Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 29

Author's Note: Fifty Eight Followers! Thirty One People have made this a favorite! And eight six reviews. I love YOU all! I never thought I would get such response when I started this, being a new watcher of The Walking Dead. I didn't realize people had strong opinions on Lori and wanted Rick to get some love too! YAY!

OH MY GOD. Season 4 is tearing out my heart, and soul, and every other thing that can be pulled out and I'm only on episode 4. I feel SOOOOOOOOO bad for Tyreese. And it's giving me very mean ideas, bad ideas, terrible painful (yet good) ideas. Anyway walkers' in a barn anyone? Review please.

Jewel looked at Glenn then back up at Maggie. "She's pissed at you huh?"

"I think that's the understatement of the decade," Glenn told her. "You're a woman," he started to say.

Jewel tried not to laugh. "Really? What gave it away?" she asked. "Glenn, if you are going to ask me about relationship advice, don't. Please, because I try to sabotage my own relationships, and I'm not about to tell someone else how to proceed in there's."

"But you and Rick seem to be doin' OK," Glenn told her.

Jewel smiled. "I tried to give Rick back to Lori," she told him.

Glenn looked at her and his mouth dropped. "Seriously?"

"Seriously," Jewel answered.

"You are bad at this," Glenn told her.

"Yeah, I am," Jewel admitted. "Look, you did what you thought you had to do. Sometime's the right thing isn't the easiest. We've been out there, Maggie hasn't. I'm not telling' you what to tell her, what to say, because that's not up to me. But you're a good guy, Glenn. And, I know Maggie sees that. You just may have to give it a bit of time," she told him.

"Maybe if we didn't have Walker's trying to kill us at every turn, then we could all afford the extra time," Glenn told her. "So what about you and Rick?"

"What about us?" Jewel asked.

"Why are you tryin' to sabotage it? You like him, he likes you. Simple right? I mean this isn't about him handcuffin' Merle to the roof is it?" Glenn asked.

Jewel laughed. "Oh please, God no," she answered. "It's just different when you've always taken care of yourself and you have a kid. You try to protect yourself, or think you are protectin' yourself, but sometimes you wind up not seein' what's right in front of your face," she told him. "I know that Jane's up there laughing her but off at me for letting' my guard down just a little."

Glenn shook his head. "We make a poor pair of lovesick people don't we?"

Jewel laughed. "Aint that the truth?"

"Mom!" Summer called from the camp. "Trouble in the name of Shane."

Jewel shook her head. "Now what?" she asked as she walked up. "Shane, what the hell are you doing? Why do you have the guns?"

"Takin' care of us, that's what," Shane said as he held out a gun to Daryl. "You with me?"

"Yeah," Daryl told him as he took the gun.

"I thought we couldn't carry?" T asked as he took the gun.

"Look, it was one thing sitting around here picking daisies when we thought this place was supposed to be safe. But now we know it ain't," Shane told the group.

"Shane, just put it down. Come on," Jewel told him as he held out a gun to her. "You gonna protect your daughter?"

"The walkers' aren't who I'm worried about protectin' my daughter from right now," Jewel said as she stepped back. "I'm not doin' this," she told him.

"What about you Summer? You gonna let your mom's decision's affect your safety?" Shane asked. "At least your Uncle has your interest in mind."

"Shane, you're walkin' on thin ice," Daryl told him.

"Go to Hell," Summer told him as she stepped back.

Jewel gave a small smile as she looked at him. "Don't do this Shane," she begged.

"You got yours?" Shane asked Andrea.

"Yeah," Andrea answered.

Shane looked at Glenn. "How about you, man? You gonna protect yours?" he asked as Glenn took the gun. "That's it," he told him. "What about you can you shoot?" he asked Maggie.

"Would you stop this? You do this, hand out these gun's my dad is gonna make you leave tonight," Maggie told him.

"We can't leave Shane," Carl told him.

"What is this? We ain't going anywhere, okay? Now look, Hershel, he's just gotta understand. Okay? He- Well, he's gonna have to," Shane told the young boy.

