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One thing in the life games Joel never expected to happen was during a break between sessions was two out of his three team mates to come down with a bad cold.
Well he should have figured someone would get sick eventually because of Gem being a little sick when they started this season.
Bigb had left his three teammates earlier that morning to go visit Grian.
Joel had woken up, the sun’s warm rays filtering in through a crack in the curtains, hitting him nicely on the face.
The human went to stretch out his arms, but found his left arm pinned down to his side.
He looks over to his left and finds yellow feathers wrapped tightly over someone, curled up against him, face buried in his side.
He distinctly remembers Jimmy going to be early last night…in his own bed.
“Jim?” Joel says, reaching his right hand through the feathers, rustling his boyfriend’s blond hair, “hey man, why are you in my bed?”
The wings shift a bit and Jimmy’s head pops out, dark circles under his eyes, cheeks red, hair a mess. He looks like shit.
“I didn’t feel good.” Jimmy says, closing his eyes like they hurt to be open, “Wanted you, but you were asleep…”
“Oh Jimmy, you know you could have woken me up, right?”
Jimmy slowly nods.
He stops, bringing his arm up to his face, coughing into his elbow, “I…I think I’m sick mate…”
“Oh babe.” Joel says, running a hand through Jimmy’s hair before resting the back of his hand against the avian’s forehead, “You are a little hot.”
Jimmy nods when his boyfriend pulls his hand away.
“My throat hurts.” Jimmy says, cracking his brown eyes open.
“You want some honey tea?”
Jimmy nods again, not really wanting to use his voice anymore.
“I got you.” Joel says, “I’ll be right back in like ten minutes.” he says, getting out of bed.
He does not bother changing out of his sleep shirt (one of Jimmy’s judging by the way it’s just a little too big on him) and shorts, heading straight to the kitchen.
Joel nearly screams when he turns the corner and sees something on the floor that wasn't there when he went to bed.
“SKIZZ!?” Joel whispers shouts, “What are you doing on the floor!?”
Skizz mumbles something, bringing the steaming cup of tea to his lips, sipping on it.
The avian is sitting on the floor, back against a cupboard, wings wrapped around himself, a blanket wrapped around them, including over his head, joined together in front of him in a fist, the other hand holding a cup of steaming tea.
“What?” Joel asks.
He crouches down in front of his other boyfriend, not really able to hear what he said.
“ ‘m sick.” Skizz mumbles, closing his eyes, sipping on his tea, “ ‘ made tea, and sat down.” he says, "Everything hurts.”
“Oh, you're sick too?”
Skizz opens his eyes, looking at Joel.
“Jim’s down too.” Joel says, “After I make him some tea, do you want to just go to my room?”
Skizz thinks about it, weighing moving with getting to be with his partners, and nods his head.
Joel smiles, standing up and getting the kettle to make Jimmy (and himself, because why not) some tea.
Once the water is boiled, Joel pours some into two mugs, having already placed a tea bag in each.
He lets them steep for a few minutes, reading something off his comn while he waits.
When they are done, Joel takes the tea bags out, throwing them in the trash before getting some honey, pouring some in and mixing it with a spoon.
He throws the spoon into the sink, grabbing the mugs and taking them to his room.
He puts them on his dresser for now, seeing his blond boyfriend is asleep again.
Joel goes back, getting Skizz.
He helps the taller man stand up, and supports him as they walk to his room.
Skizz gets into his bed, the opposite side of Jimmy, sitting there, sipping his tea again.
Jimmy wakes up, rubbing at his eyes, grabbing one of Joel's blankets, copying Skizz and wrapping it around himself.
Joel grabs their mugs, bringing them over to Jimmy, handing on to the awaiting canary.
Jimmy blows on it, taking a slow sip on it, closing his eyes.
Joel gets into his bed, careful of the mug of warm tea in his hand.
He sits down in the middle of his bed, between his partners, resting his back against the headrest.
The three of them sit there, sipping on their teas.
Once they are done, Skizz puts them on the nightstand next to him.
“You guys want to watch something on my comn?” Joel asks them.
Jimmy nods and Skizz says, “Yeah.”
Joel ends up putting on Toy Story.
“Jerk.” Jimmy mumbles, yawning and closing his eyes, easily remembering Joel’s teasing in Empires. Skizz smiles, having heard all about it.
Jimmy curls up again, leaning against Joel.
Joel puts his hand on Jimmy’s head, absent mindedly playing with his hair, he knows Jimmy likes it.
Jimmy is out quickly.
Skizz stays up a little longer, but eventually his head is on Joel’s shoulder, snoring quietly in Joel’s ear.
Joel turns off his comn, laying down, moving Skizz a bit so he’s laying down too.
Joel lays on his side, facing Jimmy and Skizz wakes back up a bit, cracking his eyes open a bit before laying is right arm over Joel’s middle, holding him close, having already pulled a blanket up and over them from Joel’s bed, nuzzling his face into the back of Joel’s head.
Jimmy only curls ups more, chirping softly as he nuzzles his face into Joel’s chest.
The human pulls the blanket over Jimmy too, going back to playing with his hair, this time with his right hand, using his left to hold up his comn, switching it back to what he was reading earlier.
Joel loves this, the cozy warmth of being surrounded by people he loves.