Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 112

Author's Note: So I had this idea about how they found Zach, the only thing I could find about him was he was with other college students they found and brought in. So of course my brain started working, and came up with a back story, including two more prominent OC's (these people are killing me) that I'm keeping around. I did not look for actors for all the 'red shirts' since they will be killed before or during the Governor's return. But now, I had to figure out how to introduce these people. Let me tell you that when you are looking for time lines of what months certain things happen in this show it DOES not exist. So since they looked like they were preparing for winter when the Governor attacked I'm going to make this mid December (Only so I can do Jewel and Rick's first 'anniversary'.) You all love me!

Anyone that watches 24, will notice I'm giving a nod to Kiefer Sutherland's character on 24 with the name of his daughter. And I'm really sorry Summer, you just keep getting hurt! But the kid had really bad aim! Review please!

OC's (that I care about)

Veronica "Ronnie" Washburn-Rhona Mirta

Ridge Washburn-Kiefer Sutherland

Nine Weeks After Governor's Attack

Glenn, Summer, Maggie's POV:

Summer looked up in the sky as Glenn messed with the car they were driving in. "We're never going to make it back to the prison before it starts to snow."

"The Dixon weather radar telling you that?" Maggie teased.

"Some bones cracking? A knee letting you know?" Glenn teased as he looked at the tire. "This thing is shot. Like totally blown, not going to make it. And that was the spare," he said with a sigh. It was supposed to be an easy supply run, in and out. It had been a while since the three of them had been out and him and Maggie had convinced Summer to come along.

"Let's get our gear, find shelter for the night. It's not safe to travel in the dark. The council will know that if we ran into trouble, we'd hunker down for the night," Maggie said. "Rick and Daryl will probably come out looking for us anyway in the morning. Daryl said that tire would probably only make it for one more run."

"Didn't even make that," Summer said. "And it isn't because I was driving, Glenn! Don't even," she said as she glared at him.

"Would I say something like that? Me? Never?" Glenn asked as he got up from the ground and got his bag and handed Summer hers. "Let's go," he said.

Summer stepped in front and had taken two steps before the sound of a gun shot whizzed passed her and grazed her shoulder.

"Summer!" Glenn yelled as he pointed his gun to whoever took the shot.

"Summer are you alright?" Maggie asked as she dropped her bag.

"Shit! You're not a bear!" a young man about seventeen or eighteen said as he came out of the woods.

Summer looked at her arm then him. "Bears hybernate during the winter you idiot! And do bears have blond hair? Seriously?"

"Kyle what the hell did you shoot at?" another young man asked. "Oh shit! Are you alright? I'm Zach…Ridge we got a problem. You shot her?"

"I thought she was a bear!" the kid named Kyle said.

"You seriously need glasses!" Zach said as he stepped forward.

"Not another step," Glenn said as he raised his gun. "Maggie how's she doing?"

"Luckily he's a really bad shot," Maggie said as a man came out of the woods.

"What happened?" the man said as he looked at the two young men then at the trio. "Kim…." he almost whispered to himself as he stepped forward. "Sorry, from a distance you…never mind. Can I look?" he asked as he put down his gun. "One of you two better start talking."

Glenn looked at Maggie. "You do one thing we don't like, and she'll shoot you," Glenn warned as he nodded to Maggie.

"He thought she was a bear," Zach said.

The man looked at him. "Kyle exactly what were you learning in college? Bears hibernate in the winter," he said as he went over. "Names Ridge Washburn," he said as he looked at the wound. "Well lucky for you, Kyle has really bad aim. My wife can fix you up, we're staying at an old mental health clinic up the road. And it looks like you guys ran into some trouble."

"You mean beside this idiot shooting me?" Summer asked.

"Yeah besides this idiot shooting at you. Kyle give the man your gun," he said as he nodded to Glenn.

"Ridge," the red headed young man said as he hesitated.

"You shot his friend, this needs to be looked at, and right now, I'm pretty sure they don't care if it was an accident or not. I don't blame them if they aimed that at your head and shoot you. And, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't miss. Now it's getting colder, and it's getting darker. I don't want to be out here when the Snapper's come out. Now, hand them your gun," Ridge said in a voice that meant no argument was going to be tolerated.

