Season 3 Episode 5

"How are you feeling?", the nurse at her bedside was asking Sybil.

"I don't know! I don't feel healthy. There is this terrible headache, and sometimes I see things where aren't there! Maybe I should ask to go to the hospital, instead!", Sybil told the nurse.

"I don't think that's necessary! The doctor would have told you about it if something were wrong!", the young woman replied to Sybil.

"You can't bring your child and yourself in danger.", the woman answered.

"Now try to rest. You need as much rest as you can get before it all starts.", The nurse continued and stood up. Sybil nodded and leaned back in the bed while the nurse went to the other side of the room to look at the preparations. She almost closed her eyes as the door opens slowly in a screeching tone. This just made her head spin more.

"Sorry, my darling! I just wanted to check on you if you need anything!", Tom said while he peaked his head in. Sybil tried to smile under her pain.

"Come in, please and close the door!", Sybil answered with a broken voice. Tom crossed the room to sit next to his wife on her bed.

"How are you, my love? I wish I could do something for you!", Tom told her while holding her hand. His warming hands eased Sybil a little, and she smiled more widely at him.

"It's not so bad. The doctors say it's not out of the usual to feel this way if you in this state. Don't worry so much, Tom! Everything will be okay!", she tried to persuade her husband.

"I was thinking, maybe we should go better to the hospital!", Tom told her. Sybil was catching the eye of the nurse she was talking to just before Tom came in. She shook her head at this and motioned to her to refuse it. Tom turned around to look at the spot Sybil was focusing on, but he couldn't see anything.

"What's the matter, love?", he asked confused.

"Nothing, really, but I think I want to stay here!", Sybil answered to get Tom`s attention back.

"Are you sure, about this. Do you trust this famous doctor?", Tom asked worriedly.

"I think I trust Papa with it! He trusts him, he knows him better as we do!", she explained to Tom.

"If that's what you want I will not fight him on this, I promise! But I want you to be sure!", He answered his wife. Sybil patted his cheek and looked him in his blue eyes. She loved his eyes. They were as blue and wild as the deep blue sea. She always felt free looking into them.

"I am sure!", she told him and was catching his bottom lip with hers.

"I love you, Tom. We will be so happy. Soon we have our little one, and all this is over.", she breathed in his mouth.

"I better let you rest now! I love you so very much, my love.", he said and stood up to leave the room.

"I love you so very much, too!", She stated almost too quietly she wasn't sure if he had heard her. He just smiled at her and left.

"It is for the best, Lady Sybil! You don't have to be afraid.", The nurse told her again. Sybil stared at her in wonder.

"You aren't a nurse are you?", Sybil asked!

"Tom couldn't see you! You're just in my head, in my imagination!", Sybil concluded. The nurse smiled wickedly at her.

"You are a smart one! But you're wrong. I am not imaginary! I am your destiny! I'm here to take you with me!", the nurse smiled at her.

"I'm not going to die! I just can't! What about Tom and the baby.", Sybil replied.

"You better make your peace with it! You can't prevent it from happening!", she just coldly answered and disappear in front of Sybil.

Her baby was so beautiful. Their little girl was laying in Sybil's arms, and all she could think of was that she had to die soon! Her body was feeling so tired and exhausted after the birth, but it pained her even more. Sybil had to make sure her family would look after Tom and their baby. She didn't want to send them away. She knew she wouldn't survive the night, the nurse had told her so. She had said she couldn't tell them, but Sybil had to make sure everyone would be okay without her.

"I want to sleep, really!", Sybil told them.

"Of course you do! You earned it! She is a wonderful baby.", Her mother answered. Tom smiled so happily.

"We just should let her sleep!", Sir Phillip told them and looked at Tom. She didn't want Tom to leave first, but he was already up, and the real nurse took their child from Sybil. She had to do something!

"Mama?!", Sybil called out to her while the others left the room already.

"Yes, my darling?", she asked softly.

"Tom was thinking about to getting a job in Liverpool and going back to being a mechanic, but it wouldn't be right for him! He needs to move forward!", Sybil told Cora.

"We talk about it tomorrow, we don't have to worry about it now!", She replied and covered her daughter under her blanket. There was no tomorrow! Sybil just thought stubborn. She had to listen now. Tom had so many abilities he never actually uses. This was what angered Sybil the most about him. He made one step forward and then two right back. He thinks his life was over now as a journalist because he wasn't allowed to write about anything political anymore. But he had so much more to offer. He was so smart he shouldn't waste his time on a car if he could do so much more. "I think, Papa has some kind of answer if he does...", Sybil breathed.

"Your father loves you very much!", Cora interrupted.

"I know, and I love him terribly, but will you help me battle for Tom and the baby when the time comes?", Sybil asked her mother.

"Of course!", she answered softly.

"Lady Grantham!", The doctor was calling after her mother. She didn't like the man. Why couldn't he just let her finish? He didn't have to thru everyone out of her room!

"Now sleep darling!", Cora said and was sending her a kiss from her finger to Sybil's lips. Annoyed from everybody not wanting to listen to her, she leaned back in her bed.

There she was again, this imposter nurse!

"Did you said your goodbyes, little one!", She asked. She couldn't concentrate the pain inside her body was getting too strong. Her head was swimming and pounding.

"Don't worry it's almost over!", she heard her voice between the calls from Tom and Mary.

"Can you hear me?", Mary said. Tom and Mary were shaking her body. Her lungs felt like they got crushed under something and made her panting after air. She could feel the warmth of Tom's hand even in her pain.

"Please, don't leave me!", she heard him yelling in panic, and then everything went black.

She didn't know what happened, but the next thing she saw as she opened her eyes was herself. Sybil stared at her dead body as Tom was shaking it to wake her up.

"Wake up, love!", he said crying.

"Please don't leave me, love!", He continued. Sybil couldn't look at it. She was crying too by now. What was she? A ghost? She looked at her hands and couldn't see anything different. She didn't feel much different either just the pain was gone.

"Welcome to my world, little one!", a man said standing to her side.

"Who are you?", She asked him confused. The man looked like he was in his 40s and was dressed in armor, like a knight.

"Don't you recognize me, little one?" , he answered in the nurse's voice.

"You!", she said.

"So what happens now?", Sybil asked the man. He just smiled wicked at her.

"I don't know! Do you see the light?", he asked her.

"No, what light?", Sybil wondered after looking around.

"Well, me not either! Guess you a lost one then!", He just answered and disappeared again. Baffled Sybil looked at the spot the knight was just standing a second ago. What was happening here? She watched as everyone stood in tears around her dead body. She had to get out of here.

Sybil walked thru the open door and followed the cries of her baby. The nurse had lied her down in her crib after cleaning her. Sybil looked down at her baby with tears in her eyes. Something went wrong!

"You shouldn't be here!", A familiar voice appeared next to her. As she looked up, she looked directly at the young woman.

"Lavinia!", Sybil called out.

"Sybil, why are you here?", she asked confused.

"What do you mean? I died, how I was supposed to!", Sybil replied.

"No, you had should be in the hospital! Why didn't you tell them? You knew this was the only way to save your life!", Lavinia told her.

"But this nurse had told me that it is my destiny to die!", she answered.

"What nurse?"

"Well, I thought she was a nurse, but then she turned into a man dressed as a knight.", Sybil explained.

"Oh no, that's bad!", Lavinia said and grabbed Sybil by her arm and dragged her behind her out of the room.