p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"em"John, wait,"/em Helen says as Druitt teleports away. She sighs. They all then went to work to make sure that everything was back up and running correctly. Henry and Natalie went to Henry's lab to double-check the system, while Will and Magnus went to go and find Kate and the Big Guy. Finding them hanging at the top of the evaluator shaft, they make quick work of getting them out safely. With everything now back to normal, Magnus decides to let the team have the night off; after all that they had been through today, they deserved it./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"strong…/strong/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It was now a few days after John had disappeared, and everyone one busy working except one. Magnus had just returned to her office after lunch and having spent most of her morning in the lab running some tests. She had some paperwork that needed to be done. As she had been going through the paperwork, she suddenly realised she hadn't yet seen her daughter that day. Usually, she would have at least seen her once or twice by now, but to have not seen her at all was a little worrying to Helen. She tried to contact Natalie on both her phone and the radio, but with no answer, she went on to see if anyone else had seen class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"With no one having seen her, Helen then went to search for her, starting with her office, which was just down the hallway from her own. Knocking at the door, she receives no response, so she opens it to find it empty; next, she tries the kitchen. Maybe she had been so busy that she was having a late class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"No, she wasn't there either, so the next place she thought could be the records room. Natalie had been spending a lot of her time down there as there were so many old files that she was determined to go through. This is where Helen went next, detouring through the abnormal levels to double-check that her daughter wasn't somewhere there checking on some of the patients. Helen had now reached the records room, and looking inside, she was surprised that Natalie wasn't there either. This was one of the last places she would have thought her daughter to be, the only place she had yet to check was Natalie's bedroom, but she couldn't possibly still be there. Natalie was like her, an early riser and would get straight to work first thing in the morning. Figuring this was her last option before really starting to worry that that's where she was headed./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Will had bumped into Helen on her way to her daughter's room,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Hey Magnus, any luck finding her?"/em He askedspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"No, nothing. I've got one last place to look. But if she's not there, I don't know where she would have gone."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"I'm sure she's here somewhere, maybe she's been moving around, and you keep missing each other."/em He said, trying to point out there could be another reason she couldn't find her,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem "Maybe your right Will, but surely she would have answered her phone or radio when I called."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Maybe she left them sitting somewhere and forgot to pick them up when she left. I'm sure you'll find her, and everything will be fine, I better let you go. Call me if you need help."/em Will said before heading back down the hallway. Helen thanked him before continuing to Natalie's room. Upon reaching her destination, Helen knocked on the door,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Natalie."/em No answer, so she tried again, em"Natalie, are you in there?"span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Still, no response, so she opens the door, she doesn't expect to see what she does. Usually, Natalie's room is kept neat and tidy, she would never leave her room in the state it was currently, her bed wasn't made, dirty clothes were on the floor also dirty dishes were on the table she had. This made Helen worry even more, something had to be wrong, but she first needed to find her class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She made her way towards the bathroom door, wanting to check to see if she was in there first before leaving, that's when all of a sudden, she heard a loud noise coming from the bathroom. With the sound of glass breaking and something heavy hitting the floor, Helen quickly covered the last few steps to the door. Opening the door, she looks in to find her daughter collapsed on the floor. She makes her way to Natalie to check her vitals, and she finds that she is running an extreme temperature. That would explain why she had collapsed, but what caused her temperature, she didn't class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Helen quickly radioed for someone to help she needed to get Natalie to the infirmary as soon as possible, Will and the Big Guy were the ones to answer her call. When they arrived, they saw what was going on and helped get Natalie onto a gurney and began to make their way to the infirmary, Helen stayed back so she could see if she could find any indicators as to what was going on, but before they left, she instructed them that when they arrived to get an I.V into her as soon as class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Looking around the bathroom, Helen spots something next to the sink. It was an open notepad with something written on it. Upon closer inspection, she saw that her daughter had been trying to keep track of her illness. Writing down when she did a temperature check or when she took any medication, Helen also saw that Natalie had written her thoughts of what she had thought she had. Seeing this had made Helen both happy and sad, happy that her daughter had been keeping track of her symptoms but also sad she had let it get this bad and hadn't called her. She grabbed the notebook and made her way out, double-checking the bedroom quickly to see if there was anything class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Not seeing anything, she quickly made her way down to the infirmary. She needed to find out what was making Natalie so sick and stop it. Will sees her enter,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"We got her hooked up to the monitors, Big guy got an I.V. in, so she's getting fluids. But Magnus, her temperature is alarmingly high."