Chapter 12 - Sick
(Flora's POV)

Helia continues to hold me in his arms whilst trying to soothe me but I'm overcome by and suddenly feeling of nausea which causes me to panic. Without thinking I push Helia back just as my legs give way beneath me and I throw up. I can feel Helia's eyes watching me in shock before he rushes over and pulls my hair back to help me. "It's okay Flora, it's okay." Helia soothes as tears begin to trickle down my face.

"I-I'm sorry." I manage to whimper out an apology to him. After all I did push him away and have left him to deal with me whilst I'm like this. I wouldn't blame him if he went running for the hills!

"Hey, you haven't done anything wrong okay? Everything is okay, you just need to let me help you." He tells me softly as he wipes my tears away. Seeing that I've stopped throwing up for now he gets out a tissue and wipes my mouth a bit before scooping me up in his arms. "I'm going to take you to my room." He whispers gently causing me to nod a bit dazes from the previous situation.

Helia carries me through the school until we reach his room where he uses his magic to change me into some new pyjamas. "Th-thank you." I thank him shakily as I give him a sheepish smile. He gives me a warm smile which makes my heart almost melt as he tucks me into his bed.

"I'm going to go get changed and cleaned up a bit. I have extra pyjamas in the dresser next to the bed in the third draw down if you get cold and there's a bowl next to the bed in case you feel sick again." Helia informs me which just causes me to nod. He really does think of everything doesn't he. Helia leaves the room briefly and I can't help myself as I pull on one of his pyjama shirts over my own top.

"Hey." I whisper as he returns back to the bed and crawls in next to me.

"Hi." He whispers back the greeting as he wraps his arms around me causing me to smile.

"I'm glad that you didn't take long." I mumble against his chest but unfortunately he is somehow able to hear me since he lets out a small laugh.

"Well I'm glad to know that you like having me back. I see that you took up my offer of my spare pyjamas as well." Helia responds causing me to blush. His eyes briefly scan over what he can see of my figure which isn't much but still enough to know that I'm currently wearing one of his pyjama tops which is way too big on me but it's not like I care about that.

"I was hoping that you wouldn't notice." I mumble sheepishly as I try to hide my blush but I know that it's no good.

"Why? I think you look very cute wearing my clothes?" He whispers softly in my ear as he looks down at me again.

"I can't help the fact that your shirts just happen to be so comfortable and inviting." I respond before letting out a tired yawn. Helia smiles down at me as he hears my yawn and obviously realises how tired I really am.

"If my shirt helps you sleep you can keep it but I think we should both try and get some sleep now." Helia tells me which causes me to smile and nod in agreement as I rest my head against his chest and allow myself to drift off to sleep with the sound of his heartbeat as my own personal lullaby.


I wake up with a jolt feeling stick to my stomach. I lean over the bed where the bowl is and feel myself throw up once again which causes tears to spring to my eyes. It's probably about 3am and Helia is now gone! I crawl out of bed as I throw up yet again but this time I let out a small cry as I do.

"Flora?" I hear the confused voice of Timmy ask me. I look up at him a little but then have to quickly look down due to the nausea. I hear Timmy get up and I know he's hesitating on what to do. Eventually I hear him leave the room which causes me to tear up even more knowing that I'm alone, that is until I hear two sets of rushed footsteps approaching.

"Calm down Flora, don't cry." I hear Helia's soothing voice as he pulls my hair back and traces circles over my back. My body relaxes under his touch as I empty the contents of my stomach one last time.

"Sorry." I apologise in embarrassment as I keep my gaze on the floor.

"Don't be sorry you did nothing wrong. I'm just sorry that I wasn't here when you woke up but Timmy came and got me." Helia responds as we both glance in Timmy's direction.

"But I'm sorry about your shirt and-" I begin to ramble on but Helia quickly hushes me. I feel bad for being sick yet alone when I'm wearing one of his shirts!

"Flora it's not your fault." Helia tells me firmly before he carefully takes his shirt off of me leaving me in only my pyjamas which were previously covered by his large shirt. He then pulls out another one of his pyjama tops from his draw and puts in on me before I can protest.

"What if I'm sick again?" I ask him not wanting to be sick on yet another one of his shirts.

