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Cal knew that something was wrong since the headache had increased, more than three days ago he felt that his brain was going to explode, it was too much.
he set down the bags containing the food he had just ordered for tonight's meals and held on tight to the kitchen counter as his vision began to blur.
"Oh, Master Riki, good morning" He forced a smile just in time to see the mongrel leave Master Iason's room, he was still surprised by the relationship they seemed to have, he had never seen a Blondie treat his pet as he treated him ...Master Iason to Riki.
"Mhh, hello Cal... what's wrong, you're a little pale" The furniture felt that it was becoming more and more difficult to stand up, his vision began to darken again. He couldn't think of anything else, he couldn't even finish the sentence in his mind, he could only pray that if he passed out it wouldn't cause a big disaster, the blow didn't come as hard as he would have expected, Riki had acted quickly seeing how the furniture seemed to be fainting in slow motion and before Cal's head hit the ground, he carefully held him and rested him against his legs, preventing him from hitting the ground hard.
"Cal, CAL LET'S GO, REACT, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" The mongrel moved the piece of furniture gently, but after ten minutes to wake it up, it was already shaking so hard that it made the other man's body look like a rag doll.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO YOU?, YOU BETTER WAKE UP AND THIS IS A FUCKING JOKE, OR WHEN IASON COMES IN, HE WILL THINK THIS IS MY FAULT AND I WILL MAKE A FUCKING HELL OF YOUR LIFE, YOU BASTARD"
After a couple of more than unsuccessful attempts by the dark-haired man to wake him up, he decided he would take him to the furniture room so he carried the smaller man on his back and went into the bedroom. Shit, he's on fire Riki thought once he placed the furniture on his bed carefully on his bed.
When Cal opened his eyes again he realized that he was lying in what seemed to be his bed, covered up to his neck with a light blanket, his vision was still a little blurry, but he felt that the headache had diminished, at that moment the bed sagged under the weight, someone had sat next to him.
"So you wake up, you're a fucking son of a bitch you know, you almost scared me to death."
“Master Riki? ...I'm really sorry I don't know what happened to me.
"SHHH, shut your mouth." The mongrel reached over to remove something from his forehead and Cal noticed that there was a warm towel folded on his forehead which he deposited in what looked like a dish of water and held out a cup to him
"Ah, thanks" Cal sat up slowly and looked more awake at the scene, the room was somewhat dark and the only lighting seemed to come from a lamp that Riki had placed on the nightstand, which gave off a timid reddish glow, which made the Riki's face seemed mysterious and enigmatic, with his hair taking on burgundy edges and his eyes like glowing embers.
Cal shook his head before realizing he was still in bed.
“Oh, what time is it? Master Iason is about to arrive, I… " He tried to get up as quickly as possible but the moment he did he realized what a bad idea it was, the discomfort that had been afflicting him all week returned with more force, he felt his guts twist and a cold sweat slide down his back.
A strong hand pushed him back onto the bed, Riki looking annoyed.
"Don't be stupid Cal, it's obvious you're not okay, I'll tell Iason and..."
"No." He had suddenly regained full consciousness and felt all his muscles tense and his tone become the most serious that Riki had heard from him since they met, leaving the fearful and durative tone common to him.
"No, no nono, please Master Riki, if... no, if Master Iason finds out" Cal felt his tremors increase without him being able to control himself, and his voice became more and more desperate. the ears of him.
“he doesn't know…he doesn't know master Riki what they do to us…what they would do to me if I get sick…master Iason is going to…he could…”
"Shut up... I do... if I lose, don't worry, I won't say anything to Iason"
"Th-thank you master Riki"
“mhh, there are still a couple of hours until it arrives”
"Oh, I haven't made dinner yet."
Riki was beginning to get more and more fed up with the situation and with Cal continuing to insist, he didn't want to think about what could happen to the piece of furniture if he tried to be present in the company of Iason, in his state he would only make Blondie realize She realized that there was something wrong just by looking at him and if that happened…she didn't want to repeat the same mistake Dary made that had somehow been her fault.
"Tsh, listen, I'll tell Iason that you went to bed early because I asked you to, that...something didn't feel right in your stomach, hopefully you'll be better tomorrow."
"That is a great idea, Master Riki."
"How many times do I have to tell you, it's just Riki, besides, how long have you been sick?" The furniture only smiled weakly and told him that it was a little over a week ago while the mongrel turned off the light in the room and slowly closed the door. How strange, fever, pain...almost reminds me of..." Riki shook his head, that couldn't be.
Iason entered his home on Eos to the strangest sight he could have imagined, the table set poorly, cutlery in disarray and a strange smell coming from the kitchen where I can see his pet nonchalantly stirring a pot with a foreign substance inside.
"Ah, you just arrived, it's ready"
"What are you doing, Riki?"
"Dinner, what else?" The mongrel took out two plates and with the ladle that stirred the substance, of which he scooped out a portion that he dropped sharply on the plate, splashing the counter and with an unpleasant splashing sound.
