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Luz was trying to fall asleep but just couldn't. Amity had been off all day and Luz just couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She was anxiously worrying about her girlfriend. She turned over to her side, looking at her girlfriend, peacefully sleeping. She would make a snore sound every once in a while and Luz giggled quietly. She had never heard Amity snore before. She knew Amity would be mortified if she was caught snoring. She eventually grew sleepy and tired. However, she was immediately awoken back up when she heard someone running out the bedroom door.
Luz quickly turned back over to face the rest of the group, only to find Amity's bed empty. her worry grew. She slowly got out of bed and wandered out into the hall. She saw the bathroom light on and the door slightly open. She was about to knock when she heard her sweet potato loudly gagging and retching.
"Amity? It's me, can I please come in?" She asked softly.
However, she didn't get a response. She just got pained whimpers.
She sighed, "I'm coming in"
Luz opened the door more and saw her sweet, calm, and composed girlfriend, hunched over the toilet bowl, sweat dripping down her face and her arms and knees shaking.
"Oh titan, Amity…" she pitied the poor girl.
She knelt besides her, padding her back and holding her hair up.
"What…did I do… wrong.." Amity said in between heaves.
"You didn't do anything, baby." She tried to comfort her.
Amity's body didn't seem to let up. It just kept coming and coming. She wanted the pain to stop. Luz heard how forceful she sounded and her heart melted. She wanted to help her but couldn't.
"Make it stop…" she whimpered in pain.
"I'm so sorry, I can't. You just gotta let it out. You're doing so good" she tried encouraging the girl.
Eventually, Amity became empty but she was still in pain. She stopped retching but wanted the pain to be gone. She put her finger up to mouth but her hand was quickly snatched away.
"Don't do that, sweetie. There's other ways to relieve pain" Luz told her.
Amity fell into Luz's arms and let out a couple of whimpers. Luz put a hand to her forehead.
"You've got a fever. come on, let's get you back to bed," Luz picked her up and Amity curled up in her girlfriend's arms.
Luz carried back to the bedroom and tucked her into bed. She quickly got a cold, wet cloth from the bathroom and put it on her forehead, trying to lower her fever. She gave Amity her water bottle and she gladly gulped it down. Her throat hurt so much.
"Why didn't you tell me you weren't feeling well?" She asked, pushing the hair out of her face.
"Didn't want you to worry. You already have other things to worry about, I didn't want to be a burden." She admitted
"You've never been and never will be a burden. Will you tell me the next time you feel sick?"
Amity nodded, Cuddling up in her blankets. She shivered and felt beads of sweat dripping down her cheeks. Luz played with her hair, trying to calm her down enough for her to sleep.
"Luuzz" she slurred out
"Yes, cariño?"
"I l've youuuu"
Luz felt her face heat up.
"I- I uhhh- you should get back to sleep," Luz ushered her.
She heard snickering coming from the next cot over. Willow was now up.
"Dang, Amity must be pretty sick if she can admit to that and not become a total tomato" she joked.
"Just- let me get her to sleep, please" Luz told her
"Alright, alright, goodnight" Willow turned over to go back to sleep
Luz eventually got Amity to sleep, even though she was getting more delirious by the second. 'This must be what Amity had to deal with when I had the common mold' she thought.
The next morning was…strange. Amity had shaken Luz up at 8:00. Luz looked over the girl. She looked ten times paler with a hint of green in her face.
"Luz! I need… I gonna.."
Luz immediately jolted in panic, she ran across the room, grabbing the nearest trashcan and handed it to her. Luz sat next to her, rubbed her back and cuddled her while whispering assuring words into her ear as Amity dry heaved.
"It's okay, just get it out. I know you can do it."
Amity eventually brought up a small stream of water and bile.
"I hate this…" she put the trash can to the side of her bed.
Willow yawned as she woke up.
"What's going on?"
"Amity got sick again."
"Yeah… she's known to have a weak stomach. Forgot to tell you that last night" Willow said.
Luz sighed and got up.
"I'm gonna go make breakfast. I'd try to give you medicine but I don't know how you might react to human medicine…" she said to Amity.
"It's fine. It's not like I haven't been like this before.."
"Didn't you have anyone to take care of you?" Luz asked.
"Parents never seemed to care… Ed and Em were always busy and I was too weak to help myself…" she admitted sheepishly.
"Welp, that's changing today. When I'm done, I'll come check on you and care for you. There's no way out of this!" Luz walked downstairs and Willow followed. Vee was somehow still sleeping on the top bunk.
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"Alright, so according to the box, we have to… beat the butter?" Willow looked confused. She's never heard or made pancakes but these human terms were confusing.
"So, you just have to mix butter with butter in the mixer on high speed. You don't actually beat it to a pulp" Luz affirmed.
Luz then saw Amity wobbling down the stairs. She rushed over to her.
"What are you doing! Get back to bed, You are not well!" She ushered Amity back up the stairs.
"But I'm boreeedd. Vee left and I have nothing to do…" she whined, her knees buckling.
"Woah!" Luz caught her before Amity went sledding on the stairs.
"Bed"
"B-but-"
"Now" Luz carried her back into bed.
"I better not see you back up again" she said sternly.
"Finneee"
"Good, when I'm done with breakfast, I'll come check on you again, alright?"
Amity nodded and sunk into her bed, her chills were coming back.
It didn't take long for them to finish breakfast. Camila had woken up and finished the rest so Luz could take care of her girlfriend.
"I'm back! And I brought food and other stuff!" Luz kicked open the door.
"Not so loud…" the sick girl mumbled.
"Oops, sorry. Anyways, I got you an ice pack to cool down your fever and I downloaded Azura movies."
Amity smiled. Luz wrapped the pack in a couple tissues before placing it on her forehead.
"I wan' cuddles. "Amity reached out her arms to Luz.
"Ok… but only for a little bit, I have homework to do" Luz sat next to her and Amity nuzzled into her. Luz didn't care that she might get sick, she just wanted her to feel comfortable and better. They both ended up falling asleep together. Willow had to come in and take a photo. In her defense, they were too cute to not.