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Two Faced


Prologue

By: Huasheng

of

Huasheng Productions©

Kaiba Corporation

11:29 p.m.

2004

Ashley sat in her lonesome office, hoping that she would soon complete the tasks given to her by her boss – Seto Kaiba. She typed fiercely onto her keyboard that connected her to her computer. A short noise caught the attention of Ashley, pulling her eyes off of the computer screen. She looked up and saw a slim figure in the doorway. Dressed in a fashionable blue outfit. Even though he was out of Domino High School, he never really wanted to leave the uniform behind.

"Oh, hi. You startled me." Ashley was relieved that one of her companions had come to her rescue of isolation and depression. She walked up from her desk and pulled the man into an embrace. "So, what are you doing here so late?" Ashley kissed him on his lips softly, than he pulled away.

"I'm here to take something from you." The man's voice was cold and icy.

"Ooo, I love it when you're angry." Ashley wrapped her arms around the strong body.

"Are you sure you want to do that?" the man sounded amused by her actions.

"Am I sure that I want to do what?" Ashley began to unbutton her blouse.

"You really are as stupid as you look." Ashley's companion pulled something sharp and shinny out of his long coat, that surrounded his blue uniform.

"Haha. Very funny. Now put that thing away before you hurt somebody." Ashley took a step away from the devious man.

"That's exactly, what I want." The figure plunged at her, his knife aiming for her chest.

Ashley was very agile, she dodged the sharp weapon easily and headed for the door. The figure beat her to it, bringing a wide smirk to curve his mystical face. And to Ashley, bringing doubt of life for herself, and insecurity of the sight of daylight to once again shine upon her beautiful face.

The man held the blade in the palm of his right hand, holding it so the tip of the blade was facing Ashley. Ashley made her movements slow yet frantically, causing the man to follow her back towards the wall.

She really was stupid if she leading herself to her own demise if she continued taking steps back that would corner her in, putting the ball in the man's court. The man's eyes were fixed on her, not even blinking for a moment. While her eyes wondered and were seeking for some kind of escape. Unfortunately, there was only one door, and it would be very difficult for her to calm victory against a man that was twice her size and physically stronger than her.

Her steps back were put to a halt when she felt the edge of her wooden table against her body. An even more devious and evil smirk widened upon the man's masculine face.

"Don't do this. Please, I'm begging you." Ashley pleaded for her life, as some of her very last tears to be cried about released from her precious cerulean eyes.

"It's to late for that, Ashley." The figure raised his arm and than brought it back down to come into contact with Ashley's heart, but defeating Ashley was no easy job.

Before the man's weapon pierced Ashley, she grabbed one of her metal whole punchers and threw it towards the arm with the blade in it. The impact of the blow caused the figure's arm to fly out of place into the opposite direction, and out of that hand flew the knife. Ashley took this into benefit and ran out the door. Confused and hurt that someone she knew so well would try to injure her like this.

But this was no time to wonder why he was doing this, but it was time to find a way out of this hellhole. Her first instincts were to exit the building that entrapped her to her death. She quickly ran into an elevator that was luckily available for her to use at such convenience. Once she was in the boxed shaped device, her fingers could stop shaking as they continuously pushed themselves into the main floor button.

It was in no time that she was on the floor ground, and in front of her, she saw her only escape – the front foyer door. She raced to it, as she had nothing gain, but everything to lose. Her heels echoed against the foyer's marble walls, making Ashley feel even more fearful than before. The floors were slippery, obviously the help for the building had done their job well, but possibly might need to clean up again. Ashley finally reached the door. The movements of her legs, and breaths for life felt like they had been stopped in time itself. She pushed the door, but it refused to move. She than pulled it hoping that it would obey her than. It was no use. The doors were locked shut, and wouldn't open for her, even if her life depended on it.

She continued to pull on it, hoping that god would be her savoir, but the truth was that no one could save her – no one. She leaned against the door, and just let herself drop to the floor, knowing that she was going to die. Her screams and cries for help did her no good to prevent the view of her from the man's eyes.

