BOMBSHELLS

"Love ya, king" like an obvious lie, this was all he had. "Really love ya." like an obvious lie, there was still truth. "Will never get enough o' ya." it's not like he needed the truth anyway. "I love ya so much I'll kill ya."

"Shut up so early in the morning, Hichi." he whimpered, covering his face with his pillow. His ass stung from the three rounds of sex Hichigo had insisted they had. he was so tired, wanted to sleep more, but hichigo was crooning in his ear in an increasingly annoying way.

But he didn't mind. When Hichigo spoke to him, he knew Hichigo was still there. That thought alone comforted him.

There was a tap at his window. He got up, covering his naked form. At his window stood Shinji, not grinning the way he normally did. "Uh-oh..." Hichigo giggled. But that jealous, hatred for anyone aside from his king was bubbling just below the surface.

"What do you want, Shinji?" he groaned, mentally shushing his annoyed hollow.

"You've taken it too far." Shinji told him. "That hollow is swallowing you, and you don't even realize it."

"For the last time, Shinji. I'm. Not. Joining. You! Got it?!" the message didn't get through though. "We should just kill him."

"Fine, don't join us. But don't trust him. Whatever he told you, whatever he wants from you, he's lying." Ichigo scowled at him, hoping that it would scare the vaizard off. "Just trust me, at least I'm not a savage animal, like him." Hichigo snarled in response. That seriously wasn't helping his case. "Come with me."

Ichigo threw pants and a shirt on, following the vaizard to a warehouse, much to Hichigo's displeasure. "Idiot King. Idiot Alice King. You're trying to hang my heart, aren't you? Idiot, selfish alice king."

The other vaizards were gathered around a table. There was tea and biscuits and cakes set out. "Like a mad tea party, let's all go crazy!" Hichigo sang. He took his offered seat beside Hiyori and Shinji.

"Ya don't get it, do ya, dickhead?" Hiyori asked snobbishly, scowling at him. He didn't answer. "That hollow can kill you, all he wants is to swallow you up. There's no such things as co-operating with him!" he focused on a spot on the wall, choosing to tune out all the lecturing he was being given. A yellow sandal was brought down on the back of his head. "Listen to me!"

"Maybe I want to be swallowed! What business is it of yours?!" his chocolate brown eyes met Hiyori's gold ones.

"She only wants one thing Alice. And that's to eat you up, so you'll be her slave." he knew that already, dammit he knew that already. The pressure was so amazingly infuriating. It was crushing him with the need to prove. Prove what, he didn't know. But he had to prove it.

Shinji grinned, waving his hands in a calming way. "How about we try this tea?" he suggested, not easing the tension at all, but at least distracting them from it. "Love and Hachi worked so hard to make it."

He picked up an elegantly decorated tea cup, ignoring Hichigo's irritated singing. Something was wrong. Hichigo was giving him so many warnings. He just couldn't understand them. "Scared little Black birds, fly along. When the nests are not safe, where will you run? When the water is poisoned what will you do?"

He brought the tea cup to his lips, trying to decipher the song. He felt Hichigo's lips down his cheek, and resisted the urge to brush them away, as if his hollow was really there. Eight pairs of eyes were trained on him, and it was quite uncomfortable. "Blackbirds shouldn't drink poisoned water." Hichigo told him. Without another thought, he took a gulp of tea, making his hollow laugh. The tea tasted disgusting, but he downed the rest.

Everyone at the table sighed in relief. He frowned. He didn't get it. Until his vision began to blur, and he let out a little squeak of panic. "What did you do?!" He demanded, gripping the table in a desperate fight to stay upright.

"If you can fight it properly, your hollow will be fully suppressed. If you can't you will die, or trapped inside yourself forever." he felt a strong wave of nausea. But was soothed by Hichigo's passionate lips on his, thin bone like fingers raking through his vibrant hair. "Good night, Ichigo." Shinji whispered.

He felt another wave of nausea, and that heavy feeling that came with unconsciousness. Again and again the feeling of sickness took him, until Hichigo pulled him down past his pain. "Don't ... wanna..." he whispered. He was afraid. Afraid that when he came back, he would be left with nothing but that silence.

"Black birds will always be caught in my cages," Hichigo told him in reply. After that, he fell asleep, wrapped in Hichigo's arms.

OWARI

last chapter of this story... god took me so long... the last installment of The Alice King Trilogy will either be called 'Wanna Play Wonderland" or ' A pack of Cards" which to choose? Review, or else I'll be disheartened and you won't get the last part.