Disclaimer: I do not own Jimmy Neutron or any related characters.

A few hours later Jimmy still sat by Mike, whose name he had just recently learned. His only source of light was the fleeting sun and his campfire. Libby, Carl, and Sheen sat around Jimmy as he checked his wound.

"Guys, I don't mean to be rude, but, you're kind of in the way. Can you two go?" he asked Sheen and Carl as kindly as he could. They nodded their heads and went back to the others.

"Jimmy," Libby started to say, but Jimmy held up his hand.

"Hang on," he nervously said as he put his ear to Mike's mouth. He didn't hear any breathing. "Damn it!" he shouted as he leaned the Mike's head back and opened his chin. Jimmy pinched his nose shut and gave two rescue breaths. When that didn't work he gave fifteen chest compressions. When he didn't react, Jimmy gave two more rescue breaths and fifteen more chest compressions. "Don't you dare die on me, Mike!" he angrily shouted. After another few seconds of this Mike began to breathe on his own, but he was still unconscious.

Jimmy sighed and laid back. He wiped his lips and turned around to see Libby staring at him. "Wow," was all she could say.

"I'm not in the mood for jokes, ok?" Jimmy angrily told her. He thought she was going to rib him for 'kissing' Mike.

"Hey, give me some credit. All I was going to say was that was awesome," she told him.

Jimmy sighed. Why do I expect people to like me when I don't show them any trust? "Sorry."

They both sat in silence for a moment. "Look at him," Jimmy whispered to Libby. She looked at Mike. "It's been a whole week since the crash. He was in our grade back home. He risked his life to get us some food. And I just learned his name an hour ago," he sadly said.

Libby put her hand on Jimmy's shoulder. "You've got to stop carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. This wasn't your fault."

Jimmy shook his head. "I was the one who said that we should all work together. There were only thirty-two other people on this island. How hard would it have been to have talked to them, ask them their name, talk about the pain we all felt after the crash? I never even got to know him. I'll probably never get the chance."

"Are you saying that he's going to...you know?" Libby nervously asked.

Jimmy nodded his head. "The clock's ticking. Cindy has to get here soon if we want the slightest chance of him surviving. And even if I can sew up the wound and fix his organs, he still lost a lot of blood."

They sat in silence for a few minutes. "Come here, Jimmy," she said as she gave him a hug.

Jimmy rested his head on her shoulders and let a few tears fall down his cheek. They stayed like this for a few moments. After a while Jimmy pulled away. "Thanks, Libby. You're a good friend," he said as he wiped his eyes.

"You need a break, Jimmy. I can watch him. Go get something to eat," she instructed him. Jimmy nodded his head and started walking to the main camp.

When he was about halfway there he saw that Nick was standing a few yards away from him. He was leaning against a tree, seemingly deep in thought. Jimmy walked over to him.

"Hey Nick," he quietly said.

Nick just stood there for a moment. "This, this wasn't supposed to happen," he quietly said.

"Nick, it's not your-," Jimmy started to say. But Nick just shook his head.

"Shut up, Neutron. You know it is. I thought I could handle this. I thought I could lead them. But look what happened. No water, we're almost out of food, people are getting hurt, and we missed our chance at rescue. How the hell do you do it?" he asked as he stared at Jimmy.

"Nick, I'm not the hero that everyone thinks I am. God, I start half of the messes that I clean up."

"But what about the other half?" Nick questioned.

Jimmy paused for a moment. "Well, I don't know. But I'm no saint."

"Seriously, Jimmy. How do you do it?"

Jimmy thought for a moment. "I guess you just have to just do what you think is right. Just, well, do what's best for them and not you."

"It's just, I never thought it would turn out like this. God, I just thought that we were, I don't know, invincible. I mean, we survived that crash. Did you remember that crash? It was the scariest thing I'd ever seen. But we survived, just like we did everything else. We're not supposed to die. We're just not," he solemnly told Jimmy.

Jimmy thought about this. I guess he's right. I always thought that we were invincible. If Mike dies here, then so can I. "Just don't give up, Nick. He's not dead yet," he said as he walked back to his patient.

"This doesn't change anything between us when we get back home," Nick reminded him.

"If we get back home," Jimmy corrected.