Heeeeeeeeeeey peeps,... hides under the nearest rocks,... i know it took an eternity,.. we are sorry,.. i can make up like a hundred fun, interesting, ridiculous, weird excuses,.. but the fact is Kiba and i wont bother u with this,... the only thing important is that time sucks and it runs far to fast to keep up with it,...

anyway i hope u all enjoy this latest chap,.. enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in the story; I do own this story though.

Changed: 5 jan 2014.

It's been weeks since they all started training together. Hakuren had been able to strengthen his zaiphon and even though he wasn't as strong as Teito, or Frau for that matter, he could count himself as one of the stronger ones walking the kingdom. Teito had recovered enough to say he was back at his normal strength. His body was finally able to listen to his minds commands completely without failing.

Both had trained every day since the bishops had offered their help. One day they would concentrate on the battle skills with Frau, the next day Castor would have a kor-invested doll ready to fight against them. Labrador always made sure that he was around whenever the boys trained while fighting, only leaving them when they worked on their endurance. He had, since the beginning of their matches, healed both of them a great number of times. He usually wasn't very fond of people fighting, but he could found joy in the enthusiasm that they both still showed while training as long as they knew when to give each other enough time to rest.

Even though they had fought the dolls from Castor many times before, they still weren't able to get the kor out of the doll unscathed. The doll still ended up like it once started, in pieces. This also made it hard for them to exterminate the kor completely cause of the kor being able to escape. From the two of them Hakuren had made the most progress in getting rid of the kor, which frustrated Teito a lot, but he wouldn't show that on the outside. He knew he would get better at it at some point, he just needed to find a way how.

Castor and Frau walked toward the central area to look for the two boys. Frau would be training with them today, but before that, Castor wanted to talk with Teito about what he knew exactly about the ghosts. True, it had been some time ago when Teito had figured out that Frau was also the ghost Zehel, but obvious reasons had prevented Castor from talking to him sooner.

When they entered the area they found the two boys already sparring each other. At the moment Teito seemed to have a hard time blocking the attacks coming from Hakuren. Both bishops knew that Teito would soon change that and take the offensive back from Hakuren, leaving Hakuren in the defensive. Both bishops decided to wait and observe how it was going to end. Maybe they could make a plan for the upcoming training while watching how they had progressed and where they were still lacked some skills.

Twenty minutes later both boys were gasping for air, lying next to each other. Castor thought this would be as good a moment as any to tell he wanted to talk to Teito, but Frau decided to yell at him instead. "Oi gaki, four-eyes wants to talk to you." He said while pointing behind him.

"I am not a gaki, Pervert." Came the gasped reply form Teito as he stood up and walked towards Castor. "What do you want to talk about, Castor-san?"

"Oi, why does Castor gets a '-san' behind his name and I only got pervert? At least make it pervert-SAN than!" Frau scowled at Teito, but Teito completely ignored Frau as he walked by.

"Shall we talk by the fountain, Teito-kun. I like it there and we can talk in private, without this moron listening in." He said while throwing a halfhearted glare at Frau and started walking to the fountain, not looking if Teito would follow or not.

Frau scowled but didn't comment on it as he started walking to Hakuren to help him up from the ground. He looked over his shoulder at Castor and Teito and saw them disappear behind the bushes further away.

Hakuren only worked himself on his elbows to follow the exchange between Teito and the two bishops while he waited patiently to see what would come. He took Frau's hand to pull himself up on his feet.

Looking back at the now standing boy in front of him, he smirked. The boy looked exhausted even though he and Teito just started their training this morning. He enjoyed seeing the progress they both had made, but even more the progress that Teito had made in just a few weeks. When they first had started training, Hakuren or himself could always easily beat Teito within a couple of minutes. But now Hakuren had almost no change of winning against Teito, and even Frau had a hard time fighting him sometimes.

"Bishop Frau, what are you thinking about?" Hakuren had caught the distance look in Frau's eyes as he watched the man stare. Frau seemed to be smiling at whatever he was thinking about, so Hakuren thought it was safe enough to ask, without seeming to be rude to the Bishop.

"Hm, what?" came the intelligent response of Frau. Looking at Hakuren he smirked. "Be ready…" with that he started sparring with Hakuren for normal combat training. The boy was good, but he still could learn a lot on fighting hand to hand combat. Frau always thought that learning by doing stuff was better then learning it from books. What is better than explain how to fight by someone with experience and learn right after by trying it out.

