I don't need saving. I'm just a slave.
Chapter 10 choices and decisions
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Seth sighed and pulled the blond away from the door "tell me what you did that was so terrible"
Joey closed his eyes tight, a sob escaping him. Seth pulled him closer, wrapping his arms around the boy "I killed my mother."
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Seth stared in disbelief at the blond haired youth. He hesitated before asking "how?".
Joey shuddered "when I was born" he said. Voice so quiet Seth pulled him even closer in the embrace. Joey sobbed "she died giving birth to me." Seth began to hush him but stopped when the blond mop was shaken harshly "No!" Joey looked up into the deep blue eyes of the High Priest "no, she died because of me! I don't deserve to be comforted."
Seth sighed heavily "my mother too, died during childbirth. To my younger brother Mokuba, the dark haired youth from the arena." Joey slowly raised his eyes to look again at Seth. Seth stared back, eyes soft. The blond opened his mouth to say something but seemed to think better and lowered his eyes. "Ask"
Joey blinked before pulling away from the Priest "Was..." he began.
"Was?" Seth repeated urging him on.
"Was he punished for it?" Seth frowned. He turned away and looked the room over. He noted the cracks in the walls had receded a little.
"No. And you shouldn't have been" turning back to Joey he held out his hand "Let me protect you Wolf." he said, voice unusually soft. "I feel something for you I have never felt before. Let me protect you."
Joey stared at the hand. He wanted to take it so badly, but he was afraid. "What feeling?"
Seth smiled "I don't truly know, but I think it might be..."
At that moment there was a loud crash followed by thudding footsteps. Joey's eyes widened in horror uttering a hushed "Father!"
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Katsuya shuddered as he walked towards his downtown apartment. He lifted his face and looked at the dull drab building "Dad's probably been drinking again. Shit. Long sleeves in the middle of summer again." sighing the blond continued to walk along the dirty cracked pavement. Oblivious to the inconspicuous car parked across the road and its driver, a tall blue eyed brunet.
"Dumb puppy. Why do you keep going back?"
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Katsuya pushed the faded orange door open and peered into the gloom. Slowly he stepped inside and looked at the cracked mirror on the wall. Shadows shifted behind him and he dropped to the floor, barely avoiding the bottle thrown at him. He dodge rolled to the left and sprang to his feet to run to his room. A meaty fist closed on his hoodie almost choking the blond as he was pulled back against his fathers alcohol soaked chest. "Going somewhere, Boy?"
Katsuya shuddered at the slimy voice, his knees began to tremble. His father had three moods. 1: angry bashing, 2: treating his son as a slave, and the 3rd... Katsuya's trembling got worse as his father's hand clamped over his hip. "No master" the blond haired boy whispered, barely able to stand.
Mr Jounouchi smiled. His breath ghosted over his son's shoulder. "Good Boy. You know what to do." Katsuya nodded and almost collapsed as his father let go of him. "Bed." the blond flinched at the command before stumbling down the hall to his fathers room. At the door he looked back at his father who seemed to be going into the kitchen for another bottle of beer.
As he stepped into the room he heard the door bell ring. Ignoring it he stripped and laid face down on the bed. His back, a macabre canvas of scars and bruises. As were his upper inner thighs. Shouting echoed down the hall and Katsuya tried to block it out.
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Seto Kaiba was not a kind boy when he was a child. Especially when someone he cared about was being hurt. Almost everyone knew of his cold demeanour, but only one person had ever seen behind them (not counting his little brother of course). Katsuya was wild. Untamable. And everything Seto wanted. But could not have. Standing outside his apartment the young CEO was close to breaking down and just killing the man on its other side.
"Bed" the voice commanded and Seto nodded to his security guards. The big burly men moved quietly. One signalled out the window to three others on the fire escape, four on the roof and two out front of the building. Two more moved into position beside their boss as he knocked at the door. The brunet pulled his coldest glare onto his face as the door opened and Mr Jounouchi opened the door. "Who the hell are you!?" the man bellowed and Seto pulled back minutely from the reek of alcohol.
"I, sir" he said stressing the Honorific sarcastically "am Seto Kaiba." the brunet replied voice cold as ice. "I am here for your son."
The fat balding man grinned with malicious glee. "Oh really? What has the bitch done now?" Seto shuddered inside.
"Bitch? Your son is no girl." Seto relied one eyebrow lifting as he sneered. The security guard near the window stepped forward as two figures climbed through, unnoticed by Mr Wheeler.
The dirty blond haired man smiled revealing yellowed chipped teeth. "My son. He's a bastard and a bitch. Got the collar to prove it." Inside Kaiba seized up in horror as the man laughed cruelly, his own voice echoing 'Puppy, Mutt, Dog, Master, Leash, Pet, Mutt, Puppy, Dog, Mutt, Mutt, Mutt...' clenching his fist Seto almost missed it as the dirty blond yelled "MUTT! We have a guest."
