mekachu04 | 2025-02-01

Feveruary [2025] by Mekachu04
Rating: Teen And Up
Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Eustass Kidd & his mom Brichtrede
Characters: Brichtrede (Eustass Kidd's mom - noncanon), Eustass Kidd
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Baterilla aftermath, Background deaths, injury and death discussions, De-aging, Aged Down!Kidd, Kutsukku, Character Deaths, some more vague and unconfirmed, Post-Wano Arc (One Piece), Kidd is 8 and 23 at the start, Unreliable Narrator, kidd has terrible dreams|nightmares, Burn injuries

Summary: He's not sure why it feels like he's still asleep, even long after he's woken up, tiny child body curled up under smelly blankets in a dingy back alley. He wonders where Killer wandered off to this early, his friend's body heat sorely missed in the dreary summer rain of Kutzk. The air is wet and cold and he reaches up to pull the blanket higher, water beading and rolling down the wool as he huddles under it. It keeps trying to slip off his left shoulder, the stub of his arm aching, partially the phantom pain that regularly haunts him, and then something deeper driven by the bleak weather.

Things are not what they seem when Kidd wakes up in the wrong place, the wrong time.

“How did you end up like this?”	“Couldn’t you keep your cold to yourself.”	Guiding sickie back to bed	“Our date can wait! You’re far more important.”
Burning Up then Freezing Cold	Face Masks	“Is it me or is it really warm in here?”	“You need a tissue?”
Caught in the Rain	“You’re safe, it was just a dream.”	“I know you want to help but you’re only making things worse.”	“Don’t you think you should stay home today?”
Herbal Remedy	“You’re burning up!”	Delirious	Standing Vigil
“Could you just hold me?”	Role Reversal – Medic to Sickie	“I know ice cream is good for sore throats but that’s way too much!”	“You sure I’m sick? Because I feel fine.”
Spoon-Feeding	“I wouldn’t even trust you to boil tea in your condition!”	Lost Voice/Strep Throat	Vacation Disaster
“I’m still not used to being taken care of.”	Falling asleep in the wrong place	From better to worse	“Well, it sounds to me like you need a little bit of TLC.”

Using the Library of Ohara's Timeline for this one, just in case someone wants to know where i'm getting dates from

Kidd & Killer go by different names sometimes. Names in general will be going with the [Given] [Middle] [Family] order for this one, letting you know in advance to avoid potential confusion later

South Blue is going by southern hemisphere seasons, just fyi.

a massive thank you to my dearest unnamed friend who has been a wonderful sounding board over on discord & helping me wrangle ideas over the last few months, looking over early drafts to tell me what needs to be fleshed out more, and in general being the best beta ever, even if that was never their intent. They also completely derailed my plans for this story right out of the gate because between the two of us, Brichtrede has become a fully fleshed out lady, and I broke their heart with day one and had to make it up to them. In short - this one's for you! <3

"The world's happy to pretend we don't exist as anything more than their waste dump, until some other island upsets them, and they take it out on us because we don't have a seat at their stupid table. They make us sick, steal us kids, murder our parents, burn down our homes. The world shifts, something changes, and we suddenly we exist again, only to be pillaged and exploited. Fodder for someone else's story." - Victoria, S.Bound Heart 1509

https://www.tumblr.com/feveruary/

Alternates:
- Forced to work
- Cool wash cloth
- "I don't get sick!"
- Sneezing Fit