SVX: * peaks out from behind curtains * Um hi remember me. *Steps out cautiously * well I'm back and I though I would update on some of my stories! Like this one! Goodness it has been awhile hasn't it? Well I apologize, I have just been very busy, right now I am sitting at home looking at the clock while coughing thinking ha I'm not at school! Any way here we go with number 14!
Mortal Plague
Chapter Fourteen
Hilde cocked her head to the side and scrunched her face with amusement. "What are you looking at," she giggled as Duo looked around innocently.
"Nothing except for the most beautiful girl in the world. Only you could make a nun sexy," Duo chuckled as he motioned towards her simple black dress and shoes. Hilde placed a hand on her hip and pointed towards Duo's outfit.
"Well I see you're comfortable, it's been years since I've seen you in a priest's garb." She laughed as he stood and did a quick twirl before strutting out of the room humming 'I'm too Sexy'. She shook her head and continued to sweep the floor of the church a smile playing on her features.
"I'm glad to see you are well again my child," Father Maxwell placed n old hand on Hilde's shoulder as he watched her sweep. "It doesn't hurt anymore I see." Hilde smiled at the elderly man before shaking her head and sweeping the dust into a dustpan. She heard Sister Helen's soft laughter echo through the main hall and Duo's jovial one soon after. Hilde smiled as Father Maxwell chuckled then breathed a content sigh. That's when she realized this is exactly where she wanted to be.
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Dr. Jenelle Allen let out a frustrated yell as she pushed away from the microscope. That had bee her twenty-fifth attempt to find an antidote and all she had found was she could speed up the process. Her blonde hair frizzed out of her loose bun and her gray eyes were turning red with lack of sleep. She looked over at her blackboard and fiddled with several of the components. "Hmmm, what would happen if I added more vitamins and iron, maybe…" She quickly grabbed a small beaker and mixed in several vitamins and dead cells from the virus along with zinc and iron. After heating it for hours she placed it in the freezer for twenty minutes before loading a small syringe with the purple liquid. She took a small file that had a smear of the virus and added a small drop. She frantically brushed her hair out of her eyes and removed her glasses and looked into the eyepiece. To her amazement and pleasure the active cells began to slow and decrease at a rapid rate. Before she let herself get carried away she moved toward the small cages where she kept several rats infected with the virus. She took a large female and injected it with the purple liquid. For the first few hours nothing happened and Jen felt she had failed once again when the rat began to twitch and awake. She felt her heart leap in her throat and a small yelp of joy escaped her lips.
"Sally, SALLY!"
"What, what is it," a very drowsy Sally Po entered the lab her eyes darting around nervously and her hand gently lying on a gun at her sighed.
"Sally I think I've finally found it!"
"Found what!"
"The miracle that your friends have been looking for!"
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Will Marullus piloted through the outskirts of colony X13775 his brown eyes running over the control panel in front of him. It had been a little over a week since his friend and roommate Solo had been unmasked as an ex Gundam pilot. He closed his eyes as he tried to block out the screams and moans that his friend had released. The picture of him bleeding on a cross was still fresh in his mind. He opened his eyes with a shock as his com buzzer began to sound. He pressed it and saluted as the commander came on the screen.
"Lt. Marullus please return to the officers cabin once you and your men are done with their rounds."
"Yes sir!" With that transmissions were terminated and Will was left to his thoughts once again. After the 'incident' as it was referred to he had been promoted to lieutenant and he wasn't sure if he wanted the 'honor'. After another hour he called in his troupe and they headed into the abducted colony.
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Quatre leaned back into the hospital chair rubbing his stiff neck with tired fingers. He listened to the soft bleep of the machines and the loud suction from the breathing machines. He let his eyes wander back and forth between the two still forms on the beds in front of him. He finally rested his tired eyes on Duo and felt his fists tighten. His close friend, the man who always had a joke to cheer you up, the man that was always there for him when life just got too hectic. This man was not him; he was lying there still and pale. He couldn't even breathe for himself unlike his significant other Hilde. The doctor had but him on the machine after he had begun to convulse. It all had something to do with too much physical activity while suffering from the virus. A soft click from the door caused Quatre to move his gaze to Relena Darlian as she entered the room. She smiled sadly at Quatre before taking a seat next to him.
"How are they doing?"
"Hilde no change, but Duo isn't doing to well," said Quatre quietly not making eye contact with the Vice Foreign Minister. She nodded sadly and looked down at her hands as they curled in her lap.
"He saved my life, in fact that is when I first met him," stated Relena as she lifted her gaze to the young man on the hospital bed. "Heero was going to shoot me when Duo shot him saving my life, I never thanked him, in fact at the time I yelled at him." She smiled slightly remembering the confused look on the youth's face when she stepped in front of his gun.
"I'm sure he knew, he always had a way of reading people," said Quatre as he turned to stare at the young politician. She looked tired and frazzled not at all like her usual self. Relena's reaction to the situation was rather surprising to Quatre. He had never known the Former Queen of the world to be close to the two patients before them. He was about to speak when Heero burst into the room causing two out of the four inhabitants to jump. "Heero?"
"They've found it!" The statement was simple just three words nothing to really get worked up over right? Wrong those three words had more hope in them than anything else. "They're shipping it straight to us it should arrive within the hour." Quatre felt his hands begin to shake and his eyes water as he looked down at the two people who remained silent knowing that soon they would be up and about talking once again.
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Sally ran down the hallway her medical bag clutched protectively to her chest. Inside it held the answer to their biggest problem. As she passed several nurses she soon reached the critical ward. Waiting for her were five very worn youths all with happy anxious looks plastered on their faces. A tall man came up to her and escorted her into the dark room were two people lay on flat cold beds. She let her breath suck in as she stared at her friends in their morbid state. She walked over to Hilde and quickly but carefully removed a small bottle of purple liquid and filled a large syringe with it. She lifted Hilde's arm and easily found a vein and injected the contents of the syringe into her blood stream. Then she went over to Duo but paused and stared at the young man in front of her.
"Why is he on a respirator?"
"His lungs have collapsed, we think it was from all of the physical activity while infected," stated the doctor as he watched Sally slowly injected the young male.
"How will this effect his recovery?"
"Well even if we are able to be rid of the virus, he may never come out of the coma." Sally sighed and looked at Duo with a sad look in her eye before standing and exiting the room to talk to the others.
"Well I have given each of them the suitable doses, it took the lab rats around five or six hours before they showed signs of improvement so we should wait. Also the doctor informed me of Duo's current condition let's all just pray he wakes up." With that said they all entered the small room and waited.
SVX: Well I hoped you all liked that! I will keep trying to update on it but it gets harder! Also I might not be able to update for awhile because of the school musical. Also I have some totally awesome news! Guess who got Scott Mcneil's autograph? ME!!!! EEEEEEEKKKKK!!!!! I love it I love it I love it! Any way review! Ja!