I was running, in a building that was set on fire, and something was chasing me. I was wearing tattered clothing and no shoes, and it looked like I had cuts that were bleeding all along my arms and legs. My sword was in my hand, and I was prepared to fight anything that came my way. I was hit by something hard and tackled to the floor, as I fought the thing it would only saw the same thing over and over again, 'if we die you die too'. I didn't understand it, but I just kept moving, until I found that I was getting lightheaded and I was almost choked by the smoke. I coughed and found myself falling to the ground. I screamed for Edward, and just as I lost consciousness something cold and hard wrapped around me and lifted me up from the ground.

I slowly came back to the world, it had been one week since I had the motorcycle accident and I was only able to sit and watch lessons, even though war had just been declared on the Volturi. I felt a pain in my side and in my arm, it was too painful to be part of the dream and I forced my eyes open with a small whimper.

"What's wrong," Edward asked lovingly next to me. He hadn't left my side since the accident with the exclusion of a few times, even though Chiron suggested that they be locked away I decided against it. I knew that they were more faithful to us than the Volturi.

"My arm hurts, along with my side," I said quietly.

"Do you want Carlisle to look at it?"

"No, I don't think that it's that bad," I trailed off looking at my bandaged arm.

"Let's take the bandage off," Edward said uneasy. "See what it looks like, then we can determine if what Alice saw comes true."

I extended my arm for Edward to take the bandage off. "What did Alice see," I asked part way curious. I watched as Edward took the bandage off to reveal the stitches looking like they were in horrible shape, I coughed loudly covering my mouth with my other hand.

"Alice saw that the stitches would get infected. It looks like she was right. Let's go see Carlisle," he suggested as I coughed again.

"Why am I coughing? That doesn't have anything to do with an infected wound," I wondered out loud as I coughed again.

"You pry are just getting a cold," Edward said like he was ensuring himself more than me as he helped me up.

"It's cold," I complained walking over to get my robe as I rubbed my arms. "It's never been this cold at night," I trailed off in thought.

"We'll have Carlisle look at you, it's late no one would be in the infirmary at this hour."

"What time is it?"

"About one am. Carlisle, Alice was right," Edward called going to the stairs. "Could you look at Bella?"

I didn't listen to what else there was to say, I just wrapped my robe tightly around me and rubbed my arms in hopes of warming up. I turned around to see Carlisle and Edward talking in hushed tones at the top of the stairway when the noticed me looking at them.

"Why don't you sit down Bella," Carlisle said coming over to me. "Then we can get a good look at the damage."

I went back over to the bed and sat down on the edge of it and turned on the lamp with my good arm. I didn't really watch as Carlisle examined my arm, I just looked out the window into the night and noted that it was a New Moon. I should go sacrifice to Artemis and give her some flowers or something. I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked back at Edward who was looking curiously at me.

"It's one am Edward," Carlisle said jokingly. "Give her a break."

"What," I asked completely confused.

"Carlisle wants to see your side Bella," Edward said rubbing my back. "Just to see if that's as bad."

"Okay," I said simply and started to lift up that side of my shirt. This time I watched as Carlisle removed the bandages. The stitches looked as bad if not worse than the ones on my arm. I muttered something in Greek that I didn't really catch, and let out a sigh. "What now?"

"We get you on something that will help fight the infection, but sadly I don't have anything with me."

"The infirmary," I suggested with a cough. "They have some antibiotics and other medicines incase wounds get infected. We can also get some nectar which may help."

"We can go and look in the morning," Edward said firmly. "Right now you need some sleep."

"How else do you feel Bella," Carlisle said seriously. "That cough sounds really bad."

"I'm really cold, but otherwise I'm pretty good."

Edward put his hand to my forehead, which took me by surprise, but not really. "I think that you may be running a fever Bella," he said sadly. "Do you have a thermometer anywhere here?"

"The cabinet in the bathroom," I said after thinking for a moment. "I think that's where she put it. Otherwise the little hunter girl took it with her."

