[drabble][DCU, Ted, Booster, Tora, PG] You Give Me Fever

[ajremix]

Title: You Give Me Fever
Fandom: DCU
Rating: PG
Word Count: 712
Characters: Ted, Booster, Tora
In Response to: 30 days of Boostle - fever
Summary: The moral of today's story- don't eat food that's just laying around. Alternatively: nobody suspects the nice ones.



This was extremely embarrassing. So much that 'extremely' wasn't enough to cover it by half. As if the situation by itself wasn't embarrassing enough, the only other thought in Ted's brain that wasn't 'oh gaaaaawd, kill me' was 'wow, Booster smells good'.

That thought quickly transformed to 'wow, Booster feels good' when said hero had his arms wrapped around Ted in order to keep him from falling to the floor. "Beetle? Hey, Beetle- are you okay? What's wrong?"

Ted opened his mouth and let out a sound that could've used a few vowels, thought and a dictionary. Sluggishly he managed to grab Booster's arms and peel his face away from his friend's chest. And nearly bumped right into Booster's lips.

"Guh..." Ted's mouth went dry and his stomach plummeted down near the vicinity of his rubbery legs.

"Beetle, c'mon- talk to me." Booster's arms tightened and Ted could feel every hard muscle in Booster's chest pressing against his own.

He felt his face heating up, breaking into a sweat at the thought of Booster- comfortable, dependable, naively trusting and unfairly handsome Booster -was close enough to kiss. If Ted had the coordination to do anything but let his head fall back against Booster's sternum.

"You're sweating," a hand against Ted's face told him Booster had managed to take off a glove, "you're hot. Dammit, Ted," the world went sideways as Booster picked him up, "tell me if you're feeling sick!"

This was so supremely embarrassing that Ted wanted to die. But, with existence fading away until only Booster, his voice, his body and his scent remained, at least Ted would die happy.

~*~*~*~

Tora huffed to herself, annoyed at the empty plate that once had a sandwich and equally empty glass that once had soda. She was going to have to make Guy's lunch all over again including taking the time to grind up his medication and hide it in his meal (because the big baby wouldn't take it willingly). But she wasn't really upset. After all, the only way to actually keep Guy in bed so he'd heal properly was to give him enough sleeping pills to drop a horse, so Tora was satisfied with thoughts of karmic backlash.

As she stepped out of the kitchen to grab Guy's medicine, she almost ran into a distraught Booster carrying an unconscious Ted in his arms.

"Tora, help, something's wrong with Beetle!" He cradled his best friend close to his chest. "He started getting dizzy and sweaty and flushed and just passed out!"

Oh. Oh dear. Tora put a hand to her face, trying to hide a big grin. "Hmm, he is looking a little feverish," she said with what she hoped sounding like appropriate concern. She reached over to run her fingers through Ted's mussed up hair, his forehead tucked against the base of Booster's neck. "I'm sure it's nothing serious. But you know in my country we've found the quickest way to get rid of a fever is to sweat it out."

"You mean pile him with blankets and stuff?"

"That could work, yes. What we usually do, though," Tora bit her lip, trying to suppress a smile at the thought that Bea was going to love her for this, "is share body heat. It works on the same principles as treating hypothermia. Skin-to-skin contact is best, but two or more people under the covers works well enough."

"That... makes sense?" For the smallest moment Tora felt a little guilty about messing with Booster's head. He wasn't dumb, he was just missing some 20th century-related common sense. On the other hand, he and Ted were so obvious in their attraction to each other that it drove her a little crazy that they never did anything about it. Thus she was helping them out and her guilt was assuaged.

"Did you want any help?" She prompted with an innocent smile.

"Um, no," Booster was turning a little red himself, holding Ted even closer. "I... I think I can handle it."

Tora let herself smile as she watched Booster carry Ted away. As she went about remaking Guy's lunch, she wondered if Ted would finally learn his lesson about eating randomly unattended food. If not, well...Tora could work it to her own satisfaction.

Comments

[poisonivory.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee. This is delightful (and I need to know what happens next). That's what you get, Ted!

[idiosyn.livejournal.com]

I'll see if I can't fit a sequel into one of the other prompts :3 (though tomorrow's, unfortunately, is going to be another sad one).

[eirene-danae.livejournal.com]

I always knew Tora was the #1 Boostle fangirl. As I previously said, she probably has a t-shirt that reads "just snog already!" in bright blue and gold letters. <3

[idiosyn.livejournal.com]

Oh no- Tora merely supports them because she's a sweet soul who just wants her teammates to be happy together and because she thinks they'd be hot as all hell!

(though how much do you want to bet even if she did have a shirt like that, they'd still manage to not get the hint?)

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Aw, that was adorable, and hot, and Ted's mind is going to go 'boom' when he wakes up. :)