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Requested by hallescomet97. Please feel free to send in more requests for this story or other fandoms if you want a one-shot. If it is a fandom I have written for or known, I may be able to write a one shot.

Nick's POV

I had kept hoping that this would all just blow over like the swine flu or SARS. I couldn't even really remember those outbreaks too well. But this outbreak was scary. And it certainly didn't help that a lot of people we not taking it seriously. Though, I guess that could be the news report's fault. People seem to think that they are either immune or they are fine with taking the risk of going out, despite the warnings to stay home. I have read the reports and people seem to believe that this is an 'old people's' illness. It's insane how people are ignoring that people in their twenties are dying from this. It is crazy that people can even ignore the reports of babies getting this illness. How can people not be worried because I am; I am friggin' scared. This outbreak is getting scarier and scarier by the minute and I wish that more people would start taking it seriously.

I was trying to keep calm and not get too worked up. It was difficult but I was managing. With Jeff and Clark home now that the schools and colleges have closed, I did not want to worry them with how anxious the whole situation was making me. I had to be okay for them.

"Hon, did you hear that they are locking down the county?" Jeff told me as he made some breakfast one morning.

"They should." I responded. "It's ridiculous how people aren't taking this seriously." I had to go out for a prescription yesterday. It had been the first time I had gone out in over two weeks since I bought a bunch of groceries. I noticed huge lines in front of a few stores and I noticed all the parking lots were packed; even for home depot. "We aren't working for a reason. We have to stay home or else people are going to keep getting sick."

"I mean not everyone can stay home, Nick."

"That is true." I knew there were people that still had to go to work. "But seriously, you didn't see the traffic yesterday, I doubt it's an emergency for everyone I saw out yesterday." I looked at Jeff and I could tell he was seeing my point. "I saw one woman giving me a look yesterday." I added.

"The mask and gloves you wore probably scared her."

"Well, good. Everyone should get scared."

"Nick—"

"I am serious Jeff." I don't think I could be more serious about anything else. "There are people who don't care and I would rather take the extra precautions since I doubt half the people shopping yesterday would care if they passed something along to me." It was the same reason why people were hoarding the toilet paper and not leaving any for others. And I had to do whatever necessary to protect myself, Jeff, and Clark from this.

"Okay, okay." Jeff nodded, accepting what I was saying. "But I am sure this will eventually blow over. But for now lets try to look on the bright side."

"There is a bright side?"

"You, me, and Clark are here together. We are staying safe." Jeff pointed out; he had me there. It did give me some peace with being together. Jeff pulled me into a hug and he kissed me on my temple. I would have held on longer, but I didn't want him to burn the food.

"So speaking of which, where is Clark?" I asked as Jeff put the plates of food on the table.

"Probably asleep." Jeff didn't sound completely sure. "Or maybe he's out for a run. He sometimes does that."

"Yeah, when Mandy is around." I laughed. I think she was the one that got him into that; and I doubt he started doing it for the exercise. "I hope he isn't running with her." The thought occurring to me that he could try that. Not that I don't like Mandy, I do, but I didn't want Clark taking any unnecessary risks.

"Well lets go check and see if he's—" Before Jeff could finish that statement, the ground beneath us started rumbling and we heard everything starting to shake and rattle. I looked in front of me as some china plates we had placed on top of the cabinets fall onto the floor shattering as everything continued to shake. My eyes widened, just staring. I couldn't move as if I were glued to the floor.

"We need to get outside!" I heard Jeff's voice. A moment later I felt him put his hands against my cheeks as he then took my hand, forcing me to follow him.

"Clark…" Was the only thing I managed to say, but it was barely audible. What if he was upstairs? We hadn't been able to check before it started. Does he know he should get outside? I wasn't sure if Jeff heard me as he pulled me out the door and he held me in his arms on the grass as the ground shook for another few moments. When it was over, I almost didn't realize it at first because I was still trembling.

"It's okay, love." Jeff said. "It's over…" Was it really over? "Wow, now I know how the cast of The O.C. felt." Jeff added. Was that seriously the first thing he thought of after an earthquake? "I mean…I never thought I'd feel one…let alone one like that." I guess I could give him that. It's not like we lived on the fault lines in California.

Cl…Clark, where is he?" I asked, louder as I managed to stand up and headed back into the house. We had to step over the coat rack that had fallen over.

"Wait, Nick…" Jeff was following behind. "We don't even know if he is here."

"Dad!" I could hear Clark's voice coming from upstairs.

"Does that answer your question?" I snapped before running up the stairs. "Clark?!" I went into his bedroom and found him sitting on his bed. "Are you hurt? Are you okay?" I wrapped my arms around him, holding him in a tight hug.

