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Chapter 25
Thirty minutes later Jake came round again and looked confusedly at his mate who was holding his hand: "What happened? Did I passed out?" Then he noticed the all the tubes and electrodes on him and Brenda, Norm and Max standing at the guerney whe he lied.
"Yes", she nodded smiling, feeling relieved as he was seemingly better now, "But the danger is over now. Isn't it, Brenda?"
Brenda looked at Jakes face intededly: "Yeah, but you were damn lucky that you where staying here in Hell's Gate when it happened. The nano transmitters are dissolving into particles and this caused a chronic poisoning what reached a dangerous peak right now.I put you on a dialysis to filtrate the nano particles out of your blood."
"Dialysis..?", Jake murmured irrtadedly.
"Don't you remember that word?" , asked Brenda and cast an alarmed look at Max.
"No.", the Na'vi shook slowly his head.
""Like I said, it's a method of cleaning your blood from toxines. Do you understand what caused the poisoning?" queried the medic.
"Umh, the nano transmitters...the little thingies in my head which allowed my human self to connect with this body before I passed through the Eye of Eywa?"
"Exactly!", replied Brenda, " How are you feeling right now?"
"Just tired." murmured Jake and closed his eyes.
"Then you should sleep for a while." Brenda smiled and nodded the Mancuso. "You'll watch him like a hawk while we go for a short walk. " She looked meaningfully at the door and Max and Norm were heading for it. Then she solicited Jake's mate: "Neytiri? Would you accompany us?" When the future Tsahik hesitated, Brenda assured her: "Look, he's already sleeping. And we won't be away for long. But I'd like to talk to you, ask you some questions. Please, it's really important."
Before Neytiri could answer, Atan'eko, who remained the whole time quietly standing at the wall asked in Na'vi:" What is it about?"
When Max explained him that they wanted to go outside to talk about the reasons for Jake's disease and that they had to ask his mate several questions,while Steve would watch over Jake, the old Na'vi said to Neytiri:" Don't worry! I will stay here and take care that this tawtute", he pointed at Steve," doesn't hurt your mate."
Neytiri nodded and thanked him. Then she cast a loving glance at Jake and left the rom together with the tree humans.
When they were outside, Max asked Brenda:"So, what do you think?"
"I'm not sure what to think. When he didn't remember the word dialysis I was afraid that he got a brain damage. But then he proved that he understood the concept how the link between driver and avatar worked..." she shrugged.
Neytiri spoke up: " Dialysis...Is that an important word in Inglisi? Because I can't remember Grace using it."
"Let's say it is an important word if you live on earth. Because the air, rain and drinking water on our planet are so polluted, very many people get sick and need this kind of treatment these days. Nearly everywhere you find houses in which dialysis is offered. So, yes it's a word everybody nows."
The future Tsahik nodded slowly and looked at the anthropologist: " Norm, did you speak about this with Jake while you were with him?"
"Umh, no. Why should I ? We had more important things to talk about.", he shrugged.
"But you spoke with him about these nano trans...mitters?" Neytiri queried.
"Oh yes, I teached him how to induce the linking process, I mean how to operate the machine...", Norm replied.
Neytiri nodded again and said: " I think, I know what is happening with my mate: He is forgetting his former life, his life on earth - exept the memories about his family and maybe what he learned after he joined the jarhead clan. When I join him in Tsaheylu, I can sometimes get glimps of his former life, but most of the pictures are...like in a fog."
"Yes, that's it!", called Norm, " And I bet it hasn't anything to do with the nano particle poisoning!"
"Why do you think so?", asked Brenda.
"Because it already began long before he passed through the Eye of Eywa! He complained in his video logs about disorientation - which is quite normal for an avatar driver who's linked everyday for more than fourteen or fifteen hours. But then he mentioned that he can hardly remember his life on earth. He enjoys his life here on Pandora so much, that his former life must seem to him rathe poor, maybe even traumatic, considering the circumstances of the last years of his life there. His mind reacts to this fact by simply repressing the memories in question. It's not because of the poisoning, it's a psychic reaction!", then he laughed, "I can remember, how difficult it was at first to teach him how to speak the 'R' like the Na'vi...although he learned actually the language quite fast, he simply couldn't get rid of his American 'R'. And now he rolls the 'R' even when he's speaking English."
Neytiri smiled, thinking of when she slapped Jake in the face because he simply didn't stop to pronounce 'nari' like 'na'vi'.
