Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 85

Author's Note: Reviews make my holiday! Had a great time at Disney seeing the lights, but a four hour car ride and people talking in my head and giving me ideas just don't cut it at times! Good thing I only work two days this week! So like I said before, Tyreese and Sasha are coming from Woodbury without there obnoxious friends, and they have a little sister Lexi. There's going to be scenes during season three and four, just because well Merle's gonna alive and at the prison and we got all those new people to play with and months of happiness for Jewel and Rick. Anyway that's a while from now. Anyway, please review.

Lexi Williams (Sister to Tyresse and Sasha) Amandla Stenberg

"A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned. Xun Zi"

Summer, Mar and Carl's POV:

Summer held up the flashlight going through a part of the tombs they had checked before. "Mar, Carl and I would have been fine coming down here ourselves. It's been cleared before."

"Like either one of your parents would have let you," Mar told them.

Carl sighed. "We're not kids Mar. It's a simple sweep of an area we already cleared out," he said as he held up his flashlight.

"And there's a homicidal maniac out there that beat up your mother, Summer," Mar reminded her. "Until either one of you get eighteen, the rest of us are going to insist on doing these things with you."

"If we make it to eighteen," Summer stated. "My uncle Merle beat up Glenn, so there's more then one homicidal maniac."

Carl held up his hand. "Shh…" he said as he stopped. He listened to the sounds of walker's and what he thought was a scream. "Did you hear that?" he asked.

"It wasn't one of our people, but there wasn't any prisoners down here when you and Uncle Daryl checked it out," Summer stated.

Another yell came from around the corner. "HELP!" a young female's voice said.

Mar and Summer looked at each other as Carl took off running. "Carl!" Mar hissed as they followed him.

Carl held up his gun as he rounded the corner and stopped as he saw a girl about his age running toward him.

"Who the hell are you?" the girl asked.

"I could ask you the same thing!" Carl asked as he saw two more people round the corner. "Come on this way!"

"Carl don't you ever run off like that again!" Mar yelled at him.

"Can you yell later? We got company and I don't mean the living type!" Carl yelled at them. "Come on."

"Go!" Summer yelled as she held up her bow and arrow ready to fire at the walkers.

"Come on!" the man yelled at his two female companions.

Summer let them pass her and started firing her bow and arrow. "Not today you ugly bastards!" she told the walkers.

"Come on Summer!" Mar said as she fired her weapon at one. "Go go!" she yelled at the group as she closed the door to the area. She turned and looked at the three new comers. "Any of you bit or scratched?"

"No, my sister Lexi fell as we were running, scraped her knee on the fence as we came in," the man told them. "We really appreciate what you did back there. Thought we were toast."

"How did you get in?" Summer asked.

"Hole in the back fence," the teen answered.

"We're going to have to fix that," Carl told them. "What are we going to do with them?"

"Help them. That's what we do," Summer told him.

"Carl go get your dad, Hershel and Jewel. We'll take them up to the cafeteria and get some food in them," Mar instructed the teen.

"Do you really think this is a good idea? We're facing a threat, we need to put up our guard," Carl told them.

"We're not turning into the type of people we're fighting. We're giving them help. Now go get mom and dad," Summer instructed. "Come on. I'm Summer, this is Mar. The kid with the bad attitude that just left is my step brother Carl. We're facing some trouble…."

"I'm Tyreese, these are my sisters' Sasha and Lexi. We don't mean to cause you any trouble, or a rift. We're just looking for a safe place," Tyreese told them.

"We were at a place called Woodbury," Sasha told them.

Mar turned. "You were at Woodbury? Did the Governor send you to spy on us?" she asked.

The younger of the two sisters shook her head. "No! We had just got there a week ago, I was getting the creeps by the guy that you call the Governor….a teen, barley nineteen told us to get out while we could. That trouble was brewing, and he showed us the way out. He said if we didn't go then, we might never make it. We just headed this way."

"She's telling the truth, we didn't get settled or anything, met that Governor guy once," Sasha said.

Summer nodded. "I believe you…the Governor…he almost killed my mom….so we're a bit weary of anyone claiming to come from Woodbury," she told them as she led them to the cafeteria.

Jewel and Maggie's POV:

Jewel pulled back the sheet to Maggie's cell and went in. She sat down on the cot and took a breath. "Hey Maggie, I know you aren't in the mood to talk. I get it, but you can't let it eat you up and you can't let it get in your relationship with Glenn."

Maggie turned over and sat up. "He didn't rape me…he just made me take off my shirt and my bra and he came back behind me….and he felt me up. I can still feel his hands on me."

Jewel put her arm around her. "Maggie, I would have done anything for that not to happen to you. He made me…well he was expecting me to suck him, I bit him. Hard. I keep thinking that if I hadn't and just did it, maybe he wouldn't have done this to you."

"It's not your fault, Jewel," Maggie assured her.

