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"Frenchy?" Kagome could hear Sango's voice calling out to her from a far away place. She tried to look around, but all there was to see was black. Lots and lots of black. But where was Sango? Where was she? A tunnel? Tunnels are black. Was Sango calling her from the end of it?
What the hell was she doing in a tunnel?
"Frenchy!"
"I want to get out!" She attempted to scream. She tried to open her mouth, but it was as difficult as picking up two tons of bricks. She felt her shoulders being shaken…and truth be told, it was pissing her off. So apparently Sanny was there with her, then why couldn't she see her? She wouldn't have loved anything more than to wake up at that moment and slap Sango in the face. There was nothing more irritating to her than being shook.
But Sanny had beet her to it, she vaguely felt her best friend's hand connect with her face. "Damn in Kagome! Get the hell up! You're scaring the shit outta me!" Ooooooh how Sango was going to get it later for that one. Her face was still totally achy. And being slapped definitely didn't make it feel any better.
Still though, she would have loved to open her eyes at that moment and ease her friend's terror, but that was not going to be the case. She realized where she was and why, now, and she understood and accepted that her body needed a little more time to regain it's lost energy.
But damn, that cut had better fucking be gone by the time she woke up.
Sango was watching TV on Kagome's moth-hole ridden couch. Sure Frenchy was gonna be all over her ass until she studied for that damn midterm that was waiting for her, but whatever. Kagome was too pissed about her bleeding face and Inuyasha to focus on her at the moment, and she knew it.
So she might as well use the free time to her advantage, right?
She walked over to the small kitchen that the tiny apartment had and put a pot of water on the stove. If she was going to procrastinate, she was going to do it on a full stomach. She was starring at the water, willing it to start boiling. She figured that if she starred at it long enough, it might become intimidated and heat faster.
Okay well not really. She wasn't an idiot or anything, but it was something to do. TV was getting a little too boring for her taste these days.
While half her mind was still focusing in on the slowly heating liquid in front of her, the other half couldn't help but be drawn to the other portion of the apartment in Kagome's room; she could here her best friend doing something or another. What the hell was she doing in there? Backflips?
She noticed the first little bubble erupt from the top of the water, "Yes! Score one for Sangooooo!" She chanted in a referee type voice, forgetting Kagome's weirdness completely. "Come on…come on…" Her eyes were pretty much boaring holes into the poor semi-bubbling liquid.
If it wasn't water…it might have just burst into flames.
Sango could be pretty intimidating at times.
She got eye level with the pot. She figured that once she counted fifteen more bubbles, that would be boiling enough for her to put the amazing ramen in the amazing water and make the amazing soup that she needed for her amazing procrastination.
"…fourteen…come on… fifteen! YES!" She scrambled up and grabbed the package so fast it was surprising it didn't explode right then and there. She was struggling to open the ramen package; but her nails were too long to grasp the plastic correctly. "Damn iiiiiiiiiit! Just who are they trying to fucking keep out anyway?"
She was completely fed up. She was about to through stupid package across the room, either that or actually go and hunt for scissors. But she didn't have a chance to do either as she dropped the package on the stove and ran toward the back room.
She heard Kagome scream, and there was no better motivation for her to run as fast as she could without a second thought.
She was half expecting to see that Koga had climbed through her window up the fire escape and scared the shit out of her like he often did. That was her hopeful notion.
She burst through the door, definitely not seeing Koga, but Kagome face down on the floor. "Kagome what the hell are you doing? You scared the life outta me just now!" She scolded her friend, "What were you doing? Gymnastics in here? That's what it sounded like from the other room."
There was no movement from the raven-haired girl in front of her. "Frenchy?" Sango walked over to her and studied her still form.
Oh crap. What if she really was doing backflips and fell and broke her neck or something? She immediately felt bad for joking about that earlier. She knew that was like a one in a million chance of being the case, but she was still not particularly comfortable with the fact that her best friend in the entire world was unmoving on the ground.
