Hey, hey. I'm updating. I got an awesome idea from a reviewer, SereneAuroa, and she reminded me about how a person will be so miserable after the death of a loved one that, ya know, they'll have nightmares and recurrences in their minds over and over again. So, after reading the review, I was like "hey, that's perfect for the next chapter" so thank you very much. I will try to mention you in the next chappie to give ya credit. Anyway, everyone enjoy the update.
Chapter Seven
Can You Wake from Your Nightmares?
I was in a white room. It was so bright I couldn't see anything. The glare from the light that was causing the brightness made me shield my eyes with my hand.
"Mommy? Daddy?" I whispered. The figure of a person was standing in front of me. They were taller than me. I could not see their face.
"We're sorry Miss Gardener, your parents were killed in a shooting at their office."
"What?" I cried. "No! They can't be dead."
"You cannot stay here. Come with us."
"No...no...NO!" I scream, trying to push them away.
Tea jumped awake and was gasping for breath. Cold sweat had gathered at the back of her neck. She was trembling violently. The clock read ten thirty pm. A soft sigh escaped her lips and she laid back down.
"Just a dream..." she whispered. Then, remembering where she was and the actual event, she realized it was not just a dream.
Flashback
I was in my room reading a magazine. It was pretty boring at the moment. Looking out my window, I saw gray clouds gathering in the sky. It was going to rain soon. Then, the phone rang and interrupted my train of thought.
Setting down my magazine, I got up from my bed and walked over to the desk to pick up the phone.
"Hello?" I said into the receiver.
"Miss Gardener? Tea Gardener?" the unfamiliar voice on the other end said. I blinked.
"Um, yes. Who is this?" I asked, confused.
"This is Tohyo Nakasumi from the local police department."
"Ok...um, how can I help you?" This was just getting weird. What did this police officer want?
"Miss Gardener, your parents work at the Domino Grand Bank, correct?"
"Yeah..."
"Miss Gardener," that was starting to get annoying, "I am sorry to tell you this, but your parents are dead." My heart nearly stopped dead in my chest.
"W-what?" I cried into the receiver. "My parents are what?" I asked.
"They were shot to death an hour ago. There was a shooting at the bank and your parents were victims." I dropped the phone. "Miss Gardener?" Tohyo asked, I could just hear it but my mind was numb and so was I. I was standing there, my hand frozen in the spot as though still holding that phone. "Miss Gardener, are you alright?"
I ran. Ran out of my room and out of the house. I ran down the street, not caring where I was going. I ran across the street. A car's brakes screeched and the driver yelled at me to watch where I was going.
He could have hit me. I almost wished he did to make the suffering stop. Thunder rumbled in the distance. It was going to rain soon. But I didn't care.
I ran to a place that was empty. Nobody was there to add more pain to my heart. The park.
Running over to a bench, I panted. Then I sat down and hugged my knees to my chest. And when the first drop of rain hit my cheek, I started to cry. Cried for my parents. Cried for the shooting. Cried for the unfairness of life. And cried to God asking him why he took them? Why?
End Very Dramatic First Person Point of View Flashback
Tea was now panting all over again. Dark thoughts filled her head. Poisonous, corrupted thoughts.
"I despise life. I want to die. I want to DIE. I want everything to die. I want everything to go to Hell..." a spiteful voice snarled. "I want to kill the bastard who turned my so-called life into Hell. So what difference would it make if I die?"
Gasping now, she found breathing difficult.
"No...I can't think that. I need to stay positive..." she whispered. "Nobody else should suffer like I do right now. What am I doing, thinking about cursing all life? That's not right." she sighed. Her mind cleared again, but breathing was still hard.
Was something stuck in her throat? She felt a painful lump. Sitting up, almost choking, she gasped to try and breathe properly. It was starting to hurt even more now. Tears formed in her eyes at the struggles.
"Can't...breathe..." she gasped. The door swung open and she saw a servant. "H-help..." she managed to gasp.
"Miss Gardener!" the servant screamed. They tried the Heimlich maneuver on Tea, but it did not work. More servants came in, wondering what all the noise was about, then saw poor Tea almost choking to death.
A male servant cave her CPR (minus mouth-to-mouth. I'll save that for Seto, heh) and she finally started to regain herself. She trembled and tears ran down her cheeks.
"She's going to be ok."
"What do you know?" she thought. One of the elderly maids gently pat Tea's arm with a reassuring smile on her face.
"What is all the damn noise?" a grumpy and ever-so familiar voice snapped. Seto walked into the room, a scowl on his face.
"Terrible sorry sir, but the young lady was in terrible trouble."
"What happened?" Seto demanded, sounding more annoyed then worried.
"She was choking."
"Choking? On what?" he asked, confused.
