Did ya miss me?
Chapter 1
"Are you okay?"
I nodded, even though my stomach felt like it was tied in a knot and I'd just gone to the bathroom for the fifth time since noon.
"Still feeling sick?"
"Oh, no" I smiled "I haven't felt even slightly sick in almost a day-a new record. I'm just having bad cramps again"
Malik sighed and moved my things so I could, once again, sit down in the uncomfortable chairs of the waiting room deep with in the hospital that only patients who had to wait after seeing the doctor were permitted to enter. "Did you tell the doctor about that cramps?" I nodded "And your bathroom use?" this time he was joking
I laughed a little. Yes, after spending over 35 hours in a hospital waiting room-with a few breaks to talk to a variety of doctors-not eating anything the entire time and feeling an intense pain from my stomach I laughed "Malik, if I hadn't told them about my bathroom use they would have figured it out themselves look" I pointed to two security cameras Bakura had showed me. One in the waiting room, one in the hall "They would have seen-and probably counted-all my trips"
Malik shook his head "Ryou, you need to take this a little more seriously. You have an elite team of doctors trying to diagnose you condition and-"
"Malik, all I had to do the last time they called me away was pee in a cup. How can I take them seriously if they just tell me to pee into a cup?"
Malik snorted "It must not have been hard to do that for them" Okay, the fact that I had to go to the bathroom a lot was not funny. It was awkward and becoming a bigger nuisance everyday. Especially during school when kids would stare at me because I kept fidgeting around in my seat while trying to hold it in. Not fun.
"Mr. Bakura?" A nurse came up to the two of us "Dr. Drallos would like to run a few more tests. He says after this one you should be able to eat again, but he still wants you to stay in the hospital"
Food sounded great. I had to be close to 48 hours without eating by now since I'd been asked not to eat before coming to see the doctor.
"Sweet" Malik stood up "There's a MacDonald across the street. I'll pick up some lunches there and come back"
"MALIK! We're in a hos-pit-al! You don't eat MacDonald's in a hospital!"
"I'd recommend not eating it at all" the nurse muttered before dragging me out of the room and into another where the latest doctor was looking over reports on my mysterious condition.
"Ah, Mr. Bakura. Good to see you. I need you to lie down here" he directed me toward an uncomfortable hospital bed, the type that's really just a table. "I've been looking over your symptoms, your health record, and most interesting of all, your birth report" Which meant this doctors theory had something to do with that.
//Ryou, what would 'that' be?//
/Not now Bakura/ I silently thanked the gods that he'd decided to be a 'good yami' and try to give me my space, meaning he wouldn't poke around in my mind for the answer unless he got really, really, really, really curious about it.
"Just a minute" he lifted my shirt up, which made me blush. It feels so uncomfortable having someone you barely know looking at parts of you-even just your stomach. As long as I covered it I wanted it to stay covered "Now Ryou" he says as he spreads a cold gel on my stomach "have you been sexually active lately?"
//Tell him yes//
/But Bakura I've never-/
"Yes" Bakura says for me, taking control of my body for a split second
/Bakura…/
"I see" Dr. Drallos took out some strange machine and ran it over my stomach. Once again, uncomfortable. An image appeared on a near by screen
"What's that?" I pointed to a little dot on the screen, so tiny. The doctor zoomed in on it, but it was still just a tiny dot
"Congratulations, Ryou." He turned the machine of (I think) and removed the gel from my stomach "You're going to be a mother. Problem solved. I'd like you to wait a little longer so we can fill out some good medications and make a list of dieting habits for you"
SC
I slowly made my way to Malik in the waiting room. I was pregnant. How? I mean, in a way I knew how. I wasn't stupid, I paid attention in class. I knew how people got pregnant. But how? I never had sex with anyone but…
/Bakura?/
//What now?//
/Why did you have me to tell the doctor 'yes'?/
//…Do you remember that sleep over you had with Malik a little while back? And Marik and I took over and when you came to we were washing your sheets and it was morning?//
/You had sex in my body? With Marik… in Malik's body?/
//Why does it matter who's body-//
/I'M HAVING MALIK'S KID!/
"Ryou? You're talking with Bakura aren't you? You need to do that without tuning out of the rest of the world"
I blinked "Oh, hey Malik"
"So, did they figure out what's wrong?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah. Um…" Malik was going to be the father of my child for something neither of us did "They want me to stay a little longer. Do you think you could pick up some food from MacDonald's?"
"But you said-"
"Forget what I said" I pulled him out of his chair and pushed him towards the door "I'm starved and if I don't get food soon I swear I'll do something drastic. Go get MacDonald's food, please!" I was starved, but I was really more interested in having a minute away from Malik to think. He's already waited 30 some hours with me, skipping school, I doubt he'd leave for any other reason. Besides, he had to be hungry too.
He returned in a couple minutes with a happy meal, some burgers, two large sodas, and a ton of fries. We both shared the food. I'd already gone through a packet of fries and a burger by the time I got called to a back room to talk to the doctor one last time.
"Okay Ryou" he handed me a packet with a variety of instructions. What to eat, how to exercise, medicines I was actually allowed to take, medicines they wanted me taking, and of course-in bold letters- the message 'no drugs or drinking'. Duh. I never really knew there was this much involved with pregnancy "I'm supposed to offer you the option of abortion"
"No thank you" I sat down in a chair in the small room. "I don't think abortion's right. If I don't want the baby then I can put it up for adoption"
He nodded "Good. I hate giving people abortions. It's their own fault they're pregnant they need to deal with it" this wasn't my fault "Are there any questions?"
"One. Why did it take so long to figure out I was pregnant?"
