Hi all!
Little bit hyper-fixated on Inside Out at the moment if y'all can't tell (Thank you Inside Out 2... still can't wait to see that in 4DX!), so don't be shocked if I make more Inside Out fics, lol.
Oh, and if you run across Emotion Sickness on the site... I'd like to iterate that this has zero intention on being a copy/paste of said fanfic here. Similar? Yes. But not a full copy/paste, I've got my own plot line.
Ok, here we go!
1:15 PM... 1 hour after lunch period
"Food poisoning... GREEEEEEEEAT!" I (Cupid, in case any of you forget) groaned whilst running the console, trying to get Riley to keep her cool (Believe me, I do way more than help her find love) after being food poisoned, despite Disgust & I trying everything we could to prevent it from being consumed. This is something the both of us cared more about currently rather than whatever Joy had to tell us what to do...
Lately, a massive food poisoning outbreak was going around at Riley's school. It was so brutal, that notes were sent home regarding said poisoning. Despite my best efforts, I wasn't getting much luck. Riley had a hard time focusing on her schoolwork, and the other emotions up here was just as stressed out as I was about the endeavor.
"Okay, seriously, why are Disgust & I dedicated to run the console right now, AFTER the fact she ate that infested food that the school warned us about? Couldn't Fear have done SOMETHING rather than just stand there!? Couldn't Joy have AT LEAST TRIED to prevent the incident from happening!? Why are half of you so goddamn incompetent half the time while her & I can run the console & control Riley FAR BETTER than the half of you? Oh? Is this because y'all think you could do something better than us? Cause by the looks of it right now... YOU'RE JUST PROVING YOUR POINT IF THAT'S TRUE!" I snapped, being one of the only times I got pushed over the edge.
I half expected a full on argument to break out between Anger & I, as the both of us weren't on good speaking terms either, however, this never happened, as Disgust was defending me as hard as she possibly could... I mean, we love each other now, how could she not!?
"Cupid's got a point! You guys just stood there & watched THE ENTIRE TIME while poor old Cupid & I tried to stop her from ingesting that Norovirus infested lunch that was just served over an hour ago! The one that, I might add, YOU LET HER GET WITHOUT ALERTING ME!" Disgust was also beyond furious with the other emotions, I swear she almost screamed her head off.
"DISGUST! Cool it, pronto! It's not the end of the world just because Riley's sick up here. Yes, I'll admit one last time, Fear could've AT LEAST done something about it, but then again, how could've any of us known, I mean, we read the damn warnings for God's sake!" I piped back, silently wishing this argument could end before the storm really began, a wave of nausea. Thank god that didn't happen... yet!
Also, it's technically true, Disgust & I run the console (when needed) a lot better than the others could. They just didn't know it yet.
However, it hit me that Disgust mentioned something about the Norovirus, one of the BIGGEST food-borne disasters to happen to anyone. First symptom... feeling like you're food poisoned.
"Um... no one mentioned Norovirus... did they...?" I asked with a tad bit of fear from my voice.
Disgust silently raised up her hand in response.
A facepalm came from me after that.
"GREAT! Can't wait for the ENTIRETY of HQ to catch the virus as well! Thanks for not doing your damn jobs properly! Least Disgust & I care unlike the rest of you, apparently!" Oh yeah, I really only swore if I got really mad. I was more than furious with Joy for trying to prevent me from caring about Riley's health.
"And Joy, YOU OWE US BIG TIME WHEN ALL THIS BLOWS OVER!" Disgust yelled at the top of her lungs.
It was 1000% clear that neither one of us wanted anything to do with Joy at this point, and thus, I sent them away so the both of us could actually do what Disgust had been wanting to do for a while now... have Riley handle this sudden illness on her own. This of course meant we had to send her home from school 2 and a half hours prior to the end of the actual day.
"Goddamn bastards..." I muttered while getting Riley's attention away from her schoolwork and more so about her health.
"It's like no matter what I do... Mrs. Control Freak always has to find "creative" ways to ruin it spectacularly! You've been up here longer than I, how long has this been going on?" The last part was directed at Disgust.