"We're not sure, sir. Nothing was stuck in her throat. She seemed to have some sort of attack." Tea rolled to her side away from them, still trembling. She looked pale, almost like a ghost.
"That girl is more trouble than she's worth..." Seto thought in irritation. Out loud he said, "Fine. Good night." Then he walked out of the room to go back to sleep. After making sure Tea was alright, the servants also left.
She laid there. "Of course he wasn't worried. Why would he be? What do I freaking care anyway?" she thought. Sighing, she curled up in the sheets. "After this week I won't ever see him again anyway, so who cares? My life is as good as gone." Shutting her eyes, she went back to sleep.
I was in a white room. It was so bright I couldn't see anything. The glare from the light that was causing the brightness made me shield my eyes with my hand.
"Mommy? Daddy?" I whispered. The figure of a person was standing in front of me. They were taller than me. I could not see their face.
"We're sorry Miss Gardener, your parents were killed in a shooting at their office."
"What?" I cried. "No! They can't be dead."
"You cannot stay here. Come with us."
"No...no...NO!" I scream, trying to push them away. Nothing touched my hands. I heard crazy laughter.
"Come now, girl." Someone roughly grabbed my wrist. I struggled against them but they were too strong.
"HELP!" I screamed as they pulled me.
SMACK!
The person bitch slapped me clean across the face. May cheek smarted.
"Shut the hell up, you stupid bitch. You're going to my orphanage."
"B-but what about my family in Tokyo."
"HA! Why would they want a worthless slug like you?" I trembled and was starting to cry, only to receive another bitch slap. "No crying, brat. Come on." The person continued to forcibly drag me.
"Someone, please save me."
Tea shrieked as she jumped awake. She hugged herself and rocked back and forth.
"No, no don't take me away, don't take me away!" she whimpered. After a while of trying to recollect herself, she laid down, very tired from her two attacks. Again, she fell asleep.
I was in a white room. It was so bright I couldn't see anything. The glare from the light that was causing the brightness made me shield my eyes with my hand.
"Mommy? Daddy?" I whispered. The figure of a person was standing in front of me. They were taller than me. I could not see their face.
"We're sorry Miss Gardener, your parents were killed in a shooting at their office."
"What?" I cried. "No! They can't be dead."
"You cannot stay here. Come with us."
"No...no...NO!" I scream, trying to push them away. Nothing touched my hands. I heard crazy laughter.
"Come now, girl." Someone roughly grabbed my wrist. I struggled against them but they were too strong.
"HELP!" I screamed as they pulled me.
SMACK!
The person bitch slapped me clean across the face. May cheek smarted.
"Shut the hell up, you stupid bitch. You're going to my orphanage."
"B-but what about my family in Tokyo."
"HA! Why would they want a worthless slug like you?" I trembled and was starting to cry, only to receive another bitch slap. "No crying, brat. Come on." The person continued to forcibly drag me.
"Someone, please save me." The white light was gone and I was in a small room which smelled terrible. There were old wooden beds with work blankets and dirty pillows. Children of various ages were everywhere ,some crying for their parents, others hugging toys or siblings or friends.
I finally saw what the person who took me here looked like. It was a tall, ugly woman wearing a navy blue suit with long, orange hair in a ponytail, a bony chin, wrinkles, and narrow yellow eyes.
"Welcome to your new home," she told me, her thin pale lips turning to an ugly smile. I was thrown into the room with the kids and she slammed the door and locked it. Before I knew it, something was hitting me.
I don't know what it was or who was doing it, but all the kids started screaming and running around. I could hear some crying as they were being beaten by someone. I wanted to yell for them to stop it, but the blows I was receiving stopped me from doing that.
Tea screamed out in her sleep as though actually receiving the blows in her sleep. She screamed with every hit placed on her skin in the nightmare. You can imagine some servants ran in.
"What's the matter with her now?" one asked in panic. The other looked at her.
"I don't know. She's screaming now. Is something hurting her?" They pulled the sheets of Tea and she thrashed on the bed violently from the pain of her nightmare.
"She's asleep, try to wake her up."
"This is a dream, I need to wake up again!" my thoughts yelled. "WAKE UP!" I cried, but I just could not do it. The hits just kept coming.
"TEA! HELP!" someone familiar screamed. I turned my head to the side weakly, grunting as I felt another hit on my back, and gasped.
"MOKUBA!" I yelled.
"LET HIM GO!" Tea demanded in her sleep, thrashing even more. The servants jumped back in fear. What was wrong with this girl?
"We need to quiet her down."
"I know, but how?"
"No, let him go!" I begged. Another hit. "Ow..."
"Shut up!" the person snarled. Mokuba was hit badly. He was yelling in pain.
