Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 95

Author's Note: Are we recovered from the last chapter yet? I don't know if I am. I have a respitory infection. Great way to bring in the new year huh? Everyone looked at me yesterday at work and was like why are you here and I'm like do you want to get paid? So I went to the dr. and am off til Friday. Good thing AMC is having a Walking Dead Marathon this week. Review makes me happy. Let's see how Merle's fairing at the prison, shall we?

Glenn and Summer's POV:

Summer walked outside with bottled water. "Hershel wants everyone out here to stay hydrated," she said as she handed him the bottle.

Glenn took it. "You didn't want to be inside anymore huh? I know you don't mind being around Judy, it must be Merle."

Summer shrugged. "I'm sorry for what he did…" she said as she sat down.

"Summer, this wasn't your fault. You had nothing to do with it," Glenn told her as he sat down next to her.

"When this all started, back when we were at the quarry, I told Lori once that her feelings about Uncle Merle meant that she had the same about mom, Uncle Daryl and me. Because we were of the same blood line," Summer said.

"You know that's not true," Glenn told her.

"Yeah, I know. Uncle Merle is the black sheep," Summer told him. "But he is blood. I'm mad at him, but I think it's more disappointment then anything. You're my brother Glenn, my blood, more then Uncle Merle ever was."

Glenn grinned. "I thought we already decided you were my non Korean sister from another mother," he told her.

Summer laughed as she punched his arm.

"Ow," Glenn said.

"Sorry!" Summer told him.

"Do I have to go find a box and put a walker in it so you'll stop hitting Glenn?" Maggie teased as she came up.

"That's just wrong," Summer said with a laugh.

"Just some fun sibling teasing going on," Glenn said as he playfully hit her arm.

Maggie smiled. "Beth wanted to know if you could watch Judith for a little while so she can take a shower."

Summer smiled as she got up. "Of course," she said as she hugged Maggie. "See you later Korean brother from another mother," she teased Glenn.

Summer, Daryl and Merle's POV:

Summer held Judith as she fed her bottle and kissed her hand. "Yeah, daddy, big brother and momma will be back soon."

"You hope," Merle said as he walked into the common room with Daryl.

"Merle, shut it," Daryl warned. "How's Lil Asskicker doing?"

"Lady Bug is doing good," Summer answered.

"Used to call you Lady Bug, had this shirt with snaps on it first time I saw you, had little lady bugs on it," Merle told her.

"It's called a onsie, Merle," Daryl said. "Come on we got things to do," he told his brother.

"It's alright Uncle Daryl, got to speak to Uncle Merle sometime. Mind finishin' feeding Lady Bug here?" Summer asked.

"Come on Lil Asskicker, we're just going to stand right here to make sure everything stays good, yeah," Daryl said as he took her.

"You want to take another punch at me?" Merle asked.

"Temped, believe me Uncle Merle," Summer said as she walked over to him. "Don't even say anything like that I hope they are coming back. Not in front of Judith, not in front of Carl, not in front of anyone. They are coming back, we WILL beat the governor. I know we may lose people, hell I know I might die," she said.

"Summer language," Daryl warned. "Lil Asskicker doesn't need to hear her big sister cussin,' " he warned.

"You got some super powered weapons I don't know bout Summer? Cause I know what the Governor has," Merle told his niece.

"We have something' that he'll never have, something he'll never understand. He has sheep, you were a sheep, Andrea's a sheep. We are family, we get it. Yeah maybe he has the more powerful weapons, maybe he has soldiers that he can say jump and they'll say how high. But I guarantee you one of them wouldn't willingly take a bullet for him, out of love," Summer said.

"You and Jewel let this one get a mouth on her Daryl, not even telling her to put a lid on it," Merle told his brother.

"Shut it Merle," Daryl warned.

Summer looked at him. "You HAVE no idea what we've been through, what I've done. I had to perform a C Section on Lori, bring Judith into this world, Carl had to shoot his own mother. Out of love, it was all out of love. I know what you were planning to do back at the quarry. Rob them, leave them without everything? You were going to get Uncle Daryl to do it."

"How'd you know about that?" Merle asked as he looked at Daryl.

