Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 48

Author's Note: Woke up at 4 am again (actually 3:45) and debated on staying in bed til 5:45 when the alarm would have went off, or watching an episode of the Walking Dead, or kill Shane. Guess which one I picked! Review please.

"The worst kinds of enemies are those who pretend to be your friends. Author Unknown."

Jewel looked over as Glenn kept laughing at Summer as they moved things into the car picked up. "Alright, what's so funny?" she asked.

"Nothin', not a darn thing," Summer said as she glared at him.

"It was kinda funny," Maggie agreed.

"No it wasn't, not at all!" Summer said as she got aggravated.

"Oh, this has to be good, what happened?" Carl asked.

Summer sighed. "Fine. We cleared out a garage, I found a box marked blankets….I yelled jackpot and opened the box and a kid walker popped out of the box."

"Walker in a box, get it?" Glenn asked laughing again.

Rick, Daryl and Carol all looked at her. "I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time, Summer but it is kind of funny now," Carol said as she tried not to laugh.

"No, not in the least. Who the hell puts a walker in a box and covers it with blankets?" Summer asked.

"Summer Grace language," Jewel warned.

"Were you scared?" Mitch asked concerned.

Glenn grinned. "Oh she jumped back. Far. And then she became ramboina on it and made the world safe!"

"It is kind of funny," Carl answered.

"Mom! You are so not laughin' at me. My own mother?" Summer asked.

Jewel had buried her head in Rick's shoulder and was chuckling. "I'm…I'm sorry and I'm sure it was scary at the time, and I'm glad you're alright….but…"

"But the image of a walker jumping out of a box with blankets going everywhere, it's just funny," Daryl said as he kissed the top of her head. "We love you."

"Not feelin' it, really not feelin' it," Summer told them. "Come on Mitch, let's see what other stuff we can find. Sophia! Come help."

Maggie looked up. "Rick…" she said as she pointed to where a figure was coming out of the woods.

"Here it comes," Jewel said as she saw Shane.

"Rick! Rick!" Shane yelled as he ran up.

"What happened?" Rick asked as he went up to the other man.

"He's armed! He's got my gun!" Shane exclaimed.

"Are you okay?" Rick asked.

"I'm fine. Little bastard just snuck up on me," Shane told them. "He clocked me in the face," he explained.

Rick looked at Daryl and Jewel and gave a slight nod. "All right, Hershel, T-Dog, get everybody back in the house," Rick ordered. "Glenn, Daryl, come with us," he said.

"T, I'm gonna need that gun," Shane said.

"Just let him go," Lori said. That was the plan, wasn't it, to just let him go?"

"The plan was to cut him loose far away from here, not on our front step with a gun," Jewel said.

"Don't go out there," Lori begged.

"Ya'll know what can happen," Maggie said.

"Get everybody back in the house," Jewel told them.

"Lock all the doors and stay put!" Rick ordered.

" Let's go, back in the house," T Dog said.

Jewel turned around and bent down and put a knife in her boot then turned back to the group. "I'm going too, another set of eyes can't hurt," she said.

"Should stay, help with everyone," Shane said.

"I am helping with everyone," Jewel told him.

"I saw him head up through the trees that way before I blacked out," Shane explained. "I'm not sure how long," Shane told them. He couldn't have gotten far. He's hobbled, exhausted," he told them.

"And armed," Rick pointed out.

"So are we," Shane told them.

"Can you track him?" Rick asked Jewel and Daryl.

" No, I don't see nothing," Daryl answered.

"You sure you went this way Shane? I mean it looks like you got hit pretty hard, sometimes that makes your sense of what really happened blurry," Jewel suggested.

"I'm not disoriented. Hey, look, there ain't no use in tracking him, okay? He went that way," Shane nodded in a direction. We need to pair up. We spread out, we just chase him down," Shane told him. "Jewel you're the odd man..I mean woman out, you should just go on back."

"Nah, I'm good," Jewel told him. "You and Rick can't track, I can. Daryl and Glenn go search in one direction we go in the other one," she told him.

"Kid weighs a buck-25 soaking wet," Daryl said. You trying to tell us he got the jump on you?" he asked.

" I say a rock pretty much evens those odds, wouldn't you? Plus, your niece got the jump on me and she weighs a lot less then this kid," Shane pointed out.

"Alright, knock it off," Rick warned. "You and Glenn start heading up the right flank.
Me, Jewel and Shane'll take the left," he ordered as he shared a glance with Jewel. "Remember, Randall's not the only threat out there," he reminded them.

"Keep an eye out for each other," Jewel added. She looked at Shane's face. "You alright? It looks like it's busted pretty bad."

"She's right, it does look pretty bad," Rick told him.

"It's fine," Shane told them.

