Be Strong
Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN
Notes: Sorry about the chapters lately, they have been lacking that sort of description I use to have, there is just a lot going on and I am so tired when I write lately, I hope this chapter makes up for it!
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Yami watched the pale white doors for a while hoping that Yugi would walk out telling him that everything was fine and that there was nothing he could have done to help him but what he did. But that wasn't going to happen; Yami realized this and settled for, instead of standing, sitting next to the door and pulling his knees up to his chest.
Yami stayed that way for about a good hour until Seto and Joey found him and pulled him, half carried, back to the dull waiting room. They sat him down on one of those black uncomfortable chairs. They both looked at Yami and it clearly showed that he blamed himself for this occurrence.
"Yami, blaming yourself isn't going to help Yugi right now, he needs you to lend him your strength and to believe in him, that's what he needs, not you sitting here sulking about something that has happened and can't be changed. Look forwards and stair the future in the eye don't look over your shoulder, looking for the past to come back and get you," Seto said trying to comfort the frightened Yami. Joey, who has never been any good with words, just rubbed small circles on his back.
Yami shrugged them off, he knew they were trying to help, but at the moment he wanted to be alone. He hoped he hadn't offended them though. Joey and Seto got the picture and went to get a bite to eat and then Seto went to call his little brother while Joey called Tea and Serenity.
Yami stayed put, not having any loved one to call, his loved one, his little brother, he let his little light get shot and that's all that played over and over in his mind. Yugi's small frame hitting the cold hard ground with a sickening thump, his cries of pain as Seto placed gentle pressure on the wound, it all stung on Yami's mind.
Yami drifted his mind to listen to others conversations and what other people were there for. Next to him was a woman and a little girl, most likely mother and daughter, they were waiting for the small girls dad's doctor to tell them how he was. Yami watched the doctor come over to them with a straight face and Yami knew something had happened.
"Maim, I am very sorry, we were unable to save him, we tried," he said, he gave her a small hug and a pat on the back before he left her to gather herself to say goodbye. Yami felt his heart twist slightly as the woman started to weep slightly.
"Mommy, what did the man mean, where is daddy?" the little girl asked so innocently, it remind Yami so much of Yugi's sweet little child voice.
"He isn't coming home with us honey, not now or forever, he is living with God now," the mother said a calmly as she could muster up.
"Why mommy, why is he going to live with God?" the child asked, she wasn't making this any easier on the widow.
"I don't know, he just is," she said, they held each other and cried for a long time, or at least it seemed like a long time. Eventually they broke up, went to say their goodbyes and left the hospital in tears.
As Yami watched the little girl walk out of the hospital new thoughts ran through his head, they could leave the same way, without Yugi. They could leave in tears that didn't want to stop and a pain in their hearts that was indescribable. Yami just shut his eyes, blocking out those possibilities, thinking of the good things that could happen.
Yami stayed that way for a long time, but he was abruptly thrown from his trance by a man screaming. Yami's head shot up, the man was crying and he was being pulled away by two police men.
"No, she can't be gone, no, no, no," he was yelling over and over again. At first Yami didn't know what he was talking about but when he saw a stretcher with a blanket covering the now dead human it all clicked. Yami felt like he was in a plague, everyone around him was dying. A father, a lover, all that was left was a small child.
'Ra, if you can hear me, I know I am not anywhere near Egypt but I have to try, I love Yugi like everything I have. He is my little brother, my entire reason for getting up in the morning, my only family in this world, if you took him to live with you there would be nothing left for me, no reason for me to be here, and I would kill myself not being able to hear his voice or see his sweet innocent smile, please spare and save him!' Yami prayed, he didn't even notice that he had gotten on his knees and moved his hands into a traditional Egyptian praying position.
He got back into the chair afraid of drawing any attention because he still, just wanted to be alone. The next bunch of people to sit next to him were all older, it was three women and two guys. It seemed to be a family but Yami couldn't tell. He covered his face with his hands rubbing his temples slightly as they started to talk among themselves.
"I can't believe this is happening, to us, to her, it seems so unfair, she hadn't been drinking," one of them women said.
"Bad things happen to good people," a guy said, Yami silently agreed, Yugi had never done anything to anyone and now he was fighting for his life in the hands of a bunch of people that had a piece of paper telling Yami that they would save Yugi. (Their degree)
"You never think it's going to hit this close to home," the other guy spoke up, this one had been younger then the rest of them, maybe a brother, or boyfriend, Yami thought.
