His Masters Pet # 4
Hehehe well now Alois is awake - let's have some fun =D
This is actually 2 smaller chapters combined into one just to beef up the length a little more- the first part is just kinda necessary but doesn't deserve a chapter all on its own, and the same for the second part lol
Sorry it took a few days longer then I thought since I had some home work lol
Alois blinked and rubbed his eyes as he tried to focus. He had trouble even moving his arms and hands, but with his eyes blurry and full of sleep he didn't feel like he had much of a choice, at least until Sebastian lent down and started wiping his face with clean, warm and damp towel.
"Dose that feel better young lord?" The demon asked smoothly, brushing his hair back out of his eyes.
"Huh... Err..." The blond strained to speak, the effort alone making him gasp and cough more. He felt like he was suffocating and the more he panicked the worse it got. The young lord Phantomhives little hands coming up to cup his cheeks, still oily from the massage.
"Breathe." Ciel ordered in a stern voice that left no room for argument, but at the same lacked aggression or anger in any way. His eyes where locked onto the blonds sparkling blue ones that still couldn't focus properly, making him wonder if he was really seeing him or just looking through him into nothingness.
"Err..." The blond grunted, desperate to communicate and tell Ciel how badly it hurt, how much pain he was in.
"Breathe." Ciel ordered again, more gently this time, moving a hand down to rub his chest. "Come on Alois, breathe..."
The elder scrunched up his eyes, giving a soft whimper as the tears fell more freely. The massage felt beautiful. it was something he could only have dreamed of, but it didn't take away the struggle for air and even when he tried to relax and breathe like the younger was telling him to it felt like his body wasn't listening to him. He gulped on the air visibly and then found himself unable to make his chest rise again.
"Sebastian!" The young earl snapped his gaze up to his butler, pausing his massage for a moment, worried the gasping and breath holding was a sign he was starting to lose the blond again.
The demon lent over and carefully pulled the boy up into a sitting position, putting the elder earls head on his shoulder, and rubbing his back. Trancy's arms fell uselessly to the side, and he begun to cough loudly again but the heaving of his chest settled down.
"What's wrong with him Sebastian?" Ciel questioned. He couldn't understand why now he was awake he was struggling more then when he had been in a coma.
"I believe it is mostly stress. He was having trouble breathing before, but now he is consciously aware of it, the difficulty getting enough air into his lungs is causing him to panic."
The young earl thought on that carefully, wondering how he could settle him down enough to have a real effect.
"Is it dangerous?"
"It could be, there is always a chance he will go into repertory arrest again. He could also simply have a heart attack." The demon explained far to calmly for his masters liking.
"Fine! Give him to me!" Snapped Ciel, glaring slightly at Sebastian and his nonchalant attitude towards the blonds life.
"Very well, young lord." His butler replied, slowly and carefully moving Alois onto his masters lap, resting his head back on smaller shoulders slowly.
The young earl immediately put his arms around the blond, resting himself back against the pillows and he headboard to keep the very weak teens head up. Ciel was a little frightened, though he didn't show it. He didn't want his new found charge to die only moments after regaining consciousness.
"If you stop breathing Trancy, I'll help you." With no help form the butler that had so offended him. "Don't be scared."
Alois let his eyes drift shut again, his whole body shuddered as he fought for air. He couldn't help himself though no matter how hard he battled unconsciousness, and before he even knew what was happening to him he passed out again. He had been far to weak to stay awake for long.
Even once Ciel felt his new bedmates body go limp once more he continued to hold him tightly. If this is how he was comfortable, then the younger didn't dare move him.
The entire week after Alois first woke the young earl Phantomhive did everything in his power to avoid leaving his side. Now he was conscious again, he could start making it up to him for causing this entire mess in the first place. He haven't bothered to ask Sebastian about Claude, just assuming the demon was taken care of or at the very least not a threat for the moment. It didn't matter much anyway since not even the blond seemed to care where his butler went.
It wasn't as though Trancy had forgotten about the demon, on the contrary, he had thought about him every day. He just never voiced those thoughts, not after what Claude had done to him. It's not like he could really speak very often at all anyway, since most of his time was spent sleeping and trying his best to get better.
There was parts of his illness he couldn't seem to shake no matter how hard Sebastian and Ciel tried to cure him of them. The chronic fatigue, low blood pressure, cold sweats and breathing difficulties barely improved, though he did slowly become better able to deal with them as time went on.
A full three weeks later Alois could sit himself up and eat and drink on his own, which was a relief to the butler who was at first worried that may never happen.
Sebastian wanted to get the boy up and moving as soon as possible to prevent his muscles from deteriorating any more then they already had. He had gone to great lengths to try to stretch his masters former enemy's legs and arms even when he was to weak to move them on his own, which helped his circulation and prevented bed sores but it wouldn't stop him from loosing all his tone and strength to there idol state if he didn't get up and get moving again.
"Young master, with your permission I would like to try to help the young lord Trancy walk to the bathroom on his own today." He offered, moving the silver breakfast tray back onto the cart. "It would be unwise for him to remain in this state for to much longer, lest he waist away."
Ciel sighed, putting his cup down from his lips to there place on the saucer with a soft click.
"How many times do I have to tell you Sebastian, if you want to do something with him, ask his permission and not mine." He was hardly going to order the other young earl around when he was more then capable of making decisions for himself now. If he where to fall unconscious again, then and only then Ciel would start choosing what was best for him, but for now Alois was lucid even if he wasn't very talkative because of how exhausting holding a conversation was.
"Terribly sorry." His butler bowed apologetically, looking to the blond. "Care to get up today, lord Trancy?"
Alois was sitting up against his pile of pillows, Ciel having carefully built them up around his back so he could rest upright in a position that was easier to breathe from. He looked to the younger boy for a moment and then back to the demon, unsure of if he could stand and walk even if he wanted to.
"I promise, I will not let you fall, no harm will come to you." Sebastian offered calmly, walking around to the other side of the bed and offering his hand. He seemed so sure of himself that it was hard for the blond not to trust him, at least with this. It reminded him so much of his Claude, it was hard to believe this was the man he hated so much, that he had been told was responsible for the death of his brother.
"Alright." He agreed, taking his hand and letting the demon pull him onto his shaky and unused feet.
They ached with the pressure and his head swum as the blood rushed to his toes faster then his heart could pump it back up. A hand went straight to his head to stop the spinning while the other grasped Sebastian's coat to steady himself. It made Alois feel nauseous, and he panted hard trying to bring everything in his body back under his control.
As the blond started to regain his composure he noticed small, warm hands on his still bare shoulders and slowly opened his bright blue eyes to meet with Ciel's one uncovered eye, and dark eye patch starting right back at him.
"Are you alright?" He asked, his voice stern but concerned at the same time.
"I'm... I'm fine..." The elder replied, a small smile creeping on his face despite how unwell he felt.
The young earl smiled back, just a small flicker of a smile. they just had to take this one step at a time.