I was extremely pleased with the reviews last chapter. Thank you to everyone who reviewed. . .I love you guys! Anyways, this next chapter might start off a little strange, but don't worry, you'll understand it later. Well, here goes chapter 10.

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Cindy felt nothing. She saw nothing. She heard nothing. She was nothing. She floated aimlessly in the realm of unconciousness. All around her was black. It was so dark. . . so different. . . and yet so peaceful. For a while, she enjoyed the peace around her, forgetting all that she was suppose to know. She let her worries and cares drift away, and add to the sea in which she bobbed up and down in.

After a little while, though, she grew worried. Everything began to come back into focus. She remembered that she should be worried, and for great reason. She knew that someone she cared about had been in danger, and she'd prevented it. . .

Cindy began to flail her arms and legs, as if drowning. She needed to wake up. She had to. She no longer liked the place in which she was. It became a raging ocean, instead of a peaceful bay, and she wanted to leave it.

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Gabby stared, horrified at what she'd done. She had actually pulled the trigger, and shot someone. Of course, she hadn't been aiming for the target that she'd hit, but all the same.

Jimmy was squated next to Cindy's limp body, not minding the pain in his side from his old wound. He felt for a heartbeat, and miraculosly, felt one.

"She's alive!" he said, turning towards Gabby.

The gun slid from her hand, and fell with a clatter on the floor. This wasnt' suppose to happen.

"I. . . I. . ." was all she managed to say, as she seated herself on Cindy's bed.

"You shot her." replied Jimmy, solomely.

"I. . . I didn't mean to. It wasn't suppose to happen. " she said, still shocked.

"What do you mean? You didn't mean to! You pointed the gun at me and pulled the trigger!" he shouted, glaring at her, but not moving from Cindy's side.

"I'm sorry. . ." she choked, tears welling in her eyes.

"Your sorry!" demanded Jimmy, " You almost killed her! We have to do something, though, or it might happen."

But, then something even more miraculous happened that the heartbeat. Cindy stirred.

"She's moving!" said Gabby, pointing beside Jimmy.

Jimmy turned to the girl lying on the floor, and sure enough, she was moving.

"But how? She took a bullet to the chest. . ." he said.

Cindy moved once more, and her eyelids fluttered open.

"Cindy! You're alright! But how?" he asked, clearly amazed.

She slowly sat up, and examined where the bullet had supposedly entered her body.

"I don't believe it. . ." muttered Gabby from Cindy's bed.

The bullet had been stopped. Exactly where it would have entered, Cindy's pearl had guarded. The pearl now had a large hole in it, not all the way through, because the bulled had apparently changed it's course, and bounced out.

Jimmy helped pull Cindy to her feet.

They both glared at Gabby, but no longer thought of her as a threat, for she was too shocked to shoot anyone else.

He motioned for Gabby to move, and let Cindy sit on her own bed.

For a few moments, no one spoke, but then, Jimmy said simply, "You saved my life."

"No, you saved mine." replied Cindy, as she fingered her necklace.

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A few things. I know that was a little short, and maybe rushed, but don't worry the story isn't over. Be patient, I have another surprise up my sleeve. . . mwa ha ha mwa ha ha. . .

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