A/N: The reactions to the last chapter were awesome and just what I wanted to read.

This chapter is shorter than normal but I wanted to end it right before we get to the big climax.

I really hope you guys like it. Warning: It's gonna take time for me to get it the way I like it so it will be a couple of days at least.

Let me know your thoughts.

;-)

Tori shielded her eyes from the brightness above her. Slowly she mustered enough audacity to peek through her fingers, allowing her eyes to adjust. It didn't help that the room was heavenly white.

"Tori…"

That voice, she thought. I know that voice.

"Tori honey…"

"Dad?"

"Oh my god," David held onto his youngest daughter so tightly. Her body was so tingly with a pins and needles sensation that she neither felt it nor put up much resistance.

"Dad," Tori began groggily. "What's going on?"

"We got you Tori," he beamed. "We got you."

"Hey baby sis," another familiar voice shot across the room. "Good to have you back, Vic."

"Trina!" Tori's mind immediately recalled the accident. "Where are you?"

"In pain but I'll live," she responded.

Tori squeezed her eyes shut hard, tears penetrating through the crevices. She let out a considerable sigh and then started moving her eyes around.

"Dad, who are all these people?" she asked.

"Hi," Cobb touched Tori's hand. "My name is Dominic Cobb. And this is my team," he gestured to the couple people behind him.

"Arthur," he introduced himself.

"And I'm Ariadne," the short brunette smiled.

Her father put his arm around her shoulder. "Tori, these people were the ones that got you out of the coma."

"I…I…I was in a coma?" her eyes confused. "How did you…"

"Dom," Eames called out. "We got a problem here!"

The newcomers vanished from Tori's sight and she tried to make a move for the adjustable bed switch to elevate her. She was still very weak. Her heart sank when she saw Jade in a chair, strapped to various wires and contraptions.

"Jade," she shouted as loud as her raspy voice would allow.

"What's the matter with her?" Tracy folded her arms, narrowing her gaze at Yusuf who was checking her sister.

"Dom," he sounded frazzled. "This is bad."

"What did you do?"

Yusuf stood up and looked gravely at Cobb and Arthur. "I accidentally sedated the wrong one with my premium formula."

"Yusuf!" Cobb yelled. "Tracy was supposed to be the first dream."

"What is going on here?" David demanded.

Cobb sighed and pulled David aside, away from where Tori could hear.

"Given what has been going on with Jade's circle of friends, it was clear that between the six of us inside the dream; it would have been likely for Jade to be the next target."

"Okay…" David nodded.

"To avoid this Krueger guy from harming ANY of us, we had to establish a dream within a dream. We waited until Jade and Tracy fell asleep and sedated them to keep them from waking up too prematurely. Then we jacked them into the lucid dream."

David's wide-eyed gaze showed he was clearly following along but inside his mind was blown to the back of his skull.

"Once inside Tracy's dream, we then invited the two into Tori's dream along with us not knowing that we were already outside the real world."

"That way," Arthur butted in. "If Krueger killed any of us, we would have that safety net."

"Trouble is we were in the wrong sister's dream," Cobb looked daggers at Yusuf.

"I'm sorry, Dom," he panted. "I can't believe I got them mixed up. It was late and I…"

Arthur put up his hand, telling him to be quiet. "It's fine."

"So what do we do?" David asked. "Is Jade okay?"

"She's in limbo," Cobb replied.

"What does that mean?" Tori gritted through her teeth.

The pack of people looked at the awoken patient, realizing they haven't done a good job keeping the conversation down low.

Ariadne leaned over Tori.

"It means that between the powerful sedation and the multiple levels of dreaming, dying traps the sleeper into their subconscious."

"Oh god," Tori covered her mouth. "Now Jade is stuck there?"

"It's more complicated than that," Cobb added. "Since Freddy is not connected to our world, he only exists in a dream, when the dream collapsed; he went into limbo along with Jade."

"There has to be something we can do," Tori insisted.

Cobb nodded. "There is."

"What?" Tori asked teary-eyed.

"I have to go in and get her."

"Alone?" David asked.

"He's the only one that's been there and back again" Arthur said.

"To give you an idea," Ariadne told Tori. "In terms of deep sea diving, limbo is like going into the midnight zone. The risks are greater and there are no guarantees it's gonna work."

"I'm going with you," Tori tried to sit upright.

David shook his head. "Absolutely not, Tori. I almost lost you once. I'm not gonna allow anything to happen again."

"Listen, dad" Tori sobbed. "I love Jade and the least I can do is do the same thing she did for me."

"No. I'm sorry but Cobb will go in it alone. It's too dangerous."

Tori sat back and folded her arms. She refused to look at anyone, especially her father.

"Okay," Arthur acknowledged. "We're ready."

Cobb laid down on the couch, hooked up to go inside Jade's head.

After staying up for 36 hours straight, Mr. Vega collapsed into the chair across the room. Cobb nodded for Yusuf to give the sleeping cop a syringe.

"That should keep him napping."

Tori leaned forward. "What did you do?"

"He'll be alright" Cobb assured Tori. "He'll feel a little queasy when he wakes up but otherwise just fine."

"Why'd you do that?"

"You want to go get your girlfriend, right?"

Tori nodded.

"Oh, wait" Arthur snapped his fingers. "Jade needs to be the second level. Who'll be the first?"

Tracy sat on the floor near the couch. "Use me," she said.

"You're sure?" Cobb asked.

Tracy nodded. "Positive." She turned to Tori. "Go get her." Tori nodded back in agreement.

Cobb smiled at the vibe in the room.

"Let's get it on then."