Yeeah... This one's a bit of a clusterfuck. Sucy's side of things is a little difficult to write at times.

Also, yay for forgetting about how I promised to drop the author's notes.


"You know, I think you're basically living proof that some sayings are entirely untrue."

One particular messed-up day of winter broom practice – specifically, a landing face-first into snow – rather easily led to Akko catching a cold on pretty much the next day. It started out with the ever-so-typical throat ache, then it went onto the usual symptoms – stuffy nose, constant sneezing, increased body temperature, all that. And currently, Akko was already stuck with this cold for a third day or so. Mercifully enough, the symptoms seemed to stop worsening.

"And how is that?" – The brunette remarked shortly before another sneeze and another wasted tissue.

"Well, you know how the saying goes– idiots don't catch colds." – Sucy teased, then turned back over to her alchemical equipment, as she was busy making medicine for her girlfriend.

As for Akko, she didn't even bother with a reaction, and just groaned, immediately grasping her neck in pain from her throat ache. Ugh, why was it that she caught colds so rarely, but when she did, they hit her full-force?

"Alright, bunny, you know the drill. Time to take actual medicine for once." – Sucy remarked as soon as she filled a vial with some rather unpleasant-looking potion and offered it to Akko. – "This is pretty basic common cold medicine. While it won't make your sickness go away in one sneeze, at the very least it won't make you feel like you've fell down with something worse than just a common cold."

Not really having a choice, Akko took the vial out of Sucy's hands and downed it in one go.

It tasted as horrible as it looked, certainly. She knew from most of Sucy's experiments that even something that was intended as medicine might have a lot of side effects. And the violette loved seeing those "side effects" in action, snickering like no tomorrow when one weird side effect after another happened.

This time? A horse tail, horse ears, and even a pair of hooves in place of feet.

"Oh dear. Too much horseradish." – That was just a joke on Sucy's parts, the potion did not involve any actual horseradish or other non-magical ingredients, but the situation was just calling for it. Luckily, the side effect lasted only until Akko's next sneeze, as the moment she sneezed, all the changes were reverted almost immediately.

"Alright, back to the drawing board it is. Still, that's a lot of progress from the previous one, when the side effects occurred post-sneeze." – As if to emphasize her point, she looked over at the semi-intact poster above Akko's bed which, despite looking as good as new, still had a few ash traces here and there, as the Genesia spell could restore the poster, but not remove the ashes, and handed the brunette another packet of tissues.

"Ugh, write this particular medicine off as a failure. Even if it works, the side effects are too drastic to make it worthwhile. " – Akko remarked, tossing another used tissue right into the nearby trash bin.

"Noted. One more question – feeling any better?" – Sucy asked, taking her clipboard out, with the recipe for the complete disaster of a potion already written down, and some space for the description of the potion's effects.

"Not the tiniest bit. At least not now."

"Estimated effect possibly heavily delayed. Potential wait time – from ten minutes to four hours." – The violette wrote down. Then, stashing the clipboard away and looking over at a rather hefty pile of leftover homework at the table, remarked: "Welp, might as well get over to work. Get up."

Groaning for the umpteenth time now, Akko gotten up from her bed and went over to the writing table together with Sucy.

Mercifully enough, the subjects weren't too difficult, and the homework itself was easy enough, so Sucy's "impatient teacher syndrome" didn't have a chance to set in, as Akko gotten through the assignments pretty easily. The duo did have to leave the silent spell practice for a better time, deciding that they'll try to catch up on the material later.

"Welp, looks like that's it. All done." – Sucy remarked as Akko put the books away. – "Not too exhausted, Akko?"

"Not exactly exhausted, but rather... Well, let's just say there's one more side effect to your medicine." – The brunette replied, yawning to emphasize her point.

"Alright, guess it wouldn't hurt for you to take a nap. I'd still have to check up on you every now and then in case your condition worsens." – Sucy responded as Akko stood up from the desk chair and went over to the violette's bed – Sucy didn't seem to mind it much, but she made a note to run it through with a couple cleansing fumes later. – "Maybe I should get some aromatherapy lamps going for the time being? You know, the lavandin variety."

"I guess that would be nice. Just don't overdo it, I don't feel like choking on thin air in my sleep. " – The ill witch responded, lying down and not even bothering with the blanket.

After a bit of setup, Sucy had all the aromatic "lamps" lit up, with the subtle but noticeable smell of lavandin spreading through the room. Admittedly, even she felt rather calmed by the subtle scent.

"Well, that should do it." – The violette remarked, soon noticing that Akko was already fast asleep and sitting down next to the girl as well.

Staring off somewhere into the distance and casting occasional glances back at Akko, Sucy was left with just her own thoughts as usual.

"It's rather nice of you to take care of her like this, you know. Even if it is just a cold and even if you did force some of your "experimental medicine" on her." - The all-too-familiar inner voice of Sucy remarked, making her blush quite a bit.

"Well, I didn't bother to learn healing magic as thoroughly as, say, Diana did, so I had to resort to the first possible variation." – Sucy gave out an excuse to herself. – "Compared to the previous few medicine tests, this one was basically almost successful. That marmot is sleeping it off like no tomorrow, if the fact that she's not tossing and turning or moaning from her throat ache is of any indication. Last night, she was so noisy… "

"And you couldn't sleep because of it. Or maybe it was because you were just worried sick for her?" – The voice asked back.

"Worried sick over my girlfriend getting what amounts to a common cold. Yes, totally rational of me. I'm seriously going crazy for that dork." – The violette said out loud, with Akko not hearing her due to how fast asleep the asian witch was. Sucy then looked over her girlfriend once more and placed her hand on the girl's forehead. Fairly normal temperature, which seemed to give some indication that the medicine was doing it's work – just with a rather notable delay.

"Yep, I think she should be fine by tomorrow, some residual symptoms notwithstanding."

She definitely hoped that her medicine really did it's work this effectively.

After all, they've still had quite a few plans on things to do together during the weekend, and getting their plans ruined by one of the parties' illnesses was not at all a good thing.