Kyle sighed as he handed over the gun.

"Alright, let's get you back," Ridge said.

"I've got her," Maggie said as she helped Summer up. "I'm Maggie Rhee, that's my husband Glenn, and this is Summer Dixon."

"Nice to meet all of you, even if it's under this circumstance," Ridge said. "You two first, let them know we've got guests."

"Were you in the military or something?" Summer asked.

Ridge laughed. "That obvious huh? Air force. My wife was at a doctor at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, I was part of the Air Force Systems Command. I was sent to the hospital, we were instructed to put down people, sick or not…and that included my wife Ronnie. Couldn't do it. So I grabbed her, went back to base, cleared out on of the weapon's rooms and headed up to Gainesville, where our daughter Kim was a Sophomore at University of Florida. When we got up there, it was already bad…she had turned. I had to put her down, when I saw you…blond hair, thin…just for a minute I thought it was her. Sorry…"

"Nothing to be sorry about, we've lost people too. Lot's of them," Summer told him.

A brown haired woman met them at the door. "Yeah Kyle she looks like a bear. Since when does a bear carry a bow and arrow?" she asked as she kissed Ridge. "Didn't I say don't let those boys out of your sight?"

"They aren't boys, and Zach can handle himself," Ridge told his wife. "This is Veronica, Ronnie. This is Maggie, Glenn and Summer. They've got a flat tire, I offered them shelter for the night," he said as he walked in.

Glenn looked around as young people between nineteen to twenty three came out of various offices. "What is this place?"

Ronnie smiled as she went to patch up Summer's arm. "Not to sure how much Ridge has told you. We went up to UF, it was to late for our daughter, but we found about twenty five survivors. We packed up a couple team busses. We've lost some people on the way, some took there own lives….some we lost to the Snappers. We were heading up to the CDC, hoped they were finding a cure," Ronnie stopped as she saw the look between Glenn and Summer. "What?"

"The CDC…it's gone," Glenn said.

"What do you mean it's gone?" a young woman asked coming out of the room.

"Glenn and I were there with our group, there was one wackadoodle scientist left. He let us in, fed us, gave us shelter then tried to blow us up," Summer said. "We lost one of us then, she decided to opt out, stay behind. But there wasn't a cure. And we're all infected…with whatever this is. You don't have to be bit or scratched, we all carry it."

Ronnie looked at Quinn. "That explains Kay…one of the girls, we found her in the bathroom at one of stops, she had opted out but before we could bury her she turned. Took out two more of us."

"You're lying…" the same young woman said.

"Stacey," Ridge warned.

"When did this happen?" Zach asked.

"About four months into the outbreak," Glenn said. "Boy you got lots of weapons."

"Like I said, cleared out a weapons locker, plus picked up few things on the way," Ridge answered.

"How many are you left?" Maggie asked.

"Total of twelve, been here a few weeks," Ronnie answered. "How about the three of you? Your welcome to join us if you don't have a group. I don't feel right about turning you out if you don't have anywhere else to go."

"We've got a group," Maggie answered.

"We were out on a supply run. Which by the way Glenn, thank you for convincing me that I needed to leave my pregnant mother to go out on a run like old times with the two of you. I swear if it's not bear traps or walkers jumping out of boxes now it's getting shot at," Summer teased him.

Ronnie looked up as she bandaged her arm. "Your mom's pregnant? How old is she? How far along?"

Summer looked at her. "She just turned thirty two, why? She had me young."

"Sorry, being an Air Force Doctor for over twenty five years, you spend a lot of time in different parts of the hospitals, or clinics. I've delivered a baby or two," Ronnie said as she finished wrapping her arm.

Summer looked at Glenn. "I just found my birthday present, can I keep her?"

Glenn burst out laughing. "Sorry, it's just…we lost a member of our original group a few months back when she went into labor. Summer had to perform a C section….Lori's son had to put her down. Summer's mom is married to Carl's dad so both of them, all of us actually, are a bit concerned."

