+A -Minute +More -To +Wait

[-+//Sire//Aszrielle//+-]

<sup>Sebastian's eyelids flickered open, his pale blue eyes struggling to adjust to the light.
It was early morning, he observed by the light that was streaming through the large window, and he appeared to be lying down in a hospital waiting room.
With his head in another man's lap.

Sebastian shot up, rubbing his eyes, and then groaned as a spasm of pain erupted in his stomach, causing him to double over.

The waiting room was completely empty, apart from himself and...Daniel? Sebastian frowned as he recalled the events the night before. He could vaguely remember being shot, Spider's voice...Mercury turning up after the phone call, and Daniel helping him walk down a seemingly endless corridor.

He looked down to his stomach. He was a mess of blood and sweat - although most of the blood was dry, not fresh. His lips were crusted with the stuff, his mouth still wet and salty.
Sebastian noticed that his gun was nowhere in sight - and neither were Mercury or Spider.

Everything was quiet.

It appeared that he was the first awake.</sup>

[x fallen~reason]

The night had been the most tiring Daniel had ever experienced. Yes it was true nights were he had been driven to transform had left him collapsed for days, but never had such events left him so emotionally drains. His mind rolled past the different ups and downs, where he had been confused about what to believe, the different seductions of auras and what torment they brought.

Daniel felt... exhausted, shattered even, when he had sat down with Sebastian closely by his side last night. After waiting an hour Daniel simply gave up and lay back to welcome sleep, only hoping that he'd be woken to a doctor shaking him awake and explaining how Sebastian was alright.

Sebastian...

It had been just one night, but the one night had felt like a lifetime. He hadn't even cared to remove Sebastian from his lap when he fell asleep, part of him enjoyed it as comfort, and offered his own protective cover, while the other urged him to arrest the man and drag him to the office. After the events last night what protection could he offer? At one point he faintly recalled being with another man, controlling him, turning the air thick with lust.... It had been pathetic of him.

He couldn't protect Sebastian, he had no strength like he and his brother did, nor did he have the reasoning, but he still had remained by his side all throughout the night.

So confused....

"Mmm..." He mumbled and frowned to the light catching his eye. Daniel didn't want to wake up, not yet, but his body slowly floated out from sleep. He opened his dazed eyes.

[-+//Sire//Aszrielle//+-]

<sup>[long post, it's not going to make much sense because I wrote it in the car during a four hour journey, still half asleep. |D apologies~]

Sebastian turned his head, his gaze locking on to Daniel's.
The other was now awake, although only just...his expression still a little dreamy, still tired.
Obviously he couldn't blame him. Last night...it was just one event after the other. Sebastian thought back to the injured body Daniel had found outside the hospital, and then himself hounding the cop out of sheer boredom, dragging him into more mess than he bargained for. Spider teasing him, playing with his mind... He wondered what Daniel would be doing if they hadn't ever met. Would he be watching TV calmly in his one-bedroomed apartment, called out on duty...phoning his girlfriend, maybe?

Sebastian stared blankly into the other man's handsome face, a weak smile slipping across his own lips as he studied Daniel's and sub-conciously imagined kissing them. He punched himself mentally, trying to drag Daniel away from his mind.
They'd only just met...yet when Spider was threatening the cop, mocking him...Sebastian felt some kind of anger, hatred towards his brother that he had never felt before. Sure, he'd felt hatred for the older man plenty a time...but not that kind of anger, not that kind of discomfort. It was as if he couldn't bear to see Daniel in pain, tortured by the brother he detested so much...he knew what it felt like, to be humliated and stripped of all dignity by that particular man. He'd had to endure the same torture as Danny, day after day even as a kid...until Spider left, the day when Mercury got bitten.

Spider deserved nothing more than he had - he deserved to wander the lands alone as a werewolf, and die alone in pity and spite. Yet Mercury still seemed to want him, still seemed to care after all Spider had dragged him through...Sebastian couldn't really see how that was possible. Seb certainly felt no positive feelings towards his brother any longer, and probably never would. Mercury was too soft of heart for the dark-haired monster, yet he appeared to handle him perfectly. Spider was cruel, heartless. He possessed to much greed and a thirst for blood. Him and Sebastian were so alike, yet in such different ways.

