Event Log: Flu Season

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters
What: The event log for the Flu Season event
Where: All over the city
When: March 20th-March 30th
Warnings: Gross sneezing, sick people, and paranoia

It starts with a cough, a sneeze, a sore throat - something small and simple, easily ignored. But then your symptoms get worse. It's probably been awhile since you've been sick, that sort of thing doesn't usually happen here. You might be able to raid the shops for some tissues and tea before it gets too bad, and hopefully you've got a friend to help out until you get better. Surely it'll be over soon, right?

Until the fever sets in, and you start to understand why your friend is really there. They don't want to take care of you. They want to make sure this is the last anyone will ever see of you. They want to learn all your secrets. They want to steal your most precious possession. You know they're plotting against you, you know they're keeping something from you. What will you do to find out what it is?

Then, as the sickness fades, you realize it was all in your mind. Let's hope you didn't do or say anything too awful. But that friend of yours... they seem to have picked up your cough. Maybe you should help them out?

► This log covers March 20th-March 30th.
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Comments

oh god my heart

[anoshe]

He doesn't know what Alucard was about to say. He couldn't even begin to guess. But seeing that - seeing him crumple like that, like he can't even hold his head up anymore, is nearly too much for Rhy all on its own. Of course he still cares about Alucard, of course he wants him to be well. And this, whatever's happening, Rhy barely knows what to do.

He's at Alucard's side instantly, of course, taking his arm, checking his head to be sure he hasn't injured himself. What else can he do, except, well - drag him to bed? Make sure he rests and gets better?

At least Rhy is not weak. Alucard will be a rather heavy load, but he can manage.

"Luc?"

He has to at least know if Alucard is still conscious or not.

;; <3

[solase]

Alucard isn't really injured, though he'll have a nasty bump on his forehead come the next morning. His head already ached, from the fever, but now it is throbbing from the crack on the table as well, and he finds it's just. Difficult. Too difficult, to keep his eyes open, to try and think straight, to cold a coherent thought or sentence.

He lets the other man turn his head to check him over and blinks feverishly at Rhy as he does. He's too hot, everything is too hot, and he just wants Rhy to stay where he is. By his side. Rhy's hands on his face, soft and cool. Holding him steady.

His eyes flutter shut but he reaches for the other man's wrist, wrapping his own fingers around it to hold him there. Don't leave him. Please.

[anoshe]

How can he move when Alucard is doing that? He wasn't going to leave anyway, though eventually he'll need to get up - to retrieve water, or juice, or something else that might help Alucard. But for now Rhy can't find it in himself to move.

He's worried, he doesn't know how long this will last or what will happen, but he thinks that Alucard is undoubtedly even more distressed than himself. The least he can do, all he can really promise, is that he'll stay.

"I'll be here when you wake."

It's a quiet promise, one he isn't sure Alucard hears, but he gives it anyway. More for himself than anything.

[solase]

Alucard hears something, but he's slipping in and out of consciousness at this point and it's hard to concentrate on much of anything at this point. Save for Rhy's hand in his own, and the other man's presence at his side.

It doesn't take long for Alucard to slip off into fevered unconsciousness. He feels frankly terrible and he's exhausted. More exhausted than he has the presence of mind to be able to admit to Rhy aloud. But his grip stays on Rhy's wrist even so. If the other man wants to go anywhere, he's going to have to pry himself away. But Alucard isn't about to wake. He'll be out for a while yet, at this rate.