Blackout • NH

Chapter 32

I wake up to someone caressing my face and hair. I open my eyes to see Niall sitting on the edge of the bed, his fingers running through my hair.

"Hey babe, how are you feeling?" He asks quietly, his hand moving to my cheek to caress it.

"I feel fine now." I whisper, moving closer to him and laying my head on his lap.

"Jodie, is everything alright with you?" Niall asks concerned.

"Of course, I think my leg got infected so that's probably why I'm in so much pain and getting sick."

He didn't say anything. He just continued to run his fingers through my hair.

"You know I love you right?" He speaks up.

"Yes, I know you love me. And I love you Niall." I say looking up to him.

He smiles and puts his hand on my forehead. I guess feeling for a temperature.

"You don't have a fever so I guess that's good. You're no longer contagious." He smiles and leans down to place a kiss on my lips.

I respond my grabbing his face and kissing him back. Suddenly, we hear someone clearing their throat at the doorway. Marion.

"I see you're feeling better Jodie." She smiles.

"Niall can I talk to Jodie? I need to have a girl to girl talk with her."

"Ew, please do not continue. I'm leaving." Niall groans. He gives me one more kiss before getting up and walking out of the room, closing the door behind him.

"Let me check your leg." She says.

I sit up and prop some pillows against the headboards and then lean against them. She grabs a small medical kit from her bag and opens it and gets some antibiotic ointment and some fresh gauze out.

She begins to unwrap my cheaply made cast and looks at my leg.

"This is quite strange." She whispers, her eyes widening.

"What, please don't tell me it's starting to rot." I say scared and freaked out.

"No, it's actually the opposite. Jodie your leg is almost healed. All that's left looks like a cut." She says shockingly.

I sit up and look at my leg. She was right, my leg was almost fully healed.

"Jodie I don't understand. It takes 8 weeks to months for a broken bone to heal. It's only been 2 weeks since you broke it." She says, confused and concerned.

That's when it hit me. Dad...

"Marion, remember when I told you that I saw my dad."

"Yes."

"He did something when he made me immune. He made it to where I heal faster than the average human. That would explain why my leg is healing so fast." I say, my eyes widening.

"Well I'll be damned. We can thank your father for that then. But one thing that's still a mystery to me is why you're so sick. Your leg isn't infected and you're not running a fever." She ponders for a minute. Suddenly, she whips her head towards me faster than she would if a glazer is coming our way.

"Oh fuck." She whispers, her eyes widening. She stands up and backs away and leans against the window sill.

"What! What is it?" I say, concerned.

"Jodie, this is going to be kinda personal but have you and Niall been having sex."

"I-I what?"

"Well, have you?"

"I- well yeah." I look down and rub the back of my head avoiding eye contact. I look back up at her and her eyes are wide.

"When was the last time you guys did it?"

"Um. I don't know, like two and a half weeks ago. Before I was kidnapped." I let out a nervous laugh.

"Holy shit. Jodie, I think you're pregnant."

"What! No, no I can't be." I said, shaking my head in denial.

"Did you guys use a condom?"

Fuck...

"Oh my god no we didn't." I said, my heart rate increasing my eyes watering.

Marion rushes to the medical kit and digs through it. Pulling out a box of pregnancy tests.

"This kit I found a while back had pregnancy tests in them."

She hands me 3 of them. I look up at her.

"Piss on these and let them sit on the counter for 5 minutes." She tells me.

I start to tear up, and sniffle a bit.

"Hey, shhhh. Jodie it's okay. We will figure this out when we know the results. I'm not mad at you." She hugs me and rubs my back.

She nudges me towards the bathroom and I eventually walk in and shut the door. I pull out the tests and pee on each one, and then putting them on the sink like she told me to.

I walk out and she offers some hand sanitizer which I thankfully take to clean my hands with.

Suddenly, there's a knock on the door.

"Who is is?" Marion speaks up.

"It's Niall. I need to pee and then grab something out of my backpack real quick."

My heart felt like it dropped out of my body.

"Marion you can't let him in. He'll see the tests and assume." I whisper grabbing her arms.

"Jodie it's okay, we can just give him his backpack and shut the door."

"Let's do that."

I grab his backpack and open the door a bit and hand it to him before shutting it.

"Jodie, why did you do that. I just needed one item, not the entire bag." He laughs.

"We are still having girl talk." I say through the door.

"But I still need to pee." He whines.

"Use Liam, Louis and Harry's bathroom!"

"I can't! Louis took a shit last night and the toilets don't flush so that room is locked up and closed off."

Suddenly, the door opens and he comes in, looking annoyed.

"I just need to piss and I'll be out, damn." He says annoyed. He walks towards the bathroom before Marion steps in.

"You can use my bathroom!"

"Why are you two acting weird. It's like you're hiding something." He looks at us suspiciously.

He pushes past her and I step in her place.

"Niall please, let me clean up the bathroom before you go in there. I spilled some water on the floor and I don't want you to slip and fall. That's why we don't want you to go in there."

"Okay we'll be fast, my bladder is going to explode soon!"

I nod my head and walk in grabbing the tests and their boxes and looking for a place to hide them. But not before looking at the tests to see if the results are in.

I look at the first test and see two lines. I look at the box to match what the lines mean. Two lines, pregnant. One line, not pregnant.

My heart dropped. I looked at the next pregnancy test and it had one line showing. My heart is racing a mile a minute. I look at the last test that my hand is covering. I slowly lift my hand up and to look at the results.