"Frenchy!" She knelt down beside the still girl and turned her over. Her eyes were closed, but she wasn't cold or stiff or anything, so at least she wasn't dieing. But this still was seriously not Sango's interpretation of a good situation. Why wouldn't she wake fucking up? How was she supposed to get a response?
She really had no idea, so she imitated what she saw in movies. She backhanded her across the face. "Damn in Kagome! Get the hell up! You're scaring the shit outta me!" There was still no movement. She grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her hoping to dear God it would get some sort of reaction out of her.
Nothing.
She gently set Kagome down after her fruitless efforts at waking the unconscious girl. She sat down and bit her lip. Sango was definitely not going to let panic over take her. "Kagome, what the hell did you do that could have caused this?"
But then it hit her.
Duh.
Alright… it was going to be okay… she just needed to get it as fast as possible.
With that thought she sprung up and ran out of the room. She had to get the antibiotics for Kagome before this situation turned into something more than just no consciousness. Of course the fact that she saw a considerable amount of smoke coming from the direction of the kitchen wasn't exactly helping to calm her nerves at all. "What the fuck?"
She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the stove totally in flames. It seems that when she dropped the plastic bag full of ramen when she ran to be at Kagome's aid, she had dropped it a little too closely to the stove's hot burner… and plastic plus heat definitely doesn't equal happy if that's what you were hoping for.
To top everything off, the ever so helpful smoke detector started making a noise that made Sango wanna tear her hair out. "Thanks a lot you stupid thing, as if I wasn't neck deep in smoke already!"
Okay let's way our options… you best friend is practically in a coma, the house is on fire, and you wanna shoot yourself in the face because of an ear shattering noise… but it's still possible to be calm…or… sane right?
Right?
Yes. Definitely.
"Shit! Where the hell's the fucking fire extinguisher? Damn it!" She ran out of the apartment and ran down the hall. Even though this was pretty much just a crappy all around apartment building, there still had to be a fire extinguisher somewhere right? Weren't there laws about that kind of thing?
She ran down the hall and turned a corner, then another corner.
Still no extinguisher.
It dawned on Sango how dumb it was of her that she had moved into this apartment having no idea where the fire extinguisher was… "Come one… fire extinguisher…fire extinguisher…" She said to herself as she was rounding the corners. "Yes! Yes yes yes yessssss!"
The moment of truth.
She hit the glass with her elbow and it crumbled to the ground. She grabbed the extinguisher and ran as fast as she could back to Kagome's apartment. She bolted threw the door and into the kitchen. "Take this you son of a bitch!" With that she put her hand on the trigger of the extinguisher and the white foam bolted out, covering the quickly growing fire.
After completely drenching her best friend's kitchen, she was sure that every freaking ash of that fire was now out. But she definitely didn't forget the task at hand as threw the extinguishing device aside without a second though as she ran to the cabinet. "Come on Kagome… where did you put it?"
Kagome had a disease called Septicemia. She had it from birth, and it could be fatal if not kept at bay by certain antibiotics. The defination of it is pretty much the presence of bacteria in the blood. It's a serious, life-threatening infection thingy that gets worse very quickly. It can cause infections throughout the body, including infections in the lungs and abdomen if not kept under control by certain medications.
At least that was what Sango had read about it in the medical dictionary.
If it ever were to get to the point where she passed out from lack of meds, Sango was instructed by Kagome to inject her with exactly one fifth of a syringe of a diagnostic called Epinephrine, or an artificial adrenaline. Sango had always wondered why adrenaline had anything to do with an infection of the blood, but she was going to do what she was told, if it would only make Frenchy wake up.
Of course Kagome had different motives by telling Sango to give her Epinephrine when she passed out. It was actually for just sort of an occasion as this, when her sub-ability got the better of her. The artificial adrenaline would give her body the power it needed after the immense energy was used up by using her healing ability. Losing consciousness was actually not a symptom of her Septicemia at all.
When something was wrong, probably on account of not taking her meds when instructed, it would usually begin with spiking fevers and chills, rapid breathing and heart rate, and the outward appearance of being seriously sick. Then she would go into shock with decreased body temperature (hypothermia), adrenal collapse (for which the Epinphrine actually was actually very usefull), confusion or other changes in mental state, and eventually death, if not treated.
