We're back in the normal universe now. And what's more, this is the twenty-sixth chapter, making the last chapter a quarter of a hundred! Thank you for all your continued support (just like it says when you post a reveiw) and enjoy!
Kirk entered his room with Spock. Already in the room was Bones, and it was obvious something was wrong. He looked horrible. He was sitting at his desk (which had finally been replaced) reading something, but his eyes looked glassy and he looked worn out.
"Bones?" said Kirk. Kirk walked over to where Bones was sitting and placed a hand on his shoulder. McCoy sat up straight, startled.
"Oh. Hey, Jim. I didn't hear ya come in." Bones seemed to be scrambling for words.
"Leonard. You do not appear to be well." said Spock. "Prehapse you should lie down."
"I'm fine, I'm fine." insisted Bones. "A little tired maybe, but I'm good! Besides, I've got my language arts homework to do." Kirk looked at the PADD in front of his roommate.
"I don't think you're alright." said Kirk.
"Why?" asked Bones, sounding slightly weak.
"Firstly, that's work for Space Mechanics, and secondly, it's mine." Kirk put a hand on Bones forehead. "Also you're burning up." McCoy slapped away Kirk's hand.
"Leonard is not ignited in any way, James." Spock said.
"I'm entirely healthy!" Bones stood up, and imediately grabbed a chair for support.
"And you're dizzy." said James.
"I'm just a little overworked, I'll be fine tomorrow."
"You bet you will, 'cause you're going to bed right now." Said Jim. he grabbed Bones under his arms. "Spock?"
"I agree with you, James, rest is essential to phyiscal recovery." Spock grabbed Leonard's legs and helped lift him up.
"It's four-thirty in the afternoon! I can't sleep!" said McCoy "Set me down!". His roommates were not listening. He was dumped onto his bed, and Spock pulled his shoes off.
"I swear to god, I am perfectly healthy." McCoy grumbled.
"Bones, it's obvious that you're sick." said Jim. "Spock and I gonna leave so you can sleep. Stay in bed, 'kay?" said Kirk. "Lights, out." The lights went out. McCoy lay in bed.
I'll wait five minutes to make sure they left, and then I'll get out of bed. He thought
Okay, maybe he had needed rest, he had fallen asleep.
Leonard tried to sit up, but he got dizzy and lay back down. And his head hurt. And he felt cold.
He looked over at Spock's alarm clock. It was Nine p.m, same day. There was a reading lamp on, and Spock was sitting at his desk.
Spock looked over and Leonard. "You are awake." he stood up and walked over to the bed. "Are you in any better health?"
"I was never sick." Bones sneezed
"You're voice sounds odd, Leonard." said Spock.
"That's 'cause my nose is stuffed up." Bones coughed. "Uuggh. Maybe I am a little sick." The door to their room opened, Kirk came in carrying a tray of food.
"Hey, Bones. I brought you dinner." Bones propped himself up on them and JIm handed him the tray of food. It was soup and bread.
Bones started eating, it was warm, but he could hardely taste it, his nose was so stuffed up. Kirk sat down on his own bed.
"I went to the infirmary, they said that they'd send a nurse over Nine-tenish to see how you were. And Spock told The Principal that you were out of commision for the next few days."
"I'll be fine, just need some more rest, and maybe some cold medicine." said Bones. He threw his legs over the side of the bed and stood up. Spock grabbed his shoulders and pushed him back down.
"It would be logical to at least stay in bed until a nurse or doctor says it is permissible for you to get up." he said. As if on que, the door chimed. Kirk opened it. Nurse Tranyar entered the room. She had a medical kit and a scanner with her. She started to scan.
"It's just a cold." grumbled Leonard.
"No." said the nurse. "It's influenza. Your sinuses are blocked, your temperature is a hundred and two and might be climbing, and you're dehydrated." She got out a hypospray. "I imagine you have a headache, this should make that mostly go away, and clear your nose up temporarily." she administered it.
"Aren't ya gonna give me something for my fever?" asked Bones.
