All Nightmare Long

Chapter 582

Author's Note: Two chapters in a week! Yay! I really love putting Jewel in this episode with Rick, major Jick's time before things happen. If you are reading this on Wattpadd, the picture manipulation was done by a long-time reader LiveLoveMusic0996. She's awesome and I have no skills when it comes to these things. Thank you all for reading. I may not say it enough, but I do appreciate it. Please review.

Rick and Jewel's POV:

Jewel cut the plastic with her knife as she glanced over at Rick. "We should find some place to hide these, so the Savior's don't find them," she said as she opened boxes of cans.

Rick pulled out MRE's and glanced at it. "We don't have to talk about that now," he said holding up two different meals.

Jewel grinned as she picked the Chicken with Noodles one. "Chow time," she said as she sat down across from him. She opened hers and ate as she watched him. "How's yours?"

"It's good," Rick told her.

Jewel smiled. "You said we didn't have to talk about the Savior's now, and maybe you're right, maybe we can put them out of our mind for tonight. But we need to talk about what the plan is for tomorrow. We go out and get the weapons, right? Then we split them up, take some to Jadis and her people, get them to fight with us," she told him as he took a swig of the beer.

"Right," Rick agreed.

"Then we kill Negan, kill the Savior's and anyone else we have to win. That's the only way this ends, we kill Negan, we kill the Savior's, and we look to the future," Jewel told him. "But what does that future look like? How do we move forward, Mr. Grimes?"

"After that we keep going, Mrs. Grimes," Rick responded.

"Alright," Jewel said. "But Negan made this world his way, and the Hilltop and the Kingdom, if they fight with us, they are used to it being his way, and obviously that will have to change. And then we have Shaw and his group, and Jadis. If they all prove good allies, isn't it up to us to make it possible for all of us to live together, to help each other survive?"

Rick sighed. "Well the different communities, we can figure it out together, how to keep going together."

"Do you think they can do that on their own? Someone's going to have to make that happen," Jewel pointed out. "You aren't going to like this, but it should be you."

Rick looked down then at her. "Not me."

Jewel looked at him. "I felt the same way, back on Hershel's farm, when Glenn nominated me as your second. I didn't want it, but I took it, and I think we make a pretty good team," she said with a smile. "You can do this, you're the only one who can make this work. You're the one person that can lead people the right way," she insisted. "You don't want it do you?" she questioned.

"I don't think I do, not alone. But the two of us, you and me, reordering things together, I want that," Rick told her. "I can't do this alone; I won't do it alone. But with you, we can do anything."

Jewel smiled. "I think that's a given Mr. Grimes, we're a team."

Rick smiled as he bent over and kissed her.

"I think I'm going to have another one of these dinners. God knows when we get them back to Alexandria, all the good ones will be snatched up," Jewel told him.

Rick smiled and looked at her. "You know we don't have to go this all done tomorrow. We can take our time, if we go another day, another one after that, it's fine. I mean the place is clear, locked up tight, we found the only way in, so," he informed her.

Jewel raised an eyebrow. "We had a deal, today and half a day tomorrow. Maybe we have to make it a full day because of the supplies, the guns, but no more. We have to get back," she told him.

"If we're getting the guns, it doesn't matter if it takes a little longer," Rick told her. "Wait, I've been waiting to show you this one," he said as he pulled out another MRE. "It's Chili and Mac and Cheese together," he said as he held it out to her. "Come on."

Jewel shook her head as she took it. "You know, it's a good thing I come prepared, and I brought pumping supplies, so we could stay out a little longer if needed," she said as she opened it.

"You always come prepared," Rick told her as he kissed her, before starting to undress her.

(Time skip to a couple hours later)

Rick sat up in bed and glanced over at Jewel and took a breath. He slightly turned as he felt her fingers trace his back. "You should be sleeping," he told her.

"So should you," Jewel told him, before sitting up. "It'll be light soon, we should get ready," she said as she kissed his back before getting up to change.

"You aren't going to ask me what's wrong?" Rick asked as he stood up.

"Probably the same thing that's keeping me up," Jewel stated. "You'll talk to me when you're ready," Jewel told him as she finished dressing. "Ready?"

Rick nodded. "Yeah," he said as he put on his gun.

Jewel and Rick walked outside; Rick bent down and picked up a gun, handing it back to her, where she put it in her backpack. They stopped and surveyed the scene.

Jewel looked out, keeping her hand on her knives. "The walkers in the field, they aren't closed in."

"Yeah, we got to take care of the ones out here, block that gap to so we can take the rest slow," Rick told her.

"Whenever we did this before, we always had back up," Jewel pointed out.

"We can handle this," Rick told her as he kissed her, before starting to count walkers. He moved away from her, surveying the scene, spotting a car. "Nine," he said as he moved back to her. "That car, I can block it off, I'll take that one out of the way, you take the rest."

"So, when you said we'll handle this, you meant you'll take the easy one and leave me with eight," Jewel teased.

"We could shoot them, but that would call the rest of them from the field," Rick pointed out. "This is about doing it quietly, with your knives," he told her.

Jewel looked at him, taking out the knife blade that Merle used as his hand.

"You can handle eight," Rick told her as he took off the backpack.

"Yeah, easy for you to say, since you're taking out one," Jewel said as she took off her backpack and laid it down. She started pounding on the dumpster to get the walkers' attention, as Rick went over toward the car. She started to move backwards and taking out walkers' as Rick moved to the car.

TBC