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Dev Patel Characters x Sick Reader

Pairing: Dev Patel characters (Kid Monkey Man, Sir Gawain, Joshua, Neal, David Copperfield) x GN reader Word count: 1.9K Warnings: Nothing really, reader is sick, nothing specific is mentioned but I guess it's more generic cold/bug kinda sick vibes? A lot of fluff! Reader has no physical descriptions. Not proofread! A/N: This is my first time writing and posting for Dev characters outside of Monkey Man (I've had a few but I just haven't finished them oops)! This is a Sickcember fic and I have more Monkey Man fics here. Let me know what you think, I hope you all enjoy this! Comments and reblogs are appreciated! @royalsunshinehotel has also done Dev characters x sprained ankle reader HCs you should read too!🫶

Kid (Monkey Man)

Kid will stay with you at your side the whole time you’re feeling unwell, both when it feels like you’re in the storm of sickness and adoringly so even when you tell him it’s only a little sniffle or yawn and that he no longer needs to. Kid stays with you whether you’re sleeping or awake, he’s extremely attentive and takes watching over his lover extremely seriously. He needs to have an eye on you 24/7 and barely sleeps when you’re feeling unwell.

Kid isn’t deterred at all from you being sick, he still wants to be close to you and provide as much comfort as he can while you’re under the weather. He’ll still sleep next to you and if you tell him to go and sleep somewhere else he’ll roll his eyes and just wrap his arms around you in response. He’s a constant big spoon, he’ll curl his body around yours to however you’re laying. If you’re needing some extra heat therapy on a sore muscle or joint he’ll have his warm hand there for wherever you need him.

If you whisper that you have a headache or your neck feels stiff because of the awkward position you slept in last night (it was the only one that felt comfortable for your weak body) he’ll gently massage your temple or neck.

He’ll spend the day making and pouring cup after cup of chai for you, insisting you drink each one and keep up with your fluids. Each time you finish a cup he’ll press a kiss to your forehead, it starts to create a sort of Pavlov’s conditioning but you’re not complaining, it’s a reward you both adore and it’s the best motivator you could imagine to keep you drinking.

Even after you’re finally feeling better, he’ll still give you a forehead kiss each time you finish a cup of chai. Only you know just how sweet he is.

Sir Gawain (The Green Knight)

When you’re feeling unwell Gawain dotes on you, with the support of the court’s servants of course. He’ll crawl into bed with you while you’re feeling unwell and sprawl his lean body out like a blanket over you. When you’re awake and feeling unwell and don’t want to move, Gawain nibbles on your ear and shoulder insisting you to take a hot bath to warm yourself up. He has a herbal remedy from his mother, an earthy tonic with smells your sick nose can’t decipher or appreciate, that she prepared and instructed him to use for you.

A maid will prepare the bath and then he’ll carry you into the warm water. Gawain will quietly but immediately slip in with you, he’s a man always in need of a wash after all. He’ll sit in the warm tub with his chest to your back and wrap his arms around you, gently washing your aching body and your hair. He’ll also hum and watch you, letting you drift off to sleep against his chest in the blanket of the warm, medicinal water, he’ll caress your arm gently and silently take in every fine line, blemish, mole, scar that he can see on your body and commit every beautifully unique mark to memory.

Just before the water cools, Gawain will quietly wake you up and help you dry yourself and then carry you to bed and lounge with you the whole time. He has little in the way of responsibilities so it’s more than convenient to get to keep you in his bed. He’ll try to feed you hot soups and when you can’t stomach another spoonful he’ll quietly finish it off for you.

Gawain will continue this new routine of spending almost every hour of the day in bed with you for as long as you’re feeling unwell, even if it is a bout of illness that lasts more than a few weeks. He’ll continue taking a hot bath with you everyday, your illness makes him bathe more than he ever has in his life. Gawain will also quietly sit with you when you’re feeling up for sitting and will oil your hair before the days he washes it for you in the bath. You’ve never been quite so pampered. Whenever your appetite comes back or you get a craving, he has the kitchen immediately prepare it and he also has you drinking teas his gorgeous mother has concocted just for you.

When you start to feel better, Gawain will nuzzle into your shoulder and say that the two of you should just continue to spend the rest of your lives in bed.

Josh Madika (Modern Love)

Joshua will check his phone during the day to see you’ve messaged saying that you’ve gone home early because you’re feeling unwell. He’ll then leave work early as well and before you have the chance to even send another text of sick-brain typos he’s left work as well to go to the pharmacy and buy everything. Everything.

