A throbbing headache met Sebastian as he woke up, that and the sight of Claude sipping tea from a paper cup. Claude's golden eyes flicked up at the sound of his partners' moan, "Always have to do something stupid don't you."

"What the hell happened," Sebastian asked ignoring his partner's remark.

"The drop off guy blew up, nearly killing you and that runt you love so much."

Sebastian shot up, "Ciel! Where is he," he regretted moving so fast as a wave of pain and nausea moved through him.

"Easy, he's fine, sedated in the room next to us, Alois is there with him," Claude said noticing how pale the other man had gotten, "The Doctors said he had so many drugs in him that he didn't feel most of what happened to him."

"Most what do you mean most," Sebastian demanded.

"Well the blast cause a lot of shrapnel to form and while most of it only nicked him there was some temporary damage to his eye and a good five inches of his tail had to be amputated," Claude replied, "Nothing to worry about, you're both to be discharged today."

"You seem oddly calm."

"Sebastian, we've been 'friends' since childhood, you were way over due to do something stupid. Though I didn't expect that you would get hurt this way; I always expected it to be with some woman," Claude said a small smirk playing on his lips.

"Your compassion is overwhelming," Sebastian said rolling his eyes.

A doctor walked in, he smile gently, "How are you feeling Mr. Michaelis?"

"Like I was hit by a bus on fire; how's Ceil."

"Ciel…?"

"The neko who I'm guessing was brought in with me," Sebastian said his eyes narrowing.

"Oh your slave is fine sir, though you will have to pay for the damages he caused after he woke. Oh I'm going to let this one slide, but if you have a slave that's mentally disabled its mandatory to put a warning on the slave's collar."

Both Claude's and Sebastian's eyes flared, "Ciel, is not mentally disable, he just had a bad past and I would prefer if you didn't call him that," Sebastian snapped.

The doctor gave him a look, but dropped the subject, "Anyway, I have already checked him over to day, and he'll need several different medications in order to recover correctly. Lucky for you his body took the brunt of the explosion and you only suffered a slight cut on you head."

Sebastian was ready to beat the crap out of the man, but a stern look from Claude kept him in the bed.

The doctor looked him over then cleared him to leave, during the time Sebastian had to use all his will power not to strangle the man as he talked about how lucky he was that his little Ciel took the brunt of the explosion. When the doctor had finished, he gave Sebastian permission to dress and go over to Ciel's room while he got together the medication the neko would need. Sebastian flipped off the man as he left, "Insufferable man." He took of his night gown and stretched his sore body.

"Hurry up and cover yourself," Claude said.

"What, jealous of what you see," Sebastian said with a wink.

"Hardly, but you're going to cause the nurses to pass out if you don't."

Sebastian smirked and got dressed, he then left and went into the room next to his; Ciel was sitting on his bed chatting with Alois. He had a bandage around his right eye and several others wrapped around his various parts of his body. Ciel looked over and smiled at Sebastian, it pained the older man to see the bruises and stitches covering the boy, but at least he wasn't glaring at him or destroying something. "Hey there kitten. How are you feeling?" Sebastian asked.

"Funny, my head feels foggy."

"That must be the meds you're on," Sebastian chuckled; he sat down on the bed and gently pulled the neko on to his lap.

Ciel purred and nuzzled into Sebastian chest, the doctor walked in holding a plastic case. "Here you are sir; the instructions are in the case, if you need anything call or come in."

"Is he fit enough to fly? I'd like to return home as soon as possible?" Sebastian asked.

"He should be," the doctor replied give the case to him, "He'll need his first dose of one of the three medications."

"Which one?"

The doctor shrugged, "I'm not a vet, and the instructions are in the case like I said before."

Sebastian glared at the man, but the doctor had already left, "Come on let's get you dressed and go back to the hotel."

Sebastian picked up the clothes Claude had brought, he dress the neko and picked him up.

"I'm sorry you got hurt master," Ciel said softly.

Sebastian tightened his grip; hugging the boy, "It's not your fault kitten."

"But if I hadn't run off I wouldn't have gotten captured and you wouldn't have gotten hurt," the kitten said snuggling into his masters neck.

"Sleepy kitten?" Sebastian asked, he was now heading to the elevators.

"Kinda," came a small voice.

"It's the medication he's on and the sedative they gave him," Claude said.

The elevator door opened and the four of them got in, Ciel's breathing slowed as he fell asleep Sebastian rubbed the boys back.

The elevator came to the stop on the bottom floor and Sebastian followed Claude to the check out, ten minutes later they were in the limo on the way to the hotel.

Sebastian used this time to look over the medicine the doctor had given him, groaning when he saw a large bag of unused needles and vile of clear liquid, "God damn it."

"What is it?" Claude asked as he stroked his pet's hair; the blonde neko purring on his lap.

"A part of Ciels medicine involves and injection, you should have seen how he reacted at the vet when he had to get his shots," Sebastian replied putting the medicine away and shifting Ciel in his arms.

The neko whimpered his good eye opening slightly, Sebastian lulled him back to sleep wanting his dear little pet to rest so he could heal. Ciels' tail flicked up making the pain Sebastian was feeling worse; the end of the boy's tail was wrapped in a white bandage a slight blood stain showing through. Sebastian moved the stay strands of hair off of the sleeping forms face watching closely.

"He'll be ok Sebastian," Claude said, noticing how worried his partner looked.

"I've never felt so guilty before, I feel like I ruined this boy's life. I force him to live with me, I take him away from all that he knows and I can't even give him the curtsey of protecting him" Sebastian said wiping away a few tears that had fallen.

"He's happy you did." Alios suddenly said, "He's been alone for so long, he didn't care what happened to him as long as you loved him. He told me he's afraid that you're going to give him up because of what happened."

Sebastian looked at the other neko who immediately turned away, to ashamed to look at him.

Sebastian said nothing, but pet Ciel's hair slowly.

"I'm sorry."

Sebastian looked up at the other neko, "I'm sorry I broke my promise." It took awhile for Sebastian and Claude to realize that Alios wasn't speaking to either of them and rather the sleep neko.

Claude hugged the boy knowing that he felt terrible about the other neko's accident, "It's alright kitten." He soothed.

A/N: Well another chapter done. I have been getting some reviews and it has come to my attention that some of my readers think that the story is going to an end and TRUST me it's not. I still have a lot of tricks up my sleeves.

Ciel: …MY TAIL

Sebastian: HIS BUETIFUL SEXY TAIL! WHY WOMAN WHY!

Me: I blame the lack of sleep.