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Amy
Amy woke up gasping for air, hands flailing desperately trying to grasp onto the sheets. No matter how hard she tried, she could not get enough oxygen into her lungs. “Amy. Ames. Amy.” She could hear someone saying in the distance and when she looked over she saw Jake laying there looking at her as if he had seen a ghost. “Babe listen to me. You need to breathe. You’re about to have a panic attack.” She focused on him. He was here. He was real. He was hers.
She followed his breathing patterns until she was finally able to breath again. “It’s alright.” he whispered as they lay back down. He pulled her into his side holding her tightly against him as she began to cry. It was over. Her was here. She reminded herself. She grabbed onto him, holding him much tighter than she ever had before. She never wanted to let him go. Ever. “it was just a nightmare.” he whispered. “Do you want to talk about? You making me talk about my prison nightmares always seemed to help me.”
“It was awful. Edgar succeed in cursing me” Amy sobed. “You didn’t know me. You were married to someone else. You were so happy with her.”
“Oh come on.” Jake said teasingly rubbing reassuring circles on her back. “You know that I couldn't ever be happy with someone else.”
“You were.” Amy said. “You were so happy with her. She was basically me. It was horrible Jake.”
“I know.” he said softly. “But it’s all over now. Just one bad dream.”
“It wasn’t a dream.” Amy said. “It was real.”
“I know that it felt real.” Jake said. “Those nightmares are the worst. But I promise you that it was not real. You were here, laying right beside me the whole night. You didn’t go anywhere. It was just a vivid dream. Just like those pregnancy book said.”
Amy nodded into him. Maybe it was just a dream. That would make more sense than her actually being cursed. She didn’t know how long she had laid there. Jake had fallen back asleep, his breaths now steady and even. He hadn’t let his grip on her losen and she was still clinging on him like he was the only thing keeping her a float.
Maybe it was a dream but it was just so damn realistic. And long. Ten months is a really long dream. Plus she went to sleep every night. Had dreams inside of a dream. She had never heard of that happening before. Surely it has, but she’s never heard of it.
As she lays there going over every single event it hits her that there is a really easy way to find out if this was a dream or not. Despite her better judgement she let go of Jake and carefully crawled out of bed grabbing her phone off the nightstand and heading out into the living room.
She found Gina’s number quickly calling her. She picked up on the first ring. “What kind of drug did we just take?” She asks.
“So it wasn’t just a dream.” Amy said. She didn’t know if that made her feel better or worse.
“If that was just a dream, we somehow interacted with each other and lived in the same dream universe for ten months.” Gina said. “How’d you get out? Things were looking pretty bad when I did.”
“I kissed him and it seemed to jog his memory.” Amy whispered into the phone. She was scared to death that she was going to wake Jake up again. “How about you? You got out of it so much faster than I did.”
“I dumped Milton. I guess that by doing that I was doing a nice thing for Iggy by giving her her dad back. And I wasn't thinking about myself while I did.” Gina replied. It was around midnight when they started talking but by the time that they had both agreed to hang up, the sun was already starting to peak over the horizon and they still felt like they had so much to talk about.
She then very quietly made her way back into bed, snuggling back up into Jake’s warm embrace. Still she was not able to fall asleep, so she stared at the window watching the sun slowly rise and drawing lazy circles on his chest. She rests a hand on her stomach smiling to herself knowing that her baby(ies) were safe. She was okay. She was here, in Jake’s arms. He was hers again. Everything was going to be okay. She reassured herself for the thousandth time that night.
When her alarm clock went off, she allowed herself for the first time in however many months, let Jake talk her into staying in bed. He thought that he had won her over with the sloppy kiss to the neck but really he only had to say the words and she would've said yes. If he were to ask her to skip work all together today and just stay in bed she would say yes without a hint of hesitation in her voice.
After two snoozes on the alarm clock, Jake finally got out of bed and she supposed that she should probably follow him. She talked the entire time they were getting ready and the entire commute to the nine nine. She had so much to say. Ten months worth of conversations that she felt like she needed to catch up on. They talked about absolutely nothing of importance. The weather, his mom’s new job at the new school, how her brother wants the two of them to fly out to Utah. The works. But she didn’t care she was just so glad to hear his voice.
"Oh by the way." She said. "I feel like we are going to have twin boys."
"Twin boys?" Jake asked. "You want to bet? I'm thinking one girl."
"I would bet a million dollars." Amy said to him before they headed out of the house towards their car to go to work.
When she got to the nine nine, Gina practically jumped out of her skin with excitement to see Amy. Together the two of them made their way to the holding cell where Edgar was still locked up. “Well well well.” Gina said tauntingly. “You really thought that you could curse Gina Linetti? Son you just got served.”
Amy glanced over her shoulder to make sure that none of their colleagues were listening before she asked her question. “How’d you do it.”
“What do you mean?” Edgar asked sounding frustrated. She could tell by the look in his eyes that he really didn’t think that they would be able to make it out of that.
“I mean how did you do? I don’t understand how any of that was possible.” Amy said.
“A real magician never reveals his secrets.” Edgar said with a small smirk that Amy so desperately wanted to wipe off of his face. “Are you going to let me out of here?”
“Why would I do that?” Amy asked. “You told me that you were going to curse me. You did. I beat it. You lose. Why would I let you out now after I’ve already won?”
“You think you’ve won?” Edgar asked getting up as close to her as he could before the bars stopped her. “You really think that you beat me?”
“Well I got Jake to say that he believed me and I’m standing here talking to you and you are behind bars. So yeah I think I won.” Amy said.
Edgar laughed a cruel cold laugh that made Amy’s spine tingle in a way she most definitely did not. “You dumb naive little bitch.” Edgar said.
“Hey!” Gina yelled at him. “Don’t you dare call my friend that. We made it out of your curse. I did a selfless thing and Amy got Jake to believe her. You can do anything you want and that will always be the outcome. We will always find a way to foil your plan. We beat you. You lost. Get over it. It happens to everyone. Put on your big girl panties, swallow your pride and suck it up.” Gina said before grabbing Amy by the elbow and pulling her away. “He’s not worth our time.”
“You’re right.” Amy agreed sitting down at her desk as Gina made her way towards hers. Amy started to gather things that she needed to do her work for the day. She opened her desk drawer and pulled out a loose photograph that was sitting there on top of her case file. It was the picture of Jake and Valerie, the one that she had stole of Jake’s desk all those nights. Looking at Valerie even now made her blood absolutely boil. So she crumpled the picture up and threw it into her garbage can. When she glanced back up, she caught Gina’s eyes. The two girls shared a knowing smile and then the ground started to shake.