#feverish mess

you're standing in line at the contagion clinic between a few other healthy people. in a separate line is a sick person who definitely needs more than a couple of tissues. Nose red, streaming, poor person all shivery, shoulders tense and always rubbing at their nose. While you're waiting in line to check in, the sick person gets to the front of their line. A nurse is doing intake behind a plexie glass wall. The poor sickie is answering her questions between hitches, doing their best to what seems like stave off a sneeze that's begging to come out. Eventually their body decides enough is enough and they gasp dramatically and lurch forwards with a harsh wet snz. You watch as mess and spray splatters and drips down on the class at the nurse's face height. More mess is dripping from the sickie's red twitchy nose as they finish with an "ugh excuse bme" and their shoulders slump hard and their face finally slack with relief

sickie pressing up against their partner (who has the kink) while hitching desperately and nose dripping down their face. They whine about how tickly and sensitive their nose is, how they can't find any tissues and if they did they'd destroy them pretty fast and how they need something(more like someone) that can handle it they whisper lowly in that deep scratchy gravely voice in their partner's ear "lets see how well you can handle it" before letting out the messiest snz onto them. it splatters and sprays them point blank in the face, neck and chest. Multiple cords of mess varying in thick/thinness connect the two together....partner is blushing like a whore but sickie obviously isn't done

more contagion clinic thing 1 (A) well person put in a room of 3(B, C & D) sickies and 1 box of tissues A is surrounded on all sides, with the tissue box in their lap while B, C & D cuddle up to them. Snuffling, snorting, and wiping their drippy noses into A untill one of them (or more) start to snz. A is getting sprayed on all angles, mess dripping and splattering on them. Everywhere they turn they see a red twitchy runny nose and a desperate presnz face ready to release. A barely has any sense to use the tissue box

pushing back the tip of a person's overfilled red nose and watching their nostrils flare and drip and try to snort everything back in. Maybe using their other hand to trace their nail teasingly along the other's nostril rims the little moans and whimpers the person lets out as the congestion shifts and moves around inside

pushing back the tip of a person's nose and holding a flower right against their nostrils making them deeply breath it in. You can watch their nostrils twitch quiver and flare in real time but you don't remove the flower. You want to make sure you get as much in them as possible and all that mess will keep the pollen trapped inside if you make them hold back

someone blowing their nose so gurggly and thickly, its so productive and it finally FINALLY clears them up from that awful cold.....then they let out the messiest snz and they're back to square one with thick snot all down their face

just thought of a business person coming into the clinic straight from work on a friday afternoon. Dressed in their up tight lil business outfit (this is gender neutral so imagine however you please) soaked from the cold pouring rain. You'd thought it was the rain that has them all sniffly, until you hear them coughing and how thick the congestion is in their voice as they ask you how to get a room bc 'I don't know what's worse my work week or this cold' You a nurse have them fill out an intake form, offer blankets, towels and tissues as you guide them to the waiting room. Poor thing sounds absolutely awful. They set their bag down and slump into the chair as you drape the towel over their shoulders, their top stuck to their upper body from the rain. While you go back to attend the front desk, you eye them every so often as they hitch, sniffle and rub their nose through the paper work. When they finally come up to give it back to you, they have the most pitiful look on their face as they tell you 'fidished it" You can see their nostrils flaring, they're definitely red and angry. It isn't long before you hear a desperate gasp and snz and see them rocked forward hard with the blanket cupped to their nose and mouth. You watch them pull it away and solemnly cringe, strings of snot were oozing down. Yet another sneeze interrupts them and they mutter a soft 'excuse be'