"As long as I can remember... I really don't like her either... it's just... sigh, I get she always tries to be positive about negative things happening, but it won't always work... yet Joy NEVER understands this. Like, don't push positivity for 5 minutes if you know perfectly well not to be positive. Plus, you're my main source for that." Disgust vented. All the while, she drove the controls and tried to calm herself after that outburst she just had.
1 hour later...
We were still in hope that it wasn't the Norovirus and that Disgust had been paranoid the whole time. The good news, she made it home safe & sound without too much happening. However, things began to feel a little off in both HQ & with Riley...
Oh, and in that time, Disgust & I apologized to Anger, Fear, and Sadness. No way we were forgiving Joy for this! Hell, she could've caused a catastrophic event had she driven the controls on the console instead of me abruptly taking the controls away from her.
While Disgust & I were in the lounge, just talking about our pasts, in an attempt to get to know one another better, Sadness strolled up and told us both to look at the console, with a bit of worry on her face, as was normal for her, I noticed.
"Alright, alright. Don't sweat it, things couldn't have got any worse... right!?" I said, hoping that wasn't the case
Oh boy, how wrong I was.
A pain meter now appeared on the console. This made Disgust give a heavy groan. "This again!?" she whined.
"Whoa whoa now, hold on a minute... what is this?" I said, curious at said meter.
Taking a couple of glances at this thing... I really didn't see what her fuss was about.
"Mate... what's the fuss about? This thing is heavily useful." I said back to a still moody Disgust.
"You realize that thing can go up without warning, right?" Disgust tried to defend herself on the point of not appreciating the pain meter.
"Hey! Both of us care about Riley's health more than the others! And yes I know, but that's a good thing for us, as it lets us know if action is needed, but... then again you're... kind of right. I feel like something should alert us when that thing goes up a notch or 2." I said back.
5 minutes later...
"Very well..." I started muttering while attempting to get Riley to find some sort of medication.
"What was that stuff called again?" I tried to recall that medicine that was used to ease stomach pain. Meanwhile, the pain meter was still steady, it being at yellow for the moment. Right then, Disgust came up and suggested that Riley lie down for a little while. Something I agreed on, and after helping Riley find (and take) the pepto (with Disgust spotting me as this was my first time doing something on this line), Riley made her way to her bed, and got a bit some shut-eye.
"So... should we send these memories to long term now or...?" I asked.
Before Disgust could answer, Joy... being the extreme control freak she was, took notice, then just sent all of them to long term anyway.
"It's not worth yelling at her anymore..." I quietly said.
Eventually, we both apologized to Joy, and started going about our now early evening, with Joy running Dream Duty.
"Oh, and Joy, keep your eyes on the pain meter, it's on yellow right now, hopefully things don't change much..." I said, with Joy keeping all ears at that time.
Surely things would get better, right?
90 minutes later...
I was just in my office, bored as all hell, when I began noticing how warm I was to the touch, and it was in the same way the night Disgust was passed out under the console. Clearly things weren't getting better, in fact, it was about to get even worse...
"Ugh... here we go..." I said in a near daze, the issue with this is whenever I got warm like this, I usually get lightheaded too. Not exactly the best feeling in the world.
This made me begin to theorize that real world effects carry over to HQ, but brushed it off. I barely even get sick, but it's brutal whenever I do. Making sure I wasn't paranoid, I decided it'd be a good time to check my body temperature.
60 seconds later...
And... done! I removed the thermometer from my mouth, and had a look. My eyes widened to its fullest when I saw the temperature.
105.5 Degrees
I ran a fever, officially. On top of this, a headache was beginning to form, slowly.
"Shit..." I muttered. "How am I gonna break this to the rest of the crew? I don't want them thinking this whole thing is just a bad coincidence!" I panicked, not long before my office door was knocked.
"It's open!" I said to the would-be knocker.
Said knocker was Disgust, who wasn't as much better as I was at the moment.
"Hey uh... Cupid? Are you also feeling lightheaded at the moment? I'm not feeling too great right now..." Disgust said, her voice degrading with each passing statement.
Oh god... it passed on to her as well.
