drabble for you <3 feel better my darling.
crestingcresta submitted:
The thing is, he’s sick before he even goes to the Capitol. He’d insisted it was nothing but a tickle, kissed her goodbye and waved off the flask of tea she’d held out to him. She spends the weekend worrying, mending things on the boat and chewing her nails down to the quick until Mags brings him home. As soon as she puts her arms around him his knees give way, and thank God she has more strength in her skinny frame than she used to because he’s heavy. Heavy and a pale greyish shade of green.
“Mags?” But the woman shakes her head, throat catching on her words as she waves her hands and hobbles off up the beach. Finnick gives a weak cough, tries to stand and stumbles. The infection has moved to his chest. “Oh, darling.” She’d asked him not to go. He just mumbles her name, burrowing into her shoulder as she leads him through to their bedroom and tucks him up.
“Don’t leave me.” He sounds wrecked, but he always does when he’s been working, and well… She never could stop herself from doing everything he asks. If she gets sick so be it, she thinks, as she clambers into the bed beside him and presses her cool body against his boiling skin.
“Don’t you want anything?” Feels how smooth his cheek is against her head as he sighs, says no. She hates that. She hates how they strip him of all his hair. Loves his stubble, chest hair, leg hair, the line of curls from his belly into his underwear when it all grows back. It means he’s hers.
“No, I have everything I want.” And finally, finally, he lets himself sleep.