HPTUP 4

"Bark, you shouldn't even be driving!" Snyder yelped as Bark's police cruiser weaved thru traffic with its serein blaring. "RIGHT HERE!" He screamed as he sees the parking lot come up.

Nodding, Bark pulled a sharp turn into the Hospital's parking lot. Braking in front of the west wing entrance, Snyder stumbled out of the cruiser and walked thru the entrance to find everyone in a massive frenzy. Patients, Doctors, and equipment were all being moved another part of the hospital in response to the possibility of a Flesh Eating disease. Nurse Agana was standing outside of Jaune's room; she jumped when she saw Snyder walk down the hallway.

"Snyder! It's good to see you sir!" Agana shouted. "Isolation is nearly completed, Pyrrha is sitting bedside, but she won't leave. The Gram Stain came out positive for a Flesh Eating Virus."

"Get me some gloves and I'll talk to her, was medication dealt?" Snyder asked as he reached Agana. Agana handed Snyder a pair of latex gloves and opened the door for him.

"It made it worse sir, sped up." She said as Snyder went by.

Stepping in, Snyder looked around and saw Pyrrha seated in a chair by Jaune's bed. The click of the door didn't help with breaking the silence, Pyrrha was already shaken up from what happened hours before. Pyrrha looked like she was ready to rip someone's throat out if anyone came close to Jaune or her.

"So… is it true, or is this some complicated way of getting me away so you can put Jaune out of his misery?" Pyrrha said, her voice shivering with several emotions. First to break the silence that was hanging in the air.

"Pyrrha, I intend to help Jaune, w-"

"That's what they all said!" Pyrrha screamed.

"Pyrrha, Jaune would want you to be same…" Snyder said, looking at Pyrrha in the dark room.

Pyrrha placed her head on the railing of Jaune's bed, tears flowing from her eyes. She let out a couple of gasps before looking up at Snyder, his own eyes telling his own sorrow and grief for her to see.

"Pyrrha, it is my job to help Jaune." Snyder said, kneeling beside Pyrrha.

She looked at him, before getting up and pulls Snyder close. "Make sure he lives." She said and then walked out. Agana came in and stood beside Snyder.

"When I took the blood and did the Gram Stain, there were damaged or completely destroyed the red blood cells in it with the tissue toxins. What's your plan of attack?" Agana asked.

"Move him to the room beside the Hyperbaric unit and . I need to make a couple of calls." Snyder said.

Walking out, the West wing was deserted aside from Agana, himself, and his team he works with. Snyder found the phone he was looking for and punched in his home phone number. It buzzed for a few moments till his wife picked it up, Hellen.

"Hello?" She asked.

"Hey Hon, how was your evening?" Snyder asked.

"It was good, why is it so quiet in the West Wing?" Hellen asked, noticing the silence on Snyder's end.

"Hellen, remember Jaune?"

"Yes hon, the boy that broke his leg while running to meet you." Hellen said. "Something happened to him, he was the one in the News. He's the one that stopped the Kidnapping."

Nodding on his end, knowing Hellen will never see it. Tears begin to well in Snyder's eyes, realizing what he has to fight.

"Honey, you are the bravest man I ever met. Whatever you have to prevent from spreading, you can fight it. I may only heard your voice and never seen you, you can handle anything. You survived the Siege of Glenn Mountain and its fall." Hellen said. "When others would turn and ran and leave the injured, but you didn't. You stayed in and fought aside the Hunters and Huntresses, risking it all for a city of people you ever met."

Agana tapped Snyder's shoulder when she came back; Snyder ran his hand through his hair, remembering Mountain Glenn and what fighting happened there in an attempt to hold the city and reclaim it.

"Hon, I need to go."

"Bye Hon, do what you need to do."

Hearing the click, Snyder hangs the phone up and robs his face. He goes to Jaune's room, sitting down beside the bed, Snyder looks him over.

'Flesh Eater, medication speeds up the virus. Likely a third or fourth mutation virus, possibly fifth.' Snyder thought. 'Likely an advanced form of Gas Gangrene, or Clostridium Bacteria…Wait now, 'there were damaged or completely destroyed the red blood cells in it with the tissue toxins.''

Getting up, Snyder quickly put on a Surgeon's Gown and picked Jaune up and walked over to the Hyperbaric room next door. Shouting for Agana to get the meds for Clostridium Bacteria, Snyder laid Jaune into the bed-like machine and started to prepare the machine. He looked at Jaune's limp body as Agana administered. Stepping back, Agana slid the Glass tube back and locked it into place as the machine fills the tube with a hundred percent oxygen and pressurizes the inside.

Agana looks at Snyder, "You sure this will work?" She asked as she walks over to Snyder.

Taking off his Gown, "Clostridium Bacteria is 'anaerobic,' meaning it thrives in low oxygen environments, likes Jaune's blood stream. But when put into an environment with 100 percent oxygen, the anaerobic bacteria will stop spreading and the medication will kill it. But the damage done will take time to heal, Jaune's aura will help in the process, but I'm not sure how it will repair the lost muscle and damage to the Brain." Snyder said.

Agana nodded, "I'll get the decon in the West Wing and start the cleaning process. Good Job Sir."

"Sadly it ain't over." Snyder said as Agana left the room. The click of the door closing hung in the air for long after she left.

Pyrrha sat in the waiting area as she went through her Scroll, she found an image that brought on mixed emotions and memories. It had Jaune and his blade, Crocea Mors, polishing after a day of training in the Forever Fall Forest, in front of him was a camp fire with a marshmallow on a stick hanging in midair. It was likely Nora's, being the big eater she is. But in the image, Jaune had beside him Pyrrha's main weapon, Miló, with it polished and clean. Free of dirt and dust thanks to his meticulousness, Jaune's face was contorted as he worked. His eyes focused on his task at hand.

A tear escaped Pyrrha's eye as she looked at it. She remembers that day, it was the day Jaune stood up to Cardin and then saved him moments later from a Ursa Major. She adjusted his shield with her polarity semblance; Jaune blocked the Ursa's strike and decapitated it with a swing of his blade.

Pyrrha's train of thought was broken as a tall man entered the waiting area with a shorter woman behind him. Both had Jaune's symbol on their armor. It was Jaune's Parents.

AN: This came out quickly, thank you Snow days!

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