"Welp.. I have a 105.5 fever going on right now, followed by a migraine and a slight feeling I might faint, what about you?" I said, a little arrogant.
"I'm feel like Anger's brick head, which is burning hot, and feel a little dizzy." Disgust replied, after mentioning the dizziness, she actually began to faint, again. Thankfully I caught her in time, and it only took a minute to recoup herself.
"Again...?" Disgust groaned. She's clearly had enough of these random faint spells. Unbeknownst to her, I've been training my body for years on how to withstand the faint feeling, so I almost never passed out. So despite me actually wanting to faint, I still tended to Disgust, while prepping for a major emergency in HQ.
"Look. It's okay if you pass out every now & then, it's not the end of the world because you're lightheaded. Also... it's better safe than sorry to take your body temperature too. Just to make sure nothing serious is happening..." I said in my weak state. This is how I usually was when either in a sense of lightheadedness or when I was tired & just wanted sleep.
So in went the thermometer in her mouth, much to Disgust's dismay.
"And now we wait..." I quietly said.
60 seconds later...
Alright, done! I pulled the thermometer from her mouth, and...
105.5 Degrees
"Wait what!?" I said, confused. I showed Disgust after telling her that's the same temperature I had. She suggested I ran the thermometer again, and that something was wrong with it. So I go and find a brand new thermometer (I kept a plentiful amount of them in case body temperatures needed to be taken for anyone that's sick or had a massive stress/panic attack), and, after another minute... lo & behold...
It still read 105.5 degrees. This was no accident or coincident by this point.
"Well that's great! We have the same body temperature, which can only..." I stated, before sudden realization hit me... Riley might be having the exact same body temperature!
"NO! This can NOT be happening to me right now!" I yelled. By this time, stomach pain began to develop in Disgust, I'd shortly after get the pain too.
"We have a major problem..." I said, then began to formulate a plan.
5 minutes afterthat...
I ordered Disgust to stay here and rest, and got her an empty bucket (of which i still had no use of, yet) in case nausea got the better of her and started puking.
Meanwhile, I go to find Joy, still running the console in Dream Duty mode while Riley was resting. I was a bit timid, but alas, kept going.
"Hey uh... Joy... I know we had some disagreements about a couple hours ago but... I may actually need your help. We've got a MAJOR problem happening right now!" I called out to Joy. She turned around to have found me, a surprise indeed for her.
"I thought you said I-" Joy started.
"Disregard that! We never meant what we said about owing us big time. We were just mad at the time..." I said a bit sternly.
"Oh! I figured! Ha ha! I'm just messin with ya!" Joy responded back. Then followed up with, "So what's up? How can I help?"
One deep breath later...
"Joy... I think we may actually have to wake Riley up... things are going terrible right now. As BOTH Disgust & I have a body temperature of 105.5 degrees.. and... oh... apparently my head & stomach are trying to kill me right now... anyways, like I was saying, do you remember the last time that happened? 'Cause I've a bad feeling that means Riley may have a 105.5 temperature too... in fact that's why I needed help earlier, I know you care about Riley as much as the next person, and I do too, we all do. But you even said it yourself, we work as a team up here, and I'm not just about to let this sudden illness take me down! Ergo, I say I should wake Riley up and have her tell her parents, and of course, tend to Disgust, and you get the rest of the emotions. Then we'll go from there." I said in confidence from my heart.
"DEAL!" Joy responded after a blank silence for 10 seconds. "You wake Riley up, I'll wake the others up!" She re-iterated.
And away we went!
"Where do I- oh yeah, it's this" I muttered while trying to find the button to wake her up.
Side note, I tend to wisecrack a bit on the console.
However, something else happened that I didn't think would happen, the pain meter was nearing red.
"OH! HELL! NO!" I uttered upon seeing this.
While my body was in a state of it wanting to shut down completely, I still persevered and controlled her long enough to tell her parents what was going on.
This was unbeknownst to Disgust, who badly didn't want this to happen. When both her parents came rushing over to start checking her, I just stood there in fear hoping Riley didn't have the same temperature.
Lo & behold... she did
I fainted in shock seeing this. And that's where my own weakness was. Damn it!
45 minutes later...
