I am so freakin' sorry people!

I had no idea it was gonna take me this long to finish a chapter!

My bus driver took up my mp3 player, so I didn't have the right motivation at hand for this type of story. . .

Luckily, he gave it back to me early. Three damn weeks. . . -grrrrrrr-

So here ya'll go.

(please don't be mad. . .)

Ps.- sorry if I repeated some things from the last chapters. It has been about a month you know.

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Chapter 7:

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Jay cursed himself aloud. He had missed! But then again, he was a bit glad for such an excuse. Now he knew he wouldn't have to worry about Senel bleeding to death or getting an even worse infection from the shoulder.

Jay's head throbbed uncontrollably from his fever. His stomach was killing him and it was taking everything he had to stay awake.

He fell to the floor next to Senel, exhausted from his lack of sleep. His head hit the floor harder than Jay expected it to, causing it to ache ever worse.

Jay then began to throw into a coughing fit. He brought his hand to his mouth as he continued to rasp loudly without control. With every wheeze, his head hurt worse and his ribs jabbed at his nerves.

He pulled his hand away and was shocked to see it covered in his own blood.

Horror-struck, he whipped the blood onto his shorts and relaxed his weight against the cold floor. As hard as he tried to keep conscious the past hours, he felt as if he would die if he didn't let himself pass into sleep.

So he gave into his needs and his eyelids slowly closed.

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"Damn it all! It's locked!" Moses complained as he tugged on the door knob to the shed where Grune had told about Senel and Jay's location.

"There is no lock, Red! Teach said so yesterday!" replied Norma with a worried look on her face as Moses continued to fumble at the knob.

"How do we even know they're inside?" Chloe asked kneeling to the wall of the shed with her ear placed against it.
"We just call um'!" Moses knocked hard against the door and yelled out to the two boys who he wasn't a bit sure were inside.

Norma called out too, while Will, Chloe, Grune and Shirley waited patiently for them to stop.

"Maybe we should just try to get the door open to make sure their both inside." Shirley said shakily as she twiddled her fingers nervously at her chest.

"Oh! How clever of you Shirley! That is a good idea!" Grune chirped happily as usually sending everyone into their "WTF!?" state.

"Uh…how do we do that?" Chloe asked standing up. Moses slammed his fist against the door and walked a few feet away from the shed kicking at some dirt on the ground while Norma leaned up on the wall.

Will walked up to the door to inspect the knob, while everyone else watched him curiously. He didn't say anything for a few moments, so the others (mostly Shirley) jumped when he announced his theory.

"It looks like the tumblers are shifted."

Moses turned around with a funny look on his face. "Is that bad?" he asked.

"Not necessarily. It has happened before, thought." Will got back on his feet from his knees and turned to face the others.

"But can you get the door open?" asked Moses calmly.
"Yes. All I need is a screwdriver." answered Will nodding.

"I'll go get one!" Shirley turned quickly and rounded her way across the house and inside to get the tools they needed.
"Just don't get yourself locked in!" Norma yelled after her with a chuckle. Everyone else stared at her with an annoyed expression.

"What?" She asked confused.

It took about thirty minutes for Will to get the door knob fixed like he claimed he did about two years back. So the rest of the five waited nervously for him to finish up as time slowly passed by.

Norma had fallen asleep on a grassy area next to where Shirley sat, while Moses helped Will out. Grune was trying to build a sand castle in the same place she did the night before and Chloe simply watched the two boys work in front of her.

"There. Now it should be able to open." Will announced as he threw the screwdriver to his left and he and the other got to there feet. Though Chloe had to kick at Norma before she got up rubbing her eyes.

Everyone felt so relieved when Will turned the knob and the door opened as if it wasn't broken in the first place.

Nobody really saw Will as much of a handyman.

The door creaked open slowly and the group looked around the small room in hopes of seeing one or both of the boys.

Moses grunted annoyed when he spied the room empty. "Hmph! Looks like we went to all that for nothing'!" He continued to complain a bit more, but was broken up as Shirley gasped and ran past the group. Apparently seeing what the others didn't, she feel to her knees in the corner of the room next to the tow out cold bodies the six of them had been searching for since the day before.

"Senel! Jay! Wake up! Its us! Were here, we finally found you!" she screamed with tears in her eyes as she shook the two roughly.

Moses and Will pulled them both out of the shed. But as they tried to pull out Senel, Moses unknowingly grabbed Senels bad arm and pulled hard enough for Senel to let out a high scream even while out cold.

He quickly let go and held onto him by the side as gently as possible.

