Medicine
"Mom!"
"No"
"But Mom!-"
"I said No Ventus!"
"But it's snowing outside!" Ventus whined immaturely from in his bed to her. Namine then turned towards his frosted bedroom window and wiped away the cold frost with her warm long sleeves. Standing before her was a pure white winter wonderland that seemed to be straight out of a child's storybook. Snow was very rare to come to Twilight Town due to the world's sunny atmosphere and sometimes humid climate. She could hear some distant noises of children playing outside in the woods despite their mansion being at the very end of it.
Suddenly, she heard a big gasp as she then looked back at Ven making a pressured expression on his face. He quickly reached over to grab a tissue from his tissue box that was laying on his desk. He let out a huge and loud sneeze as even his body jumped up from his own blast of air. After that, he then blew his already red colored nose letting out a noise that sounded similar to an elephant blowing its own trunk. He then laughed nervously as that was all the evidence Namine needed to keep him inside the house.
"I'm sorry Ven, but I'm not letting you out of this bedroom until you're feeling better," Namine told him as she sat next to him. She then placed her cool hand upon his forehead feeling that it was still very warm.
'His temperature is still there,' Namine thought, frowning. She then grabbed the bottle of medicine sitting across from her on his desk too along with a spoon. She then poured the crimson liquid onto the plain metal spoon as the overwhelming smell from it was now out in the open. She saw Ventus carefully backing away from it.
"Please Ventus, you only have to take two spoonful of this medicine" she said, holding the full spoon out towards him. "It'll make you feel a lot better," she added.
"No!" Ven refused, shaking his head rapidly as he quickly pulled his covers up over his head as an attempt to hide from the evil medicine.
Namine had to resist a giggle from her son's childish actions. He was very much stubborn like Roxas whenever he was sick. She concluded it must've been a father and son trait the two blond boys shared besides their hairstyle. However, she wasn't going to back down from her five year old son.
"Ventus, once you drink this then you can go out and play in the snow," Namine said gently as Ven was still under the covers.
"No! It tastes nasty and makes me want to throw up!" Ventus argued with his stuffy voice barely making it through the covers.
"Well this is a different kind of medicine. It tastes like cherry," Namine replied hoping that her bluff of taste would work.
"Nuh uh! I'm never taking it and you can't make me!" Ventus shouted again before he coughed loudly and sniffled again.
Namine didn't want to resort to this, but he left her with no other choice. She decided to bring out the biggest fear any child Ven's age would have. She gathered up all her strength into a stern tone and her soft face held a serious expression.
"Ventus! If you don't take this medicine right now. I will have to tell Santa to put you on his naughty list this year," Namine told him.
The bedcovers shot off from Ven's small body as his sparkly blue eyes widened in horrid. "Really?..." Ven asked her with his tone scared.
Namine nodded, "Santa knows that all the good kids listen to their parents,"
"Ok! I'll be good! I promise!" Ven said, finally accepting defeat at the hands of his mother.
Namine nodded as she then held out the spoon to him again. He glanced down at the menacing medicine and stuck his tongue out at it. Ven then looked back up at his mother before he opened his mouth. Namine then put the spoon in his mouth as he drank the medicine all up. He gagged in disgust and braced himself once more seeing that she had just prepared another spoonful for him to drink.
After the second spoonful, Namine then gave him a glass of water. He gulped down the water to help him get rid of the bad aftertaste. He then let out a sigh once he finally washed down the taste from the medicine.
"Bleh! That didn't taste like cherry" Ven muttered with his tongue out before taking another sip of water.
"I'm very proud of you Ventus,"Namine said, smiling as she caressed his wild short blond hair. "Now you get some rest and if you're feeling better when you wake up. Daddy will take you sledding," Namine said as she took the empty glass from him.
"Will you join us Mommy?" Ven asked her, starting to feel drowsy as he laid back down and rested his head against the pillow.
Namine smiled as she then kissed both his cheeks and forehead. "Ofcourse, I promise sweetie" Namine promised as Ventus smiled closing his eyes and began to drift off into sleep.
Namine then got up from his bedside as she heard the door to the house open letting her know that Roxas had returned from work.
"Hey Namine! How's Ven-Ve-AACHOO!" His voice boomed loudly from downstairs.
Namine then giggled seeing that her work was far from over. She only hoped her threat of Santa's naughty list worked on Roxas too. Unknown to her, Ven had already started dreaming of the three of them building a snowman family together.