"What... what happened!?" I asked Disgust in a daze.
Context behind that, nausea hit Disgust like a brick falling on someone's head. Her stomach feeling like someone stabbed her multiple times (I wouldn't be feeling this pain for another few minutes), she came out of my office to try and tell me this. But instead found me passed out.
"Oh how the tables turned!" Disgust thought while wearing a smirk on her face and bringing me back to my office.
All caught up now?
Anyway, the same rag that was used to cool Disgust down was on my own head.
"Oh really mate!?" I yelped seeing that. "You NEVER approve of re-using rags on anyone, so why me!?" I continued.
"Ever heard of a soft spot?" Disgust asked me in her signature sassy behavior. Not sure how she could pull this off despite being nauseous.
Slowly, the nausea creeped up on me while trying to recoup myself.
"One, yes! Two, what happened!?" I answered with a bit of sass in return.
"Not sure I believe that answer... also, you fainted... Cupid... I think our worst nightmare is coming true... I got intel from Fear that Riley's temperature is the same as ours, 105.5 degrees!" Disgust responded.
"Why else did you think I fainted in shock? Also... is it just me or... do I have a strong feeling that I'm gonna violently throw up all over the place!?" I answered back, trying to make light of the situation, but failing miserably.
"Don't even get me started on this! Whatever happened to Riley is happening to US as well!" Disgust replied frantically.
"Yyyyyeah! I'm picking up on that! Anyway... we should at least let everyone know that we're at the very least okay." I answered.
Then Disgust & I went back out to the main area to see what was going on. The image past the console looked like someone entering a waiting room of sorts.
"Oh lord! A doctor's office? Who on earth made that suggestion!?" I answered in a retort.
"Mom & Dad, that's who" responded Anger. Who clearly wasn't all that thrilled of being awaken at this time. What's freaky... I didn't see any of the other emotions fall ill yet, so why Disgust & I!?
"Also, how are you all not sick yet either!? Since clearly whatever happens to Riley, happens to us, and don't y'all DARE remind me of the brain freeze from 2 weeks ago! That was BRUTAL!" I responded arrogantly. I only got arrogant if I wasn't myself.
"Emotional dilation..." Sadness responded. She then finished with "It might take a while to hit us too, you both aren't the only ones that are gonna be sick."
"Oh..." was all I could say.
"Ugh... how long are we gonna have to wait here for..." I said to one's self before Riley noticeably began dozing off.
45 minutes later...
I still wish I could say things were getting better, but unfortunately, nope!
However, during the wait, Anger was hit next. And I even noticed this too. Disgust & I's gag reflexes initiated several times, and I dry heaved as well. Meaning whatever was going on must be serious.. as if it wasn't already!
"Oh my god! HOW LONG ARE WE GONNA BE OUT HERE!?" I retaliated.
Joy was there to calm me down. See, I don't outright hate her. Just have a few issues here & there.
"Relax! Relax! The receptionist said that there's not enough doctors to cover the entire place tonight, so it'll take longer than usual. Just don't stress too much about it!" Joy reassured me. However, I was still not in the mood.
"Gee, thanks!" I responded, still wanting Riley to be a-okay again, especially for the end-of-season party her hockey teammates had planned a few weeks out from now. It'd be a damn shame if she didn't go.
"Just find your happy place... find your happy place..." I kept trying to get myself back under control, with no avail.
Was I still bored? Take a wild fucking guess buddy!
Things would turn incredibly sour not even 5 minutes later.
It happened. Disgust & I were about to throw up like no tomorrow.
"Oh... OH HELL NO!" Disgust retorted, putting her hand over her mouth, and violently controlling the console.
"OUTTA MY WAY!" I yelled when I too felt like something was about to come back out my mouth.
The others tried to keep their cool while Riley was running to a nearby bathroom to vomit her guts out.
Meanwhile, I booked it for the bathroom, and went so far as to lock it, barely making it in time before I began to puke so violently.
Welp, it could've been worse. Or... is it already becoming that way?
Not even 2 minutes passed before I heard a violent knock at the door.
