The three-year-old looked into the old woman's eyes as she tried to take in a breath. The woman was her great grandmother, and was dying due to respritory failure. That wasn't the only thing. She was suffering from Alzimers, and had been for some years. She barely knew who anyone was anymore. The small girls eyes went white as the lady began to cough and sputter. The child would have ran then if not for the fierce demand that she stay that was in the old woman's eyes.
"Nori," the old lady grasped in a weezing voice. It sent the smell of medication and decay into the room but the little girl continued to stare. "Remember, your fairy..." The lady stopped to cough. It was a long and raking cough, but the tiny child waited patiently for her to continue. "Godmother. She will be there when you need her most."
The lady nodded at the girl and winked, before a cough over took her again. The old woman coughed up blood as she passed on. Her eyes, however, continued to stare at the girl but they were hard and cold. She stared at her a second more before she opened her mouth. She let out a scream that quickly brought in her parents, uncle and an assortment of hospital personal. A male doctor took off his mask as he turned to look at Nori and her family.
"I'm sorry," he said, avoiding eye contact. "We have lost her."
Nori's parents nodded in understanding, as her uncle started to cry. They were all escorted out of the room and told to wait in the lobby. As her parents and uncle sat down in disbelief, she jumped down from her mother's lap. She calmly walked up to her father, who had his head in his hands.
"Daddy?" Nori asked. He looked up at his small daughter, some what bewildered.
"Yes, princess?" He responded, as calmly as he could.
"Do I have a fairly godmother?" She wanted to know. Her eyes showed her complete seriousness and curiosity.
"No. You don't." He replied solomly.
"Gwate gandmother says I does." She told him with diffiance. Her statement brought more curiousity from her uncle and mother, while just bringing fright to her father.
"That sounds like her." Neal, her uncle, whispered.
"It's not true," Her father hollered with firm determination. "She was practically insane. It's a lie. Don't go there with my daughter."
Nori looked at her father in shock and fear. She ran back to her mother and curled up in her lap, not daring to make another sound or move. Her family spent the rest of the day in that dreary hospital, it was never to bring good news for her family.