Her screams became even louder, and more tears developed as she saw him. He walked out of the same elevator she had used, blade still in his hand, and fury like a burning flame in his eyes. He took large steps towards her, loving the sounds of her screams as she feared him like the mouse did the cat.

But she didn't stay down for long. She picked herself up and ran from him again.

"You can run, but you can't hide Ashley! And run all you want! That will make your demise even more glorious!" the man's voice sent shivers down Ashley's back, as she headed for the stairs this time. She shut the door behind her and in the place of a handle she placed a fire extinguisher, blocking him from entering the staircase, as the handle was jammed and wouldn't open for him. Just as he had locked the door in the front so she wouldn't be able to leave from this nightmare he had created for her.

Ashley ran up the stairs and threw off her heels knowing that they weren't helping her to escape the likes of her so-called "lover". But she kept the heels in her hand, knowing that the bottoms of the soul would come in handy, as that was her only weapon of defense.

Although the door was jammed, the man was smart, he kicked the door open with his foot. The metal door went flying and landed on one of the steps of the stairs. Ashley heard the loud crash and immediately knew that he was on to her. She should have known that a door wasn't going to stop him from what he wanted. And what he wanted was Ashley's blood to be spilt.

Ashley still ran for her life as she didn't want to die. No, not now, she was so young, so full of life. No, she wouldn't die, she couldn't die, she had so much to live for, and she wasn't about to let someone that she thought of her own take her life away from her.

The man wasn't one to tire easily, he chased her and chased her up the stairs, he chased her until she had no where else to go, for she had reached the top – the 67th floor. On that 67th floor was where Seto Kaiba's office was. She was trapped, no where else to go, but through the door that led to a hallway that led to another door that led to a secure office – Kaiba's office.

She opened the door and went through it. The man wasn't slow to do the same. She headed for the elevator that was her only escape. If she stayed up here she was bound to die. She ran towards it with the same speed that she had when she thought the front foyer door was her only escape. The figure behind her knew to well of what she was going to do, and so he threw a knife that pierced itself into the buttons of the elevator that notified that it should come up to retrieve someone.

The tip of the blade hit something in the electrical circuit that caused a dysfunction in the system, and all of Ashley's hope for escape had been terminated, just like the smart chips in the walls. Ashley turned her head to find the man walking towards her, but he had nothing in his hand to hurt her with. Ashley used this as the benefit of the doubt.

She held one of her high-heeled shoes in each hand, and spoke shakily, "Don't come any closer. I don't want to hurt you." She took a few steps back, she meant what she said. Her statement didn't affect the man, he kept approaching her, just as confident as he was when he started his insane desire to murder Ashley. "I mean it!" Ashley had no choice.

She threw one of her shoes at his face, the impact caused him to fall back a few steps, and a hand found its way upon his bruised face. He wasn't happy. If anything she was provoking him to kill her. She decided to run away from his sight again. On her way towards an exit she threw her other shoe at him. Her aim was precisely correct, as she aimed for his private and was successful, he fell to the floor trying to hold in the pain.

Ashley ran until she had to make a decision that would have an ultimate affect on her life. Was she to run down the stairs, or try to go into Kaiba's office. Before she could make her decision, she felt an unbelievable pain in her left shoulder. Her mouth was wide open and she felt like she wouldn't be able to breathe anymore. She turned her head to see what had caused such a feeling to see that a knife was inserted into her shoulder blade. Although the man was spread across the floor, his aim was accurate. She screamed as loud as she could, that scream brought life back to the man on the floor. He had used the most of his strength to pierce Ashley, but something was born inside of him again.

Ashley saw as he began to lift himself up, she knew she didn't have enough strength to run down the stairs and keep hiding from him, so she headed for Kaiba's office. Both of them injured, so speed wasn't really on their side.

Once Ashley got to the thick mahogany door, she tried to open it from the knob. To her dismay, it was locked. Luckily there was something that could help her prevail from the evil man. Right next to the intercom there was a keypad with assorted numbers on it from 1 through 10. To gain entry to his office she would need to type in the correct password.

