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"Blah" – talking

'Blah' – thinking

Change of place/time

Chapter 6

Kai awoke later that day still feeling really tired even though he had been sleeping for a good two hours. He looked down at the sleeping brunette lying next to him; his arm protectively around her waist, while his free hand held hers. He smiled at how peaceful she looked. He stared up at the plain ceiling, his eyes then wandering around the lilac painted room. The clock on her bedside table then caught his attention. Kai stared at the time for a moment; 4:55pm, feeling as though he should be doing something. It was then that it registered in his mind that he was going to be late if he didn't hurry up. He quickly got off the bed careful not to wake Hilary up, wrote her a quick note and left, hoping that he wouldn't be too long.

Hilary awoke a little while later, leaving her eyes closed for a little while, but opened them once she had realised there was no warmth next to her. She sat up and looked around the room wondering where Kai was. As Hilary moved her arm to get up she felt something against her bare arm and looked down at her lap. Sitting there was a piece of folded up paper. It read,

'Dear Hil,

Sorry that I had to leave without saying goodbye, I just remembered that I had an appointment today. I'm really sorry that I didn't tell you before; I guess it just slipped my mind as we were having such a great time together. I shouldn't be too long today.

Kai'

Hilary smiled as she read the note and placed onto her bedside table, before heading downstairs.

Once down there she got herself a cold drink and sat at the breakfast bar reading a magazine. Hilary looked at the clock a couple minutes later wondering when Kai had left, and when he was going to come back. She sighed and turned back to her magazine hoping that Kai would come back with good news.

After about twenty minutes she had finished reading the magazine, and was now sitting on the sofa flicking through the channels her mind on different things. Hilary stopped on an Anime she was fond of, luckily having only missed a few minutes of it. When it broke for adverts she quickly got up to get another drink. Hilary had to pass her front door on the way from the living room to the kitchen, and as she did movement outside her door caused her to stop and turn to look at it.

The brunette slowly walked towards her front door, and heard something or someone move again. Hilary stepped down into the genkan, quickly putting her shoes on so she could get closer to the door. She looked through the peephole and didn't see anything, but saw a figure off to the right of the porch. So she knelt down next to the door and pulled back the curtains which covered the small window next to it. She only uncovered it a little bit so that the person couldn't see her. She gasped at what she saw; it was Kai. The bluenette was leaning against the wall; arms crossed over his chest but it was loose and his arms seemed to snake around his waist a bit. He was head was turned slightly to the side, and he was completely still. The brunette was about to turn away. A gasp escaped her lips as she pulled back because the late afternoon sun had caught something travelling down Kai's cheek. Also noticing how they didn't smudge the triangles on his face. She guessed that's why he hadn't come in. Hilary then saw him stand up and wipe the tears away. Causing her to quickly drop the curtain and move away from the door, preparing herself for bad news. A dull knock soon reached her ears and she slowly turned the door knob revealing a calm and collected looking Kai, but she could feel something wasn't right.

"Hi," she greeted kissing him on the cheek.

"Hi," he almost whispered back. Hilary closed the door after he had come in, and followed him to the sofa.

"Kai are you okay?" Kai nodded and turned to look at her forcing a smile. Hilary smiled back, but bit her lip slightly when he turned away knowing that he was hurting on the inside. "…Kai, I'm really sorry but I saw you out on the porch crying, please tell me what's wrong," she admitted feeling her heart thudding in her chest. Kai turned to look at her surprised, but quickly turned away as if he was ashamed.

"…It's okay, I'm not mad. But Hilary what I'm going to tell you isn't going to be what you want to hear, and if you want to leave me then I understand okay?" he told her, causing her heartbeat to grow faster, but she still nodded.

"…Before I came back to Japan over seven months ago, I had been in Russia with Voltaire, unfortunately. I had been there but not to see him, I was visiting someone else. But he kept contacting me, telling me to come and see him. In the end I gave in just because I wanted him to leave me the hell alone…Since I didn't want to listen to him, and I wouldn't follow his wishes, he injected me with something. He told me it would make me change my mind about obeying him. I have no idea what it is, but I shrugged it off as he'd done stuff like that to me before and I'd been able to handle it…but I guess he finally found something that works. At first it did nothing and I thought that maybe he thought I would return to him and be given an antidote for nothing, as maybe he thought I would have been scared at what would have happened. So that's why I left and came to school here in Japan…But soon after the World Championships ended things started to happen to me and soon I didn't know how to handle it. So much as it pained me I asked a doctor to help me hoping that they could as then I wouldn't have to turn to Voltaire for help. Problem is the stuff he had injected me with didn't show up on any blood tests…not until recently and even then it's only small amounts, so the doctors can't get a good sample of it…I can't eat without vomiting afterwards, I always have a headache, my body aches, I can't sleep properly and when I manage to, it makes me even more tired than I already am, and now it's…it's…attacking my body. The doctors have no idea how to stop it," he told her, turning away from her at the end, blinking to try and stop the tears.

"Oh Kai I'm so sorry. Do you where it is attacking first?" she asked taking his hand while Kai shrugged.

"They don't know…the other day I went for a scan and from what they could see the lining of stomach and lungs were damaged quite badly. I went for a scan today as well, and the damage seems to have gotten worse, so that's how they've guessed about it attacking me. They also took some blood," he replied still not looking at her. Hilary just nodded not wanting her boyfriend to die. Kai got up, but stopped by Hilary not relinquishing her hold on his hand.

"Kai I still want to be with, no matter what happens. I want to help you through this, I want to be by your side every step of the way," she told him her tears finally falling. She then hugged him and Kai hugged her back.

"Thank you so much Hil, you don't know how much this means to me," he whispered his tears falling as well.

Kai then started to cough and got up running towards the bathroom, and coughed into the sink a bright red liquid splattering onto the white porcelain.

"Kai!" Hilary gasped as more tears fell down her face; he quickly rinsed out the sink and his mouth before following Hilary back to her room. Kai hugged her, wishing that she hadn't seen that.

"The doctors already know, and they know that both my stomach and lungs are being attacked, but they're trying to see which one is damaged more. They hoped it was my stomach and so do I," he told her. Hilary wiped her tears away before wiping his, and Kai kissed her on the cheek and she did the same back to him. They then hugged each other staying in that position for a little, taking comfort in the other one being there.

The brunette looked up at Kai and smiled, receiving a small one back. She could also see how tired he looked and lay down bringing him with her, they faced each other and Kai held her hand. Hilary caressed his cheek and he smiled slightly causing Hilary to, glad that he was smiling. She really hoped that Kai would be okay.

"I love you Hil," he whispered.

"I love you too Kai," she whispered back before kissing him on the cheek. They soon fell asleep again in each other's warm embrace.

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