Susie has finished all her packing and put some boxes and things in storage. As she moves some boxes into Robert's condo he helps her and makes room for her in the closet and the dresser. "Susie, honey I want you to go and pick out a dresser for just you. I have room in the bedroom for it. I'm so glad you agreed to move in with me. I wish you would marry me."

"Now Robert, we've been through this. Lance was the last man I married, and I'm not getting married again. He was my soul mate."

"All right, I understand," Robert grumbled.

Susie kisses Robert on his lips, "Robert, that doesn't mean I love you less, or that you have to compete with a ghost." Susie goes back to moving more boxes, "It just means out of respect of what Lance and I had, I just don't believe I should get married again."

Robert walks to Susie and kisses her. "I know it was hard for you to let him go. I know it took everything you had to trap and bury him again. I should just be happy you agreed to live with me." Robert kisses her again before he brings some more boxes in. He notices one of the boxes marked bedroom had some weird black ooze on it. He just set it outside the bedroom door.

"Robert, why did you set my box outside the bedroom door?" Susie wondered if the recent conversation had a destructive effect on him. She also noticed the weird black ooze on the box. The interesting thing is it is the only box with the black ooze on it. Susie also realized it was the only box that had a box for storage setting on top of it.

Susie starts to become afraid. She shakes her head and whispers to herself, "Lance is trapped in a mirror in a box that is in storage." Just to be safe Susie goes through the box, and with a sigh of relief whispers again, "No mirror." She knows if Lance escapes that mirror, and it isn't buried and he kills anyone, it will be her fault.

Letting her fear go she finishes moving in with Robert. She is happy again after two years. She realizes it has been two years today, that she performed the spell that brought Lance back. "I haven't had my three-fold brought on to me, because of what I did," Susie says out loud.

"What sweets? What did you say?"

"Oh, nothing just thinking out loud." Susie wonders if Robert realizes the same thing. He did come from a background of magic.

"If you're almost finished putting your things away I made dinner."

"Great I'm starving."

Susie sits at the table and Robert puts a plate of roast beef, potatoes, and carrots in front of her. "This looks so good," Susie cuts the meat and puts a piece in her mouth. "Hmm, this is good. Thank you."

"Would you like some wine? I think we should celebrate this occasion."
"Yes, we should." Susie's cell phone rings. "Hello.. oh hey T. What's up?...Are you serious, but how?... No, I haven't and I should be the one getting them.... Okay, We will talk later." Susie's face has an expression of distress.

"Sweetie, what is it?" Robert can tell something isn't right.

"That was T, you know my friend, Teresa Legan."

"Yeah, I've met her, so what's going on?

"She said while she was sleeping today she had a dream about Lance coming back to kill me. She also said it wasn't the first one she had. She is just worried about me."

Robert walks over to Susie and holds her in an effort to comfort her. "She had a nightmare. It is just her own fear, she was worried that Lance was going to go after her. She worried because she figured out you brought him back to kill those salesmen he worked with."

"Robert, I don't know, I did the spell. I will get the three-fold in return. I haven't received it. And I should've already had something, even if it was a nightmare about what I did,"

"Maybe Teresa's nightmares is your three-fold. She is the closest thing you have for family, and Lance killed those men. Those men had families. He even killed Tony Otto's wife," Robert continues to try and comfort Susie.


"No Tony killed his own wife."

Robert tries to reason with her,"Because Lance tricked him into killing her."

"Okay, enough, besides Donna is also the closest thing I have to family, and she hasn't had any nightmares or anything like that, " Susie sternly continues.

Robert walks over to the chair and sits down. He looks at Susie with deep concern,"She also didn't know you brought Lance back."

"And she never will, right!"

Robert sincerely looking at Susie, "You know I won't tell her."

Susie walks over to Robert hugs and kisses him. "Good, thank you. Hey, let's clean up the kitchen and take the wine into the bedroom. This is my first night here, so what do you say?

Robert cracked a little smile, "I say yes let's."

They cleaned the kitchen and took the wine into the bedroom. "Robert, you know I love you, and I don't want Lance to destroy what we have. If it wasn't for him I would have never met you."

"You have an interesting way of looking at things, but I would have to agree."

"Okay sugar, let me get into something a little more comfortable for a night to remember."

"OOO. I think I am in trouble with you." Robert chuckled as Susie went into the bathroom.

She was in there for a few minutes. She came out of the bathroom wearing a sexy black little thing of lingerie. Robert's heart started beating very fast as his excitement grew just looking at her.

"Well hello big boy. Are you ready for me?" Susie starts walking towards the bed. Robert gets up and kisses her very passionately and they fall on the bed. They made love twice that night. Lance was forgotten and no longer talked about. They fell asleep in each other's arms blissful and unaware of their fate. A fate that Susie could have avoided if she had buried that mirror.

The following morning they rose with a smile on their faces. It's a happy smile. While having coffee and breakfast Robert brings up a question that should not have been asked. "Susie do we need to talk more about Lance and Teresa's nightmares?"

"No. We ended that conversation last night. Now Lance is gone and you are probably right about her nightmares, Mr. Detective."

"Okay, I will be at the precinct until seven tonight. Want to meet me at Pernellies for dinner?

"Sure. I'll meet you there at eight. Will give me time to dress and you time to get finished work."

"Great. See you then." They kiss each other goodbye and go on with their day. No more conversation about Lance and what Susie did two years ago.

Susie is still going round and round the three-fold inside her head, and how it hasn't happened to her, She knows it should, and one reason she never missed with magic or spells, until that day she brought her dead husband back for magical justice. Susie and Robert ended the conversation about Lance, for now. Little did they know they would have to not only talk about him but will have to trap him again.

Author Notes

I look forward to all and any feedback. Thank you for taking the time to read. The Characters so far: Susie Morrell - Wife of Lance (Dead Lance) and love of Detective Robert Case Detective Robert Case Susie's Boyfriend (Lover) Donna Susie's long time friend T-Teresa Langel - Another long time friend of Susie