Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 43

Author's Note: I won't promise the updates will be fast and furious, work is really beginning to get insane. So, I'm trying to do what I can now. And when you wake up at 4AM an episode of the Walking Dead then writing is a good thing. Poor Daryl! I'm glad that Beth got him to burn down the building.

I'm not good at writing love scenes, but this is more about comfort, love, companionship then sex, so the actual act is implied but the smut's not. This is why this has an M rating people! So I hope it's alright!

I'm on the Emergency Response team at work for Hurricanes. We are taught always to keep a bag in our car in case we have to move to another area or state to help out.

Jewel had been quiet the whole way to the shed. She had leaned against Rick's shoulder as he drove, his hand around her waist the whole time. "Wait here, I'll make sure the building's clear," Rick told her as he kissed the top of her head.

Jewel shook her head as she got out of the car. "We don't do things alone…we can't," she said as she grabbed her bag.

Rick nodded as he cautiously opened the door. He knew that Maggie and Glenn came up here, but they couldn't be to careful, especially after what just happened. It was a simple one room shed, with a bed and candles. "Clear."

Jewel took out matches and started to light a couple of candles. She turned and watched Rick take off his gun belt. She could see the defeat in his shoulders, just the way she felt it. She took a breath as she walked the short distance to him. "Rick…." she said.

Rick turned at the sound of her voice, and took her face into his hands. He kissed her, gently at first, but both needed more, wanted more. Both kept there eyes open, both needing to see each other. They needed to be out of this world, the world where the dead came back to life with one intention, to make you a snack. They needed to be reminded what it was alike to be alive.

Jewel was the first one to make her body move. She wanted to be pressed against him, to feel him breath, to feel him need her. She continued to kiss him as she unbuttoned his shirt.

Rick broke the kiss, not that he wanted to but he needed to breath. He kept his head on hers as he lifted her shirt over her head. "Are you sure?" he asked softly as she pulled his shirt off and let it fall to the floor.

"Never been so sure about anything before in my life," Jewel answered as she lifted her arms. "I need you…." she answered in an almost pleading voice.

That was all Rick needed to hear as he picked her up and placed her on the bed in a sitting position. He continued to kiss her as he took off her bra and threw it to the floor. He ran his fingers over them, as he kept his gaze on her. He heard her give a small whimper as he hands explored her.

Jewel kept her eyes on him, afraid if she looked away for a moment he'd be gone, a figment of her imagination. She reached her hands up to his belt and took it off and threw it on the floor. She tried to think about the last time she wanted a man, needed someone so bad, and she couldn't think of one other occasion. She undid the zipper of his pants and unbuttoned them. She watched him as he took them off, and then slipped off his underwear.

Rick had to laugh as he felt Jewel pull him down on the bed as he had barley got naked. "One of us is totally overdressed," he breathed heavily as he kissed her and moving to her chest.

Jewel moaned as she ran her hands down his back. "Guess you're going to need to take care of that," she told him.

Rick looked at her. "How long has it been?" he asked as he kissed her stomach.

"Since I wanted someone so badly? Or since I've had sex?" Jewel asked as he kissed her stomach.

"Both," he said as he found the button of her jeans.

"Never wanted or needed someone so badly," Jewel answered as she lifted her hips so he could take her jeans and underwear off her. "And…sex? Five…maybe six years?"

Rick looked up at her. He figured it had been a while, but he wasn't expecting that big of a gap. "Guess I'm going to have to make it good?" he asked with a chuckle.

Jewel couldn't help but laugh. Rick always had this way to make her let her guard down, even in tense situations. "I'm counting on it," she said as she sat up to kiss him.

"I see that mysterious tattoo that's been haunting my dreams about what it is," Rick said as he took off her pants. He kissed the left thigh, where a devil was. "Devil?" he asked curiously.

