SVH06-Dangerous Love (13 page)
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Authors: Francine Pascal
"Yeah. It doesn't sound like Liz," Jessica said. She shook her head and looked at her sister. "I swear, when she wakes up, you are gonna see a whole new Jessica Wakefield."
"What do you mean?" Todd asked.
"I mean I'm going to quit taking advantage of her all the time," Jessica replied. "Making her clean up my crap, asking her to take the blame for me. All of it. I'm done."
"Seriously?" Todd asked, his eyebrows raised.
"She's always doing stuff for me just because I'm her sister, and it's way more than I've ever done for her, believe me," Jessica said, taking Liz's hand again. "I don't deserve a sister like her, but I honestly don't know what I'll do if she doesn't make it."
"I don't know what I'll do either," Todd replied.
"So .. . what can we do?" Jessica asked. "There has to be something. Maybe you can kiss her. Like Sleeping Beauty or something," she suggested, only half joking.
"Yeah. That'll work," Todd said wryly. "But actually, there is something...."
"What?" Jessica asked excitedly. She'd do a rain dance in the nude if she thought it would help.
"All right. It's kind of weird, but ... I was talking to Mr. Collins last night and he told me that he once had this friend who fell into a coma from some kind of drug overdose. The guy's family was kind of New Agey and they did this thing. ... It sounded silly when he explained it, but the guy actually did wake up."
"What is it? I'll try anything," Jessica said, feeling a spark of energy. If there was one thing she hated, it was waiting. She had always been a take-action kind of person.
"All right, then. Hold on to her hand," Todd instructed.
Jessica shifted her hand so that it was under Elizabeth's and she could hold on tightly.
"Now take mine," he said, reaching over Elizabeth's legs.
Jessica extended her arm across the bed, and Todd grasped her cold fingers in his warm palm. Then he gripped Elizabeth's hand with his other hand.
"Okay, now close your eyes and think of her how she was last night," Todd said. "All dressed up and happy and full of life."
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Jessica did as she was told. She felt tears well up in her eyes as she remembered Liz laughing on the dance floor with Robin and Winston and the others.
"Now we just repeat over and over, 'Wake up, Liz. Wake up, Liz....,'" Todd said.
Jessica's eyes flew open. "That's it? That's the whole plan?"
"I told you it was bizarre," Todd replied. "But who knows? Maybe it'll work. You guys are always saying you have that twin intuition thing and I like to think we have a connection too. You never know."
"All right, all right," Jessica replied. "I said I'd do anything."
She clasped Todd's hand more tightly and closed her eyes. If she was going to do this thing, she was going to give it everything she had. So she concentrated as hard as she could on that image of Elizabeth and repeated firmly.
"Wake up, Liz. Wake up, Liz. Wake up, Liz."
She would repeat it all night long, if only it would bring her sister back.
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