A cocky smirk spread across Sebastian's lips. Spider had come that night to kill him - that was his main intention. The point was that for the first time in his life, Spider had failed. Daniel ceased to uncomplicate things, and stood in Spider's way. As long as there was another involved, however big a part they played, things would always be more difficult.
For both of them, actually...Sebastian realized with remorse.
He could have killed Spider there and then, on many occasions. But Danny was always there, holding him back, physically or mentally...there was no way Seb could have murdered his brother in front of the cop.
That just wasn't his style.

Calling Mercury was risky. But it made sense to do it. Even if by doing it, it meant that Sebastian lost his chance to finally carry out his revenge plan.
He was unsure if Daniel fully understood the family ties and history between the three of them...Seb, Mercury and Spider. He didn't really expect him to. Sebastian himself would probably never really fully understand it. He'd been kept in the dark for so many years of his life, and when Spider's secret finally came out, everyone had been affected.
Maybe once him and Spider had acted like brothers. He couldn't remember any occasion fitting to the description though. All the bad had overruled the good in his mind.
Besides, he had a rather selective memory at times.

Sebastian was aware that he was still sitting in Daniel's lap. His feelings were mixed up, all over the place right now. Although he hated to admit it, he didn't really know what he was doing.
His stomach was bleeding, and he reckoned he'd broken his arm or leg. Danny's body was the only thing supporting his.

But why were they in a hospital waiting room? Wasn't the hospital empty?

Surely they'd be eventually found and questioned...although the building had been cleared after the gun was fired the first time, police were bound to come in and search for the tormentors.

Why had Daniel brought him here?
After all, it was extremely unlikely that he'd recieve medical attention. If there was still anybody here, they'd take one look at him and start screaming violently. This much could be predicted from previous experiences. Or he'd be found and arrested...
Was Danny really all that naive?
Sebastian smiled bitterly.
Or maybe Daniel's 'naive' actions were intentional. Maybe he wanted Sebastian to go down for this.

A sudden thought snapped into his mind.
His gun...
Seb couldn't feel his fingers, but he scrabbled to his back anyway. His fingertips bumped against the sheath of his sword. He couldn't see or acknowledge his gun's prescence at all.

"Danny..." Sebastian began, but then trailed off.
"Daniel." He restarted his sentence, his tone slightly harsh now. "I...appreciate...everything you've done, but you don't need to stick around." Seb hesitated, wondering whether he should move or not, as clearly this speech wasn't best delievered sitting in Daniel's lap. "I can take it from here, so you're free to clear off..."

As he said the words, something objected strongly in his mind, but he fought off the protest, narrowing his eyes. He knew he wanted the cop to stay, but...
"You should go and hand in a statement or something, or you'll end up looking like the guilty party. There were witnesses who might twist what they really saw." Sebastian muttered flatly, wincing as he tried to pull his body away from the other man's, nursing his injured stomach with a hand. "Just go, Daniel."
He was aware that he must have looked and sounded pathetic, like a stubborn little kid...but to be honest, he was well beyond caring.</sup>

[x fallen~reason]

It always took him awhile to truly wake up, and like American's said, and smell the coffee. Usually it took several cups of strong, rich tea, because most of his nights turned out to be restless. When was the last time I got a good nights sleep? It had never been because of work, usually it was easy going at this end of the city, the odd robbery and midnight drunken brawl, but that was about how exciting it got. It was just when laying down in his bed senses became inflame, as if he'd just stepped into a smoky filled disco with spiraling lights, it took awhile to calm down, let go of troubling thoughts, and concentrate on achieving sleep rather than the people on the streets passing by. He could sense them.

So, after just waking up thirty seconds ago and now being posed with explanations and long-sentenced words, Danny could do little but just stare at Sebastian blankly and hope the words would sink in soon.

"Just go, Daniel."

Was the only words escaping from Sebastian's mouth that Daniel could comprehend, the rest was all nonsense to him.

