5SOS Sickfics

Fuck You, Man-Flu! ~ Calum

Brandy was feeling ultra productive today! Everything was going right, clean hair, fresh faced, and she was slaying every single piece of work that she had to get done. It was a great day to be working from home, Nugget the cat was snoozing in her lap and Duke was sitting by the window to bathe in the sunlight, perfection!

"Brandyyyy!" Calum groans as he let's himself in, I mean it was his place too, but he was earlier than expected.

"Cal, you home already?" Brandy snapped out of her focus and turned towards the door, Calum half-slams the door shut which wakes up Nugget who then decides to run away to another part of the house. Calum sort of loiters in the doorway with a sad pouty face.

"Why are you back from the studio so soon?" She asks as she gets up and walks over to him, he looks like he needs a hug. Brandy pills him in and he rested his chin on her shoulder and sniffles.

"Luke gave me his *cough cough* fucking stupid fluey thing that he had last week." Calum grumbles, he doesn't feel too good.

"Aw Babe, why didn't you say anything earlier?" Brandy asks him, still hugging, rubbing her hands up and down his back.

"It sorta hit me once I got there, it was just a scratchy throat this morning." Calum tells her, his voice does sound more nasally and hoarse than normal. He thought that a studio session with the lads would be achievable but then all the headaches, runny nose and general achy-ness set in.

"I'll look after you, Baby." Brandy says and kisses Calum's nose but the sick boy recoils back slightly.

"No, don't let me st- *cough cough cough* -ugh. Don't let me stop you from getting your work done. I just need to sleep." Calum tells her, covering his mouth with his shirt as he coughed and keeping it there like a mask.

"Fuck work, I'm taking care of my boyfriend when he's sick." Brandy said as she shut her laptop, and although she couldn't see all of Calum's face she could tell he was smiling from the creases by his eyes.

"Now get to bed." She instructed as she slapped his ass in the direction of the bedroom.

"You're such a knob!" Calum giggles slightly before coughing again, his throat had been through hell today, he shouldn't of been singing. But he does what he's told and he drags his weary body to the bedroom and gets dressed into his comfy clothes.

Calum crawls over to his side of the bed and hugs one of the decorative blankets that Brandy likes to keep on the bed for the pets, but it was so cosy. His mouth hangs open as he feels his nose growing stuffy, the air felt cold and crisp on his throat which initially felt good but it was very drying and just made him cough even more.

"I brought tea and snacks!" Brandy says as she comes in with a whole tray of food and a mug of steaming peppermint tea which was Calum's favourite. He smiles softly.

"Babe, you didn't need to do that." Calum sighs, Brandy was being so sweet to him, he was just planning on sleeping this off but now he had a picnic.

"I know I didn't have too, but snacks make everything just a little bit better." She says as she places the mug on the bedside table so Calum could reach it. The snack tray is placed between them and Brandy crawls over to snuggle with him. Whenever these two cuddle, Calum likes to rest his head on Brandy's boobs, it's always been like that. Calum says it's because 'they're just so soft and warm' so she let's him get comfortable, especially since he's sick today. He's in the perfect position for head kisses.

"You smell." Brandy tells him.

"You smell." Calum replies.

"You're smell the worst."

"Stop bullying me, I'm sick." Calum whines as he folds his arms. Brandy stays silent for a minute before making her come back.

"It's true though." She giggles because she knows it will wind Calum up, but he's cute when he's mad!

"I hope you get sick." He hisses and takes a long sip of tea, so serious.

"Girls can't catch 'man flu'." Brandy tells him, that may have touched a nerve with Calum. He put the tea back and laid down again.

"Man flu, my ass!" He says as he brings the blanket up to his chin.

"Can I sleep now?" Calum yawns and sniffles sadly, Brandy stopped teasing him and laid down with him.

"Go ahead, Lovely. I'll be here." She whispers softly as she runs her hand through his hair. Cool Guy Cal falls asleep almost instantly like the professional sleeper he was.

Once he was asleep, Brandy caressed his cheeks and forehead just incase he had a fever...barely warm! She even got the thermometer across his forehead and it came back next to normal. He probably just had a cold. She texted a friend to confirm.

From Brandy: Sierra, was Luke sick last week? Just curious <3

From Sierra: Just a touch of Man Flu, but he's fine now. I'll take a wild guess and say that Calum's caught it off him? 😂

From Brandy: Yep, he's cuddly, whiney, mad at me but also being super soft. Moodswings = Sick Calum 😂

From Sierra: Moodswings = Man Flu. Luke was just the same. I wish you the best of luck, Soldier <3

That's what the song Moodswings was really about...

Duke and Nugget both came and sat on the bed near their parents and fell asleep as Calum's snores filled the room from his stuffy nose whilst Brandy made some homemade tomato soup with grilled cheese toasties for dinner because Calum slept through snack time. He'd be hungry.

"How are you feeling, Cal?" She asks as he curls into her side after the meal.

"Warm inside." He sighs, the soup hit the spot. Brandy kissed his temple, he was being cute and she was happy that her soup was well received by the patient under her care.

"That's nice, do you feel any better though?" Brandy asks more specifically and Calum shakes his head.

"Nah uh. Still poorly." He whimpers like a puppy and slowly curls up into the fetal position.

"I guess I'll be taking care of you a little longer then, huh?" She sighs as his head returns back to her boobs again.

"Sure." Calum smirks as he gets a bit too comfortable there, he face face first this time.

"What are you doing in there?" Brandy giggles as she feels his nose born dig into her chest.

"Keeps out the light." Calum replies, his head hurt the most now and the light in the room was making it worse.

"How about we go to bed? Let my titties breathe." Brandy suggested which sounded nice to Calum who was still pretty sleepy despite the long afternoon nap.

Brandy gets up and turns all the lights off in the room aside from one nightlight so she could find her way without having to navigate through the dark. Calum waited for her to finish up in the bathroom with her skincare and teeth brushing which felt like forever in his eyes, he just wanted cuddles.

"Hurry uuup!" He whines before feeling a sneeze brew inside his nose, he seizes a tissue from his bedside table and prepared.

"Achoo!"

"Bless you." Brandy said as she finally reentered the room all clean and ready for bed, crawling over to the sick Calum. He snuggles in close to her and she holds him in her arms as he feels fragile and sore.

"This flu can fuck off." He whispers.

"Sure, whatever." Said Brandy, not wanting to start an argument again. Calum was sick after all.

But the mystery of the Man Flu still remains a mystery, so in that case I think we can all agree it can fuck off!

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I'm actually pretty sick today so I thought I'd write what I know best, hope you liked this one. First one with Brandy and long may it continue.

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