Eva's head rested on Frank's damp chest.  He had fallen asleep after holding her for what felt like forever, but in reality was much too short a time.  She smiled; she was finally truly happy again and she knew that Frank was too.  She realized that the experience they had just shared was one that acted as a rebirth of sorts of their life together.  Any doubts that she had faded and the only thing she could feel was bliss.

            Carefully, she crawled out of bed, slipped on her robe, and went to the kitchen.  She picked up the phone and called her mother.  "Hi, mom," she said cheerfully, unable to conceal her immense happiness.

            "Eva?  Sweetie, are you and Frank all right?  I thought I would've heard from you a few hours ago?"

            "We're, um…we're fantastic mom.  We had a long…conversation and things couldn't be better."

            Knowingly, her mother laughed.  "I'm happy for you, Eva.  I'm willing to bet that neither of you have eaten and probably, I don't know, lack the energy to cook?"

            "Mooooom," Eva said, partially laughing, partially whining that her mother was talking about what she and Frank did.

            "Oh, it's O.K., dear, he is your husband and you did have a baby with him."  She laughed.  "What I'm getting at is why don't the two of you come over and have dinner here before you take Faye home?"

            "Sounds great mom, we should be there within the hour."

            "O.K., dear, see you soon."

            Eva hung up the phone and sauntered to the bedroom, a wide smile on her face.  "Frankie," she called sweetly.  "Why don't we go get Faye and…"  She looked at Frank who was sitting up in the bed; there was a strange look in his eyes; they were almost glazed over.

"They're behind you," he whispered.

Eva turned her head.  "Frank, nobody's behind me…"

"Yes," he interrupted.  "They came back for me…they want to finish what was started."

"Frank, you're scaring me.  What are you talking about?"

"Riff-Raff, Magenta," he started to laugh faintly.  "They're going to kill me this time."  Sweat began to drip from his brow and his body started to shake.

"Frankie, baby, look," she waved her arms through the area of the room where Frank insisted there were intruders.  "Nobody's here."  She looked at him and a thought struck her.  She approached him with caution, as not to alarm him.  She circled to his left side.  "Baby, can I look at your arm?"  Frank didn't say a word; he just stared at the far side of the bedroom.  Eva slowly lifted the covers and inspected the crook of his arm.  All of his veins were finally back to normal and the puncture wounds had disappeared.  "Withdrawal?" she thought.  "Why now?  Why not earlier?"

"They're gone now," he whispered, "but I know they'll be back.  Faye…she's not safe…"  He closed his eyes and a few tears fell onto the sheets. 

Eva didn't know how to begin to approach the situation.  She stroked his hair and kissed the top of his head.  Within a few seconds, he had snapped out of whatever he had just gone through.

"Eva?" he asked, obviously confused.  "What's going on?"  The life was back in his eyes and his voice was much stronger.

"Frank, do you remember anything about what just happened?"

            "Not all of it, but enough."

"What were you talking about Frank?  What were you seeing?  Why did you say those things…and Faye, why did she come up?"

"I wish I knew, love."  His face lost all expression.  "Riff Raff and Magenta are gone and I know they have no desire to return to this planet.  You said Faye is with your mother?"

"Uh huh," Eva was becoming more concerned by the minute.

"We need to get there…now.  It's probably nothing, but I…I need to see our baby."

They got into Frank's car and Eva had to ask the question that was burning in her mind.  "Frank, is there any possibility that you may have been seeing things because of, um, maybe a withdrawal problem of some sort?"

            Frank took one hand off the steering wheel and reached for Eva's.  He held it tightly as he spoke.  "No, darling.  The past couple of weeks have been just that.  That's another reason why we didn't…on top of my fear about you rejecting 'us' my 'sexual drive' was all but gone.  Our little, um, reconciliation today has definitely gotten me over that."

"A loss of your 'sexual drive' is all you have go through after everything that was pumped into you?"

"You're forgetting, Eva, that where I come from, a loss of one's desire to be sexually active is…well, atrocious." 

"Well, even so, compared to what happens to people here, you get off rather easily…" Eva giggled at her choice of words, as did Frank, lightening the mood.

They arrived at her mother's house within a few minutes and got out of the car.  Frank had his arm around Eva's waist as they walked to the front door.  As soon as they were close enough, they could see that the door wasn't entirely shut.  For some reason, Frank let go of Eva and rushed inside.  

When he stepped into the living room, he saw Audrey in the corner.  She was sitting on the floor, sobbing. 

"Audrey," Frank said rushing to her, "what happened?"

She grabbed onto Frank.  "They took Faye!"

Frank knew whom she spoke of.  However, he couldn't let on that he knew, so he asked a question that anyone would ask.  "Who, Audrey?"

"I don't know…a-a man and a woman…th-they just came in and he had a…" Her breathing was erratic.

"Shh," Frank said, stroking her hair.  He was amazingly calm.  Eva looked on with a horror stricken face.  "Calm down and talk to me, Audrey."

"A gun of sorts, I think" she said in a much softer tone.  "The woman took Faye from the bassinet and they were gone.  I-I tried to call the police but…the phone didn't…"

"It's all right, Audrey."  Frank helped her up and over to the couch.

"I'm so sorry," she whispered.

"It's not your fault, believe me."  Frank walked over to Eva, who had yet to really grasp what was going on.  He looked at his wife solemnly and spoke in a low voice to keep Audrey from hearing him.  "I know what happened earlier tonight, Eva.  Parents have very strong connections with their children, um, back home, when they are infants, and I think what I had was a premonition of sorts."  Eva finally began to emote, tears falling from her eyes.  "Darling, we're going to get her back.  I promise you that.  I'm going to do whatever it takes…"

"You said they were going to kill you…"

"I'll get her back no matter what the cost, but we, along with Faye, have a very long time ahead of us.  Eva, I won't let them tear you and I apart again in any way."