cigarettes out the window | scaramouchue x reader

part 24

a/n: recommended for listening:
fourth of july - sufjan stevens
lights are on -  tom rosenthal

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"i am good, thanks for asking" he replied somehow confused "i'm sorry but who are you?"

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"huh?" ayaka said with a confused hurt smile and you felt scaramouche sigh as he held your hand tighter.

"ayato, if you are joking you are so not funny right now" thoma said as he aggressively grabbed ayato's hand.

"sir, please refrain from hurting me, i don't even know you" ayato said and he retreated his hand from his now past love interest's grasps.

"ayato, it's me, yae miko, do you remember me?" miko said calmly as she approached him, but her body posture said other wise.

"i ... don't recall ever meeting you" he said as he became more and more confused.

"oh god" ayaka said and she burried her face in her hands.

"i'm calling the doctor" you said hoping they will at least do something.

"no, wait" scaramouche stopped you "if they come here, they will start inhibiting him with medicine and we won't have a chance to talk to him, how much do we have left. one hour? two hours? at least let's make them worth it"

"the doctors should know. you four stay with him, i'll tell the doctor what happened and i guarantee you will be with him until his last minute" miko said as she stood up from the chair she sat on.

"if i don't come back in time, it was my pleasure to know such a good kid like you ayato, you will always hold a place in my heart" miko said as she shook his hand.

"i have no idea who you are lady but the pleasure was all mine" he said returning the handshake.

but ayaka started bawling her eyes out as soon as miko left. and thoma tried calming her down.

"ayaka there won't be any change if you cry now, at least don't make ayato remember his last moments like this" he said as he tried patting her shoulder.

"he is dying, thoma. dying! what in the actual fuck do you expect me to do? be happy about it? just accept the fact that i will have no family fucking left? that my only support will be ripped away from me?" she said in an anger crisis but nobody noticed the shocked and horrified expression that creeped up onto ayato's face.

"i'm ... dying?" he said as he looked at his  hands starting to have an existential crisis, the same one you had the first time you and scaramouche met.

"ayaka, i think the best thing we can do now is recall his life to him, so he won't go without any memories" you told her and thoma helped her get up.

and so you did. for the next four hours, surprisingly much longer than the doctors estimated, you all recalled as many good memories with ayato and for ayato as you could.

even scaramouche, who didn't know ayato for long told him how happy he was that he showed up for his birthday party.

miko would tell him so many childhood stories with him, that poor ayato, even if he didn't remember them, would start to get embarrassed.

even though if ayaka would break down every other moment, she would still tell him how a good brother he was to her, and how he is the only man she treasured so much in her life.

you would tell him how you would panic over every boy you liked and how you always somehow ended up receiving boy advices from ayato.

"damn, what a life a have lived" he slightly smiled and looked around "so, you are my guardian but not in a legal way, you are my sister, you are my and my sister's best friend and you are her boyfriend" ayato said as he pointed towards each one of you "however i still didn't understand my relationship to you" he said as he pointed towards thoma.

"dear, at least gather the guts to tell him how you feel now" yae said but not in her usual mocking tone, but with the most genuine intention she have ever had.

"i ..." thoma started and he took a deep breath as he looked at everyone.

"i love you, you may as well take my heart ayato, it's already full of you" he said and ayato looked at him shocked and empathetic, then started coughing uncontrollably.

"i'm calling the doctor" scaramouche bolted up from his chair and went to find someone who may help.

"what is it? what's wrong my dear?" thoma said as he rushed towards him.

"you know nothing about me, you've known only 3 hours!" ayato said agitated.

"3 hours? ayato, I've known you all my life" thoma said as tears started forming in his eyes.

"all my life?" and in that moment doctors came rushing through injecting him with painkillers and medicine to raise his blood oxygenation but his heartbeat would only get faster and faster.

"his time is up" a nurse said panicked, but during this time, even though he could barely breath, ayato started calming down.

"then my last words, i love you thoma" he said as he looked in his eyes.

"no, no, no, no, you don't even remember me, you are determined to die with a lie on your lips?" and he was interrupted by the heartbeat monitor which started going like crazy.

"i love you, thoma" ayato said, barely breathing it out "and you ayaka" he said as he turned to her "even if i just met you, i know you were the best sister for me that i could even ask for" he said and built the strength to raise his hand and wipe her tears "thank you, sis"

then he yet again, he inhaled sharply, but he never exhaled and the heartbeat monitor finally calmed down and sang a straight beep line.

you and scaramouche were holding onto each other for dear life, yae miko was just staring horrified not knowing how to deal with what she just witnessed and ayaka with thoma still held onto his hands, hoping to keep them warm forever.

"name: kamisato ayato. time of death: 22:18" the doctor said and he covered the lifeless body with a white cloth.