"It doesn't matter if you're sick again, all that matters is that you feel comfortable. Now do you feel okay to try and go back to sleep?" Helia asks me. I hesitantly nod and he wastes no time in picking me up and tucking me into his bed. "I'm going to clean up quickly and then I'll be back." Helia informs me using a gentle voice since he knows I feel bad about this whole situation.

"I'll help you." Timmy offers as they both begin to clean up my mess.

"Let me help." I plead, my voice slightly hoarse and my throat sore. Both of them instantly begin to protest and refuse to let me get out of bed. Giving up I lay back down in defeat and just wait for them to be done. After around fifteen minutes of them cleaning up my mess and disinfecting the area just in case they both finally clean themselves up and both return back to bed.

"Sorry to keep you waiting." Helia apologises as he pulls me close in his arms.

"I should be apologising for leaving you and Timmy to deal with the mess I made." I reply truthfully as I meet his gaze.

"Flora we wanted to help, don't feel bad. It was our decision." He responds before placing his hand over my forehead, probably to take my temperature. "I'm going to call Miss Faragonda tomorrow and tell her that you're ill. I'm also going to see if Ofelia is able to come and check you over since she knows you a lot better than the nurse here." Helia tells me as I feel my eyes begin to close.

"But I haven't ever really met Miss Faragonda properly." I tell him before letting out a small yawn. I hear Helia let out a small chuckle.

"Don't worry it'll be fine but for now I think you need to get some proper sleep like Timmy is." He says slightly teasingly as we look at Timmy.

"Okay." I agree with a small giggle. "Goodnight Helia." I say as I automatically nuzzle my head into his chest.

"Goodnight Flora." And with that I'm asleep.


I wake up in the morning hearing a soft murmuring of voices. I don't feel anyone else in the bed with me so that must mean that Helia's gone. I force my tired eyes open only to be met with the worried gazes of not only Helia but Riven as well. "Hey Flora, how do you feel?" Helia asks me as he sits on the edge of the bed next to me.

"I want to go home." I whimper, my throat sore and my head throbbing. I watch as the bot of them momentarily tense after registering my words.

"You can't go home flora, not right now at least." Riven tells me, choosing his words carefully. I feel tears sting my eyes as I think of my soon to be destroyed home.

"Hey, don't cry. It's okay." Helia soothes me as he pulls me into his arms.

"W-why can't I go home?" I ask softly as i rub the tears from my eyes.

"It's because you're ill Flora. You're in no condition to be out of bed, yet alone making a trip into Magix." Riven explains to me. I slowly nod not wanting to let on that I already know about the plans to destroy our home.

"Come on, you must be hungry." Helia says swiftly changing the subject as he stands up whilst cradling me in his arms. My eyes widen as I instinctively hold onto him not wanting to fall. I hear both Riven and Helia chuckle at my reaction as we walk into the living room.

"Hey- oh God Helia! Please tell me you didn't take away Flora's innocence." Brandon exclaims as he sees me in Helia's arms, my pyjamas covered by one of Helia's shirts. My face goes bright red from the embarrassment so I bury my face in the crook of Helia's neck.

"You better not have." Riven threatens Helia probably just noticing what I'm wearing.

"No nothing like that happened, she just has my shirt on over her pyjamas because she was cold." Helia explains to them as he sets me down on the sofa between Brandon and Nabu.

"I don't mean to sound rude but why is she here in the first place?" Sky asks confused.

"Left Alfea in the middle of the night again and then she was sick." Helia explains to them. "She's feeling homesick." He then adds.

"But isn't their house going to be destro- ohh right, I'll shut up now." Brandon starts but stops after receiving glares from the guys.

"Don't worry, I already overheard the girls talking about the plans to destroy the house and build the new mall, which you agreed to!" I say pointing an accusing finger at Riven at the end.

"Flora I didn't want to, I had to." Riven attempts to convince me.

"I'll just go get you some breakfast like I originally intended." Hellia states awkwardly before exiting the room and going to the kitchen.

"Why did you have to?" I ask quietly but Riven doesn't respond. From the corner of my eye I see Timmy roll his eyes.

"If you won't tell her I will." Timmy states causing Riven to instantly glare at him. Timmy flinches back under Riven's intense glare and I hear Nabu sigh.

"Riven was threatened to agree, threatened with you." Nabu explains.

A/N I'M ALIVE! XD Sorry I took so long to post I had lots of exams lately and I'll have more for the rest of my time at high school so I'll try and post as often as possible but no promises. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll get the next chapter published ASAP!