"Is served "
The blondie looked at everything suspiciously , but finally left his coat on the nearest chair and sat down at the table that his furniture usually prepared neatly , in addition to the mess things were poorly placed , the tablecloth wrinkled and the crockery was dirty as if in a attempt to clean it they would have passed him a dirty cloth, even so in the face of such a disaster the blondie just sat down and smiled while Riki brought him a plate with a somewhat mocking smile, looking more carefully Iason realized that the texture was not even very good, neither liquid nor solid did it look like some kind of white substance, he looked at Riki who had nonchalantly sat down in front of him with his own plate.
“And may I know what is causing this…strange situation?”
"What strange situation?"
“A situation in wich apparently you, decided to cook dinner. Where's Cal?
The mongrel just continued to smile mockingly at the questioning, he knew that Iason wouldn't miss anything, but even so, he approached his plate and ate calmly, letting the porridge slide off the spoon.
"I already told you, I asked Cal to let me do something today, i wanted to try something I´m used to."
The air seemed to grow more nostalgic around the black-haired man and Iason noticed the almost imperceptible movement Riki made, turning his body towards the wall behind him, where he knew that if he were on the balcony he would see the only place that would not be lit from the outside. all of Amoi, area nine, and his former home, Ceres.
The blondie noticed the strange change in the air and the wistful look on his pet's face so he decided to quickly divert the subject.
"I didn't know you cooked, although it's not something I'm used to, it's...acceptable"
“Acceptable…yesss”
"You still don't answer the question of what happened to Cal for not being present" Riki looked at him with annoyance.
"You're not going to let that go, are you? Well, well, Cal stuck his nose in the wrong place and tasted some of the food before it was ready, so his stomach is a little weak and I told him to leave early, trust me you don't want to go in there the smell stinks”
The blondie didn't say anything as he finished his meal and pondered the matter.
“We ate this at Guardian for breakfast, oh no one liked it but once you go out it's hard to find food and well…whatever you have becomes a feast”
Iason fixed his eyes on Riki, his pet would never speak of his experiences on Ceres and his childhood, as if he wanted to keep that life to himself, somehow hearing him speak of his own volition aroused something in him. his.
Riki kept looking out of the corner of his eye at where Ceres would be, his hair falling down the other half of his face with black strands framing her face.
Iason put aside the cutlery and approached his pet who only looked at him curiously at the regretful movement.
"You didn't like the food? There's more in the pot"
"I think now I'm hungry for something else"
Iason took Riki's chin and Riki held his gaze. ´Damn, I'll have to humor him if I don't want him to suspect anything about Cal´ Riki followed the blondie into the room without protest , It wasn't a long time, moans and groans were heard afterwards.
Later the blondie looked at the mongrel who was lying exhausted, the breaths Riki found stable since he had fallen asleep a short time ago and his skin was fresh with sweat transmitting a glowing shine, he passed his hand up from the thighs to the chest where he drew to himself. He's hiding something from me , he thought, Riki's behavior today was abnormal, from preparing dinner to following him without protest, but he had heard his heart beat normally when telling about his childhood in Guardian so technically he wasn't lying, he let a kiss on his shoulder and got up carefully not to wake him, he was going to solve the matter himself.
Cal sighed looking at himself shakily in the mirror, the pain had worsened and a short while ago he started to feel terrible nausea, he had run to the bathroom just in time to throw up, he had just left when he saw Master Iason at the door.
"oh, master Iason"
"Riki told me that you ate something you didn't like, is that true?"
"I.."
"Shit, Iason it's just that something went wrong with his stomach, let him rest"
Riki had appeared, he was half-naked leaning on the door, with pants that fell loose on his hips, and without a shirt, revealing his torso full of bites and marks of dubious origin, Cal blushed and thought that this had nothing to do with for the fever.
“Is that true Cal? “Iason questioned him again.
“ahh…um yes master Iason, just an upset stomach.” The blondie nodded and grabbed his pet to go.
The next morning, as soon as Riki heard that Iason was leaving early due to an accident in the black market, he ran to Cal's room to see how the furniture was, the result worried him, it seemed that the fever had risen during the night, besides the furniture he seemed lethargic, with a flushed countenance.
"CAL, shit listen to me, what's wrong with you, SHIT, you're burning up" I had put my hand on his forehead and quickly removed it.
"I've been like this for a couple of days"
“What else has happened to you?”
The piece of furniture told him how he had been in pain in his body, his throat felt swollen and he vomited at night. Riki listened to him until he had a coughing fit and the mestizo seemed to contemplate something.
"Cal, I think I know what you have and even better I think I know how to fix it." He stopped immediately.
Riki ran as fast as he could through the entire tower, to take the elevator, down to the pet room,everyone seemed surprised, Riki ignored them and kept running towards where the Garden was, just as he tried to enter,two guards blocked his way.
