Love Malady (Wanda x Reader)

Two.

Present.
February 12th, 2021.

The night Buck got sick changed everyone's life. I waited hours for my phone to ring, giving me the 'okay homeboys fine.' but Jaime walked into my room with tear-stained cheeks telling me Buck didn't make it.
    
Then a couple days later after Bucks death one of the guys found Adam dead with the same symptoms. Then Pedro, then Jackson, then Shelli, and it killed off almost all of my fathers mob. The disease spreaded like a wildfire. From our home town to the city, the state then just did this hopscotch move and expanded around the whole world.

       The first year the doctors tried to keep it a secret but it flared so fast that society called it the 'Sinister Ash'. There was no cure when the officials realized it was airborne, literally nothing could cure anyone. Some were lucky with similarities of a stomach virus and a mild headache, and there were the less fortunate. Headaches, stomach bugs, fever and cancer like symptoms. The strong can work through it but it was permanent. The rest who had it worse? Died off just like Buck and Adam.

   "Why are you not eating?" My fathers voice rang me out of my thoughts with his thick Venezuela accent, I peeked at my father shrugging my shoulders. Grumbling, he focused his attention to Jaime as they went over the next move for their 'purloins'. I grabbed my plate walking towards the kitchen running the hot water over the greatest plate, a thud sounded in the dining room which caused my brother's name to boom out my fathers mouth. I ran towards the other side of the table to grasp my brother's shaking body, cursing under my breath. I dialed 911.

    "The ambulance is on the way, go Pa." I instructed my father watching his face fall, he sighed, placing his hand on my shoulder.

      "Our time has come, I love you, my child." he whispered, placing a soft kiss on my forehead making his way out the back. I cooed into Jaimes hair as I held him in my arms praying to the man above if he could not let this disease invade my brother's body.

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"Did you at least get the girl's number?" Jaime stated in disbelief when he woke up and saw the EMT worker reeling him into the ER. I chuckled, shaking my head playfully, pushing his shoulder.

"She was pretty.." I mumbled causing Jaime to widen his eyes pushing me back-

"I TOLD YOU!" he laughed out loud when the doctor walked in with a clipboard. A man around his 50's with a look that masked his face of light, but we all knew he was trying to survive like the rest of us.

"Good afternoon, I am Doctor Nives." The man spoke ever so gently but his beard gave me Cap vibes. I nodded my head looking at Jaime slipping my hand into his.

"So there's news, I do not know how you both will take it but-" he grabs the x-rays, placing them onto the screen that took up half of the wall next to Jaime. I watched as the deeper detailed body of my brother's chest caged clouds of red, black, and green.

"As you can see you have stage 2 of the Ashen, the red that covers this area here-" Dr. Nives circled the red that surrounded the upper left of my brother's chest.

"Covers your heart, but after running the test I see your  cells are fighting the virus and it knocks more time for you." A lump formed in my throat as the last 4 words flew out his mouth.

"Wait, what do you mean more time?" His eyes softened sending me a sympathetic look, Jaime gasped softly looking down at his hands.

"Well from the lab work it shows that you had 3 months, but at how good your cells are handling the virus you have 6 months to a year." He finished taking his gloves off and applying hand sanitizer,