COLD AND SNEEZES

It's been quite a while since Sansa has come out of her little space. She has had all her shots a couple of weeks ago and hasn't come out of her head space since. It's 4 am in the morning and I am sitting with my baby in my laps trying to get her to fall asleep. She has a severe cold and she woke up crying in the in the middle of the night saying "she can't breathe" and therefore will die. I had to convince her that she can still breathe through her mouth even if her nose is blocked to calm her down. But she is in pain. Penny came back yesterday morning and both of them spend the day not listening to one thing I had to say. They ate ice creams and donuts and waffles all day long, exchanged gifts and played with Oly, missed nap times and did not eat one thing healthy. Both of them were even too preoccupied to have a bath.

Sansa groans pulling me out of my reverie.

"Shhh... It's Okay doll. Daddy's here." I rub her back and hug her tighter. She is wrapped in a blanket. She is quiet for about 6-7 minutes before she starts off again. This is what I have been doing for the past hour, ever since she came back to my room crying and unable to breathe.

Also she has been sneezing continuously and complaining of a sore throat. I get her a bottle of lukewarm water to drink to ease the pain in her throat.

A couple of hours later...

It's a little over 9. Penny wakes up to find me trying to soothe a very cranky baby. I try to feed her milk and she throws the bottle away. I hate it the most when she does this. I hate seeing her throw things around and normally I would've spanked her but right now she is in no state to get spanked. I try to keep my cool.

"Oh gosh...!! It's all my fault. I should've listened to you yesterday!" she tells me looking all guilty and sniffling. She has cold too. How many ice creams did they have?

"No Penny fault." Sansa says despite herself.

"I think she has the flu." I tell Penny, a little mad at her.

Sansa hears this and starts crying all over again.

"Hushhhh... Don't cry baby... You'll fall sick..." I hug her tighter." It’s Okay. You'll be fine." I cajole.

"Manuela, get her another bottle please and clean the mess too." I tell Manuela who is there with me for an hour now trying to take care of Sansa.

Penny looks so guilty.

"Come to me baby. Let daddy get up for a bit. I'll feed you the bottle." Penny says.

Sansa shakes her head and snuggles onto me tighter.

"Let’s skip milk and drink hot chocolate. What say baby? “I ask her.

She looks at me trying to decide whether to say a yes or a no when my phone rings. It's Gus. I groan.

"Yes? It better be important." I tell him after pick I up the phone.

We have been torturing our captive in the basement for days now. He wants to know if we can kill him yet.

"Nope. Don't do that yet." I tell him and disconnect concentrating on the squirmy little baby in my arms again.

Penny comes with a bottle of hot chocolate. I did not even realise she had gone to fetch her bottle.

Sansa refuses to drink and she goes on crying and throwing all her stuffies. We are surrounded by at least 50 of them which she is picking up and throwing, the ones in the reach of her hands obviously.

I haven't seen her cranky ever. I sigh not knowing what to do.

"Let’s clean you up. You want to have a warm bubble bath? We can use the bath bombs Penny got you!" I tell.

Sansa just shakes her head and hides her face in the croon of my neck.

I groan. I have been trying my doctor's phone for quite some time now and he refuses to answer it. I want to kill him now.

Suddenly Penny sneezes too. I am staring at her. Sansa looks at her too, all red nose and watery eyed.

"Now, both of you. I suggest you listen to each word I say very carefully and follow it unless you want to be spanked." I tell them solemnly. I have spanked Penny once on her tights clad bottom right after our family died in the crash. She was acting up. But that was the only time I had needed to and we never spoke about it after. It was embarrassing for us also because she is an year older to me.

Penny hugs me too.

I pet and kiss her head.

I spoke to my doctor over the phone, the old man that both the women don't approve of much and made my staff get the medicine.

I grab the bottle of liquid, put a spoonful in front of Penny's mouth who has it and then makes a face.

"This is nasty." she comments.

Oly wags his tail, sitting on the floor and looking at all of us with a mundane interest.

"Come on, one more." I fill another spoonful and Penny has it.

"Your turn, baby girl." I tell Sansa who is still in my laps and hugging onto me tight like a monkey."

I put a spoonful in front of her mouth and she hides her face.

"Sansa, come on baby. This will make you feel better" I coo. She opens her mouth and has the medicine and spits it all out.

I take a couple of deep breaths trying to hold onto my last shred of patience. Penny looks at me and cringes. She knows the look rather well.

"Sansa darling, have the meds. It will make you feel so much better. I do feel better already." Penny says as I put another spoonful in front of her mouth. She throws the spoon again. This time on Oly who gets up and runs outside. "That is it! Enough!!" I shout!