Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 105

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Rick and Joey's POV:

Rick closed the door of the cell and looked at the young man in front of him. "My name is Rick Grimes. You know my daughter, Summer. From before all this."

Joey looked at him. "I knew Summer Dixon. I also knew that her mother wasn't married and that she didn't have a father."

Rick bent down. "That was before," he told him. "Now I've got some questions for you."

Joey looked at him. "If it's the questions about how many walker's I've killed, how many people, Summer already did that."

Rick smiled. "Of course she did," he told the young man. "But no that's not what was I going to ask. You know what happened here, you were with the Governor. You raised guns on my family, I want to know why. I want to know why you didn't leave before. Why you participated this far? Why you didn't leave before," he said.

"I kinda like breathing," Joey answered.

Rick looked at him. "Go on."

"You met psycho, had a meeting with him. You think he would have taken kindly to anyone leaving Woodbury? Hell, people tried to leave after you came in the first time, and he went crazy on them. Let me rephrase that, more crazy then usual," Joey said. "I saw Jes leave with my dad and Summer's mother that day. I knew that she was Merle's sister, I had seen her around some times when she came to pick up Summer at school. Never really spoke to her, or had any interaction. She was just one of kids mom's, a hot mom, but still a mom."

Rick arched an eyebrow at him. "Let's keep that thought between the two of us or you may get hit again," he warned.

Joey shrugged. "Anyway, I knew that the Governor had sent Jes and my dad on a trek to the pits with her. No one told me, but I figured it out. Wasn't hard to figure out when they found my dad's body, what had happened. The old Governor put his spin on it, didn't even think that Jes had betrayed him. Yeah I would have liked to make my escape that night you played Rambo, but didn't work out. Couldn't really do it without putting my head on a plate. But you killed a lot of his men that night, and Michonne doing what she did, well it sent him over a cliff. He put a gun in everyone's hand that was capable. The people that attacked, they were nothing' more then a few left over soldier want to be's and a bunch of kids. And the only people left at Woodbury is the people to frail to fight or a bunch of kids to young to hold a gun."

"We were planning on going back to Woodbury, finishing this," Rick told him.

"Yeah sounds pretty good bet. But why are you telling me? You want to talk about holding guns on people? That kid was going to shoot me. He did kill Jody. The kid was 14, scared and running. I had thrown my gun down, and Jody was putting his down. If Summer hadn't stopped him, well you and me wouldn't be having this conversation," Joey pointed out.

Rick sighed. "Carl. He's my son. He did what he thought was best at the time. I'm not excusing it. Summer didn't know who you were?"

"No, she stopped him by sayin' something about we don't kill the living. I'll have to thank her, but I'll stand far away. She likes to give me black eyes," Joey said.

Rick tried not to smile. "Runs in the Dixon family," he answered. "I told you we were going back to Woodbury because I wanted to see your reaction."

"Am I supposed to be doing back flips cause you want to go back to the mental institution? Sorry if my reaction isn't what you thought it should be. First Summer asking me questions about Walker kills and people I killed and now you telling me about going back to Woodbury, think you guys don't have all your marbles," Joey pointed out.

Rick looked at the young man. "You don't want to go finish this?"

Joey stared at him. "Finish this?"

"Take the fight back to Woodbury, end the Governor," Rick told him.

Joey huffed. "Do I look like I fell off a damn turnip truck? You don't trust me around your people, and you want to keep an eye on me."

"Yeah," Rick answered honestly.

"What the hell do I have to lose? Aint got a whole lot of choices," Joey said as he stood up. "Do I get a gun?"

"Wouldn't be fare to take you out there without one would it? But you'll get it, once we get near Woodbury," Rick told him.

"Andrea coming?" Joey asked as he stood up.

Rick looked at him. "Andrea? She's not here," he said.

"Then there's another problem, cause she left Woodbury. I was on the wall, said she was coming here," Joey told him.

"Shit," Rick said as he went out the cell with him.

Group POV:

Summer glanced over at Joey as he started getting ready to leave with everyone. She bounced Judy in her arms as Beth fixed her bottle.

"He's kinda cute," Beth whispered.

"What?" Summer asked as she turned and looked at Beth.

"Joey, he's kinda cute. Come on, don't tell me you haven't noticed," Beth teased her.

"I noticed he was running away from here with a gun, I noticed he was part of the Governor's army, that's what I noticed," Summer said as she took the bottle from Beth.

Beth giggled as she joined her at the table.

"Dad, I'm going to Woodbury with you," Carl told Rick.

"Not sure if that's a good idea kid," Merle told him.

"I wasn't asking," Carl told him. "Especially wasn't asking you."

"Carl, enough," Rick warned.

"Dad I did my job out there, I took out one of the Governor's soldiers," Carl informed him.

Summer started to say something but got a warning glare from Daryl. "Don't," he said under his breath.

"One of his soldiers? A kid running away? A kid that was turning his weapon over?" Rick asked.