While the two had started their training, throwing punches and kicks at each other and blocking them neatly, Labrador and Arch Bishop Jio had come to the area as well. Labrador let out a sigh as he saw Frau throwing a quick punch at Hakuren who in his turn, blocked it rather messily and ended up with a cut just above his eyebrow. "Uhm, Frau?" Labrador tried. He hadn't expected to see Frau actually punch Hakuren. If he had known, he wouldn't have let Archbishop Jio come with him while they looked for Frau.

Frau saw the damage he had done to Hakuren and scowled that Labrador wasn't there to heal the boy right away. He was about to call it quit, when he hear the silent voice of Labrador nearby. He stopped right away and looked over at Labrador, only barely blocking a kick from Hakuren going for his face. He got him in a stranglehold, before he would answer Labrador and notice that he wasn't alone. Frau felt a shiver run down his spine. He knew why the old man was there. He had been avoiding him for almost a week now.

"Bishop Frau, would you be so kind to come with me so we can discuss the importance of attending Mass" Archbishop Jio scolded Frau and turned around to walk to his chambers, sure that Frau would follow now.

Frau shivered. He didn't want to go, but he knew he had to, there wasn't any way to get out of it when the Archbishop came to get you personally. "Hakuren, let Labrador heal you and then try and take some rest before lunch. You look like you didn't sleep for a week." Frau hurried after Archbishop Jio. While passing Labrador he quickly told him that he should heal Hakuren and then bring him to his room. The two boys had been training non-stop and it seemed that it was affecting their body's. They needed a day of rest so they could train, fully rested, tomorrow again. Labrador nodded and Frau was satisfied with that.

Castor mentioned for Teito to sit on the edge of the fountain before he sat next to him. Teito was looking expectantly at him while he tried to find the right words to start questioning Teito about the 07-ghost. "Teito-kun? What do you know about the 7 ghosts?"

Teito looked away from Castor. "I don't know much about them. I read about Zehel in one of the books in the library when I was looking for information about the kor. Later when I woke up in my room with Frau, I asked him about it and confronted him in being Zehel. He said he was, and I also have seen him when I was about to wake up, but that was only a glimpse though. I also believe you and Labrador-san are one of the ghosts too."

Castor was a bit shocked at how much Teito had been able to figure out only by a little information and observation. "Congrats, you're correct on that. However, there are things in this world that no one should ever see or know about. I'm sorry." Castor slowly lifted his right hand towards Teito's head.

Teito tried to back away, but found that Castor had used his zaiphon to keep him from moving. "Why are you telling me you are sorry? What are you planning to do? Go away with that hand. I know what you ghosts can do with a hand on someone. Shit, you are gonna make be forget again, aren't you?"

"Yes Teito. I'm sorry, I will make you forget everything you know about the 7 ghosts. It's just to big a risk to have anyone outside the 7 ghosts themselves know about this information."

"No you can't take my memories, I wont let you." Teito felt himself falling to unconsciousness when Castors hand was placed on his head. He didn't hear the splash next to him or that he was grabbed form behind and dragged away from Castor. He didn't notice the scale that was put into his mouth, to make him able to breath under water, or even that his clothes got soaked as he was held while he lost conscious completely.

"Razette, what do you think you are doing? You know that no one can know about the 7 ghosts, right? Why are you protecting him?" Castor didn't understand. Normally Razette wouldn't show herself to people, let alone help them. She only ever came to show herself when Castor called her and was alone, or when she played the organ for the church. Never did she show herself to others, but somehow she wanted to protect Teito, even from him it seemed.

Razette looked angry at Castor and shook her head towards him, while swimming a little further away, making sure he couldn't reach Teito. She knew that he would never use his zaiphon on her so she wasn't afraid to being caught. She only needed to be far away enough to show Castor she was sure about this and that he couldn't change her mind.

"Razette don't be crazy, you know I need to erase his memories." He tried again while trying to get his zaiphon around Teito and Razette. She shook her head even harder, if that was possible, and dove down, taking Teito with her.

