Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 76

Author's Note: I've been imagining the conversation in this chapter since I started. I swear there's no love loss between Jewel and Merle! Wait until the Governor comes in! And this is long…guess Jewel had a lot to say! Oh, that's another scene I've been thinking about. Merle is still beating up Glenn. Poor Glenn.

Merle's lovely language is included.

Maggie and Glenn's POV:

Jewel put items in the cart including diapers and batteries. "I'll be out in a minute, need to check if they have any razors!"

Glenn laughed as he went out the door. "You are obsessed!" he yelled back at her.

"I would be too if you had a beard," she heard Maggie say. "We hit the powdered formula jackpot!"

"Thank God, I also got beans, batteries, cocktail wieners, and mustards. Lot's of mustards," Glenn said as he started putting things in the car. "It's a straight shot back here from the prison. Should be home by dinner, if someone would hurry up!" Glenn yelled at the door.

"I like the quiet," she heard Maggie say from outside. "Back there, back home you can always here them outside the fence no matter where you are," Maggie said.

"And where exactly do you people call home?" Merle asked as he pointed his gun at them.

"Merle?" Glenn questioned surprised. "Wow…" he said.

"Back the hell up!" Maggie told him as she held the gun up to him.

"Okay, okay, easy honey," Merle told her.

"You made it," Glenn told him.

"Can you tell me if my brother is alive? Summer? My sister?" Merle asked.

Glenn's eyes darted to the door then back at him. "They're alive."

Merle gave a small smirk. "You were always bad at hiding things Glenn. Jewel, chinaman gave you away. Get your ass out here and give your big brother a hug."

Jewel's POV:

Jewel saw his shadow through the window before she heard his voice. She darted down behind the window. "Shit, Merle," she cursed as she took a breath. She glanced down at the knife in her right boot and moved it to her left boot. She took a breath as she checked the gun.

"Can you tell me if my brother is alive? Summer? My sister?" She heard Merle asked.

Glenn's eyes darted to the door then back at him. "They're alive," he answered.

Merle gave a small smirk. "You were always bad at hiding things Glenn. Jewel, chinaman gave you away. Get your ass out here and give your big brother a hug."

Jewel took a breath. "Damn it Glenn," she cursed.

"Get your ass out here Jewel. Throw the weapons' out," Merle yelled.

Jewel jumped as she heard what the sounding of glass break and a gunshot.

"Get your ass out here Jewel, throw out your weapons, other wise your cute little brown haired friend gets it. I aint telling you again," Merle warned.

Jewel took a breath as she threw out her gun and a knife out the door. She got up and held up her hands. "Let her go Merle," he said.

"Is that anyway to greet your big brother? Now, you need to tell me where Daryl and Summer are, we will take a ride back to where you all are staying. I'll even forgive Chinaman here for what happened in Atlanta," Merle told them.

"Let her go!" Glenn said as he held Maggie.

"He's Korean, Merle," Jewel said as she looked at his hand. "Let them go, Merle. I'll stay here with you, we'll reconnect, they'll go get Daryl."

"Oh no, baby sister, you're all going to take me back to where you all are staying. Tell me is Officer Friendly still alive, we got a beef to settle," Merle asked as he tried to bate her.

"We're not going back to our camp Merle, not gonna happen," Jewel told him.

"Get in the car or the farmers daughter here is going to bleed out, nice and slowly," Merle told her.

"Let her go!" Glenn exclaimed.

"Merle…" Jewel said.

"Get in the car both of you," Merle warned.

Glenn glanced at Jewel who just nodded as she got in the car. "We're not going back to camp," Glenn told him.

"No we're goin' somewhere else," he told them as he held Maggie.

Woodbury:

Merle got out of the car as he still held Maggie. "Sanchez, Martinez," he yelled.

Jes looked at him as she came over. "Merle?"

"Take these two down to the holdin' area, me and my sister is gonna to have a nice family reunion," Merle told them.

"I want to go with them," Jewel told Merle.

"Lil sister get your ass over here, and they may just live, otherwise I'll kill this one right now," Merle hissed at her.

"Jewel no…" Maggie started to say.

"Merle?" Jes asked.

"Just do what I say Sanchez," Merle told her.

"It's alright Maggie…Glenn…I'll be alright," Jewel said as she squeezed Maggie's hand as she passed her.

Merle grabbed her arm and took her to his apartment and closed the door. "Sit down."

Jewel looked at him and crossed her arms. "I'd rather stand."

Merle looked at her. "Can't you stop bein' so damn stubborn for a minute?"

"Can you stop being an ass for a half a second?" Jewel asked him.

"All you had to do was take me to where Daryl and Summer were, they are my family too," Merle told her.

