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Once Joey regained slight consciousness, he knew was bleeding out once again; he could feel it. His head was pounding out of his skull, and he could sense his vision beginning to blur. A tear fell softly from his eye.

'There are so many things I wanted to do.' Joey thought, 'I wanted to get through school, get married, grow up, watch my children grow up. Are these all unaffordable luxuries to me now? I don't wanna die this way. I'm not ready.' Another tear slipped from his eye and he witnessed the other boy lying unconsciously next to him. 'I'm sorry for gettin' ya' into this mess, pal. But Yugi's coming. And he's gonna make everything alright. He always does.'

"DID HE MENTION WHERE HE WAS?!" Malik shouted, his voice shaking as Ryou's dad's truck slammed it's way hurriedly along the road.

"NO HE DIDN'T. AND YELLING AT ME ISNT GOING TO HELP MY CONCENTRATION." Yugi retorted back at his friend, before turning his piercing gaze back to the path ahead of him. Yami gasped at his hikari's sudden burst of aggression, but understood it, as he was equally as worried about Seto as Yugi was about Joey.

"Oh God." There was a stunned silence as all 8 boys who had squashed themselves into the car turned their heads to the sight on the side of the road. Joey was lying sideways, ivory from the cold. There was crimson blood surrounding his head, dripping from his blond hair, staining the dead grass beneath. Other than his hair which was blowing gently in the wind, his body was entirely still from the impact. The most pertinent thing in this situation however, seemed to be that his fingers were interlocked with the equally as rough looking Egyptian, who was laying next to Joey. Yugi slammed the door behind him as he quickly sprinted over and fell directly next to his friend.

"Oh my God. Joey!" Yugi could feel the tears beginning to well up in his eyes as he knelt by Joey's side.

Ryou, Malik and Heba soon rushed to where Yugi was, all with pretty much the same reaction.

"Oi! Snap out of it, Priest!" Bakura said, rolling his eyes.

Atemu was knelt next to seto, checking his slender wrists for a pulse.

"This is one of your friends here! You could be slightly more sympathetic!" Yami shouted, helping Atemu look for any sign of life.

"Um…Yes, hello? W-we need an ambulance, please" Ryou managed to squeeze the words out between sniffles. "Uh…we're along the street near the game shop in Domino city."

"You're gonna be okay, Joey." Heba whispered as he hugged his now crying brother round the shoulders in an attempt to comfort him. "We'll take them home alright? They don't look too badly hurt, and I'm sure they will be okay."

Yugi sniffed and wiped his nose with the corner of his shirt, "Shouldn't we take them to hospital?"

"We can't. No one can see Seto and everyone else except us, remember?"

Yugi sighed, and his eyes filled with tears as he nodded hurriedly.

Malik understood and came to pick up Joey before slinging him over his shoulder, signalling for Marik to do the same with Seto.

Atemu and Yami were sat next to the tree, they appeared deep in thought.

"How did this happen, Atemu? Yugi told me that Joey is one of the best drivers he knows. Why all of a sudden would he crash?" Yami said, bringing his knees closer to his chest, resting his head sideways on his knees so he was facing his brother directly as he spoke.

"I don't know." Atemu leant forward, running a tanned hand through his tricoloured hair. "Did you see they were holding each other's hand?"

"What could have been traumatic enough for Joey to hold Kaiba's hand?" Yugi finished, sitting directly in front of the brothers. Yami sighed before shrugging his shoulders, "I have no idea." He replied.

When the group got home, they decided to call Tea, as her sister was a doctor, and she would have murdered Yugi for Joey getting hurt and her not knowing about it. Yugi had decided that whatever Tea's sister said to do for Joey they would subtly do for Seto also.

"Well, you're incredibly lucky. He isn't that badly hurt, in fact, he appears to have simply passed out from the impact. He didn't actually hurt his head, he just hurt his arm." She stated, pointing to Joey's upper forearm which she had bandaged up cautiously to prevent him losing any more blood. "It may have looked like he was lying in blood from his head, but it was actually from his arm, therefore the injuries were less serious than you think."

Thank Ra. Yami thought, assuming Seto was the same.

"Thank you." Yugi said, before showing her and her sister to the door so that Joey could rest.

There was a slight murmur from within Joey's bedroom, and 8 pairs of eyes turned. To their surprise however, the source of the noise was in fact from the other – Seto.

Seto rubbed his eyes softly before opening them, to see a sleeping Joey lying next to him. "I feel as bad as you look, Joey."

"Seto!" A series of baritone voices said happily.

"I heard that, asshole." Joey replied quietly.

Seto immediately smiled, but then shook it off as he couldn't let people think he was soft, even though they all knew he secretly was.

"I'm sorry about what I got us into." Joey sighed.

Seto shrugged and sighed, "As long as my face is pristine, then everything's fine."

Joey smiled before proceeding to be glomped by a very overly happy Yugi.

"You're ok!" Yugi smiled happily, wrapping his arms tightly around his friend.

"Yug- can't- breathe-" Yugi blushed and released his friend from the unintentional death grip. "I'm sorry, I guess im just glad you're ok."

"You can't kill me off that easy." Joey smirked, wincing as he forced himself up, admiring his recently bandaged arm. Seto tried to do the same

"Is there anything you want?" Malik asked, happy that his friend was okay.

Joey and Seto looked at eachother and smiled before replying with exactly the same thing.

"Food."