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They all stared at each other, not quite knowing what to say. While Brody sat there crying.
"I...I...I...I..want to see Emily. We were almost home.", Brody sobbed.
Loretta was the first to speak. "What...do you mean Meredith?"
"Emily said it was time to go home. I wanted to go with her.", She explained with tears still rolling down her face. "I was walking with- ahh!", Merri was telling her when she grabbed her stomach and cried out as an agonizing wave of pain pierced her abdomen.
"Take it easy Brody. Don't get yourself all worked up.", LaSalle said as he rubbed her shoulder and back. She took in a few shaky breaths, trying to calm herself down.
"What do you mean 'home'?" Pride asked, growing concerned about her definition of 'home'.
"I- I don't know" she stated calmly, tears gathering in her eyes again.
"Was you going to New Orleans or your home in Michigan or where?", Pride asked.
"Uhh neither...I think she meant home with her in heaven. She was leading me up to the light...but LaSalle...he woke me up.", Brody said shaking and breathing heavy.
Pride and LaSalle looked at each other, hardly believing what they just heard. They were both pulled from their stares when the female agent started to shiver. She was rubbing her arms up and down trying to get warm.
"Are ya cold? It's like 90 degrees in here.", Pride asked.
She nodded her head in response. LaSalle and Pride quickly shed their light jackets and put them around the freezing agent.
"Check and see if she has a fever.", Loretta told LaSalle.
LaSalle put the back of his hand on Brody's forehead and confirmed Loretta's suspicion. She was running a fever and a high one at that.
"Yep, she's running a fever alright.", LaSalle said.
"Uh Merri, why don't you go back to sleep. Try to get rid of that fever.", Loretta said warmly.
Merri slowly laid down on the bench-like seat and fell asleep.
Once they knew she was asleep, they started talking again.
"I think she has an infection. That might be the reason she's running a fever.", Loretta explained.
"It's my fault isn't it? The infection is from the cut.", LaSalle said leaning his head back and closing his eyes in total disgust with himself.
"Now Christopher, you did what had to be done. If you wouldn't of, she probably would've died a couple hours ago.", Pride said.
"We better see how high her fever actually is. I think there's a first aid kit above you, LaSalle. See if there's a thermometer in it." Loretta said.
LaSalle looked up and saw the small white box. He took it down and sat it on his lap to look through the contents. He found a what he was looking for and put the rest of the kit back where it belongs. He gently stuck the thermometer in her mouth and waited for the results.
"104.0...she's burnin' up.", LaSalle said.
Brody woke up in a confused daze. She felt funny but the odd thing was that she didn't feel any pain. Everyone looking at her but she didn't understand why.
"Where's Emily? She said she'd be here at seven to pick me up. We're going out for our Birthday.", Merri said, smiling.
"She's hallucinating, don't let her get up. She needs to stay down!", a female's voice boomed.
Her eyes were fluttering and she was covered in a thin layer of sweat. "Oh, here she comes now, down the highway. Watch out Emily! Watch out!"She cried out loud for the whole helicopter to hear. Emily's small car was hit and blood smeared against the window. Her sister was pronounced dead at the scene. Merri walked over to where the car was. Emily was standing on the side of the road covered in her own blood. "I thought you were dead!", Merri said in disbelief. "It's okay, I am. You almost dead too. Only a little while longer and we'll be together...forever...and ever...and ever...", Emily's voice slowly melted away, leaving Merri by the road. She watched as the stretcher carried away her sister's lifeless corpse.
"We need to get her fever down now! Anything cold! Anything at all!", Loretta screamed as she wiped the sweat off the agent who was completely freaking out on them. The team was desperately trying to pull her back to the real world, while she was desperately fighting for her life.