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“Emily sweetheart, it's time to wake up.” JJ gently shook the brunette awake,
It took a while for the woman to open her eyes, feeling slightly concerned the blonde brought her hand to Emily’s forehead and sighed. Continuing to coax her girl awake when Emily’s eyes eventually fluttered open Jennifer smiled.
“Good morning baby.” Emily stared up at her girlfriend a small frown on her face, shuffling her legs slightly her eyes widened, and she immediately shrunk away from the blonde,
“It’s okay you're alright.” The blonde reassured, immediately picking up on the other woman’s reaction
“I’m sorry”
“It’s okay love bug. Stand up for me and let’s get you cleaned up.”
“I’m sorry,” Emily repeated tears threating to fall from her eyes.
JJ merely pulled her girl up and wrapped an arm around her shoulders leading her towards the bathroom so she could clean her girl up. JJ held a tissue to Emily’s nose.
“Blow.”
Smiling when her girl did as told JJ praised her gently and moved to run a bath, they had the day off, so she felt it was best for her girl to relax in the bath especially cause she was looking unwell, rather than cleaning her up with a wipe.
Turning off the water JJ helped Emily into the tub, she placed a couple of bath toys in the water, knowing that the brunette probably wouldn’t play with them but wanted to give her the option. Crouching down JJ placed a kiss on Emily’s head,
“Let’s get you cleaned up.” Taking hold of the washcloth the blonde began lathering it up with soap before she began to bathe her girl. After she had cleaned her up, she helped her out of the tub and wrapped her up in a towel leading over to her to sit down in a chair in the bedroom before moving to strip the bed, while her back was turned Emily felt an intense wave of nausea overtook her and she rushed back into the bathroom, falling in front of the toilet her stomach contents came up. She had only been over the bowl for a few moments when she felt soft hands scoop up loose brunette hair and tied it into a loose ponytail.
“It’s okay pumpkin, I’ve got you sweetheart let it out.” When she was done, she fell back against her caregiver and tears began to slip from her eyes,
“Are you finished for now love bug? Do you think you can move back to the bedroom, or do you need to stay here for a little longer?” the blonde questioned gently, indicating that she wanted to move back into the bedroom, JJ helped her to her feet and lead her slowly back onto the bedroom, passing her some soft pyjamas she encouraged her softly to put them on while she remade the bed.
The next issue didn’t occur until a little while after breakfast, once JJ had made the bed Emily had laid back down and the blonde took her temperature and then went to make her breakfast. It wasn’t long after she had finished eating that Emily ended her hunched over the toilet again, she called out weakly
“Mama,”
“Mama!”
After a few moments the blonde appeared at her side, rubbing her back in a comforting manner, and making sure her hair stayed out of her face.
“Mama, I really don’t feel good,” Emily cried out clutching at her stomach and, trying to get closer to the blonde woman.
“I know you don’t pumpkin, how about we get off the bathroom floor yeah? You’ll feel more comfortable in bed.” Giving a slight nod of agreement, Emily allowed the blonde to pick her up of the bathroom floor and carry her back into the bedroom, dropping her softly on the bed, before grabbing a trash can and placing it by the bed,
“Mama cuddles please,” the brunette requested quietly.
“Of course, love bug,” JJ responded climbing into bed next to her sick girl and allowing her to curl up in her arms. Relaxing a little in her mama’s embrace Emily allowed herself to cry, letting all these horrible feelings overwhelming her out. JJ tightened her girl holding her as close to her that was physically possible. This seemed to calm her girl down a little and the two remained in that position for a long while.
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“I don’t want it mama!” Emily exclaimed banging her hands down on the bed, in tightly balled fists.
“Come on baby you need to eat something,”
“No mama! Not hungry!” Emily yelled again, tears of frustration prickling in her eyes.
“Emily sweetheart,” JJ pleaded softly, wanting to get some food into her poor sick girls stomach, “Baby, please. Can’t you try to eat something? You’d feel better if you had something in your tummy,”
Emily slumped back on the couch, blanket pulled up carefully over her, blinking slowly as she stuck her thumb in her mouth. The blonde sighed,
“No thumb baby, I’ll get you a pacifier.” Emily whimpered a little as JJ rose from her position beside her and tugged the thumb gently out of her mouth. As soon as the pacifier had been placed in her little’s moth JJ tried again,
“Come on baby, just a small bite, can you do that for mama?” She asked softly, Emily whined and shook her head violently, which was a mistake as she instantly became lightheaded, and tears pricked into her eyes.
Sweetheart I need you to eat,” she told her softly, thinking that the toy was distracting her, at the loss of her toy the brunette’s lower lip began to wobbly dangerously and tears spilled over from her eyes, she didn’t want to eat, she might throw up again! Why didn’t her mama understand that
“mama,” she whined tearfully and pushed the plate away from her,
“Mama milk?” she asked softly at her idea, she would drink her milk if her mama feed it to her, she knew her mama would keep her safe, food at this moment was purely not possible for her but she could maybe manage some milk, plus her throat was kind of sore so maybe the milk would help.
“Alright love bug, milk it is,” JJ responded taking away the small amount of toast she had made for her girl and going to get a bottle of milk instead, ideally, she would have her girl eat something so she could be sure she was getting enough sustenance, but her girl was so sick, so if milk is what she wanted, milk is what she was going to get.
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JJ mentioned to get her girl to eat a small amount of pasta for dinner after Emily had managed to keep the milk down. This gave the blonde hope it was only a twenty-four-hour bug and not something worse than that. She had left her girl in pyjamas on the bed, leaving to get her second bottle of milk that day, she had returned shortly after leaving a warm bottle of milk in hand, she climbed onto the bed and manoeuvred Emily with practiced ease holding her in place and placing the bottle to her lip, the brunette didn’t hesitate immediately latching on to the bottle, sighing in contentment, and drinking steadily. When she had finished the blonde put her over her shoulder and whispered reassurances that she wouldn’t be sick as she helped the brunette realise any extra air from her stomach, once that was done JJ popped a pacifier into her little one’s mouth,
“It’s time to go night night pumpkin,”
“Nooo,” Emily whined around her pacifier,
“Come on baby it’s time to get some sleep,”
“But what if I sick mama?” Em whispered, JJ gave her a sympathetic look,
“You’re worried about that?” JJ questioned gently,
“Uh huh,” Emily mumbled tears threating to fall,
“I’ll be right here love bug while you sleep, and if you get sick it won’t be a big deal because I will be right here to help you,” JJ told her softly, her voice full of love
“Okay, I love you mama” she murmured closing her eyes,
“I love you to pumpkin,” She responded placing a soft kiss on top of the dark locks of soft hair, before settling down to sleep herself.
And the next morning Emily was feeling much better, and JJ was extremely grateful that it had only been a twenty-four-hour bug, because no one likes seeing their loved ones sick.