Castor watched as Razette was going in one of the underwater tunnels under the church. He knew where she was going. But he felt to guilty for even thinking to use his zaiphon, let alone trying to use it against her so he let her go. He trusted her enough to know she knew what she was doing and respected her decision for protecting Teito. Sure he didn't like the fact that Teito knew who they were, thats why he wanted to erase his memories as soon as he found out. But now that he thought of it Teito was in possession of the eye of Mikhail, Pandora's box was infused in his body, and he was the prince of the lost kingdom Raggs. All those things he already had to keep a secret from everybody. He told Frau though and with that they knew, so why not let him have their secret to keep.

He sighed. 'I should put some dry clothes for Razette at the edge for when she comes up to bring Teito to his room. She cant walk around without any clothes on when her tail becomes legs.', he thought before walking to his room to get the clothes.

Razette had been watching from the tunnel she had swum to. She didn't want to see Teito loose his memories. He had looked so lost when he first had came to the fountain, but lately he had started to smile a little whenever he thought no one would see him. She always observed him without him seeing her. There was something about him that made her care about him.

She could feel the movement from the boy before she saw it. It was a fish thing. The boy stirred a little before slowly blinking at her. She saw panic fill his eyes as he noticed they were underwater. He began to trash a little trying to get away from her.

Teito felt himself being pulled to consciousness again, felt the weird feeling of wetness around him, felt that his breathing was heavier that it normally was. He slowly blinked open his eyes, observing his surroundings and tried to find out if he had any blanks in his memory. That's when he spotted the girl, or was it a fish, he couldn't tell. Her face looked like a beautiful girl with pink hair and eyes, but she had weird ears and a fishtail instead of legs. He tried to get away from… it, not even wondering why he could breath underwater.

Razette looked a little sad before she caught him by his arms and pulling him into a hug. She felt him tense up, but didn't let go as she started singing close to his ear. Slowly but surely she sang him back into a deep sleep so she could bring him to his room.

When the boy was finally completely out of it, she swam back to the surface with him. She softly pushed him back on the edge before climbing out herself. Noticing the dry clothed beside the fountain, she smiled. 'I guess he agrees with my decision after all', she thought as she put on the clothes and waited for her tail to turn into legs.

It was almost half an hour later before Razette finally found she was able to walk on her legs. She hadn't noticed how cold Teito had gotten in the wait until she picked him up from the edge. She hoped that Teito wouldn't get sick and took off quickly to get him to bed. Halfway up Teito's eyes fluttered open, but what she saw weren't the lovely green eyes she liked to look at, but these were red. She looked a little scared at the eyes but decided to just continue. She had heard from Castor about the eye being placed inside Teito so she wasn't that shocked to find Mikhail looking at her, but not knowing what he wanted made her a little wary.

"So you are the one that has been looking from the water at my master." Mikhail said as he looked at her. She nodded at him before looking back in front of her to make sure she was walking the right path. "Thank you for saving my masters memories, Noel Mermaid, I do not want his memories to be away locked again, or in this case be deleted."

Razette smiled a little at that. She was happy that he wasn't mad at her for doing what she had done and felt a little more at ease knowing so.

"I will leave my master in your care for now, please bring him to bed so he may warm up a little. This wetness and the cold on his body isn't doing my master any good, I am afraid that if he does net get warm any time soon he will het a nasty cold." With that Teito's eyes closed again and his body grew numb again.

Razette hurried up her pace to get to Teito's room, that he shared with Hakuren. When she reached the room she hesitated for a bit before braving herself and entering, hoping the other boy was away or fast asleep.

She opened the door a little, letting her head in to look. She found the other boy in the room. He seemed to be sleeping peacefully so she entered and went to Teito's bed as quietly as possible. She put him in the bed and draping his blanket over him. She knew he was still in wet clothes, but she didn't dare to put him in his nightclothes. She could only hope he would be fine as he was. She looked back once more before leaving the room and closing the door quietly behind her.

Hakuren had heard someone get in and walk over to the other side of the room, but had pretended he was still asleep. When he heard the door close again he opened his eyes and looked over at where Teito lay. Standing up he walked over to the boy's bed and saw that Teito's hair was all wet. Lifting the blankets a little he saw his clothes were also wet. Deciding that he didn't want him to catch a cold or maybe even worse, he choose to change him into his nightclothes and carried him to his own bed. He pulled the blankets over the still unresponsive Teito and went over to the other bed to put clean bed sheets on them before crawling in and falling asleep himself.

