Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 16

Author's Note: More followers and more reviews! Yay! I feel loved. Man season 3 is just full of heart wrenching moments aren't they? And I love Daryl with the baby and Carl! I'd love to watch the episode where they escape Woodbury but my heart can't take any more right now! Summer and the books is based off me. I evacuated for a hurricane about 7 years ago and packed a paperback in every pant leg of pants I packed. Plus three in my sons bag, plus three in the car. Had about 15 paperbacks. Yeah…I want my books if the end of the world happens!

Jewel rubbed her arm as she walked up and down a few cars.

"How you doing?" Carol asked as she came up to her.

"Like I want to be out there myself?" Jewel answered.

Carol squeezed her arm. "If it was Sophia, I'd feel the same."

"How's Mitch?" Jewel asked.

"Scared," Carol answered.

Jewel leaned on the barrier. "I know no one thinks highly of Merle…but growin' up it was mostly just the three of us. Well, most of the time it was Daryl and me, but when we needed him, for the most part Merle was there. Daryl and I know 'hats it like to depend on siblings," she explained.

"You stood up to Ed….that day. Why?" Carol asked as she sat beside her.

Jewel gave a small smile. "My dad was an asshole, like Ed. Merle, Daryl and me we all got some kind of beatin's after he'd been drinkin.' That's why Merle left as soon as he could, Daryl and I knew it. Daryl stayed cause of me. When I got pregnant with Summer, Daryl worked two jobs so we could get a place without dad. It was a small little one bedroom apartment….Daryl slept on the couch. He bought a crib from salvation army, put it together, fixed it. He'd be as broke up as I'd be if something' happened to Summer…"

"Nothing's gonna happen to her," Carol assured her. "We're all here. She's family, just like that little boy is."

Jewel looked at her. "They should have been back by now," she said.

"Hey, I'm sure they're on the way now," Carol assured her as she squeezed her hand. "I can stand guard, call ya when they come if you want."

Jewel shook her head. "I wouldn't be able to rest," she answered.

"How about checkin' on T Dog?" Carol suggested.

Jewel smiled. "Are you just tryin' to keep my mind off of Summer?"

"Yes," Carol admitted.

Jewel nodded as she stood. "Let me know if you see something?" she asked.

"Of course," Carol told the other woman as she walked away.

Jewel took a breath as she walked into the RV. "How's he doing?" she asked as came in.

"In and out of sleep, any word?" Andrea asked.

Jewel shook her head. "No," she said. "Look what I said earlier about Merle," she said.

Andrea held up her hand. "I get it, he's your brother, family. You may not always have agreed but he's still blood."

"Amy was a good kid…" Jewel told her. "Summer liked her."

"Amy liked Summer, couldn't believe she was actually related to Merle, you either for that matter," Andrea teased.

"Yeah there's been times that I couldn't believe that I was related to him," Jewel said touching T Dog's head. "Infection is going to set in soon."

"Anything we can do to help him?" Andrea asked.

Jewel started to think as she heard a commotion from outside. "Not another herd…" she mumbled.

"Shane a little help here!" Rick yelled at him.

"She bit?" Shane asked as he helped Summer across the barrier.

"Just clumsy," Summer answered as she winced.

"Luke?" Lori asked.

"Summer!" Jewel asked as she ran to her. "You OK?" she asked as she pulled her into a hug.

"Easy, she fell, twisted her ankle, don't need you knockin' her down," Daryl told her as he helped her to the RV.

"You didn't find Luke?" Carol asked.

"We had to separate, there was more then the two walkers we saw. I went back, he was gone, Daryl met up with me. We found Summer, she said he hadn't passed her. Shane, Glenn, Daryl and I'll go back out," he told them.

"Is someone gonna tell his brother?" Sophia asked.

"We'll handle it, sweet girl," Carol told her as she looked back at the RV.

"You can put her in the bed," Dale instructed as he came down. "You gave us a scare."

"Luke is…" Summer grimaced as Daryl helped her to the back of the RV. "Still out there."

"I told you I was gonna go back out, had to get you back first. She took out four of those bastards herself," Daryl said.

"Told you she was strong," Andrea said.

"We havin' a party in here and no one woke me up?" T Dog said as he sat up from the bench. "Daryl? Did you find them?"

"Summer, sprained her ankle. Goin' back out in a bit before it's to dark," he said as he leaned against the door. "How you feeling?"

"Hurts," he answered as he turned to see how Summer was.

"You need to drink some water, you too," Jewel told T Dog and Summer. "Andrea, in the first aid kit there's an inflatable pillow, give it to me."

"I have to ask, why do you have a hospital grade first aid kit?" T Dog asked.

Jewel, Summer and Daryl looked at each other. "Jane," they all said.

"Jane?" Andrea asked as she handed the pillow to Daryl who blew it up and handed it to Summer.

"Jane was mom's AA counselor, helped her get into nursing' school, our roommate, my sitter," Summer answered as she grimaced.

"Had this fear of the world endin' and not bein' prepared," Daryl said.

Andrea laughed. "Well we all should have had that fear huh?"

"She had this and three other normal kits under her bed…." Jewel explained. "I gave one to the Morales family, combined the rest when we ditched vehicles."

"She's the one that you were talkin' about at the CDC?" Andrea asked.

"Yes," she said as Daryl handed her a wrap for Summer's foot.

"Gonna have to make this tight," Jewel told her daughter.

"I hate when you warn me, that means it's goin to be twice as bad as if I wasn't expectin' it," Summer told her.

"Well, I warned you anyway," Jewel told her as she wrapped it. "You and T Dog are gonna be roommates for a while," she said. "Dale I'm sorry about makin' your home an ambulance."

"It's fine," Dale assured her.

T Dog smiled. "Well at least I like this Dixon and she's not gonna hit me," he teased.

Daryl shook his head. "I'll check on you when I get back, kiddo."

"Find him?" Summer asked.

"I'll do my best you know that," Daryl said.

"I'm going to get these two some water. Andrea?" Jewel asked.

"I'll stay with them," Andrea stated.

"Mom can you bring me my bag? It's in Rick's trunk," Jewel asked.

"Yeah," Jewel answered. "Or do you just want me to bring you one of your books?"

"The one on the back seat?" she asked.

"How many did you bring?" Andrea asked.

"Mom said pack the important stuff, and I hadn't read any of the Harry Potter series, so I packed them," Summer said with a shrug.

"You didn't?" T Dog asked.

"Luckily they are paperbacks," Daryl said as they went out of the RV.

Jewel took a breath and hugged him. "Thank you."

"No thanks needed, she's family. So is this boy," Daryl told her as he hugged her back.

"How is she?" Rick asked.

"Her ankle's gonna be tender for a while. Thank you," Jewel said as she hugged him.

"No need to thank me, we'll get Luke back," Rick told her.

"I told her the same thin' come on we're losin' day light," Daryl fussed as he led them out.

Author's note: I'll be lucky to get another chapter out this week, may squeeze one out. Seasonal's start coming in tomorrow and I get exhausted when I get home. If I get one or two out this week I'm doing good! Please review!