S3 EP15: Green Fingers
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Aria

I woke up in the morning feeling like death. I barely slept because I was up all night coughing and sneezing. I've never been this sick before, let alone ever really sick. I yelled for my dad and he came running into my room.

"I feel like death, dad." I groaned, shoving two tissues up my nose before I coughed. He backed away and tripped over the trash can.

"Charlotte just came in and she's dying too. What the butt is happening to you guys?"

I wrapped a blanket around my shoulders and followed my dad out of my room to the Man Cave. Charlotte was sitting at the control panel with tissues piled up on the floor around her feet. Jasper was holding a painting pallette and waited for my dad to finish painting the sculpture of his head.

I sat down on the circular couch with my blanket wrapped around me and my face basically buried inside of it. The elevator doors opened and Henry walked out of them. 

"Hey everybody." Henry said, sliding his backpack off his shoulder and then coughing horribly. I guess he's sick too, just like me and Charlotte. 

"Hey Henry."

"Hey Hen-" I cut myself off as both Charlotte and I sneezed, then when she stopped, I started to cough. 

"No sneezing."

I turned my head and glared at my dad, "Oh, sorry. I guess I'll just plug my nose up then." 

Henry looked over at me and Charlotte and how we both looked extremely terrible. I grabbed a tissue from my hoodie pocket and blew my nose before tossing it over onto Charlotte's pile of dirty tissues under the control panel. 

"Hey, you two sick too?" Henry asked us to which I dropped my tissue and gave him one of my looks. 

"No," Charlotte replied, "I'm just collecting a giant pile of dirty tissues." 

"That's gross." 

"And I'm just shoving tissues up my nose because it's cool. Obviously we're sick Henry. You are too." I told him as I, once again, coughed at least four times.

The sprocket opened up and Schwoz came running down them with a batch of cupcakes in his hands. 

I immediately jumped up from the chair and sprinted over to Schwoz, Henry grabbing my arm to stop me from falling on my face. I had immediate head rush too, so that wasn't fun. 

"Hey, Henry or Aria, grab me one, would you?" Jasper asked as he pointed to the delicious looking cupcakes. 

"Uh yeah, sure." 

We both reached out to grab a cupcake off the tray until Schwoz screamed and the tray of cupcakes flew across the Man Cave. 

I screamed, Charlotte spit out her water, and my dad ruined his painting of himself. I'm not surprised. 

While we all stared at Schwoz, who was covering his mouth and his nose,  ran to the secret door and enclosed himself inside of it. 

"What's going on with him?" My dad asked all of us, a look of anger somewhat in his face from the mess up of his painting. 

"I don't know," Henry started, "he's acting kind of-" All of sudden, Henry started to cough again. 

"Ugh, am I going to have to listen to the all day?" 

"Yes you are dad. Deal with it." I stated, while Jasper, Henry and Charlotte all applauded me for talking back to my dad. Last time I did this was when he refused to let me see Henry.

"Do I have to ground you again Aria?"

My eyes widened and I sunk back down onto the couch knowing that I didn't want to get grounded because then I wouldn't be able to see Henry for a while again. 

"Uh hey,  you know my whole family's sick too?" Henry decided to break the argument up between me and my dad. 

"No."

"Jasper, how you feeling?" Henry ignored my dad and asked Jasper, who looked as if he's never been sick before. 

"Great," I dropped my mouth at Jasper, "just getting a little tired of holding these paints."

"Higher." 

The secret door beeped and Schwoz came out wearing what seemed like a gas mask on his head. My head cocked to the side as my eyebrows scrunched together in confusion. 

"Hello," Schwoz started, barely audible, "so, uh, did anybody here recently go into my science laboratory...?"

"Uh, yeah!" 

Henry and I walked up to Schwoz, "You sent me, Charlotte, Aria and Jasper there on Thursday." 

"What did you do Schwoz?" I grit my teeth together as Henry had to hold me back so I don't spring myself onto Schwoz's body and tackle him. 

"To put labels on your beakers." 

"Okay..." Schwoz turned to us all, "well, I may have did a bad thing."

This boiled my blood in my whole body, and I'm pretty sure Henry felt it as well. He wrapped his arms around me and pushed me against him as he kissed my neck in reassurance that everything would be fine. 

"You know how I always wanted to be famous, by curing so terrible disease?"

We all said yeah at the same time.

Schwoz took a breath, "So I figured that the fastest way to come up with a cure was to create my own terrible disease!" 

"WHAT?!" 

We turned to my dad and saw that he was smiling as he said, "Ah, classic Schwoz." 