When Hakuren woke up the next morning, the first thing he noticed was that he had slept all day yesterday and that the bishops hadn't woken him up for lunch or even diner. He was really hungry and hoped that there was still some food left for them to eat. The second thing he noticed was that Teito was still sleeping in his bed. Teito looked fine, but something told him he was not.

He walked over to Teito and placed a hand on his forehead, only then did he know what gave him a bad feeling. Teito had a fever and cold sweat was running down his temple as he kept shivering in his sleep. "Teito?" Hakuren whispered softly. "Teito, wake up… Hey Teito!" he said a little harder.

Getting shaked by Hakuren, Teito moved a little, whimpering softly. A drop of sweat slid down his face. Trying to speak, he opened his eyes a little, looking at Hakuren with half lidded eyes. "I'm sooo thirsty," Teito mumbled with a husky voice, "Water… please…."

Hakuren nodded. "All right, don't move Teito, I'll go get it for you."

Teito rolled with his eyes. It not like he felt like he could move, even if he wanted to.

When Hakuren made his move to leave the room, Teito started to cough, first soft but it kept coming louder and louder until he flinched and sat right up in his bed, eyes squinted in pain. "Ackk, it hurts so bad." He groaned, tears where rolling down his cheeks. Wheezing for breath he let himself fall back onto the bed rolling to his side, obviously shuddering in pain, curling up in a ball.

"Teito!" Hakuren ran back to the bed, pulling the boy against him and trying to unfold him so he may breath a little easier.

Teito started to shiver when blanket rolled from his shoulders, causing his sweat covered nightshirt to cool off. He was beginning to see black spots around his vision, getting bigger until he was surrounded by darkness that told him he was about to loose conscious yet again.

Hakuren, who was still holding Teito against himself, looked down when he felt the boy grow limb in his hold. "Teito…? Teito wake up!" He whispered softly against the boy's ear. He tried again a little harder but still nothing happened, the boy he held had lost consciousness.

Hakuren felt his panic rise, "Frau…" He said softy, "Frau… FRAU!" Finally he got his voice back. He made sure that Teito was laid safely down on his back before he he ran to the door. Opening the door resulting in a loud bang when it crashed to the wall, he ran down the hallway screaming for anyone who could be of help.

Sister Rosalie peeked her head from a room when she heard the loud back and the hurried footsteps after that. "Hakuren, what's wrong?" she asked when she saw Hakuren coming down the hall, getting worried by the panicked face Hakuren had.

"Sister Rosalie… Frau… Where is he? I have to see him now! Teito had… Teito is…" Wheezing he tried to relax himself a little before he tried again. "Teito had some kind of attack, he's in pain! I think he is really sick!" He said with a raspy voice. At that Rosalie jumped up. "Go back to Teito, I'm going to get bishop Frau right now!" Taking a deep breath, Hakuren went back to the room he and Teito shared.

"Hakuren!" A manly but slightly panicked voice yelled not soon after Hakuren had gotten back to the room. Hakuren looked out from the room to see Frau running like he was chased by Verloren himself. "Where is he?"

"He's here, in our room" Hakuren said while rushing back to where Teito was laying.

Slamming the door further open, Frau stormed in the room like a whirlwind, standing there for a moment to catch his breath. Rosalie softly followed the rushed bishop to the boy's bed.

Seeing Teito laying down in the bed, face pale and sweat dripping from his forehead down his temple, Frau swallowed hard. "What in the world happened to him?" he rasped out. "Oi Hakuren, when did this happen? Didn't you noticed he was getting sick?" he snarled at the boy. 'Shit, why didn't Mikhail warn us before it got this bad?' he thought to himself.

Hakuren looked down, a blush on his face. 'I...I... W-well…" he mumbled."

"Forget it!" he snapped. "Go get Labrador and you better get him here fast! Sister Rosalie, go with Hakuren, help him search for Labrador" he practically yelled at them both. Nodding, the both of them ran off in search of Labrador.

"Kid, what happened?" Sitting on the bed next to him, he softly pushed his hand on Teito's forehead. Teito groaned softly at the touch. Frau swallowed. Leaning in close, his forehead touched Teito's sweaty one. "Don't worry kid, I'll look after you, no matter what."

