#someday Pete is going to get ACTUALLY really sick though and Vegas will be hanging on my a fucking thread

[clandestinegardenias]

I’m imagining the first time Pete gets sick post-canon, and Vegas straight up PANICS.

I’m talking flashbacks of when he thought Pete had died at his hand, the sudden blind panic he felt, memories of nursing him back to health and the simmering fear, cause what if wasn’t (isn’t) working??

And Pete got better then (and subsequently left him; Vegas is trying to forget that part because ultimately Pete came back and they’re good now, they’re good now, right?) but what if…what if this time…

So Vegas goes full overprotective mode, he won’t allow ANYONE else to nurse Pete, he’ll barely even let Macau stand watch while Vegas catches a few hours of sleep next to Pete on their bed. He cooks soup from scratch, every kind he can think of that might help Pete have an appetite and get some nutrition, and he practically BEGS Pete to eat them.

Cool compresses, heating pads, warm baths, every medication money can buy, the expensive tissues with lotion in them, fuzzy socks, EVERYTHING, Vegas does it, and he’s still a shaking mess most of the time. Pete wakes up in the middle of the night once and Vegas is sitting up in bed crying.

And Pete comforts him and reassured him, of course he does, but he’s also getting frustrated because it’s literally the mildest cold in the world, he’s had a few sniffles and the smallest possible fever and he’d like to leave this bed at SOME point, he’s going stir crazy here.