Jeffrey could barely believe what had just happened. He waited until a few minutes had passed before moving off of Sandy. He pulled him close and looked into his eyes. "Sandy… Are… Are you ok?" He asked.

Sandy was silent for a moment, his brain still having trouble comprehending what had just occurred. "I… I think so…" he answered detachedly

Jeffrey held Sandy close to him, and for a few minutes they stayed there on the ground like that. Sandy snuggled his head against Jeffrey's shoulder, needing so desperately to feel close to him in that moment.

"It's ok, Sandy…" Jeffrey whispered. "You're fine… I'm fine…"

Sandy pulled away from Jeffrey's embrace. "You… You saved my life…" he said, looking into his eyes.

"It's ok, Sandy…" Jeffrey said. "You're going to be ok…"

Sandy just stared at him, the look on his face still one of complete disbelief.

"Sandy, I need you to do me a favor, ok?" Jeffrey said.

"What?" Sandy asked hesitantly.

"I need you to think for a minute… And tell me if you know why somebody would do something like this…" Jeffrey said.

As soon as the words left Jeffrey's mouth, a look of horrified understanding came across Sandy's face, his jaw dropping open in shock the moment that the realization hit him. Everything that had happened tonight night was real. There was no drug-induced hallucination. There was no ghost. It had been Jonathan. He was alive. All this time… He was alive and hell-bent on getting revenge.

"You know who did this, don't you Sandy?" Jeffrey asked.

"It was him…" Sandy said, barely able to form a coherent sentence in his state of utter disbelief.

"Who, Sandy?" Jeffrey asked. "Who did this?"

Sandy looked at Jeffrey, his eyes widening even more. "Reva…" he said.

"Reva?" Jeffrey asked, completely confused.

"I have to call Reva…" Sandy said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his cell phone, dialing her home phone number.

Jeffrey had no idea how to react to that. He sat back and watched as Sandy's expression changed to one of desperate frustration.

"She's not picking up the phone…" Sandy said. He dialed her cell phone number and hoped for a different result, but alas, he did not get one.

"Sandy…" Jeffrey said. "Just tell me who did this…"

Sandy stuck the phone in his pocket and looked into Jeffrey's eyes once more. "Jonathan…" he whispered hesitantly.

"Sandy, you're not making any sense…" Jeffrey said.

"He's not dead, Jeffrey…" Sandy said.

"What do you mean he's not dead?" Jeffrey said. "You said that he fell off the side of a mountain!"

"He did…" Sandy said. "But he's not dead!"

"Sandy…" Jeffrey said. "This is impossible…"

"He's alive, Jeffrey… I saw him…"

"When?" Jeffrey asked. "When did you see him?"

"Tonight…" Sandy said.

"Sandy… You were high out of your mind, and completely wasted…"

"It was him, Jeffrey!"

"And you're sure it wasn't just a drug-induced hallucination?"

"Could a hallucination have touched me, Jeffrey? Could a hallucination have kissed me? Could a hallucination have left these damn marks on my neck? Could a hallucination have planted that bomb in my house?"

"You told me that you didn't remember what happened to you tonight…"

"Yeah, well… I lied, Jeffrey… I thought that you would think I was crazy, because, the truth is; I was beginning to wonder the same thing myself… But after this, Jeffrey… I know… I know what I saw tonight… I know what I felt… Those were his hands around my neck. Jeffrey… He wanted me… And he wanted me dead…"

"Cassie…" Jeffrey said.

"What?" Sandy asked.

"If what you say is true then what's to stop him from going after the man who is responsible for the way that he grew up? Sandy, we have to go… If what you're saying is true… If he really is out for revenge on all of those who've wronged him than he is going to go after Edmund, and Cassie is going to get caught in the crossfire…" Jeffrey got up off of the ground, dusting what little soot he could off of himself, though not doing a very good job at it. "Come on, Sandy… We have to get to the farm…"

"No…" Sandy said. "It's Reva that we need to get to… It's Reva that he's going to target… And she's not picking up her phone, Jeffrey… What if he already got to her? Oh my God, Jeffrey… What if she's already dead? And it's all my fault…"

"Sandy, she's not dead all right… Look… We'll go there after, ok… I'm sure that she's fine… Ok, I just… I really need to get to that farm…"

"DAMN IT JEFFEY, COULD YOU JUST STOP THINKING ABOUT YOUR DAMN JOB FOR ONE FUCKING MINUTE?" Sandy yelled. "Reva is the one who is in danger here!"

"Sandy… I said that we could…"

"Just shut up, Jeffrey…" Sandy said, turning to walk away.

"Where the hell are you going?" Jeffrey snapped.

"You won't drive me to Reva's…" Sandy said. "Then I'm walking there myself…"

"Damn it, Sandy! I am not letting you out of my sight! For all that you know he could be watching you!"

"Watching me? Watching me? Damn it, Jeffrey! He's not that careful! He is so fucking smug … The concept of failure probably never even crossed his mind!"

"But you can't be sure of that, Sandy!" Jeffrey snapped, grabbing him roughly by the wrist and pulling him close to him. "Damn it, Sandy! Don't you understand? I can't lose you!"

"You lost me a long, long time ago!" Sandy snapped, glaring into Jeffrey's eyes.

"If something were to happen to you right now, I would never be able to forgive myself!"

"And how do you think that I would feel if something happened to Reva?" Sandy snapped, slight tears coming to his eyes. "I would never be able to live with that, Jeffrey… Never… Don't you understand? Please… I know him so well, Jeffrey… I know how he thinks… He hated her, Jeffrey… He hated her so much… He's going to go after her first, I just know it… Please, Jeffrey… You have to take me there… Please, Jeffrey… Please…"

Jeffrey sighed. "All right, Sandy… Just… Get in the car…"

Sandy scurried into the car and slammed the door shut.

Jeffrey got into the car and stuck the key into the ignition. "Call Cassie, Sandy…" he said. "Make sure that she's all right…"

Sandy got out his cell phone and dialed Cassie's home, then cell phone number, but received no answer at either one. "Damn it!" He spat, throwing his cell phone against the dashboard frustratedly.

Jeffrey turned into Reva's driveway. "No answer?" He asked.

"No…" Sandy said, before rushing out of the car. He ran to the door and began to pound on it. "Reva!" He said. "Reva, open the door! Reva!" Frustrated with getting no answer, he pulled out his key and fumbled with the lock. When he finally got it open, he walked inside, looking around and seeing no sign of Reva. He ran back out of the house in a panic. "She's gone, Jeffrey! She's gone!" He said, hurrying back into the car.

"It's ok, Sandy…" Jeffrey said. "It's ok…"

"Damn it! Stop saying that to me!" Sandy shouted. "Just drive, ok… Maybe she's at the farm…"

Jeffrey sighed as he headed for the farm.