“How did you not notice you had a fever?” Prompt for Chlonathanette? 😍❤️
“How did you not notice you had a fever?” Chloe huffed, looking down at the thermometer.
“It’s always hot in here,” Nathaniel mumbled. “How was I supposed to know?”
“It’s freezing in here,” Marinette argued, pulling her blanket tighter around her body. Her teeth audibly chattered and her partners looked at her with matching frowns.
Chloe sighed, sliding a fresh cover on the thermometer. “Open up, Mari.”
Marinette moved back. “I’m not sick,” she sniffed. “I don’t have time to be sick.”
“Apparently that doesn’t have any bearing on the situation,” Nathaniel sighed, pushing the corner of the blanket away as soon as it came in contact with his skin.
Chloe popped the thermometer in Marinette’s mouth without any further discussion and Marinette tried to muster a scowl but ended up looking more pitiful than anything. At the first beep, Chloe pulled it away and grimaced. “Great, your fever is worse than Nath’s.”
“Always have to be the best, don’t you?” Nathaniel teased before dissolving into a coughing fit.
“I have work,” Marinette whined.
“Not today you don’t.” Chloe picked up Marinette’s cell phone from the coffee table and scrolled through the contacts.
“What are you doing?”
“Calling in sick for you.”
“Chlo, I really have to work today. We’ve got a deadline coming up,” Marinette said, trying to push herself off the couch. She fell back against the cushions with a groan. “Maybe I’ll just go in a little late.”
“I’m supposed to meet with that curator today,” Nathaniel rasped, swallowing hard. “My throat really hurts.”
“Invalids, the both of you.” Chloe dropped the phone back down on the coffee table. “Come on, you’re going to bed.”
“You’re not the boss of me,” Marinette muttered, letting Chloe help her up.
“I think we all know that isn’t true,” Nathaniel interjected as he stumbled behind them with a cough.
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Chloe slumped against the bedroom door frame, watching her boyfriend and girlfriend sleep. At some point, Marinette’s fever had changed and she had thrown the blankets off, her hair sweaty and plastered to her head. Chloe moved past the bed into the bathroom to get a cool washcloth. She brought it back out and Marinette sighed as it made contact with her feverish skin.
Nathaniel was snoring and shivering, curled in on himself with his back to them. Chloe moved around the bed and pulled Marinette’s tossed blankets around Nathaniel’s shivering form. He grabbed at them sleepily with a soft smile.
“Look at me,” Chloe said softly, brushing his hair away from his forehead. “The only nurse I thought I’d ever play was the sexy kind.” She leaned forward and kissed above his eyebrow and then glanced over at Marinette. “Love makes us do the strangest things.”
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