18. Who Knew?

Charles sighed and took some supplies with him. He could smell the pheromone of Mariella. So far, they could only give her a bump and maybe get her sleep. He tried to think workable cocktail. 

Two said to the doorway and said, "I'll come with you, see if I can get something done. I might get hold of some of those memories. I can block them if she is sane at any time, so I can slip a kind of barrier against them, not let them come up. Number one, he's still on the soft end when it comes to Mariella, but the lady Mariella has learned to manipulate. Now I'm seeing it, smelling it too, and blocking it. But we'll probably see Mimi and see if we can get anything done for her. Where's Adam?"

Charles said, " He's helping Mimi. She rips cannulas out, runs away, hides, and screams. It is not nice, so try to bear it. One of us has to be holding her down mostly and trying to calm her down. So far we have managed to cannulate her, drip some of our bump, not much more and she is damn dehydrated and if she gets agitated, it is the war to her cannulated. "

Two grumbled and went to the computer. He fiddled for a while, the hatches opened, and he grabbed the jars of drugs with him. Putting them in his pockets. Similarly, he took needles and syringes with him.

Charles said, " There's a medbay linked there."

Two said, "Yes, but if I have to sedate her right away, this will be quicker. She has troubles with medbay and this way I can get her out cold with my dentals and these will keep her down until we get to medbay."

Mariella came to the door and said to Two. " Come on, unload with me too. You're not going to Mimi's. You belong to me and I need you, so come on. Forget Mimi for a while and think of me."

Two straightened up and walked over to Mariella. She tried to push her pheromone on him. He wrapped his arms around her neck and looked her in the eye, repeating softly, " What did you just say? Were you giving me a command? Are you sure you want me? I can and will continue to do so there. Your little pheromone won't work on me, sugar. I blocked it. Mimi is that important to me. More important than your greedy pussy. You should really think twice before you talk, or in this case, your pussy is doing to the talking."

Mariella swallowed, and Charles noticed Mariella was hurting. Then he realized that number two was manipulating her pain and agony chakras. Giving them energy, making Mariella feel quite freaking intense pain. Making her unable to speak at all.

He eased up a bit, letting her utter a few words, keeping his hand in place. To see if this lesson has got in her mind. "No, you go. We'll unload later. Just break your heart at Mimi's. I can guarantee your heart will break when Miss fears you." Her voice trembled. 

Two laughed and said, "Never think I'm number one. Remember Darlin. I am not that soft, not at all. "

Then he let go of Mariella, who stood for a moment and rubbed the back of her neck, grimacing. She went back to number one, and they teleported away.

They left by the portal. Number Two was ready. As soon as he noticed Mimi would be sane, he would slip into her mind to push back those hallucinations, making this treatment a little more efficient. It took only a moment to arrive via the portal room.

Charles inquired to Adam about the situation when they arrived, and Adam said, "Now it's a clearer period again. But the fever is so damn brisk, making her very restless and me being next to her is not helping her to cold down at all. I wonder if our bumps will help a bit. She is just healing from those marks. "

Number two slipped into Mimi's mind, putting up a very strong shield for her so no hallucinations would take her very easily over. 

Charles replied, " Yeah, we're coming with number two. Let's see if we can't calm her down a bit and make her easier to handle. Number two is trying to prevent those hallucinations."

They went into one bedroom, and Two felt a headache coming on almost immediately as he smelled Mimi's infection, sensed her distress, and knew that velvet would at least be on the way. Mimi was wrapped up in Adam and shaking. She was exhausted, scared, feeling sick, and not really able to keep her rage up all the time.

Adam held Mimi's hands so she wouldn't rip the cannula off where there was nothing but a sheer pure bump dripping from it. Mimi was sighing in distress, trying to wrench her hands-free, squirming in Adam's grip.

Two approached them and said, "Mimi, can you bear to be without Adam for a second so I can have a look at you?"

I was back in my right mind and said, "I can try, but I can't promise how long I can stay sane. When hallucinations start, I will move then and fast, too. Then there's no point getting upset if the hallucinations start again. "

Two said, "I'm in your mind. Do you feel? I'm trying to prevent them. There is quite a powerful shield in place already, so you are quite safe. Can you behave and let that cannula stay in place? You are damn dehydrated and your cannulation is difficult. We're going to treat you a little more effectively now. This is not enough treatment. Bump is not gonna be enough and I have my teeth quite ready to help you out."

I laughed tiredly, as I remembered the old days when that same individual put me on respiratory therapy. I was feeling so damn exhausted, sick, feverish, restless. Adam broke away from me, got out of bed, and went to the bathroom. Taking a shower, I can imagine, being next to me is a hot job, even for an energy creature.

