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Waking

Darkness surrounded me, I was alone… frightened, and anxious. Suddenly a great ball of fire illuminates my vision, and I see a tall angry Shamus standing before me. He was smiling at me with crimson eyes his sharp canine teeth glistening in the fire light, he crouched and jumped onto me as if it were nothing, laughing in my ear and said, "Did you think you could get rid of me that easily?" He then opened his large mouth and bit into my pale throat. The pain was searing through my body as my ears began to pound like beating drums, keeping rhythm in my head. I began to scream "Stop! Stop! You monster! Stop! Help!" I was shaking and beating my fists into his hard chiseled back trying to stop the demon that was sucking the life out of me. Shaking until I open my eyes with a shock. Shamus was gone, and all I could see were white walls.

I woke up on a soft bed; both of my legs had been put into casts and propped up in two comfortable slings. I heard the soft hum of a machine beeping a steady beat having a green blob move upward and downward keeping time with my heart beat. I looked at my scratched arms and saw an IV stuck into my veins. I looked around the room to see pale white walls and the bleak blue sky threw one lonely window across from my bed. I realized right then that I was inside a hospital. "Luke! Luke where are you?" I said in a high anxious voice. I tried to raise the rest of my body from the bed but was stopped by a cool calm hand that gently laid me back onto the bed, "Oh no you don't…"

"Luke!" I said with a sigh of relief, Luke was here Shamus wasn't, it was just a nightmare.

Luke said with a sweet smile, "I'm here, I'm here Lily, you don't have to worry… Now don't move. You have to rest."

"Bu-"

"No buts, you've been through enough…Just rest… for me…please." Luke's eyes grew wide with wonder as all the pure honey came into his loving eyes. All I could do in reply was make an in audible "yeah" sound which became distorted and wrong in the back of my throat. Luke smiled weakly and nodded.

"Luke?" I asked in a quiet meek voice

"Yes!" Luke's eagerness showed in his every movement.

"Did…Did all of that happen? Did you? Did I? Is He?"

"Yes Lily, he's dead! He won't hurt you ever again!"

"Promise!" I requested with all terror of Shamus and his memory surfacing to my face.

Luke's face became solemn as he replied, "I Promise! Lily, he will never come again! Never!"

I nodded and sighed, "Hey… could you come and lay with me? It's just…It been so… long!"

Luke's brightened and rushed over to me.

"I know Lily I know!" He then proceeded to wrap his cool strong arms around me intertwining our bodies so not to move my broken legs in the sling. I nestled into his sweet smell and whispered, "I missed you!"

Luke took my chin in his hand and tilted it up to meet his perfectly chiseled jaw and said, "I missed you so much Lily… You have no idea! I was like all of the light of the world went out in its final sunset leaving me alone in the darkness… Alone, with no one to guide me to you. The thought that I would never see light again…Of never seeing you again were… just too unbearable." He choked at the last word causing a sob to rise into his chest. I pulled his face towards my own and pressed his cool lips to mine crushing into him with the most intense hunger for his touch. It might have been a few weeks or months since we've last seen, touched… Or even kissed each other and Luke had no problem with this closeness; he kissed me back with that same maybe even more intensity as my kiss. I melted into Luke not intending on going away ever again. Luke only let go of me because my heart beat began to speed up in an erratic pace. I groaned at the lack of closeness but Luke sighed and said, "Your hurt enough already, I don't want to add heart attack to your list of injuries." I sighed and nodded, I knew he was right but that didn't mean I had to be happy about it. Luke then began to slide downward, his right arm still wrapped around my body as he rested his head onto my chest and gently slipping his left hand into my open palm. He sighed as he whispered, "I never thought that I would ever hear the beautiful music your heart makes ever again."

I sighed as I squeezed his cold loving hand and replied, "I thought that I would never hold you again!" I said with my voice cracking from a small sob, "And that just about killed me!" Luke looked up his eyes pleading and knowing as if he felt the exact same way. He then pulled my hand in his and led it to his lips were he pressed his soft lips against my pale feeble hand,

"That will never happen Lily! Nothing and no one will ever harm you again! I swear it to you." There was my gentleman, always being so noble. I finally laid back and fell right to sleep knowing that he was there watching me, lying next to me he made me feel safe and at home…

Finally I am home.

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