TRIGGER WARNING ASSAULT

Being the only human to live in the Ghoul wing has its risks. Usually Swiss and Sodo try to fuck you on a daily basis, Rain is too nervous to talk to you, Aether is over protective, Cummulus and Cirrus try to get you to hang out with everyone as much as possible, and Sunshine is clingy. This is usually great and the reason you found the Church of Emeritus. This welcoming, loving atmosphere brought nothing but joy to you, an ex-catholic looking for an escape. However, working for Copia as an assistant was tiring. Running around the whole compound with letters, books, and paperwork to deliver for all the Papas, Nihil, and Sister Imperator was exhausting. Especially today. It's a Hunter's Moon tonight. The Ghouls are going to go insane.

"Afternoon Papa '' You greet walking into Copia's study, "Ah mi care hello! I see someone is especially happy today" You set the giant stack of papers on his desk, "I guess you could say that. Well, goodbye Papa'' You begin to walk out of the room, "Y/N wait." You stop and face Papa, "Please have a seat we need to talk about tonight's procedures" You obey. Your heartbeat was in your throat, hands gripping the wood of the chair, "Listen. I do not know how to say this without it sounding inappropriate" Is he going to kick you out? Did you not do your job right?, "As you can probably tell, the ghouls have taken quite a liking to you, and tonight is a Hunter's Moon. Ghouls tend to get territorial, more sexually aroused, and blood thirsty." Blood thirsty? Aether made jokes about them eating blood but unholy shit, "Y/N? Are you okay?" He waved a hand in front of your frozen face, "Am I going to die?" He laughed, "Oh my no no mi cara! We just have to lock your door at around six tonight, and you must not leave till six in the morning." He saw you physically relax, "Besides, I like you. You're an amazing assistant, but don't cross me or you'll be the ghoul's snack" You stared at him in awkward silence, "It was a joke...you know what...take the day off, relax, and ease up. You'll be fine mi cara. You are dismissed '' He gave you a warm smile, which you returned, and left his study.

The grandfather clock beside his door read 5:30. The sun started to set. Walking back to your room was awkward, you tried to avoid every ghoul by hiding behind a column or behind the curtain windows. Some Ghouls already had their masks off, in their original form with their eyes black. The fear in your heart spreads across your body when you see Sodo and Swiss walking past, covering your mouth with your hand to keep quiet, you sneak around the large marble post and run.

Dodging Ghouls through the long corridors proved to be more physically tasking than you thought. You finally made it to your room and slammed the door shut, locking it with the deadbolt and pushing your dresser in front of it. Taking a step back trying to catch your breath and return your breath back to normal. You felt arms wrap around your waist, and a tail wrap around your thigh, shit, "Good job" Rain?, "Rain...what are you doing?" You try to push his arms away, but he tightens his grip, "I'm in your room. Obviously" he chuckled into your neck. Do you feel oddly calm? Why? There is a Ghoul in your room...THERE'S A GHOUL IN YOUR ROOM! Your breath starts to quicken, full of anxiety and fear for what is to come, "Calm down my litte droplet, I'm not gonna hurt you" he whispered in your ear, still not comforted, you try to push away harder, "Rain stop please let me go it's not safe for you to be here!" you tried stomping on his feet, clawing at his claws, and tried to drop to the ground to slip through his grip, but to no avail, "Give it up babe, you're mine tonight" he started to kiss your neck. With no other visible way to escape, you had one option, "AETHE..." Rain put his hand over your mouth, "shhhhh we don't want anyone to come in do we?" Your eyes widened in panic, hands coming up to try and remove his hands from your face, he kept kissing your neck, leaving bites and hickeys. You hear pounding on the door, "Y/N? It's Aether. Are you okay?" You tried to scream for him, but Rain's hand tightened, you could feel his nails begin to dig into your face. In a panic, you start to cry, is Rain really going to assault me? He never talked to me before? Oh Satan, please help me. In your pity, you began to stomp, hoping that Aether would get the clue. Before you could stomp for a third time, the door burst off its hinges.

