The little book of Queen Weeks

The flu

Prompt: illness
Freddie's POV
"Babe, we can't have shows cancelled because I got your stupid cold. Now please, let me put it on you" Freddie said and I couldn't react because of a sudden coughing fit which made him run out of the room, screaming. When I finally stopped coughing, I chugged a bit of my water then rang my bell to call him back, he gave it to me so I wouldn't cough every time I wanted something.

He put his head around the door then came in and sat at my side, waving the little cloth mask, "will you have it now?" He asked and I nodded, closing my eyes. I felt him put it on my face and loop it over my ears then he was being really fussy about how it looked so I pretended I was about to cough and stopped him.

"You little bugger" he whispered and I opened my eyes, looking at him.

"Heard that... can I-no, Fred" I tried protesting when he picked up his hand mirror, probably to show me what I looked like, "babe, I don't want to see, please" I said but he insisted and showed me.

And god I looked like a mess.

My hair was everywhere, I was bright red and my eyes were all bloodshot but I will admit the mask looked cute. It had a little bear's nose on it which definitely helped cover up the waterfall of snot coming out of my nose.

"What d'you think?" He asked and I looked at him then sniffed, trying not to dirty it too much.

"Nice... takes away from the fact I look high as shit" I mumbled and he sighed, patting my arm under the blanket.

"You don't... trust me" he said and I did trust him but I still thought I looked high, "oh and Brian and Roger are coming round, I think they'll want to visit you"

"What?! No, they can't-" I started coughing again and Freddie held my hand to wait until I stopped, "they can't see me, I look terrible" I frowned and he shook his head.

"They won't mind, love, and they want to see you" he said and I just gave up, I felt another cough coming on so I just nodded to go with it. It wasn't like I could go anywhere, anyway.

Freddie was just talking to me about work and stuff like that until the door opened a little and Roger poked his head in, "alright to come in?" He asked and Freddie went over to welcome him with a hug.

Brian followed quite nervously behind Roger and smiled at me then came over to the side of the bed, "how you feeling?" He asked and I sighed a little.

"Like shit, really... I've been sleeping most of the day" I said and he nodded a little, rubbing my shoulder.

"That's good, you need your rest. We, um, we brought you some soup if you'd want it" he showed me a little flask which I assumed had the soup in and I smiled at how sweet it was.

"Thank you, Bri... you really didn't have to" I looked over at Roger who smiled.

"How you feeling, Deaks?" He asked and I gave him a thumbs up, "good... you look tired, uh, do you want us to go?" He asked and I looked at Freddie then nodded a little.

"It's not you, I just... want to sleep" I mumbled and almost straight away, all three of them left, "oh, uh, thanks guys!"