Legitimate Clue

Chapter 5

Lilac squeezed her body around the hospital frowning at the smell of the ward. Her shoulders still hurt from the bullet that had fired through her flesh. She jerked her eyes open and when realized was alone took the covers off her torso and jumped out of her bed. The hospital wasn't a safe place for her after what she had just witnessed. Someone wanted Manuela and her brother dead and by intervening she might also be haunted down.
Putting on back her blue jeans and peach blouse, she cursed the pain emanating from her shoulders anticipating how she was going to bear it for as long as her bruise was going to heal. Tiredness and dizziness took over her as she scuttled through the hospital doorway_then bumped into a nurse. The doctor was pissed initially but when she met her eyes mellowed and smiled like she was the solution to her problem or perhaps the answers to her prayers.
"Thank God you are fine now" the doctor threw her huge smile at her.
Lilac was far from fine_but once again, pain and trauma was something she had learn from her training to shun and suppress. So she just nodded and grin slightly for the sake of been nice.
"I'm Katie Firestorm"
Lilac couldn't believe the modest looking young doctor was a Firestorm. Actually she wasn't even sure if she just beared the name coincidentally.
"Thank you for saving my kids. I really do appreciate it. Is there anyway I could pay you back for it." Katie mumbled.
It became crystal clear now to Lilac why she was been extravagantly nice to her. Plus judging from the shape of her nose and dimples that displayed on her alabaster love shaped head, she knew the doctor was really Manuela's mother.
"Oh! Wow! Nice meeting. I must confess it was a great honor helping your daughter." Lilac grated her teeth as her shoulders showered her body with a sharp pain, "she is really sweet you know" Lilac forced out of her mouth.
"Are you ok? Does your shoulder still hurt." Katie drew closer to Lilac bringing her soft palms towards her bruised shoulder, an abrupt unrehearsed cry escaped from Lilacs mouth immediately Katie made contact with the sore section.
"I'm sorry" Katie took her hands away, giving Lilac an apologetic expression." I don't know why they didn't give you the painkiller I had recommend. But don't worry lets go back to my office so I can administer it to you."
The idea of staying one more minute in the hospital wrecked Lilac, the surrounding air was beginning to suffocate her_it was more like the hospital was rather worsening and multiplying her pain. Even reminding her of her recklessness. "I can't, I would be fine." She squeezed her eyes from another sharp pain again, wishing so much she had laid gently on the bed she had awaken and for the first time in her life tears from physical torture were threatening to convulse and consume her.
"Are you sure?" Katie mumbled with concern all written on her face.
"Yes" Lilac barely muttered.
"What about my brother? He wanted to be around to take you home."
Lilac was confused, "your brother?" , she frowned, "I don't get you."
"Nick Firestorm" Katie was beginning to feel suddenly awkward about the way she was addressing her brother_it was like she was a nobody and as such idolize him.
"Oh! I get it. Just tell him I'm fine and that I bear him no grudge about what happened." Lilac turned to dismiss the conversation that was clearly beginning to turn into a long one.

"Ok! Just take care of yourself." Katie watched as Lilac sauntered towards the staircase and after making her first step, jumped right from the first stairs to the last. It was scary watching it, even hideous. About twenty seven stairs-cases and she jumped over it like it was nothing. Katie inhaled strongly when she heard her footsteps back from the lower part of the hospital. She was scared and worried but it was obvious the girl was used to gruesome stuffs and activities like that. She just wished she could help her recap or recollect her happy moment because her face_oh God help her, it brightened and sung of intense and sophisticated sorrow and trauma. One that no one except her can tear apart or blank-out.

Katie brought her phone out of her pocket and dialed her brother's number on it. It was going through but he wasn't picking until the third ring which he did and said, "yo"
Katie barely smiled and said, "She just left the hospital minutes ago and she didn't look alright albeit she claimed she was." Then she gasped, "plus she didn't even climb the staircase downstairs, she merely jumped and got-away without tumbling.
Nick sounded frustrated and abrasive as he let out, "I thought I told you to keep an eye on her until I get there."
"And the last time I checked, you meant nothing more than an intruder and a very vicious one to the girl." Katie tried to console him, "see, she isn't pissed with you and I doubt if she was once_but the issue is the lady isn't just any other lady one could find in the world. I mean how many ladies after four hours of been shot dismiss the hospital premises claiming she was going to be fine. She is a very sad and traumatic lady. She is going through a lot of hell whether you like to admit it or not Nick. Maybe it's her family or maybe her boyfriend because she is carrying your baby...,"
Nick cut his sister, "baby? My baby?" He gasped, "did you just say she is carrying my baby."
Katie barely uttered, "yes! She is carrying your baby. I checked out the timing, I mean how long she has been pregnant and it fits perfectly into the day you had intimacy with her. It's your baby and it is four months and some weeks old. It just a matter of time before her stomach is going to bloat. Just keep an eye on her_she acts too reckless for someone who is pregnant. But all in all, it was ones her life and you can't blame it entirely on her."
Nick finally deeply inhaled, "ok, I just knew she was pregnant. I just felt I made a baby that night. Anyway thanks, I know where to find her at this time of the day. Bye for now" Nick ended the call, feeling so very much fulfilled. Gone where the days when he was so scared of mistakenly making a child out of any woman he slept with_and now after finally making one, he was really feeling very much like a father already, and surprising wanted his baby and mother to be fine. He had to speak to Hillary, he owed her an explanation, none of this was her fault except the fact of she not able to watch the people she mingles with. He was sure she wouldn't want them to breakup_but it's all he could do now that he was soon going to be a father. After all, Hillary wasn't that kind of a woman who loved to share her things. They have been going out for like three good years now and barely had he made a mistake with her during intimacy even when totally drunk for her to end up pregnant. So how he was going to tell her he hadn't mean to get Lilac pregnant was really going to be difficult and challenging without looking foolish.
Nick entered into his car with the aim of heading towards the Bar or Nightclub, he wasn't even sure which one of them it was that Lilac works.