Tommy woke up feeling awful, for the past few days he had been, but today was especially worse. He got up out of his bed and went to the bathroom, the moment he stepped in, he began to cough. After a few seconds of coughing, he looks at his hand and sees that he was coughing up blood. He then looked in the mirror and saw how terrible he looked, he looked so pale that it seemed all the colour in his face washed away
"What is happening to me?..."
He then decided he should probably get Puffy to take a look at him and see if she knew what was going on. He exited the bathroom and went back to his bedroom, he then got changed into his normal white and red shirt and a pair of trousers. He went over to his door, put his shoes on and went to see Puffy.
He got to Puffy's house banging on her door until she answered. When she answered she had her blanket wrapped around her and looked exhausted
"Don't you know the time?..."
She said grumpy that someone woke her up. Her eyes fully opened and saw Tommy standing there
"Tommy?... God you look terrible, what happened?"
She asked opening her door more so Tommy could come in
"Take a seat on the couch"
He sat down on the coach, shortly followed by Puffy
"So, what's happens?"
She asked worryingly
"I don't know, for the past few days I've been waking up feeling awful, but today was worse and I stated coughing up blood earlier... So I came to you to see if you know what's going on..."
Tommy looked tired from just talking
"Well, I can try and figure it out, but I can't guarantee a prober answer"
He nodded, Puffy then got up to get a book about illness to find their answer
"Where did I put it?... A ha! There it is"
She says getting the book down from the shelf, she then sat back down next to Tommy. He started to flick through every page. But half way through, Tommy began to cough again, this time worse then that morning. Puffy quickly got up and grabbed a box of tissues for him.
About a minute of coughing up blood later, he stopped and started to feel ever so slightly better
Puffy then came across an illness that matched the symptoms Tommy had
"Here we go"
She said happy knowing what was wrong, but her face slowly began to become sad
"Oh my god... No..."
She said almost about to cry
"What is it?! What's wrong?!"
She couldn't even say what it was, so she handed him the book on the page of the illness. Tommy had a look of horror
Not only was the illness rare, barely anyone had fallen ill with it and everyone who did have it all died within a week or two. And so with the lack of people being sick with it, there wasn't a cure
"I'm... going to die...."
Tommy said dropping the book on the floor with a load thump. He couldn't believe it, after everything he's been through, the fight for the discs, the War for L'manburg, exile, the final battle with Dream, coming back from the dead, and he was gonna die over a disease...
"I'm so sorry Tommy..."
Puffy said wrapping her arms around him and hugging him tightly
"There's nothing that can be done..."
She said practically crying over Tommy's shoulder. He hugged her back and said
"It's not your fault, it's gonna be alright..."
Puffy then leaned back placing her hands on both of Tommy's shoulders
"This isn't fair, after everything you went through, you practically had your childhood taken away from you..."
She said trying not to cry too much
"I know it's not fair, but unfortunately... Everyone dies...."
After a few more minutes of crying later
"Alright, I'm gonna head home, so I can plan out what I'm gonna do for my last few days"
They both stood up and went to the door, Puffy opened it for him and gave him another box of tissues for him. After a quick goodbye, Tommy started to walk back to his house
He opened his door and stepped inside, closing the door behind him. He leaned back against it and fell to the floor, his knees still raised up. He then decided he should spend his last few days making amends with everyone before he dies
He got up and headed for a desk and frappes a piece of paper and a pen. He then began to write who he was gonna make amends with first and when
An hour later he had finished writing the list. He then walked to his door and pined it on the wall next to it. He decided that he should start to next day so he could rest up and be prepared for this roles coaster of a mess
He walked back to his room putting more comfortable clothing on and going back to sleep
