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Reno ([personal profile] shinra_dog) wrote in [community profile] melodiesoflife2016-05-11 12:32 am

Feed a fever, starve a cold?

Who: Albel and Reno
What: Player Plot: Down with the Sickness
Where: Throughout Aqures Ixen, in their homes or the homes of their caretakers
When: Albel, May 16 -- ? ; Reno, May 21 -- ? (yes, during Diamond Weapon too, uh oh!)
Warnings: Language as always, hallucinations (possibly including body horror), severe anxiety, will add more if they come up. Headers will be labeled.

[Multiple threads and varying severity are fine, just put Reno or Albel in the thread header for who you want.]

Albel

As if revisiting the Lunar Gate wasn't stressful enough, whatever meltdown Sephiroth had just had was the last straw. Well, to be more specific, opening the can of worms that was Terra was the worst of it, especially when neither man was an especially good communicator as it was. Adding alcohol was just more fuel for the fire. So the Behemoth challenge was like a blessing. Albel could go, beat the thing senseless, and work out his frustrations.

At least that was the plan. But apparently using his Beastmaster job didn't count as "single combat" if he got help from his dragon. He would have beaten the damn thing, too, but for that technicality. Tch, stupid. Now Albel was even more stressed for having lost.

He sneezed. Again. Ugh, so annoying.

... Except it got worse. Sneezing became sniffling, sniffling became coughing, it all became a pounding headache with sweats and chills. Apris, it felt like the mountains of Airyglyph, he was so cold! Could this get any worse?


Reno

Reno blew his nose again. Ugh, gross. The girls had already preemptively quarantined him to his room -- apparently a weird flu had been going around and it was super contagious. But this was just a little cold! It couldn't possibly be that bad.

Colds sometimes had fevers, right? Sometimes? Maybe? Whatever, it wasn't even that high.

At least K-chan could still stay with him. But he didn't have time to be sick right now! The Assassins needed him! Surely this would all go away on its own in a couple of days, and then he'd be fine. It was just that gross sewage air, that was all. It was definitely not going to stop him from hunting down Diamond Weapon. That was too important.

Reno jumped, his heart suddenly racing as he thought he saw something out of the corner of his eye. Breathe, he told himself, trying to calm down. Just a shadow, just a trick of the light.

There were no gods or goddesses to curse him here. There were no gods or goddesses to curse him here...
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[personal profile] wickedone 2016-12-14 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"... Straight back and to the right," he answered softly. Albel was done fighting. He didn't have the energy for it anymore. He sniffled, sure that he needed the rest for this fever to go down -- the fever he'd made worse by trying to maintain his active lifestyle while sick. As much as he hated it, he'd have to slow down if he wanted to be useful to anyone later. If it wasn't Yuri, then Sheena would have pushed him, too.

So... it might as well be Yuri. He might as well stop thinking about it so hard.

"Here," he muttered stuffily and sniffed, gesturing as they reached his door.
dammit_flynn: estheticons (→ that's what I thought)

[personal profile] dammit_flynn 2016-12-19 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gotcha," he replied briefly as he continued to lug the guy up to his room. Of course, he was mighty grateful that he didn't have to deal with anymore struggling on Albel's end. He couldn't possibly imagine how exhausting it would be if he had to keep fighting Albel just to get him to his room.

Yuri pushed open the door and made his way towards the bed. He then proceeded to slowly get the sick guy into the bed, shoes off and such before rolling the blankets on him. The room probably needed some fresh air and sunlight and Yuri would go for that too. Sorry, Albel but you're going to be stuck with him for a little bit longer.

"You should probably eat something warm, and stay in bed. There's some sort of remedies I know for illnesses."