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Chapter 35: Experiments

Alyssa curled up even more when Doctor Wasaki walked into the room. She cleared her mind, allowing his thoughts to become no more than static and ignored him as best she could. He set something heavy on the wooden table, then addressed her.

"Hello again, Thirteen. Or is it Alyssa? Victoria referred to you as Thirteen, so I will too." His sarcastic greeting scared her all the more, as she could sense his intentions through his tone of voice. "Now, this might hurt a little... It may help if you faced me though..." The all-too familiar sting of a needle piercing her skin broke her concentration and her attempts to remain still were thwarted. She sat up quickly, looking down at the needle in her right forearm and gasping.

"What do you think you're doing?" She tried to take the needle from her arm, but Wasaki stopped her. "Let me go!"

"Stop struggling!" Wasaki barked and she flinched away from him. "I have orders, okay? I need to take more blood samples. Gozaburo had you locked away for one reason, but he now has another reason to monitor you..."

Alyssa narrowed her eyes. "He doesn't own me. Ryuuka was my father. And I decided to live with Seto, so I should be allowed to go home." Wasaki focused his attention on her arm and watched as her blood filled the small vials he had connected to the needle.

"Ryuuka is dead." The silence in the room hurt her ears.

"I know." Wasaki looked up at her and frowned.

"How did you know?" He studied her face. The sadness reflected in her eyes made her appear older, and her already thin face appeared thinner. He noted the untouched plate of food on the table as he set his bag down and sighed, shifting his weight on the small chair.

"My abilities have evolved since the last time we met. Seto informed me of Ryuuka's passing indirectly some weeks ago..." Her words were laced with guilt and regret, and Wasaki didn't need to be psychic to know that she was thinking of the CEO.

"Why do you like him?" His question caught her off-guard, and as Wasaki removed the needle from her arm, she contemplated her answer.

"To be honest... I don't know..." She blushed, despite her situation and looked away, embarrassed. "I could always see through the two way glass in my room, always seeing other young men and women alike. But that first day that he arrived to see me, it was different. He was different.

"He couldn't see me, but I focused on him. He was angry. At me. But it was because he thought I was a danger. When Ryuuka told him that he should terminate me, he refused. I was shocked that he didn't kill me. I sensed that he was nervous, but also he was softened by me.

"He protected me, body and soul. He taught me things I didn't know before. He showed uncharacteristic behaviour toward me and made me feel special. But not special as a telepathic. Special as a girl, a young lady, someone to be loved and cherished."

As Wasaki listened, he began to feel guilty for alerting Gozaburo to her presence. He knew what Gozaburo had planned to do with her, and even he was uncomfortable with the idea. As far as he was concerned, this naive young girl did not deserve to be punished in such a way, and he wanted to help her.

More tears threatened to spill from her aqua blue eyes, but she blinked them back. She choked out a weak laugh and sniffed, a confusing reaction. Wasaki frowned and paid more attention to her, hoping she explained her actions.

"Seto Kaiba hates it when a girl cries. He can't stand it." She bit her lip and trembled, aware of Wasaki's stare.

'Seto, I miss you... I would love nothing more than to see you again... But I don't think we will ever see each other...' She closed her eyes and didn't notice Wasaki leaving the room, phone in hand. He felt guilty at the thought of Alyssa being trapped there, and decided it was time to do what was right.

Kaiba stopped his typing and stared into space. Mokuba noticed this and stood, waving a hand in front of his face in an attempt to break his stare

'Seto, I miss you... I would love nothing more than to see you again... But I don't think we will ever see each other...' Alyssa's thoughts reached Kaiba's mind and he froze, hearing her familiar, but faint voice inside his head. Before he could tell Mokuba what had happened, his phone began to ring.

"Kaiba." His automatic response. He ignored the caller ID and answered the phone blind, as they say.

"Kaiba... It's Wasaki..." At the mention of the name, Kaiba stood from the sofa and glared in front of him. "Before you react negatively, I want to tell you something. I have less than half an hour here, but I can tell you where she is." The doctor's voice was low and hurried, as though he were hiding from someone.

"What?" Kaiba's bark don't go unnoticed by Mokuba, who froze and waited for Kaiba to continue. He watched as Kaiba's face became confused and then settled into its typical determined look. "I'll look into it." And with that said, he ended the call.

"What's going on?" Mokuba dared ask. Kaiba smirked and turned toward his younger brother.

"Wasaki just told me where Alyssa is. And what time Victoria and Gozaburo will be gone from the premises." He chuckled and shook his head. "Later tonight, I'm heading over there. Domino police will accompany me." Mokuba smiled a broad smile and cheered, excited to have found a way to get Alyssa back.

"Wait, big brother... Before he called, you looked off into space. Why?" Kaiba stiffened and remembered the weak voice he had overheard. He shook his head.

"It was nothing..." And nothing more was said about it.

Gozaburo entered the room shortly after Wasaki left. Alyssa watched him with a wary eye, uncomfortable to be in the same room as a monster. She knew that Kaiba hadn't pushed him out of the window, so it was attempted suicide that she saw in his memories.

"Hello, I'm your creator, Gozaburo Kaiba." His smug greeting made Alyssa feel nauseous as she noted his eyes appraising her from head to toe. She shifted her weight with discomfort on the bed, wanting nothing more than for him to leave. "I hear your abilities have gotten stronger. I wanted to know how strong..."

"I'm not showing you anything." The snarl that emanated from her mouth contrasted with her pretty face and Gozaburo laughed, amused that she would refuse to do as he commanded. He strode across the small room in two strides and gripped her right wrist, squeezing and hurting her already frail hand. She cried out in discomfort and looked at his timeworn face, fearing what he might do to her.

"I said, I wanted to know how strong. What can you do Thirteen?" His demand made her quiver and flinch, her control over her abilities slowly slipping away. A flash of a younger Seto Kaiba crossed her mind and she shut her eyes, not wanting to see the horror that this man unleashed on him.

"No! Stay away from me!" She struggled to free her trapped hand with no success. Gozaburo's other hand grabbed her other wrist and pushed her down onto the bed unmercifully.

"I'm losing my patience. I asked a simple question and I want a simple answer!" His bark was too loud in the confines of the small room and Alyssa squeaked with fear. She kept her eyes closed and focused on Kaiba, which helped her to calm herself. It was ironic that the one man who usually distracted her so much was now helping her to control herself in this dreary place.

The hands on her wrists reminded her of the night she and Kaiba had slept together, and she sighed, wishing he was nearby. Gozaburo flinched and moved away from her, suddenly furious.

"He defiled you..." The glare in his eyes made Alyssa more scared than ever and she wished she hadn't opened her eyes at all. A sudden noise outside the window broke the tension in the room and Gozaburo frowned. Alyssa thought, for a fleeting second, that she could hear someone she knew.