"I'm going to die," Elle moaned as Kay gathered her into his arms and carried her back to the LTD. He carefully laid her in the back seat and then motioned for Jay to get in and stay next to her.
"You're not going to die," he reassured her as he got behind the wheel and pulled away. The alien could wait. "Elle, how long can you go without the antivenin?"
"Doesn't work after twenty-four hours," Elle muttered as Jay cradled her head in his lap and stroked her forehead to try to calm her. "Not that I'm going to have to worry about that. I'll be dead in an hour." She moaned in pain again as the LTD pulled onto the main highway. "Don't let the worms be in charge of the refreshments for my funeral. There will be nothing but coffee cake and mochas. Don't let them laugh at how I died either."
"You aren't going to die," Kay said as he made a decision about what to do and swung the LTD in the direction of the nearest town. "Just try to stay calm."
"Stay calm? How can I stay calm when I'm going to be a laughing stock at my own funeral?!" she moaned as she pictured the scene. "Elle, the only MiB to be done in by an ordinary snake. This isn't supposed to happen to Men in Black!"
A few minutes later, the LTD pulled up in front of a small hospital in the closest town to Dead Man's Creek. Kay just hoped that it would have the antivenin Elle needed.
Jay followed behind Kay as he gathered Elle up and carried her into the building. Somehow, he didn't think Kay realized all of the paperwork required for an emergency room visit. When Jay had been with the NYPD, one of his collegues had an infected papercut that had sent him to the emergency room. By the time he had filled out all of the paperwork, he had promised the hospital his first born child and his soul in order to get treatment, not to mention the fact that he had been stuck there for over nine hours.
"What the..." the nurse on duty said as she saw Kay come in carrying Elle.
"Department of Wildlife, Division Six," Kay said as Jay pulled his badge out and flashed it. "One of our agents got tangled up with a rattlesnake. She needs antivenin."
The mention of a rattlesnake seemed to cause everyone in the emergency room to spring into action. Within a minute, they had Elle on a stretcher and had rushed her back to a treatment room leaving Jay and Kay standing alone in the middle of the waiting room. Jay glared down at the paperwork the nurse had remembered to shove into his hands before she hurried off. Somehow they never seemed to forget about making sure every last form was filled out no matter how serious the emergency.
"I think we better call Zed and let him know what's going on," Jay muttered to his partner as he glanced through the forms. He had no idea what to put down for a name never mind insurance! Did the MiB even have insurance?