A/N: The Utterly Fabulous Z (who really is fabulous) requested this small one-shot. Somehow, it turned out fluffy. *shrugs* Sorry.

Lina takes a sick day, and the brothers are try to make her better, but are really awkward about it.


Angeline Morgan groaned and turned onto her side, clenching her eyes closed. Her forehead shone with sweat.

Edward and Alphonse Elric looked at her nervously. She'd never been like this before…

Al gathered enough courage to speak. "Uh…Lina…are you okay?"

She opened her eyes a bit and glared at them, causing them both to step back a bit. Her voice came out as a dry croak. "Oh, yeah. I'm just freaking dandy. I have a fever, and my body hurts, but oh, I love it. I'm totally fine." She rolled her eyes when they gaped. "I have the damn flu, guys. Do you think I'm okay?!"

"Well...what can we do?"

She groaned and rolled onto her back again. "I don't know. Get me some Ibuprofen or something."

"Ibu what?"

She muttered something under her breath.

"What?"

She raised her voice again. "Nothing, nothing…Just find a doctor or some medicine, okay?"

"I'll do it!" Al quickly volunteered, racing out the door. Ed stared at his receding form, wondering why he hadn't thought of leaving while he could. A sick Lina was weird to see.

She caught him staring and glared. "What the hell are you looking-" She cut off abruptly, curled in on herself and began coughing hard. After a while, she uncurled, a sick(er) expression on her face.

"Are you-"

"You finish that question and I'm dragging you into bed with me and getting you sick."

An awkward silence filled the room before Ed spoke up again.

"Y'know...this happens to everybody. It's natural."

Another awkward silence.

"That has got to be the stupidest thing you could have said. This isn't like I'm on my period or going through puberty, idiot. And I know that people get sick."

Lina was really sarcastic and sassy when she was sick.

Ed decided to leave her alone. He turned to leave, but a hand shot out and grabbed his arm. Lina gave him a pleading look. "S-Stay with me?" She coughed a bit. "I'm sorry if I'm snappy."

Ed hesitated, then pulled up a chair next to her bed and sat on it. "Okay…"

Needless to say, he got sick soon after.