Chapter 10 wooo. Please Review guys, I didn't get any for the last one.

I'm Sorry

Hearing someone walking up the stairs Téa quickly wiped down her face, she didn't want whoever it was to know she had been crying. Grabbing hold of a wipe she began to scrub her face, if it looked as though she had been taking her make up off she could tell them that she had rubbed her eyes too hard.

Valon's head poked around the door, "Hey Téa, can I come in?"

She wanted to say no, she wanted to tell him to get out and leave her be; she wanted to tell him how much he had hurt her by still wanting to take away her friends souls. But none of this was said as she nodded her head and he waltzed into her room.

"Can I help you Valon?" She was hoping that he'd say no and she could talk him into leaving but again luck didn't seem to be going her way.

"I was hoping that you'd help me with my letters" he scratched the back of his neck uncertainly, "If you're busy or if you want to go to bed then that's fine,"

She could feel the guilt seep into her as she told him she was about to go to bed, she didn't know if she would be able to help him with his letters with the mood she was in. She knew he had believed her lie but the hint of disappointment in his eyes was still there and her guilt intensified.

"Maybe we can do it tomorrow when I'm not so tired?" Valon grinned and nodded before leaving the room.

"Bed time Téa," she whispered, as she changed into her pyjamas. She climbed into bed and closed her eyes hoping tomorrow was going to be better.

But it wasn't.

She had woken quite late the next morning and had gone downstairs to see Mai, Alister and Valon sat around the kitchen table eating and drinking, the absence of Raphael worried her and before she could question her stupidity she had asked where he had gone.

"He's gone out might not be back for a while." Was Alister's reply and her heart stopped cold, she didn't know where he had gone but she knew what he had gone to do. She didn't know how she felt, if he returned then Raphael had taken the Pharaoh's soul but if the Pharaoh won then Raphael would be lost forever.

A few hours later Alister had left the house heading to collect Raphael, whether the large blonde returned with his soul or without was still unknown.

"Valon, fancy doing something on your letters?" the Australian nodded his head and came to sit next to her. "Where did we get to?"

"We just finished with upper case letters." He picked up a piece of paper and a pen before handing it to Téa.

"So we'll start with lowercase then," Valon nodded and watched as she wrote down letters A to F in lower case before telling him to copy what she had wrote. They continued to write down each letter until all had been written and copied. Copying what she had done with the upper case letters she wrote each letter on a separate piece of paper and began to show him each letter in the wrong order.

An hour later she had re-written the uppercase letters testing him with both styles. "I think you've got it! You've not got any wrong,"

"I KNOW MY LETTERS!" Téa couldn't help but smile as she watched him celebrate. He whooped and ran around the room lifting Mai into the air before dropping her back down and running into the hallway. The two girls looked at one another shaking their head in amusement.

"Do you know what that's all about?" Mai asked chuckling.

"He's finally learnt his letters,"

"He's an Australian Boomerang," Mai laughed shaking her head sitting beside her.

"But you know what they say about Boomerangs?" Mai raised a brow "they always come back."

"RAPH'S BACK RAPH'S BACK!" cried Valon as he ran into the room followed by an angry looking blonde.

Téa went from hot too cold in a matter of seconds, her heart beat increased and the feeling of nausea arrived. She could feel Mai's eyes burning into the side of her head but Téa didn't even look at her, her were eyes glued to Raphael's body; that man had taken her away from her friends and now he had taken away the Pharaoh.

"What happened? I take it you won?" Mai asked.

Raphael nodded and looked towards Téa, he had noticed quite quickly that she was pale and glancing down at her hands he watched as she tried to stop from them shaking.

"I decided early on I wasn't going to be the one to use the Orichalcos, I chose to give it to the Pharaoh. Master Dartz had always said the nameless Pharaoh had been a bad king so I knew the desire to control the Orichalcos would be too much for him to bear and I was right. A few turns later he played the card and the seal was played, this time from his hands. He destroyed his monsters without a second thought, sending them to the graveyard. The duel was going in my way and finally I destroyed the rest of his life points and the seal took his soul." For some reason Raphael couldn't look at Téa, he could see out of the corner of his eye that Téa's emotions had gone out of control; she seemed shocked that the Pharaoh had been the one to use the card but the feelings of shock were slowly disappearing replacing it with hurt.

"When I returned to headquarters to inform Master Dartz about my success he had informed me that I had failed. The Pharaoh shares the body with a boy and he had pushed the Pharaoh's soul out of the seal and it was his soul that had been captured by the Orichalcos."

"Y- you – you – you took Yugi's soul," she said in a broken voice. "You've killed Yugi! You're a murderer." Her anger was slowly beginning to seep out of her. "Just because your life was ruined doesn't mean you should go around and destroy others. You are no better than the people you claim to be bad, you all follow a man who's a conniving snake who's playing you all and you allow him to dominate your lives. You allow him to control you with a stone that reeks of evil. You've captured me and now you've taken the soul of Yugi. He did nothing wrong to hurt you. I hope the Pharaoh finds you and takes your soul because you don't deserve to keep yours." Téa spat, she jumped out of her seat and walked straight over to the surprised blonde and raised her palm slapping him across with the face with a resounding SLAP! "You're a monster, a murderer and now you've taken Yugi, you've taken my best friend and he did nothing to hurt you." She couldn't take it any longer and fled the room finally allowing her tears to flow down her face.

"Well that was different," Alister said staring at the doorway that Téa had just ran through.

"I didn't want to take the soul of the boy, I duelled the Pharaoh, it's his own fault he lost his soul." Raphael snapped attentively stroking the cheek that had been hit.

"Try telling Téa that, you know what it's like to lose someone so imagine how she's feeling right now."

"That's different Mai; we lost someone who did mean a lot to us not just a friend." Valon argued.

"And that friend did mean a lot to her, he was like a brother. They'd been through everything together. Téa will stand by Yugi even if that means she dies." Valon said nothing, Mother Mary had never been a relative but he had cared more about her then anyone in his life and she had died.

"I'm off to see if she's okay," nothing, Mai, Alister or Raphael could say would stop him from seeing if the girl he was falling for was okay. He left the living room and bounded up the stairs before stopping outside her door. From the outside he could hear her sobs and his heart broke. Did everyone feel this way when a soul of someone they cared about had been taken? He walked straight into the room and he could feel his heart break. Lying on the bed, sobbing into her pillow laid Téa. Taking a deep breath he walked towards her before lifting her into his arms. She struggled against him to start with but when he worked his arms around her body and rubbed her back soothingly she broke down on his shoulder clinging on to him like the world was about to end.

Time seemed to drag as he sat there with her in his arms. Her cries quietened till all that could be heard was her sniffling.

He didn't know what to say to ease the pain he was sure she was feeling. He knew her heart was aching for a friend that she'd never see again and he knew nothing he could say would stop her from hurting so he settled with.

"I'm sorry"

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