RP: The Temperature is Rising Date: March 1, 2005 Characters: Ella, Millicent, Justin Location: Millicent's house Private/Public: Private Rating: PG Warnings: Sick Ella Summary: Ella is getting sicker, and Millicent is getting worried
It had been a long time ago since she'd put sleeping potion in Ella's soup, but with Ella's fever rising and the marks that were appearing on her body she really felt she had no choice. Ella needed her sleep, and she hadn't been sleeping well at all since Thursday.
She felt so horrible, not having listened to Ella when she didn’t want to go to school. First Thrusday, then Friday – when Justin had been forced to go and pick her up to bring her home. It had started out just as her being more tired than usual, then a sniffle – now her fever was higher than Millicent had ever known it to be, and the marks were worrying her, even if Justin said it only looked like chicken pox.
Then again she wouldn't know that, would she. She'd never heard of chicken pox before. Dragon pox, of course, but then your skin went green. Perhaps they were related – she'd even asked Justin, but he didn't know, though he assumed they were. He did say that chicken pox wasn't very dangerous, only uncomfortable.
'I had it as a kid, almost everyone in the Muggle world does.'
Only how could Ella catch it here? It made no sense. But as long as it would pass she was slightly easier. Though she refused to keep her distance as Justin had suggested. How could she? It was her baby lying sick in that bed.
Sitting on the bedside, she held Ella's hand, dabbing her forehead with a wet cloth. She really did wish the fever would go down. This really couldn't be normal. If it kept rising like this...
She'd give it another day or two. It would go down. It had to.