Quarantine

I hear beeping as my eyes are fluttering and after they're open completely I see that I am in a hospital. I panic, I sit right up and get out of bed. I don't know where I am and I want to get out of here and find my friends, I need to make sure that they are all okay. I quickly find my clothes draped over a chair, I bend over to pick them up, "Wow, didn't know someone could look good in a hospital gown," I hear a familiar voice. I turn my head and Johnny is smirking at me as he shuts the door behind him, I notice my gown is open in the back, I quickly cover myself...luckily I'm wearing underwear!

"Johnny, have you ever heard of knocking?" I quickly spoke, "...Your okay." I just realize and couldn't help blurt out my relief.

"Yeah...Sorry, I overheard the nurse say that your vitals were shooting up so I figured that meant you were finally waking up, I didn't expect you to already be changing." He tells me.

"Where are we?"

"Victor's medical facility. They want us all to stay here and be under quarantine for a few days, you know to make sure we didn't catch anything up there."

"What happened?"

"I don't really know. The last I remember was that cloud coming towards us and waking up here." He reflects.

"Where's Sue? Is she okay? Ben and Reed?"

"Everyone's okay, Sue woke up yesterday, Reed, Ben and me woke up 2 days ago. You were the last one to wake up." He reassures me.

I sit on the bed trying to go over where I went wrong with the cloud, "I don't know where I went wrong...I'm never wrong. My calculations..."

Johnny sits next to me, "Via, it wasn't your fault. It was freak accident."

"Yeah but I was sent up there to make sure accidents didn't happen." I respond, "And I put everyone in danger."

"No you didn't." He confidently replies, "Reed didn't find it either, sometimes things can't be explained." He rubs my shoulder.

It's quiet for a few minutes as I just stare at him as he gives me the sweetest reassuring smile, that is until I feel his thumb rub my shoulder, I look at his hand as I can feel his fingers on my bare skin and our moment turns to being awkward again, he once again retracts his hand away. Every time we physically touch we both get nervous and I can tell we both want to say what's on our minds and I thought at first he was going to but instead he says, "I wasn't lying before, you do look good in that hospital gown." I sigh and just roll my eyes at him.

"You need to get out so I can change."

"Or you can just stay wearing this." He smiles, "Or better yet I could help you."

"Will you just get out of here." I tell him with a pointed finger to the door, "I want to check on Sue and also I'm starving, I need to find food."

"Alright alright, I'm going...just crush a guy, why don't you." He winks as I can't help but give him a little grin.

As he's walking backwards out of my room I just notice how amazing he looks! God, how many people can pull off just wearing a wife beater and sweatpants? His shoulders and arms are massive!

"Oh and the cafeteria is down the hall." He informs me.

"Thanks." I smile.

As he turns to leave the room I subtly check out his ass, damn! After I leave my room I'm headed to Sue's to check on her but while I'm opening the door Reed comes out. He quickly smiles at me.

"Olivia, your finally away."

"Yeah...about 20 minutes ago."

"We were getting kind of worried about you...especially Johnny." He told me.

"...He was?" I respond with the slightly grin.

"Yeah he would just sit in you room for the longest time and constantly check on you." He informs me, "You're checking on Sue?"

" Huh?...Oh yeah." I lost my train of thought there for a second.

"She's sleeping."

"Oh okay, I'll come back then."

I go to the cafeteria and find something to eat, giving Sue time to rest before I go see her. I can't stop thinking about what Reed said, about how worried Johnny was about me, I just can't stop smiling inside.

"Can I join you?" A voice speaks out, it's Ben.

"Of course." I grin at him, he sits across from me.

"How are you doing Kiddo?" He asked me.

"I'm fine...how are you? The last thing I remember is seeing you still out there."

"Oh don't worry about me, I'm fine." He smiles to reassure me, "And don't you dare apologize, I already had to reassure Reed it wasn't his fault I don't want to have to say the same thing to you."

"I just wish I knew why we were wrong..." I softly said.

"Well, it's over now and everything will go back to normal." He replied, he was silent for a few more seconds, "but now I need to figure out how to get Reed and Sue back together." He tells me.

"Oh you are really trying to do that, aren't you?" I roll my eyes just a little bit.

"Yes, I know he still loves her and he regrets leaving every day...I just need to figure out how to get him to see it."

