It was already noon the next day and Luther wondered where Zeke was that he wasn't at the ramps. Usually they never slept in til noon unless they had a late night but still, Zeke was never one to oversleep wich was rare compared to Luther.
"You guys sure haven't seen Zeke?" Luther asked and he only got anegative answer back from his ramp mates, he had tried texting Zeke but never got a reply and that already freaked him out since Zeke always texted or called back.
The sudden though of Zeke gone missing like the last time ore ven worse hit him hard and he dashed as fast as he could on his board to Zeke's house. Knocking on the door he got no reply and assumed there was no one home so he still opened the door and ventured in anyway.
Running upstairs he started calling Zeke's name aloud and got no response but that was until he managed to open Zeke's bedroom door and found him in bed. All the worried aside and Luther sighed in relief.
"Thank god you're here, bro!. I was looking for you everywhere, i got worried you know?" Luther rambled as he aproached Zeke on the bed "I though maybe you went missing again or you were kidnapped or something, i juste ven want to think about it i'm just glad you…" Luther kept going but stopped when he stood by Zeke's bed and saw him wriggling about and shaking violently.
"Zeke?... Z, whats wrong?" He mumbled kneeling down on the floor next to the bed.
Zeke kept shaking and Luther could see he was very pale, so pale in fact, that in all these years after seeing hime very single day, he's never seen him this pale and that looked wrong.
"I… I-I feel… weird" Zeke mumbled with a shaky voice as his body kept jerking involuntarily.
"Oh no, Zeke!. What's going on?. How do you feel?.. Uhm, do you want me to get you wáter?. Something toe at?. A bucket?" Luther asked as he kept running around Zeke's room looking for something but not knowing what exactly.
"I, I'm just… so cold" Zeke mumbled closing his eyes and still shaking. Luther wondered how could he be cold having such a nice weather outside.
"I'll bring blankets, just wait here!" Luther said stupidly but not surprising and wondered about Zeke's room looking for more blankets until he found 2, throwing both over Zeke's body and tucking him further in.
"Is it.. ok now?" Luther asked nervously, he didn't know how to deal int his situations and never the less when the person he probably have come to care about the most was shaking so violently and looked almost dead.
Zeke mumbled something Luther couldn't understand and paced the room quickly from side to side, nervously thinking of what to do seeing as Zeke's shaking didn't stop at all after a small time but then he remembered this documentary he had seen last night on tv and how to warm people up int he worst extreme situations. The re was this guy, he remembered, that fell in the cold waters of a frozen lake whilst he was ice skating with his friends and one of them had saved his life by sharing body heat with him all the way to the hospital until they arrived.
So when it downed on Luther, he had no better idea then doing the same, so he jumped quickly into Zeke's bed and under the covers. Usually Zeke would've looked at him with a puzzled expression on his face but right now that was probably the last thing he could think of.
Luther brough Zeke closer and wrapped his arms around him, rubbing them quickly.
"Let's share body heat. You'll be fine, i promise" Luther mumbled, their faces inches apart as he kept rubbing Zeke's back, shoulders and arms and Zeke kept shuddering, still shaking but maybe a little bit less tan a few minutes ago.
"Is it working?. Is it better like this?" Luther asked with concern on his voice as he saw no big changes on Zeke's behaviour.
"Just a bit… i'm still… cold" Zeke said and shook a Little more violently and closed his eyes shut, not being able to control it and Luther felt hurt and helpless.
He did the best he could think of and got on top of Zeke who was surprised a bit more by this but never voiced it.
Luther hugged his best friend tightly as he covered his body with his, pulling the 4 layers of covers and 2 sheets on top of their heads and covering htier bodies fully. Zeke didn't shake as much as before though he still shuddered and Luther rubbed his sides and brought the covers tight around their bodies, bringing his hand in the back of Zeke's neck and nuzzling his face in the crook of his neck.
"You'll be fine.. it's ok" Luther whispered against Zeke's shoulder who slowly stopped shaking and was shivering a bit from time to time.
In other times, this would've been awkward but right now, all that mattered was that Zeke should be fine and comforted and who better for that than Luther?.
And this, after all, was the power their friendship had.