The Knight Nursery - The Sitcom(A Nursery Nurse Fanfiction)

The one with the powercut (Part 1) (edited 23/12/24)

Winter quickly snuck out of the toddler room and made his way towards where his girlfri- Autumn would be. Part of him found the nursery being that dark a bit freaky, he glanced across the hallway to see Chef storming out of the kitchen with an annoyed look across her face. That doesn't look good... He thought to himself as he turned towards the manager's office door and opened it.

"Autumn?" He asked aloud, as he heard the sound of someone groaning. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, I was just in the process of typing an important email, when the power went out." Autumn replied as Winter noticed she was resting her head against the desk. He quietly closed the door and sat down on the office couch using the back of it as an arm rest.

"If its any consolation..." He began, causing Autumn to look up at him with the slight bit of lighting from the window. "I'm pretty sure Chef is going to have a go at Marjorie for the powercut. Now that all the food would need to get thrown out."

"Really?" Autumn quietly asked as she leaned against the back of her chair.

"Yeah, Chef looked so annoyed." Winter replied noticing the faint smile across her face. He watched as she stood up from her chair to walk over to him.

"Hopefully the power's back soon," Autumn whispered before pressing a kiss on his lips. "It's disappointing we can't go to the restaurant for our first date."

"I guess we can just reschedule to tomorrow or the day the storm is over. " Winter replied, when suddenly he felt her lean her head against his shoulder. He gently moved his hand from the back of the couch to the side of her arm. "Is this okay?"

Autumn nodded her head.

Much to her surprise she found herself starting to drift off to sleep despite her attempts to stay awake. Something about Winter just made her feel safe enough to allow him to hug her, and for her to end up drifting off to sleep on his shoulder again.

After a while he glanced down to Autumn's face as he realised that she had fallen asleep on him. Part of him felt ecstatic how Autumn feels safe around him, especially when she has never acted like this around everyone. The other felt shocked how she just walked over to him, to lean her head against his shoulder.

His eyes started to feel heavy, when suddenly he heard the sound of the door opening. "Autumn we-" Marjorie began, stopping her sentence when she realized that Autumn was asleep... against Winter.

"Shhhh." Winter whispered, hoping Marjorie wouldn't accidentally wake or give Autumn a fright. "Is everything okay"

"Yes, Chef just is annoyed with the food defrosting. She's now making a lasagne." Marjorie whispered, as she realised that wasn't impossible. She glanced over to Autumn and back to Winter wondering why she - Miss I do not do hugs - was getting hugged and was asleep against Winter.

"We were just talking..." Winter tried to think of an excuse, he didn't want Autumn to wake up and he'd have to tell her their secret is out. "And she ended up falling... asleep."

"Right... Would you like a blanket?" Marjorie offered, as Winter nodded his head. Once Marjorie gently placed one of the blankets she got from her cupboard over them, she left the room with the rest.

Winter glanced back down to Autumn and couldn't help but smile at her. He was most definitely falling inlove with her.

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Marjorie walked back to the toddler room carrying blankets for the others. But she couldn't stop herself from thinking about how she saw Autumn asleep on Winter, It made her feel happy now that Autumn seemed happy.

As she walked into the toddler room she noticed how stressed Sorscha looked trying to comfort Benjamin. "I found some blankets and torches..." Marjorie quietly said, as she walked closer to Sorscha. "Where's Charlotte."

"She's in the family room..." Sorscha replied, while the child sobbed into her shoulder.

"How long has he been crying?"

"30 minutes or so."

"You know what, if you take these to the family room, and give the torch to Chef. I can look after Benjamin for a bit to give you a break." Marjorie offered, causing Sorscha to give her a shocked look. Eventually she hesitantly taken the blankets from Marjorie and left the room.

"What's wrong sweetie?" Marjorie asked the crying child.

"I want to go home." Marjorie felt as if her heart shattered, Benjamin was too young to understand why he was stuck in the building in the dark, while a huge storm went on outside.

"Would you like a hug?" She offered, unsure what she was supposed to do in this situation. Yes before she was manager she used to work in the rocks, but that was in the early days of her infamous 'Villain arc'. She child quickly jumped into her arms and sobbed into her shoulder.

Marjorie carefully stood up and walked over to the nearest armchair in the room, to allow her and the child to be more comfortable.

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"Charlie, are you okay?" Sorscha asked, hearing Charlotte's sobs echo throughout the family room.

"Yes. I'm fine." Charlotte lied, watching Sorscha put down the remainder of blankets.

"You don't look 'fine'"

"It's just that I was supposed to pick up one of my daughters from dance class." Charlotte began with shaky breathing. "And I can't. And i don't know if my husband picked her up, or if she's still there, or if she's scared or worried..."

"She'll be okay. I completely understand what your feeling. " Sorscha replied, as she allowed herself to be concerned for Clodagh. "I can't stop thinking about Clodagh, knowing that I can't contact her to tell her I'm okay."

"But you know..." Sorscha added hoping chear up Charlotte just a bit. "Chef is mass making alot of food in the Kitchen so the frozen food doesn't go to waste."

"She's mass making food?" Charlotte asked, with a slight laugh in her voice.

"Yes. Currently she's making a few lasagne's... atleast we have dinner, and breakfast... maybe some lunch." Sorscha answered, when she suddenly remembered Marjorie's offer. "And Marjorie offered to look after Benjamin who was crying over the powercut..."

"Marjorie offered to look after a toddler... who was crying?"

"I know right!! I wonder how she'll be by the time I'm back in there."

"Same." Charlotte answered when a thought crossed her mind. It had been a while since she had heard from Winter. "What about Winter?"

"Actually I don't know where Winter is. I haven't heard from him for a while..."