"He stepped closer, he drew on us. You put me out there to defend them, and that's what I did. Now you're taking another one of them with you? You're trusting him but you don't trust me?" Carl asked.

"You think your dad trusts me? Hell, just the opposite, he's taking me because he doesn't kid," Joey informed him.

"Joey, see that nose you got on your face? Keep it out of business that don't belong to yours," Jewel warned as she gave him a glare and put her knife on her hip.

Merle tried not to laugh at the face Joey made as he turned to return to his business.

"This has nothing to do with trust, Carl," Rick told his son. "This has to do with what's right and wrong. Carl you're a thirteen year old boy, and I can appreciate you doing what you thought you had to do, but I also appreciate Summer doing what she thought she had to do. Doesn't make either one of you right or wrong. But the truth is Hershel told me that Joey had put his gun down, that the other kid was putting his gun down, and that you took the shot as he was doing it. Right now, Carl, I need you to stay here. Be mad at me, hell I'm your father, that's what you are supposed to do."

"I can't believe this!" Carl said as he turned to go.

Jewel looked at him. "Want me to stay and talk with him?"

"No, let him calm down. Glenn, Maggie you coming?" Rick asked.

They exchanged glances. "We thought we'd stay here, watch out for the prison with Mar and Carol. Is that alright?" Glenn asked.

Rick nodded. "It's more then alright."

Daryl squeezed Mar's hand. "We'll be back."

"Of course you will," Mar said.

"Hey you mind if we finish this tea party later? Time to go," Merle groused.

Jewel shook her head. "Seriously Merle? Come on."

Road to Woodbury:

Rick rubbed his hand through his hair as he drove and looked over at Jewel. "You ever went through this phase with Summer? The whole I hate everything you say phase?"

Jewel squeezed his hand as she glanced at the truck behind them. She knew Rick had suggested taking a car to themselves so they could talk. It was better to have two vehicles in case of trouble. "I did the whole early teen years without the whole killing walker bit so I'm not sure if that's a fair question. But if it makes you feel better, the way he talked to you wasn't half bad as the way any of us talked to our dad. I know not a fair comparison, but it's the only thing I got to go on. Carl's a good kid Rick. And I'd be worried if he didn't have some attitude with the whole world going to shit and everything. I keep expecting Summer's to be worse then it is."

"We'll deal with it," Rick said as he kissed her hand.

"Yeah, also dealing with a teenage boy sniffin' around our teenage daughter," Jewel said.

Rick looked at her. "Excuse me?"

"Joey and Summer's always had somewhat of a crush on each other. Summer hit him when they were kids cause he called her cute," Jewel informed him.

"Oh hell, I'm not ready for that," Rick said. "Not until she's thirty, wait til Judy's thirty," he said. "Carl shot the wrong kid," he said as he tried not to laugh.

"Normalcy, that's what it's all about these days Rick," she told him. "Rick…." she said as she saw the truck on the road.

Rick put his hand out the window and motioned for Daryl to pull the car behind him. "That's one of the Governor's trucks," he said.

Jewel picked up a rifle and got out, with Rick. "Hell's bell's," she said.

Jes came from the other car. "That's Woodbury residents," she said as she nudged one with her gun. "That's Xander Halls, he's fifteen," she said.

Michonne bent down and looked at the bodies. "Bullet holes, some of them got stabbed."

"What happened?" Tyreese asked.

"Somebody got them," Rick said.

"Yeah someone got them alright, Officer Friendly," Merle said.

"The Governor," Joey answered.

"You think he did this to his own people?" Jewel asked.

"Oh he did it, little sister. They ran. You don't run from a man like the Governor," Merle told them.

"He even went more bonkers when he thought you guys attacked Woodbury," Joey told them.

"From the few minutes I had the displeasure of meetin' with him, he was already down that trail," Jewel said as she leaned against the truck. She jumped as something pounded at the window. "Holy crap!" she said as they all looked up.

"Yeah, you've gone soft, little sister," Merle said as he laughed.

Daryl moved over to the door and opened it. "Easy, nice and easy."

"Karen?" Tyreese asked as he helped her down.

"What happened here?" Rick demanded.

"The Governor…after we ran, we tried to tell him that it was over. He went crazy," Karen told them. "He left, if he's going back to Woodbury…"

"He'll kill everyone there," Jes said. "There's babies not much older then your kid there, old people. Mrs. Maple is seventy two."

"Plus we need to find Andrea," Jewel reminded them.

"You know whose on the wall?" Merle asked.

"David…and one of the younger teens, at least when we left they were," Karen said.

"They'll probably keeping them in the library, for safety," Joey said.

"While you guys go play heroes, Jes and I am going to go raid the infirmary and weapons' stash. Hell I helped get most of those weapons, might as well reclaim 'em," Merle said.

"We'll go the rest way by foot," Rick said as he motioned for the group to follow him.

TBC