3 hours later Jim woke up. Melinda was still sleeping. He hugged her, kissed her forehead and got up. He got dressed and left.

1 hour later Melinda woke up, too.
"Jim?" she asked full of lust but she didn't get an answer. Because she was worried she got up and went into her kitchen. She didn't realize that all her stuff was gone. Suddenly she noticed a little note on the kitchen sink.

Hey honey,
I already brought your stuff to my apartment. So you can move in today :D
I'll always love you,
Jim

Melinda looked around and saw that her apartment was empty. She went to her bedroom. Nothing was there except her bed and her cupboard. She didn't know what to do. Now that there was nothing to do and all rooms were empty she cleaned them up. When she was finished she packed a bag with all of her clothes and personal stuff. She was all alone in her home. She looked around again.
"Wow… That's final" she said to herself.
Suddenly she felt dizzy and lost consciousness. Right in this moment Jim opened the door and came in. he saw Melinda falling on the floor and ran towards her.
"Melinda! Baby, what's wrong with you?"
She didn't show any reaction. She stopped breathing and her heart gave up, too. Jim called 911.

10 minutes later Bobby arrived.
"Bobby, we need to bring her back. Her heart stopped beating. Bring me the reanimation system, please…" he said with tear in his eyes. Bobby came back and gave him all he needed. Jim worked on Melinda for 5 minutes but there was still no reaction.
"Mel, I need you… Don't leave me, please, don't leave me."
"Jim? Do you know her?"
"She is my girlfriend." Suddenly he felt Melinda's heart beating again. Then he saw that her thorax was moving up and down.
"Mel, you're back." But she didn't answer. She coughed and vomited at the same time.
"What's wrong with you?" Jim asked crying..
"Jim, we need to bring her to the hospital" Bobby said.
Melinda made a move which told Jim that she wanted to say something. He came closer.
"I don't want to go to the hospital. Could we just go to your apartment and sleep? Maybe I just didn't eat enough today. I can't remember eating today at all…" she whispered.
"Don't you mean our apartment? Come on, let's go. I'll carry you. You shouldn't walk. You were dead for 15 minutes! Bobby, I'll bring her home."
"Isn't that her home?" he asked.
"No, we moved together this morning…"
"Okay. Erm… Don't show up at the fire station till she's fine again. Bye" he left.
"Thanks, Bob. Bye."
Jim lifted Melinda, grabbed her bag and went to his apartment. She looked like a corpse in his arms. He was worried about her health. They arrived. Jim brought Melinda straight to the bedroom and put her on the bed.
"You are pale like a wall… You should eat something, please" Jim said worried.
"Yeah, what about a nice salad with chicken?"
"Sounds good! I'll go and make it."

3 minutes later he came back with a big bowl of salad and two forks.
"By the way, I love your apartment" Melinda said.
"Our apartment."
"For what did you bring two forks?"
"I wanna eat some salad, too."
"And why don't we share one fork?"
"Dunno. I thought you'd have a problem with it…"
"No, not at all. I don't even think that my flu, or whatever it is, would be contagious" she smiled and kissed him. She tried to move him toward her but he blocked it.
"Mel…"
"What's wrong?"
"We should make a blood test to see if everything is really okay with you. I have the feeling like this was just the beginning…"
"But I don't want to go to the doctor…"
"Did you forget that I'm a medic? I just worked on you for 15 minutes. I could take some blood and send it to a labor."
"That's okay for me."
Jim took some blood and brought it away. When he came back Melinda was asleep. He lay down next to her and put an arm around her whole body. A few minutes later he was asleep, too. He dreamt of the first time when he saw Melinda on the crash side.

2 hours later Jim woke up again because Melinda seemed to have a nightmare. She was kicking him in her sleep. Suddenly she woke up and ran to the bathroom. Jim got up, too, and followed her. He opened that door a bit and saw Melinda kneeing in front of the toilet. She had to vomit again.
"Mel, are you alright?" he asked.
"Not really" she looked up and started to cry.
"Shhh… Honey it's okay… You'll be fine soon. When we'll get the results we can start a therapy."
"Why are you a paramedic and not a doctor?"
"Because I didn't want to take classes for years…" he smiled. Melinda hugged him.
"I'm so sorry."
"For what?"
"You made me such a surprise today and I ruined everything."
"No, you didn't. I love having you around. It doesn't matter if you are sick or healthy. Well, healthy is better that sick but as long as you're here it nearly doesn't matter to me!"
"You're so cute. I love you" she kissed him. "Oh sorry, I have to taste gross…"
"It's okay" he smiled and kissed her back.
Suddenly the phone rang.
"I'll go and answer it" Melinda said and ran to the phone. "Hello?"
"Hello, this is the labor of Grandview. Who am I talking to?"
"Melinda Gordon."
"I need to talk to a Jim Clancy about the blood results he brought in this morning."
"Sure. Jim, could you please come? It's for you!"
"Yeah, honey. I'm on my way."
He came and answered the phone.

2 minutes later he hung up.
"And? What did they say?" Melinda asked nervously.
"I can get the results but I'm not allowed to look at them."
"Why?"
"Because I'm neither a doc nor the patient. I could get the results but you have to look at them…"
"Okay, let's go and get them."
"I'd better go alone, Mel. You're too weak" he left.

Melinda sat down on the couch. She waited for hours. Actually it weren't hours but it felt like it. She had to watch on the clock every 2nd minute.