Aether stood there, door in his hands he threw it on the floor. His pupils were dilated, but not black. He stood there in initial shock, Rain started to move his hand slowly up your shirt, and Aether began to growl. He kicked the dresser in half and stomped into the room. "What the fuck Rain." He growled, grabbing the smaller ghoul by the collar of his shirt. You collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath and coughing. Rain was growling, howling, and clawing at Aether, the bigger ghoul just stood there trying to compose himself before he killed Rain. He knew he couldn't help his urges under the Hunter's Moon, but letting Rain hurt you was more than enough justification to commit murder. With a deep breath, Aether walked Rain over to the bathroom, threw him in, then moved the other dresser, end tables, and the bed in front of the door. You sat on the floor holding yourself, you felt so violated, so used. Tears kept flowing and were not stopping, Aether walked back over to you. He bent down and hesitantly pulled you into his chest, "Y/N. I am so sorry I should have made sure you were locked in here better. I'm sorry, did he..." He was hesitant to ask if he actually assaulted you. You shook your head and whispered, "He grabbed me by my waist and...and he just kissed my neck...when I yelled for you he covered my mouth" your voice cracked after every word, and tears kept streaming. Aether pulled you into his lap, you wrap your arms around his neck sobbing into his shoulder, "I'm here now, it's okay, the moon doesn't effect me like that, I can control it, shhhh" He kept rubbing circles on your back and gently stroked your hair, "Y/N listen to me. You are in danger if we stay here. I kind of destroyed your door" you giggled at him and he smiled too, "Are you comfortable coming back to my room? I have a ghoul proof door, it's steel. No one can get in." You wiped your eyes and looked up at him, his purple eyes were not dilated anymore he was calm, the Aether you had always known, "Are you sure you'll be okay?" Aether looked in your eyes, all of the love he felt for you was heightened from the moon, he wanted to confess his feelings, but not now. Not when you've been attacked, especially by Rain.

"Y/N. on my life. I'll be fine." You both sat there for a second, getting lost in each other's gaze when you heard howling and scratching coming from the bathroom, "Shit." Aether mumbled, picking you up bridal style, "What's happening?" You ask wrapping your arms around his neck to try and get closer, "He's calling for the others to get him out, listen to me, I'm about to literally run for our lives. Close your eyes, don't open them until I say okay?" He started to step over the broken dresser, "Why?" he looked down into your eyes, "Just do it. Okay. I'll explain later" you nodded and closed your eyes, nuzzling your head into his chest.

Aether took a deep breath. He can't stop thinking about what Rain would have done to you. The rage fueled his speed as he took off. The hallways were full of rabid ghouls fighting each other, blood was splattered on the walls, and masks were off. You felt Aether hold you closer, you gripped him tighter.

Rounding the corner to get to Aether's room, Cirrus and Cumulus began growling, on all fours, at you. You felt Aether stop and you opened your eyes, you should have listened. There were ghouls ripping chunks of skin off of eachother, Swiss and Sodo were hissing at each other, and Cirrus's and Cumulus's eyes were darker than black. Instinctively you clung harder to Aether, "Shhh, it'll be okay. It'll be fine, just stay with me." Aether began to walk towards the girl ghouls, but stopped when Cirrus bared her fangs. He didn't want to hurt his sisters, but the female ghouls are way more violent than the guys, so their natural tendencies were to basically kill Aether in this moment, "Y/N listen to me" he whispered, "I'm going to fight them off, while I do that get to my room, the door is unlocked. I have a key. Lock the door. I'll be there. Do not look back" He began to put you down slowly to not scare the angry ghouls, "But Aether, I can't leave you here" You grab his hand, "Y/N not now. Okay look. I love you." He kissed your forehead, "Now run!" You looked at him one last time and took off, Aether growled at the ghoulettes and they pounced on him, you just kept running. His room was only ten doors down, you could do it. One ghoul growled and tried to pounce on you, but you made a quick side step to avoid his fangs. You felt someone behind you, then you fell, a smaller ghoulette pounced on you and had you pinned under her. Your flight or fight kicked in and you punched her, she whimpered and got off of you. You scrambled to your feet and kept going. With your hand on Aether's door knob, you felt a body slam into you, knocking you to the floor again. Before you could react you felt fangs dig into your shoulder and rip off skin, you screamed and kneed the male ghoul where it hurts the most, he doubled over and you take the opportunity to throw your body weight into opening the heavy door, and slammed it shut, finally safe from the chaos in the hallway

You locked yourself in, turned, and pressed your back against the door, letting your legs give out as you rest from the exhaustion and adrenaline. After a few minutes, you felt the wound on your shoulder start stinging, "Shit." you mumble as you stand back up and limp over to Aether's bathroom. His bathroom was smaller than yours, he had a vanity to the left and a bathtub to the right. You feel around for the lightswitch and find it, blinding yourself with the lights. When your vision cleared up, you saw the blood seeping through your black, lace uniform dress. You pulled up the skirt and saw the giant bruises now forming on both of your thighs, already a deep purple. You dig through his cabinets to find the first aid kit all of you were required to have in the rooms. You found it shoved in the back of the cabinet, and opened the box on top of the counter. You took the hydrogen peroxide and poured it into the gash, the stinging sensation lasted for a long time, the cut was definitely deep. Rinsing the gash out with water, you hiss in pain some more, the stinging sensation still lingering. You had to wrap gauze and bandages around the wound, so you carefully removed your dress, leaving you in your blood stained bra and compression shorts. Right as you finished applying neosporin to the cuts, you heard the door open, and froze in fear.

