He's not on Tarsus anymore, the abrupt change in scenery unnoticed as blinding pain shoots up his spine and into his head. Jimmy wakes, all but collapsed on the floor of the bathroom at the Kirk farmhouse, and Sam's concerned face hovers over him. A cool hand touches his forehead, and he shivers from the fever, trying to lean into the touch before the sharp pain in his back stops him at once.
"Jeez, Jimmy, you're burning up. Why didn't you say something?"
The words don't want to come, but he forces them out, past the pain in his head. "I thought it was nothing..."
Sam says a bad word, one that he's heard Frank use when he thinks no one is listening, and there's the sound of running water before something cool and wet slaps over his forehead. "Stay right there. I'm getting Frank. You've gotta go to the hospital."
"I can't, I've got a test today, I can make it..." His protest is weak, though, and Sam is already too far away to hear, his footsteps thudding away down the stairs as he hollers for their stepfather.
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He's not on Tarsus anymore, the abrupt change in scenery unnoticed as blinding pain shoots up his spine and into his head. Jimmy wakes, all but collapsed on the floor of the bathroom at the Kirk farmhouse, and Sam's concerned face hovers over him. A cool hand touches his forehead, and he shivers from the fever, trying to lean into the touch before the sharp pain in his back stops him at once.
"Jeez, Jimmy, you're burning up. Why didn't you say something?"
The words don't want to come, but he forces them out, past the pain in his head. "I thought it was nothing..."
Sam says a bad word, one that he's heard Frank use when he thinks no one is listening, and there's the sound of running water before something cool and wet slaps over his forehead. "Stay right there. I'm getting Frank. You've gotta go to the hospital."
"I can't, I've got a test today, I can make it..." His protest is weak, though, and Sam is already too far away to hear, his footsteps thudding away down the stairs as he hollers for their stepfather.