Face It Baby, You're Sick
A hot shower was actually a cold shower and her hot drink had ended up being luke warm by the time she'd been able to drink it…and her nap curled up to Eli hadn't happened. She'd gotten home and into the shower just to get to phone call from her dad asking her to come by the office because he needed some help on a case. She'd popped a couple cold and flu pills and headed over to the office. Doing her best to act like she felt a hundred percent though she really felt like she'd been run over by a truck. So here she was sitting at the reception desk going over the file her dad had given her the moment she walked in. "Veronica honey, have you found anything yet?"
A sigh left her lips as she pushed her still damp hair out of her face. "Nothing that you haven't highlighted already dad, is it possible he's telling the truth?" She asked ignoring the look she knew her dad was giving her. "Did you just say you think he's telling the truth?" He asked coming out of his office to look over her shoulder at the files spread out on the desk. "No, I said is it possible." She said not looking up from what she was doing. "He made one phone call on that day to Gillian and it was at the time he said." Veronica said as she pointed to the already highlighted number on the bill, she'd been looking at it for the last hour and nothing was popping out at her. "There has to be something else, an unknown number…anything."
Shaking her head she closed the files and gathered them up into a stack. "I'll take them home with me okay? And I'll go over them some more in the morning." He sighed and nodded, after all it was late. "Alright, thank you honey." Keith muttered as he leaned down and pressed a kiss to her forehead, pulling away he frowned at her. "You're warm, are you feeling okay?" He asked concern etched onto his face, making her nod her head. "Of course, just tired." She knew lying was bad, but worrying him was worse, grabbing the files she slipped them into her messenger bag pulling the strap over her head. "I'll go over everything in the morning and then give you a call."
Quickly giving him a hug she headed out of the office, ignoring the pounding in her head that was steadily getting worse. Sitting in her car she had a moment where she thought she probably shouldn't be driving when she felt this bad entered her mind; Veronica pushed the thought away and started the engine making the drive home. Veronica did the drive basically on auto pilot having done it so many times she was pretty sure she could do it in her sleep…not that she would. Pulling into her parking place she turned the engine off and leaned back against the seat just closing her eyes for a moment.
A knock on her window had Veronica jumping and opening her eyes, turning her head she saw someone standing there, that person knocked again and she opened the door slightly showing a concerned Eli. "Eli?" Veronica questioned, wondering when he got there. "Yeah babe, what the hell are you doing in your car?" He asked looking her over, his question confused her even more…why was she still in her car? "I must have fallen asleep." Veronica stated her blue green eyes meeting his hazel ones as his wrist met her forehead. "You're burning up, let's get you inside."
She started to protest but it died on her lips as he helped her out of the car and up to her apartment. "When did you get here?" She asked confused, because she didn't remember him being there when she had left to go to the office. "About three hours ago, I took Back Up out and talked to Wallace he wanted to check up on you. Imagine my surprise when he said you were sick." Veronica started to shake her head, but it made her dizzy and she stopped. "I'm not sick." Her statement was completed by a round of coughing, which made him roll his eyes at her. "Face it mama, you're sick and you're going to bed."
Veronica didn't say no to going to bed, she did attempt to give him a dirty look when he started to tell her what to do. "Just so you know I'm going to bed because I want, not because you're telling me to." Eli snorted and nodded his head. "Of course." He didn't let her stop to take off her shoes or anything, leading the way right to her room where he made her sit on her bed. "I have to take off this stuff." Veronica mumbled as she tugged on her sweater. "Easy babe, I'll help you." She wanted to say no, that she could do it, but maybe he was right and she was sick because Veronica had zero energy right now. So with Eli's help her sweater was removed, along with her shoes and jeans before he helped her into a pair of pajama pants and a long sleeve shirt.
Veronica smiled when he tucked her in and pressed a kiss to her forehead. "I'm going to make you some tea okay?" She nodded her head already sinking down into the bed. "Thank you." Veronica didn't hear him leave the room nor did she feel him crawl into bed. When Veronica woke up in the middle of the night to a coughing fit she knew for sure she was sick, but it was the fact that Eli woke up with her gently rubbing her back before getting up and getting her a glass of water. "Let me go get you the cough syrup I got for you earlier." He said disappearing again leaving her to wonder when on earth he'd had time to do that.
Eli returned to her room stopping to flick on the light on her night stand, he was so at home in her apartment and he was there so often that it felt like he lived there with her…"I asked the clerk what to get since I didn't really know your symptoms yet…"Veronica smiled before coughing again. "You're kind of the greatest." She said in between coughs. "I won't let it go to my head." Eli said with a laugh as he measured out the dosage and handed the spoon to her. "Thank you." Eli nodded and then laughed again at the face she made from the taste of the cough syrup before handing her the glass of water again.
"You ready to get back to bed?" Eli asked stifling his own yawn as he accepted the glass setting it onto the night stand before walking to his side, crawling back under the covers she turned towards him. "I don't want to get you sick." Veronica stated making him roll his eyes, before he opened his arms for her which Veronica eagerly accepted as an invitation curling up into him. "You should just stay here all the time…" head turned into his chest muffled what she had said but she knew he heard her by the way he stilled. "I'm here as long as you want me to be." Veronica nodded her head, accepting his answer for now; they would talk about it again when she wasn't so sick.