Kara finally recovered after two weeks and she was using her recovery to the best of her ability; dancing!
She was dancing her heart out in her apartment and loving every minute of it feeling the bass vibrating against her skin, swinging her hips to the beat; she was in a trance. Sadly, it would end for she felt exhausted and plopped down on the couch switching her music to a more calming sound. She got up and grabbed an energy drink from the fridge and walked outside, the cool breeze caressing her hot skin. She sighed in content and looked at the sky letting her mind wander. "I wonder if I should keep fighting..." She thought a loud to no one but blinked in surprise and shook her head. "Of course, you do! This is your passion! But..." She looked down and sighed remembering the looks on the turtle's faces after facing The Fighter and leaned against the balcony. "Donnie.." She spoke his name softly before standing up straight and went back inside to go see him. She grabbed her zip up jacket and ran out the door leaving her taser and pepper spray in her sweater that was laying over the couch.
She parked her scooter outside the lair and ran inside just as Master Splinter and April were leaving. "Oh, hello Master Splinter. April." She bowed to him and waved happily at April making her wave back. "Where are you guys headed?"
"Oh, Master Splinter is taking me out to do some more training." April said with a smile.
"Yes, I am going to teach Miss O'Neil how to trust her instincts when her senses are in doubt."
She grinned and patted her best friend on the shoulder. "Heh, good luck with that. You're going to need it. Are the guys here?"
"No, they left on patrol in the van about an hour ago. They should be back soon." April informed her and she nodded. "Ok, I'm just going to wait here for them then. Have fun." She gave April a hug and bowed to Master Splinter before hopping over the admission bars listening to their footsteps as they left. She walked into Donnie's room and grabbed a book to read and turned on the radio she had bought for them before propping herself on the couch to read.
She was into the second chapter when she heard the Shellraiser stopping in front of the entrance and smiled, folding the corner to save her spot and set it down before sitting up. "Hey...guys." She blinks in surprise seeing Leo carrying a large jellybean in the lair. "Hey Kara." Leo said with a smile that looked unnatural and creepy to her. "Whatcha got there Leo?" She asked but before he could answer her walked into the garage.
She hopped over the couch and greeted the others. "Hey, is everything ok with Leo? What was that he was carrying?"
"It's a wasp egg. He brought it here for Donnie to analyze but I have a bad feeling about it." Raph said before following Leo and Mikey to the garage. She greets Donnie with a hug, he moving his arm around her shoulder, explaining what had happened while following Raph.
Kara had been watching Leo closely noticing he wasn't acting himself and tilted her head to the side blinking in surprise seeing a large bulb of a wasp sting on his arm. "Leo! You've been hurt. Here, let me take a look at that." She reached over to examine his arm but he pulled his arm away, his eyes never leaving the egg. "I'm fine." She gave him a stern look but shrugged and walked over to Mikey and Raph, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Fascinating." Donnie said with a scalpel in his hand as he leaned towards the egg.
"Stop! What are you doing?!" Leo shouted.
"Dissecting it."
She noticed Leo's hand twitching and began to worry about him but shook it off after he had refused her assistance.
"Absolutely not! This is the only egg we have. We need to learn how it develops."
"Well then..I'll uh just keep staring at it.." Donnie said while looking over Leo's shoulder at it.
"Good idea." Leo said, pointing over at Kara and his brother's. "From over there." Donnie took a wide step to the right and gave his brother a weak smile only for Leo to narrow his eyes at him making Donnie step back to where she and the others were.
"Well..I guess I will do..something in the other room. Kara, Raph, Mikey, care to join me?"
"Not unless you get more specific." Donnie ended up pulling Mikey away with Raph following behind. She continued to stare at Leo squinting her eyes in suspicion til she shook her head, following after the others into the kitchen.
"Ok, Leo is totally acting weird, right?" Donnie said looking at all three of them.
"Yeah, it's like he's obsessed with that egg!" Raph said placing his hands on the table.
"Let's ask Splinter what to do." Mikey said looking up at them.
"Sorry guys, he took April out for a training exercise. We're on our own on this one." She looked down in thought wondering on what to do.
"Look, we've gotta destroy that egg before it hatches" Raph said. She agreed with him but had a feeling Leo wasn't going to let it out of his sight.
"Agreed but he won't let us get anywhere near it."
