Hero

21. Instincts.

Three whole days.
Three days had passed since I'd been unceremoniously dumped here like a sack of unwanted potatoes and I hadn't heard a single word from Harry. I had gone to sleep every night, my heart filled with hope that he would return back soon, my safety felt increasingly threatened the longer he stayed away, but each dreary morning I was met with the sight of a cold empty right side of the bed and no broody, green eyed Hero.

Last night something had changed inside my body, I felt something deep within my body, it was getting weaker as each hour passed and it was making me feel increasingly nauseas for a reason I was unaware of. I had brushed it off as a bug last night but this morning when I was awoken with the feeling of regurgitating everything I had eaten the previous evening, and found myself on my knees in front of the toilet bowl being violently sick, I figured it may be something a little more than just a bug as I had previously self diagnosed it as.

And as the day progressed, yet again with no sign of Harry, my condition got increasingly worse, I was tired constantly and I had broke out in a fever in the last couple of hours which was of course fantastic.

I was getting worried now, it didn't feel right and my body almost felt like it was crying out for something that was missing, I couldn't explain it at all but I just felt horrible, and without Harry around to help me, or to tell me what the hell was going on, I felt a lot more vulnerable than before, exposed even.

I'd rang him multiple times over the course of the last three days but to no avail, he hadn't picked up, nor had he bothered to call back. I was annoyed for a while up until I realised that he was probably busy with serious issues and here I was acting like a clingy puppy. I had no right to make his job harder for him than it already was and I had no right to be angry with him for simply doing his job, although a little voice in my mind was telling me that he could've at least texted, just a simple date of his return would have been great, but no. I was stranded completely in the dark all alone.

I groaned lowly as I stumbled back towards Harry's bed and collapsed onto it with exhaustion clearly present throughout my body, I had taken a few painkillers but they had done nothing to the new headache that had been plaguing me for a while now.

Suddenly, I heard the door creak open and Perrie's familiar voice fill the room.

"It's lunch t-- Amelia? Are you OK?" Perries cheerful voice halted as she spotted me sprawled tiredly on the bed lacking all motivation to move from the now warm spot.

I mumbled something incoherent as she came over and moved some hair away from my face and pressed a hand to my forehead, he eyes immediately expanding with fright.

"You're really hot!" She exclaimed worriedly as the turned her hand over so it was the back of her hand resting against my forehead.

"Thanks," I mumbled attempting to make a joke while I felt like and most likely looked like death.

"I'm serious." I didn't bother replying to her words as I figured it took too much energy away from me, energy I wasn't too keen on spending on pointless words. "I'm gonna call Ash." She said and before I knew it she had shot off the bed and rushed out of the door leaving it wide open allowing a cool breeze inside much to my annoyance.

"Fucking hell." I grumbled while wondering who this 'Ash' was, I'd never heard of him before, maybe I'll recognise him as someone I've seen but not known what their name was. And I also wondered how he was going to be of any use to my fever.

Suddenly a feeling of nausea washed over me making me jolt up off the bed and stumble weakly into the bathroom just in time to collapse in front of the ceramic bowl before I emptied my stomach, my knees pressed against the cold floor. When I was sure that I had finished I flushed the toilet and stood up to re-brush my teeth for the 5th time that day, I was confused as hell, I was fine yesterday and then suddenly today I'm falling over myself. It made no sense to me at all and honestly I couldn't be bothered to actually spend time figuring it out.