Part 8-
-January 6th-
Today was an easy training day. Everyone got paired with someone and once everyone went, the winners fight each other, this goes on until there is only one person left. After that, there is free time until a mission (if there is a mission) (no powers).
Jaime sat against the wall as the brightness of the lights and the tilting of the room made him nauseas.
{I told you to call in sick}
'And I told you 'no'' Jaime groggily thought back, blinking sluggishly.
{This is not safe Jaime Reyes}
'Neither is anything else we do, and yet we still do it'
{…. Touche}
"Blue Beetle and Wondergirl" Nightwing's voice was distant.
Jaime blinked and forced himself to his feet before going to the training mat.
"Begin"
Jaime allowed instinct to guide him after barely dodging a fist to the face. He dodged and threw some punches back. They parried around and it seemed like a dance... a very dizzying and blurry dance. Suddenly, Wondergirls' fist hit his chin and he was on the floor, staring at the ceiling.
Oh, Jaime amused, the floating black dots are a nice touch.
{Jaime Reyes, you are sick!}
That's not nice, I don't call you names head-voice, Jaime frowned at the rudeness of the voice.
{No}
Jaime smiled once more; the lights were finally darkening!
Suddenly, a blurry face was in his vision.
Oh! Jaime grinned, it's Ala De La Noche!
"Jaime? Are you alright?"
Jaime frowned, Ala De La Noche sounded weird, like he was under water.
{Jaime Reyes, you are burning up}
But, I'm not on fire, Jaime blinked, in fact, I'm freezing.
{You have Pyrexia}
Pyrexia, what a funny name.
Oh look, now Ala De La Noche was closer and placing his hand on my forehead!
"Jaime, you're burning up!" Ala De La Noche exclaimed before looking at something behind him, "Robin, get a med team"
Jaime shivered and rolled over to his side before curling up.
"Jaime, can you hear me?"
Jaime felt warmth on his back and arched into it, trying to seek more.
"Beetle?"
Jaime mumbled something too low for him to hear, but from the sudden shift from Ala De La Noche, Ala must have heard.
{Inserting sedative}
Jaime's blurry vision turned to a blissful darkness.
Nightwing watched the nurses scan Jaime through the window, worried about the younger. Wondering why he didn't take the day off if he was sick.
A nurse left the room and walked over to him.
"How is he?"
The nurse looked worried and that gave Nightwing a very bad feeling, "at first glance, the symptoms correlate with Influenza, but with further scanning we detected an unknown virus"
Nightwing felt dread go through him, "is there any way to treat it?"
"We've already given him antibiotics; we also sent his scans to the CDC to see if they can find anything to help; or if there were any other related cases"
Nightwing nodded.
Brenda and Paco heard about Jaime's illness when Nightwing called Bianca and told her. They wanted to see him but Nightwing explained that no one knows what kind of virus it was or what the incubation period was so the HQ was on lock-down; no one in, no one out.