“It’s been over twenty years since a case…but she has it.” Simon said as looked in on the girl locked in the Galley store room. She had a sad look on her face, as if she didn’t understand what she had done wrong.

“You wanna tell me what we should expect?” Zoe said without hesitation.

“Please say this isn’t one of those drop you in 12 hour bugs?” Wash said with a gulp.

“The virus works on the areas of the brain that store traumatic or stressful memories, as your body overheats the memory cortex is stimulated causing a compulsive sensory expierence to encompass your entire sensory input channels in an oblique manner.” The Doctor said quickly, and folded his arms trying to think.

“Ok, back up and tell me in plain English.” Zoe said with the same deadpan glare.

“That was English?” Jayne said totally confused.

“Well, if the captain has been exposed, then we can expect him to hallucinate…wildly. He’ll be coherent, but not compliant for the most part. From his past I’d say we can expect violent outbursts, and irrational behavior.”

“Wait, how is that different from the way he is now?”

“This virus incubates incredibly fast…and this isn’t just a passing dream, he’ll be conscious and if we aren’t careful, he could kill one of us without even knowing it.”

“So what do we do? We can’t barge in there and tell Mal to hand over his gun.” Wash said growing worried about the situation.

“We need to sedate him, until I can figure out the right ratio of Gerisital to give him. If I get to him in time with the right dosage, we can cure him without any memory loss.”

“Memory loss?” Kaylee said with sort of a whimper. “You mean he could-“

“How much could he lose?” Preacher asked cutting straight to the heart of the matter.

“If we don’t treat him in less then 21 hours, he could lose days or even years, I just don’t know.” Simon said, looking down at his feet.

“Could he…die?” Kaylee asked fearing the worst.

“It’s possible that if the fever gets too bad…his body will shut down, and go int