"I'm sorry for what I said or should I say thought.Forgive me babe"Nadine pleaded once she entered into his office.
Looking at Dave who's face had grown pale,eyes filled with unshed ,shattered Nadine inwardly. She never thought of hurting him,but things happening made her think otherwise as a human she is.
"I trust you and have let you in even in my moments of weakness. Why then would you doubt me?".His voice came off husky though calm.
He looked up at her with alot of things running through his mind.
"I'm sorry, but to be honest you scared me with your attitude and responses."she calmly said,her hand holding his not letting go.
"I wanted to tell you that I hear people's thought,but didn't want to freak you out. Some days it's so harkened that I would think the person truly spoke. It started after my brother's death."he replied calmly,the knot in his heart lossening up. She truly was his greatest weakness and could not stay mad at her for long.
"Now I get it, so let's go check out the body then"she grabbed his hand and stood up.
"Hope I'm forgiven and I promise that I won't hurt you again"she chipped in and he wordlessly pulled her into a hug.
Dave crashed his lips on hers, surprising her as they agreed not to kiss at the hospital.
"Why did you do it?"she asked still in his embrace.
"Well your lips begged me to have a taste of them, since it has been a while"he winked at her as they broke off the hug.
At the hall way leading to the autopsy room
"Do you think you can do this on your own"he asked once they neared the autopsy room.
"Yeah I can handle it"she replied before walking in while he waited outside.
He had no idea why she chose to check out the body all by herself without him being there, but what ever it might be,he was cool with it.
Nadine walked towards the body slowly, after putting on gloves and nose mask.Her hands were shaking and heart pounding as she neared the table.
Slowly, she pulled off the cloth covering the body and stared on dumbfounded.
"Clive"she mumbled and blinked rapidly unable to take in the sight before her.
"Clive!!!!!"she screamed out as it dawned on her that the cold body before her is that of her best friend whom she saw in Singapore a week ago.
"No!!!!!!!!!!!!"she exclaimed and this time it was so loud that Dave rushed in to see her scrabbled by the side of the corpse disheveled.
His heart was pierced to see the ever cheerful Nadine weeping profusely with her hand holding the corpse firmly.
"Nadine,hey babe I'm here. Look at me hunny" he whispered to her.
"Clive"she screamed again, wailing profusely, before turning pale.
He took her to his office and laid her down on the small hospital bed used for patient examination, before leaving to grab some supplies.
Nadine felt the whole world crumbling right before her at the thought of losing Clive who was more than a friend to her. She had known him from highschool and he was like a brother to her and Fred.
Wishing that it was all a dream, she opened her eyes to see Dave watching her keenly like a devoted husband.
She looked at her hand to see it connected to an IV infusion and realization dawned on her, Clive was truly dead and it wasn't a dream.
"I want to see Clive,let me see him"she started throwing tantrums and breathe seizing.
Dave had to restrain her front hurting herself and injected a sleeping drug into the infusion inorder to calm her down.
"Clive don't leave me please, come back"she screamed before drifting into sleep as the drug took hold of her.
"I'm sorry Nad please forgive me"he caressed her brown hair with tears in his eyes. "I shouldn't have let you go on with seeing the body at least you wouldn't have been this wrecked, nevertheless I promise to find his killer"he kissed her forehead before leaving.