Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 82

Author's Note: Technically, I should be bringing Tyreese and Sasha in right about now while the group is at Woodbury. But since this is my world, it's going to wait until Rick gets back and it's going to be flip flopped from the show. They were at Woodbury before, now there. And they may or may not have a little sister Carl's age. We'll see how I'm feeling at the time. And the other two guys that were with them isn't going to be with them when they get to the prison. I didn't forget about Joey! And Psycho Rick (who isn't Psycho) isn't going to drive them away. The 'walker games' did that for them. So confused? You all love me! Review please

Mar and Jewel POV:

Mar walked in as Jewel laid on her bed with Judith. "Hey…Summer told me that you had kidnapped baby girl. You should be resting."

Jewel looked up. "I am resting. Summer knew…about the rape…about how she came into this world," she said as she rubbed Judith's cheek. "All this time, I was trying to protect her."

Mar sat down on the edge of the cot. "You did protect her, you're protecting her now. Sometime's we think our kids need protecting but it's them that protect us. Rick will come back you know. So will Daryl. And they'll bring back Maggie and Glenn."

"What if they don't?" Jewel asked. "What if they get captured…or Merle gets his hand on Rick. My brother…my brother shot a damn window not five feet from my head and held a knife to Maggie's throat, a woman who he didn't even know? What do you think he's going to do with Rick or Glenn?"

Mar patted her leg. "Jewel, you're not helping Judy go to sleep with you being all worked up. I know you're worried. I was supposed to go with them, before that woman brought you back."

"Jes…" Jewel supplied.

"Jes," Mar repeated.

"I'm glad you didn't….the Governor…all I can think of is what he's doing to Maggie," Jewel told her.

"And if he did something to Maggie, we will be here for her. We'll make sure she gets through this. Whatever happens, we'll get through this together. It may not be easy, but we're a family," Mar told her as she picked up Judith.

"He didn't rape me…he just…pulled down his pants and made me put it in his mouth…and I bit him," Jewel told her friend.

"It was still a violation," Mar told her. "When Rick get's back you aren't going to let this get in the way with your relationship," she informed her. "So your brother kissed me."

"Daryl?" Jewel asked shocked as she sat up and took a breath.

"You sat up to fast," Mar told her. "No Merle, of course it was Daryl! Silly Jewel huh Judith?"

"He initiated it?" Jewel asked.

"No, he said he wasn't good with telling people his feelings, I told him to show me, and he kissed me. God, the kind of kiss that goes down to your toes and curls them," Mar told her.

Jewel held up her hand. "That's my brother you're talking about. Don't need ALL the details. Then what happened?"

"We found Carol," Mar said with a shrug.

Jewel laughed. "Oh that hurts. I didn't even give Merle a chance…end of the world, people don't get much of a chance to mend fences…and here I was face to face with my brother who I thought had died..and I still treated him like shit," she told her.

"He shot at you, I think he deserved the whole being treated like shit treatment," Mar reminded her. "He took Glenn and Maggie, he basically implied that he was going to get even with Glenn and Rick for leaving him on the roof. You did what you had to do to protect your family. Your real family, the family that you made," Mar told her.

"Jes thinks that he's got some good in him…" Jewel told Mar.

"And maybe he does and maybe he needs just one good push for him to be good. But you can't worry bout that, not now," Mar informed her. "I'm going to go take Judith to Summer and Carl and Mitch. Yeah, someone is tired. And you need to rest too. Summer will be down to check on you. I can send Carol and Beth too," Mar told her as she stood up.

"I'm alright," Jewel told her. "Good night my little one. Sorry daddy's not here for you to snuggle with. I think she likes the beard," she said with a smile.

Woodbury:

Joey London had seen Jes and his father take the unconscious woman to a truck and he saw the look in Jes's eyes. He knew that this was when she was going to make her move, and that neither she nor his father would return. He knew that he would have to bide his time and wait to make his own escape. He had helped a brother and his two sisters, one just being a kid, leave Woodbury that day. He told them to go, that it wasn't safe there. He had luckily been on patrol when they stumbled upon Woodbury, and he had led them and showed them the pits. He had given them food and told them to go. The other three members of there group wouldn't listen, the female had been bitten. It was a calculated risk on Joey's part, but luckily he had been able to separate the other three and tell them to leave. He knew when the Governor had called a group meeting in the rings, the thin line of reality that the Governor held onto was slipping. He looked around at the group assembled, some just kids and he knew he couldn't leave them. He secretly cheered when he had heard the Governor had been attacked by Michonne. He watched the now one eyed Governor walk into the arena.

