Sorry about the wait guys. I left Saturday morning for school only to find out that my hall was the only one in the whole dorm with out internet, or telephone service.
Pretender Fanatic- 'Angelo no shit' is probably one of my favorite lines in this story. I couldn't resist putting it in.
Crazyrussiangal-Thanks for the review. The kids will eventually meet Parker. But it won't be for quite a while. In fact I'm thinking of making that scene be the last chapter.
LPJ- It does suck that they're splitting up the twins. But as you know it all turns out well in the end. I love your description of Angelo as to having the directors cut on the centre. I think it's the best description of Angelo I've heard in a long time.
CHAPTER 34
FEVER
June 1, 1998
6:29am
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
Will woke up to find Alley flush with a fever. "Alley. Al. Wake up," Will said gently shaking his sister in effort to wake her. They only response Will got form his sister was a moan. Will got up from bed ran to the cell door and began pounding on it.
"Dr. Raines! Mr. Lyle! Sam! Willie! Anybody! Help please Alley's sick and she won't wake up! Please somebody help!" Will begged his fist turning red from beating upon the metal door.
"Stop pounding on the God damn door," Will heard Lyle yell. Will immediately stopped and backed away from the door as Lyle pushed open the door. "I swear William if this is one of your tricks you won't be able to stand for two weeks." Lyle threatened.
"It's no trick Sir," Will said panic evident in his voice. Will lead Lyle to where Alley laid. Beads of perspiration stood out on her forehead. Lyle press the back of his hand to the girls head and quickly drew it back as though he had been burned. Lyle then lifted the girl from the cot and carried her to the infirmary, Will walking quickly behind Lyle.
"Mackenzie," Lyle yelled for Jen as he laid Alley down on the infirmary bed. "Get over here. One of the twins are sick." Jen hurried over a thermometer in hand. Will climbed up onto the bed and sat next to his sisters fever stricken body. He carefully brushed a stray hair from out of her eyes. Tears began to fill Will's eyes as he studied his sister.
There were large brown circles under her eyes. Her face was deathly pale save for her cheeks that were flushed and unhealthy shade of red. Alley's whole body was damp with sweat and she had begun to shiver as though she were cold.
Jen placed the thermometer in the unconscious girl's mouth. When it beeped she removed it. "Jesus," Jen gasped. The thermometer had read 107̊ F. "Will, Will," Jen called to the boy. But will was too caught up in his own worry to notice the doctor.
"William," Lyle said roughly grabbing the boy's chin "listen to the doctor," Lyle commanded and pointed Will's face in the direction of Jen.
"Will listen to me, do you know Beth?" Jen asked the boy. Will nodded his head. "Good find her. Tell her to go and run a lukewarm tub of water. Can you do that?" Will nodded his head again and then leapt off of the cot and ran in search of the nurse.
"What's wrong with the girl?" Lyle asked Jen.
"She has an extremely high fever most fevers seldomly reach 105̊. Her's is 107̊."
"I take that's bad," Lyle said.
"Very," Jen replied as she picked up Alley.
"I need to go and inform Raines." Lyle spoke and then left. Jen was glad the man gave her the creeps.
Jen carried Alley to one of the large bathrooms equipped with a tub. Will was there running a tub of water. Apparently the boy had given up on finding Beth and decided to fill the tub with water instead.
Jen stripped Alley of her clothing and placed the little girl in the tub. She then began to sponge the girl down in effort to bring down Alley's temperature.
"I-is she gonna be okay?" Will asked.
"I'm not sure Will," Jen replied truthfully.
"How come I'm not sick to Mac?" Will ask and Jen stared at the boy. 'Why isn't he sick?' Jen thought to herself. 'Will and Alley always get sick at the same time.'
"I-I don't know?" Jen managed to say.
Thirty minuted later Alley had been brought back in to the infirmary. She was dressed in a hospital johnnie and wrapped in a blanket. Will laid beside her watching over his sister. Alley's fever had finally broken but she had yet to wake.
"Will sweetheart, why don't you get some sleep too,"Jen suggested.
"No," Will said. "Not till she wakes."
"Then let me bandage your hands," Jen said. Will looked at her confused. Jen took his small hands into her own and for the first time since Alley had been carried into the infirmary did Will focus on any thing else other than the condition of his sister. Will's knuckles were raw and bleeding due to his furious pounding on the metal door for help.
"I didn't know they were that bad," Will whispered, shocked that he had not noticed the condition of his hands.
"You stay here I'll go get some gauze and hydrogen peroxide." Jen instructed.
"Kay," Will said still mesmerized by his injuries. It was the first time in his life he had ever been tended to by Jen or any of the other doctors due to an accidental wound. Will and Alley usually found themselves in the infirmary having been beaten by Lyle or sweepers.
"Will sweetheart I need to see your hands," Jen said drawing Will's hands closer to her. She cleaned them with warm water and then dried them. Once dry she took a cotton ball with hydrogen peroxide and dabbed gently and Will's bruised knuckles. Will hissed at the sting from the liquid in his cuts. Jen tossed the cotton balls and then wrapped Will's hands in gauze.
"Try and keep your hands dry okay?" Jen told him. Will nodded his head. "I'll be back in a bit to check on you and Alley. Do you need anything?" Will shook his head. "You're not hungry?"