"What's up, the garden has never been forbidden"
"Your registration code please" Riki gave it to him.
“Access Denied, your code is locked for this unattended section due to past incidents”
“But what the fuck”
He tried to fight, but apparently that seemed to drive away some pets that went away to look for the furniture that was nearby, one approached and Riki recognized Tomass's voice.
"What's going on here?" Said the furniture, Riki began to get desperate and struggled harder.
“This pet is denied access to this location without supervision”
"I see, well don't make a fuss, my Master's pet is here and doesn't like to be disturbed." The other furniture began to back away from the pets and the guards.
"NO, wait Tomass" Riki managed to wriggle free and hurried to find the furniture, pulling him further away from the pets and the guards.
"Tomass, you are Tomass, listen I need to help Cal"
"I don't see what I have to do with master Iason's furniture"
"He's sick, but I know, I know he´s not well , I need to go into the garden" The furniture was about to politely refuse, but the desperate look of the mongrel made him hesitate.
"You just want to come in, nothing else?"
"I swear, nothing more" Tomass finally nodded and motioned to the guards, who let him in, Riki walked quickly looking around as if looking for something specific, the furniture realized what he wanted as they stopped He stood next to an ancient looking tree and Riki began to climb it and quickly pull leaves, once he had a good bunch that could barely fit in his hand he jumped down and with his hands ripped off a piece of the bark.
"That's it, let's go" The furniture and the pet went to the exit, not knowing that the cameras were following them at all times.
Tomass went to find his teacher Aisha's pet and got ready to go home, but nothing could have predicted that as soon as he entered he would find his teacher and the blondie in charge of Eos's security, Orphe Zavi who seemed to be waiting for him. .
"Tomass, something you want to say"
The furniture sighed and told everything that had happened.
Iason was reviewing some data in Katze's office who was passing him some documents that required his immediate approval, when he received a call from Orphe, while the calls continued, you could see how the blondie's gaze became increasingly icy and ruthless, Katze he felt nervous as the air around him grew colder.
"Katze, call Raoul immediately, it's an emergency"
Riki felt like he could barely breathe as he entered the apartment and ran to Cal's room, but stopped abruptly at the sight of Iason and Raoul, the closed cabinet door, and the conversation they were having.
"No record of the illness he has, I'll have to take samples but Iason I think I should consider turning myself over to the cabinet to assess him, he has a temperature of 40 degrees and he's barely conscious, it looks like he's been like this for some time, you should put this place in quarantine, we don't know how he got it."
“NO, WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO TO HIM”
"Riki" both blondes turned to see him, Riki thought about the image he should give of him, he had run almost 30 floors and had a lot of leaves in his hand and was dirty with dirt.
“Ah, forget what I asked you, it is clear that whatever your furniture has was brought by that dirty mongrel”
"Riki go away, it's not safe to be here, Cal seems to have an unknown disease, now he's passed out, we don't know the effects he could cause"
"NO, listen Iason I know what he has..., I know how..."
He couldn't continue because he felt intense pain between his legs, the blondie had activated the pet ring.
"Enough is enough, I will not allow you to continue disobeying me."
"Okay... just... please stop" Iason stopped activating the ring, but Riki still knelt on the ground and brought a couple of leaves to his lips.
“That dog of yours lacks discipline, Iason, but as he was telling you, we can't keep that piece of furniture here if we don't know about the disease, it's an imminent danger and his condition is critical, I don't know. I think he's going to spend the night"
"RIKI"
The mongrel had jumped to his feet and bolted into Cal's room, locked behind him, although that would do no good, Cal found himself hooked up to what looked like several vital-signs machines perhaps brought by Raoul, but Riki wasted no time,he put his mouth next to the piece of furniture in a kiss, passing the paste into which the leaf he had chewed had turned. just as the elites opened the door, one extremely angry and the other surprised to see the scene before his eyes.
"You... are in a lot of trouble, pet."
"Iason wait look"
The machines around him began to make noises and Cal began to wake up.
"Er... Master Iason?" But I didn't get an answer, the blond just looked at Riki.
“Pet, you have much explain to do”
A while later with more calm in the kitchen, the mongrel was turning a pot in which they were boiling some leaves together with Raoul who watched him somewhat intrigued.
"So, you say this...is a common disease on Ceres, yet there is no record of it in the Tanagura data."
“In general it is not lethal, it passes with time as long as it hydrates and warms you, but in Guardian for children it can become serious, there was a tree where the caregivers took some leaves and bark to make a syrup that lowered the fever ”
"That's really interesting, take a sample of what you do to analyze it"
Riki just snorted, it had been a hectic day and he just wanted to go to bed, he hadn't told Raoul, but if Cal's illness was a bit contagious, it wouldn't be half as annoying for those who had already had it and knew how to treat her but he didn't want the inconvenience of having to be blowing his nose and sneezing all the time, although , he smiled inside, maybe if she was lucky she would infect a certain blondie.