Another unedited chapter, sorry guys but please bare with me, I'm in a rush to post this because I don't have much time. I was also thinking of cross posting like posting this story on AO3 and posting my high school AU story from AO3 here. Let me know what you think. Thanks for sticking with me. I hope you enjoy and if there's anything you want to see from me feel free to let me know

Nic woke early, instead of waking to the smell of breakfast like she had the few days before she woke to the smell of smoke. She got up quickly, the fire alarm piercing her ears with its loud shriek. She got to the kitchen where the stove was ablaze. She called out for Conrad as she searched blindly through the smoke for the fire extinguisher.

Once she had managed to put out the fire she went to look for Conrad, she was worried about him, something inside was just screaming at her telling her something was very wrong. She had this sense of fear and panic that seemed to completely overtake her. She started to feel dizzy but she didn't slow down, she left the house and began searching for him. She tried calling his phone but got no answer, she searched up and down the streets nearby, no sign of him. She started calling emergency rooms to see if he had been admitted. It seemed that he was no where to be found. Nic called everyone she could think of, all the while trying to ignore the terrible sickness she felt. Irving had the day off and came to help her search.

"He couldn't have gotten far, I'm sure he's fine" he said as he drove, he didn't want Nic to be stressing and hoped he could somewhat reassure her.

"The kitchen was on fire. I don't think this will have an innocent explanation behind it. He has a head injury. What if he wondered off? What if he's confused and disoriented?'

"He was cleared remember? He's fine. Maybe you should worry about yourself. You probably inhaled a lot of smoke"

"I'm fine" she said a little top quickly. "You know just as well as I do that doctors make mistakes. I'm sure you've made plenty over the years. What if the neurologist was wrong? What if it's worse than we thought?" She could feel her chest tighten as she spoke, the dizziness now becoming too much to bare. Her breathing quickened and it was very clear she was having a full on panic attack. Irving pulled over quickly.

"Is it the baby? What's wrong?" he wasn't sure what was happening.

"i-I can't breathe" was all she managed to say, so he drove at full speed to Chastain. They got to the ER within minutes. Devon was the first to approach them.

"She's struggling to breathe, I don't know if it's a panic attack brought on by stress or if it's been brought on by smoke inhalation but we need to get her on oxygen now" he didn't want to take any chances, not when she was such a high risk patient. Devon helped get her to a bed and they put her on oxygen right away but even now as she felt like her lungs were on fire, all she could think about was Conrad.

Meanwhile Conrad was walking down a busy roadway, Nic had been right about one thing, he was definitely disoriented and confused, everything seemed to be a blur of colours, he didn't know where he was or why he was there, he was completely out of it..

A woman driving home from work saw him and she pulled over, to the average person he would probably appear to just be drunk, lost and confused but this woman just happened to be a doctor and not just any doctor but a neurosurgeon. She approached him carefully, she couldn't quite tell if he was just drunk or if something more serious was going on, she would need to get a closer look at him. "Sir are you alright?" she asked, Conrad heard her but the words didn't make sense to him, it was like she was speaking a different language. He stopped walking and turned around, that's when she noticed his eye, something wasn't quite right. Her fears were confirmed? Something was definitely wrong with his brain and he would need to go to the hospital without question. "I know you're confused and probably scared but I'm going to help you okay?" still her words meant nothing to him. He tried to speak, to tell her he didn't understand, to tell her something was wrong but he couldn't and that did terrify him. She led him to her car, he laid down in the back seat unable to keep himself up. "Just hang on. We'll be to the hospital soon" she said as she drove but still he didn't process the information, he Just slipped in and out of consciousness. Nic was about to get the news she was dreading...news that would be soul destroying...news that would change everything...