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opened from the far side of Katie’s bedroom and he took two large steps across the small space. It felt like it took him an hour to reach the door, even though in his mind he realized it must have been-- no more than an instant.
    He knocked forcefully on the door to Katie’s bathroom, noticing that it was slightly ajar. As his knuckles struck the wooden surface, the door slid open slowly.
    Jason took a deep breath and stepped inside. He decided that he should cover his bases in case she merely happened to be wearing headphones, or there was some other equally mundane explanation for her silence.
    “I knocked and no one answered, so I let mys…” he stopped dead in his tracks.
    He couldn’t finish his sentence. He saw Katie sitting in her bathtub, her arms wrapped around knees that were drawn up to her chest, her head lying on her knees and lolling to one side.
    She was, if he was not mistaken, naked.
    He stopped breathing, he stopped moving, he stopped thinking, he just…stopped.
    Until he began shivering. He felt the chill in the air and realized that the temperature in the house must be in the fifties, if not below. He felt air blasting out of all of the vents.
    “Katie,” Jason said firmly, trying to get her attention.
    “Katie!” he tried again, his voice even more loud and insistent – but she didn’t move. Didn’t even open her eyes. He walked slowly to the tub and knelt down next to it. He touched the top of her head and realized that the wet strands of golden hair atop her head were ice cold.
    He then reached out to trail his fingertips along the surface of the water, but the instant his skin made contact, he immediately pulled back his hand. The water was freezing.
    “Katie what are you doing? Are you okay?” He asked stupidly. Now the panic was not merely hovering around the edges of his voice, it had overtaken it.
    She didn’t answer. Damn it! She obviously was not okay.
    Without a second thought, Jason plunged his arms into the bathtub and lifted her limp body up and out of the freezing water as the icy liquid splashed at his feet.
    Katie was shaking, trembling like a leaf, and when he looked down at her face lying against his shoulder, he saw that her lips were slightly blue. Jason frantically glanced around the bathroom for a towel but none were in sight.
    He stood paralyzed for a moment, unsure about what to do next, but then he thought – what's almost like a towel? A blanket!
    As that thought occurred to him, he tightened his grip on her and rushed back into her bedroom, making a beeline to her bed and laying her gently down on it.
    As he laid her down and then sat next to her, he could not help but look down at her body. He was only human. God, she was incredible!
    Jason, knock it off, he chastised himself. God. What was he doing! He had to make sure she was conscious.
    “Katie wake up! Katie! Wake up, baby!” he said loudly as he shook her shoulders.
    Her head rolled to the side and her eyes fluttered briefly and then shut again. He took that as a good sign.
    “I thought it was you, I thought it was you, I thought it was you, Jason,” Katie repeated in a raspy whisper. She then opened her beautiful blue eyes wide and made steady eye contact with him. When he saw that she was both conscious and present, he let out a breath that, up until that moment, he had not even realized he was holding in.
    “It IS me Kit Kat. It’s okay, I’m here,” he said, using his best soothing tone to try to comfort her.
    “I’m so cold…I was so hot, now I'm so cold,” Katie mumbled, and then her teeth started chattering.
    Jason instinctively pulled off his shirt and lay over her, encompassing her icy skin with the warmth of his body.
    He had learned in the Boy Scouts that the fastest way to raise a person's body temperature to normal levels is by using your own body heat. That was the only reason why he was doing this!
    He mentally shook his head at himself. Sure, Sloan. Anything you need to tell