100° Fever tropes to celebrate 100 followers!! Thank you guys so much for your support ^^
• The slow realization that they keep brushing it off until they can’t stand anymore.
• Glassy eyes, flushed cheeks, and a voice that’ll barely go over a whisper.
• Strange fever dreams that blur time, leaving the whumpee waking up thinking only minutes have passed when it’s been hours.
• The whumpee trying to stand up right, but keeps swaying back and forth, unable to keep good balance from their body being so weak.
• Random, delirious mumbling that is hardly coherent at all.
• The soft whisper of the whumper saying “You’re burning up…”
• The caretaker staying up all night long, warily counting each and every uneven breath that the whumpee draws in.
• A bucket that never leaves the side of the bed in case the whumpee needs to throw up.
• The caretaker pressing a cold cloth against the whumpee’s head in an attempt to calm the fever.
• Slumped posture, barely holding themselves upright while the world tilts.
• The really dry or wet coughs that just don’t seem to be getting any better.
• Slumped posture, barely holding themselves upright while the world tilts.
• The gross, messy saliva that drenches the whumpee’s arm ( or hand) whenever they sneeze into it.
• The whumpee tossing and turning, because they can’t get comfortable and are too hot to sleep under the covers.
• The caretaker rubbing the whumpee’s back for comfort.
• The whumpee’s hands trembling as they fumble with a water bottle.
• The endless mounds of tissue that are from the whumpee blowing their nose
• Shivering even as sweat beads on their skin and forehead, eventually dripping down their face like raindrops from the sky.
• A blanket being tucked tighter around them as they mumble in protest.
• “You’re too hot,” the caretaker mutters, voice laced with worry and tenderness.
• A damp washcloth slipping from their forehead when they drift back to sleep.
• That fragile, exhausted smile when they finally wake and whisper, “Hey…”
• Fever finally breaking in the early morning light. Soaked sheets, trembling relief, and soft reassurances from their caretaker.
