I've been wanting to write this for a long time it's such an awesome idea.

Zero must hate me lol I stick so much angst on him.

Disclaimer: I don't own Vampire Knight...really...

Don't Look Away For A Second
Chapter 1 Breathless

This is something I'd never believe
Would happen
After all that's been and gone
I'd thought I'd finally have a reprieve
No it looks like I was wrong...

Zero gasped and leaned against a tree for support.

That damn Vampire...he'd been running after Aidou for the last ten minutes and he was already out of breath. He didn't know what was wrong with him but he could normally run for half and hour at least before he felt this damn way...like his heart was about to burst from his chest it was pumping so fast.

Suddenly he started coughing and fell to his knees.

"Urgh..." he groaned as he threw up what little he still had in his stomach after the last time he'd tried to use the tablets the night before.

"Zero?" Yuuki cried out worriedly as she caught up to him and Artemis fell from her hand in shock "Zero! What's wrong?" she rushed to his side.

Now he was coughing but blood as well, his normally snow white skin darkened to a pasty grey...he'd looked like that for the last couple of weeks and she'd just thought it was the bloodlust and offered to let him feed from her but he'd refused and told her he was fine.

She held him in her arms, his eyes were closed and his head lolled to the side "Zero come on wake up wake up" she said frantically as she started to panic and shook him slightly.

"...I'm...not...unconscious...moron" he moaned.

"Come on you have to drink Zero you're sick" Yuuki told him sternly holding her wrist out close to his lips.

"No..." he whispered turning his head away his body rattled by hacking coughs his eyes scrunched up in pain so he didn't see when she cut herself and pressed her bloodied wrist onto his mouth.

Unconsciously he suckled on her bleeding flesh.

"Yuuki what are you doing?" she heard Kaname ask from behind her "I smelt blood...what happened to Kiryuu?" he knelt down beside her observing the hunter's sickly appearance.

"Zero was chasing Aidou-sempai and I went after him...I thought the way Zero's been lately he might kill him but when I caught up with him he was coughing up blood" she tried to explain as best she could, Kaname quickly took off his jacket and put it over her shoulders.

"You're shaking Yuuki" he stated taking her wrist away from Zero's mouth "you'll go into shock if you keep going"

"I don't care I have to help Zero!" Yuuki yelled hysterically.

"And it won't help Kiryuu if you're dead, feeding him your blood won't do anything except make you sick as well" he ordered her picking up Zero in his arms. "Yuuki I need you to get on my back, you can't walk all the way back in your condition and I'm not leaving you here"

"Okay" she replied groggily her mind too foggy to argue anymore climbing on his back clinging onto his shoulders with her arms wrapped around Kaname's neck and her legs around his waist almost like a monkey holding on for dear life as he sped back towards the infirmary.

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Cross sat in the chair between his dear son and daughter's beds.

Yuuki would be fine after some rest and fluids.

It was Zero he was worried about; Vampires didn't normally get sick so the first thing that came to mind was poison; really Zero didn't exactly make any friends of the other students from either dorm but no one could possibly want to kill him could they.

"Chairman Cross?" the nurse asked calling him over to a more private area.

Kaien thought it was kind of stupid seeing as Kaname had gone back to the Moon Dorm to get the Night Class under control and both Yuuki and Zero were out for the count leaving them the only ones in the room.

"What is it?" he inquired.

"Yuuki-chan is going to be okay just a little blood loss and shock" she informed him "Zero I'm afraid may need more help than he can receive here".

"He needs to go to a hospital, is that what you're saying?" Cross said running his hand through his long dark blonde hair.

"Yes he's sick and has been for some months now by the look of it" she advised.

"No no he can't be sick he's a Vampire he'd be immune to human diseases, he's never been sick as long as I've known him" he denied what she was trying to tell him.

"I know that but by the symptoms he's shown if he were human I'd say he had cancer" the nurse tried to tell him frustratedly.

"But you're not sure..." Cross argued with his arms wrapped around his chest.

"I'm just a school nurse sure but would you rather it be that someone is trying to kill him" she commented sarcastically.

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When Zero finally woke up he thought he hadn't felt so tired in all his short life. His limbs felt like concrete hand been poured into his veins.

He could feel he was lying in a bed but he couldn't tell where. The rough cotton sheets rubbed against his finger tips when he moved them and he could here the beeping of machines to his left.

"Zero? Are you awake?" someone asked him their voice floating through his groggy head like he was listening to them underwater.

He opened his violet eyes tiredly and looked around.

TBC