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Katsuya sobbed dryly knowing to not actually cry as he pulled a ratty dog collar from his fathers bedside table and put it on. As the clasp settled he looked at the other two props and shuddered. Hesitantly he put on a headband, complete with floppy dog ears. Next he pulled on a tail connected to a belt. Staying on his hands and knees he left the dark room, head bowed and sat in the middle of the hallway.
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Seto stared, his body running cold in anger. The wild, untamable boy he knew knelt before him placid, shivering and close to tears. Tearing his eyes away he looked at the two egyptian spirits and nodded. Pulling off his trench coat, Seto stepped into the apartment, making sure that the fat man saw the metal beaters rod tucked into his belt. Mr Wheeler smiled and turned away from the door.
Katsuya looked up as a pair of clean polished shoes entered his peripheral vision. Looming over him Seto Kaiba looked completely different to anytime before. His eyes soft, hair a little mussed from the wind. Blinking in fright Katsuya shuddered. Things after that happened fast.
His father advanced on him with a sick twisted grin on his face, Katsuya drew away from Seto trying to flatten himself on the ground without bearing himself, Kaiba lowered his trench coat so it covered the golden haired boy a single tear balancing on his lower eyelash before being caught moments before it fell, and two fast moving figures darted in through the door and latched on to the alcohol stained man.
Katsuya whimpered as the soft material settled around his shoulders. Kaiba knelt before him and brushed finger tips over his hands that were splayed over the wood flooring. "Bakura! Marik! Take that monster into the other room." the two egyptians nodded before dragging the large man into the lounge room. Brushing the fingers of his other hand over the blond's shoulders Seto lowered his lips so they were close to Katsuya's ear "It's ok Katsuya. I won't tell anyone, and I wont hurt you."
Katsuya looked up at the piercing blue eyes framed by brown hair "it's ok. Go ahead and laugh. I don't deserve..."
Seto shook his head and smiled softly causing Katsuya's eyes to widen. It was one of those smiles the CEO kept for only his little brother "No pupp... um, I mean Katsuya. You don't deserve this." he said gently pulling the blond to sit upright, adjusting the trench coat to keep him covered "but on the subject of who deserves what" he continued, baby blue eyes hardening into blue ice.
Carefully leading Katsuya, Seto entered the living room to find Mr Wheeler bound and gaged, Marik standing guard whilst Bakura cleared some space. Katsuya shivered at the coldness of his fathers gaze. Marik looked up and smiled. The expression not reaching his eyes. "Hay blondie. You ready?"
Katsuya looked at the other blonds lavender eyes in confusion "Ready? For what?"
Bakura chuckled, the sound putting Katsuya even further on the edge "To choose what we do with your father" Katsuya looked quickly at Seto in surprise.
"you have three choices" he began "one, we leave and you untie him. Everything goes on as if we were never here." Katsuya shuddered and pulled the long trench coat closer around himself "two, Bakura sends him to the Shadow Realm and the yami's punish him, or play with him. Depending on their wants." Katsuya looked at the brunet CEO.
"No I can't do that. He's my father, no mater how much he hurts me. He might still have some goodness." Seto nodded.
"Then there is the third choice. Yami Yugi will bring Shadie here and he will see just how much this bastard should be punished." Seto said as he bushed the blond haired boys hair back, away from his face. Said boy nodded and stepped back, away from his father.
"That one." Katsuya said and Seto smiled a little.
Noticing the dark glare Mr Wheeler was giving his son Seto stepped in between them, breaking the mans eye contact. "Why don't you go get dressed and pack your things. Take those atrocities off. You can come stay with me. Mokuba talked me into letting you have a room in the west wing when he found out that I planed to stop this. You'll have privacy, food, clothes, what ever you need." Katsuya looked at Seto. His expression a mix of shock, confusion and happiness.
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Seth stepped in front of Joey, arms spread a little. Magic pouring from his fingertips, as if trying to shield the slave boy. "Joey, you have to stop him" the Priest said over his shoulder.
Joey shook his head "I can't, I've tried and I can't."
Seth felt his lips pull into a sad smile. Turning just enough so he could see the blond over his shoulder he sighed "You can stop him. Especially here, I'll help you. This is your mind. Your world. You built an entire house to keep yourself in, to keep yourself safe." Joey nodded and stepped closer to the taller man "all you have to do is create a box, or another room. We're going to put him in there. Ok?"
Joey smiled hesitantly. Closing his eyes Joey began to imagine a room being built. Brick by brick. Mud being smoothed over it to seal any holes. Before him Seth watched as the image of the house melted away and a single box like room began to take its place.
AN: hi everyone, I'm sooooooo sorry for not having updated in forever. I've been super sick and banned from the computer during that time. I'm trying my hardest to catch up but i need to take things slow. so please bear with me. thanks Neon la'Shadow