It was more or less like a greatly exaggerated case of diabetes. If the injections where not given for a certain period of time, not good things where sure to follow. Because of this fact, she took her meds religiously, almost down to the exact minute when she was supposed to.
Sango really didn't understand why Kagome didn't just go to the hospital and get it treated once and for all; after all, it was a disease that could be fixed with the correct hospital treatments. But every time Sango had suggested this to her friend, she would always get yelled at. So eventually she stopped trying.
Kagome must have really hated hospitals. She just couldn't comprehend why Kagome would rather live like this than just get over her dumb fear and get her ass to the hospital.
There was actually a very simple reason for that. Septicemia was a disease of the blood. Which means they would have to take a blood test. And what is in her blood? Evidence of her being different. And even though it was a hospital… she was sure they would have no problem sending the blood test straight to the government, along with her name, where she lived and worked, her background information, social security code, family, friends…and anything else they could possible think of.
There would be no escaping after that.
She was not willing to make that kind of mistake. She could live with taking her meds every 24 hours on the dot. What she could not handle was being caged up by the damn government. You could bet they'd never allow her to take her medications in there.
She had no doubt that she would die within days of being taken.
So according to her, this was a fine method. And plus, it wasn't all bad. Because of being cursed with the damn Septicemia, she was introduced to Epinephrine, which works wonders in troubleshooting to system after her sub-ability pretty much destroys it.
Sango had to have thrown six hundred different bottles of crap onto the floor before she final found the stupid Epinephrine injection and the antibiotics Kagome needed. "Jeeze you'd think Frenchy would keep something like that in the fucking front," She said to herself as she went into Kagome's room.
Part of her actually didn't really want to wake her up…cuz when she would see what Sango did to her kitchen…it was not going to be the most pleasant experience of her life.
But she was going to take the high road and be a good, loyal, non-fearing best friend. She took the needle out of the package and squirted out just enough of the fluid for there to be only fifth of the syringe containing liquid.
She picked up Kagome's arm and examined it carefully, searching for just the right spot to insert the needle. "Right there…" She whispered to herself, briefly wondering if it would be life threatening in any way if she accidentally injected the adrenaline into a muscle instead of a vein.
She pushed the needle into Kagome's skin, hoping to her God in heaven it was the correct spot. She the injected in all of the syringes content and then slowly pulled out the needle.
Almost as immediately as she pulled the needle out, Kagome took in a very sharp breath deeply and quickly. She opened her eyes and sat up so fast, she almost collided heads with Sango, who was still worriedly hovering over her.
She continued to breath heavily as her vision started to clear up. The relieved face of Sango started to come into focus. Her heart was pounding and she felt like she wanted to run five hundred laps around a track.
Well, that's what you got when you shoot yourself up and full of adrenaline.
Sango raised her arms and looked as though she was about to give Kagome the biggest hug of her life.
But instead what she got was the biggest slap-across-the-face of her life. Well if she wasn't awake then. She sure was now.
"Don't you every fucking do that to me again, Frenchy! You scared the life outta me!" She knew Sango meant well, but damn, she really needed to stop slapping her in the face.
"Wow, thanks for your concern," she said, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Anytime, my friend," her best friend of all time said with a smile. Now how could she be mad at someone with an adorable smile like that? "Here is your medication."
She had two pills on her hand that was held out toward Kagome, "But I took them this morning…"
She retracted her hand about half way, "You couldn't have… why would this happened if your Septicemia was under control via the pills? Maybe you just forgot to take them, Frenchy. Here," she said pushing the hand toward Kagome again, "just in case."
Kagome knew she had taken them that morning, but she had no desire to peek Sango's curiosity. "Fine… lemme just go get some water from the kitchen." She started to get up when Sango grabbed her arm.
That dorky smile on her friend's face and that nervous laugh didn't cause any suspicion within Kagome. Really.
"Actually Kagome…why don't I just get that water for you?"
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