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Matt- Sickens Bug

Trigger warning- emetophobia- talks about being sick.

Matt had been out all night last night and all day today working, leaving you home with a very sick daughter. You had finally settled her in her bed, got her to sleep and you yourself had stated to feel unwell, so you decided to get yourself into bed and try to sleep before the sickness inevitably comes. That is until you hear
"Mommy it's happened again" Alice appears in your doorway of your room "in my bed"
"Ok baby. Let's clean you up first" you sigh getting out of bed and you take your daughter into your bathroom. You run her a bath, take her clothes off and throw them in the sink ready to be washed. Alice gets into the warm water and you wash her hair thoroughly before helping her dry off. You grab her some clean pyjamas
"Stay in the bathroom while I go and get a bowl just in case your sick again. If you need to be sick do it in the toilet ok?"
"Ok mommy" you leave your daughter in yours and Matts shared bathroom and go downstairs to grab the sick bowl. You go back upstairs with the bowl in your hands, also feeling like you could throw up any second, but when your a mom to a sick child you still have to clean up her mess
"Get into mine and your dads bed. I'll go and sort your bed out" you tell Alice handing her the sick bowl.
You walk into her bedroom, but the smell hits you as you start to strip the bed, but you just add to the mess "fuck" you groan now kneeling on the floor feeling rather light headed. Slowly you get up and go to the spare bathroom any sit on the floor leaning on the cool tiles next to the toilet trying to take in some deep breaths wishing this nausea away.

Within 10 minutes or so you hear the front door open then close. Knowing Matt is now home you slowing get up off the floor and make your way downstairs to him. He only has to take one look at you for him to realise that you are sick
"Hey" you give him a weak smile
"What's wrong?" he asks
"Alice has been throwing up all day, think I've caught what she has"
"Have you had anything to drink?" You shake your head in response
"Go up to bed and I'll bring you both some water"
"Thanks" you say turning back upstairs and passing Alice's room "shit" you sigh heading back into her bedroom to carry on stripping the bed. Matt walks up the stairs and sees what your doing
"Hey I'll do that. You get into bed" Matt hands you 2 cups of water and ushers you back into your room where a sleeping Alice is. Carefully you crawl into bed and close your eyes.

You hear Matt dragging something into the room, opening your eyes you see him place a chair down next to your bed with a cushion on
"You should go sleep in the spare room. You've had a 24 hour shift" you whisper
"It wasn't to busy so I slept in my cot bed. I want to be here just incase you or Alice are sick again"
"That chair can't be comfortable"
"It's fine. Now go to sleep and hopefully you'll feel better in the morning" you close your eyes trying to focus on anything but the churning in your stomach.

Unfortunately that night you have to get up a few times to throw up, but luckily Alice manages to stay asleep. Matt stayed by your side the whole night and the next morning Alice seemed to back to her normal self, other than being a little tired. You however still felt rather ill but it didn't last long as the day went on and by evening you managed to eat some soup and plain bread.