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Dives let out an exasperated sigh,
“Why do we all have to clean the master’s party? Couldn't they just have gotten a few maids to do it and then give them a break tomorrow?” Dives complained, throwing his broom away and falling dramatically into Lunae’s arms. “Why after all the hard work we’ve done the past days to set up the party do we have to do all the hard work of cleaning it up, when I know for a fact that there were indeed some maids that didn't help with anything” Dives takes a hand up and touches his forehead with the back of his hand. “This is what you were hired for though, Div” Lunae comments, holding Dives in one hand in a show of strength, “Take a break if this is such a difficult task, Div. Swiffy and I will handle it if needed." Lunae smiled fondly at his favorite broom.
The newer maids were looking over at the dramatics Dives was stirring up, while the older maids were already used to the scene he made. “No ugh, It's fine, I don't want you to do all the work, Lun.'' Dives shifted to stand upright and looked away.
“Are you sick, Div? Do you need to sit down?” Lunae looked at Dives, who returned the gaze, “Are you teasing me?” He squinted his eyes a little, “I could never dream of doing that.” Lunae gave a little smile “Well, if you wanted to know, I have actually been feeling a little under the weather lately, nothing to be worried about, and nothing to sit down for.” Dives looked away again but smiled a little.
“Now let's get back to work” Dives picked up his broom and started to sweep more of the glass shards from a glass one of the lords had dropped after drinking too much alcohol. “Ohh, so now you wanna get back to work again?” Lunae looks at Dives with an amused expression, but begins sweeping some dirt in another place from all the lords and ladies walking in and out of the garden.
“We are almost done Div, so you can soon take a break and sleep a little, if you are indeed feeling under the weather.” Lunae looked over at Dives “In a bit I will..” Dives muttered.
Soon that ‘in a bit’ turned into half an hour, because of Dives being slow with sweeping and getting the last banners down. After 15 more minutes, even other maids were taking note of the fact Dives wasn't as quick as he usually is. “Alright Div I think this is fine enough for Master Kohaku, let's go now.” Lunae replied, who had been watching for the last 20 minutes had finally had enough of waiting, and seeing Dives become slower and slower, “But lun, I'm not done with work yet and I really have to do good on this, because what if master decides to cut down my pay based on my performance today” Dives said ,sulking. “No, we are going to go back to the quarters now and you are going to get some sleep.” Lunae then took the broom from dives and lifted him up so he could easily move with him.
Lunae finally got to the servants quarters, where he quickly found their dorm. “Now Div, you have to sleep for a bit, I've heard sleep helps humans get better quickly, or something. Meanwhile, I’ll go ask the headmaid what to do.” Lunae looked around the room, looking slightly panicked. “So just, uhm- hang in there alright?” But just as he was about to go, Dives grabbed his hand.
“Noo Lunieee, you're so cold, and I feel so hott,” he whined while trying to tug Lunae down so he could press his head against Lunae's arm. “Vampires are undead, which results in me having no sufficient blood flow to keep me warm like normal humans” He explained in a rather fast tempo than what he normally would.
“Now Div, I think it would be smart of you to lay down and get some sleep, so you can quickly recover from whatever illness it is you have.” Lunae tried to tug his hand back, but instead of Dives just slipping he ended up following with the hand closer to Lunae. “Luniee, can't you just come lay with me real quick? I could use some of that coldness you have.” Dives tried to give puppy dog eyes to Lunae, but just ended up hanging his head down again as it was too exhausting to keep his head tilted up.
“Beloved, I would really appreciate it if you could let go of my hand and get back in your bed.” Dives let go of Lunae’s hand so he could be tugged into bed again like he was some little child, Lunae sighed but did exactly that.
When he tried to look at Dives’s face, he only got an eyeful of ashy blond hair instead. “Now Div, please don't sulk. This is for your own best, so that you can recover quickly.” But Dives didn't turn his head around to look at Lunae, who was attempting to convince him it was for the best. “Div..” Lunae sighed, “Yes.?” Dives replied, still sulking.
“If I promise to lay beside you after I've asked the head maid for some advice, will you please stop sulking?” Lunae asked, he was trying to find ways to get out of here and find the head maid as quickly as possible. Yet it looked like Dives’s words were becoming more and more slurred. “Fine, but you better come back here and keep true to that promise.” Dives said and turned towards Lunae again.
When Lunae finally returned with some water and pain reliever pills to take off the worst of the fever, he had to try a few times to get Dives to swallow them, because according to him; “Could be drugs, you never know.” After various attempts, he finally convinced Dives that no, the pills were indeed not drugs, or well they are, but not drugs with an effect similar to what Dives was thinking of.
“You promised you would cuddle with me now if I stopped sulking.” Dives replied, holding on to Lunaes. “I did not forget, I swear. I’ll come in a moment, this uniform is simply quite uncomfortable..” Lunae muttered while beginning to take off the stuffy vest and the tie he had on.
