"Yusei! Is Lucinda alright?" Jack asked as he entered the waiting room. Yusei glanced over at him, then returned his forehead to his hand, his elbow resting on his knee. "It's all over the news!" Jack took a seat opposite of him.
"She's still in E.R." Yusei responded. "What did it look like to you?" Perhaps Jack had seen something out of the ordinary that Yusei didn't catch while he was busy dueling. "It looked fine until she activated mirror force. Then her duel runner started sparking. It wasn't too long after that she crashed into the wall, unable to turn or break.." Jack replied, crossing his arms. Yusei sat back in his chair and stated, "Before the duel, I checked everything on her duel runner for her. It was fine." It was all so strange, and Yusei looked very nervous. It was he who had convinced his new friend and rival to enter the tournament! If she died because of him..
"You need me to get you anything, mate? You're looking rather pale." Jack pointed out.
Yusei shook his head, sighing softly and looking at the floor. Billy then returned to his seat beside Yusei, thrusting a half eaten sandwich into his hand. "You need to eat, you know! It's not your fault." Yusei looked at his sandwich, then to Billy, arching an eyebrow. "What? I got hungry." Billy explained. He looked over at a television mounted on a wall, and Yusei looked more distressed when some old guy on the other side of the room changed the channel to the news, reporting the crash as dramatically as possible and replaying footage from the crash.
Billy jumped up, glaring at the old man, "HEY! Have you no DECENCY?" There was an awkward silence, all eyes in his viewing range of the hospital on him. He sat back down and sighed dreamily while he watched Yusei, his dark eyes aglow with love. "I hate to see you like this, Yusei..I'm sure everything will be alright.."
"Hey, remember last year, that one kid's duelrunner's engine kind of exploded and the kid died?" Jack asked.
"Not. Helping. JACK!" Billy shot a death glare at him. He leaned against Yusei, fluffing his hair up more. "Who's a pretty Yusei? Who's a pretty Yusei? You are!" Billy huggled him, smiling brightly. Jack rolled his eyes, "Weirdo.." "Croikey." Billy replied. The response caused Yusei to crack a smile.
"Are you making fun of me?" Jack shouted. "Could be. Maybe so, maybe no! You'll never know. Neverr." Billy replied, turning his face quickly to the side to flip his brown hair across his forehead.
Billy jumped up again, standing on the table after kicking off the stack of magazines. "Look at me, everyone!" He exclaimed with an Australian accent, "I'm Jack Atlas, mate! Croikey! I love red dragon archfiend! And Red Nova Dragon! Mmm, dragons!"
Jack's face was dark red, and a nurse shooed Billy off the table and out of the hospital. He'd be back soon though. Jack said through his teeth, "I. Don't Say. Croikey."
"YOU JUST DID!" Billy screamed from the other side of the Emergency Room's doors.
Yusei calmly finished his sandwich, grateful for the slight distraction. He could feel his heart rate accelerating as a nurse approached him.
He stood up while asking, "Is she..."
"Yes," the nurse gave a nod, "She's been moved to intensive care. She has suffered multiple fractures throughout her body, and may have a slight concussion. At the moment we're contacting other hospitals in search of a blood match. Our bank is so low at the moment, so we can only hope another hospital can give us some in time." She had started to walk away, but Jack asked, "What's the blood type?"
"O negative." The nurse answered, glancing back to him and Yusei.
"I'm O negative." Jack told her.
"Oh, then come with me; hurry, now!"
An hour later, Yusei sat beside Lucinda's bed, a look of guilt covering his face. It pained him to watch those blue eyes cry.
"I'm scared.." she whispered. She sniffled and tried to lift her arm again, but only could to a certain angle. She sobbed in frustration, and Yusei reached to move her long, red hair out of face for her. She continued, "I don't understand what happened.."
"You haven't any ideas?" Yusei asked.
"Well, I think..Jack hates me.." she answered.
Yusei frowned, "No, Lucinda-"
"What if he did something to my duel runner-"
"No! That's..he wouldn't do that!" Yusei argued. "I know he wouldn't!"
"What if that's what he wants you to think?" Lucinda asked.
"What if you shut up?" Billy asked while strutting into the room with a box of chocolates (chocolate's good), "Nah, I'm joking how are ya? Want some chocolate? You know, life is like a box of-"
"Don't even quote that stupid movie, just give me the chocolate!" Lucinda replied.
"Alrighty then, geez." Billy shoved the box into her hands and sat in Yusei's lap. "Hayyyy, Yusei."
"Hello, Billy." Yusei patted his shoulder.
"I demand a kiss." Billy informed him.
"No."
"Yes."
"..No."
"No."
"Yes."
"HA!"
"Get out. I'll deal with you later."
"By later do you mean in your bedroom?"
"I mean. Later."
"I'll take that as a yes." Billy said and jumped out of his lap, running into the door before opening it and leaving the hospital again.
"He's a..weird..person..isn't he?" Lucinda asked while nomming on the chocolate.
"Yeah. But he's my weird person." Yusei responded and got up, "I'm going home. I've got to get my laptop and examine footage from the crash. I know something very strange must be going on, and I'm determined to find it."
Lucinda nodded, "Good luck, I suppose." Yusei departed the hospital, and soon Jack entered the room.
Oh great, she thought, staring down at her chocolate.
"Hey, you're alive!" Jack greeted her.
"Oh, well, chocolate works wonders." Lucinda replied.
"What a weird crash.." Jack sat down.
"Yes, you would know." Lucinda's orange eyes snapped up to him.
"What? What could you possibly mean?"
"Don't act retarded. I know you want to kill me."
Jack arched a blond eyebrow, in shock at such an accusation. "What? How bad is that concussion of yours?"
"Not as good as you would wish." She answered, devouring another chocolate.
"Explain yourself!" Jack's eyes narrowed into a glare. How dare this fool make up such lies?
"You hate me. I know it to be true." Lucinda answered, threatening to cry again.
"Hate you? Why would I hate you? You haven't even defeated me yet. Not that you ever will, but.."
"Is that a challenge? Wait..we haven't even dueled yet!"
"And I beat Yusei, so doesn't that make me beat you by rank or some kind of rule?" Jack asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"When did you beat Yusei..?"
"Oh, all the time, dear. All the time."
"I don't believe you..Prove it."
"You can't make me."
"Then you can't make me believe you're better than me."
"But can't I make you believe I wouldn't /kill/ you?"
"Try."
Jack grabbed her hand, trying to bring it to his lips, but Lucinda screamed and pulled it away. "NURSE! NURSE! RAPE!" She exclaimed.
Jack quickly stood up, looking more confused than ever. "What..I don't..what?" He scowled and stormed out angrily.
Author's Note: Yes, I know his blood type is A something, but that's not rare, so it wouldn't function well for the story. Anywho, this story is, as usual, written by myself and my bestest friend. Billy, sometimes known as Lucien. We know it's not horribly in character or detailed, but we don't care. It's for fun, not for your approval. So either like it, or bite us. Snap snap snap, doodle.
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Croikey! Comment if you can. Especially if it's nice. Yay! If it's bad, we will crash your duel runner and you won't be as lucky as Lucinda, fool.