Hey people, here comes chapter 9!

Chapter 9

Nick was starting to come round from his seizer, as he looked around he noticed his vision was starting to return to normal.

He had been awake throughout the whole thing which frightened him greatly.

He'd been lay there crying for what seemed like eternity just waiting for his body to get some kind of normal feeling back.

Either that or a hand to appear from the heavens above scooping him up taking him to a land where there was ever lasting peace.

Or maybe the grim reaper shooting up from hell below ready to take him down to the land of fire and torture.

Nick had never been a saint, he had no idea which way he would go, that's if there was a way to go.

Rolling over onto his side his body ached and throbbed terribly, it was like he'd just been hit by a double decker bus.

This had only happened once before back in the ED when Charlie and Zoe had somehow managed to cover thing up.

Also Adam had been great during this time "Adam" he slurred, he really wanted him next to him now, he was the one who understood him.

Looking up at the bench next to him he made a grab for it to try and pull himself up, it was no use; his right leg was completely dead, he allowed himself to flop back down after several attempts.

Tears were burning his eyes, he just wanted to hit something, his head throbbed, his body ached, all he could do was lay here and hope someone would come and find him.

It didn't help that he'd completely lost all track of time, maybe he had been here all night? Why was he here? Where was everyone? These questions began circling his mind like a merry-go-round spinning at full speed.

Spared out feeling paralysed on the ground he looked up at the sky, the clouds turned and twirled making pictures in the sky, beautiful pictures.

He saw a dragon seemingly fighting a butterfly.

A cat being chased by a giant sponge.

A family playing ball laughing and joking with each other.

Every cloud he looked at seemed to tell a story, the one he stayed focused on was the family one, that's what he wanted – a family – a proper family, a wife a couple of kids maybe even a few pets.

Deep down he knew he was only seeing what his imagination wanted him to see, his brain was tired after taking such a shock to his body.

Nick knew this could cause hallucinations, irrational thinking, confusion.

How could he not know – he was a medical genius.

Sometimes he wished he didn't know anything at all medically, that way maybe he wouldn't be such a sceptical person.

By concentrating on the clouds he was controlling his brain in some way by keeping it relaxed, the more relaxed he stayed the better and quicker his body should recovered from the shock it had just taken.

He lay there reminiscing about his childhood, he always enjoyed sitting in the garden in the sunshine watching the clouds.

I guess you could say it had been a hobby of his.

He remembered that he loved magic tricks when he was a kid, he even believed that magic was real, his late uncle would show him card and coin tricks, the man could make his pocket money double even triple in amount.

Of course when Nick tried himself it never worked.

He remembered once asking his uncle to teach him some tricks 'to learn magic lad you must learn the three magical rules' the voiced echoed in his head like a bouncy ball hitting each side of his inner skull.

His uncle had died from a brain condition – non fluent aphasia – something he thought he may have had when his tumour started playing up, he remembered the man becoming very ill, near the end he had appeared to deteriorate everyday.

His uncle had been in a car accident and suffered a brain trauma, after the accident he'd had a stroke which left him with the terrible condition, after the diagnosis he had seemed to contract every illness possible.

Nick was there through it all, he missed his uncle everyday.

"Nick!" came Adams voice "what the hell happened?" he questioned helping him to his feet.

Nick realised his leg felt fine now "oh nothing I was just um having a lay down" he answered hesitantly, he could tell by the look he got back Adam didn't believe a word he was saying.

"Nick did you faint?"

"It was nothing Ads" Nick replied with a wink "come on lets get something to eat, I wanna teach you about the three rules of magic"

Adam gave him a funny look as Nick leaned on him for support, the last thing he wanted was his leg to give way, if Adam even got a sniff of there being anything wrong he would have him down the hospital quicker than anyone could say die…