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✖ the adventure zone: lup taaco

This is a shitty way to celebrate spring, isn't it?

who: Lup & CR
what: Sickness stuff, eventual coma
when: start of event to mid-may
where: Casa del Taaco
warnings: Sickness things

She's exhausted. No matter how much she's sleeping, she's exhausted and muscles sore from the fever raging in her. Even more so every time she coughs, rasping and deep in her chest. It sucked to be sick, and everything she had heard so far told her that it was a really fucked-up epidemic, too. It was honestly worrying, which was why she barred her brother from entering the room without protection. Krav couldn't get sick, Taako had promised, and Barry... well, that had been a lost cause from the beginning.

It weird, too. Along the shitty flu-turning-to-pneumonia issue, she has weird green spots, too. Who decided that was a great new magical symptom? Couldn't they at least have been her color rather than green? In addition to that, he room was lit up despite the fact that she was mostly sleeping, because another weird symptom was loss of her darkvision - and that freaked her out. Darkness made her feel trapped. Alone. Stuck in her staff again.

Not something she needed right now.

Sighing, Lup closes her eyes for a moment, not quite sleeping but instead analyzing how much energy it would take to drag another blanket her way. She was shivering again, despite how sweaty she felt.

"Mmm... hey? Anyone out there?"

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Lost cause was damn right. There was no way she was getting out of being absolutely pampered in every way. He was going to take a lot of precautions, sure, but he'd rather get sick himself. It just sucked that he couldn't kiss her anywhere than her forehead. And if this were a normal illness, he'd insist that he was gonna do it anyway because fuck you he loves you.

Instead, every tiny thing she could need is given to her. Any possible comfort she could want. And even a few she probably didn't want. Because he's gonna worry like that, isn't he?

Despite himself, he has been keeping outside the room as much as possible. Partially because he still has a job to do. Good thing he was still in catch-up and mastery mode and his bosses seemed to be cool with that. They must get it a lot.

Anyway, he is soon to peak his head into the doorway.

"What's up, beautiful?"

She turns her head a bit, opening bleary blue eyes and smiling at the love if her life. He was ridiculous in his outright spoiling of her, but it's just who Barry is. She loves that about him.

"Mmm... hi babe," she croaks and then covers her face to cough before reappearing again. Lup's voice is rough and raspy, almost all the way down to Merle levels, and her face is flushed from the fever. "Do we have more blankets... or did I steal them all already?"

Despite the mess she is, she's still smiling softly at Barry. Damn, she was so lucky to have him here with her - even if he was definitely gonna get sick after this.

He sits on the bed next to her, instinctively reaching to stroke her cheek.

"Nope. You got 'em all," he smiles despite himself because hello. It's Lup. How can you not smile at Lup. Even when she looks so miserable. He reaches for her bowl of water and washcloth, a hand touching it quickly to ice it up just a little. Just to make it cool. Now he can ring it out and place it on her forehead to help with that fever. Or the inevitable headache that came with it.

"Taako's cookin' somethin' for ya. Not sure what it is but he told me it's the Elf version of chicken noodle soup."

Which might just be chicken noodle soup with a Taako Touch but whatever if it helped Lup.

She leans her warm cheek against his touch and smiles softly. Barry was the biggest sweetheart in the world, especially so when taking care of her like this. It's disappointing when she learns she has all the blankets available already, but he fixes that with the washcloth on her burning skin.

It's soothing, and Lup sinks further into her pillows with a content sigh.

"Thank you, babe. How are you feeling? Taako?" From the little she had managed to hear from her bed, it all sounded like a shitty epidemic. A normal flu, she could deal with. Magic nanites? Fucked up.

"We're fine." He shrugs. He wishes there was some solution. She had the same DNA as Taako so it's not like she personally could be more prone to it. And he was also a lich so it's not like the nanites were like oh shit that's a dead motherfucker right there. Still, it was definitely annoying.

He's gonna keep pressing a cold cloth to her forehead.

"Can't figure out why we aren't, either. We should both be sick by now if you are."

"I'm just fucking lucky." she says with a little smile, even if there's some bitterness behind it. Maybe she just got a shitty card handed to her this time - at least she hopes so, because she honestly doesn't know what they were going to do if everyone got sick.

Then she remembers what Taako had said about Kravitz and smiles at Barry. "Hey, babe? If you're a reaper, can you do that skeleton thing, too?"

She might be a little loopy (pun intended), but she does have a point with that random question. Her brother said it was unlikely that bone boss was gonna get ill since he was just mostly illusion and a front rather than a real body. That could explain Barry.

Taako, on the other hand? Well, she had banned him from her room.

Shit. That hadn't even occurred to him. He was just so used to being A Lich that the fact that he's a reaper now meant something else for his anatomy. The realization is probably written all over his face. He does smile at her though and in a wave of odorless, weightless, and light black smoke, his skin is replaced with a spooky scary skeleton. It's not as threatening when the hood isn't up.

"Pretty cool trick huh?"

The smoke comes and goes and he's back to Barry again.