When they had gotten them outside the shed, everyone gathered around Senel and Jay to inspect the damage.

"Jay! HEY JAY! Wake up!" Moses shouted lightly to Jay while shaking his shoulder knowing he was only asleep.

Jay's eyes opened slowly revealing his purple eyes that lit up when he saw Moses. Even though he would rather have been woken by anyone else besides that dumb bandit, he was overjoyed to at least be outside and seeing a face that wasn't halfway dead.

"M…Moses?" Jay asked weakly shaking his still hurting head.
"Yeah, its me. The others are here, too. How ya felling?"

Jay pulled his hand weakly to his face and closed his eyes, moaning. "I've been better. God, my head hurts."

"At least he's fully conscious." Chloe said with her attention focused on both he and Senel.

Will kept his attention on Senel and questioning why he had screamed when Moses pulled at his arm. He pulled up Senel's shirt sleeve to reveal the blood soaked hankie still wrapped around his wrist from the day before. He carefully unwrapped it and gasped when he saw the contaminated wound. It was also bleeding again from where Moses had grabbed onto it to hard.

Moses turned around to see what made Will gasped, but nearly fell back when he saw the damage he had done.

"What happened!?" he asked out loud to no one directly. Will just shook his head while Norma and Shirley cast crystal eres on Senel's arm. Though there was no effect. Shirley then began to cry and fell on top of him, burying her face in his chest. After a few moments she stopped and sat with her hands on her knees, head bent down and sniffling.

Moses turned to Jay for an explanation. "Jay, what happened to him?!" he put a hand on Senel's forehead and pulled it quickly away when he felt how badly the heat exerted from his body.

"He's burnin' up!" Moses said, his voice cracking.

Jay grunted in pain, causing everyone to look his was in alert. "There. . .there was a monster, and it bit him. Senel. . .m-managed to pull it. . .off of me before I was bitten."

"So, Senny took the fall for you, huh JJ?" Norma questioned. Her cheery voice faded into concern and fear.

Jay nodded. "It was on top of me while. . .while I was asleep. When I woke up, he pulled it off and it b-bit him on his wrist. It inserted some kind of poison. . .it. . .into his blood. . ."

Jays talking began to slow down and became more forced, so Moses shushed him and shook his head, letting him know to stop talking and rest.

"He was poisoned. That explains why he's running a fever." Will said shaking Senel softly by the chest. Senel moaned and shifted his head to the side while Will withdrew his hand. "And why he wont wake up."

"We should get them both to the hospital. Quickly!" Chloe stated looking at the others. Moses nodded and helped Jay to his feet. Jay could barley stand on his own so Moses held his arm around his neck as Jay limped, groaning at every step he took.

Will hoisted Senel's still unconscious body up in his arms while Shirley made sure no harm came to his arm by holding it in her hands as they hurriedly made their way to the hospital.

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The hospital was deadly quiet. Not a single person spoke besides the people talking to the nurse at the counter while the group sat apprehensively in the lobby waiting for any news at all. Jay had been placed in a small room. Just one two sew and wrap up his injuries and give him something for the minor concussion he suffered.

Though Senel was sent into surgery almost the minute they brought him in.

"Oh, my goodness!" The nurse had exclaimed looking at the wound. "I'm surprised he's still alive and breathing! This infection is so deep we'll have to operate on it immediately!"

"Operate!?" Norma asked surprisingly as she stood next to the stretcher Will had laid him on as the nurse instructed when they first came in. "Is Senny really that bad off!?"
The nurse shook her head in a positive manner. "If what you say is true, if he was poisoned, then surgery is the only answer and the only way to penetrate the main source of the poison."
Chloe sighed and walked out into the weighting room where Grune sat. She had a bit of a concerned look on her face, most of it was withdrawn in her eyes, for she was smiling slightly.

"You look sad Chloe. What's wrong?"

Chloe didn't look up. She simply stared at her feet with her hands clenched on the arm rests of the chair in which she sat down in when she came in.

"Chloe?"
"Oh! Im sorry Grune. Im just thinking. . ." Chloe gasped blushing then returning her gaze to the floor.
"You're worried about Senel, aren't you?"
Chloe blushed again. "Of course I am. He's going to go into surgery. I mean, Coolidge can't even handle needles. This is basically falling on a cactus compared to that."

(A/U: heh. heh. Chloe humor.)

Chloe smiled a bit recalling the time a flu outbreak had come along and doctors were recommending all residence of Werites Beacon to have their flu shot so not to get sick.

