Ch 222: Icy Water & Blazing Fire

Being outside on my balcony, we heard this agonizing tormented scream inside the bedroom. We all turned heads seeing Sally jerked her body upright screaming. Her one arm was clenched around her stomach. We all hurried back in and saw her eyes were shut and her flesh looked red. Inside I was lost on what to do. She was in complete agony and my mind went blank from shock.

"Get her clothes off!" JJ yelled passed me. "And someone run a cold bath!"

JJ's voice snapped me out of my shock and I quickly climbed the bed to her. I pulled off her shirt and then laid her back and started to take off her shorts.

Nick run into the bathroom and I heard him starting to run the water. While I stripped Sally down to her bikini. JJ crawled on the bed from my bedside and touched her forehead.

"She is burning on fire," JJ said and shouted to Nick inside the bathroom. "Is the water ready!"

"Just put her in it as it fills," Nick shouted from inside the bathroom. I didn't play around and picked her up bridal style and took her to the bathroom. I saw Nick sitting on the jacuzzi's side. Quickly, he got out of my way for me to lay her down in the icy three-inch chilled water. She screamed feeling that icy water hit her skin that is blazing on fire. Regardless, of her cry, I had to put her in it.

To cold her down faster, Nick and I cupped our palms like bowls and started splashing water on her body. She screamed louder and tried to push our hands away to stop us but we couldn't stop. If her body temperature dropped some it would help her pain.

As Nick and I continued to do this. We noticed she cried however no tears run down her cheeks. For how much pain she is in there should be tears. I was baffled as to why she cried a tearless wail.

In the middle of my thoughts, JJ came up to the side of the jacuzzi. Where her head was and he touched the back of his hand on her forehead again.

"She's cooling down by a little bit," said JJ. "Keep splashing water on her."

Within another five minutes, the tub started to fill high enough that her body was fully submerged underwater. She finally stopped screaming and rested her head to lay up against my arm. I leaned down and kissed the top of her head. Even though she had calmed down. I still felt through her hair roots that her scalp was still burning up.

JJ came around and felt her forehead again saying, "she's cooling down much better now so the bath is working."

Nick took that as a cue and got up from being on his knees next to my left. I heard him get a towel from underneath my sink and he started to dry his arms. After that, he walked out of the bathroom. To chill will Aaron, Matt, Jay, and Mike hanging outside the bathroom.

JJ said talking to me, "we got her to sleep for about two hours."

"Don't you dare give me any more drugs!" Sally randomly snipped angrily at JJ. I was utterly shocked by the way she lashes out like that. Sally was pretty moody being in the heat but I felt something was wrong.

"Sally, it's ok that was just so you could rest," I told her while brushing my fingers on her temple.

But Sally shook her head and got my hand off her face sobbing, "it was awful! I never want to sleep again!"

"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked softly sensing something was up. "Why would you say that?"

Overhearing Sally speaking, Mike and Matt popped in. Matt took a seat on the jacuzzi side on my left and Mike sat beside him.

Matt said sweetly, "Sally, we are here for you why don't you talk with us."

For the moment horror shone out through those beautiful eyes. She quietly stares off at the bath side while she still rests her head on my arm. We give her a minute to think deeply. I could tell she had had a nightmare.

Sally's mouth started to speak in a cracky disturbed tone. "It was a dream that I lost my infant son in a white forest. Once I found him, he died in my arms leaving behind the white blanket he was wrapped in. After he passed that same little girl from my first nightmare appeared in this dream too. She wore the same white lace gown that covered her feet. She looked like my daughter but from thin air, she vanished leaving behind her white gown. Then the last part of the dream I found myself inside a baby's bedroom decorated in blue. I heard a baby crying inside this blue bassinet. When I approached I found him wearing blue infant pj's. So reached in to pick him up but then he died as I did. And then the bassinet started to shrivel like it was decaying and rotting." She trembled upset replaying the horrible images in her mind. It felt all too real to her. Of course, she purposely left out the romance between her and Cory. Nor did she tell them the babies and the girl were their children according to the dreams, she thought. Trying to keep her mind calm. She reminds herself it was only a dream. It wasn't real, she inwardly told herself.

We were dumbfounded by what she shared with us. But I caught something right away that I knew she didn't realize she had said. In the first nightmare, she never told me there was a little girl that looked like her. It made me wonder if she had dreamt about us having children together. But I knew I couldn't straight out ask her. She was in heat and felt fortified about what she saw in her dream. For any mother to lose their baby in their arms or during labor is surely a tragedy. It's sad to think this but these dreadful circumstances have happened quite a lot in the Kingdom and Baron Societies during our attacks. Even though we are forbidden by code to murder anyone under five hundred years old. It doesn't mean the mortal infants or children don't pass because of the a battle. However, if that happens the Codekeepers and Peacekeepers take matters into their hands once the attack is settled. Ending that thought, I looked toward Matt and Mike to say something. But I saw they were mystified about what to say on this one.