"This can't be real!"Suddenly, a yellow light illuminated the necklace, and I almost dropped it in fright. My eyes shot up to the loft where the flash...ight had clicked on like a focused spotlight, but I could see nothing beyond, against the glare of it."You still have doubts, James?"I looked back at the pin, in spite of the twisted feeling that was building within me. There was no doubt that our sacred pair of gifts had been impossibly rejoined. She was back. Whether alive or dead, I did not. . " Ugh" she said making a face. "Sweet? I look awful after I get up." Mmmmm, but not when you first wake up... " I said dreamily with the smile still on my face.She yawned, then stretched, then just laid there a while enjoying my caresses and happy stare."You know, the longer I lay here, the less time we have doing other things," she finally said."Then maybe you should get up," I said happily."Maybe you should get out of my room so I can." What? Oh... Uhm, okay," I said as I reorganized my. If you read past thiswarning, any offense you take or laws you break are your problem. I'vewarned you.Permission is hereby given to archive this story anywhere on theInternet, so long as I'm credited as the author, it is reproduced inits entirety (including this disclaimer!) and no fee is charged toaccess it.On the matter of fees: I wrote this story (and others) for free, and Inever expected to get anything out of it except the occasional responseor critique, either good or bad. Constructive. Ken is a little boy, I think that he hasn’t been comatose for long, but he is a little boy, can’t tell us his name, or what happened to him“I am going to presume that the sirens I heard earlier had something to do with your sudden appearance here.”She opened her mouth and shut it again. I waited.“I didn’t hear any sirens,” she eventually said. “My boyfriend and I, we’re at college together, we were on our way home, for the long weekend. He was driving, I must have been asleep. I suddenly woke.