/em He explains. Hearing this was not what Helen had wanted to hear. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything else but I.V. at the moment until she worked out what was causing it,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Until we know more, I can't give her anything. According to what I found on this, she already tried a few different treatments, but they don't seem to of had any effect. She's gone downhill very fast."/em Magnus said, looking over and seeing that the Big guy had now moved to take some blood so they could begin tests quickly. She silently thanked him, walking over to grab the blood. Turning, she made her way out and down the corridor to the lab, Will followed. That way, he was on hand if she needed his help./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"After what seemed like years but was really only an hour, Magnus had finally begun to get answers. The test came back indicating that Natalie had some sort of flu, Helen began to try different treatments on the sample she had, trying to work out the one that would work for Natalie. It took almost another hour before she found the right one, showing that Natalie had a highly aggressive type of flu, one that would take much work to combat. Knowing this, Magnus made her way back to the infirmary to begin treatments. She had sent Will back to his office, telling him there wasn't anything he could do at the time, she would call him if she class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Helen walked in and saw the Big Guy keeping an eye on Natalie, they had such a close bond, considering how little her daughter had been there growing up. Natalie's temperature hadn't gone down but hadn't risen anymore, so the I.V. was helping some. Seeing her daughter laying there unconscious was hard for Helen, but now she knew what she could do to help, she took the medication she had brought in with her and injected it into Natalie's I.V. she would need to repeat this every couple of hours until Natalie recovered. Helen then sent the Big Guy off to get some food and take some time to himself, she knew that Natalie wouldn't wake for a while, so she didn't need him at the class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Taking this time to just sit with her daughter that's how she spent the rest of the night. Will, Kate, and Henry had all come down to check in at some point, wanting to make sure that Helen didn't need anything. It was close to midnight when the Big Guy returned for the last time, ordering Helen to go and get some rest, as she would be no use to her daughter if she exhausted herself./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Go, I'll watch her. If something happens I'll call you."/em He told her while almost pushing her out of the room. Helen didn't like this but she knew he would not allow her back in unless she went and slept for a few hours or at least tried./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The following day Helen returned to the infirmary, having not been able to get any sleep, she went back to her office for a few hours and got some work done. Even though he knew that she hadn't slept Biggie allowed her to enter, she checked Natalie vitals which hadn't changed much, but they were showing the signs of returning to normal. The Bug Guy left to go get some food as he knew that Helen wouldn't have eaten anything yet, he return with a tray full of food and a pot of tea. Magnus smiled at this and thanked him, even though she wasn't hungry she ate what he brought her knowing that she really should to keep her energy up so she can help class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"There were a few times during that day that Natalie began to decline again, luckily both Helen and the Big Guy were there to administer more medication and get her back under control. It was now nighttime again, this time, it was Will who agreed to take the night shift. Knowing that Magnus and Biggie had a rough day, and now that Natalie had stabilised he didn't see the need for them to be here. He kicked them out, and Helen made him promise to call her the second anything went wrong, he agreed, shutting the door behind them. A few hours into the night and having received a decent amount of medication Natalie began to stir, her temperature had lowered considerably after her last couple of rounds of injections. She looked over and saw Will asleep in the chair next to her bed, this made her class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Continuing looking around the room, she could see the set-up that she had connected to her arm, this told her something terrible had happened, and she knew she was going to be in trouble for not telling her mother sooner. Trying to sit up a little, she groans, not having the strength to do this. This gets Will's attention, and he wakes./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Nat, your awake. Magnus will be so happy to hear this."/em He says as he gets up and makes his way to the phone. He calls Magnus telling her she needed to come down straight away, but left out that it wasn't because something was wrong. Turning back to rejoin Natalie he notices that she is still trying to sit up but failing, he runs over to help, helping by raising the head of the bed a little but not too much that she was fully sitting up./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It hadn't taken Magnus long at all to make her way back to the infirmary. After receiving Will's call, she thought that Natalie had begun to decline once again. Entering the infirmary, Helen was shocked. Not only was Natalie ok she was sitting up and awake,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Hi, mom,"/em Natalie said, a little croaky. She looked sheepishly at her mother, not knowing what to expect. Was she going to be yelled at for not telling her she was sick? Or was her mother going to be just glad she was better now?span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It took a few tries before Helen was able to speak, getting over the shock that her daughter was, in fact ok./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Dear God, Natalie, don't ever do that to me again, I was so worried."