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Chapter three

On the way to the hotel Seto kept on planning his "Secret Saviour"- plan. Project SS as he would name it, so Mokuba wouldn't find out anything if he ever was home and overheard him on the phone. It wasn't likely as he hadn't been home much, since he had met his girlfriend in college. But still Seto always thought better save than sorry. He wanted to make absolutely sure that Joey would get all the help he needed and more. And for that he needed to stay secret, so Joey would not refuse. First he wrote a letter to Joey that he would leave in the hotel room.

Dear Joey.

I hope you will except the help I intend on giving you. I know that you have been trough a lot of bad times and I want to make the coming ones better and easier for you. I want that, because I really like you. To be honest, I fell in love with you the first time I saw you. I watched every duel of you that was on TV.
I promise you that I will always be there for you and protect you as good as I can for as long as you let me and I expect nothing in return, nothing but for you to be happy. If you ever need anything, please let Ed know about it and he will inform me and you will get it, no matter what it is. But I can't let you know my name for different reasons. One of them is that I don't want you to feel like you owe me anything and as long as you don't know who I am, you can't do anything to make it up to me and that's exactly how I want it to be. Also, I don't think that you could like me, so I don't want you to know who I am, I'm a bit shy. Please just be happy and live your life again.
If you want, I will not let anyone know who you really are and pretend that you are Katsuya Jonouchi, even so I know that your true name is Joseph Wheeler, but there really is no reason. The police is only looking for you to make sure that you are still alive and the deduction about your father having died by you in self defence was right, you are not charged with anything and the deeped you had inherited is payed by me already.
You have been hiding for so long that I had almost given up hope of ever finding you, even so I would never have stopped trying. And like I said before, if you ever need anything, let me know. I will organise you a better place to stay as well as plenty of money, so you will never have to work again. I want you to be able to spend all your time in a way that will make you happy. I don't know if you can or like to cook or rather have a personal chef or regular take out, please let me know so I can organise for whatever makes you happy.

In everlasting love,

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Seto read trough the letter about 4 times to make sure it didn't sound too much like him. He hadn't lied in it, even so he had made it sound like he knew him from TV, after all he had seen the tournaments he had been in, they had been broadcasted and he had organised them and or had been in them. Still it didn't seem to be enough to just leave a letter. But what else could he do, if he didn't want to be found out?

Seto pulled his phone out and called his right hand man, Roland.

"Get to the four seasons, I need to listen in on a conversation and I need to be able to tell one of the people in the room some things. Can you organise that for me?" Seto asked as soon as Roland had answered his phone.

"Of course boss. I'm on my way."

"Hurry, we don't have much time." And with that Seto dropped the call and focused on what he had to do. He would have to get Joey a phone as well. He always had a few spare ones that he hadn't used yet, for emergencies so no one knew the numbers of them. He got one of them out of his brief case and saved the numbers of Yugi, Yami, Tristan, Tea, Duke and the rest of the geek squat, Joey might want to phone them so he would need the numbers. Who knew if the little Puppy could still remember the numbers, so it was better to play it save and give it to him and this way he wouldn't embarrass him by assuming he didn't know, he just already had them. It saved him the time of programming them into the phone. Seto also added Ed's number into the phonebook.

As soon as he arrived at the posh hotel, he went to the front desk and said: "I need two suites. One for one night, the other for a week. Next to each other, please. The one for a night will be on my name, Seto Kaiba, and the other on the name... Katsuya Jonouchi. While the woman on the reception desk looked at her computer, Seto took out his phone and sent a text to Ed, telling him on what name the room was booked for and asked how much longer he had to prepare everything, before he would arrive with Joey?

"How many keycards would you need for the room?"

"One keycard for the room for one night and two for the others, but I´ll only take one now, the other will be picked up by Katsuya and Ed, a friend that will be here for a moment. I also want that food will be brought to Mr. Jonouchi's room for the whole week. I'll let you know at what times later."

"Of course Mr. Kaiba. Anything else I can do for you?"

"Yes, two things actually. Mr. Jonouchi is not to find out that I'm the one paying for the room or that I have anything to do with it. If he asks, Ed got the room. Understood? And second, if Mr. Jonouchi needs anything at all, make sure he gets it. I will leave my creditcard before I check out tomorrow morning and pick it up again after Mr. Jonouchi leaves. If he doesn't find out that I had nothing to do with this arrangement, then this hotel and everyone working here will get a BIG bonus, understood?"

"Of course, Mr. Kaiba. Mr. Jonouchi will not hear anything from us."

Seto could see the confused look in the woman's eyes but ignored it, all that mattered was that they wouldn't say a thing to Joey if he asked. Seto got the keycards for the two rooms as Roland walked through the doors. Seto went right up with him and they set everything up so Seto could listen in on everything from the room next door. One of the microphones used for that were visible and also an ear piece was left behind on the table with a note for Ed to use it, since it would be easier than using the mobile phones. After that was done, Seto went into his own room and sent Roland away.

Seto got more and more nervous. It wouldn't be long any more till Joey would be in the room next door and all he could do now was hope that he would let him help him, without knowing who he was. He hoped the letter would be enough for him and he wouldn't have to say too much more. Ed knew what needed to be done, and he was better with social interaction. After all, everyone was better with that than Seto and he knew that.

