Chapter 5:

El Pesadillla

The Lady of the Shadows and deppalicious: This chapter is especially for you!

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Nicoletta woke up the next morning with a start. She was sat up in bed breathing heavily. The sheets had fallen to her waist and she was trembling all over. As she began to remember where she was she sank back on to the bed, pulling the sheets around her. However, she was still shaking, and it wasn't cold. She had been dreaming, or rather, having a nightmare.

She had been lying on the floor in a dark room. A man was stood there, she could see the shape of him in the darkness, but she couldn't see his features. Slowly she had begun to crawl towards him, even though her mind was screaming to escape from there. Then her fingers brushed the side of something, a human face. She had looked down, and she could somehow make out the features of Morgead. However, this wasn't the Morgead Nicoletta knew. He was horribly disfigured and mutilated, yet still alive, she could just see his chest rising and falling. Nicoletta had felt sick, for the first time since the beginning of the dream she was happy the darkness was there. She didn't want to see Morgead like that. Quickly she had begun to stand, to run and escape. However, the man had turned round and Nicoletta had been completely terrified. Although she couldn't remember what she'd seen, she had woken up.

Nicoletta looked at the clock; it said 9:00a.m. Deciding she might as well get up she climbed out of bed and found her dressing gown. Once she had tugged her dressing gown on, she left the room and entered the bathroom, where she proceeded to have a long shower.

Once Nicoletta was dressed and had dried her hair she came down the stairs. She had expected Sands to be in bed, but instead, he was sat at the dining table on his mobile phone. He glanced up when she came in, gave her a lazy smile and nodded at the toast which was on the table. Nicoletta returned the smile and helped herself to the toast while listening to what Sands was saying on the phone.

"No, I can't. Bartulo's got every entrance and exit covered, right down to the bedroom windows." ………. "No, that son of a bitch tried to betray me but I got to him first." ……. "Now that's an idea…" Sands suddenly smiled a very evil smile, which made Nicolettas blood run cold. "Yeah, I'm sure that would work….alright, seeya."

Sands flipped the phone shut and then looked at Nicoletta.

"Morning sugar butt! Are you tired?"

Nicoletta shrugged, "Not really. Why?" she asked, not entirely trusting Sands. She didn't exactly think that he was just asking because he cared. He wanted something.

"Because we're going out today, you're going to learn how to fight." He smiled at her as though he was Santa Claus, holding out a wonderful present.

Nicoletta gazed at him disdainfully, "I know how to fight. I told you everything last night, I used to be leader of a street gang, remember?"

Sands grinned slyly, "I know sugar butt. However, I want to check you're up to standard. After all, I've never seen you fight at all before. Apart from when you shot that man in the restaurant, and a baby could have done that. You could be rubbish."

Nicoletta was glaring at him so fierily, that if looks could create heat he would be mere specks of ash right now.

"So," Sands continued, "I want you to put on something that you can work out in, and meet me at the leisure centre on the outskirts of the city. Tell the person at the desk that you're looking for Senor Playa. They'll show you where to go. Seeya sugar butt."

Before Nicoletta could make any rude comment, or say anything at all, he had picked up his sunglasses and walked out the door. Picking up his car keys as he left.

Nicoletta was left there positively seething. That filthy bastard! How dare he treat like she was some kind of spoilt brat who couldn't do anything and then leave her to find her own way there! He could hardly have it both ways! Well, she decided, Agent Sands was going to get a shock; she would show him just how well she could fight.

Really sorry that this is so short I promise I'll make up for it in the next chapter!

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