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THE
SICK MEME

☀ Post your character, one-ish per comment
✫ They are now, for some odd reason, sick (headache, fever, runny nose, cough, whatever you want)
☀ Another character replies and is struck with the sudden urge to take care of them (bringing them soup, extra blankets, Sudafed, sexual healing, what have you)
✫ ???
☀ Profit!

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[And this face would be the 'brooking-no-arguments' face. You will not win this one, Kaylee Frye.]

I'll carry ye if I have to.

[Which...it's looking like that might be a very real possibility soon, and that worries him even more. He supports her while waiting for her to get her equilibrium back, then carefully starts guiding her towards the door.]

Let me know if ye need me to stop, aye?

[ Don't mean she can't try. ]

Rather you didn't.

[ She's been toted around once already by Dean, and it's not exactly something she wants to repeat with her stomach acting the way it's been. A few extra seconds are taken to steady herself against Jamie before she starts walking, but even then she keeps a good grip on him. ]

Yeah...

Not purposefully, no, but then who purposefully makes a wizard angry.

[He has a thimble. He got it from Rein, the clothier, and he tips a cup of water--yes, actual water, not from a needle--into it to fill it. He had to bargain with Stacy for it, pointing out that there was no way at this sigh that Astrid could get one of the water-needles, and she'd need to drink plenty of fluids to get better. He hands the thimble of water to her careflly pinched between his fingers, and then puts the glass on one of the other tables in the room so it won't get knocked over on her.]

Drink up.

"But neeeeeedles."

Such a big baby.

[Well, she's moving under her own power for now, so Jamie fights down the urge to pick her up and carry her anyway.]

I'll try not to have to, Kaylee. We'll just go a wee bit slow in the meantime.

[He gets a resolute and indignant huff for that. She gratefully takes the thimble (my, how resourceful these little items truly are) with both miniature hands and sips the water before pulling it away from her lips, wiping her mouth with her forearm and her shoulders drooping.]

If the village saw me now I'd surely be a laughing stock. I'm pretty sure this has never happened to the most worthless of Vikings.

[Sighing, then added morosely.]

Fran would just want to eat me...

Edited 2011-02-06 10:28 (UTC)

Yeah, it never happened to me before, so you're right on that one.

[Not that he's worthless now, it's just...he had his worthless days.]

And I think you'd be too small for her to even notice. Not even a mouthful.

[She narrows eyes, withholding a pout.] Not helping.

[Then closing her eyes and lifts the thimble back to her mouth, speaking behind the rim.] Clearly you misunderstand how good her senses are. [EXCUSE HER, SOME OF US DON'T HAVE A COOL NIGHT FURY.]

And you never know — I could be scrumptious.

[Like a tic tac.]

Edited 2011-02-06 16:09 (UTC)

The future is definitely a strange place, if you were able to swallow a piece of chalk and it was somehow able to make you feel better. She trust Kaylee though, and swallowed it quickly as a sign of good faith.

"Thank you for watching me," she said, putting the blanket over her flushed face. "You didn't have to, y'know."

[Squints at the pile, trying to block the light from his eyes]

Did you check inside the other items?

[Yes, he'd have to explain that leeches don't work that way between squirming away. That wouldn't be fun.]

'Kay.

[ Slow is good. She's fairly sure she can handle slow, even if it does make the trip to the Med Bay seem that much longer. There are several stops along the way, most of them consisting of Kaylee trying to hold her stomach back. Really, at this very moment, she just wants to lie down somewhere and never move again. Thank everything for Jamie being there. ]

Good. [Pause.] So how long do you expect to try and make me stay here?

I think you had enough for it to get its point across.

[The Doctor reaches out since Jamie's face is sticking out of his cover pile, touching his hand to his cheek and then his forehead. Burning up but also shivering. He'll have to note this for next time and remind himself to really toss out jam like that next time instead of offering it to his friends]

So when did you start feeling any side effects?

[The Doctor is pushing a tray of tea and some soup toward Jamie. Or more like he's quietly nudging him with the tray and seeing if he'll bite.

The tea, by the way, will be the most amazing, spectacularly delicious tea Jamie's ever tasted. The Doctor is just that good.]

[The Doctor kneels down next to her]

Really? I thought we'd had something there. Here.

[He reaches into his pocket and pulls out what looks like a piece of lint.]

Pop this in your mouth and see if it settles your stomach. There's a good girl.

[Not if the Doctor can sniffle and hobble away faster than he can get there. That seems to be exactly the plan as he uses Kaylee as support and lets her lead him to the console. The Doctor's feeling a little bit more charitable now that Kaylee's making herself useful: he could sniffle right in her ear but he doesn't. ]

Let me have a go. [The Doctor sits down in front of the console. Flops down. Sniffles. And then he gets to work, and apparently sick with this mystery virus, he's actually slowed down enough that whatever's on the screen it's flashing by at speeds too fast for a human. ] Filtration, vents, something about the slop...

[ Kaylee wrinkles her nose up at the piece of lint, but he probably won't leave her alone until she takes it. As slowly as possible, Kaylee puts it on her tongue--

--and promptly has to stop herself from gagging it back out. Oh god. Oh god, he's trying to poison her, isn't he? ]

[There's a split second where he thinks maybe that was the wrong pocket and he gave her plain lint. But the way it's start to sparkle in her mouth is saying otherwise. The Doctor leans forward]

Ancient Gringle remedy for seasickness. They never leave on a trip without one, you know. Last one I met was kind enough to give me some and Kaylee, you do have to swallow it.

[Instead of making faces at him, not that they're not interesting faces, but yes.]

[ And Kaylee is very grateful that he refrains from sniffling. It makes her feel a little better about helping him, that he's at least decent enough to not purposely annoy her...too much.

She shifts aside when he asks, and watches the screen carefully. There's a glimpse of something she recognizes every so often, but it's always gone too fast for her to really register what it is. Eventually, she just leans back and waits. ]

...how's it lookin'?

[ ...she was afraid he was going to say that.

Grimacing, Kaylee swallows the lint down and pulls another face. Like swallowing...lint. But she gives it a few seconds before really judging it, and it does seem to be helping a little. The Doctor receives a weak nod. ]

Oh! [He looks inside the extra blanket, and sure enough, there's the bottle of Tylenol. About five minutes later when he actually figures out how to open said bottle, there's two pills and a glass of water being sent Billy's way.]

Here. Take these.

[If the trip takes longer, it takes longer. Jamie just wants to make sure that Kaylee makes it there, period. Once in the Med Bay, he finds the closest cot and helps her lie down, before coming back with a basin and a cold cloth.]

Now, look, ye stay put. No sneaking back to work, ye hear me?

As long as is needed.

Well I'm fine you know. So I don't need it.

[ As soon as she's on the cot, Kaylee curls up as tight as she can to try to get some of her warmth back. ]

Won't. Not goin' anyplace.

[ Definitely not going anywhere. And if that's a cold cloth he's got, she's not looking forward to that either. Too cold. ]

[He leans over and puts a hand on her forehead.]

Yes you do, with a fever this high.

Edited 2011-02-07 06:05 (UTC)

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