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            Ryeowook woke to Kyuhyun’s coughing.  Again.  And this time he coughed for so long, Ryeowook wondered if he was going to pass out from not taking a breath for such a long stretch, but his coughing fit finally subsided and Ryeowook rolled over to face Kyuhyun, who groaned in pain, his voice hoarse.

            “You sound terrible,” Ryeowook said, yawning.

            “I’m sorry I woke you,” he croaked out, his eyes watering from the effort of speaking.

            “Quit apologizing, you didn’t do it on purpose,” Ryeowook said, reaching over and running his hand through Kyuhyun’s hair.  “But I think this time I’ll just get up and make you some tea for your throat.  I don’t think I’ll be able to fall back to sleep anyway.  Are you hungry?”

            “Yes, but my throat’s killing me,” he said, his voice a higher pitch than normal because he was losing it.

            “God, I hope you get your voice back before your next performance,” Ryeowook said, shaking his head.  “There’s no way you can sing like that.  My poor baby.”

            “Painkiller?”

            “I’ll bring you all sorts of stuff,” he promised, kissing Kyuhyun on the cheek before getting up.  “Just try to get some more rest and I’ll come back with some medicine and some hot tea for you.  Okay?”

            Kyuhyun nodded.  “Sorry I ruined our date.”

            “You didn’t ruin our date,” Ryeowook said.  “I mean, we’ll have to postpone it, but we’ll still find a day to ourselves again eventually.  It isn’t your fault you got sick again on our day off together.  It’s a bummer though.”

            “You should find someone else to hang out with.”

            “You won’t mind?” Ryeowook asked suspiciously.

            Kyuhyun shook his head.  “I’m just going to sleep all day anyway.”

            “We’ll see,” Ryeowook said, noncommittally.  “Now quit talking and try to rest.”

            Ryeowook left the room and headed for the kitchen to make Kyuhyun’s tea.  He was rather bummed out, but he tried to hide it as best he could.  As is, between his work schedule and Kyuhyun doing the musical, they had few days off together.  Usually some family event or gathering with the members or friends of theirs managed to sabotage any chance of having an entire day alone together, but nothing had come up and they’d been planning this day for such a long time.  Sure, it was a rather unstructured date.  They’d planned to hop in the car and drive out of town and just stop at whatever caught their interest.  And they had nothing to be home for until late Monday, which meant they could even spend the night away from home.  But that wasn’t going to happen now.  Kyuhyun was far too sick even to get out of bed.  Ryeowook was relieved that his husband at least had the next couple days to recuperate, but now he had nothing to do.

            When he was done with the tea, he forced Kyuhyun to wake back up and take his medicine and drink down his herbal tea before letting him pass back out again.  Then he went out to the living room and sat down on the sofa, the television, and surfed through the channels.  That got old rather fast and he eventually began playing with his phone and took a picture of his feet—he was still in his pajamas and hadn’t even bothered combing his hair yet, after all—and then posted it online with his sad plea.

            @ryeong9: Sunday Morning, today is really relaxingㅋ Who wants to go on a date with me?!~ Please come and bother me

            Thankfully, it did not take very long before Ryeowook received a reply from his former roommate and dear friend, who must have also been equally bored. 

            @AllRiseSilver“@ryeong9: Sunday Morning, today is really relaxingㅋ Who wants to go on a date with me?!~ Please come and bother me” Wash up and get ready

            “Yay!” Ryeowook cheered, jumping to his feet and turning off the television as he rushed to take a shower and get dressed.  Kyuhyun never even roused from his sleep once as Ryeowook was in and out of the bedroom getting ready to leave, so he felt less and less guilty about leaving his husband home alone, even if he was sick. 

            Finally, when he text Hyukjae to say that he was ready to leave, he walked over to Kyuhyun and sat down on the bed.  He bent down and kissed him on the forehead, but he didn’t have the heart to wake him up to tell him he was leaving, because he’d gotten so little sleep throughout the night.  If the cough suppressants were working, then he needed to be left alone.

            “I love you,” he said, almost too quietly to hear, and then he headed out for the day.

            Kyuhyun woke rested, which hadn’t happened in a number of days.  His body still ached, partially from being sick, partially from being in bed too long, but his throat didn’t hurt as bad as it had before.  Clearly, the worst of his illness was behind him, but he was not completely better yet and knowing that he didn’t have to get up for anything made him feel even better.  Except to piss.  He still had to do that, he realized, and he groaned as he sat up and eventually made his way to the bathroom. 

            When he was done, he decided to get up and get himself a drink of ice water.  Now he was in the mood for cold instead of hot and he headed to the kitchen in nothing but his flannel pants, stretching his arms as he walked down the hall.  His bare feet walked across the cool kitchen floor and he grabbed a glass and filled it with ice before bringing it over to the sink to get some water.  He then gulped down most of the glass and ended up refilling it before heading back out of the kitchen.  Then he glanced into the living room.

            No Ryeowook.

            Kyuhyun scratched his head and proceeded back down the hall and also peeked into the music room, which was also empty.  Then he returned to the bedroom and got back into bed.  He set the water on the nightstand and the little television beside him.  He picked up his phone and text Ryeowook, but received no reply.  Then he happened to go onto Twitter and saw both Ryeowook and Hyukjae’s tweets.

            Now it made sense.  Kyuhyun did tell him he should go out with someone else anyway, so he had.  And Kyuhyun was glad that his husband hadn’t sat around all day, but at the same time, he missed him a little too.  Now he was all alone in the house and his appetite had returned with a vengeance.  He would be forced to scavenge for food himself or to break down and call his mother, and he wasn’t sure which one sounded worse at the moment.  Kyuhyun pondered Ryeowook’s earlier tweet.  Lately they’d had a little online flirtation going.  First, it was him signing “I feel in love with you” and Ryeowook signing it back days later while on Kiss the Radio.  Then he spoke about being nervous about his first performance and Ryeowook responded back.  Now Kyuhyun felt that he ought to copy Ryeowook’s post as he watched television as well and he pulled the covers up and stuck his foot up.  Then he aimed his camera and