Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 13

Author's Note: Just got to Season 3. I am so doing some of the 8 months on the run in this story. Not much, but I do have one idea. I'm not telling! And first Dale and now they cut off Hershall's leg, seriously people? You're killing me!

Well just met the "Governor" Isn't he just a fun filled lollipop tripled dipped in psycho? And Merle….Jewel is already yelling at you!

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Jewel walked out of her room with Summer and glanced at Daryl. "What happened to the lights?" she asked as Jenner passed.

Jenner took the bottle Daryl was holding and took a drink before he handed it back to him as he walked down the hall. "The system shuts up all energy sources it doesn't deem necessary," he explained as everyone walked down the hall. "This process is supposed to start right about an hour before the last half hour, it's right on time."

Jewel looked at Daryl as she followed him. "Process? What process?"

"Decontamination?" Summer asked.

Jenner turned as they entered the control room. "To the best of my knowledge, it was the French," he said.

"What?" Andrea asked.

"To my knowledge they were the ones that lasted the longest. Here everyone opted for escape or suicide, the French continued their research until the end, until we lost communication, until this over took them," Jenner explained.

"What happened to them?" Jacqui asked.

"Exactly what happened here," Jenner answered. "They had more power, more juice. That is our problem. The whole world uses Fossil Fuels, how stupid is that?" he hissed.

Rick looked at the group. "Go grab your bags, we're out of here! Now, let's move it!"

The group runs as an alarm sounds. "What was that?" Luke asked nervously.

"Thirty minutes to decontamination," the computer announced.

"I really wish you'd stop using that word," Summer said as she held onto the boys.

"You heard Rick, let's get out of here now!" Shane yelled.

"Come on let's go, let's go!" T Dog yelled as he took the younger boys hand.

Jewel stopped as the door came down. "He locked us in!"

"NO! You've locked us in?" Glenn questioned.

Jenner looked at the group. "I had thirty minutes of recording time left, I started recording," he said as he nodded to the recording.

"You Son Of A Bitch!" Shane yelled as he ran toward him.

"Shane!" Rick said as he grabbed at his arm.

"You better let us out! You lied to us!" Daryl said as he ran to him.

Jewel grabbed at Summer as she watched the group.

"Jenner open the door," Rick pleaded with him.

"It will change nothing! I can't unlock the outside doors," Jenner informed them.

"But you can unlock these!" Jewel told him. "Summer stay by the door with the boys."

"Unlock it!" Daryl ordered again.

"I have no control over that, I warned you when I closed that door it wasn't going to open again. I made that very clear," Jenner told them.

"We didn't think you meant it like that!" Summer yelled at him.

Rick glanced at the group. "What will happen in 28 minutes?" he asked as Shane moves toward Jenner.

"Shane stop it!" Jewel yelled at him.

"What will happen in 28 minutes?" Rick questioned again as he got more angry.

"You know what this place is," Jenner told them. "The Center of Disease Control is to protect people like you from a whole bunch of things that is dangerous! More deadly then the Atomic bomb! Strains of the Ebola virus, things that are able to destroy half of the country," he informed them. Things that are not to be let out in any circumstances! In the event of a world wide power outage such as a terrorist attack, the protocol provides HIT'S to prevent any of these diseases to spread to the outside," he explained.

"HIT'S?" Rick and Jewel both asked.

"Vi, definition," Jenner ordered the computer.

"HIT arms the thermo baric pressure which consists of explosive charges that produce a wavelength than any other known explosives and duration, with the exception of the nuclear bomb. The detonation results in a two step effect of overpressure and depression from the ambient air, due to its rapid compression. The explosive is used to maximize human and material losses," the computer explained.

"Hell's bells….." Jewel mumbled under her breath as she steadied herself against a chair.

"I knew I didn't like the word decontamination," Summer said as she dropped down to the boys level.

"It's as if the air catches on fire, no pain, no regrets, no trouble, nothing," Jenner said calmly as Shane runs to the door with an ax.

Jewel grabbed another one and handed it to Daryl. "Open that damn door!" Jewel screamed at the doctor.

"You should have stayed out of it, it would have been simpler," Jenner told them.

"Simpler for who?" Lori asked.

"You let us in here knowing what was going to happen. You gave us a false sense of safety…only for this?" Jewel asked.

"It would be simpler for all of you, you all know what waits outside for you. A short and brutalizing death, and an agonizing death," Jenner told them. "Your sister, what was her name?" he asked Andrea.

"Amy," Andrea answered softly.

"Amy," Jenner repeated. "You know what this does, you've seen it," he told her as he looked at Rick. "Is this what you want for your family? And what about you Jewel? For your daughter to go out there and face a week, maybe a month, only to lose you or die in your arms?"

Rick glanced at Jewel then at Lori, Summer and Carl. "Of course we don't want that but we don't want to die in here. We asked for a chance, this isn't a chance!"

"The door doesn't even have a dent!" Shane yelled.

"Those doors are designed to withstand being fired at by rocket launchers," Jenner explained.

"Well your head isn't!" Daryl said as he ran up to him.

"Daryl stop!" Jewel yelled as T Dog grabbed the ax.

"Give me that," T Dog told him.

Jenner looked at Rick. "I know that deep down you really don't want to go back out there and end it like that. Remember what you told me last night? That eventually everyone that you love will die out there," he told him.

Shane looked at him. "You said that? After all your big talk?"

"I had to keep hope alive didn't I?" Rick asked.

"There is no hope, never has been," Jenner told them.

Jewel looked at him. "Without hope then we all give up," she told him.

"She's right, there's always hope there has to be! Maybe not here, but out there somewhere," Rick insisted.

"What part of nothing out there don't you understand?" Andrea asked as she pulled her knees to her.