Did Sebastian truly want him to leave? Did he even expect him to leave? He stated hard down at Sebastian hoping to find the answers on his face, but as usual, Sebastian revealed no clear expression across his features.

Before he could answer, Daniel shifted to help Sebastian move away before he further injured himself. His hands were placed to his shoulders stabling his balance, but quickly moved away when he realized Sebastian probably didn't need the help, not after the damage taken to his dignity after last night.

“I’ll stay until you get some attention here, all the paper work can wait.” He grumbled in a gruff voice, clearly disliking the idea of returning back to the office and having his absence to his boss. Huge amounts of paper work to follow. He waved his hand as if shrugging away Sebastian’s attempts to get rid of him. “After last night I’ve forgot what you even did wrong before…”

Daniel leaned back into his chair and stretched his arms wide. He was so glad that the area wasn’t crowded but at the same time disappointed and worried that Sebastian hadn’t received medical attention yet. Awakening to busy doctors charging down the corridors, and many complaining elderly waiting for a check up, would cause his mind mayhem. Daniel could no longer visit crowded places now that it caused such a headache for him.

[-+//Sire//Aszrielle//+-]

<sup>[Ha...ha...ha...-laughed at the vibrating thing in Seb's trousers. ;;]

Seb flinched as Daniel brushed his shoulders briefly, automatically jerking away at his touch. He opened his mouth as if to say something, and his expression softened...but he was then interrupted by a rather unorthodox mechanical noise.

Something in Sebastian's pocket was vibrating, determined not to be ignored. The blue-grey haired young man dug a hand into his trousers, withdrawing a mini flip phone that definitely was not his.
Ah. It was Mercury's.
A voicemail notification message flashed up on the screen, startling him with the bright light that it gave off, disturbing his blurred vision. Seb dubiously pressed the middle key, playing the recorded message. Mercury's deep voice sounded loudly from the speaker of the phone.

"Morning Sebastian...and Daniel, if you're still there. If you are, then Sebastian obviously hasn't managed to get rid of you yet...Spider took care of the people at the door. He did his usually memory trick, if you know what I mean, and I think you do...they were all out cold when we left, but things should be running smoothly by the time you wake. I slipped my phone in your pocket so that you can contact me if need be. Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

The man's voice crackled off, throwing Sebastian into a deep pit of confusion. He recalled what Daniel had just said to him, before the cell phone had interrupted them.

"Seriously Danny...Daniel...you don't have to stay. I know you're busy and stuff, you don't want to be trailing around after me." Sebastian muttered weakly, his stomach lurching, causing him to double over again and almost fall off the uncomfortable plastic chair that now supported his wounded back, a poor substitute for Daniel's body.

A woman in a long white coat walked out into the corridor, silencing Seb.
"Can I help you?" She spoke calmly with a smile, her happy-to-help expression fading as she saw the mess Sebastian was in.
Seb looked at Daniel helplessly.</sup>

[x fallen~reason]

(( ahaha xD;;; ))


Daniel made distance away when Sebastian fumbled around to find his phone. It had to be a phone or something calling for attention, unless he would grow very concerned about anything else vibrating in his trouser pocket. Not that he was capable of such thoughts, not now his mind was currently up in the clouds and away with the fairies.

During the entire message Daniel stared to the phone as if it had grown two heads. Despite it being personal to Sebastian he still caught what was being said from the volume of which the phone was speaking. Memory trick? Daniel wouldn't even bother asking for the sake of his sanity. It was like talking to a countryside folk about computers and the internet, everything was so completely beyond him right now. It didn't at all help with his fuzzy mind.

"Look I'm staying-" He snapped and quickly regretted it.

Sebastian couldn't ever understand why the foul mood had arisen so suddenly and neither could Daniel. Colliding feelings deep inside him, tugging on ends of a rope in favour of a decision to fall. He wanted to leave Sebastian and return to his duty, so that these feelings would stop and calm, but he didn't...

Too kind, a damn softie Danny... A voice spoke out somewhere.

