It happens in Washington Square Park, by the broken fountain that has flowers fighting through the concrete cracks. One shot. Karen centric.

(Title taken from the Reverie Sound Revue song. Excellent song and video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYMPpTKoDmQ) I haven't written or read anything in almost a year but this has been keeping me awake. Figured I better just get it out!

Sometimes, still, he would wake up in the middle of the night just to make sure that she was okay, that there was no blood. And only when he had made sure of it, made sure that it was just her, clean and peaceful, did he close his eyes and fall back asleep.

A Christmas party, a blizzard, mistletoe, and five gallons of spiked egg nog.

"Now, as Pam begins the tale, Jake and Cynthia don't tell her that when they hear her stories, they always imagine their parents as the main characters. . ."

He loves her. They are perfect together, for each other. She completes him.

Or so he tries to tell himself.