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Who: Frau, Kevin, Teito... and maybe someone at the medical center?
When: May 17th during the outbreak
Where: Frau's apartment and maybe the medical center?
Summary: Kevin comes to pick Mimsy up and finds Frau and Teito rather ill.
Warnings: It's Frau. That explains it all.

The past few days had pretty much sucked. Killing his mentor, devouring the souls of the corrupt, falling to the influence of the scythe, the guilt from the war... All of it had piled onto Frau and driven him down. He had started off just being more tired than usual, but the exhausted had slowly progressed into physical pain, and finally to dizziness and nausea. He'd been in bed, or at least the coffin that counted as his bed, for the entire day and had no intention of moving. Simply staying awake through the illness was trying for him. The only reason why he still was awake was Teito. His apprentice was also sick and quite a bit worse off than Frau. Unfortunately there was very little Frau could actually do to help Teito.

Thankfully, Kevin had mentioned that he would be stopping by to pick up Mimsy at some point. If it was soon, maybe Frau could convince him to get Teito to a doctor. The kid really needed it. While Frau didn't want to leave Teito alone, he knew he couldn't go to a doctor. With how sick he was, someone would look over him and realize he wasn't exactly one of the living. That was something he needed to avoid. He would simply have to trust Teito to the hands of the doctors and maybe convince a friend to go and check on him from time to time as well. Frau sighed, though it came out as more of a groan, and closed his eyes, hoping Kevin would show up soon.

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Frau heard the voice through the fog of sleep and illness. There was no way he was going to be able to respond, but hopefully Kevin would try the door anyway. Mimsy would likely hear her owners voice and start barking. That would likely set Tolly off as well.

Thankfully Frau had been too exhausted after the green goo incident to lock the door behind him. Kevin would be able to walk right in, which was what Frau was hoping for. He could feel the heat pouring off of Teito's body, an extreme opposite to the iciness of his own.

Come on, Casper. Just come in.

The door opened and Kevin was nearly taken out at the knees by Mimsy. He stumbled back into the hall and caught a glaring look from a bottle-brush-tailed feline and then had a puppy trying to jump on him.

He held his hand out, palm down, over her head and she immediately sat. Well, at least she hadn't forgotten that. Then, he scooped her up and she became a licking, wiggling ball of energy. Kevin just carried her into the apartment.

"Frau?"

Kevin knew he wouldn't leave the door unlocked, if he was out. Frau just didn't do things like that. Which could mean trouble. A prayer at the front of his mind, he put Mimsy down. "Where's Frau, huh?"

She just stared at him adoringly. DADDY YOU ARE HERE! She wasn't any help. When Kevin peeked into Frau's bedroom, he bit back a curse and raced in. Shit. He could feel the fever rolling off the two through his gloves.

"Hold on." He said, going to look through Frau's freezer. A couple ice packs and some frozen food he'd left and he came back, putting the frozen things behind Frau's knees and in his armpits, then at the back of his neck. A damp washcloth went on Frau's face. Then, he bent to check... oh. That was the one guy. Uhh... "Teito?" That was his name, right?

It was a long moment before Teito's eyes opened - and when they did, they were a deep crimson hue. He shifted the hand beneath his cheek enough to reveal the matching colored jewel embedded in the back of his hand. Surprisingly enough, the other hand didn't let go despite the boy's slightly lucid state.

He did, however, shoot the hand clutching at Frau's shirt a rather affronted look as he murmured, "...Master..."

A blink, and then those crimson orbs cut up to glare weakly at the stranger even as several bone-white spikes shoot out from around the orb to point threateningly at the man's neck.

"Who dares approach my master and what has this place done to he and Zehel? He cannot awaken properly. Speak thee carefully, else feel mine wrath should thine words displease me."

The worry tightening Frau's chest eased a bit when he heard Kevin's voice nearby. Everything would be alright now. He just needed to wake up and try to convince Kevin to look after Teito and not him. A task that only became ten times more important when instead of Teito's voice Frau heard Mikhail's. Great. Just what he needed.

