A/N: Hello everyone, I have yet another chapter ready for you guys. I'd like to thank:
LSotte evenich - thanks, I know I'm awesome, and so are my stories
Pruveth - no I never expected her to go shopping either, until I decided to write it
Earleone F - Yes, I based Delyla on my best friend, and she is the nicest person I know
Ptr. Pst - She may seem that to you, but if you look deeper you'll see that Alex is a 'hard on the outside, soft on the inside person, and that she goes very soft for her best friend
BakuraLOLZ99 - I love that you loved my chapter
Scaevola2 - Well, Dy and Atem, who knows what will happen there, that's right, I do
HitomiTaisho - That's what I thought, she's tough that Alex and you should never mess with someone's friends if they are capable of making you bleed
Tillion-the-awesome - I think you can drink away your hang over, with more alcohol, so it makes you more drunk and less focused on the pain, at least that's what I figured
Thanks again for you nice reviews. Now if you have a story that you think is worth my time, don't hesitate to leave it behind, just review a link or the name of your story and I'll read it, and of course leave you a review
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the characters, just Alex and Delyla, my OC's.
On with the fic:
That night when Delyla got home, after the attack, the first thing she did was look for her mom. She had to tell her what had happened. She found her in the kitchen.
"Ah, there you are. I was wondering where you were with the groceries." Said her mom.
"Mom, I need to tell you something." Said Delyla and she and her mother sat down.
Delyla then started the story of how she and Alex got attacked, but left the part out that it was Alex' idea to take the 'short- cut'.
"Delyla, I thought you knew better then to go through dark alleyways after dark, but what happened, happened, it's good your friends found you and Alex when they did, or you both could have been killed. I feel sorry for Alex though, she has no parents to comfort her." Said her mother.
"She's staying the night at Joey's. he's a good friend of ours." Said Delyla, reassuring her mom.
"Well, let's get some cream on those bruises in your neck. It will make them heal faster." Said her mom while they walked up to the bathroom.
Alex woke up with a snoring Joey next to her that morning. It was Monday again, which meant she had to go back to school. If it was up to her, she wouldn't even bother showing up, but Delyla made her go. She hated how Delyla could do that. She could make Alex jump of a bridge if she wanted to, of course she would never make Alex do such a thing.
"Hey Al. I see you've woken up. Did ya sleep well?" asked Joey when he woke up.
She was still sleepy from sleeping on the floor.
"Better than I have in a long time." She replied.
The floor was quit uncomfortable, but she didn't mind one bit, she was happy to not be alone anymore.
"Well, that's good to hear. How 'bout we get ready for school, Delyla would kill me, if she heard I let you stay here." Said Joey.
"I know." Alex replied.
Alex and Joey got ready for school and headed for Yugi's house. He and Joey always walked to school together. Alex didn't mind though. She was okay with Yugi now, after she got a confession from Delyla. She denied it for so long, but only yesterday, Delyla told her she was in love with him. Well, the other him. How the whole other personality thing worked out was still a mystery to Alex.
"So Alex, how are you feeling?" asked Yugi.
"I'm still the same. The cut still stings a bit, but I've learnt to ignore the pain." Said Alex.
Yugi looked her over, and saw that she was covering her cut with her hair, and there was still something in her eyes he couldn't place.
Alex went to school, but could not get her mind of her life. What if she and Delyla would have been killed? What if the guys hadn't found them in time? She thought about her life, before Delyla moved away.
'How could my life go from so great, to this? No loving parents, no loving brother, no being told of for doing things wrong, no chocolate pudding on Wednesdays, no kisses goodnight. How could my parents leave me without no second thoughts, no having to look back and make shore I'm still waiting for them. I wish I had a time machine, so I could go back and reverse this madness, so I could be with my parents again, but it doesn't matter how many times I wish on a shooting star, for no one ever hears my pleas.'
She thought about what could have happened last night.
'I could have been killed, be looking down from heaven, or maybe up from hell. I always thought that was where I was now, or where I would end up, until Delyla came back. If I'd die, my parents wouldn't even look back, I bet they'd celebrate with some more vacation and mountain climbing. My friends wouldn't have to worry about me getting them into trouble again, they could go to arcades together and have the best time of their lives. My brother could down a whole bottle of whisky and he'd be fine, and I bet Marik wouldn't be to devastated, since he doesn't even really know me. I guess Joey would feel bad though, and Delyla would cry her eyes out. At least two people would be at my funeral.'
She thought about her friends.
'Friends, since when do I have any? Since when do people want to be near me? Is it just because I'm a friend of Delyla's, or do they like me for who I am? If it is just because I'm Delyla's friend, I don't mind at all. It feels good not to be alone anymore. I've been on my own for four years, maybe that's why they like me, maybe they have some kind of sympathy for me. It's just that, it must be. There is no other reason at all.'
She thought about Yugi and Ryou.
'How come Yugi and Ryou have some cool other side to them? Since when did I start calling Bakura by his first name? I wish I knew the secrets to their other selves. It would make the communication between us a lot better. I mean, since I saw that thing with their eyes, they both do it, but Ryou a little more often than Yugi, I am always on the lookout to see them do it again, and I always have the feeling that I need to watch what I'm saying when they go all alter ego on us. It confuses me a lot. I saw Ryou do it a lot at the pool, that was also when he asked me to call him Ryou, instead of Bakura.'