"I'll eat when Alley wakes up," Will stated.
"It may be a while Will. Alley might not wake up until late tonight."
"I'll eat when Alley wakes up," Will repeated.
"Don't make yourself sick, William. I'll be back in a bit with some breakfast for you. I expect you to eat it all. Understood?" Jen asked sternly.
"Yes ma'am," Will answered. "Mac?" Will said as Jen walked away.
"Yes Will."
"You'll be here till Alley wakes up right?"
"I ave no intentions of going home for the night until Alley is awake," Jen confirmed.
"Good," Will said. Will then laid down next to his sister. Jen returned fifteen minutes later with a bowl of chicken noddle soup -a rare treat for Will- to find Will asleep beside his sister. She covered the two with a blanket and returned to bowl of soup to the kitchen. There would be soup waiting for the twins when they awoke.
June 1, 1998
3:15pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
Alley finally awoke a little after three. "W-Will," The first word out of her mouth. Will sat up and looked at his sister.
"Hey how ya feeling?"
"'M cold," Alley replied her teeth chattering.
"I'll go get you a blanket," Will said and hoped of the cot and grabbed Alley another blanket from under the bed. He wrapped Alley in the blanket, kissed her cheek and then went in search of Jen to alert the doctor that Alley had awaken.
Will returned with Jen a few moments later. "Ah she awakens," Jen said a forced smile on her face.
"Give it to me straight Doc am I dying," Alley joked. Will smiled at his sister. Alley always tried to make the best of a bad situation.
"I doubt you are dying. But you are sick," Jen told the girl.
"Duh," Alley replied and then began to cough. Jen helped Alley sit up. "This sucks," Alley grumbled.
"Mac what does Alley have?" Will asked.
"It could be the flu. It could be meningitis. It could be anything. So I'm going to put both of you in quarantine. And the both of you are going on antibiotics," Jen informed the twins.
"No," Alley stated firmly.
"Alyssa you are sick. This morning you were unconscious with a fever of 107̊ F. Your going on medicine." Jen told the girl.
"Do you know the literal meaning of antibiotic?" Alley asked the doctor. "It means anti life. If I have a bacterial infection then fine dope me up as much as you want. But if I have a viral infection anti-biotics aren't going to do a thing except make the bacteria in my body immune to antibiotics and kill off my blood cells, and I kinda need those," Alley replied.
"Where in the hell did you get all of that?" Jen asked.
"It's in a study Raines has me and Will working on. It's to be publish in a few medical journals next month." Alley answered.
"I liked you better when you were unconscious," Jen muttered. "Fine I'll check you out. But you are going on Aspirin to keep your fever down,"
"Fine," Alley replied.
"Mac how come your putting me in isolation too?" Will asked. "I'm not sick."
"Yes but, you're constantly around your sister. And usually when one of you falls ill so does the other. And look at it this way. No sims until your better."
"Every cloud has a silver lining," Will muttered.
"With in the week everything should be back to normal," Jen told the children.
"God willin' and the creek don't rise," Alley replied. Jen gave her a quizzical look.
"You two seriously need to stop hanging out with Sam and the other sweepers," Jen said.
"Aww that mean no more poker games on Tuesdays," Will moaned.
"I did not hear that. I did not hear that," Jen said unsure if the twins were joking or not. The doctor had the strange feeling that they weren't. "Come on lets get you two to your own privet room."
Alley slowly began to recover. Four days later Alley's temperature had cpmpleatly vanished, her face regained its normal coloring and Alley had also regained her strength and appetite that she had lost while ill. Unlike his sister Will never became ill. It was a mystery that plagued Jen, Will and, Alley.
June 15, 1998
8:14am
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
A week and a half after her recovery Alley landed back in the infirmary. Her fever was worse and she was suffering from delirium. Alley had collapsed during a sim she and Will had been performing. Will ran over to his sister and pressed the back of his palm to Alley's forehead. Alley's skin literally felt as though it were on fire.
"Don't Aiden! don't let them hurt her! Aiden don't let him brand her!" Alley screamed her eyes had rolled so far into the back of her head that the whites were showing. Tiny flames were evident on each of Alley's fingertips. With in second the flames had begun to spread along her arms. Will did the only thing possible. Using his telepathic abilities he knock Alley unconscious. The flames disappeared and Alley's body went limp.
"What happened?" Lyle asked.
"I-I don't know. I-it's l-like she lost con-control," Will managed to stutter. Lyle went to pick up Alley. "Don't!" Will yelled.
"Boy don't tell me what to do," Lyle warned Will.
"Mr. Lyle you don't understand she's feels as though she's on fire. It's like she's losing control of her abilities and they're, and they're..." Will faltered.
"And they're what William?" Lyle asked.
"And they're consuming her," Will whispered. Lyle cursed.
"Listen to me don't move. I'll be back," Lyle told the boy. Will had no intentions of leaving his sisters side.
Lyle returned a few moments later with a stretcher. "Has she cooled any?" Lyle asked Will.
"Yeah she's cooled down," Will answered. Lyle lifted the girl up and placed her on the stretcher. For the second time in as many weeks Will followed Lyle to the infirmary.
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