Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 102

Author's Note: I'm keeping Merle alive (as I mentioned before.) The man keeps giving me wickedly good ideas and they all involve him (of course right?) But Jes may not forgive him a bit after last chapter! Review please

Jewel and Daryl's POV:

Jewel glanced from the driver side of the car. "Guess I should have asked before we left the prison, but you got a plan?"

Daryl shook his head. "No, you?" he asked.

"Keeping our stupid son of a bitch brother from sacrificing himself? Other then that, no not so much," Jewel admitted. "Couldn't he just trust us for once?"

"We'll ask him when we find him," Daryl told her.

Jewel shook her head. "You know, for us bein' the younger siblings, we sure always got his asses out of messes. Actually, you did, I gave up," she admitted.

"You did what you had to do, for you and Summer. I just learned later on that the stupid bastard needed to learn how to fend for himself," Daryl told her. "But you know what Jewel? I didn't see you hesitate back at the prison when you figured out what he was up too. You didn't stop to think about all the bad things in life that he did, all the times he wasn't there for us, you stepped up. And you would have decked Rick if he even suggested you stayin' back at the prison," he teased her. "Maybe we don't have to define how we survived, but it's just proof that we did. Even before this Jewel. We survived. All three of us. Now we're surviving again, and maybe our differences, our arguments, our hard head nesses, maybe that's why we've survived this world, before and after."

"Who are you and what have you done with Daryl Dixon?" Jewel asked as she gave him a sideways glance. "Holy shit!" she said as she slammed on the breaks. "Michonne!"

"Still can't drive worth crap," Daryl told her as they got out. "Where's Merle? You kill him?"

"He let me go," Michonne told them.

Jewel got the weapons out of the car. "Daryl catch," she said as she threw a gun at him. "Go back to the prison, don't let anyone come after us. Be ready for them."

"You aren't going after him, it's a suicide mission," Michonne told them.

Jewel looked at Daryl. "It's a suicide mission for one Dixon, for three it's just a damn picnic," she told the other woman. "Go keep our family safe," she said as Daryl and her took off running. "Tell me that you did a recon of that ammunition shack?"

"I'm a Dixon aint I?" Daryl answered.

"Entrances?" Jewel asked.

"One front one back," Daryl responded. "Mind sharing while we take this little jog?"

Jewel grinned. "So, coming up from above him would be the last thing he expects," she told him.

"You plan to drop in from the roof? Bein' with Rick is supposed to keep you from comin' up with illogical plans, supposed to keep you straight and narrow," Daryl told her.

"Duck," Jewel told him as she killed a walker with a baseball bat. Jewel smirked. "Well, I got to have a little bit of Dixon fun sometimes don't I?" she asked.

"Please tell me that isn't music," Daryl said as they hid behind a tree.

"Got to hand it to our insane big brother, he's trying," Jewel said. "We got two on the roof," she said. "Recognize one of them as another one of the Governor's henchmen," she said.

"Got two on the left," Daryl told her. "You sure about this plan?"

"Never said I was sure about the plan, just said I had one," Jewel answered.

Daryl sighed as he took out the two henchmen to his left. "I was afraid you were going to say that," he told her.

Jewel spied one of the guards by the back door and whistled as she stepped out. "Miss me?" she said as she threw her knife and took him down. "I'm going to have to borrow this," she told the dead henchman as she took off the rope he had. "I'm going to have to get up on that roof, drop down, and distract."

"Rick's gonna kill me," Daryl said. "I'll distract from this end. If this works, we're really gonna have to have a Dixon pow wow about exactly what sibling is allowed to be insane, cause I can't be handelin' two of you," he told her.

"Now you know how I've felt for years," Jewel said as she tied the rope on her waist. "Cover me," she said as she put her knife in her mouth and climbed up and snuck behind one and took her knife and put it to his throat. "Throw it down to him," she told the man. "Not a word, not a sound, and you may live another day," she warned as she kicked the gun down to Daryl. "Or, I just lied," she said as she split his throat. Jewel nodded down as she threw the body off the roof.

Merel's POV:

The Governor shook his head. "I should have known Rick wouldn't have honored our deal. What are you doing Merle? You could have stayed with your family, died with honor. But now you're here, dying alone. Think this is going to save them Merle?"

"I'm not going to beg you, you ass. Do what you're going to do," Merle hissed at the man.

"Of course you aren't going to beg, but I'm not gonna shoot you in the head, you're going to turn, and I hope your sister or your brother or your precious little niece has to put you down. Now that would be something I'd pay to see, right before I killed her," he hissed.

Merle stood up as the round of gun fire took out the windows. Both of them looked up to the sound of the wooden roof being kicked in and Jewel coming down on the rope.

"Head's up!" Jewel said as she kicked the Governor off balance. She threw the gun at Merle.

"What the hell?" Merle asked as he grabbed the gun.

Daryl burst down the door. "Come on let's go!"

Jewel undid the rope on her middle and turned to finish the Governor as he raised the gun, her foot immediately kicking it out of his hand.

"Come on!" Merle said as he pulled her out.

"We can't leave him alive," Jewel insisted.

"We don't get out here now, we aint getting out of here," Merle said as the three siblings fired on walkers'. "Daryl, you idiot, why the hell did you let her risk herself by playing GI Jane? This was on me."

"Oh don't look at me, big brother. That was all her," Daryl told him.

"A thank you would be nice. What the hell were you thinking?" Jewel asked as they ran.

"Buying you some damn time, going out a damn hero. I didn't ask you two to come in and rescue me," Merle told them.

"You never had to ask, you selfish son of a bitch, last name's Dixon," Daryl told him.

"Only thing that can kill a Dixon is a Dixon," Jewel said as they stopped and took a breath. "Except for Jes, she may kill you," she said as she put her hands on her knees. "Wholly shit, I just repelled into a room off a damn roof," she said almost in shock.

"Yeah adrenaline rush is about wearing off," Daryl said.

"I just…tied a rope to myself, and busted in a damn roof, and went down and kicked the hell out of the Governor," Jewel said as she started to laugh. "Oh that wasn't the most brilliant plan in the universe," she admitted.

"Now see, that's the rational Dixon speakin'," Merle said. "Can't have you losing the marbles just yet little sister. We've got the same problem as before, and he's going to be attacking our family. I'd like to be there since you all ruined my plan at redemption," he told her as he took her elbow. "Officer Friendly is going to have a cow when he realizes you are just as crazy as the rest of us Dixon's."

"Oh he knows, big brother, I just keep it reined in a bit. But if you want to tell him make sure he has handcuffs, I can find interesting' uses for them," Jewel teased.

"Oh hell, come on Jewel, don't want to be thinking' about that. Yeah, that's just all kinds of wrong," Merle said.

"Welcome to my world, Merle," Daryl said as he shook his head. "We got a whole lot of walker's between us and the prison," he pointed out.

"We'll take em out, plus we got back up," Jewel said as she nodded toward the gate. "Welcome home, big brothers'," Jewel said as they started running and taking out walkers.