"Maybe we let him come to us." She nodded to Mikey and smiled. "Alright, let's do this."
"Who wants pizza! Leo's favorite: Jellybean, anchovies, and jalapeno!" Mikey shouted, taking out a slice. Kara looked down at it in disgust, sticking her tongue out. "You guys actually like this?!" She hissed, keeping her voice down as the others grabbed a slice.
"Isn't that your favorite?" Donnie whispered.
"Just go with it." Mikey said while he opened the door trying to lure Leo out with its...'deliciousness'. Kara stayed out of sight wondering what reaction the guy who makes the pizzas would have with the strange toppings. "Ugh, that guy isn't getting paid enough..."
When she saw that failed it was Raph's turn at an idea. He turned on the TV where an episode of Space Heroes started. She sighed but sat down between Raph and Donnie. "Oh boy! That not at all stupid Space Heroes show is on." Raph shouted out loud while watching Captain Ryan get hypnotized by an alien disguised as a human and raised her brow at the episode. "Huh..maybe that's what happened to Le-Oh my god it's licking him all over his face!" She stared at the TV; her mouth open in disgust before looking over seeing the guys at the door. "Oh, you're missing a great one Leo!" She could hear Donnie shout before she switched the channel.
Mikey had one last idea and if this failed then things were going to get drastic. She watched him walk out of Leo's room carrying a comic book with its cover still on. "Hey, Mikey, where are you going with Leo's signed Space Heroes issue one that he keeps wrapped in plastic?" She heard Raph say and she cupped her face in shock. "His comic book?! Oh crap, they're over the edge! He worships that comic book!"
"Weell, we're out of toilet paper and I thought that the pages from this rare and valuable comic book would do the job nicely." She could practically sense him rubbing the comic book on his butt and she sighed, placing her hand to her forehead but blinked, seeing a blanket on the other side of the couch.
She got up and grabbed it, walking over to door and passing the guys. She sat beside Leo and looked at the egg. "You know eggs usually have nests to help keep them warm. The light is helping but it also protects them so I...brought this blanket to make it more comfortable." She leaned over to touch the egg but let out a noise when he suddenly grabbed her arm, making her stop and look at him. She stared at him in surprise taking note that his eyes were dilated and twitchy, his arm was shaking yet his grip on her was tight making her flinch. She squinted her eyes seeing something on the side of his mouth but couldn't tell what it was. "Ok, ok, I'm not going to hurt it, ok? You can pick it up and I'll just lay the blanket down, alright?" She gave him a weak smile til he let go and picked it up with the utmost care and she made it a little nest before getting up to hugged Donnie, for once, feeling scared of Leo and looked down at her arm seeing it had turned purple from his grip. "Wow..he's farther gone than I thought." Donnie whispered to them.
Raph glanced down, seeing her arm and looked towards Leo, his eyes showing anger. "Alright, that tears it. I'm destroying the egg tonight, myself." Donnie rubbed her back reassuringly and lead her to his lab, seeing the bruise and patched her up while the others went their separate ways.
She decided to stay the night wanting to make sure Leo would be alright but didn't want to sleep in the living room by herself with him not that far from her. She pictured the image of him grabbing her arm and shuddered before walking to Donnie's room, knocking on his door. She had left some clothes at the lair in case she ever stayed over and was already changed in her night clothes.
Hearing him say, "Come in", she slowly opened the door to see him putting his bo staff away and taking his mask off. She blinked in surprise when he turned to her and smiled, blushing when the thought that he looked naked without the mask came to mind but smiled back noticing his eyes stood out more without it, which she didn't mind that.
"Hey Kara, everything ok?" She nodded but then looked down, feeling shy all of a sudden, her eyes darting everywhere but at him as her cheeks flushed darker. "Yeah, it's just that..I'm a little nervous sleeping by myself tonight. After seeing Leo acting the way he was I..thought I could...sleepwithyoutonight..." She mumbled the last part while playing with her long, baggy sleeves of her one size too big night shirt.
"Uh..could you repeat that?" He asked curiously not hearing the last part she had said. She breathed in deeply and let out a slow sigh before looking him straight in the eye, her face feeling like it was on fire with his eyes staring back at her. "Could I...sleep with you tonight?"
It was his turn to blush but she could literally see his face on fire with her request. He began to stutter and stammer his sentence and ended up going off trail at what he was trying to say, all she could hear was gibberish, and smiled at him knowing this was probably uncomfortable for him so she turned around placing her hand on the knob. "I-it's alright. I'll just sleep in the living-"
"Wait!"
