Unchained Melody

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She looked out of the window. She was trying to say something to Luke but he wasn’t able to hear her. Normally a patient person, Laura was finding herself getting very frustrated! She could see that Luke was talking back to her through the window but she couldn’t hear him either. The window between them was stuck. She could see that he was trying to get it opened from the other side. All she could do was wait...
Laura noticed that he was upset, but she had no way of knowing what had happened to cause his distress. She prayed that nothing had happened to the kids...or her mother. As she watched him closer, she realized that it wasn’t about their family. It was about her. Luke looked panicked and desperate - the way he had looked that day on the island so many years earlier, when she went to get raspberries and he freaked out at the thought that something had happened to her. He had called to her then too, but she had been unaware of it. This time, she was fully aware, and it made her feel helpless that she couldn’t answer.
She wished that she could reach out and touch him - hold his face in her hands, and tell him that she was alright. Laura wanted to kiss him tenderly as she told him that she loved him. She loved the way he kissed her - the way he gently tasted her mouth as his tongue caressed it. It was as if she were a fine wine that he couldn’t get enough of. And always, at the end of his kiss, he would gently suck her lips like they were sweet, juicy grapes that he was trying to extract the last drop of goodness from. The thought made her heart momentarily beat faster. She could see by the look on his face that he felt lost and alone.
Laura could only imagine how awful this was for him, and the thought of it made her heart ache.
She felt like she was in quicksand. Each time she tried to move, Laura felt herself slipping further and further out of reach, like water being sucked down a drain. It was a frightening feeling - one that made her feel as helpless as she knew Luke felt. Every instinct in her being urged her to fight like hell to break through the glass that separated them, yet every effort she made pulled her further away from him.
She was caught up in a rip tide with no life preserver except her sheer will and determination to keep herself afloat until Luke reached her. And, she knew that he would reach her...
Even though she was isolated from everything she loved, she was at peace in her quiet solitude because she knew that Luke was trying to free her. She could see him as he touched her - pulling hair from her face; kissing her; holding her. But, she couldn’t feel it. She could only remember the feel of it.
God, she hungered for the feel of him again! The memories, while a comfort, only made her that much more aware of how much she longed for him.
Laura took small breaths, trying to move as little as possible so the quicksand feeling wouldn’t take her further away from the stability that was still within her reach. Luke was still within her reach. She needed to stay calm. He would get the window open.
He had always saved her and protected her from every force that tried to separate them in the past. They had beaten every odd placed against them, and they would beat this one too. She never doubted him.
She never doubted them.
She had to remain focused and be still.
The only times when Laura willingly made an effort to move her body was when Luke carried her. In those moments, she would will her body to relax, hoping that if he could feel that change, no matter how subtle, he would sense that she was still with him. The discomfort she felt as her inward sinkhole drew her down when she attempted this was worth the sacrifice, as long as Luke could feel her responding to him in some way. She had always responded to his touch and he to hers. It was the kinetic life force that existed between them. They were electric; they were heat; they were fire; they were light. They were simply, as she had always believed, and Luke had believed along with her, magic.
Now, she was in a frozen time-warp. Time seemed to move slowly. It seemed to Laura that she had been like this for longer than she could possibly fathom.
The last time she came out of this twilight zone existence, her daughter was grown, her eldest son had become a father and her first-born son with Luke had gotten married with a baby of his own on the way...
How much had she missed this time? How long had she been stuck like this again? She hadn’t seen the kids in a while. She knew that fact, but she couldn’t measure time in this place that she was stuck in.
Laura didn’t know exactly what was going on, but she could see out the window and she knew that something was up. Luke had moved her a lot. When she looked out from her fixed spot, she could see the change in her surroundings. Something was definitely up, but she didn’t know what? She had always hated this feeling when she was young and Luke was involved in things that he kept from her. He had hidden certain truths about what he was doing from her to protect her, but it had driven her crazy! God, Luke Spencer had exasperated her in those early days, and even a few after! In took her a while to break him of that annoying habit. Once she had, however, he never kept her out of the loop again.
That day, so long ago, when she found him in the mission, she had asked him if he needed her.
He grabbed her fiercely as he cried out. It was a cry so genuinely pure that she knew before he even said the words that he needed her. When he said it, when she heard those four precious words: "I need you, Laura!", they had bound her to him forever. In that moment, all the subterfuge and game-playing of the previous year melted away. The core of who they both were and what they both needed lay wide open, unprotected from pride and completely vulnerable. In
the honesty of that life-changing conversation, their cores melded and, from that moment forward, they became one entity.
They became LukeandLaura.
Her entire life had been based on the identity that she shared with Luke. It didn’t surprise her that people didn’t understand it. She and Luke possessed a certain power, strength and love that was uncommon.
She knew there were some who thought she had been foolhardy to place all her trust and faith in Luke Spencer. The truth of the matter was that Luke had touched some place in her that no one had ever been able to reach. And Laura had been unable to ignore the fact that Luke Spencer made her feel alive.
Laura had read the articles about not allowing one’s happiness to be tied to a man....blah, blah, blah. It was the late 70's and young girls were inundated with that message. But, Laura was her own woman with her own mind and thoughts and opinions. Luke had never tried to stifle those attributes. On the contrary, he had insisted upon them and depended on them. Her husband gave her more worth and respect than she had ever given herself. Happiness, after all, was based on something tangible, and Luke Spencer was definitely her happiness. The one thing in her life she was certain of was that she and Luke were a sure thing. They had traveled far together over the years - seen so much. It hadn’t been without its share of bumps or sorrows. Yet, Laura could not imagine going through her life with anyone but Luke. Once she had met Luke Spencer, she hadn’t wanted to go through it with anyone but him. Now, all she wanted was to go home.
She wanted that so desperately. She didn’t fool herself. She knew the outside forces that had put her here and were preventing her from going home were strong. This thing - this Catatonia that had seized her was a serious obstacle for them to overcome, but Laura didn’t doubt they would overcome it! If she had gotten out of that prison in Greece, she could get out of this one. This was a cakewalk compared to Greece.
Luke was alive. She could see him. He was just on the other side of the window - not all the way
across the world. Knowing that, gave her strength.
She had to admit that there had been a brief moment last fall, after she read that horrible newspaper article and learned of Tracy that Laura questioned whether Luke was lost to her? She knew him too well not to know that something was seriously bothering him. When she learned of Tracy, it all fell into place. Her answer to that question had come later that evening. When Luke looked at her, when he touched her, when he talked to her, when he kissed her, Laura knew that he was still hers. Tracy Quartermaine was irrelevant.
Laura looked out of her window, watching her husband trying to free her. It didn’t matter how long it took. Where Luke was concerned, nothing was her enemy - not even time...

https://youtu.be/IYj2hex99gY [Unchained Melody]

Unchained Melody - Lyrics

Oh, my love,
my darling,
I've hungered for your touch a long lonely time...
Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much
are you still mine?
I need your love.
I need your love.
Godspeed your love to me...

Lonely rivers flow to the sea,
to the sea,
to the open arms of the sea.
Lonely rivers sigh 'wait for me, wait for me',
I'll be coming home wait for me..
Oh, my love,
my darling,
I've hungered for your touch a long lonely time .
Time goes by so slowly and time can do so much,
are you still mine?
I need your love...I need your love...
Godspeed your love to me...