She then felt something hit her on the back of her head.
"Hello, Alex, are you still with us?"
She looked around to find Joey, holding up a book, standing behind her with the others.
"What did you hit me with a book for! It's not like it's going to make me smarter if you hit me with a book instead of a hand like a normal person!" she screamed at him.
Joey's face went pale. She was scary when she was angry. Alex then saw the others looking at her, all of them where wearing frightened expressions, except for Delyla, she knew this would happen since it happened in their childhood years, not often but a reasonable amount of times, she was still used to it though.
"Calm down Alex, we were just worried. You haven't moved an inch since school started." Said Yugi.
"Oh, sorry guys. I was just thinking, nothing to worry about." She replied and then she burst out laughing about herself and Joey's expression.
They all started to head home, Alex fallowing Joey again. She was to stay there as long as needed.
"Joey?" said Alex when they were the only ones left.
"Yes?" he asked curious.
"How come you still live with your dad, and not with your mom? I mean, I know your dad is an alcoholic and that he's never around. So why not go and live with you mom?" She said looking down at the floor.
She didn't want him to think she was a nosy person.
"Me and my ma don't really see eye to eye." Replied Joey.
"That's a shame." Said Alex.
She felt bad for ever bringing up the matter.
"How about you? I know your parents left to go mountain climbing or something, but why do you stick around your brother? Ya could live on your own if ya wanted to, or with me." He said while blushing.
"I guess it's because I know that he needs me to care for him. if I'm not around, he'll wake up one day lying next to some woman he doesn't know, now knowing what he did or didn't do, and have one hell of a headache from his hang-over." She said while smiling.
It made her feel better when she felt like she was doing something right for her brother.
"Don't ya need to go back to tha hospital to check out that wound of yours today?" asked Joey out of the blue.
"Yea." Said Alex.
She really hated hospitals.
"Let's go then." Said Joey.
They turned around and headed for the hospital. When they got there, Alex could smell the anti-septic's in the air. It made her feel sick and she turned her gaze to the people in the waiting room. There was a fat man who looked as red as a lobster, it looked like he had been skiing. There was a young couple, the woman of the two had a big belly, which meant that she was pregnant or eating too much. There was a girl, about five years old, and her mom, they were here to visit someone Alex concluded, because she couldn't see anything wrong with them.
"Miss Ryder." Said the nurse at the reception.
Alex got up with Joey and took a glance at the nurse. She was dressed in a white nurse uniform, had her hair up in a bun and was wearing a pair of glasses on the tip of her nose, glancing over the top of them right back at Alex.
"Go into room seven." Said the nurse harsh.
Alex and Joey made their way over to the white room. There were some blue highlighted bits, like photo frames, doctors tools and stickers. It looked way to clean and Alex thought that if she got some of that stuff she saw the police use in CSI she would find that a murder had been executed in there. That was how clean it was.
"So miss Ryder. You are here for a check-up of that cut we patched up for you yesterday?" asked the nurse.
"Yes, it's been hurting a bit." Said Alex.
The nurse took a closer look at it.
"Well, it's healing just the way it should be, that could be the reason it burns a little. It will leave a wicked scar though." Said the nurse.
" May I go now?" asked Alex hopeful.
"Yes." Said the nurse.
Alex practically ran for it, Joey trying to catch up with her.
Delyla was on her way home. She was walking with Teá and Yugi, who turned out to be Yami today. She started to notice differences between Yami and Yugi, though she still didn't know that Yami was a complete different person. Alex told her yesterday, on their long walk, that she thought maybe Yugi and Ryou, who she started to call by his first name, his idea, where schizophrenic's. Delyla considered the option, but thought there was a little more to it, so she kept a close eye on the alter egos.
"Would you like to come over to my place Delyla?" asked Yami.
"Shore Yugi, I'd love to." Replied Delyla.
so they all headed over to Yugi's place, but then Teá turned to leave.
"Aren't you staying Teá?" asked Delyla.
"No, I have dance class. I'll see you at school tomorrow." She called and then she disappeared around the corner. Delyla was left with Yami at his place.
Delyla felt a little bit uncomfortable with the thought of her and Yami being alone at his place. So she went to the bathroom to text Alex that she had to come to Yugi's place, right now. After a reply saying: 'On my way.' She made her way into the kitchen where Yami was.
"Would you like a drink?" asked Yami.
"Shure, a coke, please." Replied Delyla.
Yami went into the pantry to get her a can of coke, and Delyla knew that they would have an uncomfortable silence fall over them if they didn't sit down.
'Alex please hurry!' she thought silently.
As soon as the thought crossed her mind, Alex ran through the front door, which belonged to the shop, panting. She hadn't stopped running since she left the hospital. Yami and Delyla went down stairs to see who it was.
"Hey Alex." Said Yami.
"H.. (breath) Hey..(breath)" answered Alex.
"So what brings you here?" asked Yami.