She jumped at his shouting, turning back around and letting go of the doorknob. It was his turn to breath in and out before placing his hands on her shoulders and smiling softly at her. "O-of course you can." She smiled and walked further into his room and heard a small noise that sounded like excitement but when she turned around she only saw Donnie smiling at her. She smiled back and shrugged it off thinking she was just tired, yawning.
He laid down on his bed first and made room for her to lay down, both of them having to lay on their sides. "Uh..a-are you comfortable?" He asked softly trying his best not to have his body touching hers. "Hmm..not yet." She said before reaching over, grabbing his hand and laid it over her waist while scooting closer to him and smiled, closing her eyes. "Now I am." His body tensed up, feeling hers so close to his but began to relax before giving her a gentle squeeze and doing the same, falling asleep with her in his arms.
Kara woke up the next morning to Donnie gently shaking her telling her it's time to wake up. She groaned, burying her head deeper into the pillow and peeked over seeing he had climbed out of bed with ease, not having woken her up, and was putting his mask on. She stared at his back seeing him putting his bo staff in its holder before pulling the blanket over her head. "Nnngh..." She mumbled hugging the pillow close to her while trying to go back to sleep. He smiled and removed the blanket from her head kissing her cheek. A small smile crept on her face and she opened one eye looking up at him.
"Come on, it's time to wake up." She turned over on her back noticing the time said 7:45 making her eyes pop out. "7:45?! I don't even wake up that early for my tutor! Why so early?" She whined with a pout making him chuckle and pull her up to the sitting position, seeing her messy bed hair.
"You're lucky Master Splinter is still out with April. He'd have us wake up at 6:30 in the morning." She cupped her face, mouth open in horror. "Oh, you poor soul!" They stared at each other for a few seconds before they started laughing at each other; Kara grinning widely.
They walked out into the living room she saying good morning to Mikey while rubbing her eyes to get the sleepy crust out, yawning softly. "Woah, Dude.." Mikey said pointing at her hair. "What? I have bed hair, ok? So, sue me." She muttered still in her pj's and looked around noticing Raph wasn't with them. Luckily, she wasn't the only one who noticed.
"Hey, where's Raph?" "Donnie asked.
"He was going for the egg last night." Mikey said to him. Kara looked over at the garage entrance and walked over to it with Mikey and Donnie behind her. As she slowly opened the door she could see Raph standing beside Leo and gasped "Oh no.." She looked up as Donnie stood over her then back at the two older brothers "Oh boy."
She cringed as Leo unsheathed his katana's, the metal screaming as it slid against the metal sheath, feeling a chill run down her spine. Noticing Raph bringing his sais out she gulped knowing something strange was going on.
"Uh Raph, heh, uh whatcha up to there bro?" Donnie asked nervously.
"Something's definitely wrong." "My thoughts exactly, Mikey." "He's gone all Leo who's not Leo on us."
Donnie was observing Raph, squinting his eyes to get a closer look and noticed a bite mark on his arm. "Look at his arm.." She looked at it and gasped, her mind immediately going to the zombie movies Casey forced her to watch and started backing up. When they turned around she saw their eyes were completely black and were growling at them. "He got bit. Leo must of bit him!"
"Bros, snap out of it dudes!" Mikey shouted, Leo and Raph looked at them for a moment before snarling and jumping at them.
"It's the zombie apocalypse!" Kara shouts at the top of her lungs while fleeing for her life, Donnie and Mikey right behind her and closed the doors, Mikey using his nunchucks to secure the doors.
"Phew, that outta hold them." Kara agrees with Donnie and she slumps her shoulders in relief til he looks over at Mikey "Mikey! The garage door!" She watches Mikey run off to go close the door and waits but when he doesn't return immediately she goes off after him and sees the door was stuck. He pulls on it desperately grabbing Leo and Raph's attention and as they charge at him she grabs Mikey's legs and pulls with all her might forcing the door to go down and locking them in. She sighs in relief having fallen on her back still holding onto Mikey before getting up and meeting Donnie in the kitchen where he was sitting at his computer.
"Here it is. The parasitic Wasp infects a virus in animals that brainwashes them into protecting its eggs."