Thankfully the nurse's appearances stopped him from moving to Sebastian's side again, collecting him back together and fixing him in a comfortable position. Daniel knew Sebastian would shrug him off.

Daniel's dazed features then changed to sarcastic shock, offering his hand to the poor display of Sebastian bleeding. "We've been here for ages, probably all night. Please, just get a doctor!" And get me some tea, lots of tea before I tear this hospital apart...

[-+//Sire//Aszrielle//+-]

<sup>If Sebastian was taken aback by Daniel's sudden change of tone, he did a good job of disguising it. Of course, you did have to sympathize with the cop. He'd had practically no sleep, a walking casulty on his case, and Sebastian was still giving him crap on top of that.
A part of Seb wanted to reach out and touch Danny, comfort him...

...but of course, that was not going to happen.

The nurse stopped short, a little offended by Daniel's words.
"Well we are trying the best we can." She offered, a little flustered. "We'll send someone right out." She paused, scraping a lock of brown hair behind her ear. "Is...is it an emergency?"

Sebastian stared at her in disbelief.
"Does it look like a f*cking emergency?" He murmured flatly, his silver-blue eyes flashing.
The nurse hesitated, and then shut the door, presumably leaving to find a doctor and escape both Daniel and Sebastian's snide comments.

Sebastian sat there and just stared blankly at Daniel for a couple of minutes. Or maybe it was hours. He failed to notice.
There were so many things he wanted to say, wanted to do...

The door re-opened, and a man in white overalls stepped out, presumably the doctor.
Seb turned to Danny, wincing. "You...will you come with me?" He muttered weakly, his eyes glazed over with suspressed agony.</sup>

[x fallen~reason]

Daniel's lips thinned. Trying the best they could? They had been waiting here possibly all night with a situation that was currently bleeding all across his stomach and partly on the floor. He said nothing, knowing that acting angry would get them nowhere quicker than just sitting down silently would.

When she disappeared to retrieve the doctor, Danny just sat there, lounging one arm across the two seats. His mind was set in a distant place, dwelling on thoughts which revolved around the recent events. They only gave him migraines; he felt it was better focusing on what was happening at present rather than in the past.

He remained still on the seat when a doctor announced his presence, probably presuming Sebastian would want to be left alone now that help had arrived.

His expression changed to one of shock as he heard Sebastian ask. The angry expression which marred his features started to soften towards a light smile. "Sure." He nodded, pushing himself from his seat.

Unsurely, he brought a hand forward, watching Sebastian carefully when he attempted to stand up.

[-+//Sire//Aszrielle//+-]

<sup>[sorry for the extremely stupid post, everything happens too quickly. x)]

The doctor's eyes widened, his brow furrowing.
"Uhm...if you could come right this way?" He eyed Sebastian wearily, wincing as he observed the huge gash in the young man's stomach. Then he paused, trying not to sound weak.
"Do you need any assistance, Mr...?"

Seb's lips curled, his hands stealing back around his stomach, damp with blood.
"-Sebastian." The blue-grey haired man finished for the doctor, who stepped back and propped open the door with a hand.
"Sebastian." The doctor repeated automatically. "Do you need..."
"No. No, I'll be fine." Sebastian muttered curtly, taking a few shaky steps towards the door. He was aware that his hands were trembling, his feet dragging instead of lifting as he walked so agonizingly slowly that it was painful to watch. Sebastian turned around to Daniel, contemplating asking for help.

Before he could part his lips, he tripped, stumbling and falling to the floor, his face smashing into the hard polished ground. Sebastian felt himself thinking 'am I dead?'. The moment his body made contact with the floor, he blacked out, his senses leaving him instantly.

Silence.

The phone vibrated in his trouser pocket then, but he couldn't feel it. He had fainted, or he was dead. One of the two. The Sebastian still awake in his mind wasn't sure.</sup>

[x fallen~reason]

Daniel carefully regarded Sebastian, even when the doctor spoke, his attention wasn't broken to face the man. It was because Sebastian looked like he was about to fall, no, rather die in fact. Waiting by his side was a risky move itself. Sebastian never appreciated help and shrugged him off all the time. So Daniel hesitated when he was about to ask if Sebastian wanted any help, not wishing to face yet another rejection.