"Right now you feel violated, and you feel like you aren't going to be able to trust anyone," Jewel told her as she rubbed her back. "You have people here that understand, Mag, me and Mar….if you just want to scream, yell, cry, we get it. But the worst thing to do is to pull away from Glenn. I know it's easier said then done. And it's not your fault. No matter how bad you feel, how down you get, this is on him Maggie. This is about him. He's a despicable human being that uses his power to control people. He didn't rape us because we didn't show fear. Men like that….they get off on fear. The more you fight, the more they want to make you pay. It's wrong, it's sick. We won, Maggie. You have a husband who loves you, so do I. We've got each other. That's the one thing a man like the Governor will NEVER understand, never have. He can surround himself with people like Merle, who will follow him like little puppy dogs, but people like you, me, Michonne, and Jes, we see the evil in him. We see what's wrong with him. People like Merle, he doesn't survive in a group like ours because he doesn't understand what it means to love, to care for people other then himself. That's what makes us different, what makes us stronger. We work as a team, we care about each other, and we're honest with each other. A man like the Governor, he is never going to understand that. People like him are going to have people like Jes that is looking for a way to betray him, because he HAS to be in charge. They aren't family, they wouldn't die for him, they wouldn't trade places with him to save there lives. I would have died to save you and Glenn, and I know either one of you would have done the same," Jewel told the other woman.

Maggie nodded. "We would have. I'm sorry about Daryl picking Merle….leaving with him."

"Us Dixon's have made up codes for as long as we live, and some times those codes don't make sense to others. Daryl has to find out something I knew a long ago about Merle, and he had to do it himself," Jewel said as she touched the other woman's face. "Summer knew…about me being raped. She had heard Daryl and I talking a long time ago," she said. "I don't know how a Dixon turned out so good."

Maggie gave a weak smile. "You and Daryl turned out good too."

Jewel smiled. "How about you come out for a bit. Try and not isolate yourself. I know it's hard…but it's harder to come out of it if you don't."

Maggie nodded as they heard Carl's voice. "That's Carl."

Jewel got up. "Carl?"

"We need you, down in the cafeteria," Carl said as he turned to go.

"Now what?" Jewel said as she sighed.

Jes and Carol's POV:

Carol watched Jes kept walking back at the gate. "You're going to wear a path out of our nice grass," Carol teased as she walked down. "I don't think we've been introduced properly. I'm Carol."

"Jes," she answered not taking her eyes off the gate.

"What exactly are you looking for?" Carol asked.

"The devil," Jes responded.

"You mean the Governor?" Carol asked.

Jes cast a casual glance at her then back at the gate. "A rose by any other name smells just as sweet," she quoted. "He isn't going to let what happened at Woodbury stand. Someone's attacked his precious little development, he's going to want blood. I think we should go in and strike, get him by surprise."

"Rick isn't that type of person," Carol told her.

"Then Rick isn't going to live in this world very long," Jes answered.

"You don't know Rick, he's got us this far," Carol informed her. "I had my doubts at the beginning, but we're here, we're relatively safe. We aren't just a group, we're family. You brought Jewel back, so you are part of the family," she informed the other woman.

Jes let out a laugh. "Let me guess you were a little housewife before this right?" she asked. "The world going to shit, it gave you a reason to be someone other then someone else's shadow?"

Carol looked at her. "Yes? What does that have to do with anything?"

"I've been on my own since I was thirteen. My dad was killed in a drive by shooting in Miami, my mother took her own life. I had an older brother, he got involved in a gang, overdosed when I was fourteen. At sixteen I found a real good forger and got a fake birth certificate and papers, and joined the Army. That was my life, taking and giving orders. I didn't always like them, and I certainly didn't agree with a lot of them. The whole 'family' thing was big in the Army, look out for each other, brother and sisters in arms. Well then the world went to shit, and the rules went down the drain. I left, I was as guilty as anyone else. Being in a group, it's safer then being on your own. Sometimes. You got your chance to shine because the end of the world happened, and you're alive. You're a survivor, Carol. I applaud you. You had people here to watch your back, great. Well the only person's back the Governor is watching is his own. Right now, I'm hoping and praying to who ever is up there, that he doesn't take my betraying out on the 18 year old I left there. He's smart, but you saw what the Governor did to Jewel. I'm hoping that Joey can sweet talk him into believing he wants to help him and gets his ass out of there. But all of you are pretending like it's just another day, it's not. You're outmanned and you're outgunned," Jes pointed out.

"Good thing we got you then isn't it?" Rick asked as he walked out with Glenn.

"I told you what I'd do if I was you, but you just want to fiddle your fingers and wait around, that's on you," Jes told him. "Merle could have helped, he was his right hand man."

Glenn looked at her. "Merle's not coming here."

Rick nodded. "That's not an option. No way no how," he said. "Do you see what he did to Glenn? What he allowed to be done to Maggie and my wife, his own sister? You don't even trust him, if you did you would have told him that you were going to bring Jewel back here. I'm letting you stay here, you and Michonne because both of you did something to help this family."

"You know the difference between you and the Governor? He runs his place like a dictatorship, it's efficient. You are the leader, then lead," Jes told him.

"I am leading, but I'm not leading my family into a battle when some of my family is injured. I'm not putting them in anymore danger by going to the gates of hell. The Governor wants to battle, then he's going to bring it here. Last time, we were on his turf, this time it's going to be on ours," Rick said.

"We're fortifying, we're going to find more weapons," Glenn said.

"Well, since you seem to be the father of the group, I guess I'm on your side," Jes said as Carl walked out.

"Dad, we need you," he told his father.

"What's going on?" Rick asked.

"New people, came through the Administration side," Carl said.

Rick nodded. "Glenn, Take Oscar and Axel and see how they got in."

"Got it," Glenn said as he gathered the two men.

"I'll take the guard tower," Carol said.

"I'll go with you," Jes said as she walked with the other woman.

"Come on," Rick told his son.

(TBC)