Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 30

Author's Note: Dang Season 4 is emotional and I haven't even got to the crazy governor again. Poor Carol!

Oh Shane, you've got a ticked off fifteen year old to deal with! I'm at 88 reviews, let's make 90!

Summer rocked Mitch back and forth on the ground as she watched Beth run up to one of the dead.

"Ma!" Beth screamed as she tried to go to the dead woman.

"Come on, Bethy," Maggie said as she tried to pull her away.

Summer glared at Shane as he was walking around. She put Sophia's arm around Mitch and got up. She was in a daze and propelled herself at Shane attacking him from the back. "YOU DID THIS! YOU BASTARD!" she screamed as he turned around and grabbed her wrists.

"Calm down girl," Shane warned.

"Calm down? Look at what you did! How….how can you live with yourself? This…this wasn't…the way to…handle it," Summer yelled.

"Summer…come on…" Daryl said as he pulled her away from Shane. "Come on," he said as he walked her back to the little boy.

"I didn't do this, they did this! They put those things in the barn!" Shane yelled.

"Carol…can…" Jewel started to say as she tried to control her anger.

"I've got it. Come on Summer, Sophia help me get them back to camp," the older woman said soothingly.

Summer walked over to Herschel and Maggie. "I am so…I…sorry," she said as she picked up Mitch.

"What was he doing in that barn? Weve been combing these woods looking for him and he was in there all along?" Shane yelled. "You knew," he hissed.

" Leave us alone," Herschel begged.

"Hey, Shane, just stop, man," Rick told him as he went to grab him.

"Get your hands off me," Shane warned.

"I," Herschel started to say.

"You knew and you kept it from us," Shane yelled.

Jewel looked at him. "Shane what if he knew? This isn't your damn property!"

"I didn't know," Herschel repeated.

"That's bullshit, I think y'all knew," Shane accused him.

"We didn't know!" Herschel repeated.

"Why was she there?!" Shane yelled.

" Otis put those people in the barn. Maybe he found her and put her in there before he was killed," Herschel explained.

"You expect me to believe that? Do I look like an idiot?" Shane yelled at him.

"OH you really don't want me to answer that, Shane," Jewel told him.

"Shane, hey hey hey," Rick tried to calm him down.

"I don't care what you believe!" Herschel told him.

" Everybody just calm down," Rick told them.

"Get him off my land!" Herschel yelled at them.

"Please," Rick started to say

"No," Herschel simply said.

"Let me tell you something," Shane yelled as he went over to him.

"Don't touch him! Haven't you done enough?" Maggie told them.

"I mean it. Off my land," Herschel told them.

"What are you doing? Hey, what are you doing? Daryl almost died looking for her, Rick.
Any one of us could have," Shane told them.

Jewel shook her head. "You just can't admit that you were wrong Shane can you?"

"I wasn't!" Shane bellowed.

"Look around Shane, look what YOU did. Rick was handling it, and you just wanted to be in charge. Great job you did there. They weren't out there like we were! They didn't have a chance to see what we saw," Jewel told him.

"He thinks you just murdered his whole family in cold blood," Rick told him.

"I don't care what he thinks," Shane told him.

"I was handling it brother," Rick told the other man.

"You had us out in that damn woods looking for that little boy, that we knew was dead! You had us endangering our lives because of your girlfriends daughter who wanted to believe that he was alive," Shane hissed.

Jewel looked at him. "Hey Shane?" she asked.

"What?" Shane asked as he turned around.

Jewel punched him causing him to fall to the ground. "I've been wanting to do that for a while. I guess my Dixon side is showin," she told him as she walked off and went up to where Daryl was. "How you doin?" she asked.

"How do you think I'm doin?" Daryl hissed at her.

"Hey, don't take this out on me Daryl. I know you were out there everyday, I know you believed we'd find him. So did I," Jewel told him. "Right now I'm worried about Summer and Mitch…that poor baby."

Daryl put his arm around her. "Glad to see you still got a good right hook," he told her. "I'm movin' up away from everyone, I'll take Summer and Mitch with me. You comin?"

"That's what us Dixon's do right? Alienate ourselves, pull away," Jewel asked.

"I can understand if you want to stay….cause of Rick. But I don't want Summer around Shane," Daryl told her.

"Neither do I," Jewel answered. "I want to stay around for a bit down here, but I'm gonna be packin' up a car. Herschel isn't gonna want us around, I don't blame him," she told him. "But we owe them something'…" she said as she walked over to Summer and Mitch. "Hey baby," Jewel said as she bent down and touched his face. "I am so very sorry baby."