Two came and sat on the side of the bed and said, "One is fine. He didn't put on energy shields when he operated on you, and Mariella was in a possessive mood. Now, missy, I'm going to do a little check-up on you, and then we'll see what we do."

His hands wandered on my face, gently but efficiently. I knew that there were some marks left in my hallucinations. He was using his senses and some spells to examine me.

He talked to me softly, " Now, the most likely thing I am going to do is to put you to sleep by shielding your thoughts all the time until you are deep enough so you don't trigger an allergic reaction. You need rest, nutrition, and antibiotics for that bug. I do know that, according to my teeth, you need velvet and lots of it. And I don't disagree, but I'll knock you out with a cocktail. Then I'll probably have some velvet on top of that. But for now, girlie, I'm gonna grope you through, and then we'll move on. "

He started feeling me up, taking the blanket off me, and said, " It may be rough, but you're almost 50 degrees Celsius again. I need to cool you down a bit. Next, I'll run you a bath that will cool you down at least a little, and then we'll go to the medbay, but you'll be asleep by then. Now, I am not gonna give you fever medication and wait for it to work but you are so beat that you, my lady, need some rest and it is number first on my list. This bath is only first aid, trying to put your metabolism a little slower than 18,9 that is it now. "

After he had gone through me, Adam and Charles came back, and Adam was already going to draw the bath when Two disappeared somewhere. He did not let them give me a blanket. 

Charles sat next to me and said, " Don't worry, we'll get this off. You'll be fine."

Then Adam came and unhooked the cannula, picked me up in his arms, and carried me into the tub.

He said, " This will feel cold when your fever is so really high, but this will help a little bit. This is actually 40,3 degrees, so it just feels cold. "

He put me in the tub. It felt as cold as the pool of ice, and I tried to bear it.

Adam sat on the side of the tub and said, "Raw, but effective, it will do you much good if we can cool you down at all. You are in very rough shape and let's see if we can help you get any better at all. "

He said after a while, "Now my lady, I will wash you and then get you resting."

Then he washed me, hair and all, which felt like heaven. His grips were firm and gentle, but he got the job done properly, too.

He lifted me out of the bath and onto the bed, and the number two was ready for me.

He said, "Miss, first you're going to have this liquid, drink this, the fever medicine, and we'll get that temperature down. This is a gentle way to get it dropping. Then we'll go from there."

I drank less than a decilitre of liquid, and it was mildly sweet but burned my mouth like a chili. Adam was drying me out a bit, and I was cold, but I held on. Number two was drying and braiding my hair. It was very rare for him to get braiding my hair at all and he seemed to enjoy it.

Two said. " Just relax. I know you're cold and freezing, but that medicine works pretty quickly. As you can feel it in your mouth, it's already partially absorbed from there. "

He got my hair done. I noticed just how tired I was. 

I was getting even more tired, and I said, "I don't think my fever's going to go down as I think I'm going to pass out."

Two looked at me and said, "I told you it would work, just sleep. I'll protect you. I told you, rest is best for you, and it is number one on my list for you."

I couldn't help the medicine as I closed my eyes and let the darkness take me.

Two cannulated Mimi again, now in a little better place as she was out cold, relaxed so he could thread it properly deep in her vein, and immediately pressed the cocktail that he had prepared in the cannula.

Then he said, " Well, now we can move her and start intensive care. I have not yet found the substance that Damien used to prevent Mimi's allergic reaction."

Charles said, "I don't think there is. Damien knew how far he could take Mimi and then he went into hiding, so to speak, that the reaction came from you. And it got worse after Damien convinced Mimi that he was just a part of you, not a separate part. After that, the reaction became more common. "

Two thought for a moment and grunted. "Maybe so, but maybe he had some substance, and that substance would be very important in a crisis like this. I heard one memory from her where Damien told her that there was a blocker against allergic reaction."

They carried Mimi to the medbay, and two took a tube of blood and sniffed the collectors in his teeth. Then the three of them examined Mimi's results, taken just over a week ago. The blood culture bottles were teeming with bacteria, and the two knew this was not an easy infection to treat.

But then he took the collectors out of his teeth, moved Mimi slightly to one side, and went over and sank his teeth into her neck, feeling them rooting in there in a hurry. And he was pleased, happy even, that he could do this. Soon, the teeth shut everything down, took over, and healed.

Charles said to Adam, "What do you think number one or Mariella will like that?"

Adam laughed, and then they went to eat. Two or his teeth had taken over Mimi's thermoregulation, and soon, her fever was on the decline and the men knew they had nothing to do now but wait until Two's teeth had done their work.