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.

[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?

[internetsexsymbol]

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

[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!

[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.

[dredefulchilde]

Christ, human bodies are obnoxious. I’ll be in my bunk, I suppose,

[madcuriosity]

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

[myblueskies]

Rest well Joss! I'll bring you some tea and some soup soon!

[That was good when you were sick!]

[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.

[dredefulchilde]

[That stops him in his tracks. He blinks.]

...I’m growing?

[internetsexsymbol]

Probably? You do look a little taller, now that you mention it.

[Reigen is trying to assess how much taller since the whole space murder mess Joss might be, since it's been over a month. The kid's not quite at the age where boys start sprouting like weeds, but who knows how quickly ex-vampires grow to make up for lost time?]

[hashtagparkerluck]

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

[goingthroughaphase]

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

[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.

[loveandduty]

Stabbing is never the answer. A prank however is.

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[dredefulchilde]

[Joss certainly doesn't look sick when Romeo visits later on. He's standing up next to his bunk, trying to measure himself against the frame.]

Do I look taller to you?

[dredefulchilde]

Do children really grow that fast? It's barely been a month...

[dredefulchilde]

So should they.

[dredefulchilde]

Are you quite certain?

[dredefulchilde]

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

[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.

[dredefulchilde]

Spoken like someone who's never needed to stab anyone before.

[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?