Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 103

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Rick and Jewel's POV:

Rick glanced at Jewel as she brought him weapons. "So had an interesting conversation with Merle," he told her as he tried to keep a straight face.

"Really? Interesting and Merle in the same sentence, I'm not sure those two go together," Jewel answered. "I should warn you, that what Merle says should be taken with a grain of salt," she said as she tried to keep her face straight.

"Well this was real interesting. Seems that my wife has a secret desire to be a bird," Rick teased.

Jewel laughed. "Yeah, it wasn't a well thought out plan. And more like a paratrooper, see got to keep dreams alive," she said as she kissed him. "Yeah wasn't smart. And, I really am going to have to talk to Merle about keeping' his mouth shut if he's staying here."

"He cares about you, same as I do. Well maybe not the same," Rick said as he laughed.

Jewel looked out over the prison and watched the cars being loaded up. "You think we got a chance?"

"Always a chance, right?" Rick asked as he kissed her.

Jewel kissed him. "Yeah. Jes talkin' with Merle yet?"

Rick laughed. "Does throwing things at his head count as talking? If it doesn't, then no. If the two of them don't get together soon, they're going to kill each other."

"If they get together, they'll kill each other," Jewel told him. She touched his face. "I love your Mr. Grimes."

"I love you Mrs. Grimes," Rick told her as he kissed her. "We should head back down," he told them.

"Yeah, not sure if we're going to have much time," Jewel agreed as she walked down to the cars.

Summer and Michonne's POV:

Summer took the box from Michonne. "You know what Uncle Merle did, taking you, that wasn't something we decided, not something we agreed too."

Michonne nodded. "I know."

"He let you go," Summer pointed out.

"Yeah, he let me go," Michonne agreed.

"Carl told me what you did…back in his home town," Summer informed her as she turned and looked at her.

"What did I do?" Michonne asked.

"You went into that restaurant got the picture for him, of him, dad, and Lori. For Judith. Says that makes you one of us," the teen told the other woman.

"And what do you think?" Michonne asked the teen.

"You already were. You came here with baby formula, came here to tell us about mom, Maggie and Glenn being taken. That made you one of us from the moment you took the chance," Summer told her.

Michonne looked at her. "You decided that? I mean your Uncle and your parents', they didn't seem like they were much into following your line of thinking."

Summer gave a small smile. "Sometimes it just takes adults longer to see what's right in front of there faces," she answered as she walked away.

Michonne looked at Rick as he came over. "Are you sure that she's really only 16?" she asked the man.

Rick laughed. "Yeah she can be smarter then most of us on some things. You know it was her and Carl that made the decision to bring you in. If you didn't have the baby formula, I probably would have left you out there," he admitted.

"You could have just left me out there, took the formula," Michonne told him.

Rick gave a small smile. "I guess it was something else then," he admitted. "Whatever it was, glad you're here now," he said as he turned and saw Carl blow past Mar and Glenn.

"I've never seen him this angry, not even after Lori," Glenn told them.

"He's still a kid, it's hard to remember sometimes," Mar told them.

"I'll talk to him," Rick told them.

"No, Rick I got this," Jewel said as she walked over. "Carl need your help with something, mind?" she asked.

Carl looked at her then sighed and went with her. "What?"

Jewel took a breath. "I know you're not happy about this. I know that you think that you're running."

"I'm being treated like a kid, and I'm not. I can protect this prison just like anyone else," Carl informed her.

"You're right, Carl," Jewel told him.

"I'm right?" Carl asked.

"Yeah, you're right. But, there's something else that you need to think about. You can protect this prison, you can fight like the rest of us, that's not why we're doing this. We're not sending you out there because you're a kid, and you can't protect yourself or us. You've proven again, time after time, that you are capable. We're asking you to protect Hershel, Summer, Lexi, Mitch, Beth, Axel and Judith. Hershel's got the bum leg, and Axel well he's admitted himself for an ex con, he never fired a gun. Summer, you and her, you're going out there to protect them. Your dad and me didn't make this plan to piss you the hell off, Carl. We made this plan to use everyone at there strengths. I'm not going to lie to you to Carl. I respect you to much for that. If something happens that this prison falls, that we are killed or worse, your father, Mar, Ty, Sasha, me, well we want to know that there's still a chance for all of you. So yes Carl, I know you don't like it, and I get it. I really do. Being young sucked before, and I can only imagine it really freakin' sucks now," Jewel said with a laugh. "But, the truth is, you're trusting me to watch out for your dad right?"

Carl nodded. "Yeah," he admitted.

"Alright, well this is the same thing. It may not be the way you want it to be, Carl. That's part of being an adult. Doing things that we have to do, weather we want to. You're going to go out there and you are going to keep an eye out for everyone for me," Jewel said. "You're going to do your best to keep them safe. That's your job, Carl. And, we should have asked you, should have explained it to you better, and for that I'm sorry," Jewel apologized. "But that still doesn't give you any right to be rude to anyone. We're all on edge right now. Doing and saying things that we wouldn't normally do," she told him.

Carl smirked. "Like deciding you wanted to try a new occupation of a bird?"

Jewel shook her head. "Merle's got a big freakin' mouth. And as I told your father, it was a paratrooper," she said as she slapped the back of the sheriff's hat. "Let's go," she said as she shook her head.

"Everything good?" Rick asked.

"Yeah everything's good," Jewel said with a smile. "Let's load up."

Group POV:

Jes nodded as she looked at everyone. "We're as prepared as we ever going to be, he's seen the cars move, he's going to be ready to pounce."

"How do we know that he bought it?" Sasha asked.

"He bought it," Jes told them. "He's egotistical, he won't be able to believe that anyone has the balls to stand up him. He expects everyone to bow to him," she informed them.

"But Rick didn't, Maggie and Glenn didn't, Jewel didn't," Mar told her. "Why would he buy this now?"

"Simple, he's to stupid not too," Jes answered. "He thought Rick would be stupid enough to make a deal with him about Michonne, that he would believe he'd just walk away. When that didn't happen, I can guarantee you that he's out there with his slick tongue riling up the townspeople. Saying this is all on you," she told them. "So yeah, he saw the cars going, and he's over confident. Of course if some ass hole didn't try to play a damn fool hero and not listen to anyone's advice, we could have had this done already."

"I did what I thought I had to do," Merle told her.

"Guys…" Mar started to say as Daryl shook his head at her.

"You hit me you son of a bitch. You made your sister and brother go after you and not to mention you put everyone here in danger," Jes yelled at him as she pressed a gun in his hand. "So now why don't you go and do something useful for once in your life and go get hiding. Out of my sight," she told him.

"Maybe this isn't the time for a lovers spat," Glenn pointed out.

"Oh, Glenn," Jewel said as she shook her head.

"Not if he was the last man on earth, the human race would freakin' end. No way, no how. And, if I didn't feel bad about this jerk face already beating you to a pulp, I'd punch you," Jes warned.

"You're going to have to forgive me at some point Jes," Merle pointed out.

"Tell you what, Merle, I'll forgive you when you forgive Rick for leaving you on the rooftop. Yeah, that's what I thought," Jes said as she turned and walked away.

Mar looked at the group. "Well, this is going to be interesting…." she said.

"Let's get going," Rick said as he kissed Jewel.

"Hey do you two have to do that every single time you leave each other?" Merle hissed.

"Yeah," both answered.

"It's cute," Michonne stated.

"Don't make me shoot you again," Merle hissed.

"Yeah, I don't think you'd get away with it again, big brother," Daryl pointed out.