Two Hundred-Seventy-Four

*** Returning to the Real World… **

I feel myself rising to the surface of what feels like water, it really is a strange feeling, to feel like one is underwater but you don’t have the fear of drowning however there is the fear of not breaking through that surface and opening one's eyes once more.

I fight and finally break through the surface, and I am hit with the annoying sound of a machine beeping in my ear. I groan and try to move my arm, but can’t, so I then concentrate on my eyes. My eyelids are heavy and they don’t seem to want to open, so I groan again.

I then feel a small hand on my cheek and warmth seeps in. I smile as I turn my head slightly into that small hand and whisper roughly,

“Darius, my boy, you shouldn’t be using your gifts this much…”

“It’s okay mummy, I was sleeping while you were once Ava had gotten the pups out safely.”

I slowly open my eyes as, with the help of his warmth, Darius had removed the heaviness from them. I look into his intense grey ones. I st