"It is June 14, Zane is 5." the voice boomed

"This is nice and all but this doesn't explain how Zane suffered." Jay put up quotation marks over suffered

"Patience ninja, it will soon come."

Zane trudged through the living room scratching the back of his head and letting out a drawn out yawn. Even for a six year old Zane was aging with a thick head of hair and a taller structure.

"Zane come in the kitchen please" Wilma asked, Zane walked over to the table and held his head on his hand. He looked like he hadn't slept in days with bags under his eyes and hair everywhere.

"Under your tongue." she stuck a thermometer in his mouth, after a good three minutes she swiped it away.

"What's the matter?" Cole eyed at the Julian twin.

"My fever kept rising." Zane replied staring at his younger self

"Just as I thought, tell your father to take you to the doctor." Zane nodded and walked back to his dad's room at the same speed.

"Dad... Mom said we should go to the doctor..." Zane watched his father juggle bills, and at the corner of his desk a half drunken beer.

"Why?" he asked softly turning over to Zane

"My temperature's high." Julian sighed and picked up the kid into his arms.

"Let's go then." he walked Zane out to town and to the town's healer Dr. Patrick out for a diagnostic. He even had to take blood.

"I don't want a shot!" Zane wailed clinging to his father's shirt.

"It's just a quick prick" he insisted pulling Zane off and placing him back on the table. The needle took a small amount of blood from him making his squeal.

"It's over" Zane turned to his father wiping his eyes. The doctor left quickly and headed over to his 'lab' which was just a room with some examination devices. Zane leaned against his father with worried eyes..

"Will you be okay?" Cole asked staring at the two humans

After 43 minutes the doctor came back in and lured Julian out. Leaving Zane alone in the room.

The three also walked out of the room staring at the two adults.

"I am sorry sir but your son has a very rare dieses doctors have not quite learned a lot from yet." he paused letting Julian absorb what he just said.

"It's called sysilcia, it's a small virus that will eventually..." he stopped drifting off and letting Julian comprehend it.

"Can I stop it?" he asked.

"You can try some medications but anyone who ever caught it without treatment... Has died between 10 and 15 years."

"So my son is going to d-die" he had tears bubbling inside.

"Not exactly, with proper care your son can live for a good amount of time."

"What kind of medication." Julian took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose.

"Some pills, some blood samples every few days, and I'll give you some prescription needles, along with that the sysilcia has a weakness against peoples body energy, so I suggest school to get those body energies towards him."

"And this will cost-"

"Over 20 dollars a pack" Julian sighed once more, on top of bills, cloths, food, and now school for probably the two of them.

"Is that okay for the safety of your son?" he asked.

"Yes, that's fine." Julian headed back in the room to see Zane devouring the candy inside of the long clear jar

"Zane Milo Julian!" Zane slowly turned to his father.

"Yeah..." he pushed back the candy jar and smiled at his father his teeth covered in chocolate and different colors.

"What am I going to do with you..."

The scene changed back to the house where Zak and Zane were coloring on a white blank canvas while Julian and Wilma were reading the planned guide they had for him.

"We will never have enough money for his medication." Wilma stated brushing hair from her face.

"I'll have to get an extra job" he said.

"I'll have to get one to" she stopped leaning her head back against the red chair

"I guess no girls then." she sniffled

"We should worry about our two first" Julian said strictly but kind to his wife.

"Poor Zane... It's going to be hard for him to go back out into the snow with his condition" Wilma said staring out the window.

"He does love the snow, but it says he can't get to cold the virus will start to spread." he stated

Does Dr. Julian have a first name? I tried to look it up but all I saw was Dr. Julian, if not can I get some ideas? sysilcia is my own fancy smansy disease, so far what I got out of it is

- the energy coming out of people can keep it at ease.

-It can grow in cold weather since little life can live in cold weather.

Spoiler!

Zane doesn't die from the disease, but it does slow him down in life.