"No, stop" came Kyle's mumbled words to Lily's sleeping mind and she immediately sat up.
She looked around and realized that she was in the living room, sitting in the chair next to the couch. She had come home from the hospital around noon to find Kyle asleep, it was now almost three and Kyle still hadn't woken up. Lily knew that, that wasn't necessarily a bad thing but it didn't stop her from worrying.
"Lily..."
Kyle's rough voice followed by a cough and a moan cut through Lily's thoughts, and she hurriedly got up and knelt down by the couch. He was having another nightmare and was tossing and turning in his sleep again.
"Kyle, its ok I'm right here" Lily said softly running a hand through his hair, and in doing so noticing that his fever had gotten higher.
Kyle was slowly being pulled from his dreams and into reality by Lily's voice. In his hazy mind he could feel Lily's hand going through his hair.
"Lily?" Kyle asked with a cough opening his eyes.
"Yeah Kyle it's me" She said, "How are you feeling?"
Kyle was about to respond when he started into a coughing fit.
"I'll be right back" Kyle heard Lily say as she disappeared from his view.
"Here drink this" Lily said as she Lifted head and helped him drink the liquid.
Kyle expecting it to be water eagerly started to drink whatever was in the cup but when the nasty taste entered his mouth he had to fight the urge to gag.
"What the hell was that?" he asked bitterly.
"Relax it was only cough syrup" Lily told him, and then said "here" as she handed him a glass with a straw in it.
But Kyle just looked at it doubtfully.
"Don't worry it's only water" she said with a small smile.
Kyle took a small sip and found to his relief that it was in fact water. When he finished he handed the glass back to Lily and shut his eyes. His head was pounding and his side throbbed. On one hand Kyle wished that he could go back to sleep where his pain was gone, but on the other hand he had no desire of revisiting his nightmares.
Kyle reopened his eyes when he felt something cold and wet on his forehead, and he saw that Lily had placed a cold washcloth on his forehead, and he looked up at her questionably.
"Well I have to get your fever down somehow and I know that you aren't going to let me give you anything more powerful than an aspirin. Now say awww" Lily said picking up the thermometer.
After taking it out of Kyle's mouth Lily frowned.
"What?" Kyle asked hoarsely.
"102...your temperature's going up" there was a pause.
"So that explains why I feel so crappy" Kyle said breaking the silence and causing Lily to smile a little.
"Why don't you go ahead and get some sleep" Lily said sympathetically.
"Sounds good to me" Kyle said with a yawn.