Being Warren Peace
A/N: Hey all thanks for the fabulous reviews! I hope to respond to some of them soon when I have the time; I really want to respond to them!
Anyway here is chapter 2, please let me know if you read any errors so I can correct them later OK?
Peace out.
Cell
Chapter 2
"The Virus"
Two months ago, Warren's father went to Comet prison for villains with super powers, his father would have been sent to a standard jail if he had not been seen in his regular clothes using his super powers by a security guard.
If he had used a disguise the command center wouldn't have been so harsh on him but his mistake cost him two years of his life, the max of three years was reduced to two due to a sympathetic jury.
Although Baron stole the money for a noble cause it was still wrong and he still had to pay for it. Even worse his wife Regina and his son had to pay for it as well; it became hard for Regina to go to the Center. Many at the command center gossiped about her behind her back.
As for his son, Warren, his illness had not improved, in fact it had gotten worse; sometimes in the night Warren would wake up and vomit for ten minutes straight, he would also run fevers and often have head aches, back pains, and could barely walk half the time and no matter what antibiotic the doctors gave him it would come back, even the medicine that Meteor or the Center would give him, it didn't help.
What made things worse was that his mother Regina didn't have a job, they had to sell their home and move in with his grandmother Peace, the medical bills piled up so high that even his Grandma Peace couldn't afford it, so now his mother had to resort to Asteroid medical centre, it was a hospital kept top secret by super heroes, it was only used to save lives of clients, sometimes to treat a super heroes own child.
But if Meteor medical section wouldn't take in Warren, what made Regina think Asteroid would treat him?
"Its all going to be just fine Warren" Regina said to her son as she sat in the shuttle, she had a suitcase full of his clothes to her right and his paperwork on her left. Warren stared at her from across the ship he jumped up and down on his seat he didn't quite know what he was on but it was comfy, and the seat he was jumping on was cushy.
"Mommy, what's this?" Warren pointed at the ceiling, His mother smiled.
"The ceiling honey"
"No, mommy this" Warren pointed at the ceiling again, Regina raised an eyebrow then laughed when she realized what Warren was talking about.
"This is a space shuttle Warren" Regina explained "You see a long time ago space shuttles were built to visit outer space"
"Why?" Warren asked puzzled.
"Because, Mankind wanted to explore the moon" she smiled "We still have them to this day, and we super heroes have our own kind secretly though to visit our secret outer facilities like Asteroid and Meteor "
"And Comet! Where dad is?" Warren said excitedly, Regina's smile suddenly faded, Warren really did love his father, and how was it Regina's job to tell him what Comets sole purpose was, especially when his father was serving time there.
"Yes, and their too" was all she said.
Three hours later the shuttle arrived at Asteroid medical centre, to Regina's relief the centre took in Warren with loving arms, they gave her paper work to fill out, which she did gladly. And they immediately checked little Warren into a room for adolescents and began the tests right away.
Regina sat down with a doctor and explained to him that she did not have money and had been turned away by Meteor , the same facility that had hired her to save the world countless of times for treatment and that Warren had just gotten worse every time they turned him away.
The doctor reassured her that whatever was wrong with him they would surely find it here and now and they would not be charged for it because Regina had saved the doctors brother, Armor man from a fire when he couldn't escape it.
Regina then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you doctor, please take care of my little boy" Regina pleaded "I don't know what I would do if I lost him"
"I understand" The doctor smiled at her "I don't know what I would do if lost my son either" Regina returned his smile.
'Baron, he's going to be okay' Regina thought happily but this happy thought would not last long, and Regina realized this when she saw one of the nurses race down the hall towards them with a look of dread.
"Doctor!" She said to the doctor she sounded scared "The child's illness its at the last stage!"
"What do you mean?" the doctor asked the nurse with a confuse look on his face, Regina looked horrified.
"This child is carrying the same illness as Carrie-Ann Warnock" the nurse whispered to the doctor, the doctor suddenly looked like he had choked on a piece of food, the nurse and the doctor began to hurry down the hall to where Warren was being tested completely ignoring Regina and leaving her behind.
"Wait doctor!" Regina called out after them but to no avail, the doctor and the nurse had gone, Regina just shook her head in disbelief and ran after them.
When staff tried to wane her down she just told them to stuff it that her boy needed her and that she didn't have time for it, she had completely lost her lady like quality at this point, almost as if Baron had taken over her to get to Warren.
When Regina finally did get to the room nurses were running in and out of it, which confused Regina, what was going on? Why didn't anyone come to her and tell her anything? Why were they leaving her out in the dark?
"Warren!" Regina cried out for her son and tried to enter the room but was pushed out by the nurses, one even held her back "Warren! Let me go my son is in there!"
"I'm sorry Mrs. Peace but we cant let you do that" the nurse who held her back said, Regina looked at her angrily.
"Why can't I see my own son?" Regina shrieked, she did not normally act like this but when it came to her baby boy she turned into her husband Baron when he was angry, only worse because she gave birth to Warren "You better give me a good explanation why"
"Because if he's exposed to anymore un-cleansed cells it could prove fatal to him!" The nurse snapped at Regina's and her heart literally sank to her knees at the sound of the word fatal, it seemed to echo in her head, as the nurse went on about how she needed to be sprayed with anti-vira, an anti-viral spray that went on uninfected body to enter the room and see her son or else her very presence could kill him.
Regina suddenly felt week, she felt tears stain her eyes, just like the night Baron had came home and had been arrested the next day.
"Mrs. Peace I'll have the doctor come talk with you in a minute but please until then stay out of the way of the staff and out of this room" the nurse calmly instructed Regina and left her in the hall to enter Warrens room.
A few hours later after the nurse left Regina to weep in the hall, which felt more like days to her, the doctor came out of the room; his eyes foretold a grim story and Regina knew it.
"Mrs. Peace" The doctor took a deep breath before he spoke, Regina studied his face, he looked like he was trying to find the right words to say, "Your son has developed the 0132 virus" he began "This disease, strikes when a human is most vulnerable as a child, and eats away at their white blood cells and any other antibodies that protect their immune system, and when at the worst stage, begins to eat the inside of the human body"
Regina's eyes widened in disbelief at the news that she was receiving, he couldn't be serious? Could he?
"Is there a cure for this virus?" Regina asked tearfully, the doctor looked at her sympathetically and then shook his head.
"I'm afraid not" the doctor answered "Because this virus is so rare, there is no known cure so late in this stage, if only Meteor had sent him to us directly at an earlier stage their might have been a chance of curing him"
"No…You cant give up on Warren, not now he's just a baby!" Regina took hold of the doctors shirt the doctor just calmly looked at her, not even trying to push her off him, he seemed to understand this reaction.
"I wish there was something more I could do Mrs. Peace, but all we can do now for Warren is to make him as comfortable as we possibly can" the doctor quietly said to Regina and gently removed her hands from his shirt "If you need to inform anyone about your son Margery Miller at the front desk can help you with that, and she can also spray you with anti-vira so you can see Warren"
"T-thank you doctor" Regina sniffed; the doctor bid her farewell and left her alone. Regina then went to the front desk to meet with Margery Miller; she had to send a message to her husband.