"And I told you they'd bring Daryl back, but you didn't trust me. That's why you lost your damn hand, dear brother because you didn't trust that we'd come back for you," Jewel told him. "You didn't trust that Daryl and I would go back for you. T, Glenn, Daryl and Rick they back for you."

"Ol' Officer Friendly went back to get me, how nice of him," Merle said as he watched her. He wasn't going to tell her that Andrea was there, or that he knew about her getting friendly with Grimes. He went and got a beer and sat down on the couch. "I'd offer you one, but with your drinking and all."

Jewel rolled her eyes. "So thoughtful of you. Where are Glenn and Maggie?"

"Don't worry, little sister, I'll be talking with my dear old buddy Glenn in a little bit. Won't promise that I'm going to be in a nice and chatty mood with him as I am with you," he said as he glanced at her ring. "Bit flashy don't you think? Not really your style," Merle told her as he drank the beer.

Jewel looked at him, not changing her expression. "Well big brother it is the end of the damn world, so you know I saw this ring at a deserted cabin and thought, well why the hell not. You got to live sometime don't you?"

Merle smirked. "How did it ever get this bad between us Jewel? Aint seen you in almost a year, and we can't even have a decent conversation."

"You're kidding right? You are not asking me that with a straight face. You don't give a damn about Daryl or Summer or me. All you can think about is getting revenge for them leaving you on the roof. I heard it in your voice, I saw it in your actions. I'm not telling you where my family is Merle. And I'm not just talking about Daryl and Summer. Yes, big brother I'm talking about Rick too, and T… You might as well throw me where ever you have Glenn and Maggie because they are my family. You and I just share the same damn blood. You were always leaving, you left Daryl and me, every time shit got bad. You left us to be beat by dad, Daryl is so ashamed of his scars, he won't even take off his shirt. Me…well you know I went and whored around and got pregnant," Jewel hissed at him.

Merle looked at her. "I know about Clyde. I know what he did. He's the one that found me, brought me here," he told her. "Why didn't you ever tell me?"

Jewel laughed. "Right, like you would have believed me. Maybe I should have cut your hand off a long time ago. You keep that bastard away from me."

"That isn't going to be a problem," Merle told her as he looked at her. "I just want you to tell me where Daryl and Summer is, just be a real family again."

Jewel looked at him. "I'm not going to tell you that. I gave you the chance, Merle. You had a choice, just like you had a choice on that roof. You let your big mouth, your big better then though attitude get you in trouble. My BROTHER and my SISTER are somewhere in this building, you need to take me to them. Show me that you changed…because what I saw outside that market…what you're doing here, well you're the same bastard of a brother that I've always known. Daryl is better with you dead, I am better with you dead!"

Merle held up his hand and showed her the stump. "This is what your friend Officer Friendly did to me, what your brother Glenn did to me, what your nigger friend T Dog did to me. This is what they did to your blood, they left me like a damn animal. So tell me baby sister, are you opening' up your legs to Officer Friendly? He give you that ring?" he asked as he stood up.

Jewel looked at him. "What if he did? You know me well enough big brother that if I care enough to take someone to my bed then that person must be something special. You did that big brother. You chopped your hand off. You…not Rick…not T…not Glenn. You. I could sit here and argue with you until every walker in the world comes through that door…and you'll never admit it. You'll never admit that you can't trust anyone, even your family. Daryl, Summer and I survived because we trusted people. We've lost so many….Andrea, Amy, Jaqui, Lori, Carol, T, Sophia…God the list don't end. I grieved for you, you probably don't believe it, but I did. But I also saw Daryl become his own man, stop following you like a damn puppy. I saw my daughter take charge of the children of the group, I saw her grieve for every loss of one of them. Well, me….I broke away from you a long time ago. But I grew, I let people in. I know that you planned on robbing the camp. Do you really think that I wouldn't find out? Do you really think that I would have let you? That I would have let Summer or Daryl help you? No. I told Shane that he should have never let you go. I told him to let him let me go. I could guarantee you I'd still have both of my hands."

Merle laughed. "Guess he wound up being a friend of Officer Friendly's huh? Bet he was glad that he showed up. Grimes…that was Shane's fucking partner's name wasn't it?"

Jewel kept her face without emotion. "Rick's ex wife."

"Bet that was cozy huh? Sherriff coming back from the dead, bet he got cozy with his ex. You know if I had came back from the dead, that would be exactly what I would do, find someone to share my sleeping bag with," Merle said.

"That's why you have more diseases then you can shake a stick at," Jewel simply answered. "I'm done Merle. Take me to my family," she said as she looked at him coolly.