Marlene Smith was walking towards the St. Mercy pharmacy's storeroom before her cellphone began to ring. "Hello?" the young pharmacist – nurse said into the cellphone receiver.

"Mary!" Lovi half shouted through the phone

"LOVI?!" Marlene shrieked before quieting her voice, "what the hell girl?! You just bailed from St. Mercy's and disappeared! I thought you were dead!"

"Mary, listen to me." Lovi began, "I need you to go on a run for me, I need ten bottles of fever reducers, paracetamol and pain relivers, maybe several IVs for intravenous antibiotics and antivirals and we're gonna need a shit ton of chicken soup."

"What the hell, you can't just call up and have me raid the pharmacy!" Marlene squawked as she hid in a storage closet.

"MARLENE THIS IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE! You owe me for all those bad dates I saved you from, Get what I asked or I'll tell on Janet that it was you that Marco cheated on her with." Lovi growled and Marlene faltered, "Okay, okay… is there anything else you need besides a shit ton of medication to treat an elephant with a super cold?"

"Apple sauce?" Lovi questioned on the other end.

"Apple- You know what? I don't wanna know. I'll just get it for you." And with that Marlene ended the call. "Apple Sauce and Chicken soup and the whole goddamn hospital…"

Interlude

Crosshair felt like he was boiling.

In a frantic flurry, the grey and blue quilt fluttered off the bed as Crosshair desperately sought out the cold. However, you know what they say. Be careful what you wish for. Within seconds Crosshair was shivering. This wasn't normal, it couldn't be. The last things before his mind echoed out was his skin registering cold, everywhere, and dark everywhere, cold and dark, cold and dark, cold and dark…

His eyes fluttered open when a slamming door resounded throughout the house. Female voices seemed to indicate that Loci and another woman would be locked in a catfight.

The door to his room swung open as Lovi rushed in, her arms full of bottles and wires and- wait, what the hell is going on?

Another woman, a brunette who was probably the one Lovi was having a screaming match with, followed after with her arms similarly filled with stuff.

Lovi was immediately at his side as soon as she'd emptied her arms, "hey, buddy. This my cousin Marlene, we're just going to help you to get better, okay?" she said in a rather shaky voice.

"Lovi what the hell is goin on…" Crosshair slurred as his mind went fuzzy again. The last thing he registered was needle being slipped into his arm and Lovi yelling at him to stay awake.

Interlude

Crosshair's body had suddenly went limp as Marlene inserted the IV into his arm and Lovi feared the worst. "Crosshair? Crosshair! Wake up! You need to stay awake!" the former nurse panicked.

"Lovi he'll be fine," Marlene snapped as she finished putting some intravenous antivirals into Crosshair's IV, "You owe me an explanation, why is the wanted criminal from Atlanta in your bedroom?!"

Lovi's gaze snapped up to Marlene's "He's no criminal. He's a sick man who needs help." Marlene's face then contorted with anger, "WHAT THE HELL LOVI?! First the bullshit about Matt calling you, then you disappear, then you calling asking for a shitload of drugs on a favor and now you're saying this guy aint a criminal?!"

"He didn't kill anyone!" Lovi retorted, "all I heard was that he'd crashed a plane into an apartment building and nobody got hurt! The incident even helped to discover a murderer in hiding!" Marlene huffed, "and how sure are you that this guy isn't a murderer?" Lovi's gaze fell back to Crosshair's pale face, "I just do."

Marlene looked between Lovi and the clone before the realization dawned on her, "Oh my god…" Marlene gasped and Lovi snapped her gaze up to her, "what?" Lovi asked before Marlene gripped her shoulders, "Lovi are you crazy?! You can't possibly…" the young woman trailed off, in shock of what she was thinking. Lovi then crossed her arms and glared at her cousin, "idiot, he's my patient, not my boyfriend." She quipped.

"LOVI, ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING THROUGH YOUR HEAD-?!" Marlene shouted before getting cut off by a deep groan.

"Good stars… can you two fight somewhere else…" Crosshair grumbled before rolling over onto his side. "Crosshair! Be careful…" Lovi spoke as she rushed to his side to make sure his IV didn't back up.

"You're in over your head girl." Marlene spoke disapprovingly, "I saw that armor downstairs, his accent? What if he's Russian?" Lovi scoffed in annoyance, "Don't be an idiot Mary, he's not Russian."

"Hey…"

Both women turned to look at the clone.

"I meant it when I said you two could get out and kill each other outside."

Lovi huffed and smiled at him, "sorry, my cousin's being unreasonable." Then Lovi's demeanor turned sour and she ushered her cousin out of the room.

"Lovi!" Marlene protested, "You know I could be right. No one who has abs like that is ever a good guy."

Lovi froze for a moment, "he does have nice abs… -I wait WHAT?!"

"SEE!" Marlene huffed, throwing her arms up into the air, "You're in love with him!"

"I barely even know him!" Lovi shouted, obviously fuming.

"Here's what, I'll help you take care of him, then we'll chuck him off to the cops or I'll tell your dad." Marlene snapped as she sat down on the sofa, glaring up at Lovi who huffed like a petulant child before going back up to check on her patient.