Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 28

Author's Note: Almost 10 reviews today! Blown away! I'm not promising a whole lot of updating for the week after Tuesday night. Work insanity. I had a 4 day weekend this weekend. I'm about ready to start Season 4. Can't wait!
Seriously why didn't anyone mention checking other farms? I mean Herschel made it clear that he expected them gone! Ah Jewel has to be somewhat voice of reason…but then Shane is gonna be an ass.

The group sat around the camp as Glenn came up. "Um guys the barn is full of walker's," he told them as he cast a glance up at Maggie.

Jewel turned. "I'm sorry?"

"The barn…it's full of walker's," Glenn repeated as Shane and other's started running toward the barn.

"Summer stay with Mitch!" Jewel yelled as she started running down with them.

"Sofia, Carl stay here," Carol told the other kids as she ran toward them.

Shane looked in the barn only to be met with an eye as he moved backwards. "You cannot tell me you're all right with this," he told Rick

"No I'm not, but we're guests here. This isn't our land," Rick told him.

"This is our lives!" Shane yelled as the walkers started to be drawn to the noise.

"Shane, not so loud please?" Jewel asked.

"We can't just sweep this under the rug, it ain't right. Not remotely," Shane hissed at him.

"It's not our land, Shane. Why don't we go scout some of the other farms?" Jewel suggested.

"That's not a bad idea, can't be the only one around here," Dale agreed with her.

"No, we're here," Shane told them. "Okay, we've either got to go in there, we've got to make things right or we've just got to go. Now we have been talking about Fort Benning for a long time," Shane told them.

"We can't go," Rick told him.

"Why, Rick?" Shane demanded.

"Why? Because a little boy is still out there," Carol told them.

"Okay, Okay, I think it's time that we all start to just consider the other possibility," Shane told the group.

"We're not leaving Luke behind," Jewel told him. "Just not happenin'. If you're so fast on goin' Shane, why don't you find a car and go," she told him. "I'm pretty handy in fixin' cars if you aren't up to the task."

Shane glared at her. "Rick you want to keep your girlfriend under control?" he hissed.

"Shane," Lori told him.

"How about you keep it under control before I punch your lights out?" Jewel warned him.

Daryl grabbed her arm. "I really don't want to waste medical supplies in bandaging' your hand from punching this douche bag out," Daryl warned. "I'm close to finding that boy, I found his play sword two days ago and we aint leavin."

"You found a sword, a fake toy sword, Daryl, that's all," Shane told him.

"You don't know what the hell you are talkin' about," Daryl told him.

"I'm just saying what needs to be said," Shane told him.

"Why are you the only one sayin' it then?" Jewel questioned.

"You get a good lead, it's in the first Let me tell you something else, man. If she was alive out there and saw you coming all method out with your buck knife and geek ears around your neck, she would run in the other direction," Shane told him as he got closer to him.

"Back off!" Daryl told him. "Keep your hands off me."

Rick pushed the two men apart. "Now just let me talk to Hershel. Let me figure it out," Rick told Shane.

"What are you gonna figure out?!" Shane yelled at him.

Rick sighed. "If we're gonna stay, if we're gonna clear this barn, I have to talk him into it.
This is his land," he told them.

"Does anyone know why he's got a barn full of walkers in the first place?" Jewel questioned.

Dale nodded. "Hershel sees those things in there as people- sick people- his wife, his stepson," he told the group.

Shane looked at him. "You knew?"

"Yesterday I talked to Hershel," the older man admitted.

"And you waited the night?" Shane asked him.

"I thought we could survive one more night, and we did. I was waiting till this morning to say something, but Glenn wanted to be the one to tell you all," Dale reasoned.

"Beth thinks they are sick too," Summer said as she approached the group.

"You knew too?" Shane asked.

"Back off Shane," Jewel warned as her hand went to her knife. "Summer?"

"I didn't know, not that they were in the barn. Beth and I were talking a few days ago, the day after we got here, and she mentioned something' about them bein' sick and how when they find a cure, everythin' will be back to normal. I seriously didn't think they'd be keeping' a barn full of walkers'," Summer told them.

"I wouldn't have either," Glenn told them.

"The man is crazy, Rick, if Hershel thinks those things are alive or no," Shane insisted.

"We can stand around here all day, or we can start makin' a plan if he asks us to leave," Jewel said.

"I can see if they have a map of the other farms," T Dog told her.

"They probably already know which ones they cleared," Jewel said as she walked away. She grabbed Lori's arm softly. "You need to calm him down. Now," she warned as she walked away.

Afternoon:

Jewel looked up from the map of the area as Rick came out of the house. "Keep markin' off the spots that Beth gave you," she told Summer as she caught up with him. "I don't even have to ask how it went."

"Not good, how's the map comin'?" Rick asked as he kissed her.

"Summer got some of the other farms' they cleared out from Beth, she didn't know them all," Jewel told him as she saw Shane coming up. "Great."

"What's it gonna be, man? Which way does this thing go?" Shane asked as he came up to them.

"I don't know yet," Rick told him.

"Well, what did he say?" Shane demanded.

"Shane back off," Jewel told him.

"We're negotiating," Rick told him.

Shane looked at him. "You're nego- Clock's ticking, Rick"

"Shane, stop being melodramatic," Jewel told him. "The barn is secure, and we didn't even know about it til this morning."

"Jewel's right, Shane. We've managed this far. Jewel is crossin' out the farms that's been burnt out, I'm talkin' with Hershel, you just need to calm down," Rick told his friend.

"Well, we know about it now. Right? We know there's over a dozen walkers in there.
We know that it's about a stone's throw from our camp, Rick- where we sleep.
So look, if we're not gonna go in there and clear it out then we just got to go," Shane told him.

Jewel glared at him. "We're workin' on the goin' part Shane," she told him.

"We're not gonna clear it out and we're not gonna go, not yet," Rick told Shane.

"Lori's pregnant. With my child, did you know that Rick? So you can say that Carl is YOUR son all you want, and that you're protectin' him, well I'm protecting what's mine Rick," Shane goaded him.

Jewel took a breath as she grabbed Rick's arm. "How the hell were you ever a cop Shane?" she asked. "Shane just cool it," she told him as she walked away with Rick. "Don't you let him goad you. Not like this."

"He isn't the same person…" Rick said as he walked with her.

"Some people can't handle the stress, they break. Got another pair of handcuffs? I can find a pipe to secure him too," Jewel teased as they walked away from the camp. "It's not gonna be easy, but somehow you are gonna have to make this work. You know…if we were back in the real world, this would be the perfect excuse for me to leave you. But considerin' this isn't, and I did try to offer you back to your almost ex wife the other day, I guess I do owe you one get out of jeopardizing relationship card," she teased as she kissed him.

Rick laughed. "Well thanks," he said as he touched her face. "You always gonna be my voice of reason?"

Jewel laughed. "Um my last name is Dixon, so I'm seriously not promising' that. I've learned to control the temper, but it comes out," she told him.

Rick grinned. "It's kinda sexy," he told her as he kissed her.

Next chapter is the barn!