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Chapter 13: Desperate
Sebastian held tightly onto Ciel's small form as he sprinted into the emergency room.
"I need a doctor!" Sebastian screamed as he nearly tripped and fell.
A small group of nurses turned in his direction, and they suddenly dropped their clipboards and rushed over to him, "What is the problem?!"
"He was coughing up blood! He has asthma, he's allergic to cats, and he-he-he-" Sebastian was trying to mutter out everything, but the nurses had already taken Ciel out of his arms and were rushing to get him to a gurney.
Sebastian fell to his knees and looked at his hands as his clothes were still dripping.
"What happened to you?" An older nurse asked as she looked down her nose at him.
"It's none of your concern." He said without looking up at her, "Where are they taking him?"
"It's none of your concern, unless you're family." She turned up her nose and walked away.
Sebastian looked back after her, but he knew they wouldn't let him around Ciel without him being blood relation unless he was stable enough to leave, which he wasn't. Sebastian knew he needed to call Ciel's guardian, but where would he ever find the number?
He stood and turned to exit the hospital, he walked over to his car, slammed the door shut and drove as fast as he could.
"We're going to settle his, once and for all, Claude." He said to himself as he adjusted his rear-view mirror.
Claude was finishing a telephone call when he saw the reflection from a car hood on his ceiling. He pressed the "end" button and looked out of the window to find a soaking wet Sebastian storming toward the door.
Sebastian roughly pounded his fist on the door and opened it, "We're leaving, now."
"Where is he?" Claude demanded as he quickly darted out of the house toward Sebastian's car.
"The emergency room because you don't know how to take care of anyone." Sebastian spat as he shoved Claude out of the way so he could get in the driver's seat.
Claude rolled his eyes at his mistake, "You would have a foreign car! Hurry and take me to him!" He retorted as he threw himself in the passenger's seat.
Sebastian threw the car in reverse and turned around quickly, then slammed the car in drive and sped to the hospital.
"What did you do to him, you monster?" Claude said through gritted teeth.
Sebastian didn't say a word because he somehow felt responsible, "Nothing, which is why he's in the condition he's in; he coughed up blood all over me."
Claude screamed in shock, "Get me there now!"
Sebastian turned a hard right into the parking lot and barely had enough time to turn the car off before Claude disappeared into the hospital.
He slammed his fists on the steering wheel out of anger, depression, and jealousy. Sebastian then eyed the door and reached into his arm-rest compartment for his phone.
Claude ran quickly to the nurse's station, "Where is Ciel!? Take me to him right now!"
The nurse stood and put her hand up, "Stop. Who are you and what is your relation to him?"
"I'm his legal guardian!" Claude screamed and his voice cracked.
The nurse shook her head, "He was awarded to the state after his parents passed, and you haven't sent in your paperwork."
"Let me see him!" Claude shouted in her face.
"Have a seat, and if he requests you only then will you see him!" She shouted back at him in an equal volume.
Speechless, Claude turned and walked over to one of the few seats they had in the halls, "What room is he in? I would like to sit outside of it."
"That's confidential." She said without looking up from her papers.
Sebastian walked into the hospital with a slight smile creeping on his lips. He walked over to Claude and sat down lightly.
"What are you still doing here? You have no business with Ciel." Claude said without looking in his direction.
"Neither do you." Sebastian said with almost a laugh, "Look at what you're wearing. I'm surprised they let you stay here!"
Claude sighed, "I washed my white apron with Alois's red stockings, so it turned out pink. I didn't exactly think I would be going anywhere."
Sebastian turned serious, "Oh? So you weren't concerned at all when Ciel never returned to you last night?"
"I assumed you had taken him again, but he was all right last time, why not this time?" Claude said with a weary voice, as if he had said it over and over trying to convince himself.
"He spent the night in his old house and nearly died last night without his inhaler, but even I didn't know this until an hour ago! He had an asthma attack and didn't have anyone to turn to! You couldn't care less about him! You sat in your own home preoccupied with Alois instead of giving him any time of day! Do you care if he has food? Clothes? I was giving him food until you finally took him from that horrible place." Sebastian crossed his arms in finalization.
Claude turned, "You gave him food? I wondered about that as we were cleaning out his cabinets, but why would you do something like that when your gang runs rampant through the streets?"
"My gang doesn't, that's Grell's doings. I have never done anything to harm another, and neither have any of the members of my gang, we just take the given reputation so people will leave us alone, but I'm in love with Ciel…and I want to take him with me to California." He never looked in Claude's direction.
"NO! Absolutely not! I could never allow this!" Claude said as he stood to walk away.
"It's not up to you, it's his choice." Sebastian said with a subtle kind of optimism.
"Why California anyway? Tokyo isn't too far off." Claude said with a deep sadness in his voice.
"I want to marry him." Sebastian said without hesitation.
Claude clenched his fists and turned to retort, but the nurse came back from the hall.
"Ciel wants to see you, Sebastian." The nurse said.
Sebastian stood and nodded. He walked down the hall where another nurse was standing and greeted her before entering the room.
