Another hour and a half and a roll of paper towels later the soup was finished. Duo set out bowls on saucers and Wufei carefully spooned soup into them. Then the braided pilot produced three trays onto each of which he placed a bowl and its saucer as well as a neatly folded napkin, a spoon, a small dish with crackers and a sprig of parsley, a glass of orange juice, and a bud vase with a single daisy in it. His fellow cook merely gawked and muttered something about not getting flowers from Quatre when they were sick.
Trowa's room was dark and cool. Duo waited a moment for his eyes to adjust to the darkness and then made his way over to the bed. A large lump of covers (and presumably Trowa) sat motionless in the middle of it. Duo carefully set down the tray of food and leaned over the lump.
"Trowa?" He whispered, gently pulling back some of the blankets. The last time Duo had been in the room Trowa had been feverish and too hot to even stay under a sheet. Duo decided from the profusion of bedclothes that the boy must have hit the alternate end of the body temperature spectrum. This guess was confirmed when he finally managed to move enough blanket out of the way to find the pilot buried underneath who was shivering ever so slightly and clenching his jaw to keep his teeth from chattering.
"Hunh?" came the pitiful query. Trowa blinked up through bedraggled bangs at his visitor. "Wha? Gimme my blanket back! Im cold!" Unfortunately, the demand was quiet and followed by what might be termed a whimper and thus lacked a certain threatening quality.
"Shhhh," Duo soothed, rubbing Trowa's arm comfortingly. "I brought you some nice warm soup and some more pain killers and fever reducers. Can you sit up and eat?"
The messy haired patient eventually managed to haul himself into a sitting position long enough to get some warm soup and aspirin into his system. He smiled weakly at Duo when the other teen took the tray away and tucked him back under the covers.
"Thanks... I feel better... I thinnn..." Duo soundlessly picked up the tray and left the room as Trowa fell back asleep.