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Who: Vanitas (

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What: Euri gets sick, and surely Pyro and Vanitas can combine their skills to form one competent caregiver! Right?
When: Day 296.
Where: Mushroomhouse.
Rating: PG probably for Pyro's mouth.

[The day had started out terribly. Draco was gone - probably grey - which left her to handle the shop on her own. Not a big deal under normal circumstances, but she had felt a little under the weather the night before and the next morning it was a full blown cold.

To top it off, the damn store had apparently been broken into sometime in the night. Perfect.

Euri only stayed long enough to clean up a little, but with her cold worsening she has to lock up and retreat back to the mushroom, sniffling and just knowing Vanitas isn't going to react well.

By the afternoon she's changed into some comfy pajamas and retreated back to bed with Dog. The cold has turned into a full-blown fever and flu, but it seems to be steadying out. Not like last time....

Regardless, she's made a quick call to Pyro. Even if she doesn't get any worse Vanitas isn't exactly the most caring person ever. He'll need some help, and hopefully her being sick will temper both of them a bit so they get along. Five or so minutes after the call she'll be wandering through the mushroom to find Vanitas and let him know the good news.]

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[Gosh or you could race your way to his heart by eating his fleas like Kaz.

But he knows what 'hungry' means, and he's whining and wagging his tail.]

Oh f - alright, I'll go look for something for him. You keep an eye on her.

[He eventually sets the cup of tea further from her bed, then jogs back down the stairs to hunt for a chunk of meat. Will he find anything?]

[...He'll pass. On the fleas.

But yeah, that sounds like a plan. The soup gets set next to the tea, while he just checks to make sure Euri's still breathing and all.]

[No worries, Dog looks like he wants to follow Pyro but he's still kind of stuck being used as a pillow, so he just droops his ears and whines. Euri mumbles something and rolls over with a content sigh.]

Pyro finds the biggest piece of meat available in her kitchen, then brings it back up on a plate. Only he realizes once he's halfway up the stairs that Dog will probably bolt out from under Euri's head when he sees it, waking her up rather rudely.

... it's kind of funny, though. The image.

But she's sick.

Damnit, affection.]

Vanitas, you better wake her up now. Dog's not gonna stay still for long when I bring this up.

I know.

[Instead of waking her up abruptly, though, he just steps closer and slides his hand under her head, between her and Dog's side. That'll at least support her, once the canine does decide to jump down.]

[Aw, sweethearts! Euri would gush if she was awake and embarrass both of them, so it's probably a good thing that she's asleep. Dog appreciates it too, and as soon as he can he's wiggling out from underneath Euri and shooting off the bed, over to the stairs because he can smell meat.]

Dog! Slow down. [He bolts the rest of the way up the stairs and manages to get the plate set on the ground before he can be knocked over. Okay, narrowly dodged massive embarrassment there.

That done, he moves to the bedside as well, although he doesn't make any physical gestures with Vanitas right there.]

[Well, since she didn't wake up during the exchange, Vanitas just pulls a pillow over and places it beneath her head before he slowly lowers it back down. With that done, he slides his hand out from underneath it again, and glances at Pyro.

The lack of PDA is appreciated.]

She still feels too warm.

All I know for cutting a fever is aspirin, but - look around. [He sighs, waiving a hand at all the plants.] Doubt we're finding any medicine in here.

[Thankfully, he's run across enough medicine here to know what aspirin is, otherwise he would've been baffled. In response, he just follows Pyro's gesture with a glance, and purses his lips slightly.]

She's got herbs for it, but I've got no clue as to which ones are which. [Then he meets the other's gaze.]

Flip a coin for who goes out to get something we know'll work?

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[He purses his lips, but pulls a rune out of his pocket and quickly calls one side (do they have heads?) before flipping it in the air and catching it on the top of his hand. He uncovers it facing Vanitas, to prove that he hasn't cheated.]

[He watches it closely, but in the end it's clearly on him.

Well, that's fine. Though he's not thrilled that he'll have to leave, and just gives a small grunt of acknowledgement. Still, he lingers for a few seconds longer, to adjust the blankets around her shoulders.]

Be back in a sec. [Then, he leaves, without so much as giving Pyro a second glance. He knows, at least, that he doesn't have to order him to stay and monitor her.]

[Once Vanitas is gone, Pyro sits on the edge of the bed and looks down at Euri for a moment before letting out a sigh and starting to run a hand over her hair. Her skin does feel too hot, and her hair is damp with sweat. Just a flu, right? And she'll come back if she dies?

It's right, after all the times she's watched over him, that he should be doing this. But he's never had a good sense of right and wrong, so it just feels claustrophobic and constricting when he thinks past her illness to what he's doing. Caring for her. Feeling this worried. It's all - not new, but too old, that's the real problem. They're things he's left behind.

But he doesn't move, and keeps stroking her hair gently.]

[It ends up taking him about twenty minutes to find a pharmacy, 'cause even though he's lived at the Mushroom house before, businesses have changed or moved since then. It's not really the same city he's used to, but eventually he succeeds in tracking down some aspirin.

So he's gone for a total of thirty, before his boots make a few soft thuds on the stairs as he ascends back to the room with the medicine in hand.]

[Dog has finished his meal by then, and after finding a nice cozy place on the floor next to the bed to relax and digest.

... Of course, when Vanitas returns he's perking up and barking, which startles Euri awake. She's mumbling something incomprehensible and with a tired huff stretches her arms out.]

[And Pyro jumps off the bed, standing as casually as he can while obviously hoping not to have been seen or noticed by either of them.]

'Morning. [He indicates the soup and tea by her bedside with a wave of his hand.] We got some Aspirin too, in case the plant version doesn't work.

["We."]

[Euri might be too groggy, but heeee totally noticed that, dude. Not that he comments on it, and just shoots Pyro an unreadable stare before he adds,]

Feeling any better?

[At least Euri doesn't notice, she's way too groggy. It even takes her a few moments to realize Dog isn't her pillow anymore. She blinks a little and pushes herself up, glancing between them.]

... Not really.

[She is eyeing lunch though, and she'll give them a small smile before reaching for the tea.]

But thanks.

You're taking something for the fever after you eat. We're not letting it get any higher.

[That's said in a gruff, bossy way to camouflage any worry in it.]

Still hot? [Meaning the tea.]

[He stays silent, for now. Pyro's said everything he had to interject with, anyway. So he just hovers in front of the doorway, and waits for a response.]

[She sighs a little, sipping the tea.] Willow bark. That's where aspirin comes from.

[And she'll nod! Sitting up properly so she can reach for the soup next.]

Mm, it's nice.

[Vanitas gets a little look - Hear that? My tea's nice. - before he glances back at Euri.]

Alright. Where is it, then?

[Don't get on your high horse so quickly. That's what his expression back says, along with, Yeah, fine. But my soup's better.]

I've got some right here. [And he holds up the bottle he bought, shaking it slightly to make the pills rattle inside.]

I'll take the pills, it's alright. [Since Vanitas must've gone out to get them - there aren't any pills in the mushroom.

She's trying the soup next! It smells good, so she's taking a big spoonful and....

Well.

She's swallowing it, at least?]

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