How Soon Is Now

Part One - Chapter Eight: Situation Reversed

Fernando stopped walking as Amber ran passed him, he didn’t know much about the brunette only that she was a friend of Nicola’s; he felt fuzzy thinking about the blonde but he didn’t know why.

Olalla looked at her husband taking his hand, she knew that he had been a little distant recently; it didn’t help that she was doing extra-long shifts at the hospital.

Fernando opened his mouth to say something to Olalla when Adrian walked around the corner carrying an unconscious Nicola in his arms; Fernando pulled away from his wife shocked at how pale Nicola looked.

“Is she okay?” Fernando asked worried while Adrian settled her on the floor, Nicola looked so pale and it was scary to see her this way.

Olalla frowned wondering what had gotten into his husband and why he was speaking to one of the town freaks that was until she spotted the unconscious Nicola and moved towards them to help.

Olalla quickly started to check over Nicola, she couldn’t not help and people would ask her why she hadn’t helped when she worked at the hospital as a nurse.

Fernando looked to Adrian for answers, he didn’t understand how Nicola could have been attacked so soon after finishing work; it had barely been two hours since he last saw her.

“She said she was having problems breathing… then she fainted,” Adrian lied knowing that he couldn’t tell anyone what had really happened, it was an exposure risk and Nicola wouldn’t want anyone to learn the truth.

Fernando wondered what could have happened to her, he felt a little dizzy as a rush of memory flickered through his mind; he had no idea what was going on but he felt ill.

Adrian and Marissa looked at one another, Nicola had told them what she had done while they were preparing to fight the demon and they both thought that she had been stupid.

Adrian nodded at Marissa, they both thought Nicola should be happy and whatever connection that Nicola had with Fernando couldn’t be ignored; it was clearly something powerful.

“Moments lostmake witches wonder. Warlock's plot orDemon's plunder.If this isnot a prankhelp him tofill in the blanks,” Marissa whispered softly making sure that Fernando and Olalla didn’t hear her; she didn’t need them discovered that she or the others were witches.

Fernando stopped what he was doing as a rush of memories from that morning filled his mind, ones that Nicola had forced him to forget; she hadn’t wanted him to get hurt and her work had been undone.

“Fernando call an ambulance,” Olalla said not looking at her husband who was white as Nicola; she continued to try and wake Nicola up without any success.

Adrian looked at Marissa who nodded at him confirming that she had given Fernando his memory back; Nicola deserved to be happy and they wanted to make her that.

“Nando,” Olalla snapped annoyed looking at her husband as he remembered Nicola kissing him; he swallowed thickly wondering what the hell was going on.

Adrian pulled out his phone as he called an ambulance, he knew that Fernando was in shock from getting his memories back.

***

The doctor smiled at the group that had gathered to wait to hear news about Nicola’s condition, Amber had gone and collected Alex Morris who knew about the supernatural world’ they knew there would be questions, ones that they couldn’t answer.

“Is she alright?” Fernando asked standing up when he spotted the doctor, Olalla frowned as she looked at her husband; she didn’t know why he cared so much about a woman that he didn’t know.