"You think that's the kind of wasp that stung Leo?" Mikey asked, he and Kara jumped hearing them banging on the doors and yelling.
"I'm afraid so.." Kara said, holding onto Mikey's arm, the zombie films rush through her mind and she squeaks, hiding her face in his arm. "Man, I hate scary movies. I hate scary movies..."
"A mutant version then Leo bit Raph and passed the virus onto him." Donnie says.
"So once the egg hatches will the guys go back to normal?"
"..Not quite. Look at what happens to the caterpillar guarding the egg." Donnie scrolled through the website showing the pictures of the caterpillar and wasp she covered her mouth, wanting to throw up. "It's eating him...It's eating him! AHHHH!"
Kara felt like fainting as the images go through her head at the wasps eating her friends but she shook her head putting her fighting face on. "We've got to help them!"
"What're we going to do?" Mikey asked, ducking under the table, trembling like a chihuahua.
"Well..I might be able to create an antibody but first I'll need a sample of the virus from the egg." Donnie began to explain his plan til the banging suddenly became louder causing all three to scream and grab hold of each other, Kara in between the two as they stared at the entrance seeing Leo and Raph slowly walk in.
"Oh no."
"Oh no! STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY! AHHHH!" Mikey and Kara shouted while she threw everything she possibly could at the infected brothers while screaming and running behind Mikey out of the kitchen to safety.
Leo jumped at Donnie and tried biting him but he struggled to hold him back. "We have to get to the egg! It could be the only cure!" She looked between Donnie and Mikey not knowing who to help. "Kara! Go get the egg!" She heard Donnie yell and noticing Mikey had kicked Raph into the pool and went to go help Donnie. She rushed into the garage and saw the egg just as they left it. "This should be easy enough." She said walking over to it. Just as she was about to touch it, though, she heard a low growl and tensed up.
Out of instinct, she reached down to her hip where she would have her taser and pepperspray but gasped remembering she was in her nightclothes still and groaned, hating herself right now. She watched a dripping Raph walk into view and when she got into a fighting stance he took his sais out, sensing the egg was in danger. "Oh boy.." He charged with a snarl ready to kill but she managed to dodge his deadly attacks. He went to strike at her head but faked it, kicking her across the room instead, luckily, she shielded herself with her arms. She got up slowly while groaning in pain, her oversized shirt falling a little past her shoulder, but she ignored it noticing they were gone. "Crap..he could be anywhere.." She cursed to herself and ran to the lab, seeing the doors were closed and went to open it but noticed it wouldn't budge.
Eventually, she got it open seeing they had started to nail it shut but didn't finish with Leo hanging on the ceiling, tied with Mikey's nunchuks, and saw Mikey staring at the lab equipment with a panicked look.
"Mikey where-"
"Watch out, Kara! Donnie's been bit-!" Before he could finish his sentence she felt a pair of arms, one wrapping around her waist and the other tilting her head to the side feeling teeth bite down onto her exposed neck. Her eyes widened, sweat sliding down the side of her face as she felt the teeth bite down harder each second they stood there, her body not responding to her screaming thoughts. She glanced up looking into Donnie's blackened eyes seeing nothing but darkness and knew that soon that would be her fate. She squeezed her eyes shut, letting her instincts take control over her and let out a scream slamming her elbow into his face, knocking him down. She grasped on to the bite mark seeing it wasn't like the others, hers was red and it had blue veins surrounding the mark, it slowly beginning to enlarge, the virus slowly making its way down her arm and up her neck. "M-Mikey.." Her voice shook as she looked to him and saw he had been bitten as well. Her eyes traveled to his face and she saw panic and terror written all over it but she closed her eyes to calm her heartbeat. "I..." She cleared her throat trying to keep her voice steady. "I know Donnie was able to create an antibody...did he show you?"
He nodded. "Yeah...gotta remember what Donnie said! Gotta remember...uh..feel...kinda...uggghh"
He fell to the floor and she ran over to him, kneeling beside his unconscious body. "No, come on buddy! Pull you...your..self..togeth-" She held her head, feeling her eyes starting to get heavy and slowly closed them, the world around her getting dark.
Holding the egg close to him, Raph saw his two brothers enter. "What about Michelangelo and Kara?" He said in a low voice.
"They are no longer a threat to the egg." Donnie said in a soft, ominous voice.