Pooling all of the energy he had, Frau forced his eyes open and struggled to focus first on Kevin (Damn you Mikhail! He's not an enemy!) and then on Mikhail.

"Knock it off, idiot. He's here to help."

The words were whispered and airy, but Frau was pretty sure they were at least audible. Hopefully Mikhail would listen or Frau would need to resort to more serious measures. Measures he wasn't sure he had the strength to do.

Kevin didn't move. When you've had half of your side removed by a bullet, a few bony spikes weren't a big deal. Besides, this kid needed to meet Wolverine. Guy was always popping his claws for one reason or another.

So, his eyes flicked down to the spikes. "I wouldn't touch me with those." He said, very calmly. "If'n they're real bone, they'll disintegrate. An' I'm bettin', that'll hurt."

Mimsy walked up next to Kevin and gave a very confused almost whine and cocked her head to the side. Daddy is good people! You smell funny! She plopped her fat puppy butt on the floor and stayed there, just watching.

"Now, ya want help, or not?" Because Kevin just... didn't have time to deal with cranky patients. Frau was sick. That was what was important.

Crimson eyes darted uncertainly from Frau to the stranger and back, before he sighed. "Can you really help him?"

The weapons retracted slowly as his eyes began to flutter closed once again. Maybe it was because Zehel had vouched for him, or maybe it was because even Mikhail could sense the concern and lack of ill intent, but whichever the reason, he chose to recess his own awareness, leaving Teito asleep once again.

But not without a parting shot.

"...His body burns and he dreams of things that pain him, Zehel."

Frau visibly flinched at that comment. He knew the extent of things that Teito could be dreaming of, and none of them would good. They would do more damage than simple terror during a dream. The pain they brought up would be lingering in Teito even after he woke. Dammit.

After rubbing a weak hand across his forehead, Frau turned weary eyes up to Kevin. He was Teito's only shot.

"Can you get him help, Casper? Please?"

Frau almost never said please. It was a word that fit in the same category as thank you and I'm sorry. He could count the number of times he'd said any of them on one hand. This time though Frau would swallow whatever pride he felt and use it if it could help Teito.

Kevin looked up at Frau. Then he pushed himself to his feet and went into the kitchen, doing a quick look of the pantry and fridge. Nothing he needed. He was going to have to go shopping. He came back, tucking his phone into his pocket. He'd called a cab, because he needed the transport. No way he could carry Teito all the way to the hospital.

He tucked a bottle of something non-alcoholic next to Frau. "Drink that. I'll get him t'a Doc." He didn't know which one, but he'd find one. "Mimsy!"

HELLO DADDY! She practically sprouted out of his feet.

"Watch Frau." Because she was a fierce watch dog of course. She just stared at him. Kevin crouched in front of the kid again and put a gloved hand on his shoulder. "Teito? Teito, ya gotta wake up, jus' fer a bit. I'm gonna get ya some help, alright?" He took off his long coat and wrapped it around Teito as best he could. "Hey, let go o' Frau an' we'll get ya fixed up."

Trying to opened his eyes, even with such prompting, wasn't easy. He felt like he was swimming back from visiting Frau's prison without the benefit of one of Razette's scales. If anything, it caused his hand to tighten a little more on the man's shirt instead, before he finally managed to crack his eyes. Slits of fever-clouded green peered blearily up at Frau, then the stranger.

He blinked once, then began to loosen his grip even as he started to push the jack off, mumbling all the while, " 'S hot an' who're you?"

Frau managed to lift his hand to Teito's resting it there. He needed to calm the kid down and get him to trust Kevin or things wouldn't go smoothly, and right now that's how they needed to go.

"Listen to me, damn brat, he's a friend of mine. He's going to help you. Listen to him."

The words came out between weak coughs and gasps for air, but Frau was pretty sure he'd gotten the point across. He watched Teito for a moment longer before looking up to meet Kevin's eyes. He could never say the words, but his eyes did all the talking for him. Thank you.

