Dreaming About Her

Chapter 2

As soon as they loaded Jamie in the ambulance, Eddie jumped in right behind and immediately grabbed his hand again. On the way to the hospital Jamie started gasping for air, and the paramedic immediately started to intubate him. Eddie could feel the ambulance get faster by the second and kept holding on to Jamie's hand. All she could do was hope and pray that he would be ok.

When they got to the hospital they whisked Jamie away so fast, and as much as Eddie wanted to follow, she knew they would not allow her back there right now. She immediately started thinking about how badly she needed to call Erin and the rest of his family, even though she dreaded it so badly. She picked her phone up and dialed Erin's number from her phone.

"Erin" – His older sister could tell that Eddie was in hysterics the moment she answered the phone, and prayed that her younger brother was ok.

"It's Jamie" – Eddie continued, clearly sobbing.

"Which Hospital?" – Erin asked, with a huge lump in her throat.

"St. Vic's" – Eddie replied. "I haven't called Danny yet"

"I'll take care of calling everybody, you just need to wait on the doctor to come out and calm down. I'll be there soon." – Erin replied, trying to stay calm and almost failing to.

"Ok, Thank You so much." – Eddie replied, hanging up the phone afterwards.

As Eddie hung up the phone, the doctor that had met the paramedics at the door came walking up to her.

"Mrs. Reagan?" – He asked politely.

"Yes, how is my husband?" – Eddie asked, as she could feel herself choking up again.

"We are about to take him into surgery, but I wanted to make sure you knew what was going on. He was shot four times, and we are going to go in a remove the bullets. We don't know how much damage there will be, but we will have a better look once we get him in the O.R. I thought that I would bring this to you to hold onto, since he can't wear it during the surgery. I will send a nurse out to update you when we have one." – The doctor said, handing Eddie Jamie's wedding band.

"Ok, Thank you so much." – Eddie replied, starting to cry again.

As the doctor started walking off, Eddie found herself staring at the inside of the band where she seen the engraved saying of 12 David on the ring. She soon found herself thinking of their first day back from their honeymoon.

"Ok, no peeking." – Jamie said, while leading her up the steps to the front of a jewelry store.

"Fine, but hurry because I am very anxious to know what the surprise is." – Eddie replied.

"Ok, Ok, open your eyes." – Jamie said.

As Eddie opened her eyes and seen that she was standing in front of a jewelry store, she couldn't help but let a small laugh escape her mouth.

"Babe, what are we doing in front of a jewelry store? I already have a perfectly good ring." – she asked, slightly confused.

"I know that, but I thought we could get a little something added to the inside of your so that it could match mine." – He replied.

"Jameson Reagan, what in the world are you talking about. What did you have done to your ring?" – Eddie asked, worried about what was fixing to come out of his mouth.

"Well, not very much. I just figured that it would be nice to have a small reminder of where this all began for us and I was pretty sure you would like once you seen it." – He replied, as he pulled off his ring to show her the inside of it.

There it was, she thought to herself trying not to cry. As he showed her the ring she couldn't believe what she was seeing. She started to choke back tears as she said "12 David, Jamie, I absolutely love it."

"Good" he said, moving his head forward, so that he could rest his forehead against hers. "12 David" – he continued, leaning in to kiss her very passionately.

"Forever" – They both said in unison after finishing the kiss. Then they slowly turned and started walking towards the doors of the jewelry store.

As Eddie finally came back to reality, she found herself uncontrollably sobbing. She would give anything for this whole situation to be a dream right now, but sadly it was the nightmare that she never wanted to happen. She started to pick herself up from the chair she was sitting in and find the bathroom so that she could wet her face and try to calm down a bit. As soon as she got up, Frank came walking through the doors and gave her a hug as he got to her.

"Have you heard anything?" – He finally asked.

"Not much. The doctor said there was four gunshot wounds, and that they were taking him up for surgery to remove them. He said he wasn't sure about the damage, but they would know more once they got him into surgery. He also brought me this." – Eddie said, while holding up the ring.

"You know, I just keep hoping that this would all be a dream, even though deep down I know that it's reality. I just keep telling myself that he's strong, and he's going to be ok." – Eddie continued.

"Well he is definitely strong and if I know my son as well as I think I do, he will use every ounce of fight that he has in him to get back to all of us." – Frank said, sitting in the chair across from her.

Eddie got up and walked to the bathroom so she could be alone for a minute and compose herself before she lost it again. She was trying to remain calm, because she knew she really didn't need to be this upset while she was pregnant. Deep down, she knew it was impossible for her to not be this upset though. After splashing a bit of water on her face, she walked back out to the waiting room to find that Erin and Henry had arrived. Danny came in about 20 minutes later and about 2 hours into the surgery, a nurse came out to tell them that it was going good so far. Every one of them became a little relieved after hearing the update, but knew they would feel way better once Jamie was out of surgery and recovering.

Meanwhile in the O.R., the doctor had safely extracted three of the bullets that where in Jamie, and started working on safely extracting the last one which was lodged in his chest. As he was pulling the bullet out of Jamie's chest, alarms started sounding loudly.

"He's Crashing!" - The doctor shouted.