Chapter 2 - Vivi's Home

It was 7:39 of a beautifull morning, everyone was still asleep since today was a day-off for the doctors, still they let open the hospital in case a patience would want to go out or to home.

Everyone was asleep except for Arthur, he was up for quite a while and it wasn't because of a nightmare, he is just used to wake up very early, but it wasn't the main reason he woke up this time.

He woke up a hour earlier by a gentle hum from a very kind friend, he soonly scratched that last thought, he woke up by the gentle hum of her beautifull girlfriend.

It was very strange for Arthur having the permission of this beautiful girl to be his boyfriend, but slowly and carefully thinking, he remembeed that Vivi and...Lewis

loved them the same way he loved them both, he was happy but in the same time ha was a little bit sad, he fastly swipt away those sad thoughts, he knew Vivi would want that.

After deep thoughts he decided to leave them later, as he only was focused and stayed in awe at Vivi's beautiful sleeping face.

He just sayed there watching Vivi sleeping, he saw her smiling on times to times, and he couldn't keep a little laugh from his throat 'At least she haves wonderfull dreams'.

And soon he knew that only this mattered for now, watching a happy sleepy Vivi laying onto Arthur chest filled him with joy.

He decided that after a long stare at Vivi's face he wanted to know what time it is,

he was surprised when he saw it was perfectly 8 of the morning, for how much he wanted to stay like that a little more, he knew he had to wake her up or she would oversleep her time routine.

He gently brushed Vivi's hairs from her face, and started to gently caress her face.

He expected an annoyed growl from her, questioning why he waked her up.

at his surprise he saw a gentle smile from her lips.

"Good morning Arthur" She started kind as ever, she calmly asked "Did you sleep well?"

he kindly answered her question "Well at the beggining i was a little bit afraid to sleep, it took me over half an hour to relax, and you know what made me relax Vivi?"

She slowly turned her head from the left to the right as a sign of 'No',

Arthur chuckled a little, he sign with his hand to come closer,

Vivi was surprised a little by the request, but she trusted her boyfriend with all her heart,

"It was thanks to you Vivi." he softly said into her right ear.

Vivi's heart was melted into Arthur's soft voice, she was very happy that she could help somehow her boyfriend, "Then from this moment, we will sleep together~"

Arthur was starting to blush, making Vivi gigle with amusement, he didn't know what he did to deserve such a girlfriend like Vivi, 'I don't deserve her...'

Vivi noticed his smile fading slowly from his lips, she was starting to get worried, even after a peacefull sleep, Vivi knew he started to blame himself again.

She took his only arm, squezing it gently and warmly, she left a sigh of relief seeig Arthur's smile coming back,

But Arthur's smile fastly faded away, his face only cowered with cries, Arthur started to speak "V-viv-i, i'm so sorry for everything."

She quickly grabbed him and pullid him closer to her shoulders "Shhh.." she quickly patted his head, letting him cry over her shoulders,

"It's fine Artie..., let it all out..." he couldn't hold his tears anymore, he started to burst out of tears, she could only watch him as he cried,

she wanted to do, oh so more for him, she could feel herself starting to cry too, she feeled so useless right now, but there was always Arthur who demanded nothing from her.

so she brushed his hairs with care and love, couldn't hold back anymore as she bursted out of tears too, they stayed embraced, both crying,

both not knowing what to do in that moment, so they fell frozen for a couple minutes, as Vivi got her answer, it was rather easy actually.

She gently pushed Arthur's shoulder back just to see him eye to eye, she let out a single sight as she moved closely to him,

"Artie...it does not matter what happened in that cave," she said as she gently caressed his face, trying to not let his guilt crawl upon his shoulders,

"What matters is what will happen from now on, okay?" He tried to answer her, but he shaked so wildly that he could let only a nod.

"Good, now look at me Artie..." She waited as he slowly watched her in her beautifull cyan's eyes, "I love you Artie...with all my heart, you know it."

He nodded at her again, "So please...don't value yourself as useless Artie, you're not", he tried to protest her, but she gently landed a finger to his lips,

"In fact for me you're my love, you're my treasure, you're my mechanic in shining armour...you're my everything Artie." he tried to tell something on her,

but her fingers still on his lips, she gently stepped closer to Arthur's face, and she let a warm kiss on his nose.

