After Eternity

Chapter 48

I.

San Francisco

Diana stirred in her sleep disturbed by some strange noises. She turned around in the complete dark room feeling James's hand resting on her waist. Her eyes remained closed for a while, for she wanted to try to fall asleep again. Her head was still pounding and her eyes were extremely heavy. The hazy noises coming from the outdoors were leaving her bewildered. Something was occurring but her sleeping mood was prohibiting her to understand what was taking place, but many different sounds were reaching her distant ears. Suddenly, a faint light gave the darkness in the bedroom a dim clarity that flashed twice and her eyes opened. That's when the sounds became clearer. The wind was sighing and thrashing in tree tops of the garden and branches moaned. The wind was so strong it made the windows whistled as its gust could infiltrate in every gap. Its howling was frightening, making Diana shiver a little. Lightning and thunder raged with fury, it seemed like the whole bedroom was shaken by it. She could swear, the bed had quivered with the strong thud. Rain was falling heavily, she could tell, tapping out a peculiar powerful melody as it hit the leaves of the trees and as it tapped strongly on the window. It was not just raining, a cataclysm was happening outside, she was sure, and James completely oblivious to the rain storm that was hitting his house as he slept profoundly.

Unexpectedly, a light in his nightstand robbed her attention from the schizophrenic weather. His cell was ringing but he had put it on silence mode. Diana peeked, tackling over him cautiously. It was from the hospital, she saw. For a moment, she looked at his face slightly illuminated by the light of his cell and he was so passed out that she decided not to wake him up. Diana grabbed the cell and slid out of the bed as gently as she could not to disturb him and meanwhile, the call had ended. Nevertheless, she took his cell out of bedroom and she descended to the living room. Near the window, she witnessed the curtain of water that was falling down from the sky. It was so thick that it looked like James and a waterfall on his roof, throwing water in front of his window.

"Fuck..." Diana whispered at the realization of the huge storm that was reaching the city, but then she looked down at the cell in her hands and pressed dialed to the last unanswered call.

"Hello?" Mr. Hetfield." Diana recognized the voice of Dr. Harrison.

"No... it's Diana." She said with heavy sleepy voice. The sound of her own voice made her head pound. She closed her eyes, massaging her temples to alleviate the pressure she felt there.

"Hello." He said sounding fresh and happy, she concluded he had good news. "Just to let you know that Mrs. Hetfield woke up and she is recovering greatly." He let her know.

Instantly, her lips opened a smile and her heart skipped a bit of joy. "Really? So, can we go there?" She asked for she would wake up James right away. He would be so incredibly happy with the news.

"Not yet." Harrison said. "She is still in the UTI, only after 6 pm we are going to transfer her to a bedroom. I just wanted you to know that she is fine." He said.

"So, can we visit her after six?" Diana asked to be sure.

"Of course." He told her.

"Fine." Diana smiled again looking outside. "We'll be there." She told him still smiling. Knowing Morgan was alright was all she wanted to hear.

"See you later." Harrison told her before she heard the beep of end call.

Diana saw the time on his cell, it was still 2 pm, so she would let him sleep a while longer, but she would not be able to go back to sleep and she needed a strong coffee and maybe an aspirin. She went to the kitchen and put the cell on the huge glass table James had in front of the counter and then she turned the coffee machine on, filling the tank and putting a filter on it with five full spoons of coffee powder. She leaned against the counter with her arms crossed around her chest waiting for the miraculous liquid to be ready. Then she noticed she was on her really short night gown and bare foot, but it was warm inside the house, so she didn't bother to go up and change.