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Chapter 4
I awoke lying in a bed, with no recolection of what had happened, I moved into a sitting position and looked at my surroundings. I was in a hospital bed, I looked at the walls that were white, they looked spotless the cleaners certainly done their job right. There was no dirt or stains on the floor, it looked as though it had been cleaned quite recently, my back was hurting and I noticed there was a bandage around my stomach. I looked at the bedside table next to my bed, I turned the clock to face me and realised it was just after 10am, I lifted the sheets off me and moved my legs to start to get out of the hospital bed. Just as I was placing my feet on the cold white floor of the hospital, I heard footsteps from the corridor that sounded like they were aproaching my room, I lifted my head and stared at the doorway. The nurse had entered the room and saw me sitting on the bed, she looked fairly young, early twenties would be my guess, she had light brown hair that was tied back, she was wearing a little white nurses hat that had a red cross on the front of it. She started to walk towards me, she was wearing a white nurses unifrom that reached just below her knees, she looked quite cute as she aproached where I was sitting.

"Where do you think your going?" she asked me softly, she had a sweet voice and I struggled to answer
"I need to meet a friend of mine" I said as I tried to stand up, I felt a pain in my back which made me sit back down, the nurs noticed this as I tried to hide the fact that I was in pain
"You need more rest detective, you've been lucky" she smiled at me, my expression changed to worried expression
"What do you mean i've been lucky?" I said looking at her, she took a step forward and sat down next to me
"You don't know what happened do you detective Harm?" she said as she looked at me with an uneasy expression, she probably knew that answer already
"I have no idea what i'm doing here?" I said as I lowered my head and stared at the white hospital floor
"You got stabbed in the back yesterday, with a sharp blade, by a person that you were in pursuit of" she paused and looked at the expression on my face, I found it hard to believe, but I believed the nurse when she told me
"So what happened to the person I was chasing?" I asked, but I wasn't sure if she would have an answer
"There was a person there with you, I think his name was Matt, he got to you in time and the person must have fled" she said to me and started to smile again
"So you've been looking after me, may I ask your name?" I said while trying to smile at the nurse
"Yes i've been looking after you most of the night, you seemed to be having a bad dream earlier and you may call me Maria" she said still smiling and she looked into my eyes
"Thank you for all you've done" I said as I lifted my head from staring at the floor and I kissed her softly on the cheek, she blushed and smiled back, I don't think she was expecting it
"Well I think you better get some rest" she said to me as I began to lie down on the bed, I closed my eyes and began to dream, but something about this dream was weird.

In the dream I was following Matt, but I couldn't move, a force seemed to pull me whenever he moved and all I could do was look around. It was like I was a cameraman following a person around recording a documentary, I tried to talk, but no sound came out of my mouth, Matt was staring right at me, but it was as if he was looking right through me. To me it felt like I was a ghost, I was floating above the ground, but I couldn't see any parts of my body. Matt was walking down a street, towards where he was staying, he reached a door to the hotel, he turned the handle and walked in. He noticed a note on the desk and went over to take a look, the handwriting on the note was the same as the hotel owner, it said that there was a guest waiting in his room for him, she had said her name was Lucy and had been asked to meet him. I looked around at the walls, it wasn't the best hotel in the area, but it was a one of the ones that many people stayed at, as Matt began to walk up the stairs I looked at the clock and saw that the time was just after 7pm. The stairs were wooden and must have been there since the hotel was first built, they creeked as Matt stepped on them, it sounded like a low groan. He reached the top of the stairs and walked down to the door to his room, he turned the handle slowly and pushed the door open. He looked at the chair in the middle of the room, the back of the chair was facing him, but just above the top of it he could see that someone was sitting on it. He took a step into the room and walked around to the front of the chair, he looked down to see who it was. Lucy was sitting in the chair, she was fast asleep and must have been waiting quite a while for Matt to return to the hotel. He tapped her lightly on the shoulder, which made her slowly open her eyes, all she could see was a person standing infront of her. She rubbed her hands against her eyes and stretched he arms in the air and began to speak.

"So your finally here, what took you so long" she asked while beginning to stand up from the seat
"I'm sorry, but I had to call at the hospital, Edmund had an accident" Matt replied, but Lucy looked confused
"Who is Edmund?" she asked slowly
"It was that gentleman I was with when I first met you, he is a detective and i'm working on a case with him" he said trying to smile
"So what kind of accident did he have?" she was asking as if she knew something was wrong
"He got stabbed..." there was a long pause
"Do they know who did it?" she asked, but she looked quite worried
"We believe it may have been the person we are looking for, but can we please change the subject" he said while still trying to smile
"Okay, I still believe you wanted to take me out to dinner, how about we discuss that" she said smiling towards Matt
"Well I still do, but I wont be able to for the next week or at least until the case is over with, but its nice to see you again Miss Lucy" he said smiling
"So any idea when that would be?" she asked, she seemed eager to go out for dinner with Matt
"I don't know, but I may have to ask you to call back in a few days, hopefully we can decide then, but I need to go back to the hospital and check on Edmund"
"Its ok, I understand" she said leaning towards him as she softly kissed him on the lips, Matt was speechless
"Ummm, will you be ok walking home by yourself?" he asked her
"Yeah i'll be fine, I can look after myself" she said as she walked out of the room taking one last look at Matt

This is when the dream got weird as Lucy exited the room, I got dragged out of the room. It was like I was following her now, she left the hotel and walked along the road. It was easy to tell that she was cold as she kept her hands wrapped around her stomach as she walked. She had a large winter jacket one, which should have kept her warm. She started to walk faster and I could see that she wanted to get home as quickly as she could. Because she wanted to get home quicker she decided to take a shortcut through the alleyways connecting the streets. I glanced around looking at the street signs, the only one i saw just before Lucy walked into the darkness of the alleyway was the street sign that was called Baker Street. She was about halfway down the alleyway, when she stopped suddenly and looked behind her. I could sense something else there, plus I heard the heavy footsteps I looked behind me, but Lucy was in my way. I couldn't move, but I could see that someone was standing infront of her and I saw the blade in the hand of the person, they raised their arm quite quickly swung the blade at Lucy. I awoke sweating quite heavily and I was finding it quite hard to breathe, I felt light headed and my eyes closed. I felt a pain in my back then I couldn't feel anything, my eyes closed and I didn't know if they would open ever again.