While we all argued with Schwoz about how and why he gave us this 'disease' of some sort, my breathing became unsteady and my hand instantly flew to my chest. With my free hand, I yanked on Henry's jacket as the both of us fell to the ground. 

"Aria? Are you- what's wrong?"

I couldn't answer him, I was in deep panic and anxiety mode that if I get too much anxiety from an attack, my body relaxes but I still black out for quite a while.

I know I blacked out because when I woke up, I wasn't down in the Man Cave, I was with Henry at his house, along with Charlotte and my dad.

"Wh-what happened?" I asked, letting out a sharp, yet painfully, cough right afterwards. 

Henry wrapped the sides of the blanket around me and my head found his lap, his hands playing with my hair, "We're quarantined right now, and so is your dad. He said he couldn't get sick but look at him, he's so...sick."

"I am not sick. Ray doesn't get-" I winced as my dad sneezed and fell of the little step in front of the door. 

While everyone was groaning and moaning all over the downstairs of Henry's house, Piper tthought she was 'well enough' to go to some music festival that was going on here in Swellview. 

"Piper, just stay here okay? We're all sick, and that means none of us can go anywhere, jeez." I rasped out, grabbing the water from the table in front of me. 

***

Henry

Everything got worse in the time that Schwoz left my house. Ray was dragging himself across the kitchen floor with his elbows, Charlotte was in front a fan with a rag, and me and Aria were bundled up with a blanket. 

I lifted my ands up and screamed at each one. They were almost covered in green. Aria looked at hers and started to cry. 

"Char...Charlotte," I dragged the two of us over to the edge of the couch, "look at our fingers." 

Charlotte screamed and fell to the floor, and my mom was next to us groaning on the couch. I pulled my phone out from the blanket and dialed Schwoz's number. 

"Yeah, go for Schwoz."

"Hello?"

"Hi Henry! I'm almost ready with the cure, just need a little more blood from Jasper." From the back of the phone, I could hear Jasper protesting about his blood. 

"Just...please...hurry..." And with that, my phone slipped from my hand and shattered on the floor, Schwoz's voice lingering. 

The sound of the fridge opening and Ray near it caught my attention. I rolled off the couch, falling over myself as I held onto the island where Ray was at. 

"Ray, you can't- you can't eat that." I struggled to get out when Ray was opening the bowl of chicken.

"But I'm so hunry, I got to eat something," his eyes buldged open, "hey, what's wrong with my mouth? I can't open my mouth!" 

I told Ray that one of the side affects to Schwoz's crazy disease was lock jaw. Unfortunately for Ray, he didn't understand it and, weirdly enough, to prove it to him, I pulled out a lock from my pocket and pointed to my jaw. 

A knock was present on the door and I half expected Schwoz to be back saying he didn't have a cure for his terrible disease. 

"Hello, how's everyone doing?" 

"How do you think we're doing? We're currently dying right now al thanks to-" Aria shut up and started to cough. 

"Great!" He dug into his bag out pulled out test tubes, "Now look everyone, I brought the cure!" 

WE all immediately ran to get it was Schwoz stupidly, and purposely, tripped over the small stepped and let it shatter all over the floor. Ray pushed through everyone and tried to eat the cure by spreading it over his teeth in hopes of saving himself. 

"I'm just kidding!" Schwoz started to laugh.

"What the butt!" 

Schwoz continued to laugh, going back and pulling out another tray of test tubes. I grabbed Aria's hand and pulled the two of us over to the tray, noticing that there was one left. 

"What do we do? There's only one left." Aria said, her body shaking from the coldness of the sickness. 

"Share. You drink half, and I'll drink the other. "

We drank it,a nd let me just say, it was so digusting I could puke it out, but I didn't. I just oughed and started to wipe my mouth along the sleeve of my jacket. 

"Now what happens?" Charlotte asked form the chair.

"Well, now you might all start experiencing a bit of shaking and/or twitching, but it could take a few minutes-" 

My dad fell off the back of the couch, Aria fell flat against my stomach her whole body twitching, my hands smacking her as my body was twitching as well. After abut thirty seconds, the twitching stopped and no one talked. 

"Did-did it work?" 

I looked down at my hands, and the green started to fade away. I grabbed Aria's hands to look at hers, and the green was gone too. I smiled big, pulling my girlfriend into my lap as I kissed her. 

"Awe, look at the two greenless lovebirds." 

While my mom and dad chased Piper outside, me, Aria, Charlotte and Ray all stared down Schwoz who was nervously walking backwards to the door as we followed him. 

Bork was outside and picked up Schwoz, setting him down into the cart as Ray pushed him out into the streets. A car hit, and the cart came flying back onto my doorstep all smashed. 

"Maybe that'll teach to not make a killer disease."