"No! Please, I'll do anything. Just let him go." An evil laugh filled my ears.
"We knew you'd say that. Fine, throw the brat back to his brother. We know Kaiba won't do anything for the girl." I watched sadly as they forced Mokuba away. When he looked back at me, I felt myself a force a smile and he was gone. Good bye...
The servants were trying desperately to wake Tea up. They shook her and lightly hit her and called into her ear but nothing was working. It soon came to the point where the only thing they hadn't tried was throwing her out the bedroom window.
"Mokuba..." I whispered. A man grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and forcibly pulled me up. He smirked at me, and his breath stank of alcohol.
"What a pretty little orphan. Since you said you'd do anything, you're gonna come with me and be my toy each night." I felt cold fear grinding into every bone in my body. The bruises on my back hurt so much.
He dragged me out and pulled me into an alley. Everything was dark and the air felt cold and damp. The drunken predator slammed me against the wall of the alley. I was so sore, it felt like paralysis. He started to try and rip my shirt.
"HELP!" I screamed the moment I felt his and. Somehow, I felt he was smirking.
"Scream all you want, nobody can hear you." I whimpered in terror.
"DAMN IT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON NOW?" Seto yelled, storming into the room. Mokuba was next to him. The servants looked up desperately.
"We can't wake her up. She was screaming like someone was trying to murder her."
"You did not save anyone, bitch. Mokuba is dying as we speak."
"MOKUBA!" Tea screamed. "What did you do to him?" she asked furiously, still thrashing furiously in her sleep, accidently hitting one of the servants with her hand..
"Ow!" she said. Mokuba ran over to the bed.
"Tea, Tea I'm fine. Wake up!" he said.
"And Kaiba is next..." the rapist muttered in my ear. "Just like your parents."
"No! Not again. Don't kill him. Don't kill him!" she begged. "Don't do what you did to my parents again. Please!" she cried in desperation.
"What the heck?" Seto asked. Tea was growing more and more hysterical.
"We need to call for a doctor." The servants ran out of the room for a phone.
"Seto, help me wake her up. This is getting serious." Seto walked over to the bed.
"I'm going to shoot them, just like I shot your parents. And after I'm finished with you, I'm going to beat you and then rape you again."
"God, no. Help me!" I yelled. Then, the man was pulled off me. I was on the alley floor and could hear the sound of punching and the man grunted as he hit the floor, bleeding. I looked up at my savior. "Kaiba?" I asked.
Yup, it was Kaiba alright. And not a moment later, I felt myself pass out.
"Gardener, wake up!" Seto said. Mokuba shook his head.
"That's not doing any good. I'm gonna go check on the servants with that doctor." Mokuba got up and ran out of the room. Seto looked at Tea's form. She was still now. He frowned slightly.
"Tea..." I heard a voice call to me. I opened my eyes and stared into a pair of cold blue eyes.
"Kaiba?" I asked.
"Good, you're awake." I sat up.
"What happened? Where's Mokuba?" I asked in alarm.
"He's fine. In the hospital, but fine."
"Where am I?"
"In my mansion. I brought you here."
"Why?"
"I heard about what that rapist did. So I came to help you."
"But...why do you even care about me? Aren't I just one of Yugi's cheerleaders?" I asked. He didn't answer. To my surprise, I actually got up and hugged him. "Thank you..."
Tea moved a bit and Seto frowned again. What was she going to do now? Then, to his complete surprise, she hugged him, her face buried in his chest. He blinked. Ok, that was random.
Her shoulders were trembling slightly, almost like she was crying without tears. Very hesitantly, he put his arms around her back and hugged her back. He had to admit it was a little weird, but not, ya know, unbearable or bad or anything like that.
"She's so soft...and feels so small and innocent..." he thought somewhat softly then tried to shake it off. "Snap out of it Seto. You're letting the strangeness of the night get your head."
"Kaiba..." Tea whispered in his chest. "Please help me...please..."
"Help you?" Seto asked, now completely confused. Tea fell back from her action of hugging him into his arms. She was now ever whiter than before and seemed to have completely blacked out. She had still not waken up from her nightmares. Seto picked her up bridal style and found the servants. "Tell me you reached a doctor. I think she passed out."
"The ambulance is on the way." Seto nodded and looked at Tea in his arms. She might be with them a little longer than a week after all. If her parents weren't home and she was staying there she was his responsibility. Perfect...
And there you have it folks. It may seem random, but at least now you all have the knowledge of what happened to Tea's parents and some of her secret feelings for Seto are revealed. Ooh. I get a feeling this is gonna be a long fic...oy ve...well, so long as you all like it and review I won't have a problem. Speaking of which, PLEASE REVIEW!