"Oh sweetheart, I can imagine how scary that was," Ronnie said. "How old is Carl?"

"Thirteen," Maggie answered.

"At the time we had just settled in to where we were at, we were cut off by Walkers. Guess you call them Snappers. We had been on the run her whole pregnancy, and maybe she would have had a chance if Maggie's dad or my mom or Mar had been around," Summer said.

"The baby made it?" Ridge asked.

"Judith, she's fine. We look out for powdered formula every time we're out. We're going to start growing food when it gets warmer, so she'll have fresh food when it comes time for her to start eating baby food," Maggie said. "Glenn? Should we?"

"Look, we got a place, we're taking people in. But it's not up to us, we've got a council. I'm a member. It'll have to be cleared with them, but if you're all willing to pull your weight, it's shelter. We've had some problems, but hopefully that's over," Glenn admitted.

"How do we know we can trust them? We've had trouble with groups before," a girl about twenty asked.

"Stacey," Ridge warned. "We have had trouble with groups. Things like this, it either brings out the good or the bad in people."

Glenn, Maggie and Summer looked at each other. "Yeah we've had trouble with groups too," Glenn said. "We've learned that the way we survive is to keep our humanity, find people like us, help them out. It makes us stronger against the people that lose there humanity."

Ronnie looked at him. "What did you do before this?"

"Delivered pizza's," Glenn answered.

Summer grinned. "Yeah I know right?" she asked as she saw the woman's face.

Rick and Jewel's POV:

Jewel pulled the jacket around her and walked over to where Rick was. "They aren't back yet?"

"No, Daryl and I will look first thing in the morning. You know they are smart. If they saw that they couldn't make it back in time, they would look for shelter for the night. Let's go back inside," Rick told her as he kissed her. "Merle's taking night shift on guard duty, he'll let us know if they come in."

"They shouldn't be traveling at night," Jewel said as they walked back into the prison.

Rick tried not to laugh. She was worried about them not being back but also worried about them not traveling at night. "You're right, which is why they probably aren't back."

Carl and Mitch popped out of the cell. "They're not back?" Carl asked.

"No, but you know that they won't be traveling at night," Rick told them.

"Daryl said that tire wouldn't make it after this run, could just have a flat tire," Mitch suggested.

"Daryl said the same thing. Carol watching Judy?" Rick asked.

"Mar took her, said she'd keep her for the night," Mitch said. "So you could rest," he said to Jewel.

"Alright, both of you in bed. Don't stay up reading comic books to late," Rick said.

"Night guys," Jewel said as she went up to there room and smiled as she watched Rick closed the door. She hated to admit that she loved the way he was when they were alone, enjoying her being pregnant.

"Jacket off," Rick said as he kissed her. "How's peanut doing?"

Jewel laughed as she took off the coat. "Hasn't been bothered by smells for a week," she said as she kissed him. "I have to admit I like peanut better then turkey."

Rick laughed as he ran his hand down her stomach. "Yeah me too. Can't wait to see you start showing. Though you are showing in other ways," he grinned.

"Yeah the milk factory is growing," Jewel said with a laugh as she laid down on the bed. "You think they're alright?"

Rick kissed her again and touched her face. "I know that Glenn, Maggie and Summer make a good team. They are smart, they are wise, they are protective of each other. They wouldn't do anything stupid. They know how to survive," he said as he kissed her again. "I know you are worried, so am I. But peanut needs a calm environment. Alright, so I know that is a bit hard to fulfill considering the time we're living in, but you know what I mean," he said with a laugh.

"Promise me something?" Jewel asked with a smile.

"Anything, Mrs. Grimes, you know that," Rick said as he kissed her.

"Promise me we'll do this every night possible? I don't know…I kinda like this alone time, you being the way you are about me being pregnant. I don't care if we have Judy or not, just you'll still do this?" Jewel asked.

Rick smiled. "That isn't ever going to stop, Mrs. Grimes."

"Thank you Mr. Grimes," Jewel said as she ran her hand up his face. "I sure hope they find razors," she said with a laugh.

TBC