Sick
Ever since they arrived on Earth and discovered that Zarah is Force sensitive, they have been teaching her how to control her Force abilities. To say that she had a hard time would be an understatement. The one thing that she was able to accomplish without any problems was lightsaber training. Speaking of which, they do lightsaber training with her twice a day. Mid-morning to noon and 5:00 to 7:00 after Zarah comes home from work. Anakin and Ahsoka have everything set up, all they have to do is wait for Zarah to get out of bed. Today however, she hasn't been awake yet.
Ahsoka looked at the time on the iPad which read 10:30 a.m., Zarah is usually up at 9:00. "Looks like she overslept again, Master. It's been an hour and thirty minutes!"
"Guess we're going to have to get her up ourselves. We are definitely going to have to talk to her about this," said Anakin.
He and Ahsoka walk inside the house to wake Zarah up. Zarah sometimes has a bit of a habit of sleeping in late, this led to them having to use different methods to wake her up. They've used the Force to make her levitate over the bed, used the Force to pull all of the blankets off, blared an air horn, played music on Zarah's radio with the volume on full blast, and they even brought R2 into the room to do his signature scream. Anakin picked up the air horn that was on the kitchen counter and followed Ahsoka upstairs to Zarah's room. When they got there, the bedroom door was open, and Zarah wasn't there.
R2 wheeled by with Maya walking beside him. Maya greeted Anakin and Ahsoka with a meow. R2 beeped a greeting at them.
"Hey R2, have you seen Zarah?" asked Anakin.
The astromech let out several concerned and worried beeps. He and Maya led Anakin and Ahsoka to the direction of the bathroom where Connor is whimpering at the door and pawing at it.
"Zarah?" Anakin called out of concern.
"Zarah? Are you okay in there?" asked Ahsoka after knocking on the door.
The sound of vomiting coming from the bathroom was the only response. Anakin throws open the bathroom door, he and Ahsoka rush in to see Zarah doubled over the toilet, vomiting.
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late for training," was all Zarah got out before quickly turning her head back to the toilet and enduring another vomiting fit.
"Alright Zarah, you are too sick for training," said Anakin
"No guys, I'll be fine hon-" before Zarah can finish her sentence, another vomiting fit was about to happen. "Oh shit!" Zarah threw up so hard, she accidently used the force to knock down some bottles of soap and shampoo off the bathtub nearby. "Stupid stomach bug!"
Zarah should've known that she would end up getting the stomach bug herself. It was going around at work and half of the people there did not show up because of it. She naively thought that it wouldn't get her, but it did.
Ahsoka knelt down right beside Zarah and moved her hair back. "Zarah you're not fine, you're throwing up! We can't train you like this!" Ahsoka exclaimed worriedly.
"I guess you're right, with the way it's going I might as well barf out a lung." Zarah attempted to lighten the mood with that joke, all that did was make her two favorite Star Wars characters worry even more.
"Let's not do that. Snips let's get her to bed," said Anakin.
"Wait! At least let me brush my teeth. I hate the taste of barf."
Anakin and Ahsoka relented and let Zarah brush her teeth. Once she was done brushing her teeth, they took her back to her room where they put her in bed. Maya and Connor enter the room. Maya climbed on the bed and laid right next to Zarah. Connor licked her hand and laid right next to the bed. As Anakin and Ahsoka were about to leave the room, R2 showed up with some Pepto-Bismol and a glass of water, both of which he placed on the nightstand.
"Thanks, R2. You are one the most awesome droids I ever met," said Zarah
R2 made several excited beeps in response. He launched a thermometer out from inside of his dome to which Anakin had caught.
"That he is," said Anakin
R2 beeped out the explanation that he noticed Zarah wasn't feeling well and saw her run to the bathroom. He looked up on the internet to figure out what to do and the internet mentioned Pepto-Bismol is good for stomach bugs, so he looked through the medicine cabinet inside the guest bathroom, found both it and the thermometer, and made a glass of water for Zarah.
Anakin used the thermometer on Zarah, and it showed no fever which is a good sign. "No fever, but with all of that vomiting in the bathroom earlier you need to rest. We're going to leave your door, and the bathroom door open in case you throw up again."
"Just in case you can't reach the bathroom, you're going to need this." Ahsoka used the Force to move the trash can that was in the corner of the room right next to the bed.
