Alister doesn't care if Kaiba really loves Joey.
He is interested only in temporary satisfaction.
And he doesn't care if he ruins a couple of lives on his way to satisfaction.
He will leave someday, he'll leave all behind.
Nothing is permanent for him.
He will ride his bike all across the universe, leaving desperate Kaiba and desperate Joey to collect their smashed pieces of life.
But he doesn't count on Valon's insanity. He thought Valon is taking medications.
Obviously he was wrong.
Alister had on mind Valon hook up with Joey and separate him from Kaiba.
But Valon had something completely different on mind.
Before he can even react, he hears the news on the television, about terrifying car crash.
No, he never wanted Kaiba suffer like this.
Alister is terrified.
"But you can now console Kaiba while his beloved is near death." says Alister.
"I'm nobody's consoler!"
"You were my consoler when Raphael and I broke up."
"That is something different. It's friendship with privilege. I'm nobody's consoler!" shouts Alister. "And how could you?! Maybe he's on my way, but he definitely doesn't deserve to be hospitalized! God knows if he's gonna ever wake up, walk again or something…I never wanted to go this far…" Alister collapses on the floor. "I'm not a monster…" he cries.
Valon stands on the other side of the room, his head lowered.
"I'm sorry…"
"It's a little late, don't you think? Are you taking medications doctor said you must take?"
"I don't need them."
"Don't be ridiculous, Valon! Of course you need them! Look what you have done!"
"You made me to! I'm not a madman, Alister!"
"You're insane!" Alister cries out, desperate.
He feels terrible guilt.
"No, I'm not." says Valon, insanity in his eyes.
"H-how…I need to go…" Alister stands up, heading to the door.
He wants to escape, wash Joey's blood from his hands.
Technically, it isn't on his hands but Valon's, but none of that wouldn't have happened if he hadn't asked Valon for help.
"Where the hell you think you're going, huh?" hisses Valon, "You think you can escape. You are the same as I am. You are the one who's insane with all your traumas and stuff, not me. And now you're gonna tell me I'm not insane." says Valon, hysterically, approaching Alister. "The door is locked in case you want to run away."
"What the fuck is going on with you, Valon?! What the hell got into you?"
"It doesn't matter…" his eyes are insane…
His moves indicate he's insane…
"You are insane!"
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes you are!" Alister is trying to break the door.
"Now you'll have to pay not believing in me, Alister." he says, pulling a gun from the back of his jeans and shoots.
Alister wasn't ready for something like this.
He's being shot into the chest.
He's falling hardly to the ground, his eyes lose their sparkles, his soul doesn't live in his body anymore.
Death is quick and painful.
"I'm sorry, my dear friend…but you never believed in me…You left me no choice…I had to prove you…" whispers Valon, standing beside lifeless body of Alister.
--
Kaiba is sitting in the dark room beside the bed, staring into some random chosen spot, looking absent and lost.
His face shows no emotions, no reactions.
Yugi is being told that that is a condition of shock, when person is unable to react properly.
This time Kaiba's unable to show the feelings, not that he stops them or something, like he used to.
While the others are waiting outside, Seto is inside Joey's room, not allowing anybody to enter.
It is terrifying, Joey's fighting for life for a few days now.
Seems no improvement.
The circumstances of accident are not cleared yet.
The police said it was professional who caused the accident.
It was on purpose.
Ant they are unable to find any clue who did it.
Kaiba called all his connections, making phone calls for hours in silence of his office at home.
But they couldn't help him.
And now, he doesn't move from the hospital bed, not showing any signs of life, like showing solidarity to his beloved.
All he can do is to let the cliché flood his being while remembering random pictures of him and Joey, remembering moments and places, fights, arguments and laughing together.
He's trying to count how many kisses they exchanged, how many nights they spent making love or innocently cuddling.
He's trying to recall every single moment spent with Joey, without missing anything.
Flashbacks
After ending high school
They are at the beach now. Seto is sitting on the towel, wearing sunglasses.
He's watching Joey getting out of water, jumping because hot sand is burning his feet.
Kaiba is laughing, Joey is so comical jumping like that.
He jumps on the towel, beside Seto, all wet.
"I can lick you like a dog." Joey says playfully, licking Kaiba's face.
Kaiba is struggling with him, trying to shove him, but Joey is persistent and strong.
They're laughing together.
--
After a year being together
Mokuba is ill. Joey is sitting beside him whole night.
Kaiba doesn't know his brother is ill.
When he comes back home from work (at 6 a.m.), he finds Joey putting cover on Mokuba's forhead.
That makes him smile.
Joey really do care for both of them.
--
After they made up
They're arguing.
Joey still cannot recover from Kaiba's unfaithfulness.
Kaiba came back from work late and didn't phone Joey.
"Told you, I was at work, Joseph! I don't need to justify every time I forget to call you."
"Who is he?" Joey demands.
"His name is Joseph Wheeler. You see, I'm the one in million cases having two boyfriends with same name and surname." says Kaiba.
"You bastard!" says Joey, hugging him tightly.
--
Joey's smile in the sunshine.
--
That time when Joey woke up to tuck in the CEO.
Kaiba was awake and aware what Joey was doing.
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Sex.
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Kisses.
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Touches.
--
Everything.
End flashbacks
"Kaiba?"
Seto hears whisper behind his back.
Yet he doesn't respond.
It is better being in some other world, where joy and happiness are endless.
But the voice carries on anyways.
"Joey's sister and mother arrived."
"Send my driver to the airport." He says dryly.
Like something died in his throat.
Yugi exits the room.
Kaiba continues staring at nothing particular.
Rage in his eyes.
It's pointless asking why.
It has sense asking who.
And he will find out.
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TBC
