Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

Chapter 113

Author's Note: Reviews and follower's make me happy! More reviews please, love you all. It really thrills me! So I get the vibe that Michonne can be gone for a while and show up now and then. So she doesn't know the news yet. I live in South Florida. I'm a Hurricane, the Gators are our rivals.

Group POV:

Jewel and Rick walked down to get some food. Jewel grinned as she saw Michonne. "When did you get back?"

"Early," Michonne said as she hugged her. "Heard we got some missing people to go look for?"

"You just got back, you don't have to go," Carol told her. "How are you feeling Jewel? Up for some meat?"

"Yeah, I'm feeling alright," Jewel told her as she sat down.

Michonne looked at her. "You've been sick?"

Rick tried not to grin. "Morning sickness."

Michonne looked at Jewel and sat down. "When did this happen? Do I need to beat this ones ass for you?" she asked.

Jewel laughed. "No, it's alright. It's a good thing. I'm about nine weeks along," she said. "Happened the night we chased the Governor away."

"Well that's one hell of a way to celebrate. You need anything?" Michonne asked.

"Peanut butter, everyone's keeping an eye out for peanut butter," Ty told her. "Rick they aren't back yet? You want help looking?"

"Yeah we could use the eyes. Daryl's packing up a car. We're pretty sure it's a flat tire," Rick said. "Whose on guard duty?"

"Sasha and Karen," Tyreese answered.

Michonne stood up. "I'm going."

"You just got back," Jewel said. "You must be tired."

"I'll rest when we get them back," Michonne said.

"Dad, can I go?" Carl asked.

"Me too," Lexi offered as she came in.

"No," both Ty and Carl said.

"Dad, come on I can do this, you know I can," Carl told Rick.

Michonne looked at Carl. "Hey, Carl, can I talk to you over here for a minute? You to Lexi."

Jewel nodded at Rick and Ty to let them go.

Carl sighed. "Michonne we can do this."

"I don't doubt that you can. I know that they don't doubt it either. But, Jewel's already worried sick about Summer right?" she asked the teens.

"Yes," Carl admitted.

"And she thinks of you as a son, right?" Michonne asked.

"Yes," Carl answered.

"Jewel's going to be worried about your dad and Daryl being out there, she doesn't need to add you to it," Michonne told him. "And Lexi, the same goes for you. You know Jewel is a mother at heart, she's going to stress over any of you young ones. So I know that both of you are capable but I'm asking you to think about Jewel and the baby right now."

Carl and Lexi looked at each other. "Alright," Carl said.

"Good, just help her with Judy," Michonne said as she walked them back.

Rick mouthed a thank you to the other woman. "You got this Carl?"

"We got this," Carl answered.

Rick squeezed his shoulder. "Thank you," he said as he went over to kiss Jewel. "We'll bring them back."

"I know," Jewel answered.

Jes came in. "They're back and they brought company!" she announced.

Jewel looked at Rick as she got up and went out with them. They watched as the bus with a faded Gator logo on the side pull up.

"What the hell?" Daryl asked.

"Guess this is going to be interesting," Hershel said.

Glenn got out of the bus first. "First, she's fine," he said really fast. "It was a mistake, an accident, and she's alright."

"Which she are we talking about?" Jewel asked as Mar came out.

"Summer…" Glenn said. "Summer get out here now before I have a bunch of people getting mad at me!"

Summer shook her head as she came out. "I'm fine, just a flesh wound," she said.

Rick and Daryl both stepped up. "Summer what happened?" Rick asked.

"Got mistaken for a bear. I know….I'm the oddest looking bear in the world," Summer said as she hugged Rick. "We got a flat tire, the gun shot came out of no where, grazed me. For the most part they are good people."

"Summer, if you keep bringing home strays, I'm not letting' you out of my sight," Merle said.

"How many?" Rick asked Glenn.

"Twelve, mostly college age students for University of Miami. The leaders were Air Force, there daughter was attending school up there, they got there to late to save her but saved others," Glenn said.

"Alright, let's get them some food, then we'll have the group leaders meet with the council. Rick, Jewel, think you two should be in there," Hershel said.

Jewel nodded as she hugged Summer. "You had me worried sick. A bear huh? I got to meet this idiot that mistook you for a bear."

"Obviously needs a lesson in when bears hibernate," Daryl huffed.

Joey grinned as he came out. "Thought we were going to have to rescue you," he said.

"Can't get rid of me that easy," Summer said.

"So which one of these idiots shot you?" Daryl asked.

"Shot? You were shot?" Joey asked.

"Mistaken for a bear," Summer said. "I'm cold, let's go inside."

"Good idea," Mar said as she hugged her. "Glad to see that trouble still finds you. I was getting worried."

"Gee thanks," Summer said. "When did you get back Michonne?"

"Just a few hours ago, was going to come look for you. Glad you saved us the trip. You alright?" Michonne asked.

"I'm alright. Did you find him?" Summer asked.

"No, not yet," Michonne answered.

Council POV:

Jewel rubbed her arm as everyone came in.

"You cold?" Rick asked her as he kissed her neck.

"Yeah a little," Jewel admitted.

"Here," Rick said as he handed her an extra blanket. "You don't have to be here, I can give my input."

"I'm fine Rick," Jewel said as she kissed her.