Summer looked at her. "I thought…." she whispered.

"I know so did I," Jewel told her as she kissed the top of her head. "I want you to help Uncle Daryl pack up and move further out on the property. I want to hang around down here for a little bit."

Summer nodded. "I want to check on Beth later before we go…"

"Maybe in a little bit," Jewel assured her. "They need a bit of time to calm down," she told her as she kissed the top of her head.

Afternoon:

Jewel walked out of Beth's room. "There's nothing' I can do, it's shock. Lori's sitting with her, and I know Summer will want to. Do you have any idea where Herschel is?" she asked Maggie.

Maggie shook her head she led Rick, Shane, Glenn and her into his bedroom. Jewel looked around at the boxes of things.

"Your step mother things?" Rick asked.

Maggie nodded. "He was so sure she'd recover. They'd just pick up where they left off," she told the group.

Shane picked up a flask and threw it at Rick. "Looks like he found an old friend."

"That belonged to my grandfather, gave it to dad when he died," Maggie told them.

"I didn't take Hershel for a drinker," Rick told her.

Jewel looked at Maggie. "He was a recovering alcoholic wasn't he?"

Maggie nodded. "He gave it up on the day I was born, didn't even allow liquor in the house," she answered.

"Did he have an old favorite drinking hangout?" Jewel asked. "When I was drinkin' it was this small hole in the wall place called Jake's. Didn't even check ID's, they knew Merle, so they'd let me in," she explained.

"Hatlin's, practically lived there in his drinking days," Maggie answered.

"Betting that's where I'll find him," Rick answered.

"I know the place, seen it on runs, I'll go with you," Glenn told him.

"No, draw me a map," Jewel told Glenn. "I think this is something' I'm more capable of handelin' then you Glenn," Jewel told the younger man. "I'll go with you Rick."

Rick nodded. "I'll get the truck," he said as they started to go out the room.

"Glenn can you tell Daryl and Summer where I went?" Jewel questioned.

"Yeah, you sure you don't want me to go along?" Glenn asked.

Jewel shook her head. "We got this."

"Rick? You want to have a conversation about this before you leave?" Shane asked as he followed them out.

"Shane, you want a matching set of black and blue eyes?" Jewel asked.

Shane ignored her. "So you're seriously gonna go after this guy with everything that's going on, huh?" he asked. -

"He's right," Lori said as she joined them in the hall from Beth's room.

"This is not the time to head off, not today," Shane told them.

"And when exactly is the time Shane? Want to go find another barn of his friends and family to shoot down?" Jewel asked. "The man hasn't taken a drink in 22 years, and now he's at a bar. That's on US, Shane. No you know what that's on you, but I can't expect you to know what compassion feels like," she told him.

"I'm not arguing. It's the least I can do for Hershel after.." Rick started to say.

"After we what? After we what? Carl said he would've shot Luke himself. That's your son, he's getting cold," Lori told him. "He's growing up in a world where he needs a father like you Around, alive, not running off, solving everybody else's problems," she said.

Jewel shook her head. "Well this is OUR problem Lori. Your boyfriend there did this, you want to blame someone blame him," she told him. "You need Herschel for this baby, or did you forget that? Even if we had moved to another farm, we could have been close. I may be a nurse, Lori, but I sure the hell never spent enough time in labor and delivery to know what the hell to do during a birth. I think it's probably a bit different from the other side of the table," she said. "You want to blame someone, look right there Lori. He endangered all of us because he's a hot headed simple minded fool. He only has one thing on his mind," Jewel told her.

"I'd watch your mouth," Shane warned her.

"Shane back off," Rick warned.

"He only wants to prove he's better then Rick, and he just put us all in danger because of it. I don't care where we go after this, but I aint going where he goes, neither is Summer. Daryl goes where I go, and Dale already said he wasn't going to go with him. Glenn is so in love with Maggie that he's sure the hell isn't going to go anywhere with him. He's tearing this group apart Lori. He tore a good man down, Lori, he sent him back to drinking. There's a teenage girl that's a year older than my daughter in shock because of what happened out there today. He's not even takin' responsibility for it Lori, he'd do it again. That's what makes him dangerous," Jewel warned her. "I'm going after Herschel, even if I have to go alone. It's the only decent thing to do. There wasn't a whole lot of decency going on today," Jewel told him.

Rick put his hand on Jewel's back. "You aren't going alone, you are right, it's the only decent thing to do."