That's all Raph needed to hear as he jumped down from his hiding spot. Donnie and Leo walked up to the egg and turned around seeing Kara walking out of the lab, her hair covering her eyes and the virus clearly taken effect on her skin as it had reached up to her face visible at her cheek.
"Kara, I am so happy to see you. Glad you could join us." Donnie said with a purr as he reached his hand out to her.
"What about Michelangelo?" Leo said calmly as she walked closer, taking Donnie's hand.
"He still has some fight in him but do not worry, he will soon learn to embrace it..much like me." She said in a low, monotone voice like theirs, a smile creeping up on her face while lifting her head up to look at the egg. "It's beautiful."
"Michelangelo, you have come to join us." She heard Leo say.
"Yes, I finally understand what is so awesome about this egg." Mikey said, saliva dripping down the side of his mouth.
They could hear it begin to rattle, small chittering heard from inside. "Here it comes." Raph said as the three brothers dropped their weapons.
"It is glorious" Leo said he and his brothers closing their eyes, opening their arms wide to the hatchlings til they and Kara felt a small prick on their necks.
"What have you done?!" Raph snarled at Mikey while Kara walked over to him, moving her hair out of her face to show her right eye was completely blackened, the virus made its way to her face but her right eye was still it's purple color. She grinned widely, turning to Mikey who had blown air on the needly acting like it was a gun. "Pulled your bacon out the frying pan, bro!" "Yeah, boy!" Kara added in, high fiving/threeing Mikey.
"Donatello, you said Michelangelo was safe. You said you turned him." Raph said turning to Donatello. "I did."
"Did you really, Donnie? Did you?"
"Yes, he did." Kara said bluntly, looking at Mikey.
"You did, buut after you bit me I was totally wigging. I almost passed out like nineteen times bro but I stayed with it long enough to hurt my brain to remember everything you said."
Mikey slowly got up, Kara pushing and pulling him up, keeping him from falling to the ground. "Come on, don't give up on me now, think!"
"Nngh, it hurts" Mikey groaned as she helped him into the rolling chair and went to slap him but he rolled away and she ended up falling to the floor with an "oomph". She heard a crash and looked over seeing him on the ground not too far from her but saw him get up immediately with a smile. "Atta boy." She smiled as well and got up seeing him put something in the microwave and set it for ten minutes. While they were waiting she looked down feeling the virus flowing through her body it now reaching down to her elbow and the bottom of her neck. She shook it off but groaned. "I dunno how long I can last.." She mumbled til Mikey slapped her across the face. "Did you..did you just slap me?!
"Stay calm we gotta..stay-" She slapped him across the face and heard the microwave beep and take it out but regretted it as the glass was hot. She tensed up seeing him jumping in the air but sighed in relief when he caught it. She helped him stay steady seeing his arms trembling to where the virus was starting to take effect til Mikey poured it all in a vile and put it in the doohickey.
While they waited for it, about 2 minutes in, to finish she slapped him across the face to keep him focused and awake, giving him encouragement to fight it but stopped as he stared at her, pointing at her face. "Kara..your eye.." She looked down at the glass, seeing her reflection and gasped to see her left eye was completely black knowing it wouldn't be long til she was one of them. "...Looks like you'll have to finish this on your own, buddy..I believe in you." She gasped hearing her voice was starting to sound like the others but she smiled at him and covered her eyes with her hair before slapping his face again. "Don't give up." She said before walking towards the door not knowing that by the time she had reached the bottom of the steps that Mikey had finished the antibody and injected himself with it.
"You finished the antibody yourself?" Donnie said in disbelief, everybody cured and back to normal.
"And you were just pretending to be one of us?" Leo asked with just as much disbelief as Donnie.
"Yup!"
"But that's...smart." Raph pointed out.
"Yeah, it is! Just call me Doctor Einstein...instein."
"I knew you could do it!" Kara said with a wide smile on her face, her eye and skin returned to normal, wrapping her arms around him in a hug. Her eyelids started to droop, beginning to feel woozy, noticing the other three felt the same as her.
"Oh, I forgot to mention, it may cause drowsiness." As soon as Mikey had injected himself with the antibody his eyes were wide and swirly, a large trail of drool dangling on the side of his mouth before falling backwards.
Kara saw the other's fall and tried to chuckle only to fall backwards onto the stairs, her legs feeling like jelly pudding as the room began to spin around her. "Uuuugggh."
