"...I'm going to go get you something. Be right back." 

He goes downstairs and finds the cherry Koolaid powder and comes back with a glass of something bright red and ridiculously sweet. "I brought you some — what did you call this, hummingbird —"

"You're a sweetheart," Sasha says, and takes the glass and takes a small sip and then just holds it. "I called it cherry juice and then you started calling me hummingbird so I started calling it hibiscus nectar." 

"Lilith cursed you."

"I remember," Sasha says, and takes another sip of his drink. Normally he likes it but right now it tastes like drinking cough syrup. 

"It looks like you're tired and pale and you don't have any appetite? And you were coughing all night."

Another sip, and another, and then he puts the glass down. "Was I? Sorry, Leo." 

Marlo moves the glass so it won't be knocked over and pulls Sasha closer. 

"I don't sleep," Leo says helpfully.

"Still," Sasha says, and he was going to continue the sentence but then he starts coughing again. 

"I don't think you should go to school today," Leo says. "I can stay home with you?"

"Yeah. That'd be good, thank you." 

"I'm going to go to class, one of us should." He kisses Sasha's forehead. "I love you, hummingbird. Please eat." 

Sasha ducks his head and smiles. "I'll try. I love you." 

"When Marlo gets back, I'll look up what you should do with humans who don't want to eat food so they don't get sick." He snuggles up with Sasha. "Eventually they'll have to give you some way of going to school that doesn't mean you have to leave the bed."

"They don't have to do that and in fact probably won't," Sasha says, but he snuggles up with Leo. 

"But you're going to be too tired to go to school."

"And they'll probably just fail me, because I won't have been in the hospital and it's not life threatening and I won't have a doctor's note." 

"...Or Marlo is going to take me to school and then I am going to sing at people and then they're going to find themselves with a compulsion to... give you a tutor? Whatever humans do for humans who are too sick to go to school."

"You're sweet." He pets Leo's head and back. 

"I got you cursed in the first place."

"Ex....plain?" 

"If you didn't know magic existed, Lilith would probably have ignored you forever."

"And Marlo would have kept ignoring his pain and thinking he was delusional for who knows how much longer, and I would still have met a vampire, and, and. I'm glad I have you." 

"I don't like that you got cursed doing something that was at least a little bit about trying to keep me safe. I'm supposed to try to keep you safe."

"...she cursed me for the high crime of saying something she didn't like. She was going to keep hurting people and hurting people and hurting people until we stopped her." Does Leo want cuddles. Probably the answer is yes but it never hurts to check.