Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 8

First of all, I just got to the episode where Dale died. I'm in mourning! OH just wait til Summer finds out you taunted that walker Carl! She's going to get you!
OK so now I'm getting to the CDC. I'm going to do a whole chapter just of Rick and Jewel talking. But this is them getting there. Picking up after they leave Jim. I really can't do that scene in my emotional state. The two little boys (who one we aren't getting attached to but can't decide which yet) with Shane. I'm mean aren't I? Summer was riding with Daryl and Jewel in Daryl's truck. Yes I know Daryl's a bit OOC in this chapter but he is a big brother and an Uncle in this. And he's alone with his sister and they are teasing each other. OH just wait when Rick and her get together, someone's gonna get hit!

Now review please. Thanks!

Jewel kissed the top of Summer's head. "You OK?"

Summer nodded as she glanced back at the tree where Jim was. "Mind if I ride in the RV? Now that…I mean…" she glanced back at the tree.

Jewel glanced at Daryl who only shrugged. "I'll ask Dale," she told her daughter as she walked over to the RV. "Dale you got room for one more?"

"Sure you abandoning Daryl and Summer?" he teased softly.

"More like Summer's abandonin' us," Jewel reported.

"Tell her to come on up, Shane handed the boys off to me," he reported. "Summer can help watch them," he told her.

"Thanks," Jewel responded as she walked back over to the truck. "Go on," she told Summer. "Listen to what Dale says and help with the boys," she told her as Summer grabbed her back out of the back of the truck.

Daryl got in the truck and waited for her to get in. "You don' think she's getting' to close to those two boys?"

Jewel sighed. "They just lost there older brother, they are alone. It gives Summer a purpose," she told her older brother. "You know the old sayin' it takes a village to raise a child," she told him as they started out again. "Don't start soundin' like Shane suggestin' we find somewhere to leave them. They are part of this group."

Daryl looked at her and shook her head. "You know Merle may be right when he said he wasn' sure if you were a Dixon, to soft," he teased.

"Right, well good for you that I am soft, it's saved your hide on more than one occasion," Jewel told him. "Do you think this is 'nother dead end?"

Daryl shrugged. "Not sure," he said.

Jewel laughed. "You know this is where you pat my knee and tell me it's going to be alright. Haven't I taught you anything' about bein' a big brother to a little sister in the 35 years I've been alive?" she teased as she hit his arm playfully.

Daryl raised an eyebrow. "Remind me 'gain who was holdin' your hand during 26 hours of labor, including' Christmas day?"

Jewel tried not to laugh. "I'm sorry, I don't really have any memory of who was in that room. I was a little busy," she retorted. "Seriously, I give birth once, and you stick by me and I never live it down."

Daryl rolled his eyes. "Traumatic experience that I'll never forget. You scarred me at 18," he teased back.

Jewel shook her head as she leaned back in the seat. "I'd do it all over again, if we could have the world back to normal," she told him as she felt the truck slow down. "My God…" she said as she they came into view of the CDC seeing dead bodies everywhere.

Daryl parked the truck and looked at her before the got out of the truck. "Jewel keep those boys close!" he yelled at his niece.

Summer nodded trying not to gag. "God, oh God," she mumbled.

Jacqui took a breath taking one of the boys hands from Summer making him keep his eyes closed. "Don't look baby," she told the child.

Jewel took a breath as she brought up her shirt around her nose. "God this reminds me of the shift I had to do in downtown morgue, third year of nursing' school."

"Come on," Daryl told her as they started walking.

Carl jumps as a former soldier, now a walker, comes toward him. Jewel pulled her gun just as Shane shot it.

"Stick together," Rick instructed the group.

Daryl looked at Rick. "You led us here. What the hell were you thinking?" he hissed.

"Daryl," Jewel hissed.

"He made a call," Lori told them.

"He led us to a dead end," Carol cried as she held onto Sophia.

Summer held onto the younger boy. "I didn' hear any of you, except for Shane, throwin' out ideas," she told the group.

"I'd yell at her for sassin', but she's right," Jewel told the group.

"What are we going to do now?" Dale asked.

"Dammit," T Dog moaned.

"We should have gone with Morales," Carol told them.

"Carol…" Lori said.

"There's nothing here," Dale said as he looked around.

"You're done, man. I ain't listening to you," Daryl told Rick.

Jewel took a breath as she noticed Rick was just frozen as he took in the scene. "Well we're here now, and I always tell Summer unless you got a useful suggestio', then you can't complain."

"Let's not start turning on each other," Shane told the group.

Jacquie held the older boy closer to her. "This was a mistake."

"Since that guy showed up, one mistake after another," Daryl told them as he glared at Shane expecting him to say anything.

