Trapped

A/N: So, here's chapter six! I was listening to All Of The Stars by Ed Sheeran while writing this and I literally dissolved into a puddle of tears, so I don't know what the effect on you guys will be. This could be the last angsty chapter in this fanfiction. :3 Anyway, here you go!

Aomine:

I pace around the waiting room, my heart racing, my fingers shaking, breathing quick. I can't believe what I've done to Tetsu. Why am I so fucking stupid? Tetsu was the best thing in my life and I ruined it all because of myself and my actions. I punch the wall behind Akashi's seat and slump down beside him, my head in my hands. Akashi makes no attempt to comfort me. Not that I deserve comfort.

I take a shaky breath in, attempting to hold back tears. I can't cry. I never cry. It shows weakness. I'm not weak.

Next to me, Akashi is reading a magazine, his head buried in the bundle of papers. Anger bubbles inside me. How can he be so calm when Tetsu could be dying?! Isn't Akashi supposed to be Tetsu's "boyfriend"?

I turn away in disgust and my eyes focus on the door that Tetsu is lying in, unconscious. Guilt fills me up. If I wasn't so tempermental, so possessive, so… so… controlling…Tetsu would be okay.

Sniffles fill the air, but they're not mine. I turn around. Akashi's face is still burrowed in the magazine. I reach over subtly and pull the magazine away from him. Akashi looks up in surprise, tears streaming down his face, eyes puffy and red, bottom lip quivering, shoulders shaking. I've never seen him look so… helpless. So he'd be crying the whole time. He was using the magazine to hide it.

"It's just… Tetsuya is my world! I can't watch him die! Daiki…" Akashi falls into my lap. I put an arm around him, reluctantly.

Tetsu's a shadow. He's supposed to be invisible. But right now, with him dying, I see that he has a massive impact on the people that know him. I mean, Akashi is breaking down. Akashi has never cried - not since he got his emperor's eye - and now, he looks like a sea of tears. Tetsu touched his soft side. Tetsu brings out the best side of everyone.

Everyone except me.

Tetsu is so fragile that he brought out the protective side of me, which is a good thing if it's a contained emotion. But it wasn't. And then that brought out the possessive side of me. Which brought out the controlling side of me. Then, that lead to me getting drunk to try and control these emotions. Getting drunk would show those emotions even more. But it also made me act irrationally - hence the abuse. Then, when abuse seemed to help me contain my feelings, I turned to it everyday - drunk or not. But Tetsu being fragile wasn't my only reason for acting the way I did.

A while ago - maybe a year or two prior - I had a boyfriend. We had great times together, going out on dates, having lazy days, hugging, going to parties. It was going really well. We were young but we always thought we'd get married.

Then he started pushing me away.

It was sudden. He just stopped treating me like his boyfriend and started treating me like a stranger. I'd scream at him, cry even, for him to talk to me, to notice me. But he didn't. So one day, I decided to follow him when he went out. That was the day I'd discovered he was cheating on me.

When he got back to the apartment, I asked him if he was cheating on me. He told me it was about time I realised. Then, we got into an argument and I started crying and he told me to man up and accept that I wasn't worth anyone's time or effort and he left. That was the day that I told myself to get a new boyfriend and keep him in my clutches.

I thought the only way to do that was through being controlling. Hell was I wrong.

A door opens and a doctor emerges. I look at the number on the door. 378. That's Tetsu's room. I gently move Akashi's head and stand up. The doctor is watching me. I make eye contact with him. Where have I seen those green eyes before?

Oh, it's Midorima.

"Ah, Aomine. Akashi. Hello," Midorima says, walking over to us.

"Ugh. Spare us the reunion. What happened to Tetsu?" I say, rather rudely. Midorima glares at me then turns to Akashi.

"I regret to inform you that… Kuroko is in a coma. The blow to the head completely shut down his body. His heart is the only thing working but even that is very weak. It's unlikely he'll wake up. You can see him if you want," he explains. Akashi's eyes hetero chromatic fill with tears and he pushes past Midorima and walks into the room he just came out of.

follow him inside and see Akashi collapsed in a heap on the floor beside Tetsu's bed, head in hands, eyes filling with tears immediately after the one's before fall down his cheeks.

"T… Tetsuya, please wake up! I-I need you! I have nothing else to live for! Please, Tetsuya! I… I love you. Just wake up please!" Akashi is screaming. I close the door to minimize the sound other people hear. Akashi screams a few more words at Tetsu, who can't hear, as hiccuping sobs escape his lips. His sobs echo throughout the room.

I walk over to Tetsu. His eyes are closed. His hair is still messy. He's wearing an oxygen mask. There are machines around him and a dozen needles in his arm, supplying him, keeping him alive.

But not alive enough.

I watch the heart monitor. Beep. Beep. Beep. Tetsu's heart is beating weakly, as indicated by the monitor. Weakly but still beating.

"Tetsu, come on. Wake up. Look, Akashi's crying. He needs you," At this point, my voice starts breaking. "What's he going to do without you? He has no one else. Tetsu, please. I-I need you too… I'm sorry, Tetsu!"

I fall to my knees and throw my arms down on the bed. I feel Tetsu's frail body beneath me. That beautiful body. That beautiful body that I ruined with abuse.

Tetsu was so beautiful and fragile, like a rose in a storm, and I ruined him. I took advantage of him. I killed him.

The realisation hits me like a tidal wave. Guilt starts to course through my veins. It's not a good feeling.

I killed Tetsu.

A/N: (Again, sorry!) So, how was it? This really annoying thing happens whenever I save and it shows the HTML so I have to spend like 20 minutes removing the HTML bits and leaving the actual fanfic. Hope you enjoyed~!