Saku
Saku sniffled slightly and curled up in his bed, feeling sorry for himself. His throat hurt and his nose was all stuffed up. He knuckled a hand across his eyes, trying hard not to cry. He didn't want to wake Dad up. But he felt so yuck...
He coughed quietly, trying to smother it in the pillow under his head. Small shoulders shook as he started to cough harder. The tickles in his throat subsided after a bit, and Saku tried to go to sleep. He was so tired...
And everything hurt. His bones felt all achey. Like they weren't quite put together properly. Ends rubbing up against each other all wrong. Scratchy eyes and he wanted mama. He wanted mama now.
He shifted into cat to see if that felt any better, and immediately felt worse as his tear ducts overflowed. He scrubbed at them with his paw, and it came away sticky with something yuck. He whimpered slightly, then sneezed. Once the sneezes started, they didn't stop for quite a while but seeing as how he was only kitten sized they didn't disturb Zac. He sat there after they had stopped, feeling infintely worse.
Human again, Saku wiped his face clean on a corner of the blanket and started shivering. He felt so cold... He dragged all the covers up and wrapped them around him in an effort to keep warm. After a while, the shivers abated and the kitten dropped uneasily into sleep. Every so often, he'd cough or sneeze in his sleep but he didn't wake again.