The three nurses relaxed in the living room as they so often try to do after the boys are in bed. Chris and Olena were interested in an episode of 'Law and Order' as Jenika sips a glass of wine as she reads.

But the sound of shuffling feet draws their attention to the doorway.

Tim enters, rubbing his eye and yawning. His hair tasseled from his sleep.

"Mr. Tim? What are you doing up?" Jenika asks with a soft smile.

"Me ... Me no not peel good." Tim answers as he walks over and sits next to her.

"Really? What's the matter, Sweetie?" Jenika asks as she feels of his forehead and cheeks. "Guys? He does feel a little warm."

"Me no can bweed and me keep coppin." Tim says as he sniffs. "Chance ith mad cause me keep waking him up coppin. And my nosy keep wunning." (breath, coughing, running)

"Is your tummy hurting?" Jenika asks as Tim lays his head on her shoulder.

"No, my tummy peel pine." Tim says, followed by a hacking cough. "Me twoat huts a wittle." (throat)

"I'll go get the thermometer to check his temperature." Olena says getting up from her chair.

"Have you ever had your temperature taken before?" Jenika asks running her hand through his hair.

"Yea. My mommy took my temper..a..tour. " Tim nods. "Me hab to hold it under my thong."

Jeniks giggles slightly at his pronunciation of tongue.

"Let's check you temperature, Timmy." Olena smiles as she slips the thermometer into his mouth. "Hold it there for a moment."

Once the thermometer sounded, Olena removes it from his mouth to check it.

"100.6. You have a little bit of a fever but it's not to bad." Olena smiles, rubbing him on the head.

"Don't tell my mommy me thick, alwight?" Tim asks. (sick)

"Honey, we don't like keeping anything from your parents." Jenika says, taking him by the hand.

"Peaz? The only wowy. The no need to wowy. Me be alwight." Tim says with a pleading look. (please, she only worry)

"Well, we'll wait to see how you get to feeling. But if your cold gets worse, we need to let her know." Jenika says.

"Alwaight." Tim nods. "Jen, me thuwsty." (thirsty)

"You want some milk?" Jenika asks.

"Can it be chokat?" Tim asks with a slight smile.

"Yes, it can." She giggles as she stands and holds out her hand. "Come on."

They head to the kitchen and Tim sits down at the table.

"I wub chokat milk." He smiles as he watches her fill a glass.

"I know you do. All you boys do." Jenika sets the glass in front of him and places the milk jug back into the refrigerator. She sits down across the table front him and giggles quietly as she watches him empty the glass. "You must have really been thirsty."

"Uh huh." Tim nods.

"You have a mustache." Jenika giggles as she reaches and wipes the milk from his mustache.

"Yeah, you jut now noted it?" Tim asks, touching his mustache. (just, noticed) "Mommy wet me gwow it." (let, grow)

"Why did you want to grown your mustache and beard?" Jenika asks out of curiosity.

"Two tangs." Tim says holding up five fingers. He looks at his hand and folds his thumb inwards, leaving his four fingers. (two things)

Jenika chuckles as she reaches out and folds two more fingers down. Leaving two fingers.

"Two tangs." He repeats holding up the two remaining fingers. "One, it make me wook olda. And one, mommy got tarred saving me." (look older, tired shaving)

"Well, I think it's cute." Jenika smiles as she lightly tugs his whiskers.

"It not pose wook coot, Jen. Pose make me wook olda." Tim says with a raised brow. (suppose to look cute, look older)

"Even sick, you're still sassy." Jenika laughs as she taps him on the nose.

"Okay, Tim. Time to doctor that cold." Chris says as he walks into the kitchen with a bottle of cold medicine.

"Ith it yucky?" Tim asks through his coughing.

"It's cherry flavored." Chris answers as he fills the small cup provided.

"It mell good." Tim comments as he smells the liquid in the cup. (smells)

He swallows the medicine and immediately makes a face and shakes his head.

"Eweee, dat awpul." Tim says as he wipes his mouth. "It tathe like dodo."

Chris chuckles and hangs his head. He's taken the medicine before while he was sick and Tim was absolutely right. It did taste like dodo.

They decided letting him go back to his room was a bad idea. So he would be staying in Jenika's room until he got to feeling better. He needed his rest and the other boys didn't need to be around him while he was sick.

Jenika woke the next morning feeling exhausted. Tim had had a pretty restless night. Coughing, sneezing, difficulty breathing.

She starts down stairs following the aroma of coffee. Glancing into the living room, she sees Adam, Austin and Avi sitting on the floor, totally engulfed in the Spiderman movie they were watching.

"Morning, boys." Jenika smiles.

Adam and Austin throws up their hands with a lazy wave as their eyes never leave the movie.

"Mowning, Mith Jen!" Avi turns around on the floor to face her, giving her a big wave.

"Morning, Angel." Jenika giggles, giving him a big wave before heading to the kitchen.

"Geez, you look rough." Chris laughs.

"I love you too, Chris." She chuckles. "I need coffee."

"Rough night?" Olena smiles as she sets the table.

"I don't think me or Tim got much sleep." Jenika says as she sips her coffee. "Bless his heart, he coughed all night."

"TIM GONE!!" Chance yells as he runs into the kitchen. Tears streaming down his face. "HE WUNNED AWAY!"

The other boys come running, leaving their movie.

"Honey, Timmy's not gone." Olena says, shaking her head.

"Uh huh." Chance nods. "I got mad cauth he wath coppin and I told him to weave. Now he gone." (cause, coughing, leave)

Chance covers his face and sobs.

"Sweetie, he's sleeping in my room." Jenika says as she reaches out and rubs the crying man on the arm.

"Tim has a really bad cold and we thought it was best that he not be around you guys right now." Chris says. "We don't want you all getting sick."

"Do him hab da poo?" Avi asks with a shocked expression on his face.

"The what?" Chris chuckles. He actually thought Avi was meaning diarrhea.

"Da poo. Do. Him. Hab. Da. POO!" Avi asks again.

"Cwis." Adam says with a giggle. "I tink he mean da fu."

"Oh, the flu." Chris laughs.

"Dats wat I say. Da poo." Avi says, rolling his eyes and shaking his head.

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