Mikey saw the egg beginning to hatch and looked at it in suspense seeing not just one, but four wasps. "What?! Four wasps! Guys, get up! Get up!" He shouted while pulling on Donnie's shell, who had fallen over with his butt in the air, then Raph's arms, who had fallen on his back with his knees propped up and then Leo. He climbed onto his stomach, shaking his shoulders violently. "Get up get up! Ahh!" A wasp had flown over to him and landed on Leo, the other three following suit with Raph, Donnie, and Kara but before it could eat them Mikey swung his skateboard at them. "No! Back off! Get away from them!" He shouted waving his skateboard around like a madman.
The wasps charged at him making him flee to the Shellraiser and closed the doors before they could get to him and they started stabbing their stingers at the doors. He stumbled to the front, trying to turn the Shellraiser on but it wouldn't start. "Come on, seriously?!" He glanced behind him seeing they had started forcing their way in.
"Hey, wasps!" Raph started, twirling his sais with his brothers beside him. "Come and get it." They started fighting off the wasps just as Kara was coming to. She sat up, her vision a little blurry but shook it off and saw the guys were fighting off the wasps but noticed they were outnumbered by one. She grabbed a metal pole from the garage and swung at the fourth one that had cornered Donnie, throwing it to the other one. "Kara! You're ok!"
"Now's not the time, Donnie! But I'm glad you're ok too." She said with a smile before they both dodged rolled the wasps stingers, now back to back with the brothers.
"Looks like we're going to be wasp food after all.." Leo said with them all surrounded by wasps as they slowly floated towards them.
"Wait, where's Mi-" Before she could finish her sentence, she heard a loud "BOOM!" and the wasp after Donnie exploded, showering Donnie with waspy goo. She looked over at the Shellraiser as three more balls of compressed garbage were fired and hit the wasps dead on, doing the same thing to Kara and the other two. She froze in place, feeling the goo of the wasps drip and slide off her body and looked over at the Shellraiser with her eyes hearing the familiar "Ding" and saw Mikey jump out from it with his usual grin on his face. "Saved your lives again, dudes! I am on a roll today!"
She stared at Mikey for a few more seconds before opening her mouth and letting out a scream causing the boys to jump as she runs to the bathroom to shower the stuff off.
Three hours later, everyone was showered and clean, took Kara two and half of those hours to shower making sure it was completely off, and were cleaning up the remains of the gooey wasps while Donnie repaired the Shellraiser doors.
"I can't believe Mikey actually came through." Leo said with surprised pride.
"I can't believe he fired the Shellraiser inside the lair." Raph muttered.
"I told you you should let me shoot it more often." Mikey said downing a whole slice of pizza and burped. "Pizza me." He said while holding his hand out. Donnie lifted up his goggles, looking down at his hand then back at him before putting them back on. "No, I'm not going to pizza you."
"I guess you're right. It's not like I did something incredibly brave and saved your life." He said while taking a sip of his soda.
Kara rolled her eyes but smiled picking up a slice of pizza and handing it to him. "I knew you could do it. Thanks, Mikey." She said with a smile and kissed him on the cheek causing everyone to stop what they're doing and blink in surprise. Mikey blinked but grinned widely, putting his arm around Kara's shoulders. "See! Finally, someone who appreciates my act of braveness." She giggled and removed his arm before pinching it making him yell then pout while holding his arm. "Don't get cocky there, mister. I've saved your life too, you know."
Leo smiles at Kara before turning to Mikey, serious Leo mode on. "You did save our lives but you also used my favorite comic book as toilet paper." He said looking down at Mikey angrily, blocking Mikey with his arm.
"Yeah.." Mikey said while ducking under his arm and scooting away. "But I only did it so you would chase me."
"Well, it worked!" Leo said chasing after him. "Wait, stop!"
"Mikey!"
Kara laughed, sitting beside Donnie and watching Leo raise a mop at Mikey, hearing Mikey yell about him being a hero. "Huh..so this is what it's like to have brothers." She smiled at the scene and sighed, missing her sister. Donnie looked over at her and placed his hand on her shoulder, giving her a small smile but when she looked at him he squeezed her shoulder remembering her infected look. She noticed the look in his eye and leaned close to him, kissing his lips. "It's ok...it's all over." He nodded, whispering to her. "Yeah...it's over." They touched foreheads together feeling the nightmare was over.