jolene.

Jolene looked out to Daryl then back to Clementine.

"Can I get a hug?" Jolene bent down to her level.

Clementine got up and gave Jolene a quick hug then went back to coloring. Jolene knew she was upset but didn't know what else to do or say.

"Please come back." Clementine turned her page and continued drawing.

"You know I'll be back." Jolene looked at her for another second before she walked away.

-Town-

"Daryl and Glenn will hit North, Jolene and I will take south. We'll meet back here in two hours." Rick glanced down at his wrist watch as he gave orders.

Rick and Jolene walked into Adventure Plus, a hunting store and carefully checked around the place for any walkers. Jolene opened the back door for employees and a walker stumbled forward to her, completely startling her. "Fuck!"

"Jolene!" Rick yelled as he ran over to her.

Jolene griped her knife tight, pushed the walker up against the wall and stabbed the walker in the middle of its skull.

Rick stood there out of breath, glad that she wasn't hurt.

"I got it." Jolene looked to Rick like it was no big deal and wiped her knife on the shirt of the dead again walker.

"Looks like we're in the clear now." Rick verified as he walked into the back room. "Let's take what's worth taking."

Jolene walked around the store looking for anything useful. People have obviously been in this store already, all the weapons and anything worth taking were taken off the shelves and walls. She moved shelves and tipped over boxes but nothing was worth taking.

She casually walked over to the clothes section. Not many people thought about taking the clothes off the rack so Jolene looked through them. She figured she could use more clothes since the ones she has now are ripping and covered with stains.

She turned around to see where Rick was. He was still in the back room, out of her sight so she quickly emptied her pants pocket, took them off and exchanged them for black skinny jeans. She picked up her wallet and picture that Clementine drew for her and put them in the pockets of her new pants.

She then looked around for a shirt. She turned back around to make sure Rick wasn't there. She took off her tank top and tossed it to the floor, leaving her black bra on. She picked out a white tank top and a cute short sleeve cotton shirt.

Rick walked out of the back room and stopped in his tracks as he saw Jolene without a top on. He was in awe. He stared at Jolene's naked back and quickly took notice of the tattoo on her lower back. He was surprised to find out she had a tattoo and was even more surprised to see her changing. He knew he was invading her privacy but couldn't help it, he liked what he saw. He felt himself getting excited by her long pony tail, black bra straps and the tattoo that he desperately wanted to touch. The things he wanted to do to her was clouding his right judgement to look away.

Jolene started to feel like she was being watched and knew it was Rick. She felt herself blush, she knew his eyes were on her and she didn't do anything about it. She found herself being turned on by the thrill of being watched by a sexy married man. She slowly adjusted her bra straps for show then reached over for the tank top and put it on.

"Find anything?" Rick finally spoke once she was clothed.

"Um, nothing." She turned to Rick. "Looks like this place has been raided already. I just figured I could use some new clothes." She put on the shirt and buttoned it up half ways.

"I uh." Rick cleared his throat as he walked over to her trying not to make it obvious of what he just saw. "Found a gun and four crossbow arrows that Daryl will be happy about."

"Well let's not let this place go to waste, you should get a few shirts and pants. I think we could all use some new clothes. You know Carl's size right?"

"Yeah."

"There are some cute shirts over there, Lori might like them." Jolene pointed out as she walked over to the shoe section.

"Lori was pretty pissed." Rick followed Jolene.

"When is she not?" She mumbled to herself as she took off her shoes and exchanged them for boots.

"I yelled at her." Rick sighed. "I didn't want to but she kept pushing my buttons."

Jolene looked up to Rick as she was fixing her boots. They were still strangers to each other and she was surprised to hear him opening up to her about his marriage.

"She bad mouthed you, told me I'm putting everyone in danger by bringing you in."

"You shouldn't have yelled." Jolene stood up and looked to Rick. "I don't need you to defend me. If she bad mouths me then let her. I couldn't care less."

"I couldn't help it, the nasty things she said about you, told me I couldn't keep my own son safe, that I don't care about our marriage." He felt himself slowly losing faith everyday with Lori's attitude and actions towards him.

"Rick, she's your wife; if you defend another woman of course she's going to get angry. I'm a big girl, I can defend myself but as for everything else she said, I think you need to take her into a room alone and talk everything out, yell at each other if you have to but don't leave the room until she gives you a legit answer. She can't have you and Shane on the side. What Lori is doing is not fair to Carl. I don't know your story well but I think that's what you need to do. She's obviously lost sight of who she has in front of her. Yes, I don't know you well but you seem like a great guy. A loving father, caring, strong, brave, level headed, sexy man." Jolene quickly swallowed the knot in her throat as she realized she said sexy when she meant to say handsome.

She tried to play it off cool, hoping he wouldn't say anything about it. She didn't want him to know what she was starting to feel for him. Even though they had just met the other day she already knew he was not like any other man.

Jolene caught a glimpse of a few holsters and turned away from Rick. She grabbed a leg holster and wrapped it around her right leg, pulled out Rick's gun and put it away on the holster along with her hunting knife.

Rick stared at her. He loved the style of clothing she picked out, how bad ass she looked with the holster wrapped around her leg and now he couldn't stop thinking about everything she said. He was starting to wish he wasn't married.

"I overheard your conversation with Shane." Rick confessed. He didn't feel right hiding anything from her.

Jolene turned around and looked to Rick as he was walking over to her. "I'm sorry about your past."

Jolene looked down to the floor in deep thought. "Yeah, well…I guess you have some questions, huh?"

"No." Rick stared deep into her eyes. "I won't badger you with questions but I'm hoping you'll come to me if you ever wanna to talk." Rick walked away and started picking out clothes for Carl.


Oh, naughty Rick. Give Jolene her privacy! What do you all think so far?