"I talked to the Academy's CMO before coming over here. He's for letting the body do what it's designed to do and only stepping in with medicine when need be. Just let it run it's course, it's pretty mild strain, and you'll be back to school in three-four days."
She packed up here things and turned to Spock and Kirk.I'm counting on you two to make sure the Leonard stays in bed, eats and drinks whatever the doctor puts on his meal card until he's better, and rests. And stay healthy! The last thing we need is for this to spread." she headed for the door.
"I'm not that sick!" shouted Bones, and then started coughing violently. The nurse turned around.
"Yes, you are." and she left.
Leonard woke up the next morning feeling even worse, his throat was so sore he could hardly talk. His fever was 103 degrees and his head was pounding. He finally gave into the fact that he really was sick.
He spent the day in and out of sleep, under every spare blanket they had, and wearing one of Spock's ridiculously thick sweaters over his already normally warm pajamas. It was the same the next day too.
Spock and Kirk mostly left him alone, they brought him food and would talk to him when he was awake, but for the most part they were both fairly quiet while in the room.
On the third day of his illness, Bones woke up at about eight in the morning feeling quite a bit better, Kirk was still in the room, reading over something, hopefully class material, probably not.
"Oh, hey Bones. You're awake." said Kirk, noticing his roommate. "How are you feeling?"
"A lot better actually, and I should, I fell asleep at what? Five last night?" he sat up. "My head doesn't hurt anymore either." Kirk grabbed the thermometer they had been given and took Bones temperature.
"Fever's down. Not all the way down, but down." Kirk set the thermometer down. "It's Saturday so I don't have any classes. Maybe you'll be well enough to get out of bed later and we can set up a movie or I can teach you a game or something."
"Maybe." said Bones. He took of the sweater he'd been wearing for the past two days. He was going to toss it onto Spock's bed, when he realized something.
Spock was still in bed. Spock's nose and ears were green and he was breathing through his mouth.
"Spock caught my flu, didn't he?" said Bones.
"Yeah, it started to show right after you were out for the night. I thought he had, but he said that he was Vulcan and his body would fight it off very quickly, so I left him alone about it. He fell asleep at his desk and I had to call sickbay."
"So now that I'll probably be up and about tomorrow, Spock's out of it?" said Bones, incredulous.
"Yup." said Jim. Spock coughed in his sleep.
"We should turn up the heat." said Bones. "With being used to Vulcan temperatures, and a fever, this might as well be Northern Canada."
"Yeah." agreed Jim
Spock was back at school four days later, and the three boys were walking down the hall to their respective classes.
"What I don't get is how you didn't get sick." said Bones to Kirk.
"Bones, I haven't been sick with anything worse than a sore throat since I was ten." said Kirk.
"That's a lie." said Bones.
"No, it's true, I swear!" said Kirk. "You can call my mom if you don't believe me. I don't get sick" They reached their class. "Look, the important thing is it's over now, right?"
"That is correct." said Spock.
"Yeah." agreed Bones. "Hey, Sulu!" Bones called out to Sulu, who was walking by, "Where's Pavel?"
"Oh, he's out sick. Come to think of it, so is Uhura, and Scotty, and a few other people." said Hikaru, and he kept walking.
"You know what, Jim? You're right." said Bones. "You don't get sick. You just carry my flu to the rest of the student body."
"Oh well, it happens." Kirk shrugged. "Here's my class, see you later!" Kirk veered off toward a classroom.
"I hope he gets sicker than either of us were." grumbled Bones.
"It is no logical, especially for a future doctor, to wish harm upon another person." said Spock.
"It sarcasm, Spock! How can you not get sarcasm? You've been living on Earth for over a year! I'd even think maybe you'd use it once or twice."
"I am careful not to as you would put it 'pick up' any of your unsavorable human traits. I must get to class." and Spock walked away.
"Wait a minute! You come back here! You can't just insult people and walk away! Where the logic in that huh? And don't you even dare say that 'unsavorable human traits' wasn't supposed to be insulting!" and he chased after Spock.