Jewel took a breath as she tried the door. "Locked."

"We can still make it to Fort Benning," Shane suggested.

"On what fuel? We don't have any gas," Lori told him.

Summer turned and looked at the door. "Um…the camera moved."

Rick moved toward her. "Summer are you sure?"

"Yes, look!" she told him as she pointed and it moved again.

Rick walked up and looked directly into the camera as he banged on the door.

"Man, there's nobody here," T Dog told the group.

"Let's get out here, we have to find someplace safe," Carol begged.

"Someone's in there!" Summer told the group. "The camera doesn't move on it's own."

"Unless it's on a timer," Shane told her.

Rick looked at the camera again. "If you can hear me... Please, help us. We have women, children, no food. Nowhere else to go," he begged. Rick looked at Summer then back at the group and took a deep breath. "If you don't let us in, you're killing us... Please," he begged.

Shane stepped up next to him. "Maybe the camera's still working and everybody's dead," he suggested.

Jewel took a breath. "Summer," she said as she motioned Summer back to her.

Rick, with no other choice, is about to turn down the steps as they hear something and they all turn around as the door opened. "Shane! Help me with these dead bodies!" he yelled.

Jewel went to help them as the other women and children jump over the bodies and go in. Daryl and the rest of the men go in.

Dale put his hand on Rick's back. "We made it," he told the other man.

"Is there someone here?" Rick asked outloud.

"Watch the doors. Pay attention to the Walkers," Dale told them.

Jewel held onto her gun. "Summer bring the boys back further away from the door," she ordered her daughter. She looked up as they heard a sound of a gun being loaded the group turning to the sound.

"Is one of your group infected?" the man asked.

"One member of our group was, he didn't survive," Jewel answered for Rick.

"What are you doing here? What do you want?" the man asked.

"A chance," Rick answered.

"It's a lot to ask for these days," the man responded.

Rick nodded. "I know."

The man looked around at the group. "Blood test from each of you, that's the price of admission," he told them.

"We can do that," Rick answered.

"If you have anything that you need from outside, you need to go get it now. Once these doors close, they aren't opening again," the man told him.

Summer went to go with the group of men. "Summer," Jewel warned.

"Just need a bag for the boys…." she told her mother.

"I got it," Shane told her as he went out.

"Got it," T Dog said as the group re entered.

The door closed as the man led the group to an elevator. "Vi, seal the main entrance and cut power to the top," he ordered someone.

Rick glanced at the man as they crammed into the elevator. "Rick Grimes."

"Doctor Edwin Jenner," he said as the doors closed.

Daryl glanced at the doctor. "Doctor's always pack that much heat?"

"There were a lot of weapons lying around, so I familiarized myself with them," he answered. "You don't look very dangerous to me, except for you three," he nodded to Carl and the younger boys. "I'm going to have to keep an eye on the three of you."

Carl and the two boys gave small smiles as Jenner led them out into a corridor.

"Are we underground?" Carol asked.

"Are you claustrophobic?" the Doctor asked.

"A little," she admitted.

"Try not to think about it," Jenner responded as he walked into a room. "Vi, turn on the lights. Welcome to Zone 5," he said as the lights came on revealing an empty room with lots of computers.

"Where is everyone else?" Jewel asked as she glanced at Rick.

"I'm it, I'm sorry," Jenner answered.

"Wait, what about the person you were talking too? Vi?" Lori questioned as she held onto Carl.

"Vi say hello to our guests. Say welcome," the Doctor told someone.

"Hello guests, welcome," the computerized voice said.

"I'm sorry, I'm it," he repeated. "Now on to the blood tests," he said as he led the group.

"I can help, if you give me the needles," Jewel offered.

"You a doctor?" he asked.

"No a nurse," she told him. "Jewel Dixon."

"These three yours?" he asked as he nodded toward Summer and the two boys.

"The girl is hers, the boys lost there older brother yesterday, we are all watchin' them," Daryl told him as he followed everyone down.

"You're the girls father then?" Jenner asked.

Summer laughed. "Uncle," she said.

Rick glanced at Jewel. "After what we've been through, we're family, blood or not," he said as the Doctor started to get out the trays.

With Jewel's help the doctor got everyone's blood taken. "I don't understand, if we were infected we'd have a fever," Andrea told the man.

"I've broken every rule by letting you be in here, the least I can be is thorough," the Dr. told her.

Andrea nodded as she stood up as she got dizzy. Jewel and Summer both grabbed at her.

"What's wrong with her?" the Dr asked nervously.

"She hasn't had a lot to eat in the last few days, none of us had," Jewel answered.

"Well let's take care of that, shall we?" the doctor asked as he led them to another room.

TBC