Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 7

Seven chapters and we finally get walkers! Bye bye Ed and Kaden (and the others). Once again reviews are loved! I am still blown away by reviews and the story being people favorites!

Lori and Shane are still going at it, since I think Lori thinks she needs a man. She reminds me a lot of a family member of mine whose been married seven times cause she can't live without a man. She thinks I'm insane because when I got a divorce, that was it!

Jewel glanced back at everyone eating the fish and talking as she stood up and looked down the road.

"I'm sure they'll be back soon," Lori told the other woman as she joined her.

"They should have been back already," Jewel told her. "You're thinking' it yourself," Jewel told her as she looked at the other woman.

"I'm sorry about what I said earlier…about Merle," Lori told her.

Jewel laughed. "No you're not Lori, and it's fine. I know what an ass he can be. I'm the first one to tell him or Daryl for that matter. Merle and I aren't 'actly what you call two peas in a pod. And I'm real sorry that your husband felt like he had to go back and rescue that selfish SOB," she told her.

Lori forced herself to give a smile. "Rick and I…we aren't exactly together. I mean, before he was shot and everythin' I had asked him to move out."

Jewel kept looking down the road, not reacting. She always disliked gossip, or chit chat, in high school or at the hospital. Not that she had much use for it in high school, she was usually the one they gossiped about in school, especially after she got pregnant at 15. "Well, maybe this is the push you need…." she told the woman.

"That's what I thought, but I think it's pretty well over," Lori told the other woman as she glanced over at Shane. "What you did today with Jim…"

Jewel raised her hand. "No need to thank me, I was just doing what I could do."

"I have to wonder exactly what he was digging," Lori said.

Jewel looked at her then at Summer. She knew exactly what he had been digging, she had figured it out as soon as she stepped into the first hole. Graves. She hadn't wanted to alarm anyone, and she prayed to God while she was digging them that they wouldn't be of any need. "Have no idea, but it made him feel better," she answered.

"Mom, there isn't going to be any fish left," Summer called out to her mother.

"I'll eat your helping'," Carl told his mother.

"I don't think so!" Lori told her son as she joined Shane and him.

"I'm sure they'll be fine mom," Summer told her mother as Jewel sat down.

"Yeah, I'm sure you're right," she told Summer as she kissed the top of her head.

"You definitely got a nice tan going on from helping' Jim earlier," Jacqui told her.

Jewel laughed. "See you figured it out, I just wanted to work on my tan without putting on a bathing suit," she told the woman.

"Maybe if you would have put on a bathing suit, I would have helped," Kaden told her.

"Why don't you just shut up Kaden?" Shane questioned. "No one wants to hear anything from you."

"Shane, not now," Lori told him. "We're having a nice night, let's not ruin it."

Summer looked over at the two boys. "You get enough to eat?" she asked the 7 and 9 year old.

"Yeah," both answered.

"Manners," Kaden hissed at them. Both of them nodded at him.

Jewel got up again and picked up her canteen. "Going to get a refill, anyone need any?" she asked.

"Want someone to go with you?" Shane asked.

Jewel tried to keep from rolling her eyes. "I'm just walking ten steps away Shane, but thanks," she said as she walked away. "Ass," she mumbled to herself.

Andrea looked up as Amy got up. "Where are you going?"

"I have to pee. Jeez you try to be discreet around here," Amy told her sister as everyone laughed and she went to the RV.

Jewel opened her canteen and bent down and opened the container and started to fill it up. She started to put the lid on the canteen as she heard Amy scream. She turned around to see a group of walkers. "Summer!" she yelled as everyone scattered.

"Mom!" Carl yelled.

"Carl!" Lori called as she grabbed him.

"Lori, get him down!" Shane yelled.

Summer grabbed her hunting knife as she saw Kaden being attacked by a walker, she threw it perfectly into the walkers head. "Don't look! Stay close!" she said as she grabbed Luke and Mitch and pulled them close. "Up the tree!" she said as she grabbed Mitch and helped him climb as they continued to cry. "Shh….it'll be ok. MOM!"

"Go," Jewel yelled as she pulled out her gun and shot a walker that was coming close to her.

"Get to the RV! Go!" Shane yelled at the group.

Morales shoots at three more and makes his way up to the RV as Jewel turns and kills another one.

"Shane! Shane!" Lori screamed.

"Stay with me. Stay behind me. Morales, work up here!" Shane yelled.

"Jewel! Watch out!" Dale yelled as he took a shot at a walker.

Jewel pointed her gun at one and pulled the trigger as nothing happened. "Hells bells!" she yelled in frustration.

