Normal pov
The two walked down the street farther, stopping at a small restaurant. Finally, around ten, the made it back to the dorms. Nicole was laughing, with her face buried in Jason's shoulder at they walked down the hall.
"I cant believe you did that Jas." she whispered. They were, once again, past curfew.
"You dared me." he defended.
"I didn't think you'd do it!"
"Nikki, when you said ' I dare you to reach into the fish bowl, take one of the rocks, and throw it across the room, it was to funny not to." He gave her a smile and she started cracking up again.
"did you see that guys face?" she stopped and leaned against the wall. Jason glanced down the hall.
"Nick, come on Kyle's gonna catch us." he pulled her into the dorm. Closing the door behind her, Nicole started cracking up.
"ah! I can't breath." Jason gave her a weak smile.
"are you ok?" she asked. Jason nodded. Nicole crossed the room and put a hand on his forehead.
"Jason you're burning up." she took out her cell phone and called Jeremy.
Factory
"hello? Nikki, Nikki slow down. How long has he had it? Ok, ok, get him to the infirmary. We're almost there with the programs." Jeremy sighed. Aelita looked up from her laptop.
"what's up with Nikki?" she asked.
"Jason's at stage 3, we have less time then we thought."
Infirmary
Nicole stood outside the Infirmary biting the inside of her lip. She had been standing there for the past 5 minutes, which seemed like hours. The door opened, and the nurse stepped out.
"we need to take him to the hospital right away," she said carefully. "his temperature keeps rising." Nicole blinked back tears. She knew what would happen next. She nodded quickly and tried to smile. Within five minutes an ambulance was at the school. Nicole stood numbly as they took Jason out of the room.
"can I come?" she asked one of the paramedics.
"I.." she looked at Nicole carefully.
"I don't see any harm." they got into the ambulance, and raced towards the hospital. Nicole sat uncomfortably staring at the floor. Jason reached out and grabbed her hand.
"don't worry, Jer and Aelita will get it." The paramedics looked confused but Nicole gave him a meek smile.
"I know." she whispered. When they reached the hospital, Jason was rushed back and Nicole was told to wait in the waiting room. She took out her cell phone and called Ulrich.
"dad?" she asked hoarsely.
"what's wrong Nikki?"
"I'm at the hospital with Jason." she shut her eyes tight.
"Ok. We're gonna go over to the factory to see what we can do to help."
"I'm gonna stay here with Jas. Has anyone told Dylan yet?"
"he's helping his parents."
"what about Sam? And Odd? Do they know what's going on?"
"they know, they're going to Lyoko. Aelita almost has the last scanner up."
"A doctor's coming. I'll call you with an update later, do the same for me ok?"
"alright Nick. Bye." Nicole hung up and then stood up.
"are you Nicole Stern?" he asked. She nodded.
"Your friend Jason Della Robbia told us you were out here. Do you know where his parents are? We'd like to contact his family."
"I just called them, they wont be able to get here till later. Is Jason ok?" she asked. Even though she knew the answer was no. Jason was dieing.
"he still has a very high fever but we've been able to bring in down 2 degrees with some medicines." Nicole bit the inside of her lip. Maybe the doctors could get rid of the virus. She shifted uncomfortably.
"can I go see him?" she asked.
"for a little while. We want to start running tests on him soon but we have to wait for the rest of the medicine to kick in. He's in room 105." Nicole nodded her thanks and walked through a set of glass automatic doors. 102. 103. 104. 105. Nicole opened the door to Jason's room and slipped inside. Jason opened his eyes and smiled.
"you've come to tell me that Jeremy and Aelita have found it and I can go home now." he laughed. Nicole shut her eyes.
"only kidding Nikki. What did the doctors say?" she walked over to the side of his bed and sat in a chair.
"that you're fever came down 2 degrees. And they're gonna turn you into a lab rat."
"more tests I take it." Nikki nodded.
"and your in a dress." she said. Jason growled at her. Nicole gave him a playful smile.
"funny Nick, real funny." he rolled his eyes. Nicole looked at all the monitors they had him hooked up to. All sorts of machines.
"come back to reality Nicole." Jason snapped his fingers.
"sorry. How do you feel?" she asked.
"Fine." he lied. But it made her feel better for the most part. A nurse came in and took Jason's temperature and recorded it on the chart hanging off the end of his bed.
Factory
Jeremy opened another window on the supercomputer.
"we have 45 minutes to a) get the anti-virus or b) get the tower deactivated." he said shutting the window. With the touch of a few buttons a count down started over the halo-map.
"I just have to run 2 more programs and the last scanners will be ready." Aelita said. Everyone was in their usual, or what had at one time been usual, spots. Odd was sitting on the latter that led up to the corridor, Sam on the floor next to the latter, Yumi and Ulrich were sitting on the edge of the thing that held the map and Jeremy was at the supercomputer. The only difference was Aelita wasn't sitting on the arm of Jeremy's chair. Instead she was on the floor next to him, typing away at her laptop.
Kadic Jr. High
There was a knock on the principals door.
"come in." a female voice said. Bryan walked through the door.
"Mom, they just raced Jason Della Robbia to the hospital." The woman at the desk looked up.
"really? That's terrible." she had a look of sympathy on her face. There was another knock on the door.
"Mrs. Delmas? There's a call for you." The principal smiled.
"thank you Nancy."
A/n there's part 3 up and running. oww what will happen next? not even I know! lol. R&R everyone.