My Lovely Bastard's

Cassey's Pain

Leon runs, rushing to hold Zack's body which will hit Noah who is injecting drugs on the infusion hose Cassey.

"Yes! Release him! What are you-you?" Zack stopped rebelling, looking at Leon in surprise.

"I can explain, it's just medicine." explains Leon, Zack broke free from Leon's confinement. He shook Leon's hand, holding him back,

"What do you mean?" Leon looked at Noah, as if asking for his approval to answer Zack's question. Noah turned around, facing Zack. Staring at Zack with his sharp gaze,

"You really care about him?" Zack frowned not understanding,

"What does it have to do with asking questions like that?"

"You really care about Cassey?" Noah ignores Zack's question, but Noah stares at Zack. As if not to lose, Zack stared back sharply. Not accepted to be treated arbitrarily by people he did not even know at all.

"I'm asking this for Cassey's sake, if you don't care. Leave him from now on. She's not your old Cassey, "Zack's forehead is getting wrinkled, confused,

"Like anything Cassey is right now, he's still my Cassey." Zack's cynical answer made Noah squeak, about to take a haphazard oath to Zack. As if knowing what was going to happen, Leon stepped closer to Noah. Patting his shoulders softly, hoping Noah's irritation lessened a bit.

Leon knows that his stubbornness Zack will not go well if paired with Noah who is no less stubborn than Zack.

"Let me do the talking, you take care of Cassy." Noah was about to protest, but saw Leon's pleading gaze. Noah was silent, with his half-hearted Noah nodding his head in conformity with Leon's request.

"Zack, would you like a cup of coffee? I don't think a sandwich is too bad either. I'm sure you haven't had breakfast either." said Leon who subtly invited Zack to come out, Zack just nodded in agreement. Follow Leon who came out of the room.

***

"You want a sandwich?" Leon thrusts a packet of sandwiches at Zack, Zack shakes his head. Gurgling his american, Leon nodded. Putting the sandwich on the table, maybe he can give it to Noah later.

"So?" Leon looked at Zack in disbelief,

"Come on, I haven't even unwrapped my hotdog yet." Zack sighed, if he wasn't for Cassey. Zack had already left this man in front of him. Zack doesn't like to eat with people he's not familiar with, of course, except for his business colleagues. And again, Zack also did not like the man who was currently sitting in front of him. He was too familiar with Cassey with his status as an assistant.

"I know you don't like me, but can you not look at me like that?" Zack craved his coffee, looking at Leon with a look of wonder.

Leon waved his hand,

"Not to be surprised, I was just too sensitive to the whole thing." Leon said casually. It was as if he had experienced it many times.

"Can the point be straight?" Leon shook his shoulders, biting his hotdog in a huge bite. Chewed casually, not caring about Zack's upset look. Leon continued like that until his hotdog ran out, then gulped down his orange juice as a cover.

Leon looked at Zack who was still sitting quietly in his chair, Leon chuckled.

"Are you patient too?"

"I almost threw this table in your face." Leon even laughed getting a sharp speech and sharp gaze from Zack.

"Ck, you're really boring." Leon took out two sheets of tissue, dried his hands which were exposed to a little oil from the hotdog.

"So you saw it, didn't you?" Leon raised his head, looking at Zack seriously. Zack is silent, not understanding where Leon is talking.

"Cassey's trauma, Cassey's experience was a lot after arriving in Paris." Zack was silent, but listened to Leon's words clearly. Leon stared at the streets that look crowded from behind the glass cafe, people have started to activity as usual.

"Cassey achieved all this not easily, a lot of bad things happened to him." Leon took a deep breath, as if he could feel how painful Cassey's life was just by recalling it.

"Cassey was with his uncle there, but two months later his uncle died. From there, Cassey's suffering seemed to be all open, his aunt began to reveal her true nature. She tortures Cassey, blaming the death of her husband and the bankruptcy of her husband's business on Cassey. Her cousin's sister also nearly raped her several times, but Cassey could escape." Leon squeezed both his hands, though,

"Up to the top, because his aunt's forest is already very mountainous. Her aunt Cassey's looking for Cassey. Take Cassey to one of the human trafficking clubs, sell Cassey to a rich old man, but either Cassey can escape. I even found Cassey lying on the sidewalk in a mess and unconscious state. Because of all that, Cassey had to be treated in a mental institution for two months." Leon looked at Zack who looked flushed red with anger, his jaw even looking stiffened very strongly.

"In his treatment, Cassey forgot his trauma so he could live a normal life, and I thought it could be permanent. In fact no, a week ago he relapsed again. So I had to ask Noah to get out of Paris as soon as possible to fly here for Cassey."

"Maybe when I saw him he looked fine, but I'm sure. After the incident a week ago, he still felt the tremor when alone. It's just that he didn't tell me. Especially because of last night. His cousin Cassey came out of prison a few days ago, he's currently in LV. I'm sure last night was a surprise from his cousin. So, can you help me take care of Cassey?" zack's jaw tightened even more, his hands clenched very tightly. As if he didn't, Zack would explode.

"Without you turning, I'll do it anyway." Leon nodded, though,

"But my message, don't ask me what's going on in connection with the trauma. Except if by itself he wants to tell a story, but until now he has never told me the slightest about his trauma either to me or to Noah whose incident is his own doctor. Cassey was only made to forget part of his trauma, but Cassey still clearly remembered all the bad events that befell him."

***

Zack stared at the sleeping Cassey, Zack clasping his right hand. Time and time again, Zack was truly sorry. Cassey, who had even lived a hard life before, even more suffering after meeting him.

Yeah, Zack blames himself. If only Zack hadn't made Cassey a bet. If only Zack could have accepted his love for Cassey. If only Zack hadn't hurt Cassey. If only Zack would have gone after Cassey.

That sentence was like a broken audio that kept ringing in Zack's brain. Zack was very sorry for everything. It felt like Zack really wanted to turn back the clock on his initial encounter with Cassey.