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“Joseph, you got to be alive.” Sebastian coughs out as he pushes the rubble off his chest. They’ve come too far for him to die now. Joseph is strong. He can take a bullet, right? Sebastian brushes off his thoughts and takes in his surroundings. He’s in a subway station that’s falling apart by the second. “This place won’t stand up much longer” Sebastian thinks “better get moving”. Sebastian starts traveling down a broken escalator. So far the place is empty. There are no monsters but that only leaves Sebastian with his thoughts.
“If anything happens to Joseph... God, if anything happens to him...” Sebastian ends that thought there because he doesn’t know what he’ll do if he losses Joseph. He just hopes he’ll find him soon. “Beep beep beep beep beep”. “SHIT” Sebastian shouts as he hits the floor. He almost set off a bomb. “Damn it, I’m getting too careless. I need to focus”. Sebastian shoves all thoughts of worry down and begins to focus on one thing. Finding Joseph.
Sebastian was sweeping through the subway quickly. Sneaking in a room. Taking out two or three monsters undetected before sneaking through the next. It was all working great. As long as he had his goal of finding Joseph than nothing could stop him. That was until he encountered one of the “other” Ruvic's.
Sebastian had to slow down. Take his time to strategize how he can take out the doppelganger without dying himself. But it was taking too long. Joseph could be bleeding out on the floor for all he knows. So fuck strategizing. Fuck sneaking. Joseph needs him now.
Sebastian runs by the doppelganger waiting for the exact moment for it to scream before firing as many shots as he can into its face. He keeps running not looking back to see if that did the job. Not looking back to see all the monsters he alerted. Sebastian just keeps running to find Joseph.
Sebastian ran until all of his enemies were out of sight. He then realizes that he’s bleeding from his lower abdomen. He must have gotten nicked by a bullet. As much as Sebastian wants to push through the injury he knows that there is no point in finding Joseph if when he does he passes out from blood loss. He sits down to start treating his wound.
Every thought possible is racing through Sebastian’s head. Is Joseph safe? How serious is the wound? Where is he? Is he still bleeding? Is he alive? No. He can’t think about that. He needs to think about something else. Anything else. His mind goes back.
“I’m worried about you”. Sebastian looks up at the voice across from his desk. It’s Joseph. They’re in Sebastian’s office and Joseph had just found the flask Sebastian keeps in his desk drawer. “Nosy brat” Sebastian thinks. “Always going through everything. Even if his intentions are good,” Sebastian’s looks away from Joseph. “This isn’t okay” Joseph states placing the flask on the desk a little too hard so it echoes throughout the room. “This is going to start affecting your work.” No it won’t” Sebastian starts but Joseph will not hear it. “It will and I’m not going to stay quiet and let you lose your job”. Sebastian looks up at Joseph. He’s shocked. Joseph isn’t angry or even mad. He just looks sad; tired.
Footsteps break Sebastian from his thoughts. He hurries patching his wound and starts traveling once again. He’s not sure why his mind wandered back to that day. Maybe because it was the day he learned how much Joseph cared about him. Maybe because it was the day he learned just how much he was failing Joseph. But there’s no time to think about this. Back to his goal. Find Joseph.