Ponch was laying in his bed, he wasn't feeling very well. Jon would be back in a few hours or so he was at home taking care of a few things cleaning wise. Then he was going to run over and clean Ponch's apartment in case it needed anything.

Dr. Adams had been in and out of Ponch's room multiple times. He kept checking up on him. They had just brought in a new patient for Dr. Adams to work with, someone with a bad case of pneumonia. He washed his hands, and tried not to be spreading it, but after being around that person so long Dr. Adams had come down with a little cough.

When Dr. Adams had come in and checked on Ponch this time Ponch could sense Dr. Adams wasn't feeling well, and it worried him that maybe he was being taken care of by a sick doctor.

Dr. Adams coughed a few times and tried to cover it up. Ponch stared at him.

"Are you sure you're not sick?" he asked sitting up a bit.

Ryan nodded his head while placing his hands in the pockets of his white doctors coat. He cleared his throat. "Yes, Ponch I'm fine," he said.

"Okay…well you might need to get that cough looked at it. It sounds nasty," Ponch said.

Ryan didn't say anything about that. He just nodded slightly. "You want to watch some TV or something? It's pretty quiet in here," he asked.

Ponch shook his head. "I think Jon should be here soon," he replied.

Adams nodded. "Alright," he patted Ponch on the shoulder and left the room.

Ponch watched as he left and was confused. What was up with Dr. Adams?

oOoOo

Bex was walking down the hall and headed for the doctor's lounge. She went inside to grab a cup of coffee and found her boyfriend sitting at the table with a cup of coffee trying to keep himself awake. He was tired from the long shift he had worked. Bex saw beads of sweat on his forehead, and his hair was a bit wet from it too. He coughed slightly, not realizing someone else had entered the room otherwise he'd have done everything he could to hide it.

"Ryan? Ryan are you alright?" Bex asked coming closer to him.

Ryan turned his head slowly and looked at his girlfriend. "Bex…I…I didn't even hear you come in," he said. He wasn't feeling well at all.

"Honey, I can tell you're not feeling well and you can't lie to me and say you're fine. I'm getting a doctor now and we'll take care of you," Bex said.

Ryan didn't like that idea. He pushed himself up from his chair leaning on the table a bit. Then he took care of his coffee cup and began to try to walk away.

"No! Don't leave," Bex said in a firm voice. "You're getting looked at by a doctor." She grabbed his arm and led him to a treatment room. As soon as they entered the room she went to the phone in the left corner of the room and called for Dr. Brackett to come in.

After getting off the phone Bex went back over to Ryan who was getting off the bed. "I don't want to get checked out, I'm fine," he said.

"No you're not," Bex replied quickly as she pushed him back onto the bed. "Stay!" she ordered then began getting his vitals and checking his temperature. "You have a temperature of 103 degrees, Ryan."

Kel had entered the room on that part of the sentence. "A fever?" he asked coming in.

"He's sick, but won't admit it," Bex said.

Kel put his hands on his hips. "Dr. Adams you are a doctor. If it were an injury it's understandable to try and hide it, but illness no. Especially not if it's contagious what if you went around spreading your sickness to other patients?"

Adams just stared at him.

Dr. Brackett began examining him. "Even injuries need to be looked at you shouldn't hide them. I know I said it was understandable, but you know what I meant so don't go around thinking otherwise. I don't know what is wrong with you, you used to be a good doctor but you changed for the worse this year."

Ryan looked at Kel. He knew he wasn't the best at being sympathetic at times, but he always wasn't the most kind.

"Who have you been caring for today? Maybe you caught this from a patient," Kel said knowing that was something that had happened a few times.

"Just a few new people that have come and gone today and I checked up on Ponch a few times…and uh then there was this guy with a bad case of pneumonia," he replied.

Kel frowned. "And were you feeling sick when you checked on Ponch?" he asked a bit concerned.

"A little maybe," he replied reluctantly admitting to that.

Kel had a growing concern with that, especially when he found that Adams had pneumonia after a few moments of the check up.