At that moment, Teito wriggled, grasping the sheets and panting softly. Flinching at the movement, Frau sat back up. "What the hell am I doing, he doesn't want me anywhere near him, except for maybe when we are training…" he mumbled.

Looking back at the kids face, an idea came to his mind. "Mikhail, you better have nothing to do with this!" he growled. "Oi, Mikhail can you hear me? Come out you creepy little demon!" he snarled.

Suddenly, Teito's eyes flew open, showing flashy red orbs. "Who are you calling a demon, have you ever looked at yourself, you shitty bishop?!" Mikhail sat up straight in the bed, almost hitting Frau in the head while doing that. He looked at Frau with angry eyes.

The look that Mikhail gave him made Frau twitch when he felt the strong power flowing from the little body. "Ehehe" Frau grinned… "Yeah my bad, I guess I kind of… panicked?" He said, looking straight back and into the red orbs.

Sighing deep, Mikhail relaxed a little. "Look Frau, I'm not the one who is doing this. My master got like this, without me doing anything or being able to do anything about it. He got sick not by my doing but by Fest's and Razette's"

To this, Frau pulled up his eyebrow, looking at him with disbelief. "Are you absolutely sure? What do they have to do with why Teito is sick?"

Growling, Mikhail looked up. "Yeah I'm sure! Ask Fest what has happened!Now if you excuse me, my master needs his rest!" And with that the red orbs turned green again. The eyes slowly closing again and the boy's body going limp falling back to the bed.

Frau barely managed to grab Teito, so he wouldn't fall down too hard, even though the bed was really soft. He pressed the boy into his chest, softly caressing his sweat covered hair. "It'll be all right kid, don't worry he whispered." At this, Teito groaned again and Frau felt the boy scoot closer, even if it was just a little. Teito probably didn't even know he was doing it, or meaning to do it.

Still caressing the boy's body, he leaned in closer, pulling Teito in an even more tighter hug and inhaling the scent of him. 'Why, why am I having these kinds of feelings? I must be going crazy', he thought. Softly he tilted the boy's head a little and pressed a soft kiss on the boy's forehead. A soft moan escaped from the unconscious boy. Looking down Frau got a tingling feeling, coiling in his stomach. 'Why is this kid so…so… damn cute?' Right after that thought he blushed and face palmed himself. 'What the hell?' He shook his head and carefully put Teito down on the bed, covering him with the blankets. 'He just started to talk to me again and accept that I am around, I don't want to scare him away again.'

At that moment, he heard footsteps running towards the room. The door was slammed open again as Labrador, Hakuren and sister Rosalie came in, panting hard and heads red from the running. "Frau, where's Teito?" Labrador asking the obvious is his panic to know what happened to Teito.

Standing up Frau pointed at the pale boy in the bed next to him. He made some room so Labrador could get to Teito giving him the attention he needed.

Labrador hurried to the bed and looked at Teito. Putting a hand on the boy's forehead to check his temperature. "Frau, help me a little, I have to check his body over a little more." Nodding, Frau helped the boy sit up. Labrador popped the buttons open from the nightshirt the boy was wearing, carefully pulling the shirt over his head.

Shivering, the boy let out a soft whimper. "Shhh Teito, it's okay, I just want to check a few things," Labrador whispered. The boy visibly relaxed at the soft and soothing voice and slumped back into unawareness. Labrador placed his hands on Teito's chest and closed his eyes. "Hmm…" he whispered, placing his hands on the boys back.

Frau looked at Labrador with a worried face. "Will he be all right?"

Labrador looked at him and a soft smile came to his face. "You really are pretty fond of the boy aren't you Frau? But I can tell you this, he's going to be better in no time. It's just a pretty nasty cold that he has, probably from all the training you guys did." he said.

Castor coughed awkwardly making Frau and Labrador both look at him, but both decided to ask him later about what he knew.

"Right now he's suffering from physical pain, but still also from some mental pain. He's been through a lot lately. This made him much more at risk for catching the cold he has now. I'll give him something for the cold, I'll be right back. In the meantime, please stay with him okay?" Labrador continued after he looked back from Castor to Frau.

Frau nodded and turned his eyes back on the now sleeping boy. Labrador walked out of the room together with the others, leaving Teito and Frau alone in the room.

"Kid, don't scare me like that ever again," he said, mumbling to himself and sighing in relief.

The boy stirred restlessly, opening his eyes a little. Looking with half lidded eyes at Frau whispering an "I'm sorry."

