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Being Sick Of Waiting 1/2

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“I’m not sick!” Alexander protested, trying to sit up in the bed that he was confined to by too-tight sheets that were tucked underneath him from his toes to his shoulders. Travis rolled his eyes at him and pushed him back down with the backside of his palm to Alex’s burning forehead.
“Okay,” he said sarcastically, sitting on the edge of the bed. He picked up the thermometer that he had just checked Alex’s temperature with it and held it out to his face so that he could see. “A one-hundred-and-one temperature isn’t sick to you?”
“I don’t get sick,” Alex stated, wiggling his arms free to rest in the cooler air. “It must be broken.”
“Your head must be broken,” Travis laughed. He brushed back the hair that clung to Alex’s face and smiled. “How’re your sinuses?”
“They’re fine like any other day.” Alex attempted to keep his face stern but ended up coughing a bit and sniffling.
“Don’t move, I’ll be back with pills and tea and Vick’s and I’ll get you all better. Sound good?”
“I’ll stay here, but only because I want to,” Alex told him as he stood up and left. He waited patiently for Travis’ return and sighed miserably, grabbing a tissue from the box on top of the dresser to wipe his nose. He threw it away in the small garbage can that Travis brought him this morning for his “illness.” He was bothered then because he hadn’t wanted to believe it, but now he was thankful and his denial was just a cover up.

Travis came back soon, balancing the items he’d sworn to get in his hands with a warm, almost smug grin on his face. “I thought you would have tried to escape your cocoon.” He set everything down on the dresser and helped Alex sit up, putting a pillow behind his back to help prop him up. He handed him the half-filled mug of hot chamomile tea and Alex instantly brought it up to his lips and sipped it. “Did I make it how you like it?” The question provoked a natural smile.
“Yes.”
“Good. Now take these pills with it.” Travis handed him two capsules to reduce his fever. Alex just glanced between him and the pills in his hand and raised an eyebrow. Travis did the same. “If you don’t take them, you can rub the Vick’s on your chest by yourself and that’s no fun, is it?” Alex sighed exasperatedly and mumbled “Fine,” taking the pills without further fuss. He also finished the tea and set it on their makeshift table and looked at Travis expectantly, puckering his lips the slightest bit. Travis laughed. “Take off your shirt.” So he did, and threw it over Travis’ head, giggling and coughing afterwards. Travis tossed the shirt into their clothes basket and climbed into Alex’s lap. “That wasn’t nice.”
“I don’t play nice when you don’t.” Travis rolled his eyes again and unscrewed the container of Vick’s VapoRub.
“Then you’re really gonna hate me for this.”

He made Alex lean back against the pillows and scooped a generous amount of cool gel onto his fingers and smirked. Alex was about to say something clever to mess with him but he got a chest full of soothing relief before he even got the chance to blink. Travis chuckled at the way he took a deep breath as he began to use his whole hand, massaging the cream into his skin thoroughly, over his pecs and to his neck. “That is the stuff,” Alex whispered happily, trailing his fingers teasingly up Travis’s arms. As Travis worked his way lower down his abdomen to get rid of the excess gel, Alex subconsciously held his breath and arched into his touch slightly, gripping the bottom of Travis’ shirt. Travis stopped his moving and kept his palm over the left pair of hip rings in Alex’s skin, causing him to pant slightly.
“Y’know the whole point of this stuff is for you to be able to breathe better,” Travis says matter-of-factly. Alex doesn’t respond and only hikes up Travis’ tee, getting lost in the feeling of his cool skin that contrasted his own. He went for the easier access of his thighs and squeezed them yearningly. As Travis’ eyes fluttered, he took his hand back and shut the Vick’s jar. “You’re sick. I don’t want to catch whatever you have.” Alex lifted his hips up to move minutely against Travis.
“Do I feel sick to you?”
“I don’t feel anything with all of those blankets that I used to cover you up for your shivers.”
“But if you’re going to be sleeping in the bed we might as well do what else we normally do,” Alex whined, voice getting raw from all the overuse while it was sore.
“You are impossible, you know that?” Travis shook his head. He rolled off of him onto Alex’s usual side of the bed, the one closest to the wall, and kissed him on the forehead. “Goodnight.” He stretched to reach the cord for the light above their heads and when darkness swallowed them, he laid down.

He rolled onto his stomach and put his arms underneath his pillow, yawning tiredly. There were a few moments of silence. Then Alex mumbled disappointedly, “We’re not even going to cuddle?” Oh, it was the perfect statement and tone to guilt its way straight to Travis’s heart in an instant. So he reached out behind him, found his hand, laced their fingers together and held it as he started to doze off. He was on the verge of dreams when Alex spoke again. “Thank you.” Travis smiled to himself and hummed in response. Another minute passed and, for the last time, Alex added, “I love you.” Travis turned his head to rest it on the opposite side he had previously been laying on, meeting the dim shine of Alex’s eyes.
“I love you, too,” he murmured. And he had thought that was the end of it. But Alex snuck in a quick peck to the lips, yet Travis didn’t seem to care about arguing about him being sick anymore.
Part Two: [link]

Part two will be a little... sexier >;D

WELP. It's true. Alex doesn't get sick. He refuses to acknowledge it when he does. And Travis is there to help him out.


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Man.. I'm just looking through the DA and I come across this... My day just keeps getting better and better! *Squeals*