Serenity hit the pavement with a grunt. Her hands reflexively shot out to stop her from hitting the ground. Her palms ended up cut up, but she didn't mind. She was just surprised that Kaiba would actually get angry enough to shove her. She was just about to spin around and yell at him, until something worried her.
There were dark whispered behind her. She slowly turned and then took in the scene behind her. She located Kaiba, laying on the street like a rag doll. A car was a few feet behind him, obviously it had hit him. "He pushed me to…save me…" She whispered to herself, tears beginning to well up in her eyes. "Seto…" She whispered, concern overflowing her. "Seto!" She called out, and then crawled over to his unconscious body. The puppy was licking his palm and then his face, trying to revive him.
"Someone….someone get help!" She shouted desperately, ignoring the bus as it rolled to a stop a little bit away from the scene, all other traffic had stopped as well. Tears were streaming down her red cheeks and she needed more help. She got an idea and quickly reached for his cell phone and called Roland, the guard answered quickly.
"Mr. Kaiba." Roland answered obediently.
"Roland it's me." Serenity said, her voice constricting in her throat. "Come quick. It's Seto!" She said and then practically dropped the phone. The guard was on his way. She placed one of her hands on Kaiba's cheek and tried shaking him gently to wake him. "Seto!" She called to him, the puppy was now licking Kaiba's face, and whimpering softly. "Seto wake up! Please!" She called out, her heart pounding heavily in her chest.
She noticed the crowd moving around them, but in her mind, she was there alone with Kaiba.
He was in darkness. Everything around him was shrouded in shadow, and he couldn't see a thing. It was cold, and he felt like shivering, but he couldn't. In fact, he couldn't move anything. All of his limbs just felt numb on him.
He wondered where he was, but try as he might he couldn't remember what had led up to this moment. He couldn't figure out where he was. He sighed and hoped something would happen to free him from whatever bind he was experiencing.
It was at that moment that he heard a distant voice. He couldn't understand what it was saying, but he could tell it was a female, and she was distraught. He thought something about the voice sounded familiar, and he wanted to comfort the voice, tell her everything would be ok, but he couldn't speak. Try as he might no words would come.
The voice started getting louder. He slowly began to understand what was being said. "Seto!" It called out, still dim, as if distant, and it resounded in his head several times. Then it shouted it again. 'That's my name.' He thought to himself slowly. The girl was calling for him.
The area around him started turning gray, and he could make out blurry figures. One was leaning over him, the girl calling to him. He couldn't see her face clearly enough to see who. But she kept shouting his name. Suddenly someone blurry came up from behind her and began dragging her away.
He felt like shouting out, making the person stop taking her away, but he still couldn't move. The girl shouted out several more times, and suddenly he recognized who it was.
"Serenity…" Kaiba groaned from the ground. Serenity spun and looked at him with wide eyes.
"Roland let me go!" She pleaded with the guard, as he tried to get her at a safe distance, the ambulance was pulling up. But the guards arms were wrapped around her strongly and he refused. She reached out to Kaiba and called out to him several more times, but he didn't say her name again.
The girl watched as they placed Kaiba on a gurney and put him in the ambulance. "Let me go with him! Please he can't be alone!" She shouted, still crying openly.
Roland sighed and unwrapped his arms from her. Serenity then ran to the ambulance and tried climbing in, but one of the EMTs stopped her. "I'm sorry miss. But only family is allowed." He said, gently pushing her away. Serenity stood, alone, and mournfully looked as the began hooking him up to machines and checking his vitals. The ambulance doors closed and sped off.
She felt something tugging at her leg and she slowly turned around and looked down to see the puppy pulling her back to Roland. She slowly walked over to him and noticed he was on the phone. She didn't listen to what he was saying though, and soon enough his hand was on her shoulder. "Are you alright Ms. Wheeler?" He asked, looking at her with concern.
Serenity nodded, unable to speak. Roland nodded and then led her back towards KaibaCorp. Before Serenity knew it they were in a car, and she was unsure of where they were going, everything was just a phase around her. She had the puppy in her lap and was leaning her head against the window.
The car stopped outside a red sign. "The hospital." She said, turning to Roland, she had assumed he'd take her home, with everything that had happened. But she was glad to be here. She smiled and quickly got out, holding the puppy in her arms. She ran inside and saw Mokuba at the receptionist making demands like he was Seto Kaiba himself.
Serenity stood beside him and they looked at each other, both mournful.
Kaiba groaned a little. His head was pounding, but other then that, he felt rather fine. He slowly opened his eyes and looked around. Everything was blurry, so he blinked a few times to try and clear his sights. He heard a steady beeping the room he was in, and tried to locate where it came from. He saw a machine. He thought it looked familiar and followed once of the cords on the machine to what he thought was its source.
He followed it right to his arm. Huh…? He thought to himself, and then looked around as his vision began getting a bit better. He realized he was lying on a bed in a white room. I'm in a hospital…what happened? He thought to himself, unable to remember what had caused him to be brought here.
After a moment he suddenly remembered. The car speeding down the road, and him running into the street to push Serenity out of its path. He suddenly jolted. "Serenity!" He shouted, trying to sit up, but couldn't move. He looked around, hoping he wouldn't see her in a bed next to him. She had to be ok! It was all for nothing if she wasn't ok.
