Lean On Me (FF7)

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GUYS, WE'RE 8 VOTES AWAY FROM MY VOTE RECORD! YAY!

~Cloud's POV~

            I wake up sweating, Yuffie's body heat making me hot. I frown and scoot away a little, but she's heated up the whole bed, so I stand and walk to the other side of the wide bed and put one hand to her forehead, which I swear should've burned me. Sighing, I go down the stairs and fill a glass with water, putting two fever meds into the palm of my hand. But when I get back upstairs, she's not in bed, but the bathroom light is on and the whole hallway smells like puke, so I just wait on the bed. She stumbles back into the room and blinks at me.

"Did I wake you up?" she grumbles.

"I was awake before you got up," I shrug, handing her the things in my hands, to which she gives me a wobbly smile and takes the meds.

"Just don't get me sick," I groan playfully.

"I won't..." she covers her mouth and darts back for the bathroom.

          Eventually, I manage to go to sleep through the nasty sounds of her puking all night. Before you say I'm an awful boyfriend, if I'm around a vomiting person, I join them. That's just how my bodyworks. My eyes can only take so much. All too soon, the sun rises. I drag my feet across the carpet as I slip down the stairs in my socks. It's easier to slide down than to walk, okay? Barret too has bag under his eyes as he pours a cup of juice for Marlene.

"She keep you up all night too?" I yawn, rubbing my eyes.

"Yeah," he shakes his head.

"She was really hot last night..."

"She was what?" he tries to cover his laugh.

"Oh shut up, you nasty. I meant she had a really high fever."

"Hmm," Is all he says before sitting down between his daughter and Denzel. I just walk over to the counter and swish the brown liquid in the coffee pot around.

"Did you just make this?"

"Yeah," he nods.

"Okay," I nod, pouring it into a cup a and dumping creamer in after.

"You put that gross stuff in your coffee?" Barret looks at me, horrified.

"Um, yeah, black coffee is nasty." I take sip and sigh. "It's been so long since I've had something besides the brewed dirt Cid makes."

"I feel ya there," he chuckles.

"Hey guys," Yuffie says hoarsely as she enter the kitchen.

"Ah, it's a beast!" I yell, hiding behind Barret.

"Don't make fun of my hair," she croaks, sitting in my old spot, right beside my child. Tee-hee, that's so much fun to say!

"I wasn't, Vomit Breath."

"Knock it off, I brushed my teeth four items and showered twice. I'm sparkly clean."

"Uh-huh," I roll my eyes, sitting beside her.

"You don't believe me?" she raises an eyebrow and then blows in my face.

"Ew! Yuffie germs! I'm gonna die!" I yell, covering my face. 

"You're so dramatic," she scoffs.

"You just blew your fever germs all over me!" I protest.

"Yeah, and? You don't want to take my pain away?" she pouts.