"Does this way feel right?" Rick asked as Jewel bent down and looked for tracks.

"Right as any," Shane told him.

"He snatched your gun huh?" Jewel asked as she exchanged a glance with Rick.

Shane nodded. "Yeah. It's my favorite piece too. Gonna wish he'd- Wish he'd killed me when I find his sorry ass," he told them.

Rick looked at him. "How's that possible? You say he got you with a rock?"

"That's what I said," Rick said as he motioned for Jewel to get beside him.

"Inside the shed?" Jewel asked. "'Cause that door was shut when T-Dog and I got there," she said.

"I saw that too. Must've slipped through the rafters in the roof," Shane told them.

"So this is where you planned to do it?" Rick asked as he turned around and looked at Shane.

"It's a good place as any," Shane told him.

"At least have the balls to call this what it is- Murder," Rick told him.

"And, what's the plan for me Shane? You going to kill me too?" Jewel asked.

"You just wouldn't let him go off alone with me, so sorry Jewel. But don't worry, we'll have a little fun before I kill you," Shane said. "Throw down your weapons," Shane instructed.

"You are a piece of shit," Jewel told him as she threw her gun down and her knives as she glanced at Rick.

"Surprised that you did it with out a fight, maybe you are more sensible then I give you credit for," Shane told her.

"You really believe if you walk back onto that farm alone- - No me, no Randall No Jewel," Rick started to say.

"I want you to hush up," Shane told him.

"You really believe they're gonna buy whatever bullshit story you cook up?"

"That's just it. It ain't no story. Jewel and I saw that prisoner shoot you down.
We ran after him. I snapped his neck," Shane explained. "We were headed back and we got surrounded by a couple walkers, Jewel got bit, I had to leave her."

"Ass," Jewel said as she sat down. It looked like she was tying her boot. "So got this all figured out, huh Shane?"

"Pretty much. I actually like Summer, and I'm goin to feel bad that she lost you, but she has Daryl. She'll be alright. It ain't gonna be easy, but Lori and Carl- They'll get over you.
They done it before. They just gonna have to," Shane said.

"Why? Why now? I thought we worked this all out," Rick told him. "This is between us Shane. Not Jewel. Let her go."

"You know I can't do that Rick. She probably knew what was going to happen before I did. We tried to kill each other man. What you think? We just gonna forget about it all? We gonna ride off into the sunset together?" Shane told him.

"You're gonna kill me in cold blood? Have Carl call you daddy? Rape Jewel before you kill her? Then go back to Lori with a sad story and hope she takes you back to her bed. I know you. You won't be able to live with this," Rick told him.

Jewel palmed the knife from her boot and stood up and looked at him.

"What you know about what I can live with? You got no idea what I can live with, what I live with! You wanna talk about what I can do, Rick? How about what you can do? Here I am. Come on, man. Raise your gun," Shane told him.

"No, No, I will not," Rick told him. He noticed Jewel slowly moving in another direction. Shane was to focused on him to notice.

"What happened, Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore. Ain't that what you said? Even right here, right now, you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. How long would it be until you got tired of Jewel and went back to Lori. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. You come back here and you just destroy everything! Lori was broken. You got a weak boy. You ain't got the first clue on how to fix it. Raise your gun," Shane ordered.

"You're gonna have to kill an unarmed man. Watch my hand. Nice and easy. Easy does it," Rick told Shane as he kept an eye on Jewel. Now listen to me, Shane. There is still a way back from this. Nothing has happened here. We're gonna lay down our guns and we're gonna walk back to the farm Together. Back to Lori. She's yours, I didn't take her away from you. I have Jewel. I love Jewel. Back to Carl. Put this all behind us," Rick told Shane.

"Where is she? Where is Jewel?" Shane asked.

"You didn't think I'd be stupid enough to give you all my weapons did you?" Jewel asked. "Put down the gun, Shane."

"No," Shane said as he raised the weapon and conked her on the side of the head with it causing her to fall.

"Jewel! Damn you for making me do this, was you, not me! You did this to us! This was you, not me- not me! Not me!" Rick said as he rushed him.

"You're not going to do this, Rick you aren't man enough to do it," Shane hissed.

"But I am," Jewel said as she got up and rammed him in the back with her knife then stabbing him in his head. She went down to her knees. "I'm sorry….Rick….I…"

Rick kissed her and looked at her. "You did what you had to do. We both would have died," he said as he touched her face. "He got you pretty good."

Jewel nodded as she stood up and grabbed his arm so she wouldn't get dizzy. She looked over his shoulder. "Rick….please tell me I'm hallucinating that…." she said as she pointed.

Rick grabbed her arm. "No, I'm seeing it too. Come on!" he said as he pulled her.