Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 42

Author's Note: So if anyone of you know how to combine pictures, please PM me. I've spent 45% of my day trying to put a picture of Merle, Jewel and Daryl together and it keeps cutting one off. GRR. Anyway, I'm going to skip the big argument in the living room about what to do with Randal, cause Jewel's made her feeling's clear. Thank you to Eringoesrawr for the idea about Summer drop kicking Shane the way Merle taught her.

And get hankie's, poor poor Dale!

Jewel kissed Rick as he started up to the house. "Good luck," she told him.

"I'm going to need it," Rick said.

"You aren't coming?" Shane asked as he turned to her.

"Shane," Lori said. "Let's not start something this morning."

"No, I want to know, are you coming or not?" Shane asked Jewel.

"No, I'm not. I already told Daryl and Rick where I stand and I'm not going to listen to you make a case for killing someone," Jewel answered honestly.

Shane took a step forward. "You know why is it that you get that you are the first one to open your mouth against something or for something, but when the shit gets deep, you're the first one not to do anything?"

"Shane, stop it," Rick warned him.

"No Rick, I'm not going to stop it. Your girlfriend has a big mouth but when it comes right down to it, she's all talk no action," Shane said. "She didn't take a gun at the barn and she's not taking a part of this conversation and I want to know why."

Jewel gave Rick a look before punching Shane and getting him to the ground, placing her knee right where it would do the most damage. "Shane, now that I got your attention, let me tell you this. I'll even talk slow so you'll understand it."

Daryl walked over to Rick. "I wouldn't interfere, she'll just punch you too," he warned.

"Oh I wasn't planning on it," Rick assured him.

Shane tried to get up, it only causing her knee to press harder. "If you want to protect your baby maker, I'd stay put. I will do anything to protect my family, Shane. ANYTHING. I will protect them against anyone that I think is a danger. YOU put us all in danger with the barn, I didn't take a gun to do it because I would have shot you. So you better thank your lucky stars that I didn't because you wouldn't be alive to be having this conversation right now. And now? You want to know why I'm not going up to the house? You've already made up your damn mind, Shane. You've already convinced most of this group that it's the right thing to do. I don't agree. If anything Shane, you'd be the one that I'd kill before Randal," she warned him. "SO, I am going to go on top of the RV and I'm going to watch for walkers. As I said, Rick and Daryl know my vote," she said. "Now, I've already punched you twice, Dick Head, I don't waste a third punch, it'll be a knife right between you eyes," she told him.

"You threatening me? You all heard her," Shane said.

Jewel smirked. "Oh it's not a threat, it's a promise," she said as she kneed him hard. "And a Dixon don't break promises," she said as she got up and he balled up. "Just so you know, I would have left you on the damn bus," Jewel told him as she walked away.

Summer watched Shane get up and lunge forward. "MOM!" Summer yelled as a warning before running up behind him and rushing him tackling him to the ground. "Didn't anyone ever tell you not to hit a woman Jackass?"

Daryl and Rick both turned at the sound of Summer yelling mom and saw the young blond kicking him . Daryl looked at Shane. "Got your ass kicked by two Dixon women in less than five minutes, that's a record. Learned that from Uncle Merle?" he asked as he held out his hand to her and helped her up.

"Yep!" Summer said as she grinned.

Jewel kissed the top of her head. "Thank you. You can go to the meeting if you want. You're an adult. I'll be on the RV."

Glenn blinked at her as Maggie grinned from the porch. "Don't grin!" Glenn exclaimed.

Maggie continued to grin. "Oh come on that's like the best!"

"No, no, as a man, I have to feel for Shane's pain. Yeah he might have deserved it, but Oww. It hurts just thinking about it," Glenn told her. "Just…don't get any ideas."

Maggie grinned. "I have a feeling we're not going to use our hiding spot tonight."

"You told her about our spot?" Glenn asked.

"Yeah, and gave her a box of condoms. And the way Rick is looking at her right now, he definitely wants to use them," Maggie said. "We should be getting inside."

That Night:

Jewel watched as Carl ran up to the house and Rick came out of the barn. She got up from the picnic table. "What happened?" she asked him.

"Carl…he told me to do it, so cold…I couldn't," Rick said.

Jewel kissed him. "Hey…you're not weak, alright? We want to protect our kids…especially out here. What's going to happen now?"

"We'll keep him in custody now. Where's Dale? I want to tell him," Rick said as he kissed her.

"He went out to patrol. You want to go talk with Lori and Carl? I can go tell him," Jewel offered.

"Shane's telling' Lori," Rick told her. "Walk with me?"

Jewel nodded. "It's alright," she told him as she heard a scream. "That's…"

"Dale," Rick said as they both started out in a run.

Jewel took out her knife and threw it at the walker. "DALE!"

"HELP! HERSCHEL!" Rick called as they bent down. "Hang in there Dale. We need Herschel to operate! HELP!"

Jewel looked at Herschel as tears ran down her face. "Rick….he's…" she started to say. She couldn't make herself say it. "Hey Dale, look at me, come on. You are loved…you aren't alone. We're all right here," she told him as she wiped her eyes.

"He needs blood!" Rick said as Herschel and everyone ran down.

"Oh God no Dale!" Summer screamed as she got close.

"He's not going to make it, Rick, we can't move him," Herschel told the other man.

"Can't we do the operation here?" Rick asked. "Glenn go back to the house…"

"Rick…he's not going to survive….he…won't survive," Jewel said as she looked at Dale.

"He's suffering! Do something!" Andrea begged.

Jewel took a breath and kissed his forehead. "Tell Jane that I finally listened…." she whispered as she stood up.

"Do something please!" Summer begged as she cried into Daryl's shirt.

Rick held up his gun and hesitated. Jewel took it out of his hand. "Sorry brother…." she said as she fired and handed it back to him without a word. She turned around and walked away from the group and leaned back on the RV and started crying.

"You running away again?" Jane asked.

"Jane…" Jewel said as she looked in the direction of the voice.

"You're crying for me, for Dale, for Merle, for that little boy," Jane told her.

Jewel wiped her eyes. "Yeah….you know us emotionless Dixon's. We don't show weakness."

"Hell girl, this world would make the sane person go insane. But you can mourn the dead, or you can chose to live. You and Rick need each other, tonight. Away from everyone," Jane told her. "You can't do this alone, not tonight."

"Jewel?" Rick asked as he came up.

"Rick…" Jewel cried into his shoulder. "Would…it be wrong if I just wanted to disappear tonight? Just us? I can't…be around everyone."

"Grab your bag, I'll tell Daryl, Summer and Maggie," he said as he kissed her.

Author's note: Yes I've been planning the next chapter since I started! Smut warning for next chapter!