"What the heck are you apologizing for? Get some more rest gaki." he answered.

The boy shook his head at this and tried to get up a little, holding out his hand for Frau to help him do so. Frowning a little, he helped the boy up, holding is back in support. Hearing voices, Frau looked at the door, seeing Labrador came in with a little bottle in his hands.

"Ahh, you're awake Teito?", he said with a smile. Looking with his eyes still half lidded and his cheeks flushed, Teito nodded a little in response. "Don't worry, you're having a nasty cold, but this should help. It will make you feel a little better." Showing the little bottle to Teito as he handed it to Frau. "Can you help him a little, he has to drink it all for it to have the best effect."

Looking at the bottle, Frau looked back up at Labrador with a questioning face.

"Don't worry," he smiled reassuring, "it should be very sweet to him and it will help Teito with his physical and mental recovery in no time."

"What do you mean 'it should be very sweet to him'." Frau asked with a serious face while eying the contents of the bottle doubtfully.

"I'll explain it some other time to you Frau, for now make sure Teito drinks it." Labrador stopped further questioning from the other male by giving him the we-will-talk-about-it-later look.

At that he nodded and popped the bottle open. "Okay kid, open up," he whispered. Teito opened his mouth a little, and leaning back so Frau could support his back, while Frau put the bottle at his lips, gently pouring the liquid in, so he wouldn't choke on it. Swallowing, Teito sighed at the sweet taste, gulping the bottle down in one time. He noticed that it even cooled his raspy throat, so he was disappointed when it was gone and he felt the rawness coming back.

"Okay, that's it Teito," Labrador smiled. "What you need now is a lot of rest and maybe a bath later to get rid of all the sweat. Your fever is still high and will cause only more trouble if your body isn't taken good care off."

Nodding just a little, Teito looked at Frau who was still supporting him so he could sit up. He didn't really want to ask for help, he didn't want to rely on anyone, but he knew he wouldn't make it to the bath on his own. He would probably get a coughing fit again and just fall down, besides his whole body felt weak. It was like he was two weeks back when he had just 'woken up'. And if he had to ask either Hakuren, Labrador or Frau, he still would prefer Frau. "Uhm, can you help me Frau? I am afraid I wont be able to reach it on my own without falling."

Labrador smiled. "Okay, that shouldn't be a problem, right Frau? If you'll excuse me, I'll go back, there are a lot of chores waiting for me to be done." And with that he disappeared, leaving Teito and Frau alone in the room.

"Well… shall we get you to the bathroom then, or would you want to get some rest first?" Frau fidgeted. Teito nodded in the direction of the bathroom indicating he wanted to take a bath first. Standing up Frau went for the bathroom next to the bedroom, running a hot bath. Checking the temperature, he nodded satisfied to himself. 'This should do it.' he thought.

"Oi kid! Are you coming or what?" he yelled back at the bedroom. Getting no answer, he frowned, stood up and peeked from the bathroom into the bedroom.

Seeing Teito had fallen back asleep, laying with his eyes closed, he sighed softly. 'Guess the kid really is pretty sick huh...' Walking to Teito, he shook the boy softly, waking him up. Teito looked up at him with feverish eyes. "The bath is ready, come on, I'll help you get in," he said. And with that he picked Teito up, holding him close to his chest so he wouldn't fall down.

Teito gasped softly, but clenched his arms around Frau's neck so he could hold on tight. He hid his head in the crook of Frau's neck. A part of him didn't want to be carried like this by Frau, but a much more persistent part right now liked to be where he was.

In the bathroom, Frau put Teito down, supporting him by holding on to his waist.

"Can you undress yourself, or do you need my help for that too?" he smirked a bit first, but seeing the state Teito was in he decided that it would probably be better if he helped him either way.

Teito stood on wobbly legs as he tried to remove his boxer, but he failed miserably. He needed two hands to remove that piece of clothing, but every time he tried to he felt like he would fall and would grab onto Frau to prevent that. "Frau, I can't…" Teito fell silent to ashamed to continue his sentence.

Sighing, Frau got on his knees, still supporting the boy. He gulped when he thought of what he was about to do. He slowly turned the boy so he could lean against the bath so Frau would have his hands free. Frau looked at Teito's face and saw he had a slight blush on his face and was trying very hard not to look at what Frau was about to do.