Summer looked at him. "You're a coward! You let us in here knowing what was going to happen! I think you were afraid to die alone. You saw this as your chance to have company!" she yelled at him.

Jenner gave a small smile. "You are all witnessing our extinction as a human race," he told them.

"My daughter doesn't deserve to die like this!" Carol yelled.

Jenner looked at her. "You do realize there won't be any pain. It's almost instantaneous," he told them.

"Our children do not deserve to die like this!" Jewel yelled.

"But isn't that a good thing? To hold your loved ones tight, until the end?" Jenner asked.

Shane ran at him with a gun. "Open that door!" he yelled.

"Shane stop it!" Jewel yelled.

Rick grabbed his arm and pulled him back. "Shane, don't do anything stupid," he warned. "Calm down," Rick told him.

Shane rushed at the computers with his gun.

"Shane!" Lori yelled.

Jewel pulled her gun and pointed it at Shane. "Do you know how to use those computers Shane? I don't, if he dies we all die," she told him.

Rick nodded. "Put it down Shane," he warned as the other man stepped back. "We good? You good?"

Shane nodded. "I'm good," he said as he took a step back.

Jewel put her gun back and looked at Jenner. "You said there's no hope right?"

"Right," he answered.

"This morning' was the first time I've ever thought about havin' a drink in 13 years, but I stopped myself. You know why? Because of my daughter, my brother, those two little boys, the people in this room. We are tryin' to survive, and you don't have the right to tell us when we die or how we die. If we die out there, we know what we are facing," Jewel told him.

"You stayed, why?" Rick asked.

"It's not important," Jenner answered.

"Oh yes it is," Rick answered. "Everything's important," he told the other man.

Jenner sighed. "I didn't decide, I was doing it for someone else, I made a promise," he told the group. "I made a promise to her, my wife," he told them as he nodded toward the screen.

"Test subject 19 was your wife?" Lori asked.

"She wanted me to continue the search as long as I could, what could I do? I couldn't say no, she was dying. It should have been me in the first place, I wouldn't have been missed by many people," he explained. "It was her that ran the center, I was just an employee," he continued. "In our area she was an Einstein, I was and will always be Edwin Jenner."

"Your wife did not choose to end up like that. You can chose, and we can chose. We have the right to chose. That's all we're asking, to have a choice, a chance to live," Rick told him.

Jewel looked at him. "I wasn't supposed to be here, alive, I was supposed to be at a hospital helping' people. A very good friend of mine called me begged me to survive for my daughter. There was a reason that I've made it this far, and haven't died. This isn't what I promised her, this isn't how I chose to go," she pleaded with him.

Jenner looked at the group. "Fine, but you'll be cursing me for letting you out in a few days," he told the group as he opened the main door. "As I said the doors on the other level can't be opened."

"Summer come on!" Daryl yelled at her as he pushed her and the boys out.

"Thank you…" Jewel told him as she started to run out.

"Come on, let's move!" Shane yelled at them.

Jacqui grabbed T Dog's hand. "I'm stayin'. Go on," she told him.

"What? That's insane!" T Dog told her.

"No it's not, and I've never been so reasonable in my life. I'm not going to go out like Jim or Amy. I'm choosing this," she told him. "Go on," Jacqui insisted.

"T Dog! Come on!" Shane yelled as Jenner grabbed Rick to tell him something.

"Rick!" Jewel yelled.

Andrea stopped at the door. "I'm staying too," she said.

Dale looked at her. "No Andrea," he begged.

"Jewel come on!" Glenn yelled as he pulled her to him.

Dale looked at the group. "Go on, don't wait for me. If you're staying, I'm staying," he told her.

"Dale no!" Summer yelled.

"Summer come on!" Daryl yelled as he pushed her forward.

The remaining members of the group ran to the front of the building as T Dog tried the automatic door opener. "Damn it!"

Daryl grabbed two axes. "Catch!" he told Shane as the two proceeded to beat the glass window's.

"Stay close to me sweet angel," Carol told Sophia.

T Dog tries to throw a chair at it and then Shane tries to shoot it with a rifle. "Shit!" he screamed.

"It won't break?" Sophia asked.

"I may have something' that can help," Carol told the group.

"I don't think a nail file is going to work, Carol," Shane told her.

Carol ignored him as she walked to Rick. "The night I did you laundry when you got to camp, I found this in your pocket," she said as she handed him a grenade.

"Thank you," Rick said as he looked at it.

"I can throw it," Summer said as she looked at Rick.

"What? No, get behind the post with your mother," Rick instructed.

Jewel took a breath as she looked at Summer then at Rick. "She was the pitcher of her high school softball team, she can do it."

Shane looked at them. "That isn't a damn softball!"

"Same principal right?" Summer asked.

Rick glanced at Jewel and saw her nod. "OK, Summer pull the pin and throw it as far and fast as you can. Everyone else get down! As soon as you throw it, you and I are going to jump behind those pillars? OK?"

Daryl covered the boys and Jewel with his body getting prepared for the explosion.

Summer nodded. "Now?" she asked.

"Now," Rick told her as she took the pin out and threw it, him grabbing her arm and pulling her behind the pillars.

"Shit!" Summer yelled as she felt Rick cover her as the windows busted. "It worked!"

"GO! Watch for walkers!" Jewel yelled at them as they jumped out the window.

Glenn jumped in the van. "Summer get in here with the boys!" he yelled as he helped them in.

Daryl grabbed Jewel's arm and pulled her to the truck. "Get in!" he yelled at her.

Jewel looked at the window of the building. "Dale and Andrea are coming!"

"Get down!" Rick yelled from the front of the caravan.

Daryl pushed Jewel down and covered her body right as the explosion happened. "You alright?" he asked.

"Shit….yeah….God I really want a drink," Jewel said as the caravan pulled away, them in the back.

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