20 - Gabriel - Video

[hung_garian]

So I've been thinking, and I've reconsidered.

[He's clearly sulking, and perhaps with more reason than usual. He looks awful - he's even paler than usual, his hair's slightly damp, and he's shivering. The mug of tea he's holding doesn't seem to provide much comfort.]

Mike and Luci can wipe you all out, for all I care. You and your stupid germs? I'm

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[sevenyrsworldly]

The flu's not really all that bad. [Oh look, a wee mite with the same affliction.] I know a few people that just stay in bed and get people to wait on them hand and foot.

[hung_garian]

Well, we can't all be Little Miss Popular, can we? [Sorry, wee mite, Gabriel is too busy sulking to be reasonable about this.] Not everyone has nannies.

[sevenyrsworldly]

Who would that be this time around?

You could always ask someone to help you, you know.

[hung_garian]

Whoever's got the groupies lining up to feed 'em grapes, or whatever it is you do for people with flu. [He shrugs.] One word for you: pride. A situationally appropriate definition: never asking for help.

[sevenyrsworldly]

Well, if you've got friends they probably won't wait for you to ask for help.

[hung_garian]

[SOB.]

That's a big 'if' there, sunshine.

[sevenyrsworldly]

You've been here longer than me, isn't there at least one?

[hung_garian]

There's no need to rub it in.

[sevenyrsworldly]

You...you don't? [Pauses, sneezing on his own end.] I don't mind being your friend.

[hung_garian]

[He does, as it happens. He just likes lying.]

I'm not that desperate.

[sevenyrsworldly]

[Such a troublemaker. Must be what drew Harry over, Gabe is like his father and his friends.]

It was just an offer.

[hung_garian]

[But much more of a dick.]

And it was a very sweet one. Thank you. I think it's gone a long way towards thawing out my frozen heart.

[sevenyrsworldly]

[So much more.]

I doubt it's frozen if you're talking to people. [Not in a literal sense of frozen and thus being dead, of course.]

[hung_garian]

Sure feels like it is. [Have a pout, and, uh - brb. He's getting another shirt out of his closet.] Does this 'being sick' thing happen to you guys often?

[sevenyrsworldly]

Only if you don't take care of yourself. But sometimes your body is just weak against infection.

[hung_garian]

Bummer. Guess it sucks to be human, then.