Note: Sorry, so late.

Clarice squinted her eyes against the dust and in hopes she couldn't see the bottom. If she could just tell them. She opened her eyes, she could. Clarice wanted to squeal with delight at her plan. She concentrated on contacting Earth, Anna, no Jeremie, Anna's dead, but Eva…

Clarice decided on Eva and Jeremie, Eva could take down Xana while Jeremie found a cure, or the hospital people could… if only they knew all she did, they could though. Clarice sighed, downloading herself to his computer would save her and allow her to communicate to him, but possibly fry all his systems. Unless…

She was ready to hug herself, she like Xana and Aelita could control some factors of the real world and last she checked, lots of out of service computers existed… and plenty should be at a hospital.

The sun streamed through the windows onto Jeremie's face, he sat upright in his chair, fingers still on his laptop and chin resting on his chest. Yumi was curled up in her bed while Aelita lay with her head off her mattress on the floor. Odd was curled up in the seat of his chair, blanket over himself. Ulrich was smart, but followed Kat's idea, he slept on two chairs pushed near each other with each end of a mattress on a chair, he looked comfortable. At one time Kat would have been sleeping over by the window, but now she took to staying up at all hours doing her best to help. Galadriel wasn't on shift so she stood at the door.

She looked over the kids and realized the impact this would have on them for the rest of their lives, good they're not with anyone with the disease, but they could be at any second. Any one of them could have it in a later stage, the doctors might not realize what it was, but what was it? Galadriel didn't like not knowing what was going on, especially when it came to children. Kat was still in here, wide awake, staring out the window, eyes not focusing.

Galadriel quickly looked away, something about Kat's eyes, they looked normal, but once you know what happened, you realize her eyes never focus. She looked over at the boy, Jeremie, a little blonde, reminded her of her son, her son she rarely saw. The computer in his lap was slipping; Galadriel walked over and put it on the bedside table, and turned to make sure Kat wouldn't throw herself out the window. The attempted suicide at this place was going up, everyone blaming themselves for the virus.

She blinked out spots as the computer 'dee-donged' to inform the room of email. Jeremie woke from his partial sleep to check his email; he seemed surprised at the sender. Kat was over next to him looking over his shoulder before he could speak.

"Aelita," Jeremie got out of his chair and sat next to Aelita.

Aelita looked up at Jeremie, still partially asleep, "What?"

"Clarice."

Aelita blinked and then sat up.

Jeremie moved to wake the rest, he started with Odd. "Odd, get up."

Odd turned his head and murmured, "Five more minutes."

"Odd get up."

"But I don't want to get up."

"Odd, wake up!"

"Mo-ther."

"Odd, I am not your mom, now get up!"

"I don't want a cat."

"A cat? Odd, get up!"

"Bite me."

"I will if you don't get up!" Jeremie paused and finally got sick of it, "Everyone get up!" he hollered.

Yumi sat up as if her pillow was on fire and Odd fell out of his chair. Kat, Galadriel and Aelita were already up, so they just covered their ears. Ulrich rolled over.

Jeremie wanted to strangle him. He walked over and pulled out one of Ulrich's ear plugs and tried again, "Get up!" Ulrich sat up and glared at Jeremie.

"What do you want?"

"I just got an email from Clarice."

Galadriel thought all this was a bit unusual, kid gets and email and he wakes up the entire hospital. She shook her head at this folly.

Once everyone had gathered around Jeremie's laptop he opened the email.

Odd read it, "Jeremie, Hi, it's err… me! Clarice! Yeah, you thought that I err… I bet there's someone in the room who doesn't know." Odd stopped reading and the group turned to Galadriel.

She put up her hands in surrender, "Okay, privet, I get it, I'll go next door." Galadriel left.

Odd continued, "Okay well I didn't fall to the bottom of the void, Xana saved me, but then he threw me down another void and so I downloaded myself to a computer, this closet sure is stuffy."

"What on Earth?" Yumi asked.

Aelita shrugged and opened the door to the storage closet. Her eyes widened and she blinked in surprise, "Jeremie, there's a lot of computer equipment in here!"

Jeremie nodded. He stood up and fell backwards onto the floor with a flop, his body going limp and his eyes slowly closing. Aelita ran to catch him before he hit the ground, but he did. He fell right into unconsciousness.

Galadriel came running in, "I told you no pillow fights!" She saw Jeremie and gasped.

Note: So, what do you folks say? Did you see it coming? I'm talking about the pillow fight comment.