Sturniolo Triplets angst/Other Things

𝑹𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒆𝒔~ 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬

Chris gets bit by a rabid bat, he gets rabies and they don't catch it in time.

Tw: MCD (Major character death), hydrophobia (fear of water), rabies symptoms.

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This was never meant to happen, never in a million years did anybody think that a bat, a measly little bat, could cause so much damage. Let alone kill someone they loved.

It was just like any normal day in the Sturniolo household, it was completely silent. Until, a squeak is heard from somewhere in the living room, a faint squeaking, nothing major, but when Nick came down to make his breakfast and heard the squeak? It was over.

"MATT! CHRIS! COME HERE RIGHT NOW" Nick shouted as he locked eyes with the creature, shaking his head in disbelief. His 'younger' brother Matt was soon racing towards Nick, Chris following close behind. "What Nick what happened-" Matt is cut off with a squeak, they all snapped their heads towards the sound simultaneously, Chris gasps when he sees the animal, "It's a bat.." he mumbles, slowly walking over to where the bat was, ignoring his brothers protests, he reaches out to grab the tiny creature. That's where everything came crashing down, as soon as Chris's hand got close enough, he felt a sharp pain in the side of his hand. He yelped and his hand shot back to his chest. "Ow! Fuckin' stupid bitch bit me!" He cried, standing up from the crouching position he was in and went to the kitchen to rinse off his wound. "Damn man, it got cha good didn't it" Matt mumbled, Chris sighed and nodded absently. "Yeah, but I'll be fine" he said, looking down at the two small bite marks on his right hand. Smiling to himself. "At least I'll have a cool scar" he said jokingly, making Nick scoff and roll his eyes and Matt laugh.

The three of them were able to get the bat out, and they all went to bed that night.
Safe and sound?

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This was two months ago.
On this day, Chris is just now waking up. As he begins to move his body off the bed, he groans as he feels almost all of his muscles start to ache, and throb. He reached up and tried to massage his stiff neck. A wave of nausea washed over the triplet as he fought through the pain. Though, he felt very tired. He wanted to go back to sleep, but they were busy today, they had to film a video. Nick's coming out video. He couldn't postpone because of a little nausea.

The next day, his strange symptoms started to get worse, his body hurt more, he was dizzy, and his hands and feet were tingling, like pins and needles but it didn't hurt, yet. Chris groaned loudly and covered himself with a blanket, trying to shield himself from the burning light that shun through his bedroom window. They didn't have anything to do today, so he could just lay there.

Day three was worse. Chris was unable to move, if he moved even a little bit he would get horrifically dizzy and nauseous, his muscles hurt so bad. It's as if they were on fire, his mouth was dry, and he had developed a fever. Nick and Matt had both tried to get Chris to eat but it was no use, the boy wasn't hungry. In fact, he almost couldn't eat, it's as if his body wouldn't let him. He thought this couldn't get any worse, but he was wrong.

The fourth day is when Chris had his first hallucination.

"Chris get up" who's voice is that.. Chris heard a muffled voice, that almost sounded like Nick. "Get up now, lazy fuck" the voice snapped, not Nick, that's not Nick. Can't be.
"Get up Chris you're fine" Chris shook his head, immediately regretting his decision as his head was now reeling, his hands flew up to his skull, holding it tightly. Nick, I need Nick Chris thought as he started to cry silently, the disembodied voice was now louder, and almost demonic sounding. "Stop, stop it, leave me alone!" Chris cried, it wouldn't leave though. The real Nick came in and saw his 'baby' brother sobbing uncontrollably, screaming at something to shut the fuck up. Nick shook his head absently, deciding right then and there that they'd have to go to the hospital.

On the fifth day, Chris was aggressive. He couldn't eat, or drink, the dizziness had gone down tremendously, but now he was just angry. Violent even.
"Hey Chris?.." a small voice asked from the boys doorway, Chris's ears bled at the sound of their voice, he snapped his head towards the sound and saw Matt, his brother, standing there with a bottle of water. "I uh, do you want to try and drink something?" Matt asked, Chris scoffed and almost growled at Matt "You know I can't fucking drink anything Matthew, leave me alone" he snapped, Matt gave him a sad smile "Okay, we're gonna take you to the hospital today alright?" Matt asked rhetorically, Chris glared at him but didn't say anything.
That day, with a lot of hard work, they were able to take Chris to the hospital and get him in.

On the sixth day, Chris couldn't move. His muscles had stiffened due to the pain, he was drooling and was slumped over. His pupils had dilated and he was almost unresponsive. A grunt or two here and there, he'd blink at you. But nothing else, it was as if he was gone. Matt and Nick sat by him, ignoring the news that the doctors told him. Ignoring that Chris was going to die, they didn't believe that. They couldn't.

The final day
Chris's symptoms were all around now, he still couldn't move, but he had already had two seizures, his muscles were always spasming, he was basically foaming at the mouth. There was nothing they could do. The doctors stood around, waiting for him to die, Nick would caress Chris's twitching face as he sobbed quietly. "You're okay sweetheart.. you can let go.." he whispered, but Chris stayed. Matt would hug him and kiss him on the head, letting him know that he didn't have to suffer anymore, but Chris stayed. He stayed for as long as he could, seizing and in unbearable pain, he didn't want to die. He wanted to stay, he wanted to be with his family, he didn't want to leave them.

Until, he finally did. With his last breath, he was able to barely utter the words, 'im sorry..' to his brothers. Nick's body immediately was shaken with sobs as he watched his brothers body go limp. No more twitching, no more pain, no more seizures. He was gone. The two brothers sobbed violently over Chris's lifeless body, they wanted him back, why did this have to happen to them? That same day, the two boys were told to leave. Matt and Nick got into their van, without Chris, and silently drove home.

When the two of them got into the driveway, they suddenly heard a sound. The only sound that had been uttered the whole car ride back from the hospital.

They had heard a squeak.

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I hope y'all like this one, it's horror-ish which I'm good at so yk-

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