Rose's Sickfic Plague Pit

[thethirteenthchild]

I'm sick so I'm giving my characters my wretched cold. Specific characters available upon request. Intended to be very low effort. Starters in the comments!

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[thethirteenthchild]

With a groan, Dahlia peels herself away from her horrid chrysalis to sit up, sweat pinning her hair to her skin. "Honestly, nothing sounds good right now, but I know it'll help..."

A clean handkerchief is pulled from a small stack of folded ones. Dahlia has since abandoned the pretty ones she usually carries and instead reached for squares of plain or ugly fabric lucky to have a hem at all. She turns away from Radar to blow her nose, then grabs the toast, starting to nibble at the corner.

"Thank you for this," Dahlia says for the hundredth time.

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"Of course," he says -- and even though he's also saying it for the hundredth time, he sounds no less gently astonished.

As she un-cocoons, Radar fluffs a couple of the pillows and straightens the blanket so she's more comfortable. "Any changes in how you're feeling?"

[thethirteenthchild]

"If you'd asked me while I was lying down, I would have said I felt better, but now that I'm upright, I really do not." She lets out a hollow laugh. "I think my fever might be breaking, though. I don't feel as shaky and I don't get so many cold chills."

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"Oh," he sighs. "My poor girl."

He presses a light kiss to her temple, taking the opportunity to check her forehead while he's there. "Yeah, you don't feel so warm anymore. That's good. But you're still kinda hot."

An embarrassed beat as he realizes what he just said.

"Runnin' kinda hot I mean."

[thethirteenthchild]

Hot being used to mean sexy is something that offworlders brought to Pumpkin Hollow, so at first, Dahlia thinks nothing of it either. It's only when Radar himself brings attention to the matter that Dahlia notices at all.

A grin cracks her pallid face and she lets out a hoarse, rattling laugh. "I know what you meant, love," she teases. "Though honestly, I think you'd find a way to compliment me in just about any state at this point. People probably think I've put some kind of spell on you."

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Radar shrugs, easygoing and earnest. "Well it's easy when you're so pretty and smart."

(You're not beating the charges, Radar.)

"Anybody who thinks you had to trick me just hasn't spent enough time around you."