Chapter Eight:

She's Sick

::3rd Person Point of View::

The storm brewed on for the rest of the night. The shelter Jasper, Jamie, and Melanie had found was stable enough to protect them, but Melanie was shivering, and when Jasper placed a hand on her forehead only to realize Melanie's high fever.

Another day had passed, the storm continued on changing from rain to hail and dry thunders barrelling in the days and nights. Melanie had not gotten any better, the decision had to be made.

Melanie's fever had drastically risen and the coughing fits had begun. There unfortunately was no medications of any kind in any of the trio's bags. Jasper watched as Jamie worry s Melanie lay on the makeshift bed they had made using cushions they pulled off an old couch. The bed was much too dirty to truly have Melanie on.

"She won't make it through the day if we don't have any medicine, Jamie." Jasper states as she looked to Jamie, making eye contact with him, "Even though the weather is against us, we'll need medicine. Can you watch Melanie for me while I go?" asking Jamie calmly as she stood preparing to leave.

Grabbing her bag, her rifle, and her vector whilst leaving the long bat for Jamie. Emptying out any food in her duffle bag,which was little to nothing. Jasper needed to find food as well. Zipping up the mostly empty duffle bag, Jasper took one more look at Jamie before heading outside.

Jasper needed to make haste, but also needed to be far away enough from the place they hid in to not be found. Jasper head a little Northwest, her senses telling it would be good way.

Her pace quick, but quiet, brought her to a little old neighborhood with some lights on and others off. Jasper had to be extremely careful going through homes that most likely held aliens.

She quietly made her way into the first house with all its lights off. Her steps spread apart and careful as she made her way toward what she though might be the bathroom. Jasper had been wrong, it was a child's bedroom she had found, stepping past the doorway of the room, she made her way down a slight hallway.

The first house had nothing, as well as the second and third houses. Jasper's main goal was medicine first then food. The fourth house seemed to inhabit an alien with a habit of keeping human medicines for Jasper had found a cache of medicines.

Moving quickly, Jasper stuffed everything that might relate to colds, fevers, and flu's. Once finished, she quietly made her way out of the house, and raced in as much stealth as she could muster back to Jamie and Melanie.

When Jasper made it to the hideout, it had been several hours since, stopping by the entrance, Jasper pulled off her duffle bag. Moving inside the little trailer, Jasper spotted Jamie holding the bat just in case.

"I've brought what I could, read the instructions before you give her anything, I'm going out one more time to get us some more food. We need it. Be good Jamie. I'll be off." Jasper spoke, dropping the meds into Jamie's lap.

Turning, Jasper left leaving a silent Jamie and a sick Melanie to search for food. Desperate times called for desperate measures, Jasper knew the neighborhoods she previously went to would not be a good idea to head back to.

Instead she headed a little Northeast to a different neighborhood, feeling she had to at least try and find food for them. Off she went, Northeast.

Back in the trailer, Jamie fed Melanie some medicine that did not require food to be eaten before ingesting it. Jamie felt an odd foreboding feeling pass through him when Jasper explained she need to leave. Not a good foreboding feeling, but a bad foreboding feeling.

Little did young Jamie know, the feelings he felt was complete right for him to think was bad, for that was the last time he saw Jasper Panthera again.