there is so much unintentional humor in sick fics in like, s1 tma era because its really obvious no one thinks the characters are good enough friends to actually... check up on one another (which is fair!) which means that the only option left is for them to show up at work sick which they have literally no motivation to do especially since the vast majority of their job can be done from home, which means they can just like, nap in between assignments, and theyre not paid by the hour. if you really want to make martin be like “i had to come in, jon wouldn’t approve if i took a day off” (which is def way more harsh than jon canonically was) you HAVE to have tim or sasha go “okay, but you know what else jon isn’t going to approve of? germs on his statements”