"Well" he scratched his chin "I suppose because while on some of your records it does list you as capable of conceiving you're also listed as a boy. I was the first one to think of checking for that."
"R-right" I yawned "May I go home? I had to sleep in a hospital chair last night, and those aren't even meant for sitting in. I'm starting to feel tired"
The doctor nodded "Just be sure to pick up a couple pills at the front office before you leave" he scribbled something on a piece of paper and handed it to me "We'll have your father pay for these things when he returns" I stared at him. How did he know my father was away? "You can find a lot of things on the records. Our hospital keeps track of all kinds of stuff. While you were here you got up to go to the bathroom-"
"I'd rather not know"
He laughed. "Don't worry, you have two or three months of your current symptoms so you'll have plenty of time to get comfortable with them" I didn't want to feel sick for three more months. I was already feeling sick now. Ugh, I ate those burgers way to fast, if I don't get to a bathroom soon I wont be the only one to see them again
"Ah, I've kept you too long. You want to go home don't you? Get some rest, eh?" I nodded. Maybe I could find a different doctor… "Right, off you go then"
I could only have left that hospital faster if I hadn't gone to the bathroom first to puke.
SC
"This is hardly fair" I slumped down against one of the large pillars "Can't your sister come sooner? I wanted to be home hours ago. I should have taken the bus"
Malik sighed "I thought school was better than normal today"
"Says you. Everyone gave me death glares all day long because I had a note from the doctor that excused me from gym for the rest of the year. Why don't you try eating lunch while people keep coming up and 'accidentally' spill there drinks or cafeteria mush on you?" It wasn't my fault at all that I was pregnant and it looked like nausea wasn't my only punishment for my yami's actions
"You did have a lot of people dumping the slop the school feeds us on you, I'll admit. But you don't have PE for the rest of the year, wouldn't that make today good?"
My head itched so I did the logical thing, scratch "I guess so. Who knows, maybe I'm still a little upset from the hospital trip" man it really itched. Something was stuck in there. I managed to get it out of my hair
"Re-fried beans. May I have that" Malik plucked the dried food out of my hands and popped it into his mouth
"Oh, yuck! I throw up enough without you doing things like that, thank you very much!"
"Speaking of your 'tummy troubles' the doctor did tell you what's wrong, right? I'd assume he wouldn't have your teachers transfer you out of gym if he just guessed at what was wrong" I nodded "So how come you haven't told me yet?"
"Malik, it hasn't even been a whole day since I found out. May I please have some time to get over it before I go around telling other people about my bizarre problems"
He shrugged and picked a piece of re-fried bean out of my hair. Note to self: When using a bathroom mirror and a school sink to clean school lunch food out of your hair expect to not get much of it out. "I'd listen, really. I'm not like Bakura, I don't go blabbing every little secret to anyone and everyone"
Bakura protested to that in the back of my mind, which made me laugh "Like when he found out Ishizu and Kaiba kissed on a dare?"
"Or the time your sister came to visit and puked in one of Joey's shoes? Aw man, he really enjoyed telling Joey that one"
//I do not tell everyone anything I here!//
/You do to/ I responded quickly, missing Malik's next flashback which apparently involved Yugi and a monkey while I was possessed. I'd have to get Bakura to tell me that one later. Why not? He told everyone everything?
//Cut that out or I'll tell Malik what your 'health condition' is//
"Um… Oh! There's the car" I changed the subject. /I can tell Malik on my own, thank you/ "C'mon, hurry Malik! Let's go!"
"I'm coming" he called after me.
"Hello, Ryou. Sorry I'm late"
"Hey, Ishizu. Don't worry. It was no trouble." I sat down and waited for Malik to get into the car. "Actually, at the moment your brothers going much slower than you
Ishizu laughed "Okay, what's this about?" Malik demanded, sitting down and picking another piece of re-fried bean out of my hair "If it's about the stuff I'm eating, it tastes good solid"
"Too much info, Malik"
"Would you stop that! It's bad enough that everyone dumped food on me that dried in my hair. Its worse that you're eating it! You're going to make sick!"
"Ryou, that's rude"
"I don't know" Malik said thoughtfully "He does get sick pretty easily as of late" he popped the re-fried bean into his mouth "But one would think that I'm making your hair cleaner"
"Malik, don't eat Ryou's hair"
"I'm not eating is hair! I'm eating the food stuck in his hair"
"There's probably hair stuck in it" I pointed out.
Malik made a face and started coughing "Oh, Ryou, lend me your powers of vomiting so I can get this abomination out of my stomach" Funny, that's how I felt. With all the hurling I did when I got home you'd think I would have thrown the baby up.
"Trust me, Malik, it isn't comfortable. Not worth preventing a couple hairs from reaching your stomach"
He shrugged. Obviously he hadn't been sick to his stomach long enough to forget how unpleasant it was
"Let's get to a more pleasant topic, please" Ishizu was giving both of us dirty looks "If you have to talk about vomit do it while I'm not around"
Malik shrugged again, that was starting to annoy me. Nothing was a big deal to him, he didn't have to worry about having a kid, it wasn't like he had to raise it //Isn't he the things father?// Oh yeah… Well, I guess he does have some responsibility towards a kid he doesn't even know exists.
"So, Yugi's having a 'party' at his house" code for he's inviting his friends over to watch a bunch of movies with him all night long "He wanted to know if you're coming" I nodded, then was as good a time as any. I couldn't trust Bakura with any of my secrets but my friends wouldn't tell anyone, they'd understand completely (right?) Malik included.
Yeah. Great time to explain.
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SnowCreek: This must be the longest chapter ever I ever wrote. Don't get your hopes up. They wont all be this long.