SUMMARY: The Lightspeed team goes into shock when they discover Dana's condition is worse than they'd expected.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay, okay. I know you hate waiting, but I'm doing the best I can. About those grammar mistakes, I'm really sorry about it. You have to cut me some slack 'cause English isn't my native language. In spite of being fluent in it, I'm not perfect.

DISCLAMER: I don't own PRLR, this is just for fun!!!

A voice from the heart Part 3

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At the Aquabase, the four rangers, Captain Mitchell and Ryan, who hadn't make it in time for the battle against Stinger, were at the infirmary waiting for Ms F to finish examining Dana.

"So... how is she?" asked the Captain.

The scientist looked down, taking off her glasses slowly. "I'm afraid is worse than I thought" she gave the news to the other six in the room.

"How worst is it?" Ryan stepped I front of his father.

She looked around at each one of them with a sad expression on her face. Then, she took a deep breath. "The monster's sting was poisoned. And this poison is already inside Dana's blood chain."

"And what does this mean, Ms F?" a confused Kelsey asked.

"It means that her blood is infected, which is making her heart stop pumping what's still left of the non infected blood to all parts of her body. In other words, if we don't find the cure soon, Dana will die."

Everybody had suddenly frozen. After a few seconds, Ryan sat down on a chair behind him and put his head between his knees, Kelsey tried really hard to hide her tears, Joel and Chad were so shocked that they couldn't move. Captain Mitchell's only reaction was to look down. The room was silent for several minutes.

"Do you know an antidote? A torn apart Carter, who had been next to Dana, holding her hand during the whole time, broke down the silence.

"Unfortunately, I don't." Ms F said.

Carter kept staring at her. Like Kelsey, his eyes were filled up with tears. Then he turned his attention the girl on the bed. He squeezed her hand and started thinking: was that it? Now that they were finally together, Dana's time had come? It wasn't fair. It shouldn't end like that.

"No!" Carter let it all out. "No, it's not going to end like this! I'm not gonna let her die!"

"Carter, please." M Fairweather tried to calm him down.

"No! Not like this! We will find the cure and she's going to be okay! She has to." At last his tears started to come out.

Everyone was staring at him. They didn't understand where that was coming from. Carter took one last look at Dana, dried his tears and walked away from the infirmary.

To be continued.