Hey! This is a Mordecai/Rigby fanfiction! :) If your trying to imagine the story in your head while your reading it, its best to think of them as humans. Not a blue jay and a racoon but two humans.
"Augh! Why do we have to wash the cart?" Rigby asked when t he two entered the garage.
"Well, Benson already gave out all of the jobs dude."
"Come on, lets just get this over with..."
They picked up their sponges and they were ready to clean, but Rigby felt dizzy and started to collapse.
"Woah..." Mordecai said and he caught Rigby.
"You okay dude?" Rigby just nodded his head. Mordecai knelt down so he was eye level with Rigby. This was the first time in ages that Mordecai had took a close look into his friends eyes. They looked, pale and bloodshot, also they were grey bags under his eyes that Mordecai had never noticed.
"Are you sure your okay dude?" Even though Mordecai was just a friend, he knew that deep down he had feelings for his small buddy.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Can we just clean this cart?" Rigby snapped, almost shouting.
"Fine."
They began to clean the cart, but Mordecai found himself looking at Rigby more and more. Soon enough, everything was quiet, all exept the squeaking of the sponges rubbing the metal cart.
Until, Rigby coughed. It wasn't a normal dry cough. It sounded like he needed to hack something up, real bad. Obviously Mordecai noticed and put his sponge down.
"I think you need to go to the doctor dude." Mordecai said and Rigby gave him a cold stare.
"Would you shut up? Its just a little cough, I don't need to go to the flipping doctors!"
"Alright dude, I'm just a little worried." He lied, he was worried alot.
"About what!? About infecting you with my germs!? Because I don't think that-" Rigby froze for a second and then his eyes rolled back into his head and he fell to the ground.
"Rigby!"
Mordecai ran to his side, kneeling down next to him.
He absolutely broke when he saw the state that he was in.
Rigby's head was jerked backwards, his fingers were stiff and curled and his legs were moving up and down, uncontrollably.
Then it hit Mordecai like a brick in his face. Rigby was having an epileptic fit. He said he had them when he was younger but he got over them.
Mordecai dug out his cell phone from his pocked and dialled the hospital.
"Come on, pick up, pick up, pick up!" Mordecai willed.
"Hello, this is the Emergency services, how can I-"
"Help me, my friend is having an epileptic fit!"
"Calm down sir, where are you?"
"-insert address here-"
"Just try to keep your friend calm and we'll be over in a couple minutes."
The woman hung up and Mordecai slammed his phone down, putting his full focus on Rigby. He shifted him into his lap and stroked his hair.
"Your gonna be okay Rigby, your gonna be okay..." I was at that moment when his feelings just spilled out and he held Rigby while he uncontrollably twitched in his lap.
"Whats going on here- oh my god..." Benson said as he burst into the room, but when he saw Rigby he ran by Mordecai's side.
"Skips!" Benson yelled. Skips came almost in an instant.
"What?" Skips questioned.
"Come here!"
"Why- oh my..." When Skips saw Rigby he too ran by Mordecai's side.
"What happened?"
"Well me and Rigby were about to wash the cart but Rigby almost fainted so I caught him. He said he was fine but when i looked into his eyes, they were pale and bloodshot. We got back to washing the cart but Rigby coughed like he needed to, you know, hack something up. I kept telling him that he needs to see a doctor but he kept denying it an then then he started yelling and he had a fit!" Mordecai rambled.
"Wow i-" Benson didn't have time to speak more words because the paramedics were already coming in with a stretcher.
Mordecai hadn't noticed but, Rigby wasn't having a fit any more, he was just unconscious.
They lay him on the stretcher and brought him into an ambulance. Sadness overcome Mordecai and tears streamed down his face. One paramedic stayed behind and knelt infront of him.
"Would you like a ride to the hospital?"
At the hospital Mordecai was asked to wait in the waiting room while they took care of Rigby. They said Rigby was going to be fine but, you know, things can happen.
He knew now that those "feelings" for Rigby were much more than "friends".
The waiting room doors swung open and Mordecai stood up in an instant.
"You wanna see your friend?" The doctor asked. Mordecai nodded eagerly.
They started to walk down a corridor and were just about to go into the elevator, when the doctor asked something Mordecai didn't want to hear.
"Are you, more than friends with Rigby?" Mordecai turned and almost glared at the doctor.
"No... were just friends..." Mordecai said, a little bit too disappointed.
"Oh thats too bad.."
"Yeah, wait, what do you mean by-"
"Were here."
The doctor opened the door for him and Mordecai stepped inside.
"I'll leave you two alone."
The doctor walked off and Mordecai walked slowly up to Rigby's bedside. His heart broke at the sight. Rigby had a oxygen mask on, a cannular in his hand and the hospital robe made him look more thin than he actually was. He pulled up a chair and sat down, focusing his gaze on Rigby.
"I'm so... sorry Rigby..." Mordecai managed to keep his tears in. He lay his hand ontop of Rigby's and a single tear fell down his face and onto the floor.
"I don't know if you can hear me but, I'm not going to let anything happen to you. I care about you, probably a little too much. I know it annoys you sometimes about how overprotective I am... I just, I love you
Rigby..." Tears were streaming down his face by now and he was facing the floor, willing the tears to go away.
"...M-M-Mordecai..." A voice whispered and Mordecai looked up. Rigby had opened his eyes a little and they were looking straight at him.
"Rigby..."
"You're...you're crying...Mordecai..." Was he still crying? Come on Mordo, man up.
"Yeah, sorry..." he apologized as he wiped tears away with his sleeve. He took his hand off Rigby's and was just about to lay it on his lap when a small hand took it. Mordecai felt heat rise to his cheeks as he looked his friend in the eyes.
"Mordecai... did you really...mean it?" Mordecai was puzzled, mean what?
"What?" Mordecai whispered.
"That...you l-love me..." Mordecai was on a whole new level of embarrassment, he blushed wildly, looking away from him.
"Umm...I...uhhh..." He closed his eyes and cleared his throat.
"Yes." Mordecai kept his eyes shut, afraid of what was going to happen, afraid of losing his friend forever.
He felt a soft hand graze his left cheek and then cup it. He let out a small gasp and turned to look at his friend, who was smiling from behind the oxygen mask.
"Come here.." Rigby said and Mordecai leaned down so he was face to face to Rigby.
"Wait, Rigby what are you-" Mordecai's face heated up as two thin arms wrapped around his neck.
"I love you Mordecai..." Rigby whispered. Mordecai gasped and gently put his arms around his small friends body, being careful not to crush him.
"I love you too..." Mordecai whispered back, tears slowly falling.
"I know..."
They pulled away and Rigby lay back down. Rigby noticed the tears that were cascading down Mordecai's face and wiped them away gently with his fingertips.
"Don't cry Mordecai...I'll be better soon..." Rigby reassured.
The doors of the room opened and a nurse stepped in.
"I'm so sorry but visiting hours are over." the woman stated flatly.
"Okay, thanks." Mordecai said, trying to sound a bit cheerful.
Mordecai stood up and leaned down. He brushed some of Rigby's damp hair away from his forehead. Kissing his damp forehead, whispering something that Rigby would never forget.
"I love you, be safe..."
