Growing Pains (Forward Dated to Fiddlesticks 24)

[dredefulchilde]

[Joscelin looks tired and particularly disgruntled this morning. He holds up the beautiful dagger he’d stolen during the goblin mission several months back.]

I will stab the person who got me sick. Understood?

Comments

[loveandduty]

That's a little overdramatic for someone getting you sick, don't you think?

[dredefulchilde]

No, I don’t think. I’m in pain! My legs are sore and I couldn’t sleep. Someone did this to me and I demand satisfaction.

[loveandduty]

Stabbing is never the answer. A prank however is.

[myblueskies]

You feel sick Joss? You should go to bed! Where are you?

[dredefulchilde]

I’m sore and tired. Isn’t that how the flu starts?

[myblueskies]

That's how it felt last time I got sick... You got to go to bed, I can ask if one of the doctors can come and help you!

[internetsexsymbol]

I thought we agreed stabbing people wasn't how we solve problems? What are you even sick from?

[dredefulchilde]

[He’s kind of adorable when he’s annoyed and disgruntled.]

I don’t know! My legs were sore all night and I couldn’t sleep. Aren’t muscle pains one of the first symptoms of influenza? I was around in 1918, you know.

[internetsexsymbol]

No? I doubt you have influenza, no one's gotten that in a while. Muscle pains are usually the first sign of sports injuries more often than that. You're not in baseball, though...

[Reigen frowns in thought, thinking of why a young child might get muscle pain out of nowhere--oh.]

It sounds like you could just be getting taller? You're a real boy now, it happens.

[madcuriosity]

Goodness! I should hope you never find them, then!

[dredefulchilde]

So should they.

[madcuriosity]

That can't very well be their fault unless it's some sort of spell, you do know that, don't you?

[hashtagparkerluck]

All I know is that it wasn’t me this time.

[dredefulchilde]

Are you quite certain?

[hashtagparkerluck]

Pretty certain. I mean I guess coulda been carrying something and not realized? But I'm not usually lucky enough to not get sick if there's something going around.

...

you're not contagious, are you?

[goingthroughaphase]

That's a bit extreme, don't you think?

[dredefulchilde]

I've already died once on this train. I've no plans to do it a second time. It was very unpleasant.

[goingthroughaphase]

[ ...she could understand that making someone grumpy then, but she still doesn't approve of his methods. ]

So you're getting sick? What are your symptoms?

[so_dark_a_road]

You think somebody made you sick? Remember, you have a fully human body now. Bodies do tend to have aches and pains. It's not always an illness, it can be just be muscle aches from exercise.

[ Small grin. ] Nice dagger, by the way.

[dredefulchilde]

Humans are weak and stupid. I don't like it. Not at all.

[He looks pleased.]

Oh, this old thing? I swiped it from someone during the goblin mission. I think he was rather important, but he was dead drunk and he didn't seem to notice when I took it off his belt. See the precious stones in the pommel? Anyway, it's mine now.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin chuckles. ] I wouldn't say that about humans, but then, I'm a specialized kind of human, an Elf.

Oho! You stole the knife. It does look a little too ornate to be a common soldier's weapon, like the one I picked up. That rich guy wasn't looking out for his belongings, rolling around drunk during a goblin invasion. The goblins were the least of his problems. [ Grin. ] Little did he know, there was a sticky-fingered Joscelin around! Woe unto the important dude!

[usernamesarecool]

Come on by the clinic. We'll get you checked out.

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[dredefulchilde]

[Joss wanders into the clinic some minutes later and immediately clambers up to the exam table.]

Reigen seems to think I’m getting taller. Is that’s what’s going on?

[deductiongeek]

Don't tell me that cold is going around again.

[dredefulchilde]

I've been told that it's likely growing pains. I imagine you know them quite well given your recent, er, growth spurt.