"What can I say? Hasn't been a night like this since the walls were completed. And I thought we were past it- past the days when we all sat, huddled, scared in front of the TV during the early days of the outbreak. The fear we all felt then, we felt it again tonight. I failed you. I promised to keep you safe," the Governor said.

Joey rolled his eyes as he made his way to the back of the arena. "Bullshit," he thought to himself.

"Hell, look at me. You know, I- I should tell you that we'll be okay, that we're safe, that tomorrow we'll bury our dead and endure, but I- I won't, because I can't. Because I'm afraid. That's right, I'm afraid of terrorists who want what we have," the Governor continued.

"Yeah, taking back there own people, people you want to kill," Joey thought bitterly.

"They want to destroy us! And worse because one of those terrorists is one of our own," the Governor continued.

Joey felt fear grasp him momentarily, thinking that they had caught Jes. He looked at the person with the hood over his head and took a breath. It was a male and definitely not his father.

"Merle the man I counted on, the man I trusted. He led 'em here. And he let 'em in.
It was you. You lied, betrayed us all. This is one of the terrorists," the Governor said as he pulled off the man's hood. "Merle's own brother. What should we do with them, huh?"

"Kill them!" the crowd chanted.

Joey rolled his eyes as he watched the scene. "Gullible lambs led to slaughter," he thought to himself. He remembered Daryl Dixon, better then he had Merle. Daryl had marched Summer on the bus and made her apologize to him when they were kids. He quickly scanned the arena for any signs she was there.

"What? What you want?" the one eyed man asked.

"Kill them! Kill them!" the group chanted.

"You wanted your brother, now you got him," the Governor hissed.

Joey watched as the blond tried to make her way to interrupt the group. He remembered something about her being part of the group Merle was in before he got handcuffed to a roof.

"Kill 'em! Kill 'em! Kill 'em! Kill 'em!" the chanting came from the group.

Joey had to smirk when she was begging for the Governor to stop this. She was sharing his bed, but many females had done that in Woodbury. Just because she was sleeping with him meant nothing.

"The people have spoken. What? I asked you where your loyalties lie. You said here. Well, prove it. Prove it to us all. Brother against brother. Winner goes free. Fight to the death," the Governor told them.

"Yeah right, if you're believing that I've got some ocean front property in Arizona to sell you asses," Joey thought to himself.

"Philip, please. Don't do this. Don't do this," Andrea begged.

"Right, keep begging," Joey told her in his head.

"Let's go, Merle! Come on, Merle!" the group yelled.

"Yeah! Y'all know me. I'm gonna do whatever I got to do to prove that my loyalty is to this town! Ah!" Merle told him as he grabbed his brother.

"You really think this asshole's gonna let you go?" Daryl asked him. "Did he tell you Jewel escaped? Were you gullible enough to believe that?"

Merle looked at him. "Jewel's alive?"

"No thanks to your friend there, thanks to a woman named Jes," Daryl hissed as he kicked him.

Merle nodded. "Just follow my lead, little brother. We're getting out of this right now," he said as smoke bombs came into the arena.

Joey knew he had to help the little ones, that's what Jes would have wanted. He went on instinct and protected them the best he could.

"Stay close! Daryl!" Merle yelled at Daryl

"Merle, come on. Go! Let's go," Daryl yelled as they ran.

"They're all at the arena, this way," Merle said as he shot the gun.

Rick looked at him. "You're not going anywhere with us," he told Merle.

"You really want to do this now?" Merle asked.

"Nice to see you coming to join us from the dark side. You seen Joey?" Jes asked as they ran.

"Come on, man, Rick, come on, we've got to go," Daryl said.

"He was in the stands," Merle responded to Jes as he fired.

"Let's go!" Maggie told them.

