AN: This idea was from a very very long time ago, but I had such trouble with it that I just abandoned it until now. In the original piece Jade was in Nephry's place, but I think this worked out so much better~ Besides, wouldn't it be scary to eat medicine prescribed by Doctor Mambo?
Summary: His visit to Keterburg went something like this. "I think I'm dying, Nephry."
Disclaimer: I don't own Tales of the Abyss.
Trumpet- a brass instrument with a powerful, penetrating tone
"I don't like the cold!" Peony whines, blowing his nose loudly. He pulls the covers closer to his head and hands her his crumpled, wet tissue. Nephry takes it in the smallest space possible between her thumb and index finger, with a slightly disgusted look on her face, and promptly tosses it into the trash, where a small, white mountain was growing.
"Then stop coming," she replies nonchalantly, wringing out a wet towel and placing it upon his burning forehead.
"But you won't come visit me!" he cries indignantly while trying to breath out of his nose.
He sneezes. She hands him a tissue. He blows. She sighs.
"I think I'm dying, Nephry," the Emperor sniffs, rubbing his sinuses in a vain attempt to unclog them. It doesn't work.
"Stop being so dramatic," she says dryly and plucks another tissue from the box beside his bed. "It's just a cold."