Senel had urged everyone to go before his, so when it came his turn Moses practically dragged him in by the ear while Senel cursed loudly behind him, trying to pry loose from Moses' steel grip.

The doctor had gotten only inches from Senel's skin while all the boys held him down. But he managed to get away, and jumped out the window (which, by the way, was on the second story).

"Yes, that was funny!" Grune said, almost as if reading Chloe's thoughts. "I do recall Senel running awfully fast that day!" She giggled as the rest of the group, excluding Senel and Jay, made their way back into the weighting room.

"How are they doing?" asked Chloe.

"There getting Senel ready for surgery now. And Jay's just resting in the infirmary." Shirley stated shakily. She perhaps was still stirred up from the events that just took place.

"It appears you're friend has woken up." a different nurse stated shattering the six of the tranquil but disturbed minds. "You may go and see him if you like."
Moses jumped up both excited and relieved. "Really!?"
"Is he feeling any better than he did?" Will said without leaving his position beside the window.

"Yeah, didn't you say he had a concu. . .cunci. . .con-somethin'-or-other?" stuttered Norma.

"Concussion? Yes, he did. He claims he hit his head on the floor. But other than that and the infection on his stomach; which is only slight, he should be fine with a few more hours of rest."
"More rest?!" Exclaimed Moses, "He's been out for three hours already!" He calmed down a little and sighed. "What about Senel?"

"Oh, Senel Coolidge? He's still undergoing the surgery. They were having a few difficulties finding the poison at first, but the hardest part is over now."

"That's good to hear." stated Will.

"Yes. It is." The nurse smiled and returned to her work elsewhere.

"Well, I don't know about ya'll, but I'm gonna go check up on Jay!" Moses shouted in a low tone and made his way towards where Jay was being kept. He was soon followed by Norma and then Grune.

"OH! How fun!" She cried happily while everyone else gave her 'the look'.

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Jay was lying face down in his pillow on the bed in the big room. Breathing softly, but awake.

Norma ran in, her hyper self returned to normal, and plopped herself on the side of the bed. This woke Jay up with a loud grunt.

"Norma!? What the hell?" he said ticked as he rose up on his hands and knees still under the quilts.

"Oooh? So you're back to you're not-so-knocked-out state, huh?" teased Norma with a sneer look in her eyes.

"Probably wasn't knocked out so bad until a crazy chic ran in jumpin' up and down like a retard. . ."

Stated Moses under his breath, though Norma hear. So she jumped off the bed angrily.

"HEY! Who are you calling crazy?!"
The two went at it for a few more minutes until Grune finally spoke up.

"How are you feeling, Jay."

Jay smiled slightly. "Allot better. I suppose I just needed rest."

Moses turned away from his quarrel with Norma to focus on his 'little brother.'

"Does you're head still hurt?" Jay shook his head negatively. "Not so much anymore."

"You've been out for hours, you know."

"I have?"

Moses nodded. Jay picked nervously at the blanket for a few seconds. All three, even Grune, could tell something was troubling him.
"H-how's Senel doing?" he stuttered without looking up.

No one answered, so then Jay lifted his head with a terrified look in his eyes.

"What? What!?"

Moses spoke up first. "Well, um, we don't really know much but. . .they brought im' into surgery the minute we carried ya'll both in."

"But. . .is he alive?"

"Im sure he's fine. The nurse said his infection was bad, but nothin' our Senel cant handle."
"YEAH! So cheer up, JJ! Don't feel so down about that now! Just think positive! POSITIVE!!!" Norma chimed in bubbly jumping up onto her tip-toes.

"CHARGE!!!"

"G-Girl, were not goin' anywhere!"
"Oh. . .what?"

A nurse with long raven hair and a nametag that read "Nurse Fuller" stepped in smiling brightly and holding a clipboard.

"Alright, now 'Mr. Unseen'." she giggled while Jay got a furious look, but was blushing. Along with Moses when he got a look at the lady. "Time for you're meal and medication. Now say good-bye to you're friends, please."

Norma and Grune waved so long and left the room. Moses started to follow, but was stopped by the ninja boy's hand tugging at his quiver strap, so he stopped.

"Moses. . ." he started off. "Please, could you let me know how he is as soon as you find out anything?"

Moses stared at Jay for a moment, then put a hand on his shoulder.

"Sure thing, Jay."

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Yeah, I started to miss getting reviews.

So here ya'll go! Im gonna start workin' on chap 8 (wow! chapter 8!) in the morning!

I promise this time! REALLY!

So once again…

Lovely reviews please?

Thanks! XD