Fun and games in the 501st

Sick day

Part one

(y/n), Fives and ahsoka were watching the hunger games when Rex came through the door. He hadn't been out to do anything major just a briefing with the generals. The lights had been turned off so they could only see part of his face. However it could still be seen that he looked as if he just left the seventh circle of hell.
(y/n) looked at him, "you look terrible."
"Thank you." he sat next to her and 'watched the film' with them but in reality fell asleep on her shoulder.
Something clearly wasn't right; it was usually a joke trying to get him to sleep. She moved his head onto her lap and continued watching the film.

"Is the lion still sleeping?" Fives grinned as the movie rolled on the credits.
"Yup," she intensely poked his cheek, "lazy ass."
Ahsoka was quietly giggling, she was using everything in her power to stop herself from drawing on his face. A couple minutes later Rex refused to wake up so the three of them took his armour off and yeeted him into the bed like the loving people they were.

(y/n) woke up to the sound of an alarn blaring; it can't have been hers, she wasn't enough of a psychopath to place the alarm at the opposite end of the room. It was five in the morning meaning it should have been for the lump of a captain next to her.
But he wasn't waking up.
She turned around and gently shook him, "Rex, bean you need to wake up."
The clone groaned and croaked out a response, "what?"
(y/n)'s face dropped, the answer was barely audable.
"You need to get up."
Rex groaned again and swung his legs over the side of the bed to a position that would somewhat qualify as sitting up. He put his hands in his head, he had one kriff of a headache.

This was the first time since last night that (y/n) was able to get a good look at him. His back was exposed, implying that he had woken up at some point to take his shirt off, his back was a mixture of pale purples and whites; it looked like he had the shadow virus again. He just sat there for a few minutes repeatedly blinking trying to get his eyes to focus. The alarm was still going off.
"Rex?"
"What?"
"Where have you been working recently?"
"In the medbay with the generals and Kix."
"Doing what?"
"Warranty checks or some crap like that. The food there is truly disgusting." he stood up and stumbled over to his armour.
Was that the shoulder pad or a shoe?
Before (y/n) could ask anymore questions he slammed the alarm off and left the room narrowly missing the wall on his way out.

Rex kept his helmet firmly fixed on his head as he made his way into the command room which struck Skywalker as odd, however considering he knew of his "special friendship" with the other general he decided to ignore it. However him being late was a shock.

Under his helmet, Rex was continuously blinking to see abit more than a few coloured blobs. He was in such a dazed rush that he forgot to brush his teeth. He couldn't tell what was worse: intense nausia or morning breath. Maybe they just went hand in hand. The blinking came to no avail; he couldn't see a kriff dam thing! Or hear for that matter, it sounded like Kenobi and Skywalker were talking behind a wall. Being the workaholic he was the idiot tried to brush it off as his helmet and smacked the side of it harder than he intended. To his dismay it did not go unoticed.

Anakin raised an eyebrow at him, "Rex are you okay?"
"Yes sir." he sounded like a dying frog while holding back a cough.
"Ya sure?"
"*chokes* positive, just got something stuck in my throat." He was struggling to hear anything at all at this point.
"Then can you take your helmet off?"
Everything went black.
Anakin waved his hand a little over the visor, "Reeeeeeeeeex? Re- REX!"
The captains body fell backwards and hit the deck.
"Not again! Denal take his helmet off."
Denal complied and gently removed the helmet. And there was the captains face: pale, flushed up and an adorable mess.
Obiwan just shook his head, work to this captain was almost like a drug addiction,

Rex opened his eyes again, realised his brain was giving him a spinning cup ride and closed them again. He felt significantly worse than before. He wanted to turn around and curl up in a ball of defeat when he felt something damp and cold placed on his head.
"He will be okay right." that was without a doubt (y/n)'s voice.
"Of course. He had the antidote once before and that should be enough."
"You could have told me that at the start rather than running in on me in the middle of taking a shower."
"Well how was I meant to know that?!"
Rex's eyes shot open angrily, he may feel like he was at death's door but he wasn't letting anyone steal his girl. Kix saw the reaction and burst out laughing.
"He wont ever respond to any of my calls but will run a mile just because I dare to speak of his general!"
Rex glared and closed his eyes again still tired.
"Where am I?"
"Medbay. You ate a piece of contaminated pork then proceeded to sleep for a day and a half. I don't know why it was in the food shelf. It was disected from a pig that drank water contaminated with the shadow virus."
Rex wanted to vomit but didn't have the energy.
"You're going to be off from work for a couple of weeks."
That was enough to make him spew. He couldn't sit up in time and as a result it went projectile all over his partner. She looked at him, then looked down to her lap.
"Rex, I love you alot and I do pity you right now but please answer me this. Just why?"