Arthur as if it was commanded, his face started to lit up red, Vivi smirked playfully, as she knew by his blushness that he loves her too...she couldn't be more happy.

Vivi gasped as she watched his lover sat up slowly from the bed, he started to remove everything attached to him,

he was a little bit surprised as Vivi was giving his clothes, he took them fastly but not harshly, he started to dress himself as Vivi was sitting close to him.

She unwrapped the blue scarf from Arthur's neck to make him possible to put his jacked on, she leaned back to Arthur to wrap back the scarf.

She gave him a quick glance, to see how blue was doing on him, with a satisfied grin she wrapped her hands aroung Arthur's neck to whisper "You know, Blue looks well on you Artie~"

He whispered back at her, with no malicious tone, only caring and warm "Yellow looks great on you as well Vi~".

Vivi hated to break this peacefull hug, but both wanted to finally go home, go to eat, get a shower, watch a film and sleep. It was a heavy week, they both needed rest,

so she quickly standed up as she was holding Arthur to help to stand him up too. She glared at him, cute as always "Let's go home shall we?"

Arthur wrapped his hand around Vivi's neck as he was standing up "Yeah let's go.", Vivi gave him a warm smile and they started slowly going out from the room.

They were slowly going towards the lift but quickly they were stopped by Doctor House.

House gave a quick glance at Arthur, he quickly noticed that Arthur was still in pain for the loss his left arm,

"You still suffer from great pain of the loss of your left arm, so i advise you to not put your prosthetic arm till your pain's stopped"

he grabbed his walking cane with his left hand as he opened his pocket to give the young man the pills he needed.

"This will help to ease your pain, get one in the morning and in the night everyday, you have to do it for a month more or less.

If the pain stays come back for a checkup, everything understood?" he gave the bottle of pills in Arthur's left pocket as he patiently waited for his answer.

Arthur gave a simply nod as they were going to the lift "Thanks Doctor, i appreciate it.", House gave a short laugh "Everyone does, it's my job."

Vivi waved her free hand as she pressed the *Up* button, as they were whaiting walked towards them

"If you accept an advice from an old, cane walking, experienced doctor, i have one for you." He stared at them with his icy eyes, waiting impatiently for their answer.

They gave them another nod, interested about his advice "The first month after a surgery on your body,

you'll have nightmares and they are worse with that on if you dare to sleep while you have it attached on your body"

He pointed with his cane on the prosthetic arm, "How ever, if you sleep together with one you care your probability for a nasty nightmare decreases on a...hmmm 85-90% more or less."

He gave a quick wink at the young man, satisfied by his shiness he walked away.

"That guy is a jerk." Arthur let out a shaking breath while Vivi smiled playfully "Oh he can be a jerk alright, but he gave us a reason in more to sleep together~"

"L-let's just get to the van..." while blushing he dragged Vivi inside the lift, Vivi satisfied she agreed to go as the lift went down to the main hall.

They slowly walked out from the hospital and they looked around fastly to find the van, once they found it "Okay, so who's gonna drive?" Arthur asked in a serious tone.

Vivi gave a dissapproving glance at Arthur, she knows that he cannot drive in that state "I think it's better if i drive Artie, you cannot drive in the state you're in the moment"

Arthur was a little bit affraid of Vivi's driving, but non the less he trusted Vivi would drive more safely for in the state he's in,

so he gave her a nod to let her in the driver's seat.

Vivi gave him a quick warm smile as she entered in the driver's seat, she calmly waited to Arthur to sit in the right side of the van.

Once he entered Vivi started to drive the van carefully while giving at Arthur a reasuring smile "See? I won't crash your van, so relax a little bit while we arive at my home."

Arthur would have joked about her *Carefull* driving skills when she drives the van, but this time he notices that she really drives carefully,

so he gave her a nod as he made himself comfortable in the seat and soon he started to sleep, but Vivi doesn't leave him like this,

she won't let him alone for a second so she stopped in a corner and grabbed Arthur's shoulder to lay his head to her right shoulder, satisfied she slowly returned on the road.

The ride was slow and peaceful and Vivi somehow enjoyed it, she was getting nearer to her house as she planned what to do next.

She stopped in front of her house, she was ready to wake Arthur up but she was freazed for a moment looking at Arthur's sleepy face,

as much as she hated waking him up in such a calming faze, she couldn't carry him even if she tried so she carefully layed her left arm in Arthur's face gently to wake him up.

