A/N Italicized and bolded words are part of Teito's dream, and words that are only in italicized are what they are thinking.

I don't own 07 ghost.

Chapter 12

It came out of nowhere and it hit him hard. Teito fell to his knees, and blood was going everywhere because he was coughing. Hakuren was the one that was in the library with him, he was at the other end of the row of shelves when he saw Teito fall.

Curse it all, why did it have to happen when Frau was out getting things for diner, Hakuren thought.

He managed to pick Teito up, even though he was much lighter than Hakuren was, it didn't help that Teito was coughing.

Hakuren made it up the stairs to Teito's room, he placed his friend on his bed and went to the bathroom cupboard and opened it. He managed to find the boy's medicine, though it wasn't very hard see as it was the only medicine bottle that was in there.

He filled a cup with water and put the right amount of medicine into the cup, he walked back to his friend who was still coughing in his bed.

Hakuren pressed the cup to his friend's bloody lips, encouraging him to sip the liquid slowly from the cup.

After Teito finished it he covered his mouth as he gave one last cough, before he passed out.

"At least I can give him his medicine so that he can stop coughing," Hakuren said to no one in particular.

When Frau got home he knew that something had happened.

"Hakuren, Teito, what happened while I was away," Frau called.

Hakuren came running out of Teito's room.

"I don't mean to be rude but can you please keep your voice down," Hakuren hissed at him.

"Oh, sorry," Frau said.

"Wait, why are we keeping our voices down," Frau asked Hakuren.

"Because Teito had another attack," Hakuren told the older man.

Frau dropped everything and ran up the stairs to Teito's room.

When he got to the room he found Teito standing in the doorway to his room, he almost knocked the shorter of them over when he arrived at the room.

"Are you okay," Frau asked as he steadied Teito as he almost fell over onto the floor. There was still blood on his face.

"I think so," Teito answered.

"Come on let's get you cleaned up," Frau said as he walked the boy to the bathroom, he got a washcloth wet and started to clean Teito's face.

It only took a minute for Frau to clean Teito's face. After he was done, he kissed Teito on his mouth and then after a second he pulled away and smiled at him. Teito smiled back at him, after that he got up and took a couple steps to the doorway of the bathroom and then suddenly stopped, he turned to face Frau, retched his hand out to the older man as if wanting him to take it, and then he turned back and started to violently cough.

Frau hurried over to Teito, by the time he reached him, he was already on the floor coughing up blood again. According to Hakuren he had already had one attack today, and know this would be the second time in one day. Making that two attacks in total not counting the one that he had when he had woken up in the infirmary.

Frau turned around and got the medicine from the cabinet in the bathroom grabbed a cup and filled it with water and put the medicine in it. Then he walked to the bedside table placed the cup on it and hurried back to where Teito was still coughing up blood.

"Up we come,"Frau told Teito as he picked him up off the floor of the bathroom and cared him to his bed.

"Can I ask you something?" Frau asked.

" What is it," Teito asked.

"Why were you standing in the doorway of your room when I got home?" Frau asked.

"Because I wanted to say welcome back," Teito told the older man.

"That's very kind of you," Frau said.

"Now that you're done asking questions, I have one to ask you." Teito said

"Okay, ask away," Frau answered

In response to that Teito smiled, before he went into another coughing fit.

"Don't push yourself so much," Frau said with a small frown on his face.

"I know I will try not to, over do it," Teito said.

"Then the question that I want to ask you is, can you stay here with me, just in case I have another attack?" Teito asked Frau.

"Of course I will, I'll always be here." Frau said with a smile.

"Now you need to take your medicine," Frau said.

"I know, but first can you please let Hakuren know." Teito asked.

"You see has been looking after me, and I know that he's tired even though he tries to hide it, I can tell." Teito said.

"Okay i'll go and tell him but you have to take your medicine when I get back," Frau said.

"Okay I will," Teito said.

"Hakuren," Frau called out to his other friend.

"Oh hi." Hakuren said to the other man.

"Teito wanted me to tell you that i'm going to be watching over him tonight, so that you can get some rest." Frau said.

"Tell him thanks for me, I have really been sleepy lately." Hakuren said.

"I will let him know that," Frau said.

When Frau got back to the room he had Teito take his medicine.