Please let him win it would be so funny pleASE-
Im very curious as to if Avery can get sick. Hes a slime and theres, not a whole lot there biologically? I wanted to know how D3r would handle a delirious/ferverish Avery :3
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Avery can get sick! It's not super common when it does happen but when it does it's awful lol, poor guy
Avery getting sick is rare enough that it takes D3r a full day to recognize it for what it is.
Normally, Avery is everywhere—leaning into him, perched at his side, half-curled around his arm or shoulder like proximity is a language he speaks fluently. Even when he’s tired, even when he’s overwhelmed, there’s always that gentle pull toward contact, that quiet reassurance of here, I’m here. So when Avery spends the morning tucked into his blankets without drifting closer once, D3r notices. When he doesn’t pad over to sit by D3r’s feet while he’s reading, doesn’t hum softly just to fill the quiet, doesn’t even complain—D3r notices that too.
By the time Avery finally looks up, eyes glassy and unfocused, glow dimmed to a weak, uneven pulse, it’s already bad.
“I’m okay,” Avery says automatically, voice thin, and then promptly curls in on himself like he’s trying to disappear into his hoodie.
That’s the part that unsettles D3r the most. Sick Avery isn’t clingy. He doesn’t reach out. He doesn’t ask. He pulls inward, small and self-contained, like he’s trying not to take up space—like needing comfort would be an imposition. D3r sits there, hands useless at his sides for a moment, because he’s used to being pulled into Avery’s orbit, not having to step deliberately into it.
So he does.
He closes the distance without asking, settles behind Avery and wraps his arms around him anyway, solid and unyielding and warm. Avery stiffens for half a second—then melts into D3r, a shaky breath leaving him as his core flickers brighter, steadier, like his body is giving up the fight now that it’s been caught.
“Oh,” Avery murmurs, exhausted. “Okay. Yeah. That’s… better.”
