Vaughn groaned, feeling slightly ill. Opening his eyes, he looked up to see Corrine, Z, Marshall and Lucas staring down at him.

"Guys?" he mumbled.

Z looked at him, worry showing in his eyes. "Vaughn, are you alright?"

Vaughn pushed himself up on the pillows, and looked around the concerned group. "I feel… Fine. I feel really good." His gaze moved over to the opposite side of the room, where Josie lay still on her bed. "How is she?" he asked hurriedly.

Lucas moved away from the bed, towards the wall, he couldn't look at Vaughn.

Z sighed, and rubbed his face. "She's getting worse Vaughn, and we don't know what to do."

"What are saying?"

"We think… We think she's dying Vaughn," Lucas replied coldly. "She's dying, and there's not a thing we can do to stop it from happening."

"No!" Vaughn cried out in frustration. "She can't be dying. I was just talking to her, we were talking, and I felt sick, and then someone grabbed her… No!"

"What are you talking about Vaughn?" Marshall asked. "You've been lying here out cold, just like Josie has for the past hour or so."

Vaughn scratched the back of his head and swung his legs of the side of the bed. "No… Josie and I, we were in Pearadyne… We were in the future. We saw how things are going to work out. It's weird, but I know it's going to happen that way."

He stood up and walked over to Josie's bed. Sitting down, he picked up her hand and turned to the others.

"Vaughn, can you please explain what you saw?" Z asked. "Maybe we can find some way to help Josie with any information you can give us."

Vaughn nodded. "Okay, when I came to I was in a room, and Josie walked in. She said she'd been wandering around for ages, but there was no sign of life. We started exploring; we were in a long, stark white hallway. We eventually saw people; they were working on some kind of experiment, something to do with us, the school, and the worm hole. We continued exploring when I heard voices, so I pulled Josie into a room to hide."

He paused for a moment, to recollect what had happened to them. The others waited with growing impatience.

"My dad walked into the room, telling two people to hurry up. It was Josie and I… We were older, about 25? And Josie said something about how we ran the place, and how dad couldn't boss us around anymore… And then we complained about being pulled away from our… Honeymoon."

He glanced up at Lucas, who stoically looked away, refusing to meet Vaughn's gaze.

"That's when I pulled Josie from the room. Not too long after I felt sick again. Josie has no memory of what happened today, she has no idea she's sick, she couldn't remember. I don't know why. But somebody grabbed her from behind, just as I came back. And she's in trouble back there. Deep trouble. But obviously it's all going to work out, because I know what I saw was true."

Z had started to pace, while Vaughn had been telling his story. Theories flew through the professor's head.

"Obviously, somehow, in your sickened state, you slipped through time. Now what you saw may or may not come true Vaughn. You have to remember that there a multiple dimensions and timelines out there. You could have been in any one of them… Or you could be right. We could save Josie somehow, and that's way things may work out. I don't know. But I still wouldn't trust it Vaughn. Just because you know something, doesn't mean it'll work out that way. I'm sorry, but we're still going to have to find some way of saving Josie."

He turned to Corrine. "Now you've been researching on the internet Corrine, I know you've found a lot of information. What can you tell us?"

"Many illness's came up with the same symptoms, Professor… Food Poisoning, but that doesn't explain us not getting it, certain types of cancer, but there would have been symptoms much earlier. Viruses, poisoning, biological weapons… Even the flu. They're all common symptoms. Some lead to death, some don't. There's not a whole lot I can tell you, I'm sorry."

Corrine looked really downhearted. "There was just nothing that could explain. Every illness was dependent on something else, which couldn't be in Josie's case, or there were other symptoms, symptoms that neither Vaughn nor Josie have displayed."

"So basically, what you're telling us is, you have no idea what it is or how it can be treated. And now all we can do is sit and wait, right?" Lucas asked, his voice not betraying the pain he was feeling inside.

Corrine nodded. "Pretty much. I'm so sorry guys!"

She turned and ran from the room in tears. Marshall shrugged apologetically, and ran after her.

"And then there were 3," Lucas said sarcastically.

"Not helping, Lucas," Z replied.

Vaughn sighed and turned back to Josie. "Um… Professor… I don't think Josie's breathing you guys!"

Z and Lucas rushed to the bed. Z bent down with one ear to listen for any signs of breathing, before checking her pulse with two fingers

"She's not breathing. She's got a pulse, it's really weak though. We're going to have to do CPR."

Both Lucas and Vaughn eyed each other up, and then shrugged.

"Sorry Professor. Don't know how to."

"Neither."

Both boys dropped their head in shame, feeling so bad that that they were unable to help their friend.

Z pushed both the boys out of the way, and dragged Josie to the floor, where he started to clear her airway, and began CPR, as Lucas ran from the room.