"Uncle Merle, you're really loud when you were high on every imaginable drug that I can think of. Do you think mom would have went along with you? That I would have went along with it? That's why you fit with the Governor, because he has no conscious, no regard for other people's feelings. I know somewhere down and deep you have to have a bit of a heart, a bit of humanity. It's just buried deeper then it was with you. I can't believe that you don't give a crap about anyone but mom, Uncle Daryl and me. If you care about us then you got to care about the rest of our family. Our family is here, in this prison, and out there trying to get guns to protect us. It's not just lookin' out for ourselves anymore, Uncle Merle, it can't be. I may not like what you've done, to Glenn, to mom to Maggie, but I still love you. But I will put a bullet to your brain if you make one move against anybody here, if I even think that you are giving anyone a dirty look. And, I'm a Dixon, Dixon's don't break promises," Summer said.

"When did you get so mouthy?" Merle asked.

Summer looked at him. "I was born a Dixon wasn't I?" she asked as she stood up and took Judith from Daryl.

Daryl kissed the top of her head and smirked at Merle. "She's right, she's a Dixon."

Jes and Merle's POV:

Jes shook her head as she sat down on the table next to him. "You tired of being told off by everyone? Bet if that baby could talk, she'd let you have it."

Merle glared at her. "Can it Jes, not in the mood," he told her.

"Oh come on, Merle you know it's not that easy to get rid of me. There's a good man somewhere down there," Jes told him. "Why haven't you told Summer that Joey's at Woodbury?"

"Why haven't you?" Merle countered.

Jes shrugged. "Not really my place now is it? I didn't know her before, she's your family. Figured that maybe you'd want her to know someone she used to know was alive, that he had survived."

Merle shook his head. "Why give her any hope? Who knows what the Governor has done to him by now? Hell he may even be on his way here with the Governor. She don't need to know something' like that when there's a 99% possibility one or both of them is going to be dead by the end of this."

Jes smirked. "Merle Dixon that sounds like you actually have a heart," she told him.

"Why don't you go find a nice cell in solitary to hide in so you aren't botherin' me?" Merle told her.

"Once again, you know me better then that," Jes said. "Heard what she said about putting a bullet in your head if she thinks you are even looking at them wrong. You think she's serious?"

"Deadly," Merle huffed. "She's a Dixon, through and through. She don't say anything she don't mean," he told her. "Why are you still here Jes? Why didn't you just take off? Go try to get Joey out of Woodbury? You aint got nothing' holding you down here. No loyalties."

Jes looked at him. "My loyalty is to those that I think need me, Merle. These people are going to need every able bodied sharp shooter they can get. I actually like these people. They made something here, something that you and I we never had growing up. Something that maybe we've been searching for our whole lives. First with the Army, you with your drugs and motorcycle buddies, me staying in. Love, respect, family. You can't deny that these people aren't just surviving Merle, they are living. I saw it between Jewel and Rick when I came through those gates."

"Really don't want to picture Officer Friendly and my sister doing anything," Merle said.

"Well guess what Merle? You're going to listen. I've never seen anyone looking at the way the two of them looked at each other. Until I saw Glenn and Maggie, until I saw Mar and Daryl. And it's just not the couples Merle, Hershel loves everyone of these people like they were his own kids. Rick looks at Summer like he's known her whole life, like a father looks at a child. Glenn and Maggie, they were just outside laughing with Summer like a little sister. Beth Summer would die for Mitch, Carl, Lexi and that baby. It took the dead to come back to life to bring this rag tag group of people together, but they found something that everyone wants. I don't care if they ever treat me like that, maybe people like you and I we don't deserve love like that. But like hell am I going to let a man like the Governor come here and destroy it. If I can save one person, then I'm saving one person of a family. I'm saving someone from grieving, I'm saving someone from being buried. That's what I think of when I'm helping them. You have blood here and weather you like it or not, your family includes Rick. Because if something happened to him, I think it would destroy Jewel. So, somewhere down in this 'I don't give a shit about anyone attitude' you built up, think about that, Merle. Think what it would do to Daryl to lose you all over again. But think what it would do to him if he lost Mar or Mitch, or any of them," she said as she got up and squeezed his shoulder.