A/N: In chapter 2 you will see references to prior events such as Lulu's kidnapping and Dante's shooting. All referenced events happened as portrayed on the show unless otherwise written. As much as I would enjoy it I do not own GH or any of the characters on the show.

"Lulu! Lulu!"

"Dante!"

He hears his name being called and runs in the direction of the voice. He sees her suddenly everything explodes. No not Lulu. Anyone but her he thinks. The rubble is heavy on his chest making it hard for him to breath.

"Lulu!?" He calls out wondering where she was. He strains to hear but there is nothing to hear. Then light sounds come to his ears. Its voices but they don't sound like her. Suddenly there is Sonny pulling him out of the debris. The EMTs are not far behind putting him on a stretcher. "Lulu...Where's Lulu?" he asks to anyone in general.

No one answers him. They won't even look at him. No he thinks not her anyone but her. It should have been him, she should live he should die. He starts screaming her name and crying.

"Dante! Dante!"

Suddenly in the room of Dante Falconeri the alarms start blaring as he tosses and turns in his sleep. Dr. Webber seriously is going to give those two a stronger talking to before booting Lulu out he thinks as entering the room. Then he realizes the only person in the room is Dante. "Dante! Dante!" he yells trying to wake the young man up. After a few minutes of yelling and shaking him Dr. Webber is finally able to wake Dante up. Dante looks around the room and tries to remember what is going on but he can't shake the dream. The only thing going through his mind is where is Lulu? Is she alright?

"Lulu…Where's Lulu?" Dante asks as Epiphany enters the room.

"I think I saw her going home. "

"Are you sure?" Dante asked still not sure if what had just happened was a dream. Worried that even if it was a dream that maybe it was a bad omen, that something had happened to her on the way home. God please not Lulu let her be safe please Dante silently prayed.

(Across town in Lulu's apartment a phone rings)

"Hello." She says groggily, she had been trying to sleep. While she wasn't doing a great job of it she had finally fallen asleep from sheer exhaustion when the phone began to ring. I'm going to kill Kate she thought not even in town and the woman is still bugging me.

"Lulu this is Epiphany at General Hospital"

Lulu is instantly awake and starting to pull out clothes to wear. A pair of jeans and a green sweater nice enough that Maxie wouldn't yell about her soiling Crimson's good name. "Is he ok?" she asks stripping out of her pajamas

"He is disoriented from a dream he had. He won't do anything the doctor or I am asking. He just keeps asking about you. Normally I wouldn't ask but if you could just…" Epiphany starts grumbling because normally her patients had enough common sense to behave.

"I'll be right over to calm him down." She says and hangs up without saying goodbye. Pulling on her sweater and flinging her hair into a ponytail. She's dressed and with one look around the room grabbing her purse, her shoes and keys. She barely notices Maxie's question as she is running out of the apartment in a haze of worry.

(Back at General Hospital)

"Doc I don't know what made my heart rate jump. Can you just let me be please?" he didn't even feel like trying to joke his way out of this. He just wanted them to leave so he could call Lulu; if he could just hear her voice he thought he'd be okay.

"Dante..." a breathless voice comes from the doorway.

He looks up at his name flowing from the most beautiful disheveled angel in his life. "Hey what are you doing here?" He asks as he simultaneously lets out the breath he's been holding and thanks God that she's here.

Looking at the door Doctor Weber is relieved. Maybe this girl could get him to say what happened, why his heart rate went through the roof. He knew that he should be putting his patient first but his sister kept creeping into his mind. Well might as well give them a chance to talk and maybe she'll be able to get it out of him. "I'll give you a minute." Dr Webber says before stopping by Lulu and whispering "He won't say what happened"

She looked at the doctor and nodded knowing the doctor wanted to find out what happened. "Well Epiphany called to tell me that you weren't behaving. So why don't you tell me why."' She said while sitting down on the edge of the bed. If I got called her because he was having fun by himself I'm going to kill him myself she thought remembering their kiss from earlier tonight

"Oh man...she shouldn't have called you. It's stupid." Dante said while rolling his eyes that the nurse had called Lulu to put him in line. Could everyone see it? Could everyone see that he seemed to hold his breath until she walked through that door and he knew she was ok?

