You're leaving? (A 1x1 with Lexxy)

[Lexus]

Clay smiled and wrapped his other free arm around her and kissed the top of her head before pulling the covers over the two of them and falling asleep fast. He was exhausted.

 

[isax]

Ashley fell asleep fast too. She loved being in bed with Clay. She felt so safe. The next morning she woke up late. She hate work but not till later. She stayed asleep longer then usual. She was catching up on her sleep that her body desired.

 

[Lexus]

Clay was asleep for a long while too but when he awoke it wasn't pleasant. He awoke because a violent coughing fit and his throat began to feel scratchy. He didn't want to wake her but he couldn't control it.

 

[isax]

When Ashley heard the coughing, she got up and looked at Clay with worry. She sat up and helped him sit up and rubbed his back. "What's wrong love?" She asked him with such worry. This was usually her, not Clay.

 

[Lexus]

When he finally got it to stop he looked at her and saw what she was thinking. "it's not what you think Ash," he says starting to feel the heat radiate off of him. "I probably just caught something." He reassures her getting up from the bed.

 

[isax]

Ashley nodded and smiled. "Then you need to rest. I'll go get you some medicine." She told him and pushed him back down on the bed. "Rest Clay, you are very hot. You're running a fever." She added and walked to the bathroom to look for medicine

 

[Lexus]

Clay nodded not even wanting to fight her. He had things to do but he felt horrible and it wasn't worth fighting over. Laying in the bed he felt his head began to pound. He felt miserable.

 

[isax]

Ashley brought back the cough and cold medicine along with a thermometer. "Okay, take some of this." She told him as she poured some of the liquid for him then said, "now let me see what your temperature is." She then held the thermometer out for him.

 

[Lexus]

Clay took the liquid from her and swallowed it. His face twisted for a few moments. He set the cup on the night table before he started to cough again.

 

[isax]

Ashley looked at Clay and sighed. "It should kick in now. Just relax love." She told him and kissed him gently then went to go do the laundry. She was trying to keep herself busy.

 

[Lexus]

Clay smiled faintly towards her as he watched her leave. Eventually the medicine did take effect and he drifted off for awhile but when he awoke he looked around confused until he saw her walk back in the room he smiled.

 

[isax]

Ashley smiled at her husband and began to hang their clothes. "How ya feelin'?" She asked him and continued to hang their clothes.

 

[Lexus]

Clay shrugged, "a little better I guess." He sat up and rubbed his eyes. He got out of the bed and then started to help her. When she tried to push him away he shook his head.

 

[isax]

Ashley sighed and looked at her husband. "You should be resting Clay Waters." She told him and began to push him out if their closet and to the bed.

 

[Lexus]

Clay grabbed her hands right in his and smiled with a light laugh. "I'll be fine, it's just a cold." He reassures her before walking off to the bathroom to shower.

 

[isax]

Ashley sighed and shook her head at her husband and then began to finish up with their room then went to clean the kids playroom.

 

[Lexus]

After his shower Clay went into the kitchen and poured himself some juice before he took a cough drop for his throat, he still felt the fever but knee it would fade if he worked it off. Putting on his jacket he went outside.

 

[isax]

When Ashley heard the alarm system say back door open she sighed and shook her head. She put on her jacket and then got a blanket. She walked out and put the blanket over her. "Clay Waters you need to stay inside."

 

[Lexus]

Clay turned to her putting aside what he was doing. He let out a defeated sigh when he saw her eyes, they were soft and concerned as if to plead him to come back inside. He held out his hands in the air and spoke. "Okay, okay, take me easy copper." He says with a laugh smiling towards her.

 

[isax]

Ashley laughed softly and shook her head then took his hands and walked back to their house. She took him upstairs and had him lay down. "I swear, you are not getting worse. I'm calling in again today."

 

[Lexus]

Clay held up his hand in protest and shook his head. "Ashley you can't do that, you've missed enough work as it is. I'll be fine, I promise." He smiled softly towards her and closed his eyes for a minute to try to get the headache to fade.

 

[isax]

"No I am. I have things to do here anyways. It's fine." She said and got her phone then went and called the school. It was alright if she called in sick. She would be okay. Yeah she's missed a lot but it's okay.

 

[Lexus]

Clay let out a defeated sigh and closed his eyes again. He knew if his wife wasn't careful they would let her go because of how absent she had grown. When she first started you couldn't pull her away from that place not to mention it almost killed her being there. He needed to talk to her to make sure she was alright. "Ashley, come here." He says patting the spot beside him.

 

[isax]

Ashley looked over at her husband and blinked. She sat in the spot next to him and smiled. "What's wrong?" She asked him. She could tell he wanted to talk about something.

 

[Lexus]

"Nothing's wrong, not with me anyway." He says reaching for her hand. He didn't want her too close because he didn't want her to catch his cold. "It's just, I'm starting to wonder if you're not happy with your career anymore and I want you to be happy." At his last words he smiled remembering how happy she had been when he eased dropped on her studying in Spain. She seemed so engrossed in what she was doing and when she first became a teacher every single one of her students loved her because she tried her best to reach out to them on a personal level and now it seemed she always found ways to say she was needed here.