Sickness Ch. 3

Soda's Pov

Pony had been a sleep for a good 7 hours now and Darry was due to be home soon. I decided we were having chili for dinner, because it was one of Pony's favorites.

As I cooked I heard the door open and Darry walked in carrying a bag from the store. He set the bag on the table smelled the food and turned to me.

"Hey Soda. How's Pony doing? I bought him some medicine at the store."

"He slept through most of the day. I had to coax him to sleep but he's been out for about uhhhh… 7 hours or so."

Darry looked around the house, the state came in a week, so it had to be in tip-top shape.

"I'm going to go check on him."

I watched Darry leave the room, not missing the way his shoulders hunched and the tired zombie like way he walked.

Darry's Pov

I walked into Pony and Soda's room to check on my baby brother, he was curled up facing away from the door so I couldn't tell if he was still asleep or not. I walked to the bed and sat down on the edge. I started to stroke his hair gently careful not to wake him up if he was asleep.

I felt him turnover and saw his gray/green eyes look into mine, all glassy and unfocused from his fever.

"Darry?" he asked sleepily.

"Hey Baby. How you feeling?"

He looked up at me with tear filled eyes and replied in the most miserable voice I'd ever heard,

"Terrible. Darry I hurt so badly. Make it stop. Please Darry."

I knew for him to be begging the pain had to be really bad. I gently pulled him to my chest rocking him back and forth. He's normally doesn't like to be babied but when he's sick or hurt he lets Soda and I cuddle him all day long.

"Soda get in here and bring the medicine!"

Soda came jogging in with the medicine and his huge smile but it faded when he saw Pony all sick and miserable looking. He sat on the bed on the other side of Pony and I and started to rub his back in a soothing motion. I held out my hand for the medicine, he hand it and a spoon to me.

"Ok Pony, you got to take some medicine for me. Can you do that Baby?"

He nodded and turned his face a little so he could take the medicine better. I handed him the spoon and he drank the liquid down but he started to turn away.

"Hold on Pone, you got to take just one more."

He moaned and sounded like he might start crying.

"'Arry, 'Oda, I don't feel good."

Hearing what he used to call us when he was a baby, struck a nerve in both of us. Soda scouted closer to him and calmed the tears flowing down my little baby's face by telling him,

" Hush Baby. We're right here. We're going to make it all better. Shhhh. Shhhhhh."

Pony's Pov

I felt absolutely horrible and all I wanted to do was sleep and cuddle with Darry and Soda. I was already snuggled in Darry's arms with Soda rubbing my back. The medicine they gave me was making me sleepy and I was always really clingy while sick so I just nosed closer to Darry but was missing Soda so I reached my hand put to find his and soon the hand he wasn't rubbing my back with was rubbing the back of my hand softly.

They seemed to understand what I wanted because I felt Darry pick me up and slide us both under the blankets. Then Soda came in on my other side and I turned and barred my face in his chest while Darry wrapped his arm around both of us and said,

"I love you guys. So much."

I heard Soda mumble I love you back but I was too far gone to say anything. So I fell a sleep with the two people who love me most in the world. My big brothers. My protectors.

**Hey guys! Sorry for spelling or grammar errors I didn't have time to proof read and sorry it took so long to update, my dog broke her foot and bad to have surgery. :'( But vet says she'll recover fast! Thanks for all the reviews!