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"The infection was sever, but we caught it just in time. She is going to be fine."

Kyoya looked at her body as she lay sleeping in the hospital bed. He didn't show it, but he was relived. Haruhi was almost lying on top of her. Mori was standing by the window, Hunny standing by him, not knowing what to say to his friend. Hikaru and Kaoru were sitting by the foot of her bed, Fuyumi and Tamaki was seated on the opposite side of Haruhi. Kyoya went outside to stretch, knowing his friends would take good care of her.

"Kyoya where is Ai?" He looked up as Arisu and Chieko was running quickly towards him, with Mana just behind them. "Ai is resting in there. The doctor says she will be fine, but she needs her sleep so you can't wake her up. Okay?" The girls nodded and went quiet inside. Mana just stood there, and Kyoya could tell something was wrong. "Is everything alright?" Mana shook her head, and to his surprise she sat down crying. As the gentleman he was he offered her a handkerchief. She took it and blew her nose.

"The households a mess. Everyone goes around and is terrified. He is a tyrant, and all the servants are scared of him. I never knew just how much she did. Not only with her father and her duties, but she always was so calm. She made everyone think everything would be all right. Never let anyone see how disturbed she was, even though she must have carried a terrible burden. We all knew she was being tortured by her father but… We never really knew what she meant to us. What she did for us. I don't know if it is because of her being gone, but he is moodier and is overworking everyone. Almost half the staff has quit, and the other is to frightened to come to work. We are literally falling apart. She held the household over water, and now it feels as we are drowning. The girls first."

She wanted to give back the handkerchief, but he motioned she could keep it. "He is a monster, and without her he is killing everyone and everything in that house. We need her. Without her we are slowly dying by the hand of a tyrant." "I know the feeling." Mana went on like she hadn't heard him, something he was glad for.

"The thing that's sad, is that she carried the burden alone. Always alone since her mother, that bitch, left her in the mercy of that tyrant." "You knew her mother was still alive." "Everyone knew. Her mother had threatened to run away for years. I think Ai also knew, and that's way she never trusted anyone. Never let anyone in." She knew? Was that why she lied? She didn't trust me? After everything, she didn't trust me because of her mother deserting her. Well I'm not the one to talk. My father screwed me up. But how could she not know I love her. How much people around her love her, and want to help her.

Mana sighed and rose. Kyoya had almost forgotten she was there. "Thank you Mr Ohtori. I'm sorry for intruding." She opened the door and Kyoya got a glance at the girl in the bed. She looked so peaceful as she slept, surrounded by people who cared for her, and loved her. But that's the thing isn't it. She doesn't know how much she is loved.

"Kyoya."

Ai woke herself with that word, that name. The first thing she noticed was that it was dark. The second thing she noticed was that she couldn't move. She looked down and saw the twins on either side of her pinning her down by holding hands. She smiled, and carefully broke the hands apart just to lock them again when she was free.

She was now sitting in the bed and looked at the people sleeping around her. Ai was moved that so many cared about her enough to be there. She had never felt so loved. Then the fight pooped into her head, and she looked for the one man she needed to talk to. He wasn't there.

Carefully she rose, took on a white bathrobe and went outside. The hall seemed to go on for miles in either direction, so she just chose one. She needed to talk to him. Well, not so much talk to him as seeing him. Touch him, smell him, and hear his voice.

She soon realised she was lost, but as she tried to find her way back, she found him. There, in an empty office, writing on his laptop. Her heart went a mile a minuet. As quietly as she could she crept inside, but he heard her. He looked up to see who it was before continuing to type.

"Ai. How are you?" "Fine, thank you. I guess you were right. I needed to go to the hospital after all."

She tried to smile, but his silence was killing her. It was slowly drowning her in things she wanted to say, but couldn't.

"What time is it?" "A quartet to four. You should go back to bed. Your body needs sleep and time to heal." "And you? Don't you need sleep? Or are you ha superhuman that doesn't haven't weaknesses like that?" Her joke didn't get any respond, and again the silence started to kill her.

