The Fever Code Novels & Stories

He radiated heat like a furnace. I crossed the room quickly, ignoring his weak protest. "You're burning up." My hand instinctively touched his forehead. The heat was startling, almost painful against my palm. Fever. A high one. He tried to pull away, his movements clumsy, uncoordinated. "Just... tired. Stressed. Go back to bed."

“I’m used to seeing you acting impenetrable, so this feels…weird.” “Sorry, I put you in a weird position.” I snap back at him again. “Your back-to-back shot are entertaining though, but this is not the kind of reaction I wanted.” He says calmly. I don’t understand what he is saying but I remain silent. His hand falls on my forehead, feeling my skin and despite my aversion, I lean into his touch. “You’re developing a fever, you need to get out of your wet clothes.” He says gently. Fever…

“Eli has a fever.” Every thought inside my head disappears instantly I stand so quickly my chair nearly tips backward. “What do you mean he has a fever,” I ask panic already rising into my chest. “It started about an hour ago,” Victor explains steadily. “The pediatrician already checked him and believes it is likely viral but his temperature keeps climbing.” The room around me starts feeling too small. “How high.” “Lena—” “How high,” I repeat shakily. “One hundred and three.” Fear crashes through me so violently that my vision blurs for a second I am already grabbing my bag before my father finishes speaking. “I am coming home right now.”

Perhaps it was the rain, but in the middle of the night, Kylie woke up feeling unusually dizzy and lightheaded. Her forehead was burning hot to the touch. She struggled to sit up, her body heavy and weak. Her hands fumbled as she reached for the thermometer. A sudden fever—38.8 ℃. Thankfully, there was still half a bottle of fever medicine in the cabinet. Kylie didn't care if it was expired; she swallowed a pill without a second thought.

-00- Letha tried to strengthen her heart which was crushed. But this was the only way she could do it for Hill. The boy had a high fever two days ago. When she went to the doctor, the doctor only said that Hill had the seasonal fever which is so common in LA in the summer. The high temperature made Hill's tinny body sometimes unable to adjust to it, so that in the end he fell ill and caught a fever. There is nothing Letha need to worry about. The pain problem was well handled by doctor who had also given Hill a medicine to drink.

“What do you want, Mr. Fergerson?” Caleb looked up at her dazedly, thinking he was hallucinating her presence. Then, he reached out and wrapped his arms around Penny’s waist. “Don’t kick me out.” Penny tried pushing him away, but he did not budge an inch. It was then she realized Caleb was running a high fever. She placed a hand against his forehead and hurriedly asked Lucy to bring her some fever reducers. “You two, summon a doctor. He’s running a fever.” Caleb wrapped his arms around her waist, and he shut his eyes when he realized she was not going to push him away anymore.

Albert said. He moved forward and touched her forehead, seeing that her fever was gone he let out a relieved sigh. She suddenly developed a high fever yesterday at night and he was worried that it might be dangerous to her health. Knowing that the fever was gone, he was assured. Seeing him come close and touch her forehead, Velma shrunk in the covers. "What are you doing." She asked, her voice panicking. "I'm just checking if your fever is gone. You suddenly developed a high fever of 41°C and I was worried. But it is gone. You should clean up and come out." Albert said and turned around to leave the room.

“Hunter, Kayden is moaning, laying on the floor, how can I say, I don’t know how to say it right, he came back to normal.” Hunter is quick. “Ah! Got it, that’s great, let’s see how he is.” Hunter gets to the living room and crouches beside Kayden, he’s sweating, his lips are dry, he’s mumbling some words. I put my hand on his forehead and confirm what I was suspicious of, Kayden is burning in fever. “Hunter, he has a fever, it seems high, do you have a thermometer?” He goes to the bathroom and gets the thermometer in the first aid kit.

"Don't you want to feel what a fever of 101 degrees Fahrenheit is like?" Zara tried what it felt like to kick the big boss of Azure Cloud Group. Yosef was still sick with a fever, and when she kicked him in the leg, he did not feel like joking anymore. He just kissed her again for a little while before going back to her bed. He did not want to go to the hospital, so Zara had him take some fever medicine from her first aid kit. Luckily, it worked, and his temperature went down to 99 degrees Fahrenheit.

“How do you feel? Tell me, I can give you some relief.” “Eden, please—I just need to sleep a little, I will be fine.” I have never seen him so helpless and vulnerable, his eyes remained shut and he tucked the comforters up to his neck. “Do you feel pain anywhere?” I asked curiously, and he shook his head, but the way he winces proves otherwise, running back to the wardrobe, I went to get my thermometer. And I almost gagged when the thermometer was reading a flipping 41 degrees, he needs immediate medical assistance, if he leaves this fever unattended to, then he risks having an organ failure.