"We'll be right back to check on you. R2, make sure she doesn't leave this room," said Anakin as he and Ahsoka left the room.
R2 beeped at Zarah, telling her that she is going to be fine. Zarah took the medicine and drank some water. She started watching some cat videos on YouTube with R2. R2 makes the beeping noise that sounds like laughing. After going through at least an entire hour of cat videos, Zarah falls asleep.
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Zarah wakes up two hours later to the sound of the smoke detector going off. She heard R2 letting out some alarmed and angry beeps. Zarah rushed downstairs to see what was happening. As she ran downstairs, she heard the sound of a fire extinguisher. When she got downstairs and entered the kitchen, she saw R2 scolding Anakin and Ahsoka. She looked into the kitchen and saw the source of the commotion. Both of the Jedi looked down on the floor in shame and she sees a steaming charred pot on the stove. On the computer she notices three tabs. The main page is a recipe for chicken soup and a Google tab that says, "how to help someone that has a stomach bug" as well as another tab that says, "drinks for stomach bug".
"Guys, what happened out here?" Zarah asked.
R2 made some beeps at Anakin and Ahsoka that Zarah had to guess from the tone that R2 was saying "yeah guys, tell her what happened". If R2 was a human, he would definitely be crossing his arms.
"We wanted to make you some soup. As we were letting it boil, we went to look for what drink to make with the soup," Ahsoka began.
"We started arguing about that and forgot to pay attention to the soup when it caught fire. I grabbed a towel and Ahsoka grabbed a broom to try to put it out ourselves. That was when R2 came down here and put it out and afterwards as you people on this planet say, read Ahsoka and I the Riot Act." Anakin finished.
"As sweet as it is of you guys wanting to help me with this stomach bug, R2 and I don't like it when you guys argue especially after what happened today." Zarah and R2 were not really mad at them, they just didn't like seeing Anakin and Ahsoka argue and look at what happened. "Please don't argue so much, alright?"
"Can't make any promises, but we'll try," said Ahsoka.
"You two are so unbelievable." Zarah chuckled.
"Come on, you love it," said Anakin.
Zarah opens a drawer and picks up a wooden spoon. "Come on, the soup might not be that bad."
She looks inside the pot and pokes at the sad charred slop that was supposed to be chicken soup with the spoon. This does not classify as "edible".
"Well, I am not letting you two near the stove again without supervision from either me or R2. There is a can of Progresso in the pantry which only takes a few minutes to microwave," said Zarah.
Anakin facepalmed, realizing that Zarah had cans of soup in the house. "Blast it Snips. Why didn't we think of that?"
"I don't know." Ahsoka answered.
Zarah walked over to her phone which was plugged into the computer. She was working on making an app on her phone designed to translate R2's beeps. She had left the app open to see what it could translate. This reminded her of some of the fanfictions she read which depicted R2 cursing. Zarah's eyes got wide at the following translation.
"What the hell is going on here?! It's already bad enough that you two argue whenever we crash land somewhere or whenever a kriffing mission goes to shit! Now see what your arguing did?! It almost burned down this motherkriffing house! You want to know what makes it worse?! Zarah is kriffing sick!"
"Whoa! R2 really does have the potty mouth I've read in fanfics," said Zarah.
She went back up to her bedroom and waited for the three of them. Zarah wanted them to keep her company and watch a movie with her. The movie Zarah picked out is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. In an ironic twist it is about a teenager who fakes a sickness to get out of school and spend the day in Chicago with his friend and girlfriend.
Anakin, Ahsoka, and R2 walk into the room. Ahsoka placed the bowl of Progresso chicken noodle soup on the nightstand alongside the cup of water. Zarah hands Anakin the DVD, he places it inside the DVD player. He used the Force to move two of the three bean bags in the room in front of the bookcase next to Zarah's bed. He and Ahsoka took their seats at the bean bags.
After Zarah used the remote to skip the commercials, it loaded up to the main menu to which she selected "play movie". As bad as being sick is, there is one thing that Zarah appreciates from that, is that people who care about you will do their best to care for you in such times.
Author's Note: It has been a while since I last wrote a Star Wars on Earth fic. I decided to try my hand at writing a sick fic and coming from personal experience, stomach bugs freaking suck.