In between puke attacks, I managed to yell, "NOT RIGHT NOW! NAUSEA GOT THE FUCKING BETTER OF ME!"
Little did I know, Disgust was right outside that door, trying her ever-loving hardest to hold her own puke back.
"Yeah well... SO DID MINE! OPEN UP!" Disgust yelled. She kept on trying to not puke outside the bathroom door, which worked for the most part.
"Welp, I have a puke bag in my office, use it then!" I said vaguely, mostly because the puke would JUST NOT STOP COMING!
"CUPID I'M BEING SERIOUS! OPEN THIS GODDAMN DOOR OR I SWEAR TO GOD!" Disgust snapped.
After another puke attack, I'd get a minute to breathe, not yet known to me, so I responded, "Even if I could, trust me, you do NOT wanna be in here right now!"
I was so mad I didn't even think twice about what I was saying. Something I'd regret later.
And yeah, I wasn't in any state to let anyone else in, I wasn't keen on sharing the toilet with anyone during this state.
"COME ON! There's a sink in-" Disgust started before she couldn't hold it back anymore, and then suddenly... and without warning, began to puke as well, right outside the bathroom.
Great!
10 minutes later
"That... was so goddamn horrible!" I said to Disgust after I emerged from the bathroom. And my goodness! It looked like I was stepping in the gates of Hell! This was worse than my projectile vomiting episode...
"Yeah, you think! You wouldn't let me in the bathroom!" Disgust retorted before gagging again. I didn't think she was done, I was, however.
"Yeah well... I just wanted to be alone, I tried to tell you I had several emergency puke bags in my office, tho. So I feel as if that's on you." I said back.
Disgust looked a little upset after this all "passed" through her, so rightfully blamed herself upon realizing that.
Meanwhile, we made it back to the main area, looking less than impressed. However, it looked like Riley stopped her own puking episode, so we were good... until Disgust, with yet again no warning, let out one more round of puke within her.
I took at least three steps backwards seeing that, leaving me in a horrified state.
"MATE! I thought you said you were done!" I said to Disgust.
"Don't be ridiculous! I said no such thing!" Disgust tried to retaliate.
Joy, on the other hand, was just thankful nothing catastrophic happened, and tried to offer us help for what just happened.
"Thanks, but no thanks! ABSOLUTELY nobody talk to us both until the last bit of the sour taste of our stomach's contents are out of our mouths! GOOD NIGHT!" Disgust once again snapped to the other emotions. She secretly still grudged against them, and it showed right then.
We just went back to my office, not only to recuperate ourselves (and Disgust especially, after another outburst from her), but to get some rest and to (hopefully) put this behind us.
"Okay... I don't know what in the name of Sam Hill just happened... but hopefully that never happens again!" I said, acting a slight bit delirious.
I then began to see tears roll down Disgust's face. I tried to get her to hold them back, but nothing prevailed that, so began to cry on my shoulder. I let this happen for at least 10 minutes before she finally let herself calm down as much as she could.
"Again... don't cry over an outburst... or the fact we basically just went through every layer of Hell at once." I tried to say, but all I really wanted was some sleep, it took me a few tries just to even get that statement out of my mouth. Thank god I had several mints lying around.
"Mint?" I asked Disgust, oh wait, that was a no-brainer, immediately taking the mint to get that bile taste back to normal taste.
"Cupid... sigh, I shouldn't have been short fused with you a bit ago... it's my fault... I normally wouldn't behave like that around you..." Disgust said tiredly.
"Look, it's no one's fault... hell, even the symbol of love can lose their cool, it's totally understandable, but after all, it's much too easy for one to get all mad at others over small things when they're sick. I've seen it happen in long-term! I know way more about that place than anyone else!" I responded back, trying to ignore my upset stomach in the moment. I'm not sure if it was Riley or something else, but my pain would only intensify... putting me in dire need of some sleep. Until a knock at the door came about.
"Unless it's about the diagnosis of whatever is happening to Riley, I don't wanna hear it!" I said with a raised voice. Clearly I wanted to be alone with Disgust for the remainder of the night.