He heard a groan and looked over. Said red-head was sleeping curled up in a chair with what looked like a scratchy blanket wrapped around her. "She's ok…" He whispered to himself relieved. He looked around again, now locating Mokuba as well, also asleep. "I wonder how long I've been out…" He muttered, laying back on the pillow and slowly raising his hand to rub his face.
That was when he realized the apparatus pumping oxygen into his noise. "Hn… He muttered a bit and then sighed, trying to find a clock, or maybe a calendar. "I couldn't have been out too long." He said, trying to keep quiet, but Serenity groaned again, and this time shifted, slowly opening her eyes. Kaiba looked over at her with a weak smile.
Serenity stretched her arms above her head and let the blanket fall off of her to the floor. She stretched out her legs, that had been cramped as they were tucked into her side. She then slowly stood and ran a hand through her hair. Kaiba noticed that she had two white bandages wrapped around her hands. She looked over at Kaiba and locked onto his eyes. Suddenly her face beamed up.
"Seto!" She called out, closing the gap between them. "You're awake!" She giggled, lightly placing her hands on his cheeks. Kaiba just looked at her, a small smile creping on his face. "Mokuba! Wake up! Seto's awake!" She said, turning from him and looking to Mokuba, who slowly woke himself.
The three hugged, well, Mokuba and Serenity hugged Kaiba, he just grunted a little under the weight. Afraid of hurting him they backed away. "Are you ok? How are you feeling bro?" Mokuba asked, looking Kaiba over.
"Actually I don't really feel anything…My head hurts but thats about it." He said with a shrug of his shoulder.
"That would be the morphine. They said that the pain would overtake you if they didn't give it to you." Serenity explained, lightly taking one of his hands in her bandaged ones. She stroked his hand gently, the bandage allowing her fingers movement as it only came to the ridge of her palm. She gazed at him gently, all hints of her pain gone completely, as if nothing had happened between them.
"What happened to me? I mean…I remember the car, but…how bad is the damage?" He asked them, looking between his two favorite people slowly.
Mokuba answered this time, glancing at Serenity as he did so. "Well the doctor said nothing was broken. That some miracle saved your back or neck from snapping. Your internal damage will need some time to heal, but you'll be alright." He said, shrugging a bit, as if it was no big deal. "He said you were lucky to be alive." He finished, now looking somber and glancing down.
"And I am. So there's no reason to worry about it." He said, glancing at both of his loved ones, they both seemed relieved to hear him say that. Serenity looked down though, seemingly afraid to meet his gaze. Kaiba knew she wanted to talk to him. They had a lot to talk about. So he slowly looked at Mokuba and opened his mouth, but the kid just nodded and walked out of the room, to give them some time.
They were silent for a minute, Serenity still avoided his gaze. Kaiba was going to say something when Serenity suddenly broke into tears. "Oh Seto I'm so sorry!" She said, turning to look into his eyes. "This is all my fault!" She exclaimed, letting go of his hand to wipe her tears away.
Kaiba reached out and took her hand away from her face and then wiped her tears away for her. "You didn't do anything Serenity. You have no reason to be sorry." He told her, not wanting her to feel guilty for his decision.
She looked at him with a little smiled, but then averted her gaze again. "Why did you do it?" She asked him softly, tears still rolling down her cheeks, but more slowly now.
Kaiba smirked a little and turned her chin so she looked at him. "I would think that was obvious." He said simply. Serenity looked into his eyes, quietly, looking for something in them. "Serenity…I…I can't let anything happen to you. You mean…so much to me. Don't feel bad for what happened. I'm fine, your fine, save your hands…we can…start again." He ended that part softly, wanting to gauge her reaction before he brought up their relationship again.
Serenity was just surprised. "We're sitting here in the hospital and all you want to talk about is our relationship?" She asked, curiously. She had no hint of malice, or anger. She just didn't understand.
Kaiba shrugged and lowered his hand from her face. "What can I say? I can't seem to think about anything else." He said simply, smirking a bit more when he saw Serenity blush and glance at him timidly. "And, I want to know what you're thinking about it." He admitted, shrugging a little.
Serenity looked at him, blushing more. She wanted him. She wanted to tell him. She opened her mouth to talk but then the door opened and a doctor walked in. He asked Kaiba a bunch of questions which frustrated the both of them, then checked the vital monitors and then left the room.
Serenity rolled her eyes a little, jokingly at his back so Kaiba could see. Then she turned back to Kaiba and smiled brightly. "I…am thinking…" She said lightly, nervous, as if she was admitting her feelings for him for the first time. "I was thinking that you didn't care about me…but…clearly…I was wrong." She said, motioning around them. She gazed into his eyes and smiled a little.
"You got hit by a car for me…I don't know a lot of people who would do that for me…and…I…care about you. So much Seto…I'm sorry I didn't listen to you earlier. All of this could have been avoided if I just listened to you." She said, beginning to cry again. He shook his head and covered her mouth.
"Like I said…none of this is your fault." She smiled, and then lightly bent down to kiss his cheek. "I just have one question…" He said, and Serenity, with her face still close to his, looked at him curiously. "What's the date?" He asked.