Only once he had finally changed did Lunae go over to the bed. “Lunn, you should be quicker, aren't you a vampire? Isn't it like a thing that vampires are fast or something?” Dives murmured while reaching up to tug Lunae down to lay with his head pressed to his chest for the cooling touch he brought with him.
“Are you absolutely sure this is a good idea for you, Dives?'' Lunae asked, the head maid had told him that a fever ridden person should be kept warm at all times, as the cold can make them worse. “Of course it is, why would I do something that wasn't okay?” Dives snuggled closer in to Lunae and pressed his forehead closer to his chest
“Well, from what I've experienced when together with you, you do a lot of things that aren't totally okay with people, or sometimes the law.” Lunae retorted, though after he just gave a small chuckle “Just go to sleep my sun, we can talk all you want in the morning.”
Lunae began hesitantly running his fingers through Dives’s hair, was this okay? Was he allowed the small comfort the action gave him? was it reall- “Fine, fine, But you better stay with me in bed as my personal cooler.” Dives mumbled, so low now that if Lunae was a normal human he wouldn't have caught even half of what the other was saying, but at least Dives’s voice brought him out of his thoughts and back to the real world
“Of course dear, I know you wouldn't survive without my company, who would you ramble to anyway?” Lunae smiled and closed his eyes, not to sleep, but to just feel and hear the slowing heartbeat of Dives, the one human who somehow managed to wedge himself into Lunae’s life, and make himself a permanent part of it.
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When the clock hit 4 am, it was like turbulence of nausea hit the room. Dives stormed out in response, trying and reach the magic bucket before the nausea became too much. When he finally reached the bathroom, everything just let go, Lunae who had felt Dives’s absence was not far behind him.
“Div, are you okay? What's happening? The head maid didn't say anything about this..” Lunae walked over to where Dives was sitting at the magic bucket, “Are you dying?? What can I do?? Should I get the head maid?” He asked in a worried tone, going over to hold Dives’s hair back. “Im.. fine, I think.” Dives replied, looking up at Lunae. “But could you get me some water please? I have a really bad taste in my mouth” Dives tried to joke, so Lunae wouldn't look so gloomy.
He had never seen the other look so scared for his well-being. “I promise you Lun, I’m not gonna die from just a little sickness, give me a few days and i’ll be back in tip top form, I promise.” Dives smiled again, yet again trying to melt away the worry from Lunae’s features. He never wanted to see that look again, It made it seem like something absolutely terrible had really happened, when it was just his own stupidity that had caused this whole predicament.
“Can we go back to bed now? I could use some warmth and softness right now.” Dives said, trying to stand up again from the crouched position he was in, instead he found though that in the time he had been sitting down his legs had stopped working and gone jellylike instead.
Lunae, who had been silently watching him while Dives was talking finally moved over to help him stand, though he ended up just taking him up in a bridal carry “I will hold you to that promise Div, you better get well in the next few days.” And then carried the other back to bed.
Back in bed, Dives and Lunae laydown again. “I don't think I can sleep anytime soon, lun..'' dives pouted and pressed his face into the bed “It’s alright Div, what would you like to do instead?” Lunae replied, pressing a kiss to dives head, Dives responded back with an unintelligible mumble.
“We could also just talk, it doesn't have to be about anything specific.” Finally, Dives turned his head to stare up at Lunae “That would be good yeah!” Dives smiled a little “I could finally tell you about all the smart ways I've come up with to make some more money” Dives said, sounding a bit more lively than he had 10 minutes ago. “I would love to listen.” Lunae smiled and ran his fingers through dives hair, seemingly accepting that yes, this was okay.
“So first I thought I could sing, and that would make a lot of money. It did make me some, but not as much as I thought.. So I would put that as a final option, but then I also had the thought of working in a brothel” Lunae stops with running his fingers through the others hair for a moment. “What's a brothel? It doesn't sound familiar to me” Lunae looked at Dives with a confused expression. “Oh! It's nothing you should think about.” Dives said with a chuckle, Lunae looked at dives in a suspicious manner, but turned his attention back to Dives’s hair, this time beginning to braid it in small braids, while dives continued to to talk about money-making.
Slowly, while rambling about the different ways to make money and how to become a duke, his speech became quieter and quieter, finally drifting off as his heartbeat slowed down, and soon he was asleep, in the middle of talking about his method of securing a job at the royals as a jester, but it not working anyway as they didn’t find him funny.
20 minutes later, when Lunae was absolutely sure dives was deep asleep, he carefully removed Dives’s arms from around his stomach and laid him down so he would be comfortable, with a pillow as his substitute Lunae, he walked towards the door, but before he went out into the morning dew, he looked back to make sure dives was still sleeping like how he left him.
When Dives woke up 6 hours later, he would find his bed covered in rocks, from small ones to small boulders, yet no one would confess to the act of doing it, though in the back of his mind he already had a suspicion on who it was.