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Okay, so it's not over yet. This chapter came to me today and I think I have a few more ideas.

Chapter 12

I don't think there was anything that wasn't checked out by a crowd of doctors. I don't know why everyone was so freaked out. I fell asleep. What was the big deal?

"It's amazing." My regular doctor just shook his head. "I mean I've heard that the heart rate can slow so much that you can't tell that a person is alive, but I never thought I would see it."

"Look, doc. I'm not dead as you can see, so please stop talking like I am some specimen in your lab."

He laughed. "I'm sorry. It's just – wow – this is rare. You had no pulse. Your blood pressure couldn't be read. You didn't even look like you were breathing. You were like that for hours. I mean almost twelve hours – what did you see? Did you see something?"

"I don't know – I was just – I was with my mother and I saw my husband and baby. I don't remember being dead. So I couldn't have been. To me – I was awake the whole time."
XXX

I rushed to the maternity ward and ran all the way to the desk.

"My daughter? Is she alright?" I asked out of breath.

"And what is your daughter's name sir?"

"Reigns. I got a call. They said there was a mistake."

The nurse typed something into the computer. "No – everything is fine. Nothing's wrong."

I breathed a sigh of relief.

The nurse read a little more, than her expression turned to one of sympathy. "Im not sure why they called you, but you can see your baby if you want." The nurse pointed me toward a hall and I wandered down a corridor of half glass panels. I stopped and stared at the baby sleeping so peacefully. I leaned on the railing and just watched her. She was so beautiful, but I still didn't know what to do next. I guess I needed to call her father – I probably needed to call a funeral home – I needed to make arrangements. Pink flowers. I had to get her pink roses. She loved them. And I wanted her home. I'd have to see what I needed to do to bury her on our land. So she'd be close to me. I had to have her close to me. Maybe under her favorite tree. The one that bloomed little flowers in the spring. Right before the temperatures began to warm. The one she would stand under as the flowers blew off. I could see her then with all those white particles raining down on her. Stuck in her long hair.

"Excuse me? Mr. Reigns?"

I turned toward the nurse who touched my shoulder. "There is someone looking for you – the doctor that called you?"

I nodded and followed her. She didn't say anything about why I was summoned to come to the hospital. Maybe she didn't know. We rounded a corner and went down toward the rooms. Inside the rooms I saw a few mother's holding their babies. It tore at my heart.

"Mr. Reigns!" The man who had delivered my daughter walked swiftly from the door he was standing beside. He caught up to me and held a hand out for me to shake.

"Is everything okay with my baby?" I said wearily. I was so tired that my eyes stung and I know I was still dazed.

"Oh, yes. Your daughter is perfectly healthy, but – I'm not sure how to explain this." He rubbed his neck. "it's about your wife."

I took a deep breath. I guess they needed me to sign some papers. Katie was an organ donor. It was nice to know that a part of her would live in someone else.

"This happens sometimes – honestly, I thought it was just a myth – but."

"Please." I held up my hand. "I don't need to be convinced. I know what Katie wanted and I'll be glad to sign papers for her organs to be donated."

"I don't know how to say this." The doctor fumbled. "There's just no way I can prepare you – your wife – she woke up."

I closed my eyes and opened them again. Okay, I had to be dreaming. I had passed out.

"She's not gone, Mr. Reigns. She opened her eyes just as they were about to put her in the cooler downstairs. It's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen."

I looked past him. There was a large group standing outside of a door. I headed for that door as fast as I could. I was nearly running. I tried to be polite as I squeezed through the crowd to peer at the woman in the bed, but when I finally got to her – I couldn't even speak.

XXX

Roman dropped down beside me and took me in his arms, rocking me and crying. I had never seen him break down like that before. But I knew I felt like something was missing until I was in his arms.

"I thought was I was being punished for the way I'd got you."

"You really have to stop feeling guilty about that baby." I cupped his face in my hands. "I told you I can't stand to being away from you."

The room cleared out but there was still a lot of loud chatter outside the room.

"How do you feel? Are you okay? Are you hurting?" Roman fussed over me. He didn't let me go. He rocked me gently and kissed me repeatedly. I saw fear in his eyes. Like he was scared I would slip away again. Like we had only been given enough time to say good bye before I would again be taken. "I didn't know what to do."

"You?" I giggled. My husband always had a plan. And he could come up with one in an instant if anything changed from what he expected.

"I told you I would hurt you if I made love to you." He sobbed. "I keep hurting you."

"Shut up, Roman." I laughed at him. Ten years and he still worried about hurting me when we were intimate. "Being with you is the most wonderful thing in the world." Our love making was always beautiful. Time never faded how it felt to be one with him.

"I missed you."

"I wasn't gone that long." I tried to bring him around, but he still seemed to be in a daze. There were many times when I looked at him and I wondered if he really loved me. I wondered if he had only become attached to me because of the past and I wondered if everything was just him still trying to make up for what he'd done so long before.

In that moment, I knew. His love for me was as deep as mine was for him and I got scared. What if I lost him? What if fate sent me back and planned to take him instead? I feared that we weren't given this time without a catch. I didn't want to live without him. I couldn't. Not on Earth or the afterlife. I had to be with him.

"I love you so much." He broke down again. He couldn't control himself. He'd gain control for a few moments, then break down again. It scared me. I felt like we were saying goodbye and I didn't want to say goodbye.

XXX

It didn't seem real. But I wasn't sure what part. I didn't seem real when I heard the flatlined heart monitor. It didn't seem real when they gazed at me and said she was gone. It didn't seem real when they said there was nothing more they could do. I'd watched them try to revive her. I'd watched it all. None of it seemed real.

Now it didn't seem real that she had come back to me. I just couldn't let her go. Even when the nurse brought our baby in the room and laid her in Katie's arms. I didn't leave her side. I sat beside her in that bed, holding her. Watching her with our daughter. I committed every second to my memory believing that I would soon wake up and realize none of it was real. It was the closest to those memories I would ever have and I didn't want to wake up. I was willing to live my whole life in that dream until I could be with her again.