As much as he hated to leave, Jake was needed to go out on patrol. Katie all but yelled at him to keep his responsibility of being a cop. She had a way of making him want to do better. To be a better person. He told Katie he wouldn't be gone long. He hoped that she might be able to get some sleep while he was away. She promised to try to rest. Physically she seemed to be doing better but mentally he was afraid that wasn't the case. He knew she had some difficulty in her past and that it was sometimes hard to keep things in check. But he needed her to stay as positive as she could under the circumstances. She needed to believe she was going to get better. Sometimes a person's will to fight could make all the difference.

Dr. Cannerts knocked on the door to Katie's room. He could see in through the big window but it just felt polite to knock instead of barging in.

"Hello Katie. It is time for your treatment. How are you feeling?" He asked.

"Honestly a little better. But I have been having these awful...nightmares. She didn't want to say it out loud because that made them even more real. Cannerts needed to know though. If he was going to be able to find a vaccine, she needed to be honest about all of her symptoms.

"Do you know how many you have had?" He asked.

"Two very vivid ones. I wake up drenched in sweat and I can hardly breathe until I realize it's not real..." she trails off.

"It might be from the trial medication mixing with the medication you are previously on. It could quite frankly be causing psychotic episodes." He explained.

Katie's mouth dropped open.

Dr. Cannerts continued. "With your permission I am going to lower the dosage of your anxiety medication and increase the trial medicine just a little to see if it makes a difference. If so then it may eliminate the nightmares and increase the antibodies in your system to fight off the virus."

"Do you really think that it will work?" She asked.

"We won't know until we try. I'm sorry but I am honestly flying blind. But other than Thomas you alone have shown the most improvement. Actually the only improvement. By this point of the disease, all those infected have sucummed to the virus. You have by far exceeded any previous time line established. This gives me hope that we are on the right track." He told her.

"Do it." She said. Ever since Dr. Cannerts had told her that Dr. Lommers had instructed him to lie about the Syrian man as patient zero she still didn't fully trust him but she did feel that he wanted to find a cure to this virus just as much as she did. Besides he was basically her only hope if she even stood a chance at getting better.

Jake came walking down the hallway with a ladder and a tv on a rolling stand.

"What are you doing?" Katie asked.

"Get your blanket and lay down against the window." He told her as he unfolded the blanket he was holding. "I raided Pediatrics. Those kids really know how to live it up down there."

Katie unfolded her blanket and placed it in front of the window. "What is all that stuff?" She asked looking at the box Jake was holding.

"Movie under the stars." He grinned as he held up plastic star decorations.

Katie gave him a big smile.

"That's beautiful." She grinned as Jake finished hanging up the star decorations. Tons of glowing green lights filled the hallway. She couldn't believe he had done something so sweet for her.

Jake put in the movie Happy Feet for them to watch but he wasn't even paying attention to the tv screen. He kept his eyes on Katie the entire time. Watching her face as she would laugh and quote scenes from the movie.

"You know all the words don't you?" He asked. Completely in awe of how much she amazed him.

She laughed. "Quentin and I saw this 42 times by the time he was 7. Oh look." She said pointing down the hall. "A shooting star."

"How romantic." Jake laughed.

"It's right over there under Orions Belt or whatever little mess you made." She teased. He had done such a beautiful job and she was so touched that he even thought to do something like this for her. But she couldn't resist poking a little fun at him.

"That's not, that's not Orions Belt. That's O'Bryans belt. Orions lesser known Irish cousin." He told her. They both couldn't help but laugh.

Katie started coughing and it took a moment to catch her breath.

"You ok?" Jake asked worried.

"It's weird, you know, that medicine. I feel better, but not. You know?" She told him. "Listen. Just in case. There's something I want to say before it gets bad, so you know I mean it."

Jake hated hearing her talk like that. Like she wasn't going to be ok. "We are going to have our entire lives to say things to each other. Ok."

"Just listen." She told him. "I love you."

"No." He whispered shaking his head.

"Yes. I love you Jake Riley." She smiled at him.

"Don't say that." He said, his voice breaking. "You don't get to say that until I can hold you when you do." He was trying hard to fight back the tears. He wanted to hold her in his arms when they said those words to each other. Not here with this glass separating them. Not now when just being within a few feet of each other could make the difference between life and death.

Katie had her forehead pressed against the glass memorizing every inch of Jake's beautiful face. This wasn't how she wanted to say those words to him but she needed him to know. She didn't know if the medicine was going to work and didn't know if she would ever get the chance to tell him how much he meant to her. He was exactly what she had been looking for her whole life. She could stare into his eyes forever. Slowly though his face seemed to be getting farther and farther away. Everything around her started to go black. She felt as if she was drifting far away. The last thing she heard was Jake's voice screaming Katie! Katie!...