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~A New Life~
~Chapter Thirteen: A New Plague?~
"What do you mean, 'fire power'?" Fritz asked leaning up against the door of the car.
"What I mean is that I have a stock of food, supplies and fire arms just in case anything were to happen. So if necessary, we could hold up there for a few months" Cloy replied.
"Don't worry about her Fritz; it's just paranoia of a Gundam Fighter." Clarissa said looking back to Fritz.
"Well, in any case, it seems like she is very prepared." Fritz agreed with Cloy. Cloy just stuck her tong out at her mother and went back to driving. Fritz laughed when her mother repeated the gesture and kept staring strait ahead.
Cloy pulled into the alley next to her flat and got out. She called up for Kyoji and he came down immediately. "You called?" he asked, as he came down in front of her.
"Yeah, help me get Fritz out." She said with a smile up to him. The smile nearly melted him in his shoes, and managed to melt his heart into a puddle. Kyoji opened the door, and held Fritz up as Cloy got one of his arms around her neck. Kyoji put his other arm around his neck and they helped Fritz up to the flat that way.
Clarissa went ahead to open the door, and get a bed ready for Frits. They carried him into the room that Joshua had slept in and laid him down on the bed. "Mom, I think I can leave him to you from here on out right?" Cloy asked.
"Sure, I'll give him the best care possible. Don't you worry. I've had plenty of practice with your father if you remember correctly." She replied.
Cloy smiled and left, closing the door behind her. Her mother remembered where she kept the medical supplies and got them out. She set the med scanner on the end table right next to Fritz and said "Ok, I'm going to have to take your shirt off."
Fritz laughed and said "can't wait to do that can ya?" Clarissa smiled and shook her head. She just lifted up his shirt and pulled it off of him. She noticed that he was soaked in sweat from the fever.
She attempted to make him feel better, by pulling off his boots then pants. By this time, the fever had started taking its effect on him and he was rolling in and out of consciousness. Cloy brought in a pitcher of cool water and a bowl for her, along with a rag.
"Thank you honey." Clarissa said as she poured some of the water in the bowl and, after soaking the rag, bathed Fritz's face.
"Listen, I'm going to get some liquids for him and some soup, if and when he wakes up, all you'll have to do is heat them up in the microwave." Cloy said as she helped her mother change the sheets to a thinner sheet to keep Fritz cooled down but not so cold to keep him sick.
"Ok, make sure to get out plenty of liquids to keep him hydrated." Clarissa said, busy with the task of cleaning the sweat off Fritz's body. "I just don't know what he could have."
"While I get the stuff ready, I'll look up his symptoms in my medical book, see if I can't find the answer in there mom." Cloy said, turning on the lamp next to the medical kit.
"Ok, thanks honey." Clarissa said, after finishing getting him cooled down, he finally settled down in a halfway decent sleep.
Cloy left and Clarissa could hear her talking with Kyoji and instructing him to look something up in the medical journal while she cooked dinner for four of them, and something for Fritz.
In an effort to make Fritz more comfortable Clarissa got out some scissors, noticing that not only Fritz needed a hair cut, but also it soaked with sweat, she started cutting of some of his hair. She got it short; they way he usually liked it, and Cloy brought in some food for her, and Fritz just in case he were to wake up.
"Boy, your going to have some explaining to do when he wakes up and sees his hair." Cloy commented after checking Fritz's fever, it was still high, and she estimated it to be around 103 to 105.
"I know, and I'll be happy to explain, as long as he survives." She said in return, Cloy sighed at the fact that just when her mother finally met someone, after ten years of mourning her father, for them to be sick like this and come close to death.
Cloy walked back out into the hall and Kyoji gave her a questioning glance. Cloy just shook her head and went to see to her little brothers dinner. Her little brother looked up at her and Cloy thought for a moment that he would finally, maybe have a father figure to look up to. She remembered how he hadn't even been born yet and her father died.
"You know, I just thought about it, where am I going to sleep?" Josh asked. "Fritz, and probably mom have the bed I slept in, and you and Kyoji have your bed."
"Don't worry shrimp, the couch can pull out into an extra bed if needed, but if it's just you using it, you can sleep on the couch like it is." Cloy replied, giving her little brother the food she had made.
Cloy didn't feel like staying up any longer, so she went into her room to rest. But she didn't lie down; she just sat on the bed looking at pictures of her deceased father. Kyoji came in to tuck her in but saw her setting up. He got behind her and started rubbing her shoulders and asked, "Want to tell me what's bothering you?"
"Well, I was just thinking that maybe now with Fritz around my mom, maybe my little brother will have a father figure to look up to. I mean, he didn't all his life, because my father died right before he was born." Cloy replied, putting down the picture of her father and leaned back into Kyoji's warm embrace.
"I know, you miss him." Kyoji said, rocking her while stroking her head.
"It's not just that, it's that my little brother is growing up without a father figure to be around. Like I did most of my life. The only time I had one was when I was born to when I was 8. And I really want Josh to have someone like Fritz to look up to." Cloy said. "Even if I don't know him as well as my mom, the more I think about it, the more I think he is right for my mom. Just from what she told me about him."
Kyoji did say much but he laid her down, and held her close to him. "Kyoji did you find out what it was that Fritz has?" Cloy asked.
"Yeah it's Viral Pneumonia. He's had a sudden rise in temperature, Chest pains; he's been coughing a lot, and has had a little difficulty breathing." Kyoji replied.
"Ok, I'll be back honey, I have to make sure that if he is up right now he needs to get plenty of liquids and keeps a light diet." Cloy said getting up. Kyoji was a little ticked off, he wanted her in his arms to kiss and nuzzle. "But" he thought "I can do that latter"
Cloy walked into Fritz's room and saw her mother asleep beside Fritz, and he was awake holding her close. She smiled and sat in the rocking chair next to him. "You look like crud." She commented, giving him the cup of special herbal tea she had made for him.
"Yeah well, I feel like crud." He replied, "Has your mom been with me this whole time?"
Cloy nodded with a Matchmaker gleam in her eye. She sighed, putting her head back, and was startled by a hacking cough from Kyoji. She jumped up and ran to Kyoji, he too were showing the symptoms of a Viral Pneumonia. She settled him down after getting his shirt, pants, shoes, and socks off, trying to get him comfortable.
"What's going on?" Kyoji chocked out.
"I think you have a Viral Pneumonia." Cloy replied as she took the heavy blankets off and put a thin sheet around him. She then went and got a pitcher of water and bowl with a rag and started bathing his forehead in the cool water after soaking the rag in the water.
"Cloy, how did I get this, I haven't even been around Fritz?" Kyoji asked.
"I don't think you had to." Cloy said, fearing the worst, that the Prime Minister found a way to get to her, though her fiancée.
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"Sir, we have learned that Kyoji Kasshu has just been infected with the virus. We expect him to be in the middle of the worst of the sickness by tonight." A man in a black a purple trench coat said.
"Good, and if Cloy O'Conall wants him to be safe, just like Fritz, then she will become mine." Another laughed maniacally.
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Ok, looks like the sick plot is coming along so far. But will Cloy and Clarissa be able to save the two men they love, and uncover the plot before it has a chance to thicken? Find out next time. R+R+R+R+R+R+R PLEASE!!!!!