Anger opened the door after that, not in his usual anger mood. "Guys... I hate to be the one to break it to you... but the both of you were right several hours ago... Riley... just got diagnosed with Norovirus. However, the good news is that, while we're gonna have to recover at home for a while, out of school and all, we're gonna make a full recovery within a week or two. Just thought you guys should know."
Well what did ya know!?
"I called it!" Disgust spoke up with what little sass she had left for that day, before slowly falling asleep. In seeing that, Anger quietly left my office.
"Told ya!" I muttered when Anger left. "Come on... I have a couple of beds nearby. We both need sleep, given how much our whole body feels like the near equivalent of stepping in radioactive material." I said, remembering to take some emergency puke bags, buckets in case the bags weren't a viable option, and bottles of water (duh!) with us. The beds were on adjacent edges to one another, and was fairly easy to get settled in.
I would usually keep them around in case anyone needed a nap during a therapy session and they'd like a bed to lay on. It's quite helpful actually.
"Just hope things get better overnight..." Disgust & I said in near unison, then drifted off to sleep, which didn't take long, given our tired state.
Oh, and yes, either one of us got nausea again after drifting off (which meant, to no one's shock, that Riley too felt nausea), but we were too deep asleep to care... yet.
3:35 AM...
Why, just why have things NOT got better yet!?
It was here that I began to show signs that I was about to projectile vomit, again! Well, thankfully we were prepared this time. Oh, and while being away from the others, everyone else except for Joy (at the moment) have fell ill, however, none as extreme as Disgust & I. The others would basically be feeling various pains to certain degrees, why Disgust & I get the exact same pains & temperatures as Riley... I'd REALLY like to know!
I began to toss & turn in my bed, hoping that the pain would decrease. As a measure, I took my temperature again. Nothing changed, still 105.5 degrees.
Maybe some water would just ever so slightly alleviate the pain for a bit? Would love to go the rest of the night without puking again.
Well... only time would tell, right? However, still in my delirious state, I barely even made it back to my bed after downing an entire water bottle before the puke wave hit me again. Again, thank goodness I came prepared, else I would've thrown up on the bed. I somehow made Disgust lose sleep over that. However, despite how'd she normally feel about that, she wasn't immediately grossed out, instead, gave me support as if I was being treated by my own parents. Rubbing my back & whatnot.
It wasn't until I was done puking that I noticed Disgust there, as I honest to God thought someone else was rubbing my back. I kind of jumped a bit, thankfully, I'd have already gotten the bucket out of my way so I wouldn't spill any of it (oh and yes, Fear did opt to clean up the "gates of Hell" attack from Disgust, in case y'all were wondering... it was definitely not gonna stay out all night!).
"Why!? Why is it that whatever Riley feels, we get the same effect? WHY!?" I asked Disgust. I genuinely didn't know why all of us except for Joy was sick right now.
"Cupid... even if I did know why, it's too much to explain... all of us hate being sick as much as the next person, but I promise you... it's not permanent, it will subside soon... we just have to ride it out. Sure we may puke again, but once it's over, we won't have to worry about it again for a while... and I promise I'll make it up to you for treating you like garbage earlier... maybe by giving Joy & Sadness makeovers, if you're into that sort of thing?" Disgust responded, kind of admitting she wasn't exactly the greatest girlfriend to me when the first wave of nausea got the better of us.
"You'd have to teach me how, but sure! Also, I had it coming when you yelled at me while I was having one of the worst times of my life in the bathroom. But you're not a terrible girlfriend, stop saying otherwise." I said back to her before giving her another hug. After getting another mint to remove the bile taste from my mouth, Disgust & I would spend the rest of the night in my bed.
10:00 AM
After what felt like an eternity, both Disgust & I finally woke up, our stomach pain still nagging badly, however, both of us gained the energy & confidence to see what was happening to Riley now. I'm kind of thanked neither one of us threw up again.
It looked like Riley was back home, in her bedroom, talking to her friends about what happened over the last 12-ish hours. As for the other emotions? They only felt cramps (aches) and whatnot that morning, nothing too major. Meanwhile, Disgust & I looked more or less hungover.
