Chapter 5- The Chance
Kyle was sitting alone in a small room connected to the barn in which Doc had his blacksmith shop in 1886 Hill Valley. He felt very lonely in the place he had sat for the past 12 hours. The room had a small cot and a wooden table. It was too claustrophobic for poor Kyle, but the worst thing about this room was the loneliness. There was a fire burning out side that was the thing that was keeping Kyle company as he lay on the bed and realized that he has been this lonely since he cut himself off from his family.
The reason he was in there was because the clothing he found in the middle of the desert had viral pneumonia in it. It turned out that Jean had gotten the most serious form of the disease when she was five and barely survived. This gave her only a five percent chance of ever catching it again. Jean was lucky, then and now, but Kyle was another story.
The clothes they found were burned in a fire outside along with everything the touched after they wore the clothes. Kyle had to stay in quarantine so that he wouldn't spread the disease to the entire town. Kyle was praying that he would just carry the disease and not get sick. In the past few hours, however, he began to feel hot with rougher breathing through the nose. As scared as he was, he couldn't help but care more about what was going on outside.
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"Are you feeling any symptoms of pneumonia, Jean?" Doc asked jean in the other small room in the barn that he used as his blacksmith shop.
"I was five when I got it, but I know damn well what it feels like to have it. Trust me, I don't have it." Jean was herself relieved that she wasn't getting symptoms, but she felt plenty guilty and worried about Kyle. "What do you think we're going to do?"
"I'll tell you the best course of action," Doc said. "once your father and your friend wake up, you'll go to the time machine and go to the future without Kyle..."
"What!?" Jean screamed out of anger. How could she leave her brother behind?
"Jean, calm down and I'll tell you. Now, when your mission is complete, you'll come back to this time and pick up Kyle. Once you do, go back to the future and get him medical attention immediately."
"Alright Doc," Jean said. "I just have a couple questions. For one thing, how are you so sure this pick-up strategy will work? Another question is that why in the hell are you saying when you finish your mission. Why do you think we're gonna be so successful? What if I don't succeed?"
"You must succeed. History depends on it." Doc said.
Jean just took a deep breath and walked into the main part of the barn that Doc used as his lab. There were the two cots where the two time travelers still lay unconscious. Jean also looked at the door that led to the room where Kyle was being holed up. She didn't dare go in for fears of some weird security system going off or something.
"Jeeeeannnn?"
Jean jumped at the noise that was barely recognizable to her. She turned to see her father starting to sit up in the cot, or at least trying to.
"Dad?" Jean said with some amazing relief. She immediately ran up and hugged her father, which caused him to collapse on the bed because he was so weak. "I thought you would never wake up. Are you alright?" Marty's head was spinning because of all the questions Jean was asking. He just decided to say back down. At the time, Jules was waking up.
"What happened?" Jules asked ask he regained consciousness.
"Yeah, that's my question," Marty said in a weak voice.
"We're in 1886 Hill Valley," Jean said. "the time machine's window's were blown out and the Doc of this time had to repair the time machine. To make things worse, Kyle got viral pneumonia and we have to leave him here and get him when the mission's over."
"Oh my God," Marty said. "Kyle has viral pneumonia? How did he get that?"
"We found some clothes in the middle of the desert. It turns out that they were for exterminating Indians and were infected with viral pneumonia."
"Wow," Marty said. "I hope Kyle's ok. We almost lost you to that disease. I certainly hope nothing happens to him."
"As long as we get him back to the future in time, he'll be fine." Jules said.
"Jules," Jean said, with a very fake sweetness. "are you at all concerned that Kyle is sick?"
"He's gonna be fine," Jules said. "Why worry?"
"Because Kyle could die Jules," Marty said with anger in his voice. He then got up and had a strong limp as he walked. Jean walked to his side and helped him take a bottle out of his pocket and swallow a small pill dry.
"What's that?" Jules asked, very curious.
"What's what?" Jean asked as she helped her father sit down.
"That thing you just swallowed. Was it some kind of pill? What kind is it?"
