Thanks for the reviews everyone and especially to messersmontana who was the only one that reviewed the last chapter! Shocking, right? I hate to do this but I would like to have a total of ten reviews before I write chapter nine….pretty please? And if I get more than ten I'll update today or tomorrow! Well for now here's chapter eight!
"Sam?" Sean called. He heard coughing coming from some bushes that weren't damaged from the explosion. He ran towards them and found bloody body draped over the bushes like it was flung aside. "Sam?" he asked cautiously.
There was more coughing before he heard "Sean…" whispered by the lone body.
He dropped to his knees beside Sam who just coughed and sputtered. He moved her wild hair out of her face before using his shirt to wipe off the blood on her face. "Sam," he said smiling. "Come on we need to get you back and cleaned up."
"I don't know if I can walk," Sam replied whispering.
"I'll help you," he said lifting her up like a bride. She laid her head against his shoulder closing her eyes. "Sam…" Sean whispered, "Sam, honey, wake up."
Sam opened her eyes briefly saying, "I can't, Sean, I'm sorry."
"Yes you can Sam just a little farther now," Sean replied picking up the pace, practically running now.
"Carter! Zane! Jo!" Sean yelled running closer to where everyone was. Everyone turned and when they realized who Sean was carrying they ran up. Sean slowed and carried Sam carefully over to them.
"Sam?" Zane cried realizing what bad shape his friend was in.
"Yeah its me," Sam whispered smiling slightly imagining about what she must look like.
Allison looked her over and said, "We need to get her back to GD but she just seems to be scratched up and bruised. I don't think its anything to serious except for the amount of blood she's losing."
"Then let's get going," replied Sean moving towards Sam's car.
"I'll drive you over!" called Carter. Then turning to Zane, "I'll drive you and Jo too."
"What about Zoë?" asked Zane.
"Fargo already drove her to GD a while ago," Carter said walking towards his car.
Sean walked towards Carter's car still carrying Sam. Zane opened the door for him and Sean slid into the back seat lifting Sam up with him. Zane then helped Jo into the back seats too before sliding into the passenger seat himself.
Suddenly Jo started coughing violently. Zane looked back at her and grimaced, "Carter step on it."
Oh my God, look at Sam. She's in terrible shape…Allison said she will be fine but will she really be ok or was Allison just saying that for my benefit. Sean closed his eyes before looking down at Sam draped across his lap. He smiled because she looked so much more calm than he was feeling.
The car skidded to a halt with Allison and Fargo right behind them. Zane and Carter hopped out. Zane helped Jo out of the car while Jo tried to pull away but Zane wouldn't let her go. "Jo-Jo you can't walk by yourself so don't try to be a hero." Zane said smirking slightly.
"Fine," said Jo through clenched teeth stifling a cry.
"What's wrong?" Zane asked stopping short.
"Nothing," she replied closing her eyes.
"Just hang on Jo-Jo. We're almost there."
While Zane was helping Jo, Carter was lifting Sam out of the car while Sean jumped down. Sean was about to take Sam back when Carter said, "No I'll carry her."
Sean dropped his arms and ran ahead opening all the doors for them so they could rush Sam directly to the infirmary. Jo was already there in bed with her eyes closed tightly. Zane stood over her looking down at her with a worried expression on his face.
Carter laid Sam out on the bed neighboring Jo's. Sean went to stand next to Zane who was positioned between both beds. Allison came running in and dragged curtains around Sam's bed. Sean started to say something but Allison cut him off, "I'm just going to clean her up and stitch up some of the deep cuts." patting him on the shoulder before going behind the curtain.
Sean then turned to Zane and said, "We should really look into this virus now. We have to save Jo's life and we should start researching and then when Sam wakes up she can help too."
"Yeah your right," Zane said turning away from Jo and heading towards his and Sam's lab with Sean following in his wake.
When they arrived at the lab, Zane started typing furiously on his computer. He then started babbling on about something useless and Sean was ignoring him until he heard Zane mention Jo.
"I really don't understand it, ever since Founder's Day she has been acting different. Really different and I have these weird memories about that never happened and feelings that I never felt before," Zane said looking up puzzled. "I don't remember any of these things but I get these flashes. Never mind…let's keep researching."
Sean hid the horror on his face, Somehow the other time line is crossing over. Ok…calm down…forget about it until we solve the virus problem. "Yeah let's keep researching."
Sean started typing on the closest computer. Suddenly Zane sucked in a breath, and stammered, "I found something."
Sean walked into the infirmary and saw across the room, Sam propped up in bed with a laptop in front of her. Her mouth was moving but he was too far to hear what she was saying. As he got closer he heard Abby Sciuto? he wondered.
"Yeah Abby, I'm fine, just a little scratched up."
"So how's Sean?" Abby asked grinning cheekily into the webcam.
"Why don't you ask him?" Sam said gesturing to Sean to come closer.
"Hey Abby," said Sean waving slightly.
"Sean!" Abby exclaimed before continuing, "How could you let this happen to Sam? I mean you should protect her with your life like you did here at NCIS. I mean you love her don't you." Sam gasped before saying, "Bye Abby talk to you later!" slamming the laptop shut.
Sean's mouth was hanging open. He was stuttering slightly. Sam took a breath and said, "Let's just forget about what she just said, ok?"
"No," Sean replied to Sam's astonishment. "When we couldn't find you, I was so upset, I thought I would never see you again. I thought I would never get the chance to tell you that…I love you… never get a chance to ask you who Alex is, never get a chance to talk to you again…never…" Sean hung his head at this point whispering, "I love you, I really do."
Sam was so shocked by his speech her mouth was parted slightly before she broke out in a grin, "I love you too and what was this about Alex?" she asked grinning slightly at his discomfort.
Zane walked in with a manila folder in one hand and chocolates in the other. First he stopped off at Zoë's bed and gave her the chocolates. Apologizing about not staying to talk Zane moved on and walked up to Allison who as standing at the foot of Jo's bed.
"I found some information about this virus. I took a blood test and created copy of the bacteria that spread the virus and created a computer program to find out how this virus progresses and what the symptoms on. The virus takes two hours to start showing symptoms then fourteen hours after that…." Zane stopped there gulped a few times before continuing, "The symptoms are extreme coughing fits, then an intensely high fever, then inflamed sores appear on the skin, and finally the throat becomes inflamed and the breathing stops completely. So pretty much an extreme allergy attack but much worse."
Jo's eyes opened slightly before she said, "Coughing, check. Fever, check. Sores, not yet. And of course I'm not dead yet."
Zane looked sad and said, "Ok so I would guess you to have about twelve hours left."
"Oh that long," Jo said sarcastically before having a coughing fit. Allison rushed to Jo's side and put an oxygen mask over Jo's nose and mouth.
"Breathe in and out, Jo," Allison said quietly.
Zane stood on Jo's other side and pushed her hair out of her face. "We'll solve this Jo-Jo."
Allison looked up sharply before leaving Jo's bed side and gesturing Zane to join her. "So twelve hours left?" Allison asked curiously.
Zane looked up guiltily and whispered, "Actually I lied a bit to Jo. It should be twelve hours from the test I did but her symptoms seem farther a long than that so I would guess that she really has only six hours left."
"Six!" Allison yelped.
Cliff hangers what would I do without them! Please review! Oh and if anyone has any suggestions greatly appreciated cause I have an outline but other ideas are great too!