And I'd give up forever to touch you

'Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be

And I don't want to go home right now

The next morning Neal was woken by a loud pounding on the door. Neal gave his normal dramatic sigh whenever he was woken in a similar manner.

'I really don't want to,' he told the pot next to him like it could listen and gave a death glare at the door that was still thudding, rhythmically now, as if the person on the other side was now starting to lose patience.

'I don't have a choice,' he continued as he stood up and put breaches on. He decided that it wasn't worth it trying to put on a shirt. He would get to that once breakfast had happened. Although if it was something was seriously wrong breakfast wouldn't happen. Neal sighed when he heard that. He really didn't want for it to go that way. It had been like that yesterday.

He pulled it open to see Dom's face. After choking for a little at the sight of Dom up so early in the morning, Neal managed to get himself back together.

'If this is a social call, Dom, so help me I will kill you until you see next week,' Neal glared. Dom shook his head.

'Whilst I admire your attire this early in the morning I was walking outside when someone asked me to get you. Coming? From the way that she was running I think that it might be a bit of a rush,' he said and pulled Neal out the door and down the stairs before he knew what was happening. As soon he did though he was off running on his own.

With only the smallest distraction, as Neal realised that he hadn't remembered to do up his pants when he had gotten up earlier (thus causing them to fall down), the two men arrived at the infirmary and too stock of the situation. Mistress Stana was trying to hold down the woman that had wandered in down as she thrashed on her bed.

'What happened?' Neal asked Mistress Stana.

'I was going out in the middle of the night because nature called and when I came back I heard noise. I knew that you leave to door unlock just in case that you need to get in at the middle of the night and I saw her,' at the Stana pointed to the woman who was now still,' moving about a bit, but it turned out that it was just Hannah getting her baby to feed it afore it started to yell again. I had taken possibly one step out the door when I heard the most ear splitting scream. I turned back and it was the woman having a bad dream. So I went over and was going to gently wake her and tell her where she was. I couldn't wake her so I stopped trying, she stopped moving anyway, and I stopped to talk to Hannah more. Then about two minutes ago she started moving like this again. Scared the living daylights outa me, I can tell you that much,' she said and slowly lifted her arms. The woman on the bed didn't start thrashing again.

'Thank you,' Neal said. 'I think that she is getting hallucinations from a slight fever. I haven't checked yet but if so then it is easy to fix. Thank you.'

Dom nodded in agreement. 'What he said.'

The woman nodded and took off. Trying to get that extra moment of sleep that she had missed out on.

'Can you feel her head to see how hot she is while I go and get some things and start boiling water?' Neal asked.

'That wasn't nice,' Dom said back.

'Why not?'

'Because I am not going to see how "hot" she is. I might check her temperature though,' Dom teased.

'Shut up. You know what I meant,' Neal muttered

'Yes, I did, but what if one day you get a poor apprentice, I don't know who would even want to be apprenticed to you, and he wants to know why he is checking to see if the girl is hot or not. He is meant to be concentrating on his studies and apprenticeship,' Dom said and looked back down at the woman. Suddenly, for some unexplainable reason, he felt that he had to do everything he possible could to help this woman and to stay by her side until she was totally better again. It was a feeling he hadn't had since Kel had gone.

If I'm falling in love again, so help me... Dom thought.

'Hey!' Neal slightly yelled.

'What?' Dom asked back.

'You spaced out. I thought that you were going to start on the drink again,' said Neal worried. Dom sighed. Starting on the drink again was their way of saying that he was missing Kel too much and that he was going to drunk by tomorrow morning. Neal hadn't used it for a long time because eventually Dom had just never put the drink back down.

'No. I am going to try and stay away from that stuff as often as possible from now on. Makes sense that only now I remember that I hate the taste of the schooner,' he complained and managed to get a laugh out of Neal. Dom kept on placing cool cloths over the woman's head whilst Neal continued trying to get rid of the fever to the best of his capabilities. Unfortunately he wasn't getting very far because the woman had a great resistance to magic. It was obvious that she had been healed many times.

'I've done all I can without using all my energy. As it is, if someone breaks something all I will be able to do is wrap it and take the pain away.

'You shouldn't have used that much on the one person. You might need it later,' Dom said.

'I know. But still... Something about her is familiar. I just couldn't help it,' Neal said and turned away, not giving Dom any time to respond.

I have to go to sleep now or I will be a monster in the morning. That is never good with a sister who I can't talk to without getting annoyed and who "can't cope because she is unable to". WELL THAT DOESN'T STOP HER FROM TELLING ME THAT I'M THE IDIOT OUT OF THE TWO OF US!

Now that I am ok now, I hope you review. I actually want to see how many reviews I can get. If I get over..3, there will be another chapter tomorrow. If I get over 10 (is that possible?) then there will be another two chapters tomorrow. If for some odd reason I get an unexpected rise in the story and I get 15, there will be another 3 chapters tomorrow and I will update anther fic for anyone who asks :) (one per person! Or I'll die:) )

Alyss Maiwnaring

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