"Time" After Time

Chapter 6: What Now?

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Nic continued to take care of the feverish Juni for most of the night. At 3:01 AM, Nic was exhausted after a 12 hour shift the day before, and just wanted to sleep. At the same time Juni was still thrashing around.

Finally, an idea came to Nic's mind, in the year 2025, they supposedly were used to functioning with a higher level of electromagnetic radiation caused by the cold fusion that allowed time travel. Some pamphlet he'd got, somewhere.. ahh... that was it; it was called "jet lag" as a turn of phrase that had it's origins in that of the airplane and pioneering flight.

They'd given him some tablets at the hospital, in case his special patient needed them, thank god for small miracles. But, how could he have been so stupid, to put his patient through this much suffering?  All because Juni had seemed fine.

He put Juni's head between two pillows and swept her hair off of her face, the black locks twisting in waves in tangled locks around her head.

Nic slipped off the bed and raced to his living room where he had a bottle of the pills... They were supposed to recreate the conditions of the future; something to do with radiation levels... It was medicine from the future, he was just a resident; Nic couldn't be expected to know everything that hadn't happened yet.

The pill was about the size of a vitamin C tablet, and according to the label of the bottle; contained 300mg of radium-nitrogen per tablet. Nic took the purple pill and and ran back to his room, where Juni had finally stilled. Once the pill was placed between her lips it started to dissolve; and within minutes Juni opened her eyes.

"Whaat are you doing in my room!" she yelled, then looked around, "Wait... am I in your room?" Juniper was NOT a happy camper.

She looked wildly around the room, then tasted the medicine on her tongue. "I   was sick?" she asked hesitantly.

"Y-eah, Nic said slowly, Did you read up about some of the dangers of time-travel?"

With a blank look Juniper shook her head, "No, not really... I mean, I'm not unintelligent, there is a small percentage of people who suffer dissolution on a molecular level during the transfer. But they never wake up, they arrive looking like some sick piece of hamburger."

As Juniper watched Nic's face, he rapidly changed expressions and deminor from the laughing man of last night to the serious medical professional he would one day be. "That can happen?" he said in a choked voice, shocked.

"I was talking about radiation sickness, you're used to such high levels of radiation that our low levels of it changed the way your body's system is used to running. Your blood pressure, heart rate-- everything was put out of wack!"

"Ohhh, now I get it, Juniper said with a wry smile... isn't it after midnight now? I think you deserve someone to help you bring in the new year." Despite her aching body and possibly sweaty skin, she reached up and pulled her arms around Nic's neck. "Happy New Year!" she said. "I'm officially in the year 2000 A.D. Then she pulled Nic a heartbeat closer and planted a small peck on his lips; Nic leaned forward; only to be pushed back by a grinning Juni.

"Ha, so much for me being too young for you." she whispered suductively, then laughed, "Have a good sleep." Much to Nic's chargain she hopped out of his bed with relative ease and walked down the cedar hallway to her room, still laughing silently to herself she shut the door and slid under the covers. Almost instantly she was asleep.

Nic watched her walk away from him in silence; there was no point in trying to sleep right then anyway because he was more then a little turned on. Suddenly Nic jumped up and walked to the other end of his house where his little "work out room" was. His mind still on on Juni's kiss, quick as it had been as he hopped on the treadmill for a late-night run.

He set the timer to 30 minutes and began to run, he didn't put any music on, or turn on the T.V. like her usually did, somehow those CD's and VHS tapes that he'd been recently watching held little appeal. After 15 minutes of the run his body was dripping with sweat, so he took off his muscle shirt and tied it around his head to stop the sweat.

In fact, Nic was so deeply involved in his thoughts, if he really was the right person for the job that he never saw Juni walk up to the door frame and watch him run. After a moment of watching him, she smirked and crept away.

And Nic kept running....

About an hour later Nic finished his workout and dragged his sweaty body to the shower at around 4:00 A.M. he knew he'd be suffering from sore muscles later but right then he didn't care... he soaped himself down and washed off his sweat. When Nic finally got to sleep it was 4:30 AM, he was asleep before his head hit the pillow.

 

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