A sneeze echoed in the quiet house. I was laying down tucked tightly under thick blankets. I felt horrible. Somehow I'd caught a cold. In my memories I'd only gotten this sick once; as of now running a 103 degree fever and sweating profusely was like a wakeup call.

"What's taking that old man so long…?" I wondered out loud. Mana had left at least an hour ago to go to town for medicine. Earlier in the day when I collapsed due to exhaustion; Mana had insisted we look for somewhere to stay even though the town was only a few miles away. Not long after we found a cottage which belonged to a young couple. The pair had immediately welcomed us when they saw the state I was in.

As I closed my eyes and attempted to get some rest, the walls suddenly creaked as a bang sounded. It was a door slamming shut that'd caused that sound. Mana's finally back.

"Allen!" Mana's voice said as the bedroom's door flung open.

My tired eyes flickered open and I said, "About time. Did you get medicine?"

Mana paused his lips pressing together as he nervously rubbed the back of his neck. "Well...I spoke with a doctor and he said it's probably just a cold. He said to let it run it's course and if it gets any worse to bring you in."

"Great." I sneezed again my head flying back into my pillow. I sniffled loudly as snot was leaking out of my nostrils and onto my face. My nose scrunched up in disgust and I wiped the stuff away quickly with my sleeve.

Mana brought a hand to his chin. "Looks like you won't be able to perform for a while…" He spoke absentmindedly.

"Of course not!" I snapped. "Do you want me to be sneezing every second as I try to balance on something into people's faces?"

The man shrugged as he plopped down on the bed. With a smile he said, "It'd be interesting!" His grin quickly dropped into a frown. "Although you might scare away the customers…"

I gave Mana a glare and placed my foot on his back pushing him away, "Oi what do you think you're doing? You wanna get sick too?"

Golden eyes met mine. A shrug was given. "It's alright." As I was watching Mana through slitted eyes I wasn't expecting what he did next. The man began to fall back, his arms splayed outwards. When he landed his hand hit my face with an audible smack. An irk mark threatened to appear for I was getting really annoyed.

"Oi! What's your deal?" I questioned as I attempted to either put some distance between us or push him off. My small muscles didn't even manage to budge the man.

Mana glanced down at me a smile decorating his face, "Like I said, we can be sick together!"

"You didn't say that!"

"I didn't?...I could've swore-"

"Why would you wanna get sick anyways? It sucks. There's snot, headaches, sneezing…"

Mana tilted his head and gave me a look as if it obvious, "Wouldn't it be nice if we could both get better together?"

My grey eyes widened and unsure of how to answer that I turned the opposite way. After a prolonged silence I mumbled, "It's up to you old man. You have to get sick first."

"Hmm~! Should be easy, I think I'm feeling a bit queasy right now! Was that one of your symptoms?"

"Nope. You probably just ate something bad." Mana's look became one of disappointment.

"Oh well. We have a while. From now on I'll be drinking from the same cup as you and sharing your germs!" Mana suddenly proclaimed. "That's how people get sick right?"

I snapped up in bed at the thought of sharing the same cup with him. "No way old man!"

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