Before he could make his mind up, Sebastian fell.

The doctor not so far away just appeared to be gawking, standing there in his white coat which was too important to get dirt with blood splatters. Daniel however had his outfit covered in dirt, and many smears of blood. It was rather sickening, but not at all more sickening than seeing the sight of a bloodied male collapse to the floor in a messy pile.

Daniel snapped down, quicker than the doctor could cry for help, and collected Sebastian together against his side. It wasn't much help now since Sebastian was either dead, or just unconscious, but Daniel still tried to help, no matter what little it did.

"Get someone!" Daniel waved his free arm frantically; seen as the doctor did nothing but cry for help rather than find it. Once the doctor had broke free to his senses, Daniel returned to cradling Sebastian, trying to do anything but just stand there and stare.

"Come on... you can't die." Sebastian didn't have the privilege to die yet, not in Daniel's eyes. There had been so much needed to be said, needed to be done, if it were an sudden end to the story then Danny wouldn't belief it.

He just....can't.

He didn't know why he held on so tightly to Sebastian like he didn't know why he stayed by Sebastian's side all night.

With a shaky sigh Daniel remained by his side until more help appeared. "God, I hate you so much."

[-+//Sire//Aszrielle//+-]

<sup>[AHA. Kissu time~ >8D]

The phone kept ringing and ringing, vibrating like mad inside Sebastian's pocket. Nobody answered it.

Sebastian murmured, stirring slightly.
Images erupted in his mind, flashing through his head.

Pictures with sound. Memories.

Spider...
"I want to kill you, Sebastian. I assumed that much was obvious."
A sly smile, eyes gleaming manically.
"Right now, your time is running out..."

A gunshot...
"You'll pay for that, Danny-boy. Once I've finished with you, you'll wish you'd never been born."

Then things he'd rather not recall, a spasm of jealousy richocheting through his entire body.
"Get...get off me!"

Himself, crawling across the floor, one finger poised above the trigger.

Another gunshot. Spider, sprawled across the ground, bleeding.

Then a different face. A tortured one.
"You're not human."

Daniel.
Danny...

His heart began to beat faster and faster, pounding madly in his chest, his hands freezing and trembling. He broke into a sweat, his eyelids suddenly snapping open.
He was still here. He was alive, cradled in Danny's arms.
Sebastian was far from reality. His cocky demeanour had vanished along with his dignity, replaced with undeniable feelings for the man that held him in his arms. Seb was still the same person - he'd just been separated from his personality.
Or maybe this was his personality. Maybe this was the part of him that he'd never let anyone see, had always shielded from the public eye.

The strange feelings that he had for Daniel were definitely real - this was the truth that he'd attempted to banish when he had first lain eyes on the cop.
Sebastian lay there for a few seconds, unmoving. His left hand twitched. Did Daniel think he was dead? Did he know that Seb was still alive?

Seb gazed up at Danny, as if searching him for some kind of reaction. Unable to contain his feelings any longer, and tired of the voices screaming in his mind, Sebastian pulled himself upwards hooking his arms around Danny's neck. He half-leaned half-fell fowards, his lips colliding into the other man's clumsily.

The doctor had returned, standing in the doorway with a paramedic woman, speechless and shocked.

Sebastian could have sworn his heart ceased beating.</sup>

[x fallen~reason]

((>D FINALLY))


Waiting for the doctor to return had taken long than he expected. Everything was moving far too slow for his liking, well, accept from his panic, which was finally calming down to the odd movements of Sebastian.

It looked and felt like a heavy fever; the glossy sheen of sweat appearing across his face. Daniel didn't know exactly when he'd started staring down at him; maybe it was because he'd given up on watching the corridors for the doctor to return.

When Sebastian's eyes opened Daniel felt like he could kiss the other here, right now- Wait! That was definitely not right.