/em She told her daughter while coming over to give her a hug before quickly checking her vitals, making sure they were still good./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"I'm sorry, Mom, I was going to tell you. Things just went from bad to worse so quickly. How long was I out? Did you find out what it was I have?"/em Natalie asked Helen./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Over a day, luckily, I was there when you collapsed; otherwise, I might not have found you. I don't want to imagine what would have happened then."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Then don't, Mom, you were there. That's all that matters. So what is my diagnosis?"/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Somehow, you managed to catch a very resistant type of the flu, luckily, it was one I have a treatment for. We will need to keep up with the injections until you have fully recovered, don't give it a chance to come back."/em Helen explained while she finished checking her daughter's vitals. She continued, em"You should get back to sleep; you need the rest. Now that I know you're ok, I need some too."/em She looked at Will, em"You'll stay still just in case?"/em He nodded and said he would stay as long as he needed to. With that, Helen gave Natalie another hug before heading off to get some sleep of her own./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Helen allowed her daughter to leave the infirmary the next night under the pretence that she would stay in her room. That way, she was still close, and Helen could keep checking on her. She informed Natalie of the medication she had to continue to take, but with her daughter's own medical training, she was leaving this up to her to do. That way, she wouldn't need to stay hooked up to anything and would just need to do injections every four hours. It took almost a week for Natalie to get back to normal, and it was only then that Magnus told her off,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"You really should have come to me sooner."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"I thought I had it under control, I mean you saw my notes."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Still, things escalated quickly, if I had known, I would have allowed you to continue monitoring yourself. I would have just checked in more frequently to make sure, and I would have been more prepared when things went bad."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"All right, I know, next time I'll tell you, even if it's the smallest thing. I promise, only if you do the same."/em Natalie said, adding in that last bit. She knew her mother would have done the same for maybe even worse, trying to work through and pretending she wasn't sick at all. It wouldn't have been the first time she had done it, Helen was notorious for putting others before herself./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"…/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"strong…/strong/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It was now a few days after John had disappeared, and everyone one busy working except one. Magnus had just returned to her office after lunch and having spent most of her morning in the lab running some tests. She had some paperwork that needed to be done. As she had been going through the paperwork, she suddenly realised she hadn't yet seen her daughter that day. Usually, she would have at least seen her once or twice by now, but to have not seen her at all was a little worrying to Helen. She tried to contact Natalie on both her phone and the radio, but with no answer, she went on to see if anyone else had seen class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"With no one having seen her, Helen then went to search for her, starting with her office, which was just down the hallway from her own. Knocking at the door, she receives no response, so she opens it to find it empty; next, she tries the kitchen. Maybe she had been so busy that she was having a late class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"No, she wasn't there either, so the next place she thought could be the records room. Natalie had been spending a lot of her time down there as there were so many old files that she was determined to go through. This is where Helen went next, detouring through the abnormal levels to double-check that her daughter wasn't somewhere there checking on some of the patients. Helen had now reached the records room, and looking inside, she was surprised that Natalie wasn't there either. This was one of the last places she would have thought her daughter to be, the only place she had yet to check was Natalie's bedroom, but she couldn't possibly still be there. Natalie was like her, an early riser and would get straight to work first thing in the morning. Figuring this was her last option before really starting to worry that that's where she was headed./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Will had bumped into Helen on her way to her daughter's room,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Hey Magnus, any luck finding her?"/em He askedspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"No, nothing. I've got one last place to look. But if she's not there, I don't know where she would have gone."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"I'm sure she's here somewhere, maybe she's been moving around, and you keep missing each other."/em He said, trying to point out there could be another reason she couldn't find her,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem "Maybe your right Will, but surely she would have answered her phone or radio when I called."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Maybe she left them sitting somewhere and forgot to pick them up when she left. I'm sure you'll find her, and everything will be fine, I better let you go. Call me if you need help."