Deciding it probably would be better to just tell Teito what he was doing he told him every move he made. "Kid, I am gonna pull down your boxer now, is that all right with you?" Pulling down the boxer more skin got revealed, making it hard for Frau to keep his thoughts together. Wanting it to be over, Frau pulled of the thing down completely. He looked at the naked boy in front of him, who had started to pant a little, still not looking at him.

Frau shook his head and stood up again, trying not to think about the nakedness the boy before him was in. "Come on in you go," he said, picking the boy up at his arms. The touch on his naked body made Teito gasp and look up at Frau with a flushed face.

Teito couldn't prevent a moan escaping him, when the feeling of the warmth of the water getting in contact with his body hit him. It felt so good, he thought. Pulling his knees up to his chest, he let his head rest on them, relaxing in the hot water. He felt his muscles relax even though a minute ago they had felt like jelly.

Completely forgetting his surroundings, he flinched when Frau scraped his throat.

"Shall I help you wash of all the feverish sweat, or do you want to do it yourself?" Frau put a washcloth into the water and offered it to Teito.

Teito looked from the washcloth to Frau, really liking the idea of Frau doing it for him, but he made himself a promise. He wouldn't need the help of anyone, and Frau had already helped him too much. He reached for the washcloth, but Frau pulled it back when he nearly had it.

Frau looked at his own hand, not believing what he just had done. He looked back at Teito when he spoke. "Maybe I should wash your back first, after that you can wash the rest yourself. Would you like me to do that?"

Not sure how he should answer Teito could only nod as he slowly turned his back facing Frau. The warmth of the water felt really good on his back and he imagined that he could feel the cleanness spread on his back. He let his head fall down on his knees again as he enjoyed the feeling of the washcloth being circled around.

Frau happy that he was allowed to help Teito like this. He a soft smile on his face when he saw the boys head fall down on his knees, enjoying the feeling on his back. Frau made sure he wouldn't hurt the boy. "You still awake?" he asked when he noticed that Teito was leaning further and further to the right. Receiving no answer he removed the cloth from the kids back and skidded a both around the tub to see for himself.

He found that the boy had fallen asleep again, to exhausted to stay awake for to long. Frau softly bushed the washcloth over the kids face, removing every little drop of sweat that might have been on there. Having still no reaction form the boy he let the cloth float in the water as he laid Teito onto his back. He really didn't want to wake him up, but he had to wash all the sweat off.

Frau just got Teito with his back against the edge of the bath when the cold of the edge woke Teito just a little. He squirmed while he tried to get away from the cold, making the water splash over the edge and getting Frau wet in the process. Frau grimaced at his wet robes, but got over it as he settled the boy on his back.

Taking the washcloth from the water he quickly cleaned the rest of the boy trying not to think to much from the sounds that occasionally left Teito's lips.

When Frau was done cleaning he let the boy soak in it a little longer while he went in search of a towel and something to put on the boy when he was dry. He went back to the bath with the towel around his hands and placed the clean nightshirt and boxer beside it where it was still dry. He bowed down and pulled the sleeping boy out of the water and wound him up in the soft piece of cloth. Teito shivered and woke as soon as his feet touched the ground.

Feeling the warmth surrounding him leaving, he shivered and woke up with a start. The sudden wakefulness resulted in both him and Frau falling, making him land on top of Frau, when his instincts told him to run, but his body failing to comply.

Before they both knew what happened, Teito's hand found his arm lifting to Frau's cheek. He softly brushed against it as he went up to have his hand rest in Frau's hair. Teito looked up as him with half lidded eye and a clear blush, either from the warmth from the bath, the fever or embarrassment.

Frau couldn't move while he watched every move Teito made. He felt a hand softly stroke its way up from his cheek to his hair. He felt the heath coming off of Teito, not able to tell cause of it. He felt his robes getting wetter the longer that Teito laid on him. He was aware of every single thing around him the moment Teito had fallen on top of him.

Teito leaned forward planting a soft kiss on Frau's lips, brushing their lips over each other.

Frau couldn't react, wouldn't react. He had just fought with himself not to touch Teito other than necessary while he was giving him a bath. And here he was, having Teito kiss him, stroking his hand through his hair. He felt a tingling in his groin, remembering what had happened last time when he gave in to it. He placed his hands on the boy's waist to try and get them both up from the floor.