Marty just let out a sigh and told Jules he'd tell him later. Jules now noticed that Marty had something on his leg underneath his pants. It looked like it was made up of wires and stuff. Jules didn't worry about it, though. He just wanted to concentrate about getting his family back.
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That night they summoned Kyle out of quarantine. When Marty saw him, his heart sank. In 36 hours, it looked like Kyle was getting pretty sick. He was coughing so much that it seemed like he was going to cough up a lung any minute. He also had a fever that was burning hot to the touch.
"He's not as sick as I thought he would be," Doc said. "Viral pneumonia moves pretty fast and it looks like he's in the start of it. However, we will need to move quickly. All of you need to wear these."
Doc handed everyone, except Jean, bandanas to wear over their mouth. They didn't want to spread the disease all around town. It wasn't the recommended thing to wear, but it was the only thing that Doc could get.
They walked through the town in the dark of night with the only light to go by being the moon. As soon as they left town, Doc lit the lantern he was carrying with him. They didn't light it before because they didn't want to attract attention.
Once they got to the cave where the Doc brought the DeLorean after it was fixed, they pulled it out into the open to give it plenty of room to lift off. Doc let Kyle sit down on a rock where the time travelers would pick him up after their mission was complete. It would only be a few minutes from the time they left, so they didn't worry.
Marty let Jean get in the driver's seat because he was still very groggy from the tranquilizer. Marty and Jean said a tearful goodbye to Kyle and got in the car in the spots they agreed on. Jules was in the back seat and Marty slipped into the seat next to Jean. When the gull-wing doors were closed, the group got a very eerie feeling from the absence of light coming from the sides of the car. They tried their best to adjust to it before leaving 1886.
"Now remember," Doc said. "I gave you some iron clubs to use in an emergency."
"We also have those tranquilizers," Jean said.
"Don't use them unless there's an extreme emergency," Doc said.
Jean nodded and began to turn the time circuits to the week before the revolt that made America into a hell-hole. She then turned the ignition. Jules talked Jean through using the hover feature as they rose into the air. The time machine then sped off and disappeared into another time with a weak "good luck" from Kyle following them.
Kyle was sitting alone in a small room connected to the barn in which Doc had his blacksmith shop in 1886 Hill Valley. He felt very lonely in the place he had sat for the past 12 hours. The room had a small cot and a wooden table. It was too claustrophobic for poor Kyle, but the worst thing about this room was the loneliness. There was a fire burning out side that was the thing that was keeping Kyle company as he lay on the bed and realized that he has been this lonely since he cut himself off from his family.
The reason he was in there was because the clothing he found in the middle of the desert had viral pneumonia in it. It turned out that Jean had gotten the most serious form of the disease when she was five and barely survived. This gave her only a five percent chance of ever catching it again. Jean was lucky, then and now, but Kyle was another story.
The clothes they found were burned in a fire outside along with everything the touched after they wore the clothes. Kyle had to stay in quarantine so that he wouldn't spread the disease to the entire town. Kyle was praying that he would just carry the disease and not get sick. In the past few hours, however, he began to feel hot with rougher breathing through the nose. As scared as he was, he couldn't help but care more about what was going on outside.
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"Are you feeling any symptoms of pneumonia, Jean?" Doc asked jean in the other small room in the barn that he used as his blacksmith shop.
"I was five when I got it, but I know damn well what it feels like to have it. Trust me, I don't have it." Jean was herself relieved that she wasn't getting symptoms, but she felt plenty guilty and worried about Kyle. "What do you think we're going to do?"
"I'll tell you the best course of action," Doc said. "once your father and your friend wake up, you'll go to the time machine and go to the future without Kyle..."
"What!?" Jean screamed out of anger. How could she leave her brother behind?
"Jean, calm down and I'll tell you. Now, when your mission is complete, you'll come back to this time and pick up Kyle. Once you do, go back to the future and get him medical attention immediately."
"Alright Doc," Jean said. "I just have a couple questions. For one thing, how are you so sure this pick-up strategy will work? Another question is that why in the hell are you saying when you finish your mission. Why do you think we're gonna be so successful? What if I don't succeed?"