"I'm going to send you home for now with antibiotics, if the pneumonia gets worse then come in," he said.

Ryan nodded and started to get up and leave when the door opened and Jon peeked his head in. "Dr. Brackett?" he asked.

Kel turned to see the young blonde officer standing there, worry expressed in his blue eyes.

"What's wrong, Jon?" he asked.

"It's Ponch…" he started.

Kel didn't need to hear any more after that. He left nurse Bex to finish with Adams. Kel and Jon went to Ponch's room.

Ponch was laying in bed, eyes closed trying to rest. He had thrown up a few times, and the nurses in the room took care of it. He like Adams had beads of sweat on his face and his hair was wet from the sweating. He had a bad fever and chills, he felt miserable.

Kel came over. "He probably has pneumonia, passed on from Dr. Adams," he informed the others in the room.

"What!? Shouldn't Adams have stayed home if he was sick?" Nikki asked growing upset suddenly.

"He knew he was sick, but didn't know how sick. To him it was only a small cold at first," Kel explained.

Brandi clenched her fists tight then went to Jon. "I can't believe this…" she muttered.

Jon was too upset to speak. He wasn't sure he'd ever talk to Dr. Adams again. He wondered if he would even keep his job with how poorly he'd been acting lately.

Jon came beside Ponch's bed. Then he looked at Dr. Brackett. "He'll be ok, right?" he asked cautiously.

"He should be, but this is very serious right now we'll be checking in on him a lot more often and starting some antibiotics right away hopefully he can fight this well."

"Can I stay with him?" Jon asked.

Kel nodded. "Just make sure you don't get too close and get yourself sick."

oOoOo

Jon stayed by Ponch's side the whole time he was sick, even through the hard hours when his fever had gotten up high and Ponch was having a hard time fighting even with the help of the medication. Jon had never prayed so hard until these last few months with Ponch in the hospital, and he was amazed with how fast his friend was recovering. He was even more amazed the day Kel and Joe came in to tell Ponch he would be going home soon.

It was a Monday morning, the sun shined brightly outside and in through the window peeking through the curtain until finally Jon got up and opened the curtain to let it come in. The TV had been off for a while, and Ponch was asleep. Jon had been leaning against the wall and sitting in a chair he was reading a book.

Doctors Early and Brackett entered the room then with Dixie not too far behind them. She smiled seeing Ponch was fast asleep still. He had been fighting off that pneumonia all week and finally had gotten to feeling better on Sunday morning. He was exhausted though still.

"Hi," Jon said sitting up and looking at the group of three.

"Hello, Jon," Kel replied.

"Did you come to check on Ponch?" Jon asked.

"Actually we came to talk to him, but I see he's still sleeping," Joe replied with a small smile.

"I'm sure I can tell him whatever you need to tell him," Jon said. But as soon as he said that Ponch was starting to wake up. "Nevermind you can tell him," he said with a laugh.

Ponch opened his eyes and looked around the room. "W-W-What's going on?" he asked with a yawn and a stretch.

"We just thought you might like to know that you are going home on Wednesday if you're up to it."

"Are you kidding!? I still have a home that isn't here?" Ponch said with a laugh.

Joe and Dixie laughed Kel just shook his head.

Jon smiled he had to go to work soon he looked at his watch. Fifteen more minutes. He'd spread the news to everyone when he got there, it was great! And he couldn't believe it Ponch was actually going home for the first time in months.

Ponch smiled and looked at Jon. "Baker, I actually get to go home soon!" he said and Jon could see tears in his eyes.

He patted Ponch's shoulder. "I'm happy for you, partner," he said smiling bigger than he had in months. Things were looking up for them now, and it was a nice change. What Jon and Ponch didn't know was that things were about to go downhill again only this time for one of their friends…would they be ready for it?

~end

A/N: Thank you so much for reading! Thank you for those that have stuck with me this whole time and those who have joined in along the way. I love you and thanks for the support! The sequel On A Wing and A Prayer: Saving Baricza is currently being re-written, and will be seen sometime within the next few days. :)

~Ponchy