It didn't take much longer until Seto could hear that someone entered the suite next to his own. He had a ear piece himself, over which he could hear everything that went on in the other room. He wished he could see them as well but didn't want to have a web cam in there, since Joey would use that room for a week he hoped and than it would just go too far into his privacy.

"What's that?" Seto could feel his heart rate double at the sound of Joey's voice he had missed for so long. Seto wanted to see him again to know what he meant. The microphone and ear piece or the letter with his true name on it and a mobile phone.

"That is a letter for you and I assume the phone is, too. And this is, so that someone else can listen in on what's going on here and give me information I might need... like if the phone is for you, but I'm relatively certain."

"It is." Seto said hoping the ear piece was already in place.

"Okay, it is for you, just got it confirmed."

"Why is Joey Wheeler standing on the letter? I'm Katsuya."

"We know who you really are, there is no reason to lie and you don't need to worry about our knowledge."

"Who is our? Who is listening in?"

"My boss. Please just read the letter first, it might explain some of the questions."

Seto heard how the letter was being opened and unfolded. Then it was quiet. It was quiet for long, so long that Joey could have read the letter at least ten times, over and over again. Seto wondered what was taking him that long to respond. He got more and more nervous and wished he had put cameras up in that room.

"Who is that dude?" Seto finally heard Joey ask.

"I can not tell you his name, only that he was looking for you for quite some time and has a great deal of money to support you easily."

"Who is he?"

"I can't tell you."

"Why not?"

"If I do, I´ll lose 2000 bucks of easy money a month."

"Great and what am I supposed to do now?"

"For once, you can stay the night and have a bit of comfort and on top of that I have this money he gave me, to get you here."

"The room is payed for a week, food included and I'm going to get him his own place afterwards." Seto quickly said into his mic.

"Let me correct myself, you can spend the whole week here and food is payed for, as well my boss will look for an apartment for after that." Ed said.

"I have a place." Joey said.

"We know, but I think my boss would like you to live with a little bit more comfort."

"I like my place."

"I'm sure you would like a new one, too. Or is there a reason you don't want to move?"

It was quiet for a moment and then Joey said "I don't want to let Kai down, he has helped me a lot and is a good friend of mine by now."

"I'll pay for the apartment they share and make sure Kai has plenty of money for food, clothes and then some. And of course they can see each other whenever Joey wishes."

Ed repeated that offer and Joey said "What would happen if I get a boyfriend? In this letter is standing that this boss of yours is in love with me, I doubt he would like that!"

"I love him but I know he doesn't return those feelings and I want him to be happy, and if someone else can make him happy, then I will learn to live with that. And of course continue to support him financially for as long as he needs me to, even if I would have to support his 'boyfriend' too."

Seto was starting to worry that Joey had a love affair with this Kai character and that that was the reason he wanted to have all these questions answered. If that was the case, he still would have to help Joey. He loved him no matter what and wanted Joey to be happy and Seto had always known that he couldn't make him happy on an emotional basis, he was just not able to talk to people or let them close. All he could do for the love of his life was to make sure that he had everything he could get for money. And let him find the rest on his own, without any interference from him.

Ed told Joey what he had said and it was quiet for a moment again and then Joey said "Kai won't except it like that, but if your boss is so rich and all, he might be able to get him his old job back or a similar one at least."

"What was his job?" Ed asked without a comment from Seto being necessary.

"As a secretary for Seto Kaiba in Kaiba Corp."

WHAT? Seto thought. How could that be? I don't think I have ever seen or heard of that Kai. Seto was worried, had Joey caught up and assumed him to be the one behind it and this was a test or had he simply forgotten about Kai? He did have a rather high usage of secretaries, since he really wasn't the easy going kind of boss, or hat Kai lied to Joey? If he had, what was his big secret. Either way there was just one way out of this if he didn't want to be found out.

"Tell Joey I will talk to the CEO of Kaiba Corp. and see what I can do, but I can't promise that he will get the same job. But maybe a similar one somewhere else."

Ed did as he was told and it was quiet for a moment once again.

"Okay I could use a bit of help, but I too want to get a job somewhere. I don't care what kind of job but I want to earn my own money and I don't need a fancy apartment. Or a chef or other shit, I'm old enough. I don't need a nanny to smother me."

"I´ll see what I can do about a job, but I still will get a better apartment. It's his choice if he lives in it or leaves it empty and the money waisted." Seto said into his mic.

Ed gave that information on to Joey who agreed, at least for now but said: "I still want to know who he is and will find it out, somehow."

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Authors note:
I planned the story to be written in an observers perspective but only from Seto's perspective, so it will not tell what happens to Joey, when Seto isn't around, unless Seto hears about it later. But if enough of you are interested, I might write the events from one or two of the chapters from another perspective. Just let me know what chapter you might like rewritten and from what POV. I'm not good with first person so I'll probably make it like with Seto and write it like an all knowing observer of that person. But like I said, only if the interests on it are shown in PM's or reviews. Thanks.
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