All Nightmare Long

Chapter 494

Author's Note: Well I seem to be on a roll for getting this done with Negan so I'm going to keep going. I will do Carol and the other's at some point. I just want to get this done. Yes Jewel is going to call him Mr. Grimes, something she never does in front of people, but she's encouraging him the only way she can. Please review.

Jewel stood right inside the RV, quickly looking around for anything to use as a weapon. She took a breath as Negan practically threw Rick into the RV. "Rick!" she said as she moved to help him.

"I got this sweetheart, you just sit down," Negan told her as he threw Rick on the floor.

Jewel looked at Negan then at Rick before taking a seat. She jumped as Negan slammed the ax down onto the table and went into the driver's seat.

"Let's go for a ride," Negan told them and started the RV. He turned it over a few times, it not starting. "What a piece of shit."

Jewel looked at Rick who was eyeing the ax, and put her hand on his shoulder, squeezing it. She knew what he was thinking and any other time, she would be right with him but he still had there people, her children, their children, on their knees.

"I'm going to kill you," Rick said.

Jewel looked at him, taking a breath.

Negan laughed as he looked at them through the rearview mirror. "Are you kidding me? I can see that your girl there, she doesn't agree with you. Hell, keep pissing her off, maybe she'll agree to come with me."

"Over your dead body," Jewel hissed.

"Don't you mean your dead body?" Negan asked.

"I said what I meant," Jewel said as she kept her hand on Rick's shoulder.

Negan laughed. "Well at least she didn't outright threaten me like you dumbass. Didn't you see what I just did? You just…" he said as he shook his head. "Your best chance is to stand up, grab that ax, and drive it through the back of my head. See how you do. Keep acting tough. Go ahead, grab the damn ax."

"Rick, he's baiting you, don't do it," Jewel begged.

"Damn, she has my number doesn't she?" Negan asked as he laughed.

"You're not that hard to read," Jewel said with contempt in her voice. "Rick don't," she said softly.

"Grab the ax, Rick," Negan told him again.

Rick kissed Jewel before getting up and grabbing the ax. Negan turned around and pointed a gun at him.

"Rick!" Jewel yelled as she got up from the seat.

"Drop it," Negan told him.

Jewel watched as Rick dropped the ax, releasing the breath she was holding.

Negan used the end of the gun to knock Rick down. "Sit back down Jewel, this is between Rick and me."

Jewel looked at him, not moving.

"Don't make me shoot you, Jewel," Negan said as Jewel saw the gun pointed at her.

Jewel took a breath as she sat down, keeping her eyes on Rick.

Negan brought down the ax on the table, causing Rick to jump. "Don't make me get up again. Well look at that," Negan said as he looked out the window. "Dawn is breaking, it's a brand new day, Rick," he said as he laughed and went back to the driver's seat. "I want you to think of what could have happened, think about what happened, and think about what could still happen, starting with your girl there."

"His wife," Jewel corrected him. "His wife."

Negan laughed. "Well shit, sweetheart, his wife."

Jewel went over and helped Rick sit down, leaning in front of him, putting their heads together. She knew that he was thinking about the previous evening's events, just as she was.

Negan laughed as a walker ran into the RV, his head exploding against the windshield. "Boom. That remind you of anybody you know?"

"They were our family," Jewel told him.

Rick squeezed her hand as his mind flashed through first meeting Glenn all the way up to last night. He took a breath as the RV came to a stop.

Negan came over. "Sweetheart, you being on your knees is giving me some naughty thoughts."

"You're sick," Jewel told him.

Negan laughed. "Yeah I am. Go sit down on a seat. Your husband and I need to have a chat."

"It's…it's OK," Rick told her.

Negan offered her his hand to get up. "You killed our family with a bat in your hand, and you think I'd ever take your hand?" she asked as she got up on her own, sitting across from Rick.

Negan shook his head. "She's one to hold a grudge huh?" he asked Rick as he sat down beside him. "You are mine. Jewel is mine. The people back there they are mine. This," he said holding up the ax, "this is mine. He got up and went and opened the RV, watching the walker get close, killing it before throwing out the ax. "Hey Rick, go get my ax. Let's be friends," he told Rick.

Jewel stood quickly. "That's suicide!"

"Well, sweetheart, my ax is outside and I want it inside," he said as another walker came close. He laughed before using it on the walker. He walked over between Rick and Jewel. He held up the bat to Rick's face. "Get. My. Ax."

"I'll do it," Jewel volunteered. "You want your ax…I'll do it."

Negan laughed. "You really gonna let your wife go out there and do it Rick? She's got bigger balls then you do," he said. "No sweetheart, Rick is going to do this, all by himself. He doesn't, you die. I'd hate to do it, but we both know that I brought you out here for leverage. Well, that and hell, you just keep impressing me. Rick, if I have to ask you again, you're going to have to explain to your kids, why there mother is dead," he said.

Rick looked at Jewel, thoughts of them first meeting up till the lineup, before he got up and started to move toward the door. Negan grabbing him and throwing him out.

Jewel moved to the window and looked out as Rick looked at the walkers' moving toward him. "Get up Rick! Get up, Mr. Grimes!" she yelled as Rick started to get up and push the walkers' away.

Rick ran as thoughts of the others ran through his head.

"He needs help!" Jewel yelled at Negan as she turned and looked at him.

"He'll be fine, sit down," Negan told her. "Don't think about trying to get past me and out the door. Yeah, I can read you too. This is all his doing, so he's going to get my ax."

Jewel glared at him as she sat down and looked out the window again, seeing Rick disappear out of her site. She took a breath as she tried to block out the sounds of the walkers and another one as she heard Rick on top of the RV. "You have a better shot of him not getting eaten if I'm with him."

Negan sat down across from her. "You didn't threaten to kill me. Actually you volunteered to let me beat your head in with Lucille, so I wouldn't do it to your friends. Want to tell me why you did that?"

"I already told you," Jewel answered.

"Those people obviously all weren't your family. The Chinese kid? Red?" Negan asked.

"He was Korean," Jewel answered as she looked at him. "I don't expect you to understand."

"Well how about you make me understand?" Negan asked.

Jewel laughed. "You'd never understand. You killed our family and played a sick game of tag you're it. My daughter now has seen you bash in three people's heads. It messed her up seeing someone she didn't know get his head bashed in, I don't want to see what it does to her that she saw you do it to family. And one of them was like a brother to her. You injured my kid, you got into the face of my other kid, and now you are endangering my husband because you want to prove a point? Those people out there are my family and I would have rather died then see what you did to Glenn and Abraham. But a man like you, you don't have family, hell you don't even have friends," she said.

"And what do you call all those fine people out there guarding your people?" Negan asked.

"Lackies," Jewel said. "You just surrounded yourself with every bully you could find, offered them little treats, and they'd do anything you'd tell them. And, you're the biggest bully of them all. Instead of working for things, you just take them. And you crush whoever gets in your way," she said as she stood up. "I'm going to go help my husband get your ax and the only way you're going to stop me is by using your bat on me. I'm not letting him get killed for your little game. I'm not doing that to my children, I'm not doing that to myself," she said as she turned her back on him taking a breath as she felt the bat on her shoulder.

"Damn, you really want to risk your life that much?" Negan asked.

"We don't do things alone. So either use the bat on me or let me out of the RV," Jewel told him.

"Well shit sweetheart, be my guest," Negan said as he opened the door, killing a walker. "Damn Rick, your wife is made of steel," he said.

TBC