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

[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?

[dredefulchilde]

You tell me. I don’t do this human thing very well.

[hashtagparkerluck]

You think I do? I mean all I know is pretty much what I learned on hospital dramas and those aren't usually very medically accurate? But I also spent most of my early childhood in and out of the hospital for high fevers and other health issues.

That has nothing to do with anything-sorry. I've been a little... uh off. Since Gwen... Um.

anyways, what's uh-what's going on? running a fever or upset stomach or something?

[dredefulchilde]

Everything hurts. My legs especially. It kept me up all night. I haven’t got a fever that I know of, but it I’ve lost sleep every night this week because of these pains.

[hashtagparkerluck]

Sounds more like growing pains to me. I still get them sometimes. not super often because I think I'm about as tall as I'm gonna get.

But yeah-pain like an ache in the back of your legs like muscles are just tired?

[dredefulchilde]

Those are growing pains?

[hashtagparkerluck]

Oh yeah-the worst one are the ones where it feels like the skin is too tight- I mean that could have been specific to me because that was right around the time I was fourteen and I went through a lot more than uh... growing pains.

but if you can, ask for like an aspirin or Tylenol or something and it should help.