Her fingers fumbled as she tried almost every combination that she could think of. 2457699. 4967365. 4862587. 2687455. 9751221. Her hands moved even quicker as she heard the man's loud footsteps that echoed in the hallway. He was up from his position on the floor and was heading towards her. Heading towards her to claim his revenge.

Her breathing became quicker and her heart beat faster and faster as her brain thought up of every combination that consisted of seven characters. Time was growing thin for her, as a shadow was now only meters away from her being.

Success! Ashley typed in the right combination number. But was it too late? Not at all, she quickly opened the doors to the grand office and than shut them as hard as she could locking it behind her. She knew that he knew the password and would soon enough enter and take her life. Ashley thought fast and came up with an idea. She rummaged through a near by desk for something strong and hard.

She grabbed a solid gold name plate and than walked on over as fast as she could to the mahogany doors and than began to beat the keypad that was on this side of the door. She obviously believed that if she jammed the electrical system, her lover wouldn't be able to get in.

Boy was she wrong. Once the keypad was into nothing but crushed pieces of rubber and plastic, Ashley decided that everything would now be alright now, but just to be on the safe side she walked over weakly to Kaiba's desk and picked up the phone and dialed for help – she dialed 911.

"Hello?!" Ashley's voice saw high pitched, and it hurt her to move. "I'm at the Kaiba Corporation Building! Someone's trying to kill me! His name is—" Ashley was unable to say more and the operator was unable to hear anymore, for someone had terminated the connection.

"Think you could escape from the likes of me so easily? Huh Ashley?" the man icy orbs could be seen clearly in the darkness, as he was the only sort of light that Ashley could see.

"How did you get in?" Ashley's voice was shaky, and disturbed.

"Don't be stupid Ashley. You know that I know this place like it was my own home. And I'm no idiot Ashley. I've worked here since, I can't even remember when I started!" the man's voice was strong and intimidating.

"Why are you doing this to me? I thought you loved me?" Ashley pleaded to him as she fell off of her chair to the floor. Trying to save herself from her fall, she grabbed the man's outfit, trying to hold herself back. The fabric wasn't strong enough and in her hand was a piece of his outfit. She began to push herself back, away from the man and the sharp blade in his left hand.

"I did love you. Or did I? Did I want you just for your body? You'll never know now will you? As for why I'm doing this, because you lied. And I can't have my reputation destroyed by someone like you." The man towered Ashley's body with his shadow. His mind set on killing her this time. "There's no escape for you this time Ashley. You're going to die." He thrust the blade into her chest, accompanied by a cynical laugh that would belong to someone what was mentally ill.

He pulled the blade out and than thrust it into her already aching body once again this time into her stomach. Killing her baby along with her soul.

"You BITCH!" Ashley yelled between her cries of pain. "How could you kill my baby!?" Ashley hugged her stomach, rolling into a ball on the floor, while the man's laugh entered her ears, and went straight to her aching heart.

"Payback is a bitch isn't it, Ash? Well you should know. Now you'll think twice before you defy me again. But I doubt that would happen, since you won't be alive to make that promise. Good-bye Ash." And with that the man stabbed her once again in her heart and stomach, her last screams echoed the room than died out, as she did also.

The man above her bent over and placed a soft kiss upon her pail lips, pulled out the knife in her back shoulder blade, but not with any care. Out of her hand he pulled out the piece of his uniform, trying his best not to leave any evidence that could lead to him. And than he took off.

Her body was left to rot, while her own flesh stank a very powerful stench – the stench of defeat.

It was moments later that an ambulance also with the police came to the building. Along with a detective and his partner – Yami and Téa Gardner.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Author's Note: O.o.O.o. You guys like? Remember this is my first mystery fic so please read and review. All comments are appreciated! R&R! And I promise that the next chapters will be amazing. Who killed Ashley? Well, it was one of the stars of YGO! I promise! This fic will be worth your while. Also I'd like to thank Bnita for her suggestions. By the way, 'Could It Be?' has been re-posted!