Author's Note: I do not own Bleach or its characters. This is AU.
That I Could Get Stuck
It happened too quickly for Jyuu to process. One minute he had been flirting with Retsu and being teased by Shunsui, and the next there was someone with a syringe trying to do something. He hadn't been sure entirely what. But Jyuushiro had pulled Retsu closer to him and away from their attacker, and Shunsui had put the man into the wall. Shun might act lazy, but he had a martial arts background and kept in very good practice. The next thing Jyuushiro knew, hospital security had showed up along with a police officer.
It took some time before everything got sorted out. The man who had tried to attack them was one of the students at the hospital. Mayuri Kurotsuchi was a medical student with an interest in genetics and experimentation. Retsu had been on one of his supervisory committees, and apparently he had formed something of a crush on her. However, she had also been one of the people to reject a number of his experiment proposals because they violated ethical standards. So Retsu had been the object of an odd love-hate obsessions for the man.
And he had not been very happy about being ignored. But what had really put the man over the edge was seeing Retsu finally take an interest in someone else. When it became clear that Retsu and Jyuushiro were really a couple now, it had spurred Kurotsuchi into violence. The police didn't have solid evidence yet, but they were getting a warrant for Kurotsuchi's apartment and expected to find evidence there that would prove him to be the stalker. Jyuushiro was just glad that it was all over.
Retsu leaned against him, her resting on his shoulder. Jyuu had kept an arm wrapped around her waist the entire time. He smiled down at her. At least all was well that ended well.