"It's all about numbers and calculations with Reed...that's how he lives...I mean I am all about that too but not with life...not with relationships..." I told him.

"He'll see it...I know." Ben says confidently.

"I hope so, well I'm going to see how Sue's doing." I tell him.

I go back to Sue's room and quietly knock, just in case she was still sleeping but luckily she wasn't.

"Come in." I hear her say, she sees me and smile. "Oh Via, your finally awake."

"Yeah, I woke up about an hour ago. I came to check on you but you were sleeping. How are you?" I said.

"I'm fine...still a little tired." She answers. "Via, we NEED to talk about something...something that happened before the cloud hit..."

Suddenly what happened before Reed interrupted us comes flashing back to me and I begin to internally panic, thinking that perhaps she saw me just mere inches away from kissing her brother. How could I have been so stupid? "Okay Sue...listen..." I start to explain but Sue cuts me off.

"Victor proposed..."

"What?" I shocking let out.

"Yeah, on the space station...just right before we got the warning about the cloud coming." She sits on the bed.

"What did you say?" I ask her as I sit across from her on the bed.

"I told him...I had to think about it."

"What are you going to do? What are you going to tell him?"

"I don't know...I mean...Victor is very good for me, he's stable, we're a good team, he respects my work, he wants to take the next step...but..." She can't really find the right words to finish her sentence.

"You still love Reed." I tell her, she didn't answer yes but I can tell she does, "I thought you were over him."

"I thought I was...but then he'll do something like remember I'm allergic to roses...something that Victor didn't even know." She softly confesses, "What should I do, Via?"

"You really want my advise?" Sue just confidently nods her head yes, "Okay...if you have feelings for someone else and you question saying yes to Victor...then something is not right and it's not fair to him or you until you truly know what you want." I say very bluntly, when it comes to her or any of my friends I tell it like it is, even if it's harsh or what they don't want to hear at the moment, "I guess for me...if I'm going to be proposed to and I don't immediately say yes without second thought...then something is wrong."

"...You do have a point." She could only say, I nod.

"And Sue...all the qualities he listed for Victor...you didn't say love." Sue was pretty shocked when I mentioned that, realizing for herself that she didn't, "If your going to get married, make sure its for love...all the other stuff doesn't matter.

"...I guess I have to figure out what I want." She speaks after a few seconds of silence, I just nod my head in agreement, "Thanks for being blunt with me." We hug, I have no doubt she'll do what's best for herself. The conversation I had with Ben comes back to my mind and in someway I hope his little plan works, I just want her to be happy and I do believe that happiness she wants is with Reed, not Victor.

After talking with Sue it made me realize that I'm being a hypocrite, I need to tell Johnny how I have been feeling, we need to stop being awkward with each other, I have to put what happened in the past behind us. I walk into his room and as I do I see he is putting on snow pants.

"Jon...hey, where do you think your going?" I quickly ask putting my hands on my hips.

"Well if you haven't noticed the sickness slopes are right outside."

"Yeah, I've notice." I bitterly say, "Johnny, you heard the doctor, you can't just leave, there are protocols."

"Oh come on Via, you know me, I've never done good with rules."

"What if your contagious?" I point out.

"I highly doubt that, if we were they would have found something by now. I have to get out of here before I start going crazy." He explains, "Why don't you come with me?"

"...No, that's probably not a good idea." I quickly answer.

"Why not? When was the last time you had fun?"

"That's not the point."

"Of course it is! Let's get out of here and have some fun!"

"...I...I don't even have any snow gear," I come up with an excuse, I can't actually say no to him for some reason.

"Not a problem, I will take care of that." He confidently answers, "Got any other excuses?"

"...Fine...but only for a little bit." I tell him with a pointed finger.

"Awesome, I will be back with your snow gear." He smiles as he starts to walk off.

"Wait, you don't even know my size."

"...Trust me, I know..." He gives a very cocky grin and wink.

After he leaves the room I grab one of the pillows on his bed and squeal into it, I can't believe I said yes to him! Why did I agree to go skiing alone with him? Well now it definitely wasn't the time to have the conversation I was going to have...but let's face it though I don't think I will ever get the nerve to actually talk about it. Okay Olivia take a deep breath and just act normal and do not think this is a date!


Oh boy she's going to go with him up the mountain! What do you guys think Sue will do when she finds out about Johnny and Olivia? Will she be supportive or not like it?