"But the mood fluctuations are a fact, or aren't they?" asked the medic.
Neytiri said seriously: "Yes. Jake has always been ...oh, what is the word? ftxavang ?"
Norm nodded, adding helpful: " Passionate."
"Yes, passionate and ... showing his feelings openly. But never before I saw him really out of his mind. When he carried me to the kunsip, he was screaming like a wounded animal. It terrified me.", said Neytiri.
"And how was he in his human form?" asked Brenda, looking at Norm.
"Uh, I don't know. I'm not a psychatrist. But...I think, he was depressive. Or maybe suffering of PTSD...I don't know. But his behaviour remembered me sometimes of my father's brother. He was diagnosed with depression." said Norm.
"Please, would you explain that word, 'depression'. And what is 'PTSD'?" queried the future Tsahik.
After Brenda explained both terms, Neytiri shook her head: " I know these diseases, they happens to some of the ours too, but Jake doesn't suffer of them. He enjoys life! "
"Now, that he's a Na'vi. But when he was human? I don't think so." said Norm.
"Ok,ok, I'd say, we clarified now that his intellectual abilities weren't damaged bey the poisoning - which put my mind a damn lot at ease. Nonetheless I will do further brain scans, tests and blood counts until I'm sure that he's recovered completely. And I will repeat the dialysis in a two week mode until I'm sure that absolutely no nano particles temained in his body anymore. And additionally to this, he'll get a vitamin B treatment that will help his neurons to recover.", closed Brenda the discussion.
"I remember the vitamins from Grace's teaching at the school. Which kind of vitamin B do you mean?", asked Neytiri.
"Vitamin B12," but I think the artificial medicament I can produce her will suffice.", answered Brenda.
"No! The gifts of Eywa are always better. I have to speak with the Tsahik anyway, so I'm going to use the radio. And I will tell her that all the livers of the venison should be spared for Jake and that she should send a hunter to bring it!", Neytiri stated vigorously, " I will prepare it for my mate."
"Neytiri, please, I respect you, but for the healing effect he would have to eat it raw!", demanded Brenda, reaching the end of her patience.
"I myself thaught him to drink the blood of the prey and he ate raw leaver too, as any other taronyu did! He won't hesitate to eat it when I tell him that it is necessaryly for his recovery!", hissed Neytiri, now definetly getting at the end of her rope.
Before Brenda could argue furthermore with the young Na'vi female, the door of the science mod was flunged open, an outraged Atan'eko was shouting: "Srung, rutxe, srung!", holding an half conscious Steve by the back of his neck.
"What?...What did he say?" shouted Brenda to Norm, looking shocked at the human dangling of the arm of the Na'vi, while Neytiri was already storming inside the building.
"He said: "Help!", shouted Norm, then he did run too through the open door. Brenda and Max followed him closely.
When they were inside Neytiri's and Jake's room, the medical diagnosis unit was beeping frantically, indicating that Jake's heart was close to a breakdown, but the most shocking sight was that Jake's eyes were wide open and his lips were not purple as they should be, but azure blue. Neytiri was at his side, crying, "My Jake, my Jake!"
Brenda jumped on the guerney and tried to induce a cardiac massage. " Max! Max! Into the pharmaceutical magazine and get some Amiodaron, the version for avatars! Norm, give me the defibrillator! Over there. in the red box! And you", she looked at Atan'eko," keep hold of this criminal!"
Norm did translate quickly, then he found the red box.
Max run away through the door which led to the inner part of the building and Norm found the box and gave it over to Brandy who ripped it open, took out the electrodes and placed them on Jake's breast. "Go away!" the medic shouted at Neytiri while jumping of the guerney, "GO AWAY NOW! It's for your mate's life!", she shouted when Neytiri didn't want to leave.
"Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three", then Brenda pressed the button of the little box in her hand .
Jake's chest reared up, but the frantical beeping didn't change. Then Brenda tried it a second time: "Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three" and pressed again the button. Again Jake reared up and Neytiri cried, but this time the beeps of the diagnosis unit seemed to calm down. Jake was breathing again.
Max stormed in, holding a handful of viales in his fist: "This? Is this the right stuff?"
Brenda nodded, grasped one of the ampullas, took a syringe from a tablet and gave Jake an injection.
Two minutes later the vital signs of the young Na'vi leader were on a normal level again. His eyes were closed again and his breathing was regularly.
Brenda gasped: " Oh my god!"