"Yeah, terrible night, I know! I puked again at like... 3 in the morning! WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE STARING AT!?" I snapped upon getting stared at. Joy noticed this, and after promising herself several hours ago that she wouldn't let anyone else bother Disgust & I, she ushered all of them away, and tried to offer help again now that the night has passed.
"Yeah... I had a rough night, my temper isn't the greatest if my sleep is messed with." I explained back to Joy. Disgust on the other hand felt like she had lost her voice, but this, in reality, wasn't so. She just didn't have much to say at the moment. She then gave us what felt like an over-abundance of medication to ease our stomachs, which at this point felt like it was going to spontaneously combust right out of bodies, the pain was HORRIBLE!
"Thanks so much, but I desperately wish to know when Riley will be 1000% better! Being sick up here is just a fate for me worse than dealing with K-Pop love songs!" I responded a bit sassily. Being sick really bought out my bad mood that I rarely show. "And by the way, how's everyone else doing, since everyone else but you apparently gets the same pain to varying degrees, yet Disgust & I apparently get a copy/paste of what Riley's feeling? Sure that's not the first time it's happened!" I continued, the whole time, Disgust gave me a look that just silently spoke to me to calm myself.
She got worried about my bad mood so much, she pulled me away from Joy while she was responding to my questions. "Heh heh... thank you very much, I'm sure that's all very useful... would you give us a minute please?" Disgust retorted.
"Cupid? What's going on with you? I don't think I've ever heard you this upset!" Disgust asked me with a worried tone in her voice. "Look, sorry I freaked you out... I'm just not myself when I'm sick... I'll either have the same feelings as I am when drunk, or just be in a terrible mood and don't want to be dealt with... trust me, as someone that's been living in long-term for about as long as I can remember, I know how much this can suck... I just didn't think it would be worse in HQ... guess I found out the hard way, didn't I?" I responded, a bit upset I snapped at Joy about the current conditions of Riley's world.
"Joy... I should've told you that I'm not exactly in the best mood right now... and, well, as much as I don't like it when my control is taken away sometimes... sigh, I shouldn't have had any excuse to yell at you like that, not within the last 24 hours, whatsoever... I do promise to make this up to you somehow once Riley is no longer sick... deal?" I said back to Joy, in which we responded with a firm handshake and her also responding "Deal!"
I felt like I had lost my way since the whole endeavor started, but as a wise man once said, "Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, it doesn't mean they're lost forever."
I heard that long ago, and needed to use that to my advantage to pull myself, and the others through until a full recovery is made, which, great news, is still set to happen. I just needed to hope again.
"Y'all are right. I shouldn't be this arrogant just because of current events. I promise to calm myself down and handle this situation better." I said back to Disgust & Joy. And in that moment, finally gained the confidence to run the console after everyone else was deemed a bit too much in pain to do so. I somehow managed to get Riley to keep her cool about this whole illness, and I even let Disgust help me the whole day, even if we had a nausea attack or two... however, with the exception of being asked at least twice that day on how she was doing, her & I finally had Riley be more independent on her Norovirus treatment that day.
5 days later...
"Okay... please be good!" I said in anticipation, it seemed as though Riley was all better, so went to check up on our body temperature. Disgust crossed her fingers in anticipation.
98.6 Degrees
"YES!" I was celebrating that moment like there wasn't a tomorrow in sight! All of us made a full recovery! I even did the same to Disgust, same temperature. "Thank god!" Disgust breathed a sigh of relief.
"So... are we still owing the other ladies here makeovers or what?" I asked Disgust, not expecting a serious response. However,... "Oh... I don't know... DUH! Of course they are! Joy especially for how she decided to handle it when this nightmare first started." Disgust responded. Her & I agreed to do so when they least expected it.
"Although, one thing will be for sure... I NEVER wish to speak of this incident again!" I said back to Disgust, before her & I went to the console for the day, alongside the other emotions.
Oh man! This one I was sure had no end in sight! However, had a little fun making this!
Anyway, As of publishing this... we are officially less than 1 week away from Inside Out 2's release! Words can't describe how excited I am for this movie to come out!
Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this fic, and feel free to drop requests and/or suggestions as to what I should do next!
And with that out of the way, have a great day/night