At Who-U
Dr. Larue made sure to be extremely careful when it came to the exposure for her experiment. A sick patient from the hospital.
She had the patient cough in a petri dish before letting my him go.
She used her q-tip to swipe the Whoronoavirus germs over the surfaces of the shared kitchen space of the testing facility before allowing the test subjects in.
Through the two way mirror, she watched as subject A opened the fridge for some juice, as Subject B fried bacon on the stove, as Subject C crunched on an apple as he read a newspaper, as Subject D crunched her cereal, and as Subject E washed dishes after everyone was finished.
And now she had to wait.
Symptoms usually started within 6 hours, so she watched for 6 hours and checked hourly.
"How are you feeling?" She asked Subject C, taking out a thermometer and a tongue suppressor.
"I feel fine." Subject C said.
Still, Dr. Larue checked her temperature and looked down her throat.
"Any coughing or fatigue?" The scientist asked.
"Nope. All fine."
Her temperature was normal and there wasn't anything in her throat. Everything looked fine.
Dr. Larue wrote on her clipboard. Everything was unchanged.
That night, she had each subject hooked to monitors to examine their heart rates. She heard somewhere that if you have Whorona, your heart will race while sleeping.
In the morning, she checked the monitors and all heart rates were normal. Except for subject A, who reported to have a nightmare between 2 and 3 am. Other than that, it was normal.
For the next few days, she watched as her subjects went about their lives, not getting sick.
She did it.
She found a vaccine!
At Whoville Hospital
Vonfrood watched as doctors put an IV drip in his mother's arm to keep fluids in her.
She closed her eyes to rest and Vonfrood watched her sleep.
Ever since his father died, Vonfrood was the man of the house and he took care of his mother.
It took a toll on his personal life.
He never dared to date, so at age 40, he still was unmarried and had no children.
His mother always told him he needed to find a girl and give her a grandchild.
But Vonfrood didn't. He loved his mother and, honestly, wasn't quite a ladies man. He found himself awkward around the opposite gender.
Plus, being attached to his mother made him obsessive about her well being and it made him mean towards others. He couldn't comprehend emotions towards anyone else.
But now those negative feelings went out the window when he saw her laying in a hospital bed, sick.
He promised himself that if she made a full recovery that he would bring home a woman.