Food Poisoning

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Mal had been in Auradon now for almost a year, she and Ben did everything, they laughed and cried and talked about everything and anything. They had seen things in each other that others hadn't but the one thing that Mal hadn't seen in Ben is a sickness. Sure, she knew what a common cold was since Jay caught one last month and Lonnie caught a small sickness bug from travelling during the summer. However, when Mal received a phone call from Belle saying that Ben had food poisoning she panicked, she hadn't seen anyone with food poisoning but she had heard stories that made her shiver. She regained her composure and ran out of her dorm. She ran as fast as she could all the way to Castle Beast to see Ben. Mal passed all the townspeople in a rush and in return, they gave her some strange looks.

Her face was bloodshot red and her breathing was heavy as she arrived outside the doors of Castle Beast. As she poorly raised a hand to knock on the overly large wooden doors, they swung open only for Mal to see Adam and Belle in an embrace of worry and a tired looking Mrs Potts. Adam and Belle broke their embrace as Belle rushed to Mal and greeted her "Mal honey, Ben's extremely ill, he needs to get better but refuses to take medication or anything, he's making himself worse every minute he won't lay down." Mal felt tears coming to her eyes but she knew that she shouldn't let them go as it was a sign of weakness. Afraid to say anything she just nodded her head. Mrs Potts took Mal's hand in hers and guided Mal to King Ben's bedroom only to find him bending over the toilet throwing up. Mal immediately rushed to Ben's side and began to soothe him by rubbing his back in large circles to comfort him. Belle, Adam and Mrs Potts watched from the teen king's bedroom door, Belle couldn't help but watch a small smile escape as she watched Mal help Ben back into bed. As Mal made sure that Ben was comfortable in bed, Chip came running down halls ad straight into the King's bedroom looking worn out "Miss Belle, I have the last of the medicine in the castle" his breaths were deep and his face was as red as a cherry as all the blood was rushing up to his face. Belle took the bottle off Chip and walked over to Mal, she took Mal's open hand and placed the last two pills from the bottle into Mal's hand. "What....Belle?" Mal was so confused by Belle's action.

"Mal, Mrs Potts has been chasing Ben around all morning trying to get him to take his pills but he has either flushed them down the toilet or thrown them out the window," Adam said gazing at his son who shrugged off the gaze. Mal shot a death glare at Ben, the glare signalled for Adam, Belle, Mrs Potts and Chip to leave. Mal closed the door behind them and turned to Ben who was now sitting up and resting his eyes. "Ben, can you take these for me" Mal used her puppy dog eyes that no one could resist not even Ben. Mal held her hand out showing two white pills in her pale hands. Ben shook his head and moved further up the bed to get away. Mal watched as he started to back away so she decided to move closer to try and catch him but when she saw him move a hand up to his mouth and his eyes widen she knew that she had to act fast. Mal turned her head towards the bathroom and pulled out Ben's bin before he could ask for help. She placed it under Ben's neck and hoped that he wouldn't be throwing up for too long.

Once Ben had finished throwing up, Ben passed Mal the bin as he laid back down to rest. Mal rinsed out the bin and placed the bin back in the bathroom. As Mal re-entered Ben's room, she found him asleep but he hadn't taken his medication so Mal decided a different approach, she went down to the Castle Kitchen and made a bowl of ice cream with Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry, of course, you can't forget strawberry. Mal crushed the last of Ben's pills and placed them in the ice cream, she then went back up to Ben's room to find his eyes slightly open as he looked up to the ceiling. "Hey Ben, I know you shouldn't be eating this with food poisoning and everything, but I thought that it would bring down your temperature" Mal sat next to Ben on his bed as he shuffled over to make room for her. He took the ice cream from Mal and began to slowly eat it. He could feel the pain in his throat decrease as he carried on eating it, his headache was leaving him as well, that's when his turned to Mal "You put the medicine in the ice cream didn't you?" his slight bad boy smile was returning, one Mal hadn't seen all morning. "Maybe I did, Maybe I didn't you will never know" she replied as she gave Ben her mischievous smile, the same one she had given to him when they first met.

Ben finished his ice cream and placed the bowl on his bedside table. He laid back down next to Mal as he slithered an arm around her neck to pull her into a loose embrace. That's how they fell asleep and that's how Belle and Adam found them in the morning. Belle pulled Adam out of Ben's room and gave him an all to knowing smile.


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