Sicktember Day 18: "Wear a coat, you'll catch a cold"
Many years ago I wrote a boueibu ficlet that involved En-chan being a Responsible Adult (tm) and making sure Yumoto wore his jacket in a blizzard. I don't think I ever posted that fic but it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this prompt.
Anyway here's En-chan not being a Responsible Adult (tm) and EnAtsu being cute and domestic
(Not sure if I want to put this on ao3 but I just like writing EnAtsu banter and wanted to share ;w;)
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“Wear your coat, you’ll catch a cold. You know Atsushi, I used to think that was just an old wives’ tale.”
Atsushi frowned. “It’s true that the cold weather itself doesn’t actually make you sick but, you know En-chan, I’m surprised at you. Wearing a coat in this weather is just common sense isn’t it?”
“I told you, it wasn’t that cold before.”
It had started as a typical end-of-autumn day. The sun was shining, the leaves were falling, and the outside air was cool and crisp as it blew through the mountain town. It was jacket weather to be sure, but En had not considered it the bundle-up kind of jacket weather. So though he had worn a coat, he hadn’t bothered buttoning it despite Atsushi’s grumbling, and had let it billow behind in the wind on their walk up the stairs.
He was wearing it properly now. He was wearing Atsushi’s jacket as well as a second layer as he shivered in his seat and blew hot air into his hands. It didn’t help. En had suspected the heating was off or the window was cracked open, but Atsushi diligently checked both.
“Running around without your jacket like that… that feels more like something Yumoto would do.”
“Yumoto doesn’t get cold.”
“Ryuu then. Having his jacket flapping behind him like that. I bet he’d think he would look cool.”
En gave him a miserable look. “So I’m being compared to Ryuu…”
“Huh? Is that worse?”
“Of course it’s worse. It’s…” En decided he didn’t want to explain. What he wanted was to get warm already, before the homeroom teacher finally came in and forced him to take off his extra layers.
Atsushi reached into his backpack. Ever prepared, he pulled out a scarf and wrapped it around En’s shoulders.
“Better?”
“Not really, but thanks.”
Atsushi gave him a sympathetic smile. “Honestly En-chan, I always thought you’d be all for bundling up. Think about it? A thick marshmallow coat, wrapped around you like a warm cocoon. I bet you could fall asleep immediately!”
“Do you know how uncomfortable those things are? No one wears them for sleeping!” Although that kind of poofy coat sounded really nice right about now. “Besides those things are for the dead of winter. It was way too hot for it this morning.”
“It really wasn’t,” Atsushi muttered and reached into his backpack once again, this time pulling out a dark green thermos. He set it on En’s desk.
“It’s oolong tea. Drink up.”
“What kind of high-schooler carries around oolong tea?”
“Did I mention it’s hot?”
“That’s my Atsushi.” With trembling fingers, En pulled off the cup and unscrewed the top. The thermos itself was cool but the liquid inside was steaming and quickly warmed the plastic cup it was poured into. Rather than drink it, En just wanted to warm his hands around it. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I just can’t get warm.”
“Honestly? You might have a fever,” Atsushi whispered. Despite all the earlier teasing, his brow was knitted in concern. “Aside from the cold, do you feel okay?”
“I don’t know. I feel like it if I go to sleep now, I might never wake up.”
“You’re not that cold.” Just in case though, he reached over to feel En’s forehead. But between En’s cold skin and Atsushi’s cold hands, he couldn’t really tell. “En-chan, maybe you should go to the nurse? Wrap yourself up in some blankets, take some medicine… If it’s bad enough, maybe Hara-sensei could send you home.”
“After all the trouble I went through coming here?” And not just the school, the classroom. En had already curled up in his seat. The idea of stretching back out and braving the frozen halls was unappealing.
But Tawarayama-sensei would come in any moment now, and dealing with Wombat would be an even bigger pain.
“Yeah… I’m going,” he decided, forcing himself to get up. “Can I keep the jacket?”
“Sure. Take the tea too.”
“Really?”
“I’m not drinking it after you if you’re sick.”
“Touché.” En quickly downed what he’d poured before and closed the thermos back up. “See you later then.”
“Mm. Feel better En-chan. I’ll come check on you during the break.”
En shivered as he left the arm. Atsushi let out a sigh as he prepared for the first period.
The rest of their class pretended not to have seen anything.
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