"Don't speak, Ciel. You need your rest." Sebastian said as he entered and closed the door.
Ciel reached out a small hand in his direction. Sebastian smiled and gently provided a "floor" for his hand to rest upon before he touched it to his cheek.
"Your skin is always so soft, Ciel." Sebastian cooed as he touched Ciel's entire palm to his cheek.
"I have a lung infection." Ciel said in a hoarse voice.
Sebastian sat on the chair next to his bed, "Will they be able to cure it?"
He nodded, "It's treatable, but I don't know how I'll ever be able to afford the medication."
"Money is no problem, Ciel. I have plenty for any medication you'll ever need." Sebastian said in reassurance.
"But how? I want to know how you could ever afford all the things you have." Ciel blurted out, but went into a coughing fit.
Sebastian placed a finger to his lips, "I'll explain now, everything, all my secrets, I'll also pay for your medication and give you a place to stay for the rest of your life."
Ciel's eyes were giving a sense of confusion.
"If you'll marry me." Sebastian said with a firm tone.
Ciel's chest tried to heave in a gasp, but he went into a coughing fit and blood started to sprinkle his lips.
"I don't need an answer now. Let me explain everything first, slowly, and from the beginning." Sebastian whispered as he gently stroked Ciel's hand.
"No, I'll let you be my fairy-tale prince. This is the only miraculous thing that has happened to me in my life and I don't want to dispel it with hard truth and logic." Ciel gently squeezed Sebastian's thumb.
Sebastian's eyes watered, "As you wish."
After a short while, Ciel drifted to sleep and the nurse came by to ask Sebastian to leave.
"Visiting hours are over, and since he asked for you, I suppose I can tell you about his condition."
"How bad is his infection?" Sebastian asked with a worried quiver in his voice.
The nurse looked away, "He needs medication immediately. Without it he will die in days, but it is quite rare."
Sebastian grabbed her shoulders, "I'll write you a blank check if it ensures his survival and full recovery."
"Aside from the extreme antibiotics, he needs a place where he won't be exposed to anything that would trigger an allergy…that's what started his infection. If he is exposed to cats much more, especially now, he won't be able to recover."
"There is nothing to worry about if that is the only other exception. We are leaving the country as soon as he has fully recovered." Sebastian said with the same subtle optimism as before.
"I'll need that check now so I can go ahead and have the order here by morning." She said as she smiled and returned to her desk.
Sebastian raced out to his car and found his check book under the arm-rest.
"I wouldn't put too much hope in that brat if I were you." A voice came from the back seat.
"Leave me alone." Sebastian said as he slammed the door and dashed back to the hospital.
He gave the blank check to the nurse, "Have you seen Claude?"
"He said he had dinner to put on, some guardian he turned out to be, right?" She said in a condescending tone.
"He is excellent to his actual brother, but when it comes to others he likes to play hero, but he doesn't have the constitution to be consistent." He smiled.
"Whatever, his medication will be here in the morning and we're moving him to the third floor for recovery. You'll find him in room 42."
"Thank you." Sebastian said as he left the hospital, but as soon as the door closed behind him, all smiles faded into hate.
He got into the car and started it, "What do you want?" He asked Grell in the back seat.
"Drive us to our house so I can love you again." Grell said in a flat voice.
"No." Sebastian said as he turned out of the parking lot and onto the street.
"Then take me somewhere rural enough so I can shoot you." Grell said as he placed a gun to the back of Sebastian's head.
As the cold steel touched Sebastian's skin, a slight chill overcame him, and he knew what he had to do.
"As you wish. Forested or flatlands?" Sebastian said with a smirk.
"Don't play games." Grell said as he cocked the gun.
Sebastian sped out of the city and only then did he slow.
"Why don't you love me the way I love you?" Grell asked with a weakened voice.
"You're despicable." Sebastian said flatly.
"All I want is to make you happy! I would do anything for you! I would even kill for you, and you know that."
"I also know that you've been committing crime behind my back, but in my name. You've been hurting people and using my group as a cover; you're nothing but a coward."
Grell hiccupped, "I love you more than life itself!"
"Be careful of that phrase. Usually, when someone says that, they end up dying at the hands of the one they claim to love more than being alive."
"What do you know?! My heart is bleeding for you and you would rather spit in its direction than to try and fix it!" Grell screamed.
Sebastian looked ahead and noticed a 90 degree angle curve ahead, "You're right! It's because I don't love you, and I could never love you!"
Sebastian pushed the accelerator down to the floor, and as their speed increased to a dangerous level, he suddenly turned the wheel to the left, causing the tail to skid around the curve and the car slammed into a tree.
Sebastian's body moved over into the passenger seat and his head hit the window hard enough to shatter it completely, and Grell somehow came completely out of the right side of the car and was wedged between the car and tree.
Sebastian looked around with blurred vision and he noticed that he couldn't move his legs whether from weakness or another injury. He couldn't hear anything, but faintly in the distance he could hear his car's system response slurring in the background.
"…authorities for you…"
Sebastian coughed and blood began to pour from his mouth before his head hit the arm rest.
Everything faded to black.