Mallet…I will be 18! Good job 2nd guess. Ed is very impressed. *^.^* YAY! Ummm…Just out of curiosity, what is the Mallet of doom? Or don't I want to know?
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Chapter 7: Recovery
Ed woke up along the way and struggled for breath in his arms as he ran. He knew that there was an emergency respirator right outside the hanger. He set Ed gently on the ground, her wild struggle for air slowing. He put the oxygen mast over mouth and nose, then he held his own breath.
"Common Ed," he whispered at her.
Nothing happened.
Spike ripped the mask of her face, pinched Ed's nose closed and tipped her neck back, then he forcibly blew two deep breaths into her lungs. She made a frightening noise deep in her throat and a ripple traveled up her body Spike held the toilet paper to her mouth and she let out three huge hacking coughs.
"Done?" he asked her
She nodded weakly and he slipped the respirator back over her face. She smiled at him gratefully, then closed her eyes and slept.
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Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV opened her fiery eyes and she felt a lot better. Almost normal…whatever that meant for Edward. She wondered absently where Spike was. She didn't really feel like moving though, so she just stared at the ceiling and relaxed.
Then she heard breathing. It wasn't Ein, he was panting at the door. She looked to the side of the bed and there Spike lay, in an exhausted sleep. He was half-sitting in his chair, but his head lay in his arms on the bed right beside her stomach.
She didn't know that he had struggled with her fever for almost two days strait and was now simply too tired to wait for her to wake up. The terrible fever had broken during the night and he had simply collapsed on the chair and into a deep sleep.
Ed knew none of this, but it wouldn't have surprised her in the least. She patted Spike's wild hair with a hand, gently, almost reverently.
"Nice Spike," She murmured resolutely.
She had known it all along.
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A/N: This is NOT the end. Now it starts getting fun! Cause now ed starts to itch! Hang on for the next chapter full of home remedies and other scary things.