
4. Icky Spider
"Achoo!" Lia sneezed.
Dragon wiped her nose as she let out a small groan with green snot building up.
"Well, you need to get plenty of rest since you are sick, dear, Dragon said.
Lia whines.
"I'm not going anywhere since it's a slow day, and I don't have much paperwork to file. So, you have the whole day with me." He pats her head as she snuggles under her favorite blankie.
After their trip back from the mission a few days ago, Lia caught a cold, and she's been sneezing and coughing. She looked sick and didn't want to move around to play like usual. Dragon went to see the doctor, who prescribed him a suitable medication for Lia.
"I got you something to eat, and later, you have your medicine." Said Dragon.
"No!" Lia remarked.
"No? You have to take medicine, which will make you feel better." Dragon said, patting her back and giving it a little rub.
The little one lifted her blankie to wrap it over her head. She didn't want to hear any more about medicine as she felt her blankie being lifted.
"Lia, come now." He said as he picked her up and placed a bib around her neck. He put her on his lap and set a small bowl of nutritional food for Lia.
Lia ate all of her food and drank out of her sippy cup. After that, Dragon opened the medicine bottle for her to take a drink. Lia gagged.
She could not take a sample of that in her mouth. Looking around, she noticed the vent on the ceiling, and she used her legs and arms to climb on the wall. Making her way over to the vent and climbed inside without Dragon noticing.
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Kuma was wandering around the facility and heard weird noises from the ceiling. Something was moving in the vents, but he suspected it was a mouse roaming around and using his glasses to see through the ventilation, not to be a mouse--a child.
"Is that..." He trailed off.
Soon enough, he heard someone pacing down the hallway, which was none other than Dragon.
"Kuma, have you seen Lia?" Dragon asked, looking quite frantic.
"You mean the baby spider crawling through the ventilation system?" He bluntly asked.
"Yes...wait...what!?" Dragon exclaimed.
"She's climbing through vents and heading left near the meeting room," Kuma replied as he glanced at the revolutionist. "I thought it was your day off. Isn't Lia sick in bed?" He asked.
"She is, and I was about to give her the medicine." Dragon sighed.
"You might want to persuade her into trying it. Why not you try it first and then give it to her." Kuma replied.
Dragon grumbled.
"You think I don't know that, Kuma?" He retorted.
"Precisely."
Dragon sighed. He quickly walked around the cyborg to find Lia and give her the medicine.
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Lia was still crawling through the vents when she heard a familiar voice below her. Peeking down was the revolutionary army in the meeting room, and Sabo was doing the talking. She wanted to see him, but she fell on his hat by pressing too hard on the vent; she slid down and landed in his arms, smiling up at him.
"Sabby!" She squealed.
"Hello Lia, what're you doing here?" Sabo asked, smiling down at her.
"She fell right through the vent." One of the officers replied.
"The vents? I thought Dragon-San was taking care of you because you're sick." Said, Sabo.
The door opened, revealing Dragon as he looked at Lia, not so pleased. Walking over to them, he takes her and leaves as the others seem a little surprised.
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"Open." He demanded.
Lia shook her head. Dragon sighed.
"Lia, you need to take medicine, and I am not chasing you through the vents again." He said, and this time Dragon blocked everything around the room to keep her from escaping.
"No!" Lia shouted.
"Please? For me?" He begged.
She looked nervous just by looking at the liquid smelling foul from a distance. Her eyes looked back at Dragon's to see him not so happy about her behavior. Maybe she should take it to make him feel better. Lia opened her mouth, and Dragon took the chance to put the liquid in her mouth and made her swallow it.
"Juicey!" She held her hands, wanting her sippy cup to drink down the medicine.
"Good girl. See? Not so hard." He ruffled her head as Lia crawled over to the nightstand.
Lia looked a little tired, and she climbed under her blankie. Dragon gave her the teddy bear to cuddle up with as she slept.
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