"M'name's Kevin." He figured that was a fair enough question. "An', I called a cab, an' we're gonna get ya some help an' then I'm gonna come back here and bother Frau and take care o' him, alrigh'?" No, Frau, you don't get a choice, you're too sick.

"C'mon, we'll put ya in m'coat. That'll protect ya, an' we'll get downstairs." He pulled the coat tighter around Teito. "Frau, drink the liquids. I'll get him settled in, somewhere, an' then be back."

He just knew, instinctively, that Frau didn't want to go to see someone medically inclined. That was fine with him. If nothing else, he could ask Magneto to start an IV or something.

If Frau trusted this man enough to let Teito go with him given his current state, well, then Teito should trust him as well. And to an extent he does - at least enough to stop trying to push the jacket off and to start struggling to his feet, only after reluctantly pulling his hand from beneath Frau's.

A wave of dizziness hit as he tried to push off the coffin's edge and so he lifted a hand to press against his temple as he mumbled, "...A'right. I'll go... but only if you promise you'll come back 'ere? To Frau?"

He blinked, as if trying to force his eyes to focus, before mumbling quietly, "Can't lose 'em again. 'S too soon."

Frau growled weakly at both of them. What was all of this about someone being here with him? He didn't need anyone here with him. Didn't need anyone to take care of him. If he had an ounce more strength than he did at that moment he would have told both of them that too. As it was, he was struggling to just stay awake. Yelling at them was going to have to wait.

Besides, Frau knew perfectly well how stubborn Kevin could be. If he really wanted to beat the kid, he needed to be pretty close to 100%. And that was only talking about beating him at something as dumb as a nickname. This was a lot bigger than that, which meant it would probably be much harder to deal with.

"Go."

Kevin wrapped the coat around Teito and flipped up the collar so there'd be no prospect of Teito accidentally touching him. "I'll come back. Bishop ain't gettin' rid o' me that easily."

Kevin helped Teito out of the apartment and down the stairs. The cab was idling at the curb. "Hey is that guy sick?"

Kevin just stuffed Teito into the back of the car.

"I can't take you if that guy's sick."

Kevin reached into his pocket, pulled out a regular business card and then transferred it to his other, bare, hand. It quickly turned to ashes. "I'll clean up the mess. SPGH, now."

The cabbie turned around. "Right."

Truth be told, Teito wasn't paying much attention to the walk, or the cabbie, or event he ride itself. It took most of his concentration to manage staying awake and upright inside the jacket that seemed to trap all of the heat rolling off him in there with him.

It was hot, his head was pounding, and he was leaving Frau, when the last thing he wanted was to be separated from the man once again.

He tried not to think about that, or the guilt of going to get treatment when Frau was not, and began to shiver in his seat - despite the way his forehead beaded with sweat.

"S-so how d-d-dyou... know... F-Fr-frau?"

Kevin wasn't going to answer a lot, not while in the cab. He just shrugged. "Found me one night, decided I needed a keeper an' assigned himself that role." That was close enough to the truth.

"Now, I try m'bakin' out on him, an' he still insists on keepin' an eye on me." Kevin got out of the cab when it slid to a stop near to the emergency entrance. He tossed some money at the driver and then helped Teito out. "C'mon. WE're gonna get ya fixed up."

That actually earned a ghost of a smile from Teito as he straightened out of the cab. That he had to lean on Kevin wasn't something that he could help, what with the way another wave of dizziness washed over him.

He closed his eyes, swayed precariously on his feet, then chuckled softly to himself as he stepped towards the door. "...Frau always takes care of strays. He's kind like that..."

That's all he managed, however, before the ground started raising up to meet him and his vision went black.

Kevin was a pretty solid guy. He didn't mind taking Teito's weight and was very careful with his exposed skin. "Yeah he sure... shit."

Kevin caught Teito before he could fall to the ground and managed to hoist him up. That wasn't the easiest, but hell if he was going to leave the guy on the ground. No way was that going to happen.

So, instead, he struggled into the ER trying to carry Teito. "I need some help here!" He yelled, struggling a bit. He was used to carrying metal, not humans.

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