Colette is struck down by her sickness. Lloyd is helpless, but maybe he could still comfort her in the smallest of ways still.
“Make sure she’s drinking enough water,” Kratos had told him. Lloyd would follow through.
Fandom: Tales of Symphonia
Characters/Pairing: Lloyd Irving/Colette Brunel, Kratos Aurion, Raine Sage
Rating: G
Mirror Link: AO3
Sickness was not an enemy Lloyd knew how to defeat.
This wasn’t the same as cutting down a monster that threatened him on the way to Iselia, or a Desian that had cornered them on the pathway out of a ranch. Lloyd knew by instinct what he had to do, swords instantly in both hands as he blocked a downward sing from an ax or staff, swiftly parrying away rough claws that would have embedded themselves in his side. With something in front of him, Lloyd could solve whatever problem stood in their way.
He didn’t know what to do when Colette was sick.
“Give me space, Lloyd. Please,” Raine had insisted, as she and Kratos had carried Colette to her room back home. Lloyd had barely seen the glances from both Frank and Phaidra, wondering if that’s what he looked like; pale, scared and lost on what to do.
So he couldn’t just stay downstairs, already rushing up to Colette’s room, with its featherlight drapes across the windows, its star-shaped decorations over the top. Eyes glossed over the bookcase in the corner, filled with text that had made his head spin when he had tried to read out of once, making a younger Colette giggle. He fixated on the present her instead, where her sleeve was torn from her shoulder, exposing glassy crystal.
“Lloyd, did you not hear me?” Raine turned to him, able to muster a deep frown while she relieved any of Colette’s pain with her healing artes. Kratos seemed to do the same, hand ghosting just over that same shoulder. “You’ll just get in the way.”
“I’m not gonna sit back and do nothing while she’s-!” Kratos gripped his arm then, not looking at him, his own focus on Colette.
“Be calm,” he said, and even through all the confusion he still gave Lloyd, somehow, these spare words were enough to calm him down.
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