Heroes of Olympus/Magnus Chase Sickfics

Mechanical Birds and Boys Who (Sometimes) Cry Wolf

Hello my loves! This request comes from crying_over_books for Nyssa/Leo BroTP! I loves these two so much and hope you love this fic! Read on, my loves, and let me know what you think in the comments!

Leo pushed up his goggles and took of a glove to put his hand to his forehead for the umpteenth time that afternoon, trying to gauge if he was running a fever or if it was just a crazy hot day. Once again, he couldn't tell if his skin was hot or if the air in the forge was hot, or both. 

"Hey, Nyssa" Leo called, he had to raise his voice slightly since the forge was loud. He wondered if the forge was louder than usual, the noises seemed to be burrowing into his brain a little further than usual, making it hard to focus.

"What?" She called back, barely glancing over at him before going back to work on their mechanical bird. They were supposed to be working together, he was supposed to be building the inner mechanism and she was building the outer piece, but Leo couldn't make himself focus today; stupid ADHD.

"Do I-" Leo felt dumb for asking, but there was no one else around that he knew, and he didn't want to go to the infirmary for nothing. "Do I feel warm to you, like, do I feel like I have a fever?" Leo felt a blush creep up his face as he asked.

"What?" Nyssa looked up at Leo with a quizzical expression, putting down her welding torch and pushed up her goggles.

"I just don't feel great today and I'm trying to decide if I should go to  the infirmary..." He trailed off.

"Leo, do you really expect me to believe that you just happened to get sick the same day that Piper is supposed to be coming to visit and you're going to be stuck in the forge with me all day?" 

"I'm serious! Piper has nothing to do with this!" Leo yelped indignantly, the shrill tone making his throat hurt a little.

"Uggh, fine!" Nyssa rolled her eyes and took off one of her thick welding gloves. She pressed the back of her hand to Leo's forehead and let it rest there for a moment.

Leo couldn't help but lean into the touch slightly; so maybe he was touch starved, sue him!

Nyssa pursed her lips and pulled away after a moment. "Nope, no fever, just a dummy trying to get out of helping me again." She put her glove and goggles back on and went back to work. "Y'know, if you're going to try to get out of helping me, at least make it a little more believable. This is even worse acting than last time. At least last time you made some pretty realistic puke." She added without looking up.

"Okay, that's fair, but I'm not trying to get out of helping, I just feel..." Leo tried to think of a good descriptor "weird."

"Well, can you feel weird a little more quietly?"

"Whatever." Leo huffed and pulled his goggles back down and put his glove back on and went back to work, trying to tune out the noises of the forge. 

As the day drug on, Leo only felt worse. His throat had started to hurt when he swallowed and a headache had begun around an hour ago.

"Nyssa, I really think I'm coming down with something. I have a giant headache and-"

Nyssa cut him off "Leo, if you really don't want to help me that badly, then just go." She growled without looking up. She kept her goggles on and eyes on the piece she was working on, but Leo could tell that she was upset.

"No, it's not-" Leo immediately felt bad. He seriously wasn't trying to get out of helping Nyssa with her project, not this time at least. "Never mind. Just tell me what you need me to do." He sighed and found himself holding back tears and was glad that goggles hid his eyes.