A/N: Okay…so maybe you were right in leaving. This story is dragging on and on, but I don't think I've had enough of Kaiba having problems. Besides, I'm trying to get him to the point that he's closer to the gain so that a relationship between him and Alyssa has the full support of the gang and so on and so forth…
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Chapter Thirty-Four
Alyssa's eyes snapped open when she heard the door open and she frowned, not knowing when exactly she had shut up. She was sure that it had been after her other half had stopped talking, but she wasn't exactly sure when. She was afraid that she might have missed something or had something done to her, so she quickly gave her self a glance over without sitting up on the couch.
Nothing was out of order and she was sure that the stinging on her head had always been there since the crash. She hadn't been bothered or touched by her kidnapper while she slept.
"Bon jour Mademoiselle," someone said, closing the door behind them.
Alyssa's eyes narrowed as she recognized the voice. "Sieg Harry!"
"Ah, I see zat you do know me," Sieg said, smiling smugly at the glare she threw at him. "I thought that you would zink zat I was another man with a French accent."
"There's only one person in the entire world with a voice as horrible as yours!" Alyssa spat, getting to her feet as he approached her. "Why did you have Nicholas kidnap me?"
"Because you are ze only one that has a connection to both Monsieur Kaiba and Monsieur Pegasus," Sieg replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Both men love you, cherish you and I know zat both are desperate to have you returned to them, my little rose bud."
"They'll pay you nothing to get me back!" Alyssa growled. "They will have the authorities on your tail before you can blink and you'll be locked away for a very long time."
"Why do you zink zat I have hired Monsieur Shame?" Sieg asked. "Ze man has ze highest level of experience of kidnapping people known to man and he has never been caught. No one will see ze connection between me and him."
"I won't let you get away with this!" Alyssa snarled, reaching into her pocket.
Her eyes widened slightly when her hand found nothing. That's when she remembered that she had left her cards in her purse and her purse was in her totaled car.
Dammit! Alyssa thought, grinding her teeth.
"Zere is very little you can do to stop me, Mademoiselle. I have thought of everything and even if you do manage to overpower me and Monsieur Shame, you will have no way out of here. The doors are locked with the newest security technology and only Shame and I know ze codes to them. You'd be in here for a very long time."
"I'd find a way out."
Sieg laughed lightly. "I'm sure you would, given time, but I do not have ze time for such experiments."
He snapped his fingers and Nicholas entered the room. Alyssa hissed in protest when Nicholas came at her with a couple of cable ties and a piece of dirty cloth. She couldn't avoid him though because Sieg tripped her and let Nicholas fall upon her.
"In time, I'm sure you will learn to see things my way," Sieg said, watching Nicholas bind Alyssa's hands behind her back and gag her with the cloth. "I am doing zis merely for the honor of my family zat your Seto Kaiba has taken away from us with your uncle's help."
Alyssa wanted to scream at him, but the gag prevented her. Nicholas pulled her up from the ground and pushed her onto the couch. She knew that there was no way out of this now and desperately wished that there was. She didn't want Kaiba or her uncle to get hurt because she was stupid enough to get kidnapped by Kaiba's rival.
"I have the video camera ready sir," Nicholas said, looking pointedly at Sieg Harry when tears started swimming in Alyssa's eyes.
"Good," Sieg said. "Zis is ze last thing you must do for me, Monsieur Shame, and then you can go away forever."
Nicholas nodded and pulled out the video camera. "Very well sir."
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Kaiba glared at the TV when he saw himself walking on the screen, avoiding answering questions about how he felt about Alyssa's kidnapping. News reporters were too nosy for their own good and he felt that they should focus more on getting people to look for Alyssa than bugging him about it. Who cared how he felt about losing his girlfriend when there was the chance that she could be raped or murdered at any time and the authorities could do something to change that fate? They could all go to hell as far as he was concerned, just as long as Alyssa was returned to him before something seriously bad happened to her.
His computer beeped and a message came up that someone wanted to have a video conference with him. With a growl, he agreed to it and turned his TV off.
Sieg Harry's face appeared on the screen and in his arms was a gagged Alyssa.
"Bon jour, Monsieur Kaiba," Sieg greeted with a small evil smile. "I hope all is well with your company so zat I may have ze pleasure of destroying it myself."
"So you were the one who kidnapped Alyssa!" Kaiba growled, glaring at the pink haired man. "I should have known."
"Ah, I did no such thing, but still she ended up in my keep," Sieg said with a triumphant gleam in his eyes. "A good friend of mine did all the hard work – he is very good at zis sort of thing, you see – and allowed me to take something zat you loved more than your precious company without me having to lift a finger. It was perfect."
"Give her back!" Kaiba commanded, banging his fist on his desk. "She has nothing to do with this, you bastard! This is between you and me!"
"Watch your mouth, Monsieur Kaiba," Sieg warned. "Zere is a lady in ze room."
"You haven't heard the worst of my language!" Kaiba snarled. "Let her go!"
"Now, you know I can't do zat until I get what I want," Sieg said, stroking Alyssa's hair as if she was a dog. "Zat is usually how this ransom thing works. You give me what I want, and you get what you want. Everyone wins, except this time, you can't possibly win."
"What do you want?"