She was expecting a playfull scold from Arthur demanding why she waked him up, but instead he simply gave her a warm smile as he opened the van's door,

Arthur didn't noticed but Vivi was actually blushing from his smile 'He didn't smiled like this since we were kids.', she fixed her glasses as she was opening the van's door too.

As they both exited from the van, Vivi quickly closed it and went to Arthur to help him walking towards her house "Take it slow now, it ain't a race Artie." she looked at him worried.

Arthur gave her a simple nod and soon they were walking towards the Yamazuka's apartment, they went towards the stairs while she asked "Are you ready to take the stairs Artie?"

"Yeah no problem, i can do it." Arthur gave her a quick smile as they started to walk up, "Remind me why we cannot take the lift?"

Vivi tought about the question for a moment and she answered a little bit angrily "The Landlord is too much of a lazy ass to give a fuck about the lift in this apartment."

Arthur remembered that the Yamazuka family wasn't exactly in good relationship with the Landlord, in fact they were always discussing on each other since him and Vivi were kids.

"Right, he doesn't really like your family much...but this doesn't mean he can just ignore the elders in this apartment."

In Arthur's opinion as much the landlord hated her family, he should not ignore the ones who needs truly the lift.

Vivi gave him a nod "True, he even gave an excuse to the elders to try to make them live in an another apartment, the jerk." She always hated the Landlord,

accusing her for all his problems, like if she haves to do something about her family's fight, she took a quick breath to stay calm as they were already on the second floor.

Arthur noticed her nearly exploding in full of hatred towards the Landlord, "Don't worry, i'm sure we can take an apartment or even a house outside the landlord's territory."

Vivi noticed Arthur's care towards herself, she was glad to have Arthur around, always caring for her "We'll see Artie..., enough about sad toughts we're here to enjoy this day"

They slowly reached the 4th floor and they both gasped for air, "Remind me how the elders can take these long ass stairs?" he was looking at her curiosly for an answer,

Vivi didn't know either how the elders could even reach the second floor don't thinking about the 8th floor! "They're some bonified veterans i guess." she gasped for air as she was taking her home keys in her pocket.

Arthur nodded at Vivi's comical but reasonable answer, he heard a *click* sound as she opened the door, they slowly entered inside as Vivi closed the door behind them,

They went into the bedroom and soon she helped Arthur sit in the bed as she gave the remote control of the TV to him, "You know how it works Artie, watch something as i prepare our food ok?".

Arthur nodded, he was too tired to answer her in words, Vivi dropped the prosthetic arm near the kitchen table as she was ready to make her surprise 'Artie gonna love this~',

As Arthur was watching a program on TV, Vivi was busy making the cake in the kitchen, she had some minor problems on making the design of it but it was worth it.

She was proud of her work, and she couldn't wait the reaction of her Artie, she slowly approached the bedroom's door and she turned off the lamps of the bedroom "Artie~ i have a surprise for you~".

Arthur jumped fearfull after the lights suddenly turned off, he tought that Lewis was there, taking revenge for his betrayal, he hugged himself tightly with his remaining arm waiting for the blow,

the only thing he got was Vivi's teasing voice outside the door, he sighed in relief believing it was just an usual joke, 'She didn't stop being herself, good...at least i didn't fucked up too badly'.

When he heard Vivi opening the door, he could only see some minor lights circled around an object he couldn't recognise, as soon Vivi turned back on the lights, he gasped again in surprise.

"Surprise!" She gave him a proud smile, satisfied by Arthur's reaction she showed her cake towards him "Happy Birthday Artie!", He was standing in awe, examining one of the most beautifull cakes he ever saw,

It was a chocolate cake, surrounded by a perfectly coloured cream of blue and yellow, seconded by blueberries on every single candle, and in the center there was their scarfs made of chocolate, surrounded by candles in a perfect halo.

Vivi took this moment to make her teasing question "Do you like it~?", Arthur quickly snapped out from her question "O-of course i like it Vivi! It's beautifull!",

"I'm glad." She slowly putted the cake on Arthur legs making it easier to him to eat it later, "So, what are you waiting for? Make a wish and blow off the candles!", As she waited, she leaned her arms on Arthur's shoulders.

she saw how much Arthur was thinking carefully for his wish, she was a little bit confused by it, it was only an every year birthday wish afterall, she saw Arthur's goofy smile as he leaned a little bit closer to the candles, carefull not to burn his scarf and he blew the fire out.

Arthur saw Vivi's excited smile as she leaned closer to him "So?, SO!? What did you wish?", Arthur would happily answer to her question, but he decided to keep it to himself for a little while "It's a secret~",

He saw Vivi playfully making a *hmpf* towards him, as she started her sarcastic objection "Mean Artie doesn't want to share his wish with me?", "Exactly, this mean Artie doesn't want to share his wish, if..." he didn't wanted to surrender so easily by Vivi,

Vivi was enjoying their little fight, and she was quickly interested and amused by Arthur's proposition "If~?", she watched amused as Arthur wispered his proposition "If you promise to not tell anyone else, i tell you my wish.",

she chuckled by Arthur's proposition, as she leaned closer to him whispering sweetly in his left ear,"I Promise~", satistied by her answer, he answered gently in her right ear "One day, i wish to marry you Vivi~".

He feared that he might pushed their relationship a little bit too fast than he must, but he loved Vivi and he couldn't wait too much to propose a marriage someday, he was just surprised he didn't answered her stuttering too much,

He didn't got an answer and he knew he fucked up, he rushed like an idiot, he shouldn't have proposed something like this so soon, he feeled like an idiot, he ruined their relationship in a day,

and before he could say something he feeled Vivi's tears on his cheeks as she slowly took her glasses away on the armchair, and watched Arthur in the eyes with a smile on her face "i want to marry you too, Artie~", she softly kissed Arthur on the lips.

As they were melting in their kiss, they stared at each other as their stomach demanded food and soon the collapsed of laughter, Arthur gave back Vivi's eyeglasses with a happy smile, Vivi thanked him as she remembered something "I forgot the knife! I'm coming back soon!",

When Vivi went back, they returned in their tight hug as they watched a film while eating their cake, and Vivi had a final plan to do tonight before they went to sleep.

As they finished eating nearly the whole cake, Arthur was leaning in the bed, satisfied and happy by today's outcome, "Oh man...that cake was delicious! You're a wonderfull cooker Vivi!",

Vivi blushed a little by the compliment, she quickly hided away by her proud answer "Thank you! I Learned it from the bes-!" She quickly closed her sentence, she cannot believe she brought up Lewis in front of him!

But in her surprise, Arthur only showed a bright smile "I bet he was a great teacher! Nobody can match Lewis cooking skills!" He gave her a thumb up as he gave her a quick kiss on her cheeks "He...He would be proud of you!",

she saw how much Arthur tried to hide his guilt, Arthur was a terrible liar when it come down on personal matter, "Artie, i'm so sorry! I shouldn't have brought him up in the conversation".

Arthur tried to hide harder his hurt "Vi...it's fine..., it's-", "I know, but i shouldn't have bring him up like this...", she quickly used this moment as an opportunity to use her final surprise "C'mon, let's take our pijamas~",

He quickly blushed by her words "O-our pijamas?- B-b-but i d-d-didn't brough any pijamas!", the only thing he received as an answer was her soft laugh, as she slowly lifted Arthur's shirt along with his new scarf, and soon he stood half-naked towards her girlfriend.

He whaited her teasings but he only saw Vivi's eyes full of regret as she watched Arthur's left shoulder, she quickly snapped out of it as she tossed his brother's pijamas on his legs "I hope it fits, and don't worry it's clean",

Arthur nodded, he slowly started to go in the dressroom with the PJ's in his hand, Vivi evily laughed in her mind as she was executing her final plan, as Arthur exited from the dressroom he went back to the bedroom to warn Vivi that she can go to dress up too.

He quickly regretted it as he saw a fully naked Vivi in front of him, covered only by her panties and bra's, he could only stare at Vivi's body in admiration and shiness before it was cutted out by Vivi's devilish smirk, he quickly covered his eyes with his remaining hand demanding her to dress up,

She was amused by Arthur's blushness, it only meant he admired her, and she blushed a little by the idea of seing Arthur naked once she can, 'I save that on the other time~', she had many plans for her cute blond boyfriend, and she wants to execute them all.

