A/N: I'll try to update weekly until I catch up with what I have prewritten. However, released this chapter early in celebration of my first review/favorite! Thank you Cutiepie120048!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pandora Hearts, air, water, boats-
Gil: MAKE IT STOP!
Gil POV
Everything is dark. It's kind of nice actually. Peaceful and relaxing. I wish the voices would stop though. I can't tell what they're saying. Something is shaking. Stop it! I wanna just rest here.
"Please up Nii-San…"
Vincent? I force my eyes open. Ugh… too bright in here. And… ow ow ow! What happened? My torso is throbbing! How'd I get in the infirmary? I thought I was sailing.
I groan. "What happened?"
"Well…"
Vincent POV (past)
I can see the spray of bubbles coming out of Gil, who has gone still. The Vessalius brat is grinning and starting to drag Nii-San back down. I cock my gun, designed to work underwater. Taking careful aim, I shoot the monster. It screams loudly and lets go of him. I swim over to my brother quickly, still holding my gun and itching to shoot. It tries to swim back to him, but any time it gets close, I add another hole in it. Any regular mer-monster would be dead by now, but Vessalius are Royals. I wouldn't be surprised if he made that wave. I'm kind of surprised he hasn't used some kind of special power other than that though. Aren't they supposed to be really powerful? They're Royals! A gun shouldn't be able to hold him back this well.
Oh who cares! I get Nii-San, right?
I make it over to him and start pulling his limp form up. I can see red floating around us. Gil is bleeding pretty bad…
"No! That's mine!" it shouts. I think. It's harder to hear underwater. Bleeding through several holes, some of which are already healing, he swims towards us with a cloud of red trailing behind. Swimming up quickly, I shoot him a few more times, hitting every time. I finally get him in the eye and it stalls him long enough for me to get to surface.
"I got Gil! Send out the inner-tube!" I shout at them. They throw the inner tube on a rope down. I grab onto it, holding onto unconscious Gil, until they pull us up. Once we're on deck, I give him mouth to mouth. After a while, he coughs up the water, but he's still bleeding all over the deck. Quickly, they patch him up. He's one of us Baskervilles though, so I don't have to worry too much. Still, he didn't get attacked by something normal…
I won't let you die today!
Gil POV
"You gave me mouth to mouth?!" I say. I can't help but shudder. That's kind of creepy. Though, I guess I should be thankful since he saved my life, but still, he basically kissed me!
"Yes, but I had to to save your life!" Vincent says. He hugs me and I yelp. He jumps back,"Sorry! I didn't mean to touch it. That stupid Vessalius brat! What right does he have to hurt you like that!"
Hurt me… right, he slashed me. Tentatively, I run my fingers across the diagonal wound, shuddering as I do. It hurts…
"How bad is it?" I ask him.
"It's not good, to put it lightly. It's long and pretty deep, but since you're a Baskerville, it should heal pretty well. Though the doctors say it might scar."
I'm starting to get tired again and the pain is fading. What's going on?
Vincent looks at me and smiles sadly,"Ah, the medicine is draining. You'll probably be asleep soon." He points to one of the bags hooked up to me. This one is currently draining more quickly than the others.
I start to giggle at nothing in particular. I feel all floaty and the world looks fuzzy. A hand waves in front of me. Oh wait, that's mine. It falls slowly onto my face. I chuckle groggily. Vincent takes it off and sets it next to me. I try to put it back, but it's really heavy. He pets my head,"Sleep well Nii-San."
He leaves. The world keeps turning dark and then just fuzzy and dark again. Oh wait… I'm just blinking. It's kind of fun. I shut my eyes and languidly open them again. Something is wrong here. There's a blur of gold in here. Gold and green. What's going on? Am I dreaming?
"You didn't think I'd let you get away that easily, did you pretty thing?"
Pretty thing? Vessalius!
"No, there's no way I'm going to give up on my first prey," he purrs.
I shoot up, heart speeding suddenly. The world is still really fuzzy though and I feel heavy. I rip the needles out of my arm and get out of bed, lurching like a drunk. I run through the halls, trying not to trip over my own feet. I feel like my limbs are stone. The world around me is fuzzy and spinning. I can hear footsteps, but I'm not sure whose. Gold and green always rests at the edge of my vision along with evil laughter. I accidentally knock something over, a vase I think, with a loud crash. I cut myself on some of the pieces, but I can't really feel it. My whole body is numb.
"I'm going to get you."
I force my legs to work. I stumble down the halls as quickly as I can. I bump into someone. They stroke my face.
"Such a pretty thing. Shame I have to kill you."
I scream and scuttle back. I force myself up and start running again. The dark halls go by in a blur. A blur of shadows and distorted shapes.
"You can't escape me."
There's a cold wind behind me. A hand touches me and a voice whispers to me.
"I caught you."
I give an earsplitting shriek and shoot down the halls. My movement is fine, but I still can't see properly.
Someone grabs my arms and I scream louder, trying to jerk away.
"Nii-San! What's wrong!"
"V-Vince…?"
He hugs me and pets my head. "Shh… what's wrong Nii-San? Why aren't you in your room?"
"V-Vessalius…" I stutter.
"Gil… it was just a hallucination. Mermonsters can't get on land. Calm down. Lets get you back to the infirmary, okay?"
I nod, shaking some. Did I really imagine the whole thing?
He leads me back to my bed in the infirmary, disinfecting and wrapping me where I hurt myself with the vase. He decides to stay with me for the night to make me feel better. He puts the medicine, IV, and blood drip back in for me. I start to drift off, everything going silly again. Just before I pass out, I hear that awful whisper.
"You're mine."