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Post by journeycat on Mar 20, 2011 8:23:41 GMT 10
Title: By Your Side Rating: G Word Count: 256 Pairing: Team Bend-a-lot (Jon/Zahir) Round/Fight: 1/A Summary: Zahir is very sick, and Jon stays by his side.
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Zahir cried out and Jon, flinching from his fitful doze, instinctively reached out for his squire’s hand. The brown, twitching fingers clutched at him. The fever, Jon thought for the hundredth time. The fever is giving him hallucinations again. He lifted his head from the bed and arched his back against the hard chair in which he sat, trying to loosen his cramped muscles.
How long had he been asleep? It felt like forever, though he knew he hadn’t been asleep for any length of time. He hadn’t been able to sleep at all, with Zahir so ill; he couldn’t just abandon him. It felt wrong, somehow, seeing Zahir reduced to someone who wept and thrashed and vomited all over himself. Jon wouldn’t leave him to an impersonal healer, even if it was Baird.
“I was sick like this once, too,” Jon said. Zahir rolled his head in his direction, hair plastered to his drenched forehead and eyes staring without seeing. “I was going to die, but I had someone pull me back with magic. I don’t know how to do that with you, but I’ve been assured you’re not dying, anyway, so I suppose that’s okay.”
His squire closed his eyes. Jon took a cool, wet cloth and placed it on his brow. “My mother used to sing to me when I was sick. Would it be too silly for me to sing to you?”
Zahir groaned and flung his hand away. Jon snorted. “Yeah, I suppose my singing would only make it worse, eh?”
QC by: greenie
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Post by Seek on Mar 24, 2011 19:00:19 GMT 10
I love the casual way Jon is talking to Zahir, and the last line is made of win. No, Jon, you're Kenny Loggins, so your singing would make things better
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Post by journeycat on Mar 27, 2011 3:41:22 GMT 10
Bahaha, thank you! The idea that Jon's singing is terrible always makes me giggle. But if he channels Kenny Loggin's spirit, maybe that can be remedied...
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