Hershel nodded. "You've met Glenn, this is Sasha, Carol, Daryl and I'm Hershel. This is the girls parents that was shot, Rick and Jewel. Glenn already told us what happened and that you took them in for the night. I appreciate that. I'm Glenn's father in law, and Maggie's father. Daryl is Summer's uncle. So we just need to know your story and ask you a few questions."

Ridge and Ronnie looked at each other, Ronnie nodding to Ridge. "Like I told Glenn last night, Ronnie and I were both in the Air Force, stationed at Eglin in Florida when all this went down. Both of us had joined right out of high school, met in our first duty station. Been together for twenty five years, until this all happened, didn't realize how precious each day was. We loaded up a car, headed up to University of Miami, to get our daughter, Kim. She was a sophomore. By the time we got there….all hell broke lose," Ridge explained.

"We couldn't believe how fast it spread, how fast things went from bad to worse," Ronnie said as she pulled her long brown hair up in a bun. "We…saw Kim, but she was one of those things…Ridge had to put her down," Ronnie said with sadness in her voice.

Carol looked up. "I'm sorry, I know how hard that is. My daughter Sophia…got bit, I had to put her down. Anyone would have done it, but it had to be me, I brought her into this world, I was the one that needed to take her out."

Ridge nodded. "Worse pain ever. But Ronnie and I were both command, and though we allowed ourselves to miss her, we had to help. We found survivors hunkered down in a couple offices, some were just seniors in high school on a scouting trip. We raided the campus for medical supplies, anything that could be used for weapons, packed up food. College kids have a lot of junk food, worked in our favor for a while."

"Got a couple of the team busses, used one just for supplies, cots, beds, things like that. Had to dump it after a few months, taking to much gas to support both. Plus we had lost some people since we started," Ronnie said.

"We kept on moving, kept on making a plan. We were ultimately planning on heading to the CDC, but Glenn said that some of you were there, and it's gone?" Ridge asked.

Carol, Jewel, Rick and Glenn raised there hands, Daryl just nodded a reply.

"So you've all been together for a while," Ronnie said.

"There was sixteen of us from the Atlanta camp, seventeen but Jim got bit and begged to be left behind before we got there," Rick said.

"That number is half now, but we met Hershel and his daughters on the farm, Hershel saved Carl. We've been together for over a year now. Mar is a friend of mine from before the turn, we worked together. We're nurses. Daryl and me we thought we lost our other brother, but luckily he found us. Sasha and her siblings joined us a little over a couple months ago," Jewel explained as she leaned on Rick's shoulder.

"We know what it's like to survive, can't do it without people no more," Daryl said.

"You willing to pull your weight? Help with what's needed?" Sasha asked.

"Everyone pulls guard duty or gate duty, unless they got a job like in the infirmary. But sometimes, like Jewel and Mar will volunteer to go on runs or do guard duty cause it's slow," Carol said.

Jewel laughed. "Yeah or get pregnant, you even look at a crow brow and someone's about ready to pick you up and put you over there shoulders and deposit you in the prison," she said.

Sasha laughed. "Yeah, Ty told me about that."

"Seriously, I have two older brothers, I don't need a younger one. Wait I've got lots of them, never mind," Jewel said as she dug in the coat pocket. "Ah peanut butter crackers," she said as she grinned. "Maggie found a box."

Rick laughed as he kissed her. "This is going to get interesting."

"We're on a peanut butter watch when we go out. By the time this baby's born, Jewel will have all the peanut butter we can find," Glenn said with a laugh.

"This one had cravings for Sardines," Ridge said as he nudged Ronnie's arm.

Jewel wrinkled up her nose. "Yeah, the smells would kill me with this one."

"So you agree?" Hershel asked.

"Yeah, it'll be good to have more eyes to watch us and we'll watch you to," Ronnie answered.

"How many Walker's have you killed?" Hershel asked.

"Snapper's," Glenn said.

Ridge and Ronnie looked at each other. "To many to even think about. I think we took out the whole Gator Basketball team to get one of the busses," Ridge said.

"How many people?" Carol asked.

"I killed four of my men when we had orders to take down everyone at the hospital, including my wife. I've killed three more protecting the girls in our group," Ridge said.

"I've put down three people that had been bit about a month ago. Had no choice, they didn't want to turn, and they didn't have the guts to do it there selves," Ronnie answered.

"I've tried to protect her and the group the best I could from doing things like that," Ridge said.

"The guy who shot my daughter?" Jewel asked.

"Kyle. He was a freshman, had a scholarship. He's not a hot head, and he's not very good with a gun," Ronnie said.

"Thank goodness for that," Jewel said.

"He's jumpy, wants to prove himself, it gets him in more trouble then it's worth at times, like now," Ridge says.

"He don't carry a gun until one of us can judge him on it," Daryl says.

"Give proper instruction," Rick added.

"Most of them need proper instruction, we've done what we could. Zach, Allie, Bruce, and Andy are our best shots, they are also our best supply runners. Zach and Bruce both grew up hunting. Ellie and Stacey are our hand to hand combat specialist. Ellie had been taking self defense since she was thirteen. Sean and Taylor are runner's, Sean's a little bit better on weapons then Taylor, she can aim and hit things but needs time to set it up. Damion and Kyle they are our worst shots. They're good at knives, but guns, hopeless," Ridge said. "And I've been instructing weapons for a while."

Glenn looked around the group. "Welcome."

"We'll get you all settled in D Block," Carol said as she instructed them to follow.