"MOM!" Summer yelled from the tree trying to calm the boys.

"Stay up there! Don't you move," Jewel yelled at her daughter as she took out her knife. She knew she would have to let one get close to her so she could get him in the head and not lose her knife. "Bastards!" she yelled as one got close to her and she stabbed him in the head falling backwards. "Son of a…." she yelled as she pulled the knife out of the walkers head and tried to get up one grabbing her foot. "Bastard!" she yelled as she kicked him off, screaming as she continued to move backwards. She saw the one that was coming near her be shot by an arrow.

Daryl grabbed her arm and pulled her up as he banged one in the head with the but of his rifle. He turned and looked at her after the threat was taken care of. "You OK? You bit? Summer?"

Jewel shook her head. "I wasn't bit…Summer…SUMMER!" she yelled as she turned and looked, momentarily forgetting that she had climbed a tree.

"I'm ok…could use some help getting' down with these two," Summer nodded at the two boys before glancing back to where Kaden had been taken down.

"Someone needs to put him down….away from his brother's," Jewel told Daryl.

"I got it," he said as Jewel walked over to the tree. "OK, little monkey's down you come!" she said as she grabbed Mitch then Luke. "Dale!"

"I got them. Come on let me check you two out," Dale said as he took the boys hands.

Summer climbed down the tree. "MOM!" she yelled as she grabbed her in a hug.

"Are you OK?" Jewel asked as she pulled her into a hug.

Summer nodded not letting go. "Amy…" she whispered as she looked over at the older of the two sisters holding her younger sister.

"You two OK?" Rick asked as he came up after checking on others.

"Yeah…we're good," Jewel said as she held Summer.

"Uncle Daryl!" Summer yelled as she ran to him.

"Merle?" Jewel asked Rick.

"He wasn't there….we found his hand, he had cut it off," Rick told her.

Jewel put her hand over her mouth. "Sick, stupid bastard," she mumbled.

Jim looked around. "I remember why I dug the holes," he told the group.

The next morning:

Jewel stopped as she saw Rick walking from a hill. "I was lookin' for you," she said.

"Well you found me," he said. "Your face, what happened?"

"Shane didn' tell you? I had a run in with Ed's fist yesterday afternoon. But that doesn't matter now," she said as she cast a glance over her shoulder at the dead.

Rick sighed. "Shane and I didn't get a chance to really talk last night," he told her. "So you were looking for me?" Rick asked.

Jewel nodded. "Yeah I was wondering in that bag of guns and ammo, if you had anything for a Smith and Wesson .357," she told him as she took out the gun. "Ran out last night."

"I'm sure we do," Rick answered as they walked toward the bag. "Yours?"

"Yeah, sorry I left the permit back in my car at the trailer park," she teased.

Rick laughed. "I think I'll forgive you. You know how to shoot?"

Jewel raised an eyebrow. "Hello, have we met? I'm Jewel Dixon, maybe you've met my brothers?" she asked sarcastically. "I knew how to shoot since I was five. Summer does too, she's ticked I won't let her have a gun."

Rick laughed as he pulled out a box of ammo. "Got three full boxes," he said as he handed her one.

"You keep the other two," she said as she loaded the gun. "Thanks," she said as took the box. "Thought you and Shane were friends…and it's not really any of my business."

Rick smiled. "I don't think you're stupid Jewel. I think everyone in this camp sees that Lori and Shane are involved. To what degree and what extinct, I don't know and I don't care."

Jewel glanced at him and was thinking of how to respond when she heard Daryl's voice.

"You reap what you sow," Daryl yelled as he carried bodies.

"You know what? Shut up, man," Morales yelled at him.

"Y'all left my brother for dead. You had this coming," Daryl yelled at him.

Jewel glanced back at Summer then at Daryl as she approached him. "You want to rephrase that big brother because if you forgot that idiot is brother too," she told him. "Your niece and I were in this camp, I was grabbed by one of those things," she said as she pushed him backwards. "So, you need to step back and you need to stop and think before words come out of your mouth?"

"Jewels you know I wasn't talkin' about you and Summer," Daryl told her.

"Just shut up Daryl!" Jewel yelled at him. "Why don't you go and grab Kaden's body and put him in the pile of bodies we are buring?" Jewel looked at the looks she was getting from people. "What? He does have two little brothers that are part of this camp, that we all need to watch over now. He's getting' buried," she said as she walked away.

Glenn looked at Summer. "Remind me not to piss off your mom," he told her.

Summer gave a small smile. "Yeah, she gets that way once in a while."

Jacqui yelled to get the groups attention. "A walker got him. A walker bit Jim," she told them.

