"Kanda?"

Kanda's body was somewhere in limbo. His mind couldn't focus, but something told him that today's session was off. His drowsy eyelids would not open, or, maybe they were, but he couldn't tell. His body, was beyond pain. Everything hurt, his mouth was dry, and his stomach churned.

Kanda thought he felt himself move, and he didn't bother to struggle. In his mind, things would always get worse. However, he couldn't place the large thuds and bangs he had heard in the room at all. He didn't want to make sense of it…………….He just wished……….

No…………

No……………

He didn't want to………

He didn't want to die. Did he?

"Oh God, Yu, please!" Kanda heard the voice again, shill and chocking, his mild irritation coming back. Was he already dead? If so, what was that Baka doing here? Kanda struggled to contemplate this with his high fever and decaying body systems. Ah, that wasn't Tyki……..Kanda's dreary mind put together, and he couldn't figure out why, but this was good.

"Yu, don't make me, please, please, don't make me remember this, Yu!" Gah, that voice. All he wanted to do was sleep. He thought about moving his arm to make it go away, but when he did, his body flared with pain, acid spots of burning withered down his entire body, and he wanted to scream. Just like he had wanted to scream for the past three weeks from hell. He just wanted it to be over. But his arm had moved? Was he free? Kanda's mind was clouded with a dark fog, and he couldn't seem to get things. The tendrils kept…………slipping out.

"Kanda, please, please don't die. Come on Yu!" Something wet now on Kanda's face. What? Why was it raining? Kanda's sensing were trying to come together, and what he gathered from the burning in his lower limbs, he was not on the table anymore. But where? Kanda's eye lids managed to flutter, once, twice. His eyes were glossy, and ill focused. More water spattered on his face, and some of it went into his mouth. Salt? Ugh.

Kanda's eyes only took in colors and what he saw……….red and green. Christmas? No, it couldn't be that. Christmas didn't cry. Christmas was happy………..happy………..not sad. Not sad………..crying……….Baka…………..LAVI! Kanda's mind was finally able to put together, and Kanda forced his broken jaw bone to move a little, giving into a wince of pain.

"L-la-Lavi…….." He managed to force out, in a croaked whisper, his throat parched along with the rest of his body. Lavi was here. Things were………..okay. Instead of the tears stopping, Kanda felt more fall on his face, and held back a groan as the arms wrapped around his body.

"Kanda! I'm………..WAAHHHHH!" Kanda would have rolled his eyes if he had the strength, and somewhere in the back of his mind he wondered what had happened to Tyki, but couldn't find the words to ask. The sobbing continued, but Kanda felt alright. In his mind anyway. His body was a mess of broken bones, massive cuts and bruises, and well, victimized.

"…..Sleepy………..Baka…………thanks…….." Kanda managed to say before once again the dark mistress of night swept all consciousness out of Kanda's body.

Lavi had to stop crying. But with Kanda passed out in his arms………….Lavi chocked back tears and searched around the room, loath to leave his lover alone. Tyki's body was somewhere in the rubble, and Lavi wanted to get out as soon as possible. And Kanda needed severe medical attention. Now.

Soon, he found a blanket, but could not find Kanda's clothes. His shaking hands grabbed Mugen off of the table, and he bent towards Kanda's unconscious form. As gently as he could, Lavi moved Kanda's broken body onto the blanket, and wrapped it around him, thanking god that it was warm out.

Kanda was heavy, but to Lavi, it didn't matter. His lover had suffered more than enough. Kanda needed attention as soon as possible, but Lavi would not risk staying in a hospital nearby. Lavi was curious to see if Kanda's body would heal faster, or if Tyki's actions had totally drained Kanda of that power. He didn't know.

Within minutes, Lavi was on the train with his wrapped bundle, and Kanda's breathing was a little easier if nothing else. His body still felt to hot to Lavi, and the man took off his coat and placed that on top of Kanda's body as well, in hopes that maybe Kanda could sweat out his fever. He didn't know what else to do. It would be hours before anything could be done. Lavi had sent the golem ahead with news, and people were standing by to help at the order. Now, all that was left was the train ride back.

Lavi sat in the seat and placed his elbows on his legs, and hung his head in his hands. What was he going to do now? He had no future outside of the bookmen. But Lavi was determined to make both of these work. Attachments were a liability, he knew that now. The only way to protect Kanda was to leave him. But now….Lavi took in the damaged body that had once been fair and strong. He had a lot of thinking to do.

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Amid the rubble downstairs, a crackling laugh split the room. Tyki stood out of the smashed rocks and staircase, popping a broken bone back into place with a torn but still gloved hand, his crazed laughter echoing around and around the room. He finally stopped and slowed his frenzied breathing, excited from the earlier fight, and still a little sore. Even for a Noah.

"Tyki-pon?" Tyki half turned to find the Earl perched on the steps, and Tyki's dark shade of skin paled a little.

"Earl-sama…….." The Earl merely shook his head and stood, coming over and resting a hand on his Noah's shoulder. Tyki fought not to flinch as the wide and smiling face turned towards Tyki with eerie slowness.

"Do you think we did it?" The Earl asked Tyki in his normal voice followed by a heart floating in the air by Tyki's head. However, the hand on the Noah's shoulder tightened, and Tyki fought back a cry as the Earl's hand drove into his broken shoulder with a certain zeal that said he just might be in the smallest bit of trouble.

"Yes, Earl, I think we've disturbed the bookmen. Now, the next generation will have a gap, and only we will have information about the 14th…………." Tyki left off, and then finally sank to his knees in agony as the Earl's hand pushed him down, that smile never leaving his face. Tyki let out a muffled cry of pain at his master's cruel attention, half also because the color of the earl's eyes darkened a shade.

"Oh my, Tyki, you need medical attention! How sad……" The Earl smiled, his eyes gleaming and that alone caused Tyki to shiver. Something had gone wrong…………shit. Oh yea, double shit.

"Come now Tyki-pon~" The Earl cooed, and Tyki stood to his feet rather warily, and lit a cigarette with his good hand, still staring at the Earl. His mission was done, but what about the rest of the Noah? He was taking it that all had not gone as well as he had hoped. Tyki was missing the obvious……..

"So where is the body of bookman junior, Tyki-pon?" Tyki froze, and the cigarette dropped hot ash onto his arm. He didn't notice.

Shit.

"Ah……Earl-sama……………….." Tyki could not find words, and watched with a horrid sinking feeling as the Earl started to search the rubble for the red haired exorcist's body. Not good…………Tyki had finally put two and two together. Yah for math skills!

"I, ah……was unable to obtain……..the body…….." Tyki finished, staring into the dirt, eyes closed.

Fuck.

Tyki let out a breath as he heard the Earl paused and then turned to face him. Tyki then let out a flinch as the Earl's gloved hand lay on his cheek, much the same way he had done with Kanda, not hours before. Life's full of little irony's like that, Tyki thought rather bitterly.

"Ah, well that is to bad Tyki. You'll have to be punished~" The Earl cooed, and Tyki let out another sigh. Hoo, boy. He merely bowed and gave the Earl a nod while feeling physically sick.

"Yes, Earl-sama."

Thanks for reviews, I think its only going to be, like, maybe five more chapters. I want to end it, but I'm not sure how…..thanks for reviews!