"Well I'm here so share." Lulu said not letting the subject go on that statement. Dante wasn't going to skirt around the subject, Lulu wanted to know what had bugged him. Had one of his parents been in here after she left? She remembered last night when she left they were sitting in the lobby.

"I had a dream…It was too real. I don't want to talk about it. I just want …." He starts and instead of finishing he kisses her. "You know you're beautiful no matter what is going on?" He desperately wants to just keep kissing her and forget about his dream.

"Thank you and nice change of subject." She says brushing a few locks of hair out of his eyes "I'll let you slide this time if you promise to let the doctor do what he needs to do. Deal?"

He looks at her and thanks God that she can't see straight through him. Then he thanks God again that she's here and wants to be with him. "If he has to." He says trying to brush the entire thing out of his mind knowing full well that sleep wouldn't come again unless she stayed.

Before she goes to get Dr. Webber she turns and looks at him thoughtfully before saying "It was just a dream it's not real." He looks at the door stunned did she know? How could she know? He hadn't said anything. He's still staring at the spot she had vacated pondering this when she returns with the doctor. After several minutes of poking prodding and questioning the doctor finally leaves.

"You feel like telling me what's going on" Lulu asks after the doctor had left. She knows something is still bugging Dante because his answers to the doctor were short and clipped not his usual bantering self. Now Lulu was determined that he would tell her a little about what was going on. At least when she phrased the question she had kept her promise and not mentioned the dream.

"Nothing, you're right it was just a dream" Dante said closing his eyes in case they gave away something. Dante somehow knew that she wouldn't let this dream go.

"That bad huh?" Lulu said watching him close his eyes. When he didn't answer she just kept talking. "You know that it was just a dream. You're okay and you're alive. Everything is fine. I'm here for you." She stared at him his eyes still closed and carefully brushed the hair out of his face.

Dante opened his eyes because he realized that she thought that he had dreamed about himself getting shot, not about the possibility that she could have died. "Yeah I'm good now that you're here. Can you stay for just a while longer?" He asked knowing she probably needed some real sleep but unwilling to be without her.

"I'll stay until you fall asleep or until Epiphany comes in to kick me out whichever comes first." She says looking all too serious at him. What had he dreamt about that was still bugging him. Honestly at first she thought it was Sonny shooting him but it seemed like it was something else. Whatever it was he wasn't going to sleep without her there. Looked like extra coffee tomorrow when working.

"Come closer." He said. When she was close enough he took her hand. He needed to touch her and make sure that she was real. If he was going to sleep then her hand in his would keep him anchored to reality. Dante knew he wanted to keep Lulu there all night, him getting shot was nothing to him, but the thought of losing her was enough to make him want to die. Knowing this he wasn't sure if he'd remember to fight if she wasn't here.

Lulu sat there watching him try to sleep. It was like five minutes and then he'd almost shake himself awake to make sure she was still there. Not knowing what else to do she woke him up. "Move over." She said. He looked at her groggily and questioningly before he complied with her request. Slipping out of her shoes she climbed next to him in bed and rested her head on his shoulder. "Let me know if you're in pain. Otherwise just sleep" she said into his chest closing her eyes tightly and breathing deeply. He was so surprised that she did this the only thing he could do was wrap his arms tightly around her and kiss the top of her head. Closing his eyes he finally fell to sleep knowing that she was alive and safe in his arms. Eventually she felt him start to relax which let her relax too. They were both asleep when someone came to the door.

A/N: There is chapter 2. Please Review. I am currently working on chapter 3 so it will take a little longer than the time between chapter 1 and chapter 2. Just out of curiousity when you review let me know who you think is at the door even if that's the only thing you put in your review.