Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 71

Author's Note: I'm mentally preparing me for the walker attack on the prison. I know what I'm doing to poor Summer (whose going to take brooding Rick's place afterwards.) 297 reviews can we make it 300? I'm not greedy or anything! Dang got to back to work tomorrow. Review please.

Group POV:

Jewel walked with Rick, Mar, Daryl and T Dog in the yard. Carol was driving vehicles up in the yard.

"Alright let's get the other cars in, we'll park 'em in the west entry of the yard," Rick instructed.

"Good, our vehicles camped out there looks like a giant 'vacancy' sign!" Daryl told them.

"We need to burn some of these bodies," Jewel said as she looked around.

"It's going to be a long day," T responded.

"It always is," Mar responded as she looked around.

"Where are Glenn and Maggie? We could use the help," Rick asked.

"Guard tower," Daryl answered as Carol got out of the car.

"Guard tower? They were just up there last night," Rick told him.

"Yeah and you and Jewel spend a lot of time clearing' out the control room," Daryl teased.

"Daryl!" Mar said as she laughed.

They all looked up at the guard tower. "Glenn! Maggie!" Daryl yelled up.

Glenn pops his head out of the guard tower as he's buttoning his pants. "Hey guys, what's up?"

"You coming?" Daryl yelled up to him.

Jewel covered her mouth as she laughed. "Just be glad he doesn't have the nerve to do that to us," she told Rick.

"What?" Glenn asked a look on confusion on his face as the others' continued to laugh.

"You coming? We could use a hand down here," Daryl told the other man.

"Yeah we'll be right down!" Glenn answered as he disappeared back to the tower.

"You are just wrong," Mar told Daryl as they all laughed and walked back to the car.

T and Jewel both looked over there shoulder and exchanged glances. "Hey Rick!" T Dog yelled at him.

Rick turned and looked at what they were looking at. He saw the two prisoners' walking out of the cell block and stopped smiling as he walked over to them. "Come with me," he told the others of the group. "That's far enough, we had an agreement."

Axel nodded. "Please mister, we know that we made a deal," he told them. "But you gotta understand! We can't live in that place for another minute, you follow me? All the bodies, people we knew! Blood, brains everywhere, nothing' but ghosts!" he said as Maggie and Glenn joined the group.

"Why don't you just move the bodies out?" Mar asked as she looked at them.

"Should be burnin' them," T told them.

"We tried! We did!" Axel told them.

"The fence is down on the far side of the prison. Every time we drag a body out, those things line up, just hump out a body and run back inside," Oscar told them.

"Look we had nothing' to do with Thomas and Andrew! You tryin' to make a point? You proved it bro! We'll do whatever it takes to be part of your group, just please don't make us live in that place!" Axel begged.

Mar looked at the group. "You all took me in," she told them.

"That was differen', Jewel and I knew you," Daryl told her.

"Our deal is not negotiable. You either live in your cell block or you leave," Rick told them.

Oscar looked at Axel. "I told you this was a waste of time. They aint no better then the pricks' who shot up our boys. You know how many of our friends' corpses we've had to drag out? Threw them just like…they were good guys! Guys that had our backs against the really bad dudes like Tomas and Andrew in this joint. Now we've all made mistakes to get in here, chief, and I'm not gonna pretend to be a saint but believe me we paid our dues. Enough that we would rather hit the road than go back to that shithole," Oscar told Rick.

Rick glanced back at Daryl who shook his head no. Jewel glanced at T as Daryl and Rick walked over to them and walked them to the gate. "You want to take your chances," Rick told them, go ahead," he said as he locked the outside gate.

"Come on dude!" Axel yelled from the gate.

Jewel crossed her arms. "I don't feel right about this," she told the others.

"Neither do I," T told them.

Rick looked at them as he walked back over. "Are you serious T? Do you want them in a cell next to you?" he asked. "Next to our children Jewel?"

"Don't," Jewel warned. "You know I'd never put there lives' in danger or anyone in this group," she hissed at her husband.

"Sorry, I know," Rick told his wife as he kissed her.

"I'm going to go start movin' the vehicles," Jewel said as she walked away from the group to argue the fates of the prisoners.

Jewel's POV:

Daryl nodded toward Jewel. "I'd go talk to her," he told Rick as they finished discussing the prisoners.

Rick nodded as he walked up to where Jewel was. "I can build a dog house," he offered as he stood in front of her. "I was wrong."

Jewel looked at him. "Plenty of cells in the prison you can go to, a dog house aint necessary," she told him. "Don't ever say that to me again Rick. Don't even imply it. I was thinking' about Summer before she was born. I think about Carl and Mitch the same way. And this baby. The baby of your ex wife and your best friend? I think about it, Rick. There isn't a second I don't think 'bout them."

Rick caressed her face. "I'm sorry. I know. I realized it right as it came out of my mouth. I know what hurtful words can do, Lori was good at it. I'd never do it on purpose."

"I know," Jewel told him as she kissed him.

"It'll never happen again, that I swear to you," Rick told her as he kissed her again.

"Better not," Jewel told him as she kissed him. "First fight."

"This wasn't a fight, this was me insertin' my foot in my mouth. You want to know what fights are like, ask Lori," he teased her.

Jewel turned her attention to the yard. "Look," she said as nodded toward Hershel walking with a crutch.

Summer's POV:

Summer smiled as she walked down the steps with Lori, Hershel, Mitch, Beth and Carl. "Take it easy with those steps," Summer told him.

Lori took hold of his shoulder. "I got you if you need it," she told the older man.

"We don't need you to trip on those steps, daddy," Beth reminded him.

Hershel looked around the yard. "You cleared all those bodies out? It's startin' to look like a place we can live."

"That's the plan!" Mitch told the older man.

"Hershel watch your step we certainly don't need you trippin' and fallin'," Summer told him.

"You're doing great daddy," Beth said as they helped him walk.

"Ready to race Hershel?" Carl asked with a grin.

"Hershel can beat you," Mitch told him.

Summer laughed. "That's right, Mitch. My money's on Hershel any day of the week," she told him.

Hershel laughed. "Give me another day, I'll take you on."

Lori smiled. "You are really doing well," she complimented him.

"Go Hershel!" Glenn yelled from the yard.

"See you got everyone rootin' for you," Summer said with a grin.

Summer and Carl hear something from behind them. "WALKERS!" Carl yelled.

"Summer! Carl! Get out of there! Lori!" Jewel yelled as she started walking.

"NO!" Rick yelled as he started running.

Mitch threw his knife at one hitting him almost perfectly in the eye.

"Come on Mitch!" Beth yelled as she grabbed the little boys shoulder as Hershel took one out with his crutch. She helped Hershel behind a gate, Mitch closing it behind them.

"Carl take your mom!" Summer yelled as she pushed them back and used her bow and arrow firing as she walked backward.

"The lock!" Daryl yelled. "Hurry up!" he yelled at Glenn.

Glenn threw the keys to him.

"That gate is open!" T dog pointed.

"Get out of my way!" Rick yelled at the prisoners.

Mar looked at them. "You with us?"

"Yeah," Oscar said as he ran with them.

TBC (Just cause Summer and Carl need there own chapter with Lori)