"You must succeed. History depends on it." Doc said.
Jean just took a deep breath and walked into the main part of the barn that Doc used as his lab. There were the two cots where the two time travelers still lay unconscious. Jean also looked at the door that led to the room where Kyle was being holed up. She didn't dare go in for fears of some weird security system going off or something.
"Jeeeeannnn?"
Jean jumped at the noise that was barely recognizable to her. She turned to see her father starting to sit up in the cot, or at least trying to.
"Dad?" Jean said with some amazing relief. She immediately ran up and hugged her father, which caused him to collapse on the bed because he was so weak. "I thought you would never wake up. Are you alright?" Marty's head was spinning because of all the questions Jean was asking. He just decided to say back down. At the time, Jules was waking up.
"What happened?" Jules asked ask he regained consciousness.
"Yeah, that's my question," Marty said in a weak voice.
"We're in 1886 Hill Valley," Jean said. "the time machine's window's were blown out and the Doc of this time had to repair the time machine. To make things worse, Kyle got viral pneumonia and we have to leave him here and get him when the mission's over."
"Oh my God," Marty said. "Kyle has viral pneumonia? How did he get that?"
"We found some clothes in the middle of the desert. It turns out that they were for exterminating Indians and were infected with viral pneumonia."
"Wow," Marty said. "I hope Kyle's ok. We almost lost you to that disease. I certainly hope nothing happens to him."
"As long as we get him back to the future in time, he'll be fine." Jules said.
"Jules," Jean said, with a very fake sweetness. "are you at all concerned that Kyle is sick?"
"He's gonna be fine," Jules said. "Why worry?"
"Because Kyle could die Jules," Marty said with anger in his voice. He then got up and had a strong limp as he walked. Jean walked to his side and helped him take a bottle out of his pocket and swallow a small pill dry.
"What's that?" Jules asked, very curious.
"What's what?" Jean asked as she helped her father sit down.
"That thing you just swallowed. Was it some kind of pill? What kind is it?"
Marty just let out a sigh and told Jules he'd tell him later. Jules now noticed that Marty had something on his leg underneath his pants. It looked like it was made up of wires and stuff. Jules didn't worry about it, though. He just wanted to concentrate about getting his family back.
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That night they summoned Kyle out of quarantine. When Marty saw him, his heart sank. In 36 hours, it looked like Kyle was getting pretty sick. He was coughing so much that it seemed like he was going to cough up a lung any minute. He also had a fever that was burning hot to the touch.
"He's not as sick as I thought he would be," Doc said. "Viral pneumonia moves pretty fast and it looks like he's in the start of it. However, we will need to move quickly. All of you need to wear these."
Doc handed everyone, except Jean, bandanas to wear over their mouth. They didn't want to spread the disease all around town. It wasn't the recommended thing to wear, but it was the only thing that Doc could get.
They walked through the town in the dark of night with the only light to go by being the moon. As soon as they left town, Doc lit the lantern he was carrying with him. They didn't light it before because they didn't want to attract attention.
Once they got to the cave where the Doc brought the DeLorean after it was fixed, they pulled it out into the open to give it plenty of room to lift off. Doc let Kyle sit down on a rock where the time travelers would pick him up after their mission was complete. It would only be a few minutes from the time they left, so they didn't worry.
Marty let Jean get in the driver's seat because he was still very groggy from the tranquilizer. Marty and Jean said a tearful goodbye to Kyle and got in the car in the spots they agreed on. Jules was in the back seat and Marty slipped into the seat next to Jean. When the gull-wing doors were closed, the group got a very eerie feeling from the absence of light coming from the sides of the car. They tried their best to adjust to it before leaving 1886.
"Now remember," Doc said. "I gave you some iron clubs to use in an emergency."
"We also have those tranquilizers," Jean said.
"Don't use them unless there's an extreme emergency," Doc said.
Jean nodded and began to turn the time circuits to the week before the revolt that made America into a hell-hole. She then turned the ignition. Jules talked Jean through using the hover feature as they rose into the air. The time machine then sped off and disappeared into another time with a weak "good luck" from Kyle following them.