The doctor came out to talk to the family and Yami was afraid that he was going to tell them that their little baby girl had died. Instead he cleared his throat and tried to smile, Yami could tell that this was not a face he wanted to see.
"She has slipped into a heavy coma, we did our best but the damage was extent. The driver that was intoxicated was killed on impact and if you daughter does survive, maim, she may never be able to walk again," the doctor told them straight out. Yami cried inside, no this was definitely not the face he wanted.
Yami had been studying the faces of the doctors, learning what meant bad news, what meant not dead but close to it, and the one Yami wanted, the one that meant they will be fine. Seto and Joey arrived sometime while Yami was studying faces and they silent sat together and talked a little, about how they met Yugi, his situation, what was going to happen to him after he got through this. They were both very confident that Yugi was going to live.
"Well you see, I talked to the officers before they left the hospital, he is still too young to live on his own so he would be sent to the orphanage on Vine Street," Seto said, he also informed Joey that he was going to do all he could in his power to convince the judge on Yugi court date that Yugi's mental condition would be much better in a familiar environment surrounded by familiar faces. It sounded like it would work, he might have to spend a little time in the orphanage but he would have Yami in the puzzle to help him though it.
Seto had talked to Yugi's doctor as soon as Yugi got out of surgery, before he went to tell Yami and Joey about the news. Seto wanted to be able to be there for his friends, the only ones he had, when they got the news. He was better with medical terms and could translate it so that Yami and Joey would understand what was happening to their friend.
"Well Mr. Kaiba, he is alive, but unconscious. He lost a tremendous amount of blood but we are doing our best to replace that right now. We got the bullet out no problem and he had about ten stitches closing the wound, he will be sore if he wakes up tomorrow, let's just say tonight is critical," the doctor said giving it to Seto straight. Seto nodded understanding Yugi's position, then he went off to tell the others.
Yami had realized what Seto had gone to do and as soon as he saw him he jumped up out of the seat he had occupied for the last five hours to ask him about Yugi.
"Yami, he is alive but tonight is important, he has to survive tonight and then he should be on a good path to waking up," Seto said giving Yami a pat on the back. Yami, hearing that, started to breathe again and let a weak smile out.
Seto went to the nurse at the desk and asked for Yugi's recovery room. She gave it to him telling him only family was aloud in for now. Seto smiled, Yami needed to see Yugi more then any of them anyway and he was the only one that could pull it off as Yugi's older brother.
Seto led Yami to Yugi's room and then left him outside it. Yami almost chickened out; he wasn't sure how he would handle this. Finally, swallowing the lump in this throat, Yami opened the door and walked in.
Yami, his pale little Hikari was lying motionless on the white bed, in the white room, with the white curtains. Yami hated this room, it was too light, no dark colors at all, but it was perfect for Yugi.
Yami looked over to Yugi; he had an IV for fluid and nutrition as well as medicine. He also had another one that looked just like the IV giving him more blood. He had a wire coming up from some place near the headboard that spit into seven different color wires and went under his white hospital shirt, keeping his heart beat. Many different machines were in the room and they were beeping and making a lot of noise. Yami liked the noise almost, the noise of Yugi's life.
Yami sat down next to Yugi and took his hand and held it softly in him. He rubbed the back of Yugi's hand with his thumb hoping to encourage the boy to open his eyes and wake up.
"Yugi, you wouldn't believe what I did out there," Yami said laughing a bit, "I started praying to Ra, I might have even been praying in Egyptian, I'm not sure. I got down on my knees and reverted back to my pharaoh training and went into traditional praying position. Everyone must have thought I was crazy."
Yami just kept talking, not really staying on one topic but always running his mouth. He just wanted Yugi to wake up but didn't get his hopes up. Eventually Yami's exhaustion over took him and he fell asleep with his head on Yugi's hand and his arm across the small boys body.
The nurse came in at midnight to tell Yami that even family had to leave at the time but loss the heart to do that when she saw Yami sleeping on his brother hand with his arm protectively over his body, not on his wound though. The nurse didn't see any harm in letting his just sleep, she had a feeling she wouldn't have been able to move the over protective brother even if she called the guards. She also had a feeling that he would be just what the small boy needed as far a medicine.
