Tales from the Borderlands One Shots

Your Caretaker (Jack X Reader)

This one shot idea was given to me by TenshiWarrior.  Thank you for the idea :) Next up will be Zer0. Hope you all enjoy!

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A migraine, body aches, pains going through your arms, legs and torso, it felt like you were being ripped apart by something.  And your stomach felt like it was inside out, like if you couched everything would inside your body would just come up, you were not feeling well at all today and everyone could see it.  Yet you still came to work today, you had  a ton of paperwork to do and staying at home that day wouldn't have gotten anything done, plus Jack knew about how behind you were and he isn't a very patient man.  You didn't want to disappoint him so you came in, groggy feeling and sick.  This obviously wasn't an ordinary cold even though it started out like it, this felt worse and it was affecting you greatly and keeping you behind on work, you decided some aches and pains weren't going to stop you.

You had made it through half the day in Helios, walking down the huge halls delivering papers and not staying in one place for too long.  You tried to hide all of the things that were going on with you like trying to hide your couch, wiping away the sweat that was on your forehead, and trying to ignore the nausea you felt as you continued onward.  Your feet hurt so much from walking, you just wanted to lay down on the middle of the floor and curl up into a ball, you were surprised you made it this far.  Eventually you made it back to your office.

As you sat in your chair and began typing on your computer, your phone receiver began to go off.  A familiar voice rung up on the speaker.

"(Y/n), get up here.  I need to talk to you about that meeting next Monday."

"On my way sir."

As you stood up you could hear him faintly say 'thank you' before he hung up the phone.  Then you made your way to his office to the very top floor of the company. 

As you made your way to the elevator, you noticed how blurry the floor looked, it didn't seem like this earlier today.  The more you kept walking the worse it became, swaying floors, blurry vision, even your head began to spin.  You took a moment to recollect yourself in the elevator as it lifted you up each floor, but the motion and speed of it only made you worse, almost sick.  Your hands rubbed your face and you took in deep breaths to try and calm yourself.  Anxiety began kicking in now, your thoughts of how much work you'd be behind if you went home, you were already late with paperwork as it is. 

Just take it easy (y/n), you said to yourself, you can make it through the day.

Finally you made it to Jacks office, as you saw him from across the room sitting in his leather seat with his feet planted on his desk.  He seemed rather aggravated with the person he was talking to on his phone, not angry but annoyed, and soon he hung up as he let out a deep sigh afterwards.  Once he noticed your form from the other side of the room, he motioned his hand for you to come over.

You began to walk over to him, but then suddenly you stopped.  Something seemed. . . wrong with the way you felt just then.  Even Jack noticed your sudden stop in movement.

"(Y/n?). . . You alright?"  You could hear him ask, but his voice was distant.  Everything seemed that way.  There was something going on and it wasn't good.

Soon, you felt your body fall swiftly backwards and your vision went up to the ceiling, your eyes now in the back of your head.  Jack quickly reacted and jumped over his desk to go try and catch you from your sudden fall, but he was too late.  Soon your head hit the floor and everything went black.