"Y/N? Y/N?" you heard Aether breathlessly whisper, you ran out of the bathroom, "Aether oh my Satan you're alive!" You threw your arms around his neck, completely forgetting about your attire and wound, "Y/n. Why are you bleeding?" You stepped back, well more of a stumble, "A ghoul bit me. I'm fine though really I just needed help with bandaging it." He looked you up and down, not lustfully, but in the most caring, loving way, "Come on." he took your hand gently, and led you back to the bathroom, "Satan Y/N. Your body is so bruised." He gently ran his hand over your bruised sides, "Who the hell did this." He growled, you watched his eyes through the mirror begin to turn to slits, you quickly turned around to face him, "Aether, you're scaring me." He looked at you, and his eyes went back to normal, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Please just, let me help you." He gently turned you back so that you could watch his moves in the mirror. He picked up the bandages and slowly started to unroll some, "Is it okay if I touch you to put the bandages on?" You nodded, keeping eye contact with him through the mirror for a few seconds until he got to work, "Can you lift your arms like this?" He asked as he gently raised your arms so that he could wrap the bandage around your chest to keep it tight. You winced as the shoulder wound shot pain throughout your body. Aether quickly lowered your arm slightly, "I'm sorry my dove" he whispered, "I'll finish this quickly okay?" You nodded trying not to blush at the new name and he got to work placing the gauze on your shoulder wrapping the bandage several times on your shoulder, over your chest, then under your other arm. His hands and arms being that close to you caused your heart rate to spike, you've had a crush on him forever, but now was not the time, but he did say that he loved you, so maybe it was?, "Okay. You're all cleaned up. I can get ice for your legs tomorrow, I shouldn't go back out there" You nodded, still maintaining eye contact with him through the mirror.

You started to turn and gasped at what you saw, his shirt was torn to shreds, deep claw marks were scattered across his chest and stomach, he had a cut on his eyebrow that continued to right under his eye, and his knuckles were stained with dried blood, "Oh my Satan, Aether what the hell happened?" Your hands began to gaze over his wounds, "No no. I'm okay I've been through worse" He gently took your hands in his and looked down into your eyes, "You've always been so protective of me" You couldn't believe that he wasn't in pain and breaking down at how bad his injuries were, "Well. Then let me help you." You picked up a washcloth and wet it under the sink then wiped off all of the dried blood, then put hydrogen peroxide in all of his wounds. His body tensed with each cut getting disinfected, but he didn't make any noise, "Can you raise your arms?" He nodded and put his hands on top of his head, you started to wrap the bandages around his entire chest and abdomen, and wrapped his right wrist, "Thank you" he said, inspecting your work, "You'd make a great nurse" You giggled at his comment, he looked at you and smiled, "Come on, lets go rest" He put his hand on the small of your back, and led you back to the bedroom. He handed you one of his shirts, and you looked at him confused before realizing what you were wearing and quickly put it on, "You can have the bed, I can sleep on the couch" he started to walk over to the couch, "No...wait" you said grabbing his wrist, he turned and looked down at your hand, "I want you to stay with me please" You begged, "Y/N are you sure you want me to?" He looked at you with concern and adoration, once again making your heart flutter, "Yes."

Aether walked to the other side of the bed and laid down beside you with a groan. You scooted closer to him, he did the same, "So," you say, "You love me?" His face flushed, clearly hoping you wouldn't have remembered that, "Um...what if I did?" He asked, turning his head to the left to look at you, "I love you too" You whispered, only inches away from his face. He smiled, and you moved even closer to him, gently resting your hand on his chest while his arm went around your shoulder, gently resting on the bandage, "Y/N. I am sorry." You looked up at him in confusion and he continued, "Papa told me to stay away from you today because he knew how I felt, and I shouldn't have listened." He looked away from you in shame, you placed your hand on his cheek and slowly turned his head to face you, "No. Thank you, Aether. You saved me. If Rain would have - If he -" You started getting choked up with tears as the memories came flooding back, "Hey, hey shhh, it's okay, you're safe now" He pulled you closer and started to wipe away your tears with his free hand. You followed the beating of his heart and the rising and falling of his chest to try and calm you down. Aether felt you begin to calm down, "Good girl" Those words traveled downstairs, he felt you tense and laughed out loud, "Shut up." you grumble into his chest as he still laughs hysterically, "Well, now we know" he said causing you to giggle.

Your moment of peace and happiness was disrupted by pounding on the door. Aether sat up, his back now leaning on the headboard, he pulled you closer to him, his left hand now pressing into your lower back, his right hand behind your shoulder, hugging you to his chest. You wrapped your arms around his bandaged waist, "It's okay love" the fear subsided momentarily at the new nickname. A growl now came from behind the steel, "It's Swiss. It's okay." He said relaxing a little, he growled back. Swiss growled again, then his footsteps got quieter and quieter as he went away, "Try to sleep okay?" He said quietly, starting to drift off. You shook your head, and fell asleep to the beating of his heart, feeling safe, content, and loved.