/em Will said before heading back down the hallway. Helen thanked him before continuing to Natalie's room. Upon reaching her destination, Helen knocked on the door,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Natalie."/em No answer, so she tried again, em"Natalie, are you in there?"span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Still, no response, so she opens the door, she doesn't expect to see what she does. Usually, Natalie's room is kept neat and tidy, she would never leave her room in the state it was currently, her bed wasn't made, dirty clothes were on the floor also dirty dishes were on the table she had. This made Helen worry even more, something had to be wrong, but she first needed to find her class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"She made her way towards the bathroom door, wanting to check to see if she was in there first before leaving, that's when all of a sudden, she heard a loud noise coming from the bathroom. With the sound of glass breaking and something heavy hitting the floor, Helen quickly covered the last few steps to the door. Opening the door, she looks in to find her daughter collapsed on the floor. She makes her way to Natalie to check her vitals, and she finds that she is running an extreme temperature. That would explain why she had collapsed, but what caused her temperature, she didn't class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Helen quickly radioed for someone to help she needed to get Natalie to the infirmary as soon as possible, Will and the Big Guy were the ones to answer her call. When they arrived, they saw what was going on and helped get Natalie onto a gurney and began to make their way to the infirmary, Helen stayed back so she could see if she could find any indicators as to what was going on, but before they left, she instructed them that when they arrived to get an I.V into her as soon as class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Looking around the bathroom, Helen spots something next to the sink. It was an open notepad with something written on it. Upon closer inspection, she saw that her daughter had been trying to keep track of her illness. Writing down when she did a temperature check or when she took any medication, Helen also saw that Natalie had written her thoughts of what she had thought she had. Seeing this had made Helen both happy and sad, happy that her daughter had been keeping track of her symptoms but also sad she had let it get this bad and hadn't called her. She grabbed the notebook and made her way out, double-checking the bedroom quickly to see if there was anything class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Not seeing anything, she quickly made her way down to the infirmary. She needed to find out what was making Natalie so sick and stop it. Will sees her enter,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"We got her hooked up to the monitors, Big guy got an I.V. in, so she's getting fluids. But Magnus, her temperature is alarmingly high."/em He explains. Hearing this was not what Helen had wanted to hear. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything else but I.V. at the moment until she worked out what was causing it,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Until we know more, I can't give her anything. According to what I found on this, she already tried a few different treatments, but they don't seem to of had any effect. She's gone downhill very fast."/em Magnus said, looking over and seeing that the Big guy had now moved to take some blood so they could begin tests quickly. She silently thanked him, walking over to grab the blood. Turning, she made her way out and down the corridor to the lab, Will followed. That way, he was on hand if she needed his help./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"After what seemed like years but was really only an hour, Magnus had finally begun to get answers. The test came back indicating that Natalie had some sort of flu, Helen began to try different treatments on the sample she had, trying to work out the one that would work for Natalie. It took almost another hour before she found the right one, showing that Natalie had a highly aggressive type of flu, one that would take much work to combat. Knowing this, Magnus made her way back to the infirmary to begin treatments. She had sent Will back to his office, telling him there wasn't anything he could do at the time, she would call him if she class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Helen walked in and saw the Big Guy keeping an eye on Natalie, they had such a close bond, considering how little her daughter had been there growing up. Natalie's temperature hadn't gone down but hadn't risen anymore, so the I.V. was helping some. Seeing her daughter laying there unconscious was hard for Helen, but now she knew what she could do to help, she took the medication she had brought in with her and injected it into Natalie's I.V. she would need to repeat this every couple of hours until Natalie recovered. Helen then sent the Big Guy off to get some food and take some time to himself, she knew that Natalie wouldn't wake for a while, so she didn't need him at the class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Taking this time to just sit with her daughter that's how she spent the rest of the night. Will, Kate, and Henry had all come down to check in at some point, wanting to make sure that Helen didn't need anything. It was close to midnight when the Big Guy returned for the last time, ordering Helen to go and get some rest, as she would be no use to her daughter if she exhausted herself./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Go, I'll watch her. If something happens I'll call you."