"Summer, stay with the boys. Lori?" Jewel asked.

"I'll watch them," Lori told her.

Jewel joined the men of the group as they walked around Jim as they looked at him.

"I'm okay. I'm okay," Jim told them.

"Show it to us, show it to us!" Daryl demanded.

"Easy, Jim," Shane said as he went around him.

"Grab him," Daryl said as Jim picked up the shovel.

"Jim, put it down. Put it down," Shane said.

"Jim, if you're bit….you need to tell us," Jewel told him.

T Dog grabs him as he pulled Jim's arm behind him and Daryl lifted his shirt to reveal a deep wound. "Shit…" Jewel said as she put her hand to her mouth.

"I'm ok….I'm Ok…." Jim kept repeating himself as to reassure himself and the group.

Jewel glanced at the others as she followed them further away.

Daryl leaned against the camper. "I say we put a pickaxe in his head and the dead girl's and be done with it," he told them.

"Is that what you'd want if it were you?" Shane asked.

Daryl nodded. "Yeah and I'd thank you while you did it," he said.

Jewel lifted her head and looked at him. "I'll be sure to remember that if I am left to make that decision," she told her brother.

Dale sighed. "I hate to say it…I never thought I would…but maybe Daryl's right."

"Jim's not a monster, Dale, or some rabid dog," Rick reminded him.

"I'm not suggesting…"Dale started to say.

"He's sick, a sick man. We start that road where do we draw the line?" Rick questioned the group.

"The line's pretty clear. Zero tolerance for walkers or them to be," Daryl told him.

"What if we can get him help? I heard the CDC was working on a cure," Rick told the group.

"We don't even know if we'd make it there before….before he comes back," Jewel told him.

"But what if we can? What if we can get there and it's still up and running?" Rick asked.

"Man that's a stretch right there," Shane told him.

Rick looked at him. "Why? If there's any government left, any structure at all, they'd protect the CDC at all costs, wouldn't they? I think it's our best shot. Shelter, protection," he said.

"Ok Rick I want those things, all right? I do too, OK? Now if they exist, they're at the Army base at Fort Benning," Shane told them.

Jewel looked at him. "Jim would never make it, that's 100 miles in the opposite direction," she told him.

"That's right, but it's away from the Hot Zone. Now listen to me, if that's the place operational, it'll be heavily armed. We'd be safe there," Shane insisted.

"The military were on the front lines of this thing, they got overrun. We've all seen it. The CDC is our best choice and Jim's only chance," Rick told them.

Daryl looked at them. "You go lookin' for aspirin, do what you need to do. Someone needs to have the balls to take care of this damn problem!" he said as he picked up a pick axe.

"Daryl! Stop it!" Jewel yelled.

Daryl continued toward him as Rick pulled out his gun to his head. "We don't kill the living."

"Rick!" Jewel yelled as Summer came up.

"Seriously?" she asked.

"That's funny coming from a man who just put a gun in my head," Daryl told him.

Jewel took a breath as she approached Daryl. "Give me the pick ax. Come on, Daryl. I'm really on my last nerve right now, and I don't want to bury you. I don't want to grieve another brother."

Daryl looked at her. "Please Uncle Daryl…just give her the ax," Summer begged almost in tears.

Daryl handed Jewel the pick ax and walked away.

Rick took Jim's arm. "Going to take you somewhere safe," he told the other man.

Summer looked at Jewel as Jewel threw down the ax. "Don't mind Uncle Daryl, you know how he gets when he gets upset," she said as she touched her face and kissed her cheek. "I'm going to help Daryl move the bodies," Jewel said as she walked up to the truck. "I'll take over," she told Morales. He nodded as he left the two siblings. "Want to tell me what crawled up your ass and died?"

Daryl looked at her. "You think this is OK?"

Jewel picked up one of the bodies with him and put it in the cab of the truck. "I don't know, OK. But what I do know is that your sayin' things that are scaring me, and you're doin' things that are scaring Summer. I know your upset about Merle, but two little boys lost there only livin' relative last night. Summer risked her life for them. Even if I did agree that we need to burn the bodies, I have to think what my daughter needs. Summer needs to know if something' happens to her, that we aren' gonna burn her. That we love her enough to bury her. We bury our dead, Daryl. I need to know that you are goin' to do that for me if I die," she told him as she was almost in tears.

"Jewels," Daryl said as he hugged her. "Come on," he said.

"We bury our loved ones," she told him.

Daryl kissed the top of her head. "You got my word, but nothing' is goin' to happen to you. Nothing's gonna happen to you," he assured her.