He doesn’t know what’s wrong, it could be a cold, stomach bug, headache, maybe even a sprain. But he’s making sure that when he gets home, he’s more than prepared. He carries a basket around, adding an electric heat pad, a wheat bag, just so that you have options for heat therapy. He doesn’t add in a hot water bottle, his mother has made sure it’s not something he’d ever consider fortunately for you. Tiger balm, electrolytes, ginger chews, two boxes of different over the counter anti-inflammatories, cough syrup, a topical cream for sore muscles (even though he knows there’s a tub of something similar and better that his mother has given him that’s at home). He adds some vaporub, lozenges, and paracetamol.

When Joshua comes home he bashfully reveals the contents of his large shopping bag filled with the goods. You can’t help but chuckle at the thoughtfulness and how shy he looks as he waits for your reaction, realising in the moment that this might be what’s considered going overboard. You happily accept some of the medications and he practically tucks you into bed and then goes into the kitchen to get you some water and ginger tea. He orders in soup and hands you the tea and water. Joshua then sits down on the bed next to you, one hand rubbing your leg while the other sets an alarm for several hours when you can have more medicine.

When the soup arrives, he dishes it up and then sits in bed with you. He lets you choose a film to watch while you both eat dinner, and he tries to bribe you with kisses to eat more soup and sip more water and tea. It mostly works.

Neal Sampat (The Newsroom)

Neal wants to call in sick to work when you wake up feeling unwell, but you insist you’ll be fine at home and that you’ll just spend the day in bed resting. He feels completely guilty though, he feels guilty as he gets ready, as he leaves and commutes to the office and spends every minute at his desk feeling guilty.

Within less than half an hour, everyone on the floor knows that you, Neal’s beloved partner, is sick.

Within three hours, he can’t take it anymore. The guilt is eating him, he’s been sending you lots of check in messages and he needs to go home. He loudly and unconvincingly coughs and says that he thinks he needs to leave and has caught whatever you have. Maggie rolls her eyes but doesn’t say anything, Mac obviously sees through it but waves him off to go home. When he goes back to work next he’ll “crack” on his little lie and make some heartfelt apology to Mac and Will as if he committed a sin.

You can’t help but laugh when Neal comes back home, he immediately hugs you and curls his body around yours. He tells you that he missed you and felt terrible more times than you count. Neal smiles as he cuddles you and whispers in your ear all the random passive aggressive flirting and updates on Jim and Maggie he saw in the office and a breakthrough on a story before you take a nap.

While you nap Neal researches which medications and brands are best, which ones have more ethical origins, are involved with lawsuits etc. He’ll also find random remedy recipes on the internet that you’ve never heard of and will try to convince you that research is on your side to try them. He gets fully engrossed in several rabbit holes while next to you, so it’s nothing new really.

Neal makes you a cup of tea, gets you all of the softest blankets and pillows for you to be bundled up in and when you’re comfortable in bed he’ll put his laptop on his lap and pull up his Bigfoot presentation. He’ll excitedly whisper his points to you, being mindful of any potential ear aches or headaches you might have. He’s completely animated as he whispers to you and then shows you clips of shaky handheld footage of blurs and interviews in forests.

You blink tiredly and nod along, indulging him, his eyes twinkle when he’s so excited and that’s what you’ll remember when this is over and you’re feeling better. Not any of the conspiracy theories, because of your fatigue, brain fog and drowsiness courtesy of modern medicine’s side effects. But that twinkle instead.

David Copperfield (The Personal History of David Copperfield)

David insists on you being on bedrest, he’ll even have a doctor come for a house visit and confirm that. He doesn’t like it when others are ill or uncomfortable, his good and kind nature is a significant part of who he is, so he of course feels more protective and worried about you even if it is something more minor. When the doctor confirms you need rest, David will smile and nod while flashing you a cheeky look that has a faint but visible (to you) ‘I told you so!’

While you’re sick, David will stay at your bedside for every single minute that he can and will happily wait on you hand and foot. There’s a constant stream of tea, snacks (even if you’re nauseous or have no appetite), cold compresses for your forehead, anything you could need (that’s not modern medicine obviously) he’s making that happen for you.

He has his journal and several scraps of paper with him. Sometimes David will hold your hand while writing next to you, especially when you’re sleeping, it helps him feel close to you. But when you’re awake he’ll read his new quotes to you, constructing new potential stories as you listen with a drowsy brain. Whenever a quote makes you smile or laugh, David completely lights up and will jot something down, delighted with himself to have brought a little bit of joy to you while you feel unwell.

But it’s a double edged sword, of course. Nobody has a perfect brain and especially not when they’re sick, so almost everything you say while feeling under the weather or while half asleep is quickly written down. Some of it is bound to haunt and confuse you when you’re feeling better and your mind is a bit sharper, of course. But that’s something David will gladly show and remind you of as soon as you’ve recovered.

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