"Devil with angel wings…" Jewel said as she brought him up to her. She reached down allowing herself to feel him. "We all got them, Merle, Daryl and me, together when I was 18. But I really don't want to talk about my brothers right now," she said as she kissed him.

"Agreed," Rick said breathlessly as she explored.

"I want…to be on top," Jewel demanded as she reached for her bag to get the condoms. Jewel tensed as she felt Rick's fingers trace down her scars on her back.

"I didn't realize they were that bad," Rick said as he kissed down her back.

"Usually keep my shirt on durin' sex for that reason, but like I said before after you have a kid at 15, embarrassment goes out the window," Jewel said as she pulled one out of the box.

Rick kissed her shoulder. "You are beautiful, scars and all," he told her as he rolled her on top. "You said something' about being on top?" he asked as he kissed her.

-After-

Jewel let out a satisfied sound as she laid her head on Rick's chest. She looked at his watch for the time. In three hours, they had used two of the condoms with a break in between.

"You checkin' to see how long until I can recover and make love to you again?" Rick teased as he ran his hand down her back as he held her.

Jewel laughed. "Well we do have ten more condoms in the box," she teased as she kissed him. "But, I guess we should rest," she said as she kissed his chest. "You know I'm expectin' you to be gone in the morning' when I wake up…that's what usually happens after I've had sex."

"Well first, what we did was definitely more then sex, it was making love, and secondly, you know where to find me, and you'd track me down," he teased as he kissed her. "I don't think I've ever felt this way, even with Lori. My body felt like it was on fire, like it wasn't complete without you."

"Mine too," Jewel said as she touched his face. "That beard sure does tickle," she said as she laughed.

"What you did….for Dale….thank you," Rick told her as he kissed her again.

Jewel laid on her back and ran a hand through her hair. "I couldn't let you do it. You had already…I mean with Luke, and I couldn't let you do it again. You don't need to be carryin' the load all by yourself. We aren't going to survive that way," she admitted. "It's getting cooler…" she said.

Rick got up and pulled a blanket out of his bag and brought it over. "Come here," he instructed as he laid back down and held out his arms. When she came closer, he put the blanket around both of them. "We'll have to bury him tomorrow."

Jewel nodded. "I swear if Shane says anything…even if he opens his mouth…." she said as she wrapped her hands around his waist.

"After what you and Summer did today? I think he'd be wise to stay ten feet away from you," Rick said as he kissed her. "I wanted to take you right then when I saw you take Shane down."

Jewel chuckled into his shoulder. "Tomorrow, whatever you decide to do with Randal, you can't take Shane, or if you do, you can't go alone with him again."

"Think Daryl would go with me?" Rick asked as he ran his hand down her back.

"Yeah, but you might get a lecture," Jewel warned with a grin.

Rick laughed. "Oh God can you imagine what Merle would say? What he would do?"

Jewel laughed. "Um Rick, if Merle was around, Shane wouldn't be the only one I'd have to worry bout killin' you. Lucky you handcuffed him to a roof," she teased him. "I want everyone to pack a bag, put them in the cars."

Rick looked at her. "What you thinking?"

"Where there's one walker, there's always more. If we get a herd up here, we may not have the time to gather weapons, supplies, clothes. The Cherokee, the motor cycle, and Maggie's car. Those are the three we should always have access too. If a herd does come…using the truck and the RV…to slow them down is the best way to do it. You and Summer found a lot of gas, Maggie and Glenn took a run up there brought some more gas cans. We need to make sure they are all topped off at all times. Found some warm clothing, going to need to find more. Especially for the kids. Herschel, Beth, Jimmy, Patricia and Maggie also need to have bags in the cars. Also got to decide on a meetin' place if we get separated," Jewel told him.

"You always do think two steps ahead huh?" Rick asked as he kissed her.

"I try. The highway, everyone knows where it is," Jewel said.

Rick kissed her. "You tell everyone tomorrow, I'll put this in your hands. But right now, I'm ready to use another one of those condoms…" he said as he kissed her again.