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Sykkuno sneezed again for the umpteenth time that day, and it bumps up the sneeze counter chat has become. He coughs a little and sniffles, taking a piece of tissue from somewhere off to the side and blowing his nose before disposing of it.
"Sykkuno, are you okay?" Lily's voice filters out from the proximity chat of their Minecraft game, "my chat says you've been sneezing the entire stream..."
The brunette waves it off with an excuse of not dusting his room well before sneezing again, "I should probably get the vacuum cleaner in here." He jokes lightly before returning to the game, attentively placing blocks where necessary.
The sneeze counter goes up a couple more times the next few minutes, more rapidly than before which greatly worried everyone. There are more than a couple of comments which tell him to rest, spamming it rapidly so that the streamer catches it.
Unfortunately for them, Sykkuno gets distracted.
His phone dings with a notification from Discord, Corpse's name appearing above the message.
> we ran out of day/nyquil shld I buy med?
Sykkuno flushes sheepishly, he must have made a lot of noise with his sneezing.
could you please? <
if you don't think you can it's fine! <
> anything for you Sykkuno :)
Everyone seemingly forgets about their previous endeavour to make Sykkuno stop streaming as there's a sudden rush of comments in chat, gushing over his blushing face and wide smile, many asks as to who Sykkuno's messaging. "It's just my roommate guys," he says before sniffling, "they offered to get some medicine from the pharmacy nearby."
He sneezes and thanks the viewers for the gift subs when it came through, "'arent I housed with otv' uhh no, I— I moved out a while back when the lease was ending remember?"
The sound of keys scrapping against wood and the zip of a jacket hits his ears just as he says that, the front door clicking softly as it opens and closes.
Sykkuno smiles again and reads out another question, "'whos my roomie' uhhh- hey look, a beehive."
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Corpse tugs the beanie down a little further as he walks down the sidewalk, hiding his hands in the pockets of his jacket as he had forgone the rings —leaving him bare and feeling rather naked but it was also less likely for him to be recognised. On the bright side, he wasn't wearing entirely black for once; his jacket was a dark olive green but everything else other than that was black.
The trip to the pharmacy was uneventful, especially so since it was one of the only places he could call one of his usual haunts what with his ever declining health, but the pharmacist did raise a brow when he entered since it's a pandemic and all that jazz.
"Uh, do you have anything good for flus?" He asks shyly, soft enough it would have been muffled entirely by the dark mask that covers his mouth. Luckily enough for him, the pharmacist seems to catch it and even pulls out fever medicine just in case. It helps to be cautious nowadays.
"Cough?" She asks, while making the motion of coughing in case Corpse didn’t hear her.
He shrugs since he didn’t hear Sykkuno cough but the older did say something about an itchy throat, "blocked nose mostly."
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Corpse catches the tail end of another sneeze just as he eases open Sykkuno's room door, the stream still ongoing much to his surprise —he remembered reading a comment on chat that asked Sykkuno to stop streaming for the sake of his health some time ago; and yes he was watching Sykkuno's stream again and may or may not have joined in on the counting. Though that was before Sykkuno started to get sicker and the brunette had been brushing his viewers' concerns off.
Corpse decides to take matters into his own hands as he enters the room from the right (the left of the camera from the viewpoint of the viewers on stream), which was also very conveniently off-camera. Sykkuno does spot him and mutes his mic, cutting his sentence in half and sending his chat into a frenzy.
Turning the camera face towards the wall, Corpse puts down the small bag of medicine in front of Sykkuno. He deadpans, "fifty subs, stop streaming."
It gets the man moving because the brunette immediately sputters, shaking his head fervently with a stream of "no i-it's too much!"
Sykkuno waves his hands animatedly in front of his face, "I’ll stop streaming I swear! Please don’t spend that amount of money just to do this!"
Corpse gives him a look for added pressure before shifting the webcam back into place while making sure to be out of frame. Sykkuno quickly puts an awkward smile on his face and switches his mic on, "uhh, I-I’m gonna stop streaming now guys. I would love to say more but I think my roommate's going to kill me the longer I drag this out so today's a short goodbye!" A few more clicks, "we're going to raid Rae since I can’t think of anyone else at this moment, have fun guys!"
Five minutes later he shuts down the electronics and looks to Corpse sheepishly. The younger huffs under the face mask, "take the meds and get some sleep Sykkuno." A mild glare, "if you even think of turning on that terminal, I’m going to mess up your wires."
Sykkuno's smile falters and looks to side guiltily, he totally wasn’t thinking about doing exactly what Corpse said —not at all.
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And well, if Sykkuno got a fever the next day and Corpse had to play nurse then that’s a story for another time.