Busybody

Karina POV

Kotetsu can be such a busybody! I caught a common cold last week and he wouldn't quit nitpicking me about it. First, when he realised I wasn't feeling well, he kept asking how I was feeling. It's not like I enjoyed him asking me over and over forcing him to interact with me or anything.

Secondly, he keeps dropping things off for me, like a to-go tissue package (with little kittens on it), some lip chap, and a couple of bottles of those electrolyte drinks. It is not like I am going to keep the cute little tissue package in my purse just to remind me of him or anything.

And lastly, he even showed up to my house when I finally took a day off to rest. He brought me chicken noodle soup. What a weird old man he can be sometimes, who still brings chicken soup to people when they don't feel well? It is not like I imagined it meant the same thing as it does in rom coms or anything. Really I didn't.

Agnes POV

Tiger can be such a busybody. Bison and I both came down with the same flu (and somehow no one has put together that particular information). Tiger shows up at that old oxe's house and delivers a care package straight out of a sitcom. Tissues, forehead cooling strips, cough drops, and enough fried rice to feed that lumux for a week. I guess it makes sense for Tiger to take care of Bison, seeing as they are best friends, but for him to then show up at my house to drop things off? He really likes to stick his nose in other people's business!

He dropped off a care package, not quite as intense, of tissues and forehead cooling strips. He claimed he was just in the neighbourhood, but I know he wasn't, he had come here straight from Bison's.

A better question to ask is how did he get my address? Did he ask Bison for it? Maybe Tiger wasn't as big of an idiot as he looked after all.

Dragon kid POV

Everyone always says Tiger is a busybody, but I don't think so. The season finally finished up and we are all on break. I don't know how he found out I came down with the flu while we were on break, but he phoned my house to check in on me! He chatted with me for a while and just wanted to let me know that if I needed anything I could give him a call and he would get it for me!

I like to think I have another dad, a work dad who likes to look out for me. I really liked that he phoned, Tiger is a nice guy.

Barnaby POV

I caught that cold that's going around. Kotetsu protested me going into work, my fever wasn't even that high! 37.2 degrees is nothing to worry about. The man won't take a day off after major surgery on himself but throws a fit over a measly fever.

I pushed through and kept going to work. He pestered me about it, and I ignored him.

But my fever worsens and I feel like shit, I can tell it isn't just a cold, it is the flu and all I want is to go home and rest. Kotetsu sees me after I take my helmet off, I must look like death washed over because the colour drains out of his face and he's coming to me as if he has activated his hundred power just to cross the distance between us faster.

He's incessant. Asking questions. Demanding I see a medic, a doctor, anyone. I tell him off and make my way to the truck. I get changed out of my armour and back into civvies. I sit down, he sits next to me. His hands shake and he twists his ring over, over, over and over. He doesn't speak but I can feel his eyes on me as the transport takes us back to Apollon.

I noticed a trend recently. It isn't just me, he does it with everyone. Any time anyone is sick, Kotetsu is on their case, checking on them, taking care of them. He can be such a busybody I thought.

But as he sits next to me, his hands twisting that ring, his eyes focus on me, his attention captivated by me, Kotetsu can't help himself but worry about sick people. As the realisation dawns on me I reach over and take his hand in mine, stopping his nervous twisting.

"I'm not her you know, I'm not going anywhere."

The words catch him off guard, he stares me in the face and I can see the tears well in his eyes as he tries to hold them back.

"I know." is all he says, and he grips my hand tighter, almost crushing my fingers, and I let him because he stops shaking and those tears start to dry up.