Chapter Five.

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Rachel had been released from the hospital the following morning, I didn't want to leave her on her own the night before. But after much persuasion, I eventually and reluctantly went home.

Not that I was happy about it, after leaving stick instructions with Rachel, that if anything, and I meant anything happened. I was to be contacted immediately, no matter what the hour was.

I had been at the hospital since 9 that morning, we were just waiting for the doctor to make his rounds and give Rachel a clean bill of health and discharge her.

"I'm happy with your progress, Mrs Fleet and I'm happy to discharge you on strict instructions. Your CT was clear, you haven't had any problems neurological since your seizure. And the nurse had explained the tablet racism to you?" The doctor asked, politely.

Rachel nodded heard quickly, eager to leave the hospital and get home.

"Great, I think that is everything if you make an appointment with the midwife on your way out. That's everything. My congratulations and good luck for the future." The doctor smiled politely and left the room.

Rachel was subdued on the journey home, with her head leaning against the window. not that I blamed her in the slightest.

The turn of events that took place at our home four days previously was a lot for me to even absorb, I couldn't imagine how Rachel must be feeling, let alone what was going through her head.

"Whatever you need. I'm here, Rach. Whatever you need." I tell her as I take her soft, delicate hand on my much larger one.

I knew her knee id never leave her, but I needed to say it out loud. I needed her to hear it.

It didn't take us long to get home, once there Rachel went straight to the living room, while I went to the kitchen to make us both a brew.

It had been a whirlwind of emotions over the previous 3 days, something that we were relieved to be over in one sense and yet in another, it had only just begun.

Fixing the brews, I made my way to the living room.

I remember being told as a kid, If you're ever hit in the nose hard enough to make your eyes water, you may also notice that your skin will grow hot, your mouth will go a bit dry and your pulse will become elevated.

You'll find that your head begins to swim with a strong desire to hit something in return, possibly to shout while you do. Eventually, you'll find that you've overcome this sudden influx of physical and mental stimuli. What you've just experienced - the basic emotion of anger - has passed.

Why a slight impact to the nose leads to a series of physiological and mental changes has long been a matter of speculation, but most psychologists agree that a basic emotion like anger exists as an evolutionary trigger. We humans - and most other animals - appear to be equipped with a set of predictable responses to situations. We call these the basic emotions: anger, fear, surprise, disgust, joy and sadness, as described in the 1970s.

But we're a long way from the '70s, it's two thousand and bloody fourteen!

I always found the human body and mind fascinating. There was always something to learn.

What are emotions, and why do we have them?

Over time, this list of basic emotions has been added to, subtracted from and reshaped based on the idea that human emotions are universal. This notion suggests that for any given situation, like being hit in the nose, any individual in any culture would experience something like anger.

This view of emotions as largely objective is widely accepted, although there is an emerging school of thought that believes emotions to be far more subjective: Rather than six or 11 basic emotions, there is an emotion for every possible human experience.

Under almost every explanation of emotions is the premise that they're a naturally-occurring response to a situation. Whether this response is the result of our own evaluation or an automatic one remains to be seen. In the field of psychology, the view of the nature of emotions can be divided into two camps: Emotions are either the result of a judgment of any current situation or a perception of changes taking place within our bodies In other words, when we experience disgust, it could be the result of a judgment about how we feel when we see vomit. Under the other view, we experience disgust because our body undergoes physiological changes like queasiness and increased skin temperature at the sight of vomit.

Over time, research has also separated other emotions that most in the scientific community believe are only experienced by humans and some other primates. These higher or moral emotions are based on self-awareness, self-consciousness and ability to empathize with others. The moral emotions are pride, guilt, embarrassment and shame.

Like basic emotions, moral emotions have accompanying physiological changes associated with them. But they diverge from basic emotions in that they tend to emerge after self-reflection, and they support the theory that emotions are results of judgments, rather than simply involuntary reactions to a stimulus.

Whether discussing the origin or nature of basic or higher emotions, one question remains: Why do we experience them in the first place?

I knew my Rachel and I liked a gamble. I also knew my Rachel had some of this to come.

Rachel was like a pressure cooker, it would build and build, until and it could be the smallest of things that would finally be the straw that broke the Kamals back. Rachel would explore.

The rush of her emotions that had been bubbling under the surface would erupt like a volcano.

First the anger, then the hurt, and then the sadness and finally the devastation.

She'd rant and rave, then she'd ask why then apologize and then sob her heart out.

Yes, that was my Rachel and I love the bones of her for it and I sure as hell wouldn't change her for the world.

Because she was my Rachel, my best friend, my lover, my confidant, my soul mate.

And I love her just the way she is.

A/N I can only apologize for the wait, but I hope you've enjoyed this chapter! Here are the shout outs!

hannah5240

I have to say I am definitely a Rachel and Eddie fan at heart, but your writing here is beautiful nonetheless. I am still really enjoying this story, it's such a fabulous idea.

Aww, thank you. I love that you are enjoying the story so much! I'm glad you're enjoying it! There's plenty more to come, I promise you! Thank you for the review!

RachelMasonFan39

Aww that was such a nice chapter

Aww, thank you. I'm glad you're enjoying the story! There's more to come. Thank you for the review!