But now she was busy with teasing her boyfriend, the rest of her plans can be done tomorrow, "Oh Artie~ I see you love my body~", she could only hear Arthur's pointless demands and excuses, she was enjoying this a bit too much and she really didn't care,

"Why? Don't you like seeing me like this?~ Oooooor you prefer bi-" she was cutted out by a shaking response "N-NO! Abs-s-s-solut-t-t-tely n-n-not! Y-Y-You...", She liked what she was hearing, and she wanted to hear his full response "I'm what Artie?~",

"N-N-NOTHING!", oh she wouldn't leave him in mid-sentence "Tell me cutie, or i'll be fully naked~", she saw another blush from her blonde boyfriend, this night was the best! "Y-Y-YOU ARE BEAUTIFULL VIVI!", she started to blush a little, but the plan needed to be carried out to the maximum!

"I'm beautifull and~?", she was a little bit surprised when she got all kind of praises from him that she didn't expected to get so sudden "Y-Y-You're beautifull, you're h-...HOT!, you're SEXY! YOU'RE THE GIRL OF MY LIFE!", she was satisfied by Arthur's praises but she could only listen in shock and revelation as Arthur continued,

"I-I LOVED YOU SINCE THE DAY WE WERE KIDS! I ALWAYS ADMIRED YOU ! YOU'RE MY LIFE VIVI! YOU'RE THE GIRLFRIEND I DON'T DESERVE!", he started to cry and hiccup as he slowly kneeled down the floor, hugging himself in self-pity as he continued his sad monologue "I'm a monster...a murdered, i KILLED Lewis! I should be in jail! I don't deserve your pity! I don't deserve your Love! I don't deserve...anything...",

She couldn't watch him in that state a second in more, she quickly dressed in her pijama, she took her teasings too far this time, she quickly kneeled towards her crying boyfriend, she wanted to smooch all his face to give him comfort, she would do it after she calmed her blonde down "Shhhh...it's not your fault Arthur" she was giving him a tight hug, she whispered gently in his ears, "I Love you Artie..., you know i love you with all my heart...".

He slowly nodded at Vivienne, as he tried to control his hiccups without too much success "I-*hic*-I know-*sniff*-but-" he was another time, playfully cutted by Vivienne "i told you no *But's*, i only want to know if you loved Lewis", Arthur didn't taked too much time to answe her with a little outburst "Of-*hic*- OF COURSE I LOVED HIM!", she carefully continued her question "And you love me too?", she knew the answer but it was the only way to reasonate with her silly dork "OF COURSE! I LOVE YOU MORE THAN MY OWN LIFE VIVI!".

She blushed by Arthur's answer but now she needed to calm down her nerd "Then there is nothing to be guilty of, you loved the both of us and you didn't pushed Lewis! For correction the blasted demon made you and i won't let that destroy your emotions! I Love you and i will for all eternity!", she started to smooch all around his face as a sign of affection towards him, it works as she heard his hiccups slow down from every smooch she gave to him, slowly he relaxed in her affection and as soon as he did she gave a final kiss on his forehead.

She gave him a reassuring smile as she whispered soflty in his ears "Let's go to sleep okay?", he hasitated a little bit but he quickly calmed down with a shaking nod as an answer, Vivi turned out the lights of the hallroom, as she helped Arthur slowly relaxing in her bed, she wrapped the scarf around his neck before she wrapped around herself her own scarf,

she opened the window of her bedroom before she turned to switch the lights off, she embraced the cold and fresh air from her window and soon she popped in her bed with a big smile across her face "Aaaartieeee!", she fastly hugged Arthur before he could say something, and she wrapped her legs around Arthur's, she leaned her head in Arthur's chest as she cutely commented "You're such a big teddy-bear Artie!", she waited as Arthur slowly wrapped his right arm around her neck before she talked again "You're so warm...do not dare leave me alone Artie understood?".

He replied with a simple "Never" as he hugged Vivi tightly, they remained in silence for some minutes before Vivi breaked it "I Love You.", Arthur smiled by her words, it surprised him she could melt his hearts with only three words, he gladly answered her "I Love You Too.", and with his last words, he gave a passionate kiss trough her beautifull cyan hairs before he slept. Vivi was blushing but she was more happier than ever, she didn't knew a simple kiss from Arthur could give her so many emotions, so she decided to return the same affection giving him a nice perky kiss trough his messy blond hair before she fell asleep too with a tought they both shared.

'This is the best night i ever had.'