Woot woot! It's the final chapter! ^^;
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"She should be back now," the doctor mumbled.
"What do you mean, should?" I replied, worried. "Isn't Mai…already coming back?"
Marik had just been defeated, and his grip on Mai's conscious should be gone.
"I don't know!" the doctor said exasperatingly. "Do you think I've had a patient whose mind was muddled up by ancient Egyptian artifacts before?"
With an angry huff, he went to check on Bakura in the next room.
"Sorry," I muttered. He was the doctor. He was supposed to know if she was going to be OK. Why hadn't she been released, anyways? Was his grip on Mai's mind too strong? Had her mental prison gotten a mind of its own?
What was Big Brother going to say?
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"Serenity! Is Mai OK now?!?" I shoved open the room door, it wasn't automatically opening fast enough. I could imagine Kaiba sniping at me for abusing his machinery, but I didn't care. All that mattered was if Mai was fine. The others slowly entered the room behind me, but stayed silent.
"She's not up," Serenity sighed, as she looked towards me.
"No way! What gives?" Now that Marik's evil half had been vanquished, why wasn't she up yet?
"I don't know… I think that her mind feels that Marik is still trapping her, even though she was released. Maybe she can get free, but she's stuck…"
"Wake up, Mai!" I walked over to her still body, so fragile an unprotected. She wasn't supposed to be this way; she was supposed to be all fine and dandy, what was wrong? I was already by her bedside before I could feel myself moving, and Serenity was behind me, not saying anything.
Tears formed in my eyes and rolled down my face, slow and unrushed, like a monotone of tears instead of music. One dropped down and landed on her face that was surrounded by her swarm of golden curls. Her lips were parted slightly, like she had something to say but never got it out.
With my finger I wiped the droplet away, and her face was perfect again. No, it wasn't perfect. If her face had been perfect, those amethyst eyes would be open, shining bright like a butterfly's wings in the sunlight. They weren't.
"MAI!" I cried in a jagged, pained voice.
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A trickle of warmth glided through my body, golden and wonderful. His hazel eyes were peering at me through the veil of darkness, not sad and betrayed, but sad in a desperate way. All I could see was darkness and his eyes piercing through.
"Wake up, Mai!"
I heard his voice through my void. I felt his finger wipe away from my cheek, and I realized it was his tear, he was crying for me, for goodness' sake! But I could see nothing but his hazel eyes. I had to see him, right now. Something told me that I wasn't trapped here anymore.
With one last spurn of determination, I pushed.
Then I was spinning and whirling, and then I was there, back in reality, my body safe and sound, my body in check.
"Joey!" I screamed, and I was staring up at him, bright eyes alert and lips formed into the sweetest smile I could muster.
"Mai!" He replied, and for the tiniest second it was just us two, staring at each other, purple against hazel, burning with an intensity that would rival the sun.
Our faces were so close. His golden blond hair was in reach, and if I wanted to, I could touch it. But that wasn't what I sought to do.
Feeling more confident than I had in an age, I put my arms around his neck. And I closed the distance.
My lips were against his, sweet and wonderful. I thought the moment would never end.
But alas, there were people in the room, and you can't make out peacefully when there are bystanders. They don't like it, and you don't want to rob them of their innocence.
So the moment was broken.
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"Bye guys… be good!" I waved one last time before turning to go to my car.
Once I got there, I didn't get in. I just waited. And soon enough, Joey came by.
We didn't even need to speak. We just stared at each other, two ditzy blonds in love. Once again we were too close to be pushed apart, and it was heaven.
I was kissing my savior, my hero, my one light shining in the abyss. Hazel eyes, golden blond hair, I loved it all.
Joey Wheeler.
Fin.
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