Title: Word of the Day v. FFIV
Author: Garnet Eyes
Archived: fanfiction .net, livejournal .com
Last Updated: 06 May 2011
Summary: 24 June 2000 edition.
Rating: K+
Characters/Pairings: Cecil, Kain, Rosa
Author Notes: febrile, adjective;
1. Of or pertaining to fever; indicating fever or derived from it; feverish.
Disclaimers: Final Fantasy IV is owned by Square-Enix and I in no way, shape, or form profit off of my writing. This is simply for my own pleasure, and may at any time be removed and/or modified as I see fit.

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Cecil had felt a little under the weather starting a week ago, but he'd recently become bedridden. His fever was strong, and the castle medics could only just barely keep it down enough that it wouldn't run the risk of killing him. Rosa worried for the bloodless prince, as did Kain although he tried hard not to show it, because Cecil had always been of a more delicate constitution and this might cripple him if the fever didn't break soon. It felt odd to them both that, ill as he was, the little prince still worked up the energy to smile at them and give them a little assurance that he was "fine." The blondes were the ones who were supposed to be comforting Cecil, not the other way around. But they weren't doing a very good job of it, because he fell unconscious a few days after he'd become bedridden and didn't open his eyes again for nearly a full week. Kain had started to fray at that point, distressed over the fact that there was absolutely nothing he could do and no way to aid the sickly younger boy. Rosa gleaned as much information from her mother as she was able, but it seemed that no one was certain whether or not the bloodless prince would come back out of this. The best they could do was pray for him.