Coughing (any friend)

[igloogirl]

Gabriella's stomach gave a strange lurch as she stumbled into a deserted classroom. Her head began to spin and she fell onto a desk. It was about three in the morning, but that didn't stop her from being wide awake and wandering the castle. Except now, she felt sick. Maybe things would have been okay if she wasn't a vampire. But, she was, and vampires weren't supposed to get sick.

Suddenly, the room seemed to lurch and Gabriella felt a sticky sensation as a blue-ish silver liquid flowed out of her mouth and onto the floor. The room spun briefly before she saw it. She gasped, but this only threw her into a fit of coughing, throwing up more and more of the substance. She knew what it was. If vampires didn't human blood after a period of time, usally around six months, they would die. The death would begin with them coughing up their vampiric blood...which was blue-ish silver.

I'm dying, Gabriella thought, her mind in a panic. Her feet were frozen to the ground, as she continued to cough. Her headache was growing worse, her stomach pain was unbearable, but it was nothing next to the feeling in her throat. Dying seemed the only thing to describe it. A momentary lasp in the coughing allowed Gabriella to take a shaky breath. "Help!" she tried to say, but her voice came out as a raspy whisper. "Help!" she tried again, coming out this time only a little above a classrom voice. The door burst open just as she began to cough again.

[lily]

Ariana had been skipping along the corridor in the dark, ignoring her injury from the summer. When she heard the squelshing noises she stopped and stared at the open door. She heard a faint rasp...someone was hurt. Afraid of who it might be, Ariana slid into the classroom and saw a red head bent over, vampire blood at their feet. "GABBY!" She shouted in horror, her stomach lurching at the sound and image of puke and blood. "You need to get help..." She pulled out her wand and cleaned up the mess. When Gabby had reached a small period of not vommiting anymore, she conjured a stretcher and laid her down on it. Ariana began to push the stretcher down the hall, shouting for anyone.

[igloogirl]

"No!" Gabriella hissed at her. "They can't know. Just go get Cici!" Before Gabriella could say any more, her body began to shake with another violent fit of coughing. This time, however, no vampire blood came out of her mouth. Gabriella knew it was only a momentary thing before she started to throw up her own blood again.

[lily]

Ariana sighed and continued to heave the stretcher as fast as she could through the corridor. "CICI!!!" She screamed as she used the stretcher to push open the hospital wing doors. She continued to scream for her, wishing she would show up.

[calcetines]

Angel was absently wandering in the hall, looking very tired and thiner than normal. Full moon had been last night, thankfully her potion had been ready just in time, but she still looked ill. She looked up and saw Ariana and Gabriella, on a stretcher looking very ill. Angel was suddenly wide awake as she sprinted to the scene. Immediately she knew. And knew what to do. But getting Gabriella to listen to her would be the tough part. "My blood is half-human, it'll be enough to sustain her for a little while!" Angel cried, shoving her arm in front of Gabriella's mouth. "Drink. I won't die, I cannot be changed." She had the nagging feeling that Gabriella would refuse, but she had to do this to save her life...

[lily]

Ariana turned away. Blood always made her head spin. She bit her lip, wishing she would wake up from the nightmare. This shouldn't be happening, everything was perfectly normal...

[calcetines]

Angel looked at Gabriella, intelligent blue-green eyes pleading with her. Almost telling her If you don't bite me I'll just have to kill you myself. She braced herself for the pain of the venom, knowing it would make her violently ill, but it wouldn't kill her. She would do it for her cousin, she knew she would taste horrible, but at least she would still be alive. "Please." Angel whispered, then slid her eyes closed, she didn't want to watch.

[rebel]

Jasmine burst into the room, looking around. She was half dressed, no robes and only one sock, her hair halfway up into a messy ponytail. She had seen Gabby, and new what was happening. Problem was, she didn't know how to solve it. "Gabs... DON'T YOU DARE DIE!" she yelled. "Dealing with your death won't be as painful as..." she was never able to finish, for tears burned into her eyes. Pulling herself together, she wanted to give the bad news after everyone had solved their own problems. Gabby had to come first.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella's mind was racing. She desperately didn't want to bite Angel, but if she didn't, she would die. And if she did, Angel would get very sick. Gabriella bit into her arm and took just the smallest amout of blood. Next she sucked all of her venom back into her mouth and swallowed. "Thanks," she said slowly, pushing herself off of the stretcher.

[lily]

Ariana collapsed on the bed, her head spinning. Her stomach lurched and she puked all over the floor. The room spun, making her stomach worse. Ariana's head throbbed and her stomach seemed to drop. Slowly everything around her faded into black...

[igloogirl]

Gabriella pulled out her wand and cleaned up the mess, too stunned to say anything. Next, she focused her energy on Angel's arm, healing it quickly. Finally she sat on the bed, her eyes still on Ariana when she remembered that Jasmine had mentioned something..."What were you saying Jasmine?" she asked, looking toward her other cousin.

[lily]

Ariana could remotley understand the conversation, but she still felt ill. She had hoped this wouldn't happen infront of her family. No one was supposed to know she was sick, she didn't want them to know. Ariana tried to focus on the conversation, still feeling like she would puke and looking at the dark room.

[rebel]

Jasmine bit her lip, holding back tears. "My dad... he's dead." she replied slowly, still holding the tears back, she didn't want anyone to know, but it was for the best. "I got the letter from my mother this morning. Their sending his body back here, to be buried in the cemetary, next to Uncle Fred."

[calcetines]

Angel gasped, then without any hesitation threw her arms around Jasmine, and over her cousin's shoulder she looked to Gabriella. "Go and run to a muggle morgue. You can drink from someone already dead, can't you? My blood won't-" Angel's sentence fell short, her breath was coming in short bursts. There was still venom in her... It felt as though every inch of her was on fire, constricting her movement. Her heart was beating four times faster than normal, but her breathing rate was only barely able to keep up with it... She broke into a cold sweat, she was trembling, but she felt very hot.

Angel collapsed to the ground, in some sort of a violent seizure. She was unable to control her movements, she didn't know which direction was up... There wasn't an ounce of logic left in her brain, for that was burning too... Her eyes rolled up into her head, so all that could be seen was whiteness. The illness paused for a moment, Angel knew it would only be a moment, it wasn't near over. She vomited. "Go- to the- god-damn- morgue, Gabs!" Angel gasped in a hoarse whisper. "I'll- be alright. The- only- FUCKING- way for- this- to- stop- is- waiting- the- FUCKING- thing out!" She then lapsed into another episode, this one more violent.

[igloogirl]

Gabriella had been stunned to silence by Jasmine's news, but now words burst from her mouth. "Ang!" she yelped, jumping down to pin down her cousin as she shook. "No, I tried to take it back! No, why did it stay?!" She ignored the things Angel was saying, she didn't need blood for the moment, she needed her cousin to be alright.