/em He told her while almost pushing her out of the room. Helen didn't like this but she knew he would not allow her back in unless she went and slept for a few hours or at least tried./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The following day Helen returned to the infirmary, having not been able to get any sleep, she went back to her office for a few hours and got some work done. Even though he knew that she hadn't slept Biggie allowed her to enter, she checked Natalie vitals which hadn't changed much, but they were showing the signs of returning to normal. The Bug Guy left to go get some food as he knew that Helen wouldn't have eaten anything yet, he return with a tray full of food and a pot of tea. Magnus smiled at this and thanked him, even though she wasn't hungry she ate what he brought her knowing that she really should to keep her energy up so she can help class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"There were a few times during that day that Natalie began to decline again, luckily both Helen and the Big Guy were there to administer more medication and get her back under control. It was now nighttime again, this time, it was Will who agreed to take the night shift. Knowing that Magnus and Biggie had a rough day, and now that Natalie had stabilised he didn't see the need for them to be here. He kicked them out, and Helen made him promise to call her the second anything went wrong, he agreed, shutting the door behind them. A few hours into the night and having received a decent amount of medication Natalie began to stir, her temperature had lowered considerably after her last couple of rounds of injections. She looked over and saw Will asleep in the chair next to her bed, this made her class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Continuing looking around the room, she could see the set-up that she had connected to her arm, this told her something terrible had happened, and she knew she was going to be in trouble for not telling her mother sooner. Trying to sit up a little, she groans, not having the strength to do this. This gets Will's attention, and he wakes./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Nat, your awake. Magnus will be so happy to hear this."/em He says as he gets up and makes his way to the phone. He calls Magnus telling her she needed to come down straight away, but left out that it wasn't because something was wrong. Turning back to rejoin Natalie he notices that she is still trying to sit up but failing, he runs over to help, helping by raising the head of the bed a little but not too much that she was fully sitting up./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It hadn't taken Magnus long at all to make her way back to the infirmary. After receiving Will's call, she thought that Natalie had begun to decline once again. Entering the infirmary, Helen was shocked. Not only was Natalie ok she was sitting up and awake,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Hi, mom,"/em Natalie said, a little croaky. She looked sheepishly at her mother, not knowing what to expect. Was she going to be yelled at for not telling her she was sick? Or was her mother going to be just glad she was better now?span class="Apple-converted-space" /span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It took a few tries before Helen was able to speak, getting over the shock that her daughter was, in fact ok./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Dear God, Natalie, don't ever do that to me again, I was so worried."/em She told her daughter while coming over to give her a hug before quickly checking her vitals, making sure they were still good./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"I'm sorry, Mom, I was going to tell you. Things just went from bad to worse so quickly. How long was I out? Did you find out what it was I have?"/em Natalie asked Helen./p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"Over a day, luckily, I was there when you collapsed; otherwise, I might not have found you. I don't want to imagine what would have happened then."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Then don't, Mom, you were there. That's all that matters. So what is my diagnosis?"/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Somehow, you managed to catch a very resistant type of the flu, luckily, it was one I have a treatment for. We will need to keep up with the injections until you have fully recovered, don't give it a chance to come back."/em Helen explained while she finished checking her daughter's vitals. She continued, em"You should get back to sleep; you need the rest. Now that I know you're ok, I need some too."/em She looked at Will, em"You'll stay still just in case?"/em He nodded and said he would stay as long as he needed to. With that, Helen gave Natalie another hug before heading off to get some sleep of her own./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px;" /p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"Helen allowed her daughter to leave the infirmary the next night under the pretence that she would stay in her room. That way, she was still close, and Helen could keep checking on her. She informed Natalie of the medication she had to continue to take, but with her daughter's own medical training, she was leaving this up to her to do. That way, she wouldn't need to stay hooked up to anything and would just need to do injections every four hours. It took almost a week for Natalie to get back to normal, and it was only then that Magnus told her off,/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"span class="Apple-converted-space" /spanem"You really should have come to me sooner."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"I thought I had it under control, I mean you saw my notes."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"Still, things escalated quickly, if I had known, I would have allowed you to continue monitoring yourself. I would have just checked in more frequently to make sure, and I would have been more prepared when things went bad."/em/p
p class="p3" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"emspan class="Apple-converted-space" /span"All right, I know, next time I'll tell you, even if it's the smallest thing. I promise, only if you do the same."/em Natalie said, adding in that last bit. She knew her mother would have done the same for maybe even worse, trying to work through and pretending she wasn't sick at all. It wouldn't have been the first time she had done it, Helen was notorious for putting others before herself./p
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