He just continued to rub his temples and stare at the clock. As of now…he had five hours, thirty-two minutes and seventeen seconds left of work. His head was throbbing and he felt ill. Ryo was off chit chatting with other employees and deep down he had to say he was grateful for it. Yeah he loved the guy and all but silence…beautiful silence.

"Ok, fuck this I need a Tylenol…" Getting up he expected his legs to be in working order but he stumbled slightly and soon fell to his hands and knees onto the floor. Already he felt breathless and he didn't know why. But he peaked his head out a bit and looked left then right. "Good…no one saw that…" He did have a small reputation to uphold. Putting one hand no the corner of his desk, Dee heaved himself up from the floor. "Okay…cabinet…down hall. Not hard…not hard at all." He ran a free hand through his dark hair. He felt pretty warm. That's when the shrill shriek caused him to shudder and had his right arm not been used to keep him from falling again he would have turned around right then and backhanded the boy. He was NOT in the mood for him right now. JJ made his appearance known and stood in front of Dee, about to hug him until he realized that something was wrong with his dark haired love.

"Dee…you don't look to good…" Dee growled.

"Thank you CAPITAN OBVIOUS!" The yell had managed to chase of the purple haired boy and soon Dee just sat again… "If I fall out there, Ryo will see and he'll worry…" He flipped through a few papers but the lines kept jumping around. He put his head in his hand and sighed, hearing JJs' oh not so loved voice again. Except this time it was quiet, considerate almost.

"Dee…I brought you some Tylenol and water, I'm taking it that's what you were going for…" Dee looked up but soon graciously took the chalked filled substance and down it and the water so fast he was panting but hand back the glass and did, for once offer JJ a smile…

"Thanks…I needed that…"

"You look like shit; you need to go home…" Dee ignored that and went back to flipping through papers. "You'll get another headache doing that…."

"Huh?"

"I'm just saying from experience…"

"Oh...okay, but don't worry. I'll be fine…." JJ nodded and went on about his business as did Dee and Ryo came by a few times that day asking if he was okay….As did many people but god was he glad when the end of the day came…Getting up carefully this time he slipped on his jacket and made sure to always have a wall near by while walking out of the office building. He blinked a few times when he was outside, lights going blurry and he leaned against the wall of the building. Soon collapsing and coughing. Nobody stopped to help him; you just didn't do that…not in New York at least. When he fell back, he fell into someone's arms and it wasn't Ryo.

"J…J"

((TBC))