In The End

Chapter 4: Elevator Troubles

Serenity was snuggled up on the couch with Mokuba. A blanket draped across them. They were watching a movie since they didn't feel like doing much else. The water gun fight had really tired both of them out. She would have put Mokuba to bed, since it was already 9 pm, but he had wanted to stay up and wait for his brother to come back. They hadn't heard from him the whole weekend. Little did they know he was already back.

Serenity had a sneaking suspicion that Mokuba was asleep and upon looking down, her suspicion was confirmed. He was out for the count with his thumb stuck in his mouth. He was slightly on top of her so she moved a little to get him off of her. She turned off the wide screen television and then got up, preparing to pick Mokuba up and take him to his room.

She got a huge fright when she spotted a figure in the doorway. A hand held over her heart, she realized that it was only Kaiba.

"You scared me" Serenity whispered as not to wake Mokuba. He just kept on watching her, those cold eyes just staring. She knew now why Mokuba must have felt so rejected. Kaiba's whole persona was

"When did you get back?"

"It's none of your concern" he paused maybe thinking, " put Mokuba to bed and come back here when you are done."

Serenity just nodded and lifted Mokuba into her arms. He wasn't extremely heavy, but he wasn't light either...just bearable.

She made her way to his room. The theme being Blue Eyes White Dragon. She tucked him into his bed. Blue Eyes White Dragon sheets of course. He had slept through the whole journey. Switching off the light she took one last look to make sure everything was all right before closing the door gently.

She slowly made her way back to where Kaiba was. She felt nervous. He was waiting at the end of the hallway and just uttered a "follow me" before turning and making his way towards the entrance hall. He then pressed the button for the elevator once they had reached it.

"You will come with me to get your pay and then you may leave" He hadn't even looked at her.

The elevator doors slid open soundly. They both entered. It was pretty big so Seto was able to turn his wheelchair around without colliding into her.

She also turned around facing the elevator doors. They stood in silence. She turned towards him, trying to think of something to say. That was when all hell broke loose. There was a scraping sound and the elevator came to a stop. They had nearly reached the fifth story and the elevator had stopped.

"What the he..." Kaiba could barely finishing because they were both lurched down - the elevator was dropping. The metal against metal sound making a scrutinizing screech. It was over before any of them knew. The lights were flashing.

Serenity opened her eyes, having closed them when she had felt the elevator dropping. She had fallen to the floor soon after. The wheelchair was lying mere inches from her face. The wheels spinning. This made her back away. She lifted her upper body peering over the wheelchair. The lights were flashing disrupting her vision and enveloping them in darkness every few seconds.

Kaiba was lying on his back. She watched as he slowly lifted himself and leant against the elevator wall. He then looked at her.

"Are you all right?" Serenity just nodded looking down at her hands. That's when she noticed the blood across her one hand. A deep jagged cut across the inside of her hand. She paled.

"Let me see."

She crawled over to Kaiba, being careful of her hand. She was still a little unsteady and shaken.

She sat next to him giving over her hand. He took it examining it carefully.

"There is a first aid kit situated on the underside of the wheelchair, by the part where you sit. Bring it here."

Serenity did as she was told. Still crawling she made her way over the wheelchair, locating the kit she made her way back to her sitting position next to Kaiba. He took the kit from her grasp and rummaged through it. The flashing lights were starting to hurt her eyes, giving her headache.

He had found some bandages and was now wrapping her hand with it. He wasn't hurting her and he seemed to make sure of that. He then secured the bandage, tossing the kit aside.

"We are now stuck here until someone notices." He hissed. "This is wasting my time, I have work to do." He seemed really angry. His eyes burning with it.

The lights went out. Serenity gasped grabbing Kaiba's hand with her good one.

"Do not tell me that you are afraid of the dark" Seto groaned, she could picture him rolling his eyes.

"I'm not afraid, I just don't like the dark." Feeling uneasy Serenity dropped Kaiba's hand.

Kaiba sighed, he hadn't meant to criticize her like that. He could feel her uneasiness and actually was disappointed when she had dropped his hand. Everything had seemed to be going right... until this stupid elevator happened.

His business meetings had gone well. He had achieved what he had wanted. Seeing Mokuba so happy... it had made him feel real again. It was all because of her. He could feel that she was sitting next to him. Now that the lights had gone out, he couldn't even see his hand in front of his face.

She was fidgeting, not even thinking he felt for her arm and then slid his hand down it. Finding her hand he held it. That seemed to calm her down because now she wasn't moving at all.

He thought back to when the elevator had dropped. He had been looking at her, though she had not noticed. She had immediately closed her eyes and dropped to the floor. Whether she knew it or not she had been scared. He had seen the fear etched on her face.

"Is it safe now?"

"Well considering that we dropped quite a far way down, I don't think there is anywhere to drop anymore." He stated matter of fact.

Serenity laughed and soon he joined her. The laughter died down, with them still holding hands.

"Well, not that I have anything else too do I think this would be the best time to talk to you about something." Serenity's tone had become serious and Kaiba wondered what the subject was.

"It's...it's about Mokuba..."

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Another chapter done! I have another SetoxSerenity fic, if you wanna check it out. It's called 'Through It All' and I have some pretty good plans for it! Thanks for reading!

Super-Veggie-San: Hope your writers block is cured soon. Thanks for reviewing.

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setoxserenity-4ever: Well I hope the elevator thing lived up to your standards. Thanks for the review!

The Six of Hearts: Lol, yeah I also liked the waterguns. Thank you very much and thank you for reading.

Just another thing I want to add. You will find out about Serenity's past later (which includes finding out what happened to Joey) so you just gonna have to stick in there to find out!!

Next time: Serenity tries to explain about Mokuba to Kaiba.

VSM