Fighting For Love

Chapter 26 Part 1

Niamha woke up in a daze. She looked around the room and all she could remember was lying in the hospital bed on top of Landon and then eventually falling asleep. She stretched and her fist came in contact with something hard, she quickly retracted her arm and looked up to see a peaceful sleeping Landon lying next to her. Niamha tried to slip out of the bed, but when she moved Landon pulled her back into his chest. She looked down and noticed that he had his arms wrapped tightly around her waist. She carefully placed his hands around a pillow that she was lying on and eased up from the bed. She allowed her eyes to adjust to the room before searching for a clock. She saw on his nightstand that it read 2:40am. Niamha stumbled for a few minutes but eventually made her way to the door. She opened it but stopped and took a look back at Landon. She swallowed the tears that were forming in her eyes and left out the room. She was slowly creeping her way out into the living room, when a noise behind her startled her. She froze in her stop as she feared that any movement would cause the person moving around to find her. She heard the tatter of little feet against the hard wood; she took a look back, but didn’t see anything. So she assumed that he was headed into Landon’s room. Niamha waited until she heard the soft click of the door closing before she crept out of the apartment and into the nighttime air.

Niamha wandered around alone and cold in the nighttime air before she got fed up and turned around, she was headed back to Landon’s apartment. If she could remember which way was which. She began walking in the directions she assumed was right. The farther she walked the colder it got and the more paranoid she became. Niamha felt like someone was there following her, so she looked around but saw nothing. She decided not to take any chances and picked up her pace. She heard the unmistaken sound of heavy footing pounding behind her. She made a sharp right onto an up and coming street she saw Landon’s apartment complex coming up and she pushed herself harder to get closer. The footsteps were still in pursuit in fact they sounded as though they were getting closer. She was a couple of buildings away when the person chasing her reached out and grabbed her hair yanking her hard down to the ground. Niamha began to fight and scream against her attacker, the more she struggled the more aggressive her attacker got. The person got on top of Niamha and clamped a hand down on her throat freezing her air ways. They began to squeeze and Niamha still struggled against her attacker.

“Are you cheating on me? Why did you leave me? ANSWER ME!” the angry voice of her attacker screamed in her face as she struggled against his grip.

Niamha gasped trying to form words and he squeezed tighter, she couldn’t comprehend what they were saying and she was struggling to get a glimpse of the persons face. She felt herself becoming more and more light-headed, behind her eyes she say black spots starting to form. She could feel her fighting and struggling attempts start to weaken.

“Don’t you know I” her attacker ranted on some more. The more she struggled, the tighter he squeezed. She could feel herself starting to lose conscientiousness. As the stars and black spots clouded her eyesight, she tried to focus on her attacker. Niamha was starting to lose hope that someone was going to come and save her, she finally gave into her attacker and stopped fighting and struggling. She lye there and allowed the oncoming blackness to overtake her. She closed her eyes and focused on the positive in her life: Landon, Zek, the Girls, Her brother and his family. She was a grasp away from the darkness, when the weight that was pinning her down and constricting her air ways was removed. She soon tried to fight her way from the darkness, but she was too late, the darkness grabbed her and sucked her in. All she could think about was not being able to tell Landon she loved him.

Landon sat and watched Niamha sleep in his bed. He had consinplated taking her to the hospital, but from the basic medical training that he had he knew she was alright. He ran a hand down his face and sighed thinking about how he had found her. He had woken up to Zek crawling into his bed. He thought he was pulling Niamha in closer to him as he situated himself around her and Zek, but that wasn’t the case as he opened one of his eyes and saw that he was hugging a pillow. He shot up in the bed and threw the covers off of him. He was about to rush out of the room when he remembered that Zek was in the room with him. He looked back at the bed and saw that he was knocked out and gently fixed the covers so he was comfortable. He left his bedroom door open, grabbed his keys and left in search of Niamha. When he got outside his head whipped from side to side when some commotion from the right, he was about to let it alone when he heard.

“Are you cheating on me?!?! Why did you leave me?!?! ANSWER ME!” Landon felt a chill run through his body, at the thought of a women being attacked. He took off towards the commotion and tackled the dude to the ground before throwing punches at his face. Landon did want to rough him up to bad so when he felt that the dude had enough he got up and pulled the dude with him. When they were standing the light from a broken lamp post illuminated and Landon was looking into the face of his worst nightmare. He couldn’t stop the vile images that were filling his head as he looked back and saw Niamha unconscious lying on the ground. He turned back to Michael and saw red. He began to beat the living shit out of him; he didn’t think to stop until he remembered that Niamha was lying there on the ground. He let go of him and tried to calm down the heaving in his chest. He stared back a Michael’s bloody face. Landon stood there unclenching his fist.

“Leave now or you will regret it.” he spoke low and hard not taking his eyes of Michael as he headed back down the street until he couldn’t see him anymore. Landon turned and picked Niamha up bridal style let out a sigh of relief when he saw the steady rise and fall of her chest and the hard breaths coming from her. He headed back up to his apartment. Once he was inside, he headed into his bedroom and laid Niamha down in his bed. He made sure she was comfortable before moving to put Zek back in his room. Landon came back into his room and took a seat in the lazy boy he had his the corner of his room by his big window. He sat there just looking at Niamha waiting on her to wake up. He saw her begin to stir. He released a shaky breath and continued to look at her as her movements became more frequent. He watched as she slowly peeled her eyes open and looked around the room. He saw how her eyes widened in surprise and then relaxed as though everything that happened fell down upon her and brought her back to reality. He watched a mist all over her eyes before they softened as they continued to stare at one another. Landon watched as a determined look feel across her face before she opened her mouth to speak.