Edward was back with it in a moment and soon the thing was in my mouth, and reviled that I had a temperature of 105. I groaned mentally and pulled another blanket around me. How could I get sick in the middle of a war? Let alone a war that I'm supposed to be leading!

"This isn't good," I commented. "I was supposed to go back to my lessons today, so that I can do my job."I kicked the bed with the back of my foot, how come this always happens?

"Don't worry," Edward said comfortingly. "You'll be fine after a while."

"But that will only delay the war more, and it'll delay you guys getting let off of watch." I thought about wither Apollo could help me at all, or Hermes, but I decided not to push my luck at all and just wait this one out. "I think that it's the flu," I said honestly after Carlisle disappeared to who knew where. "I had it when we were back in Forks, and it pry just came back because I didn't let it really cure itself."

"Don't worry about it," Edward said laying me down on the bed. "You'll be better before you know it."

"Before I know it or before you know it?"

"Either one works," he laughed as he kissed my cheek. "Why don't you go back to sleep and rest?"

"Fine," I mumbled closing my eyes. I fell asleep almost instantly into a dreamless sleep, this was going to be a long week.

It took a week of me being on bed rest to get rid of the flu, and when one of the Apollo kids had left after looking at me (since Carlisle decided to just go disappear and was actually just helping out at the infirmary, since that was where I wanted him to be during the battles, so I wasn't totally mad at him) I asked Edward weather it was as soon as he knew I would be better or before I knew it.

He chuckled at this, and kissed my check, "does it matter?"

I just had to tell him the truth, "to me it matters."

"To me it doesn't as long as you're healthy again." His face was buried in my hair and he just paused for a moment. "What kind of flu was that anyway?"

"A demigod flu," I answered closing my eyes. "Only demigods can get it, and once you get it it's really hard to get rid of, and it can be extremely dangerous and contagious."

"What do you mean dangerous," he asked resting his chin on my shoulder so that I could feel his cold breath pass by my ear.

I smiled, he was always so concerned about me, I just never understood why. "Edward, I'm a demigod again. I'm not so damageable anymore. I can take care of myself without you watching me 24/7."

He seemed to stiffen a little bit before he answered, but it wasn't a real answer. "So, how is this disease dangerous?"

I sighed, knowing that I wouldn't e getting an answer and instead decided to truly tell him what this disease can do. I moved slightly away and sat cross legged across from him so that I could look him in the eye.

"This disease will first give off the same symptoms that I had: fever, pain, exhaustion, and so on along that line. The first stage is your appendix 'exploding', but you don't notice it because when it 'explodes' the second stage has already set in. In the second stage your stomach is attacked along with your liver, then if you don't die because of your appendix by then you are basically sent into a coma where the disease then eats at your other organs. The last stage, if you haven't died by then, is when the disease will eat your lungs. A normal person will have died by now, but there are rare cases where they live up to the last stage where it eats at your heart. The disease doesn't touch your brain, and no one knows why, but if you aren't treated for it right away you are killed by it."

Edward was just stunned, his eyes were huge and unblinking, and he wasn't breathing either. He was a statue again. I waved a hand in front of his eyes and he didn't move.

"Why is it so contagious," he asked so quietly I didn't hear him. "If it was so contagious why did that demigod help you instead of Carlisle?"

I thought about this for a moment. "That girl- her name is Allie- her father if Apollo and he blessed her with the gift of not getting sick; she can't get any disease. That's why she deals with this flu, because she can't get it. Carlisle couldn't help because he didn't know what to do. Allie is a specialist with this flu."

"Why didn't you tell me what this could do to you?"

"Never go a chance," I said with a shrug. "Besides, now is a time for war. If you were worrying about me I know for a fact that you would have had Allie stay here until I was healthy. I couldn't do that to her and I couldn't let myself rest if I did that. I would be making sure that you weren't worrying about me."

He pulled me back onto his lap and buried his face in my hair again. "I will always worry about you Bella," he said after a long silence. "I will worry because I love you Bella. I love you more than the world, and because of that I just will worry; just to make sure that you are happy."

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