His eyes turned away so that Sebastian, but they stopped, widened even as Sebastian drew closure and his arms moved to his neck. It lent him forward slightly, down crashing against Sebastian's clumsy lips. The shock died down as did the lids of his eyes. There were hundreds of reasons why he should pull away, like the reasons why he should've never stayed by Sebastian’s side, but they all fell silent to one bold thought that came to his body's reaction. I want this.

Wait....what?

His body moved otherwise to the confusing muddle inside his mind. His lips remained still, softening the kiss to a more pleasant one, more com forting, by using his own experience.

Before he could pull away and demand answers which Daniel would no longer shy away from and bombard poor Sebastian with, he noticed the doctor and a nurse standing there... shocked and completely lost about what to do.

Daniel pulled his head straight away.

"Um I..." He didn't have to give his bloody reasons why to them yet his kind and easily conscious personality didn't let the reasoning’s go by. "We..."

Whatever the doctor said it caused the nurse to blush, and Daniel, who resisted the temptation to hide his head down against Sebastian's.

The two started forward and somehow, Danny felt reluctant to hide Sebastian over.

[-+//Sire//Aszrielle//+-]

<sup>[now i'm stuck. |D;; sorry if this post is terrible, i'm trying to think what sebby could do.]

Sebastian felt his chest tightening and his head spinning madly as Daniel returned the kiss slowly, something that he would not have ever expected him to do, considering the circumstances beforehand. Come on, Daniel had to hate his guts right now. What with the aimless stalking, the humiliation and agony that Sebastian had dragged him into....Seb was struggling to find something attractive about the previous situations.

Then suddenly the kiss ended, both abruptly and in Sebastian's mind, with sharp reluctance. Daniel pulled away, looking upwards. Seb's gaze swivelled to meet that of a young woman and the doctor, who appeared to be heading towards them.

Sebastian cringed inwardedly, attempting to lean his body away from Daniel's.
Now that was bloody embarassing.
Acknowledging that Daniel was struggling for words, Seb opened his mouth to deliever some of his own, but his voice somehow couldn't escape his mouth. His throat was tightening, his vision blurring again. He tried to look at Daniel, but he could just see a distorted, unclear image of a vague person.
His hands were sweating again, his muscles aching horribly.

The doctor was now at his side, crouching down on the hard, cold floor next to him. The woman hung back, obviously trying to stifle the smile that longed to creep across her lips. Although this chain of thought instantly vanished from her mind, as slow realization began to dawn on her - the immense pain that Sebastian appeared to be in. Bending down and placing a hand on his stomach wound, Seb winced at her touch, crumpling.

The paradmedic's hand was streaked with the man's blood, and she looked taken aback, staring down at him.
"Doctor, can you ask them to bring in the stretcher?" The woman's expression tightened as she analysed the large gash in Sebastian's stomach, nudging Daniel aside. "He needs serious medical attention..."
She frowned, musing to herself as she checked Sebastian for other injuries.
"It's...it's impossible. How is he still alive?"

Seb clenched his teeth, trying to pull away from the paramedic.
"There's no way I'm going in an ambulance." He muttered coldly, pushing the woman's hand away from his body, and stealing his arms around the large wound, still bleeding. "No bloody way."</sup>

[x fallen~reason]

The embarrassment currently rushing towards his cheeks and inflaming his body was enough of a distraction to notice Sebastian's body trying to pull away from his. But what he did notice was the other male's discomfort, the pain reawakening and reminding Sebastian just how much deep pain his body was currently experiencing.

He took Sebastian's arms and shook him slightly, not enough to further cause harm, but to grab his attention. "Don't be so damn prideful. You're going whether you like it or not." If it was a choice to leave Sebastian here, dying on the hospital's polished floor with only his pride left, or some place where wounds could be treated and energy replenished, then Danny would have to be, blind, deaf, and permanently retarded to let the offer of help slip by.

Danny glanced to the nurse as if to say 'take him right now before he says otherwise' and began to shift Sebastian helpfully over.

Sebastian was surely going to kick him, or punch him, either way some form of violent act he would be receiving when this whole event had blown over and Sebastian recovered. Whether he deserved it was questionable