"Yeah…I'm okay." Clark said. "Dad…too tight." But I didn't let go. I didn't want to let go. I was relieved that he was okay but just a minute ago all I could think of was the worst. What if he had gotten hurt? What if his dresser fell over? And even worse, what if he wasn't here and he had gotten hurt? What if no one had helped him?

"Nick," Jeff placed a hand on my shoulder, taking me away from those thoughts. "I think you're squeezing the life out of him." I blinked and then let go of Clark. He took a breath.

"Was that an earthquake?" Clark asked.

"Yeah it was." Jeff nodded as he sat next to Clark on the bed.

"Why didn't you come outside?" I didn't understand why Clark just sat here while it happened. He should have known that it is safer to be outside. "It's not safe to just stay put."

"I was asleep." Clark answered. "By the time I realized what was happening, it stopped."

"And then you thought you would just sit here afterwards? You didn't think to come find us—"

"Nick, it's okay." Jeff cut me off. I glanced away from his gaze. "He's okay. We're okay."

"No! But what if—"

Jeff cut me off again. "Babe, he is okay. Now let's not think about what could have happened. That will just stress everyone out. Please, just calm down." Jeff took my hands and then kissed the back of them. I looked between him and Clark. I didn't realize how much I had been panicking until that moment. My hands were trembling and now my chest felt tight as I noticed how Jeff and Clark were looking at me. I didn't like them looking at me like that.

I pulled away and I backed up towards the doorway. "Dad, I'm sorry…" Clark attempted to apologize. But I didn't want him to apologize, especially out of pity. I knew it probably was given how they were looking at me.

"Nick…" Jeff took a step towards me as I then left the room. I went to the bathroom and then locked the door. I slid down the back of the door and then exhaled a shaky breath. I brought my knees up and attempted to breath, but I found it difficult with how much my chest and stomach were hurting. Not even a minute later, there was knock at the door. "Nick? Hey, are you okay?" He sounded concerned, but that only made me feel worse. I never wanted Jeff nor Clark to see me this way and with thinking about how they did, it made me feel sick. "Nicky, hey, open the door." I didn't want to open the door and even if I had wanted to, I couldn't as I felt my stomach lunge. I quickly moved from the door to the toilet. I got over there just in time as I started to vomit. I could hear Jeff's voice as I vomited. Then eventually I turned back for a moment to see the door open with Jeff and Clark standing in the door way. I didn't know what to say. I wasn't able to think of a response as I started heaving again. At some point I felt a hand on back, rubbing gentle circles.

Eventually, the heaving stopped and Jeff pulled me into his arms after flushing the toilet before I could. We moved a few inches away from the toilet and he wrapped his arms tightly around me. "I'm s-sorry…" I attempted to apologize.

"Shhh, it's okay." Jeff soothed as he then ran a hand through my hair. "Everything's gonna be okay." I shut my eyes for a moment and then opened them for a moment to see Clark sitting next to us and he placed his head on my shoulder. I smiled slightly. I guess that was his way of wanting to help me feel better. And it certainly did the trick. Though I still felt bad for my outburst in the bedroom. I wasn't even sure why I lashed out at Clark like that.

"I wasn't angry with you." I looked at Clark.

"I know." Clark replied.

"Anyone would have been worried, Nick." Jeff chimed in.

"I lost it—I h-had no reason to." I felt awful about it. "I swear, I wish this whole virus thing would be over. It's just making my anxiety worse." I hadn't lost it like that in years.

"It's going to be okay." Jeff repeated for what felt like the hundredth time.

"We're here." Clark added.

"And we're not going anywhere." Jeff continued. I kissed the top of Clark's head and then Jeff leaned in and kissed me on the lips.

"No…I have vomit breath." I protested against Jeff kissing me.

"Well now that I think about it, you could use a mint." Jeff joked and I actually laughed. "I don't care. I love you. And I always will whether you're having an anxiety rage attack or you have vomit breath." And that time I let him kiss me.

A/N: Hey, so this the first update for this story under Ally R. Swan! I had wanted to change the name for a while but I finally did it for a number of reasons. But mainly because I wanted it to be more of an author's pen-name instead of username. Anyways, my work just closed for the month because of the pandemic and I finally have some time again like a lot of people do. I decided to fill one of an older request where Nick has anxiety and both Jeff and Clark are the ones to calm him down, while also adding in the real world aspect with virus. I live in Utah, where we had the earthquake a couple of weeks back. I live right in between the two fault lines and it was crazy being woken up by that. Send me requests if you want to see some more of your favorite glee couples. Or even send a request if you have another fandom you like to see a sick-fic for and I could write a one-shot!

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