Softly it rapped itself round her and started tightening its grip until she couldn't breath. She needed to get out of there before she stopped breathing all together. She turned and started walking towards the door.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Ai turned and looked at him. He didn't look at her, but had stopped typing. His fingers hovered over the keys, stopped in a movement.

"Would you have believed me?" "Yes." "And would you still have married me?" He was silent, and Ai could see him pondering the question. "Yes." "That's why I couldn't tell you. What would have happened if you married me? With no money, no connections and no merit. How long would it take before you woke up resenting me for being the one thing that stood between you and your dream? 10 years? 5? 1? Kyoya I love you, I couldn't do that to you."

He looked up, and right into her soul. She gasped. "How can you be so sure that I would end up resenting you?" "Wouldn't you? Even though you hide behind your notebook, you're just human, and have human emotions you can't control. Though you pretend very well to be inhuman, you are anything but." He rose and walked towards her, stopping only inches away. She looked up at him, and saw that he was trembling.

"And that's why you didn't tell me Ai? I never knew you could be so selfish and blind. Your mother did mess you up." "You're the one to talk. Leave my mother out of this." "I mean you talk about doing it for me, and nonetheless you broke my heart. You made me believe that you had been unfaithful. That you had played me. That what we had, what we had shared was a lie. How could you not trust me in deciding what to do? I'm not stupid Ai. I never do anything without thinking it threw."

"If you had married me, and then started resenting me, or worse left me I… I couldn't live that through. I love you to much." Her hand went to her mouth as she had trouble breathing. Her other hand felt tired, and she realised she had been clutching it all this time.

"Twice now already you have said that you love me, and yet you hade no scruples in playing with my heart as you did. You lied, decived and made two of my friend lie to me as well." He shoke, and Ai recognised the shaking. He turned and hit the window. Remarcebly it didn't breake. The noise rang in her ear and made her take a step back. A reflecs more than beliving he would actually hurt her. "It is not just your heart involved in this Ai. My heart is also in it just as much as yours."

For a long time he just stood there. His head low, arms hanging down his side. Suddenly a picture of her father came forth, and she couldn't help but compare them. Her father was like a ballon. He huffed himself up, take as much plase as he could. But he was empty. Kyoya on the other hand, almost wanished as he stood there againts the darkness outside. She looked at his shaking grey eyes in his reflection and saw he was anything but empty. So much love was shining in them. Not like her sisters or Haruhi. The closest had to be Mori, but there was so much more in Kyoyas eyes. So much love, sadness, fire and pain. Ai noticed as she was dragged into him again. Dragged closer and closer into thoes grey eyes that seemed to swallow her whole.

"What would you have done? If the roles had been reversed. If you had been disowned, what would you have done then?" He looked out the window, didn't look at her at all. "Besides I had my promise to keep." "I just wished you could have told me, and trusted me in deciding what I wanted to do. Not everyone is like your mother Ai." He looked up and threw thw reflection straight into her eyes. "Sooner or later you have to let someone in and trust them enough to let them share some of your burden. You can't carry the world alone forever." He is right. Why hadn't I trusted him to think for himself? But the answer was clear. My mother did screw me up, just as much as dad did.

She went close to him and layed her armes around his waist. Her head resting on his back. She felt him grabb her hands, not removing them just looking them in place. "I know, and I'm sorry. Your right, I didn't trust you. I was scared and thought that the way to fight was to fight alone. Like I have with all my battles." She felt how he struggeled to brath ordinary. He took her hands and swung her around so she was facing him.She stood on her toes as he came down. She closed her eyes and nervously licked her lips, waiting. But it never came. He was still there. She could feel his warm breath aganst her mouth. Kiss me Kyoya. She got tired of standing there, so she kissed him. He didn't back away. On the conterary, he let go of her hands to place them on her head and back to pull her closer to him. Kissing her wholeheartedly.

It was like a fire, starting in her mouth quickly spreading over her entire body. She laid her arms around him, kissing him as passionatly back. She was loved, and everything else was, for that moment, insignificant.