Teito let out a soft groan when he was pushed away from Frau and was put on the ground. Frau kneeled before him, not saying a single thing to the boy, but looking really uncomfortable as he kept changing the way he sat.

Teito didn't really know what he had done or why he had even done it, but he knew it had felt good. He was even a little disappointed to see that Frau had made an end at it, whatever 'it' was. But he couldn't think about it anymore. He felt himself falling asleep again.

Quickly trying to dry of the boy before him, Frau tried not to show how uncomfortable he was, but he knew he failed. He was almost happy to see that Teito was again falling to sleep, so the boy wouldn't notice it. When the Teito was dry he pulled him up so he could put on the boy's boxer, but found that it was hard to do when the person who was to wear it, was already half asleep.

He softly shook the boy awake so he would pull up his legs so Frau could pull on the boxer. He received a mumbled "I am awake" with some coughing following it. Having the boxer on he only needed to pull the nightshirt over his head before he could return him to bed. Carefully lifting Teito's arms and making sure he wouldn't fall to the ground he managed to dress him.

Teito was vaguely aware that he had now clothes on and tried to walk around Frau to find his bed, only to be stopped by said man.

Frau finally found his voice back when he saw what Teito was about to do. "Kid I just had to dress you, because you were not able to do it yourself. What makes you think you can walk all the way to your bed on your own?" He asked as he pulled an eyebrow up.

Looking back at Frau he thought about what the man had just said. He had to admit, there was some point in what he was saying. Not really caring anymore, just wanting to be in bed as soon as possible, he let himself fall towards Frau.

Seeing the sudden movement, and this time reacting to it, Frau was able to catch the boy without falling to the ground again. Teito had his arms thrown around his neck as he breathed at it. Frau notices his breathing was a little uneven and really really hot. He felt Teito lean more and more on him, so he figured he could just as well carry the boy just like he had done when he placed the boy in bath.

Teito coughed and shivered as he was pulled up by Frau and carried to his bed, but further didn't show he was still there. 'He is probably already fast asleep,' thought Frau as he looked down at the boy.

Frau placed Teito on the bed, but when he wanted to pull the blankets over the boy he noticed that Teito had gotten a hold of his ropes while sleeping. He carefully draped the blankets over the boy and went to sit next to him, waiting to be released by Teito.

After a while he noticed that Teito's breathing finally had evened out completely signaling him that he was deep at sleep. Frau released his rope from the hold it was still in. He watched the boy sleep and couldn't resist to stroke the boys hair as verse of the Barsburg Bible came to mind. "I'm dedicating Verse 17 from the third volume of the Barsburg Bible to you... As long as I am in your thoughts, my heart will always be with you." And with that, he stood up and walked to the door.

As Frau was about to leave the room a sharp pain told him Mikhail wanted to speak to him. He let the pain flow into a voice and listened to what the Angel had to say.

"I think I owe you an apology for what I had you go through. I am sorry for that night, I shouldn't have said what I did say. I am grateful to know you care for my master enough to help him even when he does not show his appreciation. I know for a fact that my master does in fact love for you to be around, though I promised not to tell you why he avoids you all now, but know it is not something personal. I also have to thank you for how you just reacted to the way master was behaving. I am sure you know he isn't quite himself right now, but I think you did great. Thanks Zehel."

Frau felt Mikhail leave his head again even before he could comprehend all that was said to him and before he could reply to it. He was happy to hear that Mikhail was grateful to him, but still felt like he needed to be on his guard, with both master and Angel.

He looked back one more time before he closed the door, leading the boy to sleep of his cold. Frau would check in the evening to see how the boy was doing and would bring him some soup to strengthen up again.

A couple of days later Teito was back to health. The first two days Frau had had to help Teito when he wanted to take a bath. After that he had just waited outside the bathroom for Teito to be done. The event from the first morning did not repeat itself, mostly because the next morning Frau was more careful and after that Teito wasn't as unaware of what he was doing anymore.

The speech he had gotten from Mikhail the first morning had given him some hope that the trust he had so harshly lost with Teito was not completely lost yet. There was still some hope that he could prove to the boy that he was worth trusting, and that that trusting people could be rewarded. Though, Frau wondered when he and Teito would be able to, at least, speak normally to each other again without the wariness between them.

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