It seemed she had just gotten to sleep when a gentle yet loud knocking on the front door jarred her awake and also brought back another coughing fit. "Go away." she groaned around the annoying spinny room effect while she tried to struggle up from the warm cocoon that was the bed. "Heard you the first time dammit." she barked when the knocking sounded again. Her already scratchy throat worsening from the use as she fell back onto the mattress with a pained groan. "Better yet go away for your own good," she suggested hoarsely reaching out blindly for the nearly empty carton of orange juice she'd brought to bed with her earlier that morning.
She was too out of it to even register the scraping of the key in the lock as her eyes slammed closed and her arm came up while she coughed hard into the crook of her elbow. "Now is not a time for your stubbornness babe," she hears a far to familiar tone scold while she rolls onto her other side away from her flirtatious intruder. "Red get out of here,"Dorothy complained hating herself for leaning into the other woman's side when she felt Ruby's hand fisting with her own on top of the sheets. "I don't want to get you sick," she complained while her wolf sighed under her breath trying not to laugh at how cute her girlfriend was at the moment.
"You've been dodging my calls since I left for work," Red commented snarkily while forcibly rolling her lover over onto her back at the same time. "and I would have thought you could have worked out by now that it takes a lot to get a werewolf sick." she pointed out unbuttoning the top three buttons on Dorothy's flannel sleep shirt after dropping a kiss to Dorothy's overly warm forehead checking her temperature. "so my being a wolf as well as your girlfriend is just another reason why he came and got me." Ruby shrugged pushing herself up onto the bed beside her.
"Ratted out by my own dog." Dorothy groaned in realization but now understanding why Toto had made such a fuss at wanting to get out earlier. "Toto's just worried about you Kansas," Ruby answered unscrewing the vapor rub as she talked with an encouraging smile when her hero quickly giving up on her childish fight with getting her to leave when Red literally (read gently) climbed on top of her to hold her down on the bed. "Any other time I love you on top of me like this," the sickly hero commented with a shaky smile. Red rolled her eyes climbing off of her patient and pulling her up the bed so Dorothy was propped up against both the pillows and the headboard."What the hell is that?" Dorothy groaned her hand closing in restrain around Ruby's wrist when Red made to bring the rubbing cream container closer to her skin.
"This is just medicine babe." the werewolf soothed nuzzling their noses together not caring that Dorothy's was red and starting to run again. "It will make you better faster." she elaborated when Dorothy still didn't look convinced letting the hand not currently rubbing the vaper cream over the center of Dorothy's breastbone threaded in her hair. Dorothy only grunted in answer glancing from Red's hand against her chest up to her eyes. "You do know that you don't have to wait till I'm sick to do things like this." she teased but her weak laughter turned into a hard coughing fit.
"That's not really going to work on this." Ruby mused after some thought sliding her arms under Dorothy's legs and around her back pulling her up against her chest. "Shower time." she summarized when all her actions produced was a puzzled look from her red noised lover. "But you just put that stuff on me." Dorothy protected in mild annoyance as she was carried over to the bathroom. "Don't be such a baby Kansas," Ruby answered lazily easing Dorothy down onto the closed toilet seat while she dealt with the shower.
"Unless you're getting in with me I'm not doing it." the farm girl told her bluntly. "Not that kind of shower," Ruby answered closing the door as she turned the water in both the shower and the skink on full hot letting the steam fill the room and glaze over the mirrors and shower door. "Deep breaths," Ruby instructed setting the trashcan down between Dorothy's legs now that the room was now overwhelmed with steam kneeling down beside Dorothy's side. "Don't want to." Ruby rolled her eyes at the childish and sickly tone of the denial.
"Babe it's not nice to downplay when your not feeling well and I can tell you're still congested and I'm just trying to help so take some deep breaths like a good girl or I'm calling Granny." the waitress threatened. "She loves me so that's not really a threat," Dorothy answered with a weak but still coy smile between hard coughing fits.