"Well… ehm … Joey wanted to come by, and I … ehm … raced him here." Said Alex trying her best to make something up.
Yami saw right through her lie, but knew that he wouldn't get the truth out of Alex, so ignored it.
"Would you like a drink?" said Yami.
"Shure, Joey will be here any minuet, he is such a slow poke." Said Alex.
"What would you like?" asked Yami as they walked up to the kitchen, but Alex had disappeared.
"I think she went to the bathroom or something, let me see, I know what she likes." Said Delyla as she followed Yami into the pantry.
All of a sudden the door closed behind the two, and couldn't be opened. The door was locked and on the other side someone called Alex was having the time of her life.
"Who did that?" said Yami.
"Well, certainly not me." Said Alex laughing from the other side of the door.
"Alex! Let us out of here!" yelled Delyla at her.
"I don't think I can, maybe if I come back later." Said Alex.
Delyla kept trying to get Alex' attention, but to no avail, until she got a text message from her.
Alex: Would you stop that, I'm getting a headache :-(
Delyla: Let us out! Alex!(6)
Alex: Sorry my battery is dead, so I can't see your texts
Delyla: How come you text me back, when your battery is dead?
Alex: sorry I need to go somewhere :p
Then Alex left, to go and find Joey, who still hadn't shown up.
Delyla got her pocket knife out, and sat in front of the key hole.
"You have a pocket knife?" asked Yami.
"Yeah, it was a gift from my dad. I can handle knifes pretty well."
Delyla got the knife out and tried to pick the lock, but she couldn't. not without breaking it, which she rather not.
"Sorry, but it won't budge." Said Delyla.
Yami leant up against the wall with a sigh.
"My grandpa won't be home for another four hours."
Now it was Delyla's turn to sigh.
"Well, we should try and make the best of it."
She then got up and sat with her back against the wall Yami was leaning against. Yami slid down the wall to sit next to her.
"Alex has a date with Marik right about now, so we wouldn't be able to reach her for another three hours either." Said Delyla with another sigh.
Then there was nothing but silence. Delyla was very tired, since she didn't sleep that well last night. She laid her head against the wall.
"Yugi?" she asked with a yawn.
"Yes?" "You're not really Yugi are you?" Delyla asked.
Yami didn't really know what to say to that. He knew what she meant, but didn't want to answer her question.
"I know you're different. Would you tell me? Please? It would help me understand you." pleaded Delyla.
Her light brown, kind eyes locked with Yami's violet eyes. She could see he'd seen a lot of things, bad things. Yami sighed jet again.
"Alright I'll tell you."
Delyla straightened herself, ready to listen to his story.
"My name is Yami in this world, jet in another world my name is Atem."
Delyla looked confused, but Yami didn't notice since while telling his story, Yami only looked straight forward, never taking his gaze of the cans of peas, which had become the most interesting thing in the world. He was afraid she wouldn't accept him anymore.
"That other world, or other time really, is ancient Egypt. An Egypt of 5000 years ago. I was a pharaoh in that time."
Yami told her the whole story. How he was so confused before, how he met Yugi, who Bakura was and what adventures they had all been through. How he'd gone back to his own time, and then returned to this one. How he couldn't move on from this world, and how he shared Yugi's body and how much that meant to him. when he finished his story he was silent.
"Yami." Said Delyla.
She was trying out his name, to see what it sounded like. Yami looked at her, afraid of her reaction.
"Thanks for entrusting me with this."
Delyla was still very tired, so she laid her head in his lap. This surprised Yami.
"Does this mean you accept what I am?" he asked.
Delyla giggled and whispered to him:
"But of course I do."
She wasn't lying to him. he was kind and was having a hard time. It was hard, trying to understand how everything fell in to place. This other time and his life in this world. She fell asleep peacefully in his lap. Yami watched her sleep while he thought about her.
'She accepts me. Why?'
He saw her face. A strand of hair had fallen upon it. He gently brushed it away. She was so beautiful when she slept, and also when she was awake. A feeling washed over him, that he wanted to protect her from harm. That was when he decided to always be there for her.
Time flew by and they heard the front door open. Delyla awoke and sat up while Yami locked his gaze at the door. Finally after all that time the door opened and Delyla and Yami got up.
"Mr. Mouto!" said Delyla as she got out of the panty.
"Thank you so much!" She said.
"What where you doing in the pantry? And how many times must I tell you, just call me grandpa." Said Solomon.
"Alex locked us in." said Yami calm.
"That reminds me…" said Delyla as she grabbed her cell phone.
She send Alex a text.
Delyla: You better start running Al, we're out ;-)
As Delyla send the text Yami and Delyla looked at each other. It was not long before they heard a scream from outside. They both ran over to the window to see what it was, only to see Alex running and screaming. Delyla laughed.
"I had a really nice time, but I need to speak with someone about how bad it is to lock people in pantry's. Goodbye."
She winked at Yami, who returned a smile, while she ran out of the Kame game shop. Alex may be a fast runner, but she would out run her any day.
'Just you wait Alex, I'll get you.' She thought as the sun began to set on the horizon, and Yami watched the two girls run with a smile on his face.
