Three Girls From The Valley

I Fear The Dark Ch 19

Danielle tries to open her eyes but her eyelids do not respond to her commands, she can hear Este's voice and opens her mouth to call for help but her cry remains silent, her breathing becomes rapid, suddenly her body feels foreign to her, she wills her arms and legs to move but she can no longer feel them, she's trapped in her own body, her screams for help go unnoticed.

Danielle sits up gasping for air,

A light comes on causing her to squint whilst her eyes adjust to the brightness,

"Danielle everything OK?" a familiar voice asks,

Danielle's mind slowly starts to register where she is and her eyes focus on nurse Becky's face,

"It f-fff-felt, I-I-I coul-coul-coul-n't mmmove." Danielle stuttered,

Becky walks over to her and holds her hand,

"Sounds to me like you were having a nightmare." Becky tells her,

"Whhhat's the t-t-time?" Danielle asks

"Just after two AM, how about I go make you a hot chocolate and then sit with you until you fall back to sleep." Becky offers,

"O-kkk-k." Danielle says as she pulls her knees up to her chest.

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"Morning D." Alana says as she bounces through the door, "Whoa you look like shit, didn't you sleep last night."

"Fffffuck y...y.yy.you." Danielle replies,

"Yup you totally didn't sleep and now you're all tired and grumpy." Alana pokes her tongue out at Danielle before walking over to the window.

"This is totally a much nicer room then the one up in the ICU, you've got like the best view D, have you looked out the window yet? And it's so much easier coming to visit you now that we don't have to wait for them to open the doors. But it will be a thousand times better when you're finally home." Alana turns back around and smiles at Danielle, "Anyway come on D hurry up."

"W.what fff.ff.for?"

"Oh didn't Mom tell you? I get to go into the pool with you today, so like lets get ready," Alana grins, "Come on I'll help you, where's your togs?"

M..my w...w.what?" Danielle asks, a confused look on her face,

"Your togs, I've been like looking up different words dude and togs it's like such a rad word." Alana laughs, "It means swimsuit, so like where's your swimsuit and I'll help you get ready."

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Knock Knock

"Hello. Danielle?"

Danielle nods as the man enters her room,

"Hi I'm Logan one of the physiotherapists, I'll be helping you with your hydrotherapy exercises." Logan explains, "And you must be Danielle's sister?"

"Yup I'm Alana."

They head down to the pool and once they're in the water Logan starts explaining how the sessions will run.

"Let's start with walking up and down the pool Danielle, I'm going to put this padded belt around your waist which I'll hold to give you some support and for now you can hang on to the side of the pool."Logan says, "Eventually the goal is to have you walking in the middle of the pool without any support."

They spend the next fifteen minutes slowly walking up and down the pool, Danielle was glad Alana was there to distract her with her constant stream of chatter.