"IT WON'T!" Debra screams, tears streaming down her face onto her pillow. "IT WON'T! IT WON'T! IT WON'T!"
"Deb!" Ray says, shaking her gently. "Deb, wake up, you're having a bad dream."
"IT WON'T!" she continues to cry. "No! It won't!"
"Deb!" Ray says again, this time a bit louder. "Deb, wake up!"
Debra wakes up, tears still spilling from her eyes, and looks up at Ray.
"Ray!" she cries as he sits down on the edge of the bed and holds her close to himself, gently rocking her from side to side.
"It's ok," he tells her, kissing the top of her head. "It was just a dream, you're safe and everything is alright."
"Oh Ray," she says, wiping her eyes. "It was the most horrible dream I've ever had in my life!"
"Shhhh," Ray consoles her. "Everything is going to be ok now, I'm here."
"It was horrible!" Debra tells him again. "It was horrible!"
"What was it about?" Ray asks in an effort to reassure her that he was there for her.
"I lost the baby," she tells him. "They came in and told me that I lost the baby."
"Oh," Ray sighs, tears springing up into his eyes, he had had that same dream the first night Debra was in the hospital.
"You kept telling me it would all be ok," she continues. "Saying everything was alright."
"I did?" Ray asks, now realizing that his previous words may not have been his best choice, he holds her closer to him and stroking her hair with his hand.
"It was terrible," She says, tears coming into her eyes again.
"I know honey," he tells her. "I know."
"Ray," she says; a note of worry in her voice. "What if it's true, what if I have lost the baby."
"You don't know that yet," Ray reassures her. "That dream doesn't mean anything."
"But Ray," Debra begins before Ray cuts her off.
"Deb, relax ok?" he tells her. "Don't worry about it until you talk to the doctor."
"How can I stop worrying about it?" she asks, tears still falling down her cheeks.
He stops to think about that for a second, wondering how he can tell her to stop worry about something that had occupied her thoughts for nearly 4 months now.
"I don't know," Ray says, unable to think of a way to comfort her now.
Debra pulls Ray toward her to give him a kiss, their tears mingling together as their lips meet. Ray holds her close to him as she cradles her belly with her unbroken arm.
