Big Time Nightmare; Part Two

Silence. Utter silence gripped their air in its powerful talons. Not one word was spoken by any of the three boys. They all just sat, waiting to hear the okay that they could visit James in his hospital room.

Kendall sat with his face in his hands still fighting back tears as Logan tried to console him and Carlos. Logan was the strongest of the three at that moment, he managed to barely shed a tear, but his face was still showed a crestfallen look.

The minutes were peeled away from the clock, which later stretched into hours, and pretty soon, Kendall had no idea how long he'd been sitting there. And after was seamed like eons…the nurse finally gave them the okay to visit James.

Kendall almost didn't want to, he didn't want to see his best friend—no, his brother—in such a sorry state. But he managed to force himself to stand on his buckling knees, gripping Logan's arm for support, before he managed to stay standing by himself. Then…he pushed open the door to James' room.

At first, Kendall was scared, but it slowly faded when he saw James' hazel eyes open.

"James…?" Carlos said feebly, stepping to James' bedside.

James shifted his gaze to Carlos, but his eyes seemed glassy and unfocused, "C…Carlos…"

"Oh, James! You're alive!" Carlos beamed, wrapping James in one of his crushing hugs.

James coughed a sputtered, but was to weak to pull Carlos off of him.

"Carlos, if you don't stop hugging James then you're going to be the one who claims his life, not whatever seizure thing he had earlier." Logan sighed, prying Carlos off of James.

Carlos frowned, "I'm sorry, James…"

James gave a weak smile, "Don't be… You…didn't know…" he choked out.

Logan smiled as well, then turned to look at Kendall, and his face fell. "Kendall? Aren't you glad James is still alive? I mean, you were the one that was the most worried about him when he had his seizure…"

"Yeah, I am glad…" Kendall said, looking up from the floor for a moment.

"Then why aren't you smiling?" Carlos asked, tipping his head to one side.

"Because, I want to know what caused James to do that, let alone what that even was." Kendall sighed, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Psh, it's simple, Kendall. Obviously, James had a seizure, and something within him, like a vein, was ripped open as a result of such violent convulsing, causing the amount of blood flow from his mouth." Logan stated matter-of-factly, adding drama with hand motions.

Carlos shuddered, "That's not a good image, Logan."

"Well, it's what happened." Logan shrugged.

Behind them, James groaned, then looked back up the ceiling, closing his eyes moments later.

"James?" Carlos looked worriedly at his companion.

"I…I'm…f-fine…" James muttered, opening his glazed hazel eyes, "don't you…worry about…a thing…buddy…"

"Yeah…!" Carlos grinned, then gripped James' hand tightly, bringing smiles to Kendall and Logan's faces.


—Meanwhile, in pretty much the middle of nowhere—

The lone figure smirked from the darkness, "Perfect…the first step of my plan is complete, in days time, Big Time Rush will become suspicious of James and his questionable behavior, that's when I strike…It's foolproof!" and with that, and evil wicked laugh rang through the air, one that could chill your bones and curdle your blood. "Oh ho ho, I've been waiting so long for this…"

—Back with Big Time Rush, a few days after James was hospitalized—

"So can James come home yet?" Carlos asked eagerly, jumping up and down as the three boys returned to the hospital to check on James, Katie tagging along.

"Hopefully, yes." Logan said, smiling, "He was doing a lot better yesterday, and he can focus his vision and finish a sentence without any interruption. I think we should be good with the progress he's made."

"Yes!" Carlos cheered, hugging Logan tightly. "I love your smart brains stuff sometimes!"

Kendall smiled, then placed a hand on Carlos' shoulder, "Then let's not waste another minute."

The four of them all walked into James' room in the hospital, and, same old, same old, James was combing out his hair with his Lucky Comb that Kendall had brought to him the day after he was hospitalized, and gazing at himself in his small mirror, brought by Carlos just yesterday.

"Wow, look at you. Before you were all mean and snarly, and…then you got sickly…now you're all normal again. What happened there?" Katie asked, raising an eyebrow.

"What? I was never "mean and snarly"! Don't be ridiculous Katie." James stated, laughing a bit, glancing away from his mirror for a split second.

"You mean…you don't remember that?" Kendall asked, leaning in a bit.

"Uhm…I'm going to say no." James lowered the mirror, but still kept a firm grip on it.

"What do you remember?" Logan asked, leaning in a bit.

"Well…I remember waking up in the middle of the night, in some really dark place with a super creepy guy, then I got a needle jabbed into my arm and got pumped full of whatever whacko purple stuff was in the…tubey thing, then everything went black, and the next thing I know, I'm in Kendall's arms on the ground, at Rocque Records, having a seizer and bleeding out of my mouth."

"Wait…so you're saying you were…kidnapped?" Katie asked, crossing her arms.

"Yeah, and poisoned! Hell, for all I know, that was probably a sign that my days," James' voice suddenly intensified, and his hazel eyes grew serious as he finished the sentence, "are numbered…"

"Calm down, James! No one is going to die, okay?" Kendall said, crossing his arms.

"How do you know that, Kendall?" James hissed, the white walls of the room seaming to grow darker and darker. "For all you know, we could all be prime subjects, just waiting to get our lives unwillingly torn from our grasp no matter how much we want to cling to it. We could be dead in days time…" James' eyes shown with an intensity that Kendall, let alone everyone, didn't really like, and the room seeming to grow darker, helped nothing.

"James. Stop it. That's super creepy." Kendall said, trying to hide the fear in his eyes.

Everything faded in an instant and James seemed normal again, "Stop what?"

Kendall, Logan, Carlos, and Katie groaned and there was an audible smacking sound as their palms made contact with their foreheads.

And at that moment, the doctor walked in, "Hello, James, and friends," he said merrily, noting the other four's presence. "How are you doing?"

"I'm doing fantabulous~" James cooed, swooping his Lucky Comb once through his bangs.

"So what happened with James?" Carlos blurted, clasping his hands together eagerly.

The doctor sighed, "Well, we aren't one hundred percent sure, but often times people have seizures for seemingly no reason, and the bleeding for the mouth could be the result of possibly something being cut from the convulsions." He sighed, "We haven't seen anything quite like this, but we found some traces of a strange matter in his blood stream that could potentially be the cause, we just have no clue where this chemical came from."

James shuddered at reliving all the extensive tests they ran on him in his mind. The horrible part of it was being jabbed excessively with needles. He hated needles.

"Anyways, James has fully recovered from the amount of blood loss he suffered, and he's fully capable of supporting his own weight. So he should be able to return home. But if anything like this ever happens again, we should be worried." The doctor continued, nodding. "And if we find anything out on him, we'll be sure to let you know."

"Awesome, thanks, Doc." Kendall said with a smile, shaking hands with the doctor.

"Yeah, thanks." Carlos and Logan replied in unison.

So, after that whole thing, James was brought back to 2J, but the second he stepped out those hospital doors, he felt a small twinge of pain in the back of his skull, but he thought nothing of it. All he cared about was that James Diamond was back.