Pillow Talk

Hold Outs

In the Distant Future

"Jamie!" Eddie shook her husband of...she forgot how many years it was now. She had been calling him for a half hour and he hadn't budged from where he lay as a heap in their bed. "Jamison Reagan...what did I tell you about sleeping with your ears out?! You about scared me to death!"

Jamie fumbled for his hearing aids and popped the both in his ears. "What was that Eddie?" he asked his wife as she squinted at him through coke bottle thick glasses.

"Oh, you big oaf!" Eddie huffed. "Your breakfast is getting cold and we are out of milk and orange juice."

"Eddie, there was a huge bottle in the fridge yesterday," Jamie sighed. "You have to get those eyes fixed, yelling at me about getting a peaceful sleep when you can't see a foot in front of you!"

Jamie shuffled to the bathroom to wash his face and hands. He looked over at Eddie, poor thing was so scared of having her eyes fixed even though he had it done himself three years ago and could see just fine. "Come on, sweetie. We can make an appointment, you'll be home a few hours after it's done," Jamie tried to cajole but Eddie was having none of it.

They ate their breakfast and face timed with their two kids. Jamie still had to pinch himself that he had grandchildren in college. He didn't feel any of his 86 years and his Eddie didn't look it except for the squinting.

Later that day, Jamie took matters into his own hands. He drove Eddie to the eye doctor. "We are going to get you on the OR schedule today. There is too much still left to see."

Jamie held Eddie's arm as she walked with her purse and her cane. As they approached the doctor's office a masked man with a gun entered their path, "Do you know what time it is?"

"Jamie," Eddie cried as the gun went off, sending Jamie sprawling to the ground. Even with her horrible eyesight, all it took was one look. She'd been a cop long enough to know what a dead body looked like.

"No!" Eddie cried, jolting from a deep sleep drenched in sweat. She looked over taking a breath seeing Jamie staring back at her.

Jamie sat up when he felt her moving around in her sleep. "What's wrong Eddie?"

In between sobs Eddie managed to replay the nightmare, her entire body shaking as she did. "Then he...he shot you in front of me."

Jamie soothed her with a whispering tone as he pulled her against him and rocked her.

"It's okay, I'm right here," he said softly right in her ear. Eddie continued sobbing using his chest as a pillow letting him lay her down.

Jamie stroked Eddie's back gently, "That being old thing got to you huh?" Jamie asked laughing a little bit. "Was I really hard of hearing?"

Eddie sniffled, "Yeah, deaf as a doornail and I was scared of getting cataract surgery. I'm so glad we busted that jerk. Picking on old people for money."

"I know, honey," Jamie sighed. "But we did get him and he is going to be in for some jailhouse justice too. He got a lot of gang members locked up for his dirty work."

Eddie nodded, "He did, I'm just glad no one got killed. You know as hard as it would be for me to lose you now, I can't imagine the pain and the loss...I did just imagine it though and it gutted me."

Jamie dropped a kiss on her head. "It would gut me too, but let's not worry about that any more, all right. There are other things to worry about."

"Like who the new commissioner will be if it's not your father," Eddie replied.

"Dad's just holding out," Jamie replied. "He's not ready to give it all up yet, as much as..." Jamie bit his lip.

"As much as what?" Eddie asked leaning up on her elbow.

"As much as sometimes I wish he was just my Dad, that I could just advance and we could not have so many worries." Jamie sighed.

"Jamie..." Eddie sighed. "Your father is the best commissioner, he really stands up for cops. I know you feel stuck in a rut, honey. I know that..."

Jamie rolled over pulling Eddie with him. "Doesn't seem like much does it?" he sighed. "In the perspective of things...people getting mugged, losing their property, in danger of losing their lives but it's still important to me. We couldn't even raise a family on what we make, Eddie."

"We'd make it work," Eddie replied. "I honestly believe that baby. We love so much, that love...it's more than I had growing up. I had plenty of stuff, not enough of the thing you need and..."

Jamie kissed Eddie's hair, "We would make it work and I have been studying. Maybe I'll make the rank on my own merit."

"Are you kidding? You'll blow the exam wide open!" Eddie laughed. "I need a cookie, do you want a cookie?"

Jamie laughed, "You sure you aren't still dreaming? Cookies is something old ladies give grandchildren."

"We had grandchildren," Eddie informed Jamie getting two oatmeal cookies made by her neighbor Ruth. "They were all grown up and you were so proud of them. I think one of them went to Harvard."

Jamie smiled, "You know something? We are going to have our family. We are going to live to grow old and we are not going to separate by one of us being gunned down in the street, we will leave each other together, holding hands. God willing I won't be the one sitting by your side while you leave..."

"Oh, no I am going first Reagan," Eddie insisted. "I am not being left behind."

"We'll die together then, like that little old couple in Titanic," Jamie replied only half joking. He couldn't' imagine his life with Eddie when she appeared outside the 12th two and a half years ago. Now, and forever, he couldn't imagine his life without her.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed the little trip into Jamie and Eddie's future before the nightmare came. I wanted to have a little fun with their undercover assignment since it only had five minutes of screen time. Hope you all enjoyed. Thanks to everyone who has been reading and reviewing so steadily, to Lawslave for previewing every chapter, and to Yanks20 for helping with dialogue when I get myself stuck in my own ideas.