Final Space Oneshots

Sickness (2)

Little Cato tapped his foot, tail swishing. Gary's bedroom door remained shut in front of him.

"What's up?" Little Cato turned to Nightfall, who was passing by. She frowned. "Is Gary still in there?"

"Yeah...but I figured he was sleeping so..." Little Cato trailed off, kicking the floor.

"So you're waiting for him?" Nightfall smiled with a chuckle.

"Well I have nothing else to do." Little Cato explained hastily. "He was going to teach me how to drive the ship so I thought I'd wait."

"I remember now...didn't you almost crash into that meteor last week?" Nightfall laughed. Little Cato nodded, laughing with her.

"I thought I was better than I am, but Gary is really helping me improve!" Little Cato frowned at the mention of the human, staring back at the door. "But he hasn't came out of his room. He never misses any diving lesson we do."

Nightfall hummed.

"I say go wake him up. He's been acting different this morning." She suggested. The elder began to walk away, giving him a small smile. "Call me if you need anything, I'll only be in Ash's room."

"Thanks Nightfall." Little Cato, now with the new adult permission, opened Gary's door and peered inside.

At first he didn't see Gary as his eyed moved to desks first. But he found the human lying on the bed, apparently asleep.

Little Cato moved closer, ears twitching. It was highly unusual for Gary to be asleep at such a late time, especially now with the search for dimensional keys.

"Gary?" Little Cato was now standing next to the bed. He shook Gary's shoulder, trying to get him to wake up. All Gary did in response is murmur something.

Now that Little Cato was closer, he began to see how bad Gary looked; dark bags rested under his eyes, sweat was gathering at his brow, and his breaths were sounding uneven. He frowned, placing a paw on Gary's forehead.

"Oh no." Gary's head was definitely hotter than it should be. Little Cato shook Gary again, and was rewarded with Gary opening his eyes.

"Spider Cat?" Gary muttered, furrowing his brows. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to check on you after you weren't at the cockpit for my driving lesson and –"

"Oh sorry buddy...did I sleep that long?" Gary began to sit up despite Little Cato's protests.

"Gary you shouldn't be doing that - you're sick!" Little Cato tried to push him gently but Gary stood up, swaying alarmingly.

"I'm not sick...you don't need to worry." Gary murmured more to himself. He took an unsteady step forward.

"Gary –" Little Cato watched as Gary suddenly collapsed with a moan. "Gary!"

Little Cato dropped to the ground, brushing Gary's hair away from his face. His eyes were closed, features lax.

"Gary wake up!" Gary didn't answer, breathing heavily.

"Nightfall! Nightfall!" Little Cato cried out, cradling Gary's head.

Nightfall was almost immediately by his side, flinging the door open. At the sight of Gary on the floor, she dropped to the Ventrexian's side. Her dark hand felt Gary's forehead and she frowned.

"Knew it." Nightfall muttered.

"What should we do?!" Little Cato panicked. The sight of seeing someone so close to him looking like death shook him up more than he'd like to admit. Nightfall turned to him.