"In what fantasy world do you think that he is gonna understand this? That he is gonna understand you goin' against his wishes?" Lori asked.

"Thank God, another voice of sanity," Jewel said.

Shane bent down toward Carl. "Now we need to find Luke Am I right? Huh? Now I want you to take this. You take it, Carl, and you keep your mother safe," he told him.

"This is not your call, it's not your decision to make," Dale told him as he joined the group.

"What is Rick doing?" Sophia asked as she pointed to him, Herschel and Jimmy coming up with two walkers having them in front of them.

"Hell's bell's," Jewel mumbled as she turned.

"What is that? What is that?" Shane yelled.

"Shane! What the hell are you doing?" Rick asked.

"Shane, just back off," Lori begged.

"Why do your people have guns?" Herschel asked.

"Not all of us are going along with wackadoodle over there," Summer said as she glanced at Shane.

"Under normal circumstances, I'd fuss at you. But in this case I agree with you," Jewel told her daughter.

"Are you kidding me? You see? You see what they're holding onto?" Shane asked.

"I see who I'm holding onto!" Herschel told him.

"Shane, just let us do this and then we can talk," he told the other man as he held out the walker in front of him.

"What you want to talk about, Rick? These things ain't sick, they're not people. They're dead. Ain't gonna feel nothing for them 'cause all they do, they kill! These things right here, they're the things that killed Amy. They killed Otis. They're gonna kill all of us," Shane told them.

"Right now Shane you're endangering us!" Jewel told him.

"Shane, shut up!" Rick told him.

"Hey, Hershel man, let me ask you something," Shane said as he held up his gun.

"Shane!" Summer yelled as she looked at Beth. "Come on don't do this."

"Could a living breathing person, could they walk away from this?" Shane asked as he shot three rounds in the chest of the walker.

"No!" Rick yelled.

"Stop it!" Herschel begged.

"That's three rounds in the chest," Shane told him as the walker kept coming. "Could someone who's alive, could they just take that?! Why is it still coming? That's its heart, its lungs," he told them as he shot it again. "Why is it still coming?" he asked.

"Shane, enough," Rick told the other man.

"Yeah, you're right, man. That is enough," he said as he walked up to the walker and shot it in the head. "Enough risking our lives for a little boy who's gone! Enough living next to a barn full of things that are trying to kill us. Enough."

Herschel went down to his knees obviously hurt.

"Rick, it ain't like it was before! Now if y'all want to live, if you want to survive, you got to fight for it! I'm talking about fighting right here, right now!" Shane told them as he went to the barn with the bolt cutters.

"Shane!" Jewel yelled.

"Take the snare pole. Hershel, take the snare pole. Hershel, listen to me, man, please. Take it now. Hershel! Take it!" Rick begged. "No, Shane. Do not do this, brother!" he begged as Jewel took the snare pole jumping slightly as Shane shot the walker it crumpling to the ground.

"Wait! Don't do it!" Rick begged as Shane cut the lock on the barn door.

"This is not the way! Please! Get behind me," Rick told Carl as the walkers came forward.

"Come on," Shane told the group.

"Maggie," Glenn said as he looked at her.

"It's okay, go on!" Maggie told him.

Jewel took a breath as she watched the people Herschel and his family being gunned down and closed her eyes. "God help us all…" she mumbled to herself.

The group took in the carnage and it got eerily quiet as they heard one more moan from the barn as they all turned there attention to it. Shane and the group readying there guns for one final shot.

"LUKE!" Mitch screamed as he started to run forward.

Summer grabbed him. "No…baby….no…." she comforted the small boy as his brother came into view as a walker.

"Don't look…." Lori told Carl as Sophia ran to help comfort the little boy.

Jewel stood paralyzed as she watched the little boy come toward them, no one lifting there weapons toward him. She took a breath as she watched Rick go up and lift his gun.

"Don't look sweetie, please," Summer said as she held the boys face to her, tears in her eyes.

Jewel flinched as she heard the gun shot from Rick's gun and the moaning stop. The only sound to be heard was Mitch's soft cries into Summer's shirt.

Holy crap that was emotional to write!