"I'm so turned on right now," she jokes, amused and amazed at the same time. That was really cool, and probably a job perk. Not that Lup missed being a skeleton in any way, but it would be badass to look like one sometimes.

About to say something else, she starts coughing instead. Making a disgusted face, she turns away a bit so she doesn't cough on him, but she's weak as a kitten and only barely manages.

It hurts, and the jolt to her body isn't exactly great, either. She groans and just... stays in the small heap she's now in, wanting to just crawl into a pocket dimension.

He frowns, helps to gently rub her back as she turns over. Maybe even help push her into the new position. He knows she's in no real danger. She's a lich. She'll keep going no matter what. But it sucks to see her suffering like this. And with how long it takes to grow a new body, it's better to try and wait this out. Fucking annoying, though, how they can't do anything.

"Aw me too," he tries to at least keep her laughing. "You hackin up a lung? Sexy."

Now she's giggling a little between coughs, and it wears her out even more. Sighing, she just lets him move her into a better position, like a ragdoll. She's a little hazy-eyed now, but there's still a small smile on her lips as she looks up at her sweet man.

"Did we find a new horrible kink?" Lup asks, trying to give him a wink but just ending up closing her eyes instead with a sigh.

"...tell me about our future, Barry. I think I need a good story."

However she lays, he's just going to rub the least sexy place (like her stomach or something) unless she wants relief elsewhere and tells him. Help soothe her to sleep if nothing else.

"Let's see..." Where do you begin. He guesses he hasn't really told her all the ins and outs of their day to day. Just that they're happy and together and everyone is doing great.

"Me and you and the Bossman work together pretty much every day. He's usually off reaping people, me and you are kinda like necromancer cops. You're basically best friends with The Raven Queen. She loves you."

He can't wait to see those two interact again. See them paint nails and giggle while The Queen still looks creepy as shit. It's a great sight.

"We see each other every year for Candlenights. We make a point of it. Family, y'know?"

It's comfy to feel his touch, and she smiles tiredly as he rubs her belly like she was a stressed puppy. She sighs and faces him, but keeps her eyes closed as Barry starts speaking. Her cheeks are rose from the fever and her hair sweaty and matted, but the cold cloth is still nice.

It isn't really anything she has not heard before or guessed, but it feels nice to hear it. That, and she loves his voice so much. It was soothing when she was feeling like shit.

"All of us?" She croaks as he mentions Candlenights. Did that mean Lucretia, too? She really hoped so.

"...and I can see Koko when I want to, right?"

"If you can pry him off of Bossman's arm, yeah."

One day someone is going to point out to him he refers to Kravitz exclusively as 'bossman' and he's gonna blush.

As for everyone... "We're... warmin' back up to Lucretia. Slowly. It's harder for some of us to see her." He wishes he could say he was included in that. It hurt, what she did. Taking his family away from him when it meant so much. But she was family too and he loves her deeply. Always will.

"Good," she says, relaxing a bit more with a little amused smile. (Get that bony butt, Taako!) Lup seems to nod off a bit while Barry talks about Lucretia, and then she makes a slightly unhappy sound.

"I think Koko's mad that I forgave her so quick." She says, and it's difficult to tell of she's fully aware she's even saying it. It was hard to think with a fever this high, and shit just ended up falling out of her mouth.

Well, it's Barry. If she could trust her deepest thoughts and insecurities to anyone, it's him. And Taako when they don't concern him but that probably goes without saying.

"Taako's a salty son of a bitch," he says with a kind of shrug. He's gonna be. Because that's just his nature.

She makes another unhappy sound and reaches a little for him - a hand, his sleeve, anything. Lup's just gonna hold that for a moment with a soft sigh.

"He's got all the right to be. She ruined him. I ruined him, too."

Apparently this is feverish angst hour right now, courtesy of a fried brain.

"Hey," he softens, moving his hand to press to her cheek. "No you didn't. You can't predict shit like that, babe." No one held it against her. Not a soul. Not himself, not Taako - well he couldn't speak for Taako but he would be incredibly surprised if he found out otherwise.

"I shouldn't have left... if I hadn't, we would have been together." If she hadn't felt like it was all her own problem and she needed to end it. If she hadn't decided to go against what everyone else had decided. If she had been stronger to deal with the guilt and the horror of what 'just damage' could do.

(There had been no other way, she knows this. That isn't fully in her head at the moment, though.)

"Luce would never had separated us, then. Taako and me, or me and you."

"Babe, hey.." This poor thing. Thinking shit like this. He can't stand it. It's worse than her being sick. "I couldn't remember any of them while I was in my body. I wouldn't have remembered you, either." So. She wasn't guilty in that regard. Nothing she did could have made a difference since Luce did it in secret. Sure, Taako would have had his sister but. That couldn't be helped.

"Nobody's ever gonna be alone again..." Lup murmurs, eyes still closed and generally half-passed out. She needed the rest, but it was a weird mix of fever delirium and anxiety that kept her holding on to Barry like he was going to slip away between her fingers if she let go.

It isn't until her breathing evens a bit and the exhaustion wins that her grip loosens. Finally asleep, she probably won't remember any of this later.

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This is a shitty way to celebrate spring, isn't it?

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