"I want one billion of your dollars and all ze titles to the projects zat you stole from me."
"I didn't steal anything –"
"And zen you will have Monsieur Pegasus give me one billion of his dollars and ze credit for ze projects zat you stole from me," Sieg cut across Kaiba. "Zen you may have your little rose bud back."
Alyssa stared at Kaiba and shook her head vigorously and he could tell that she didn't want him to do it. Sieg's fingers twined themselves in her hair and he yanked her head back.
"Now we'll have none of zat, my dear," he said in a hard voice. "You do want Monsieur Kaiba to come for you, do you not? You do not want to be killed or locked in a room for ze rest of time, do you?"
Alyssa shook her head again and Kaiba could see the tears forming in her eyes. That man was hurting her…
"Stop touching her!" he roared, leaping to his feet. "You'll get what you want."
Sieg laughed. "How did you find such a lovely rose bud, Kaiba, and manage to keep her so long? Surely your business means more to you than she…"
"You'll get what you want," Kaiba repeated. "Just be prepared to let her go."
"You have one hour," Sieg said, making a slicing motion with his hand at his neck.
The screen went black, but scribed across the bottom of the screen was an address. Kaiba memorized it quickly before it too vanished.
"Dammit!" he snapped, grabbing the phone. "Kathy, get Pegasus on the phone!"
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Alyssa glared at Sieg once the connection was broken. Her head hurt because of him and she knew that seeing that would make Kaiba furious. This man really wanted to be killed all for the sake of honor. Even if he didn't have any in reality.
"Take ze gag off," Sieg ordered Nicholas after the man put the camera away. "Zere is something that I want to discuss with our guest."
Alyssa saw the look in his eyes and squirmed away from him, moving closer to Nicholas. She felt the kidnapper work at the knot at the back of her head and then the gag fell away from her.
"Please Nicholas, don't leave the room," she begged, turning her head slightly so she could see him.
"Shame, leave." Sieg ordered in a bored tone of voice.
Nicholas looked at Alyssa for a moment before walking towards the door.
"Nicholas, please!" Alyssa exclaimed, jumping onto her feet.
Nicholas looked helplessly at Sieg, who waved a dismissive hand. Nicholas sighed and walked out the door. Alyssa wanted to run over to the door and kick it enough to make Nicholas come back and bind her to a chair, but she wasn't allowed to.
Sieg grabbed her by her hair and pulled her back onto the couch. "Come here, my little rose bud."
Alyssa growled and twisted away from him. Sieg's eyes narrowed and he slapped her.
"Now, we'll have none of that," he said, glaring at her.
Alyssa's eyes watered, but she tried to tell herself not to cry. She didn't want to give him that satisfaction. She didn't want him to know how much he was hurting her. She wouldn't let him know.
"Now, let's have a look at you," Sieg whispered, grabbing her roughly by her chin.
Alyssa turned cold when he crushed his lips against hers. There was no fire in his kiss, but an ice cold wave that froze her on the inside the longer he touched her. She felt the air in her lungs freeze as she continued to be unresponsive to his kiss.
She made sounds of protest when she felt his hands wandering over her body. The hand that went up her shirt and squeezed her breasts freaked her out and made her attempt to twist away from him, but he pulled her closer.
He pulled away from her long enough to wrench her shirt up over her head. She shuddered under the look of admiration and hunger in his eyes as he gazed upon her. He wasn't supposed to see any of this. This was only for Kaiba to see.
"Stop…please…" she begged quietly.
Sieg ignored her as he pushed her back on the couch and climbed on top of her. Alyssa closed her eyes and wished that she was dead.
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Nicholas leaned against the door, listening. The girl had tried to get him to stay and he had wanted to, but it was his job to do the opposite of what the victim wanted. He couldn't do anything to help her while his employer was in the room and now she was paying for it.
He could hear her broken cries and Sieg's cruel laughter as the man did God knows what to her. He didn't want to think about the harm that was coming down on that poor girl.
What are you doing, Shame? he asked himself. You can't be thinking of that girl as a person. That is not what this line of work allows. You can't get all feely over some chick you had to kidnap. That's not how it works.
But he did feel for the girl, Ms. Pegasus. She had a name, it was Alyssa, and she had a life. True, she was another rich girl and there seemed to be no end to rich girls, but she was different. She had talked to him nicely when she spoke and she had tried to befriend him. No one he had ever kidnapped had ever done that. They'd all been afraid of him and he supposed that was how they were all supposed to act. But she wasn't afraid of him. She was afraid of that equally rich man in that room, but was willing to suffer to keep another man – that he guessed that she loved – from getting hurt himself. She wanted everyone else to be all right and didn't give a damn about herself.
Nicholas winced when he heard her scream out in pain and reached into his pocket, pulling out his cell phone. He turned it on and started walking away from the door.
"Hello, I'm calling to report a crime," he said, leaving the place where Sieg was holding Alyssa hostage. "There's a man hurting a young woman…and I am the one who kidnapped her in the first place…" He sighed. "By the time you get here, he'll probably already be gone with her, but I won't be. I can tell you where they are going, though…"
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A/N: Short chapter, I know, but that's how it turned out. Shame had a change of heart, so Yay him! Review this freaking chapter or I will have Shame kidnap you!