At the Car:

Rick took a breath as he went ahead of them. "Glenn! Glenn!" he called.

"Rick. Rick. Rick. Oh, thank God," Glenn said as he approached them.

"Now we got a problem here. I need you to back up," Rick said as he tried to keep the peace. He hadn't even got the chance to slug him for what happened to Jewel.

"What the hell is he doing here?" Michonne asked as she took out her sword.

Jes pushed Merle into a tree. "Stay!" she told him as she walked over to Glenn and Michonne. "Put the Katina down Michonne. Rick has some things he needs to get off his chest first, then the two of you can have him all you want."

"Hey!" Merle grunted.

"He helped us escape," Daryl said.

"Yeah right after he tried to beat the shit out of you," Rick told him.

"We both got in our licks," Merle said as he went to move from the tree.

Rick turned and grabbed Merle by his throat. "Did you know what your friend the Governor was going to do to my wife?"

Merle looked at him. "I don't know your….oh hell no. My sister did not marry the asshole that handcuffed me to a roof. Bad enough when I thought she was opening your legs to you."

"Shut up Jackass," Daryl told him.

"Jewel was almost killed by that man. Look what you did to Glenn, you son of a bitch," Rick said as he hit him.

"Son of a Bitch," Merle told him as he got up from the ground to hit him.

Jes pulled her gun. "Don't even think about it Merle."

Merle let out a laugh. "Man, look like you've gone native, brother."

"No more than you hanging out with that psycho back there," Daryl told his brother.

"Oh, yeah, man. He is a charmer, I got to tell you that. Been putting the wood to your girlfriend Andrea. Big time, baby," Merle told Michonne. "Now you all don't seem surprised to find out Andrea's alive. Damn it Jes, can't you keep some things to yourself?" Merle asked.

"They need to know what the enemy was up too, who they might run resistance from. Only fair to tell them that Andrea was there," Jes answered.

"Michonne and blondie spent all winter cuddling up in the forest. Mm-mmm-mmm.
Yeah. My Nubian queen here had two pet walkers. No arms, cut off the jaws, kept them in chains. Kind of ironic now that I think about it," Merle said.

"Yea well I like that idea better then using them as entertainment, Merle," Jes hissed a him.

"Shut up, bro," Daryl warned him.

"Hey, man, we snagged them out of the woods Andrea was close to dying. Guess she had to show gratitude some way," Merle said.

"You shot at us! You threatened us. Your own sister!" Glenn told him.

"Well I didn't know she was gullible enough to hook up with the first idiot that gave her some at the end of the world. And I sure the hell didn't think she was stupid enough to say she's married to the ass who handcuffed me to a roof. It's not the Dixon style to get married," Merle said.

"Merle shut up!" Daryl told his brother.

Rick turned around. "Well good thing she's a Grimes now, asshole," he said as he knocked him out with the but of the gun. Rick looked at Daryl. "I'm not bringing him back. Not near Jewel, not near my daughters' or Beth or Maggie or Carol or Mariah," Rick told Daryl as he walked toward the car.

"My brother isn't a rapist," Daryl said.

"But the Governor is," Glenn told him.

"Look, the Governor is probably on the way to the prison right now. Merle knows how he thinks and we could use the muscle," Daryl told him.

"He's a wild card," Jes answered.

"I'm not having him at the prison. That's final Daryl," Rick said. "There's no way Merle's gonna live there without putting everyone at each other's throats. There is no way I am going to look at my wife and tell her why I brought the man that she trusted, once again to protect her, back to that prison. He's your family but so is she, so is Summer and the rest of us."

"But Merle, Merle's blood," Daryl said. "You going to take them back?"

"Jes at least, haven't decided about her yet," Rick said as he nodded toward Michonne.

"No, Merle is your blood. My blood, my family is standing right here and waiting for us back at the prison. And you're part of that family. Jewel and Summer are part of that family, part of your BLOOD. Are you really going to make us tell them that you picked him over them?" Glenn asked.

"They'll understand," Daryl told them.

"No, Daryl I don't think they will. What do I tell Mar? Or Mitch? He thinks of you like his father," Rick told the other man.

Daryl didn't respond as he walked over to Merle. "I have to do this," he said.