Becoming Wolf - Sequel to 'Staying Human'

Chapter Two

 Jason was still puzzled, “I don’t know any woman who keeps her face covered with a cloth. Did my wife speak to her?”

“No, she said she had to stay hidden, she completely covered the whole of her body.”

“So you let a complete stranger into my room when you knew these two wanted to kill me,” he snapped at her as he thrust the pictures of Jeremiah and Isaac in her face.

“Well she said you knew her and she knew everything about you.” The nurse answered.

Jason shook his head, pulled on his t-shirt and began to walk out of the door but he then stopped and turned around at what the nurse said next.

“You were slowly dying, you know before I allowed her to visit you.”

“I was dying?” Jason questioned her.

 The nurse nodded, “your Dr tried everything but nothing would work. No-one knew why you were not responding to treatment but when she started to visit, you slowly began to get better. She was right when she said she could heal you.”

“What made you believe her in the first place?” Jason quizzed her.

The nurse smiled at Jason and held out her hands, “she healed me, I had early on-set arthritis and I was close to losing my job and she healed me. I knew those boys meant you real harm when they asked me to inject you with silver because the first night she came, as she held you and when she chanted, silver liquid came out of your nose. The next day your vitals slightly improved so I continued to let her in.”

“Thank Draugluin you did.” Jason said.

“Draugluin?” She quizzed him. “I’ve heard the people that visit you say that name may times. It was almost as if they were praying.”

Jason laughed, “Why would this woman want to help me?”

The nurse replied, “she me she had a debt to pay.”

“Do you know how to contact this woman?”

The nurse shook her head in response. “She said she would contact you.”

“Well if you think of anything else will you call me?”

“Of course I will Mr Evans.”

He smiled, “please, call me Jason; Annie,” he answered as he peered at her name badge pinned onto her uniform.

 They briefly hugged, he thanked her again and then he turned left but just as he reached the exit he heard Annie calling his name. When he turned he saw her running towards him waving a piece of paper in her hand.

“What’s wrong,” he asked her as she approached him.

“I don’t know how to contact her but I do know how to contact him.”

“Who?” Jason quizzed her.

“The copper haired pale boy,” she exclaimed, “he gave me his number and for some reason, my gut instinct was to keep it.” She thrust the paper she was holding into Max’s hand.

He smiled broadly as he read what was written on it and he then hugged her tight.

“Thank you.” he whispered as he kissed her cheek.

She smiled in response and then turned to walk back to her work station as she walked she heard Jason shout “Thank Draugluin.”

As she sat in her chair she tapped her fingers on the desk and stared at the computer screen in front of her. She could not contain her curiosity so she fired up Google and typed ‘Draugluin’ in the search bar and her eyes went wide when she saw the search results; everything about the patient Jason Evans now made sense, he was not human.