“Let me go!!!! I have to go with him, please…. He’s my husband… please, let me go…”

Someone was holding him, moving him away from Noah. He was lying on the floor; one of his arms twisted and there was blood on his face… pouring from his mouth and nose…

“Please, please…”

He knew he was crying now. All he could see was Noah’s body on the concrete. He wasn’t moving, he tried to focus in his chest, tried to see if it was moving but it wasn’t. He had never been so scared in his life.

He managed to escape the arms that were holding him and run towards Noah. He kneeled down next to him and looked at him

“Oh, my God… Noah… can you hear me? Please… I need you…”

“Don’t touch him, the ambulance is coming”

“It can’t be… Noah… honey…”

“Don’t touch him”

“He’s alive, right? he has to… Noah?”

The ambulance was there before he had time for anything, and yet again someone pulled him away from Noah. He watched them carefully while they worked on him. Luke couldn’t stop looking, even when they started CPR to save his life. He saw them while they were doing chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

“No… no, please…”

The doctor stopped and looked at his partners moving his head… was he saying no?

“Don’t stop!!! What are you doing? Keep going, come on! Come on!”

The doctor looked at him

“I’m sorry… there’s nothing we can do, he is gone”

“No, he’s not! You hear me? No way!!!!”

“Luke”

“No… This can’t be happening…”

“Luke, babe… wake up”

Luke opened his eyes and saw Noah next to him

“You were having a nightmare”

“Shit…”

Luke sat down and covered his eyes with his hands. Noah sat down next to him and caressed his back

“Do you want me to get you something? Water or”

“No… don’t go anywhere”

Noah hugged him and laid back down with Luke resting his head on his shoulder

“The accident again?”

“Yes… they stop doing CPR and tell me that you are dead…”

Noah tightened his hold on Luke and kissed his head

“I’m here”

“It’s always so real…”

“I am sorry, I wish there was something I could do”

“Just hold me, don’t let go of me. That night they were all telling me not to touch you, they kept pulling me away from you, and I needed to touch you so badly…”

“You can touch me as much as you want, now”

Luke was doing just that, putting his hand on Noah’s chest

“That’s all I wanted to do that night… touch you…”

He kissed Luke’s forehead

“I am so tired of the nightmares…”

“I had nightmares for months after my father shot you, and you always died. I know the feeling, believe me”

Luke smiled now

“At least you can wake me up and hold me, I can feel you here right next to me… I couldn’t wake you up 11 years ago”

Noah smiled

“No, you couldn’t… Emma and her rules, damn it”

They both laughed

“We have to do something, Noah… waiting is killing me”

“Jack told us that there’s nothing we can do”

“It’s been 2 months and they are still investigating, what is taking so long?”

“They haven’t found the guy that did it and my father is denying everything, you know it”

“Yes, but we can’t go on like this… I am so scared when I don’t see you…”

“I am scared for you too, and for Aaron, but I don’t know what to do”

“You are going back to work on Monday… it’s going to be hell wondering if there’s another guy waiting for you anywhere in Oackdale”

“I’ll call every 5 minutes”

“Make it every minute…”

“As often as you want me to”

“Are you sure you’re okay? You could take some more time and”

“The Dr said that I can go back to work, I just have to take things easy, that’s all”

“I know, but if you don’t feel well enough”

“Do you want me to show you how good I feel?”

He turned so Luke was under him and he kissed his chest. Luke smiled and moved his head back

“Ahhhh…”

“I am felling really good, and I plan on feeling a lot better”

Luke bit his lip; Noah dropped kisses all over Luke’s chest

“And you? Are you feeling alright?”

“Mmmhhhh… yeah… fine…”

Noah laughed

“Fine? You are fine, uh?”

Luke smiled and put his hand in Noah’s head

“Yesssss… fine… just don’t stop”

Noah looked at him and smiled, Luke opened his eyes and looked at him lifting his head

“What? I said don’t stop”

Noah smiled

“On one condition”

“What”

“Don’t you ever stop touching me”

Luke smiled and put his hand back in Noah’s head; he laid his head back again and closed his eyes

“Sure, baby, I won’t. Can you go back to what you were doing?”

“Hey”

Luke looked up again

“What, now”

Noah smiled

“I love you”

Luke smiled and caressed his husband’s face

“Oh, Noah, I love you too…”

He pulled him closer and kissed him

To be continued...