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Chapter One: Abandon Mutt
Seto Kaiba was beyond pissed off. He was stuck working late do to someone's stupidity then he was stuck walking home because his stupid incompetent limo driver said the limo broke down and its busy getting fix. He decided to take a short cut through the park to cool down before going home to his younger brother.
Walking through the park always seemed to have a calming effect on Kaiba probably because before his real parents died they used to take him to the park all the time with Mokuba. The memory of his real father pushing him on the swing set made Seto happy but sad at the same time. Since it was late at night Seto decided, since no one was around, that he would take a break from walking and sat on the swing from his memory. 'I miss them terribly', he thought to himself.
While he sat there by himself thinking of the past, something red caught his eye. Stricken by curiosity, he walked over to behind the tree. He gasped seeing someone laying there covered in blood. He bent down and tapped the young man, "Are you okay?" he asked. In reply all he got was a groan. "Hey, can you hear me?" Seto asked as he shook the young man. The man turned over onto his back and it shocked Seto to see none other then Joey Wheeler looking at him through half lidded eyes. "Help me" was all Joey said before he fainted from the blood loss.
Seto was shocked, 'what happened to the mutt?!' he thought as he quickly pulled out his cell phone and called hospital. "Yes hello my friend is loosing blood and fast. I need an ambulance at Domino Park immediately." He hung up the phone and pulled Joey into his lap as he began to stroke the blood caked hair. "Hang on mutt" Seto whispered to the unconscious boy in his arms.
Soon enough the sound of the sirens could be heard as the ambulance pulled up. Immediately the EMT (emergency medical technician) jumped out of the vehicle and approached Seto and Joey. "What happened?" the EMT asked as he took Joey from Seto and began to check him over. "I don't know," Seto replied, "I was walking through the park as a short cut and something caught my eye. So I walked over and discovered Mr. Wheeler here laying face down bleeding everywhere." Seto said with a cold tone in his voice. God forbid the man if he allows any emotion to be shown to others beside his little brother.
The EMT nodded his head and laid Joey on a stretcher and began to wheel him over to the ambulance, Kaiba following on the EMT's heels. "Am I allowed to come" Seto asked or more like demanded. The EMT nodded his head knowing that he could not deny the young rich CEO of Kaiba Co. Slowly the EMT loaded Joey into the ambulance and allowed Kaiba on. They quickly made their way to the hospital.
Immediately upon arrival, Joey was rushed into the ER for emergency surgery to stop the bleeding. Seto was stuck in the waiting room so he decided to call Mokuba and warn him that he would be extremely late getting home. Pulling out his cell he dialed the number to the mansion. "Hello?" asked a sleepy voice on the other end. Seto smiled a rare smile at the sound of his young brother's voice; "Hey Mokie" Seto heard a loud squeal on the other end of the phone. "Hey big brother! Where are you? You should have been home hours ago!" Mokuba complained. Seto told Mokuba about Joey, leaving out how bad his injuries were, telling him that he had to wait at the hospital for Joey to come out of surgery. "I'll be home soon Mokie." Mokuba told Seto to tell Joey to feel better then both brothers bid each other a good night.
Since he had his phone out he decided to call Yugi and his damned Yami and tell them the mutt's condition. The phone rang a few times before a pissed off Yami answered the phone. "What?!" Yami yelled. "It's Kaiba." Seto said and he could hear the beginning of Yami cursing him out. "Shut up and listen. I'm at the hospital cause I found the mutt injured." Immediately Yami stopped cursing at Seto and listen to what Seto told him, "I'll be there in a few." Yami hung up immediately after. Seto sat down in one of the chairs in the waiting room waiting for Yami's arrival and news on Joey's condition.
After waiting around for ten minutes the hospital doors opened as Yugi, Yami, and Yugi's grandfather entered the hospital. Seto raised an eyebrow, "Where's the rest of the geek squad?" he asked. Yami glared, "For your information, Kaiba, I didn't want to wake everyone at one in the morning." The three new arrivals sat and awaited the doctor's arrival. After less then an hour all the occupants of the waiting room dosed off.
A loud door being opened and closed was what awoke the sleeping group. "Are you all here for Mister Joey Wheeler?" the doctor asked as the group nodded in response. "Well I don't know if you want to hear all of the since some of you are in high school still but I have a list of Mr. Wheeler's injuries." Seto interrupted the doctor, "Just tell us." The sound of impatient in his voice to wanting to know shocked the other occupants of the room.
"O-okay", the doctor started to read the medical report, "Mr. Wheeler has sever head trauma and a concussion from being hit in the head from a blunt object, he as knife marks on his chest and arms most done by force, cuts on his wrist from attempted suicide in the past, malnutrition from not eating regularly, he has sever lack of sleep, a number of bruises on his body, and lastly" the doctor paused not sure if he should reveal the last bit of information to the broken down group. Yugi was crying in Yami's arms, Yami looked like he was holding back the tears, Yugi's grandfather was dabbing his eyes with a cloth as he cried for the boy he had come to think of as a son, and lastly Seto was staring at the ground not being able to look at the sad group in front of him. Seto noticed the doctors pause in his reading and demanded to know the rest. The doctor sighed and continued, "He has tearing in the anal area and sperm is present leading to the conformation the rape had occurred."
The room was silent with the exception of Yugi's sobs. Seto was shocked beyond reason when he heard the last piece of Joey's condition. 'T-that's horrible, who would do this to the pup?' Seto's thoughts froze for a second, 'Did I just refer to him as a pup instead of a mutt?' Seto's thoughts were interrupted when the doctor approached him, "Would you like to see him since you were the one who found him?" Seto nodded his head and followed the doctor to Joey's room, "He's still asleep so try not to wake him." Seto stepped into the room and closed the door behind him.
Seto approached the bed and stared down at the torn and broken body of Joey Wheeler. "Poor puppy," Seto said out loud thinking that the blond boy was still asleep. "Mm, not a puppy," Joey said trying his hardest to glare Seto. Seto was shocked to find Joey awake and not asleep like the doctor told him. "How are you feeling mutt?" Seto questioned with a slight smile on his face. Joey looked at Seto like he grew an extra head, "Could be worse I guess." Joey paused before asking, "Why are you here?" Joey forced his ruff and destroyed vocal cords to question. Seto sat in the chair next to Joey's bed and began to stroke Joey's now clean blond hair. "I was the one who found you in the park." Joey frown slightly completely confused as to why Seto was being so nice to him.
Seto realized what he was doing and slowly drew back his hand. "Joey?" Seto asked shocking the boy that he used his first name, "Who did this to you?" When Seto asked the question Joey turned away and replied, "I don't know."
"Bullshit" Joey snapped his head back to look at the CEO, "You damn well know who did this to you." Joey lowered his gaze and repeated that he didn't know. Seto grabbed chin to make Joey look at him, "Now look me in the eye and tell me you still don't know." Joey started to feel the tears run down his cheeks as he mumbled something that Seto couldn't make out.
"Joey I can't heat what your saying" Joey leaned forward despite the pain he felt and buried his head into Seto's chest. Seto hesitated before rapping his arms around Joey holding him gently as he cried into Seto's shirt. 'This feels so weird,' Seto thought. "Joey?" Seto was about to ask again but Joey cut him off shocking Seto with his answer, "It was my father."
This brought back a few bad memories for Seto of his step-father beating him. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and the doctor entered the room. "Mr. Kaiba, Joey may leave the hospital if he wishes to but we got the DNA results from the sperm and I don't think it's a good idea for him to go back to his home." The doctor said dancing around the subject of having to tell Mr. Kaiba who raped Joey not knowing that the boy already knew.
Seto nodded, "I understand." Seto stood up helping Joey to lay back down, "He will be staying with me." This shocked both the doctor and Joey. "K-Kaiba are you sure about this?" Joey asked nervously. Doing something completely out of character, he ruffled Joey's hair, "Yes mutt I'm sure."
"I'm not a mutt!"
Deathangel90: Yay! First chapter complete!
Seto: You hurt my puppy glares
Deathangel90: Yeah but at least it lead to you taking him home wink
Seto: . . . -
Joey: You're so mean to me! T-T
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