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Another chapter goes down!!!! I hope this one is better then the last few have been. Review to tell me, please!!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN
Notes: Sorry about the chapters lately, they have been lacking that sort of description I use to have, there is just a lot going on and I am so tired when I write lately, I hope this chapter makes up for it!
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Yami watched the pale white doors for a while hoping that Yugi would walk out telling him that everything was fine and that there was nothing he could have done to help him but what he did. But that wasn't going to happen; Yami realized this and settled for, instead of standing, sitting next to the door and pulling his knees up to his chest.
Yami stayed that way for about a good hour until Seto and Joey found him and pulled him, half carried, back to the dull waiting room. They sat him down on one of those black uncomfortable chairs. They both looked at Yami and it clearly showed that he blamed himself for this occurrence.
"Yami, blaming yourself isn't going to help Yugi right now, he needs you to lend him your strength and to believe in him, that's what he needs, not you sitting here sulking about something that has happened and can't be changed. Look forwards and stair the future in the eye don't look over your shoulder, looking for the past to come back and get you," Seto said trying to comfort the frightened Yami. Joey, who has never been any good with words, just rubbed small circles on his back.
Yami shrugged them off, he knew they were trying to help, but at the moment he wanted to be alone. He hoped he hadn't offended them though. Joey and Seto got the picture and went to get a bite to eat and then Seto went to call his little brother while Joey called Tea and Serenity.
Yami stayed put, not having any loved one to call, his loved one, his little brother, he let his little light get shot and that's all that played over and over in his mind. Yugi's small frame hitting the cold hard ground with a sickening thump, his cries of pain as Seto placed gentle pressure on the wound, it all stung on Yami's mind.
Yami drifted his mind to listen to others conversations and what other people were there for. Next to him was a woman and a little girl, most likely mother and daughter, they were waiting for the small girls dad's doctor to tell them how he was. Yami watched the doctor come over to them with a straight face and Yami knew something had happened.
"Maim, I am very sorry, we were unable to save him, we tried," he said, he gave her a small hug and a pat on the back before he left her to gather herself to say goodbye. Yami felt his heart twist slightly as the woman started to weep slightly.
"Mommy, what did the man mean, where is daddy?" the little girl asked so innocently, it remind Yami so much of Yugi's sweet little child voice.
"He isn't coming home with us honey, not now or forever, he is living with God now," the mother said a calmly as she could muster up.
"Why mommy, why is he going to live with God?" the child asked, she wasn't making this any easier on the widow.
"I don't know, he just is," she said, they held each other and cried for a long time, or at least it seemed like a long time. Eventually they broke up, went to say their goodbyes and left the hospital in tears.
As Yami watched the little girl walk out of the hospital new thoughts ran through his head, they could leave the same way, without Yugi. They could leave in tears that didn't want to stop and a pain in their hearts that was indescribable. Yami just shut his eyes, blocking out those possibilities, thinking of the good things that could happen.
Yami stayed that way for a long time, but he was abruptly thrown from his trance by a man screaming. Yami's head shot up, the man was crying and he was being pulled away by two police men.
"No, she can't be gone, no, no, no," he was yelling over and over again. At first Yami didn't know what he was talking about but when he saw a stretcher with a blanket covering the now dead human it all clicked. Yami felt like he was in a plague, everyone around him was dying. A father, a lover, all that was left was a small child.
'Ra, if you can hear me, I know I am not anywhere near Egypt but I have to try, I love Yugi like everything I have. He is my little brother, my entire reason for getting up in the morning, my only family in this world, if you took him to live with you there would be nothing left for me, no reason for me to be here, and I would kill myself not being able to hear his voice or see his sweet innocent smile, please spare and save him!' Yami prayed, he didn't even notice that he had gotten on his knees and moved his hands into a traditional Egyptian praying position.
He got back into the chair afraid of drawing any attention because he still, just wanted to be alone. The next bunch of people to sit next to him were all older, it was three women and two guys. It seemed to be a family but Yami couldn't tell. He covered his face with his hands rubbing his temples slightly as they started to talk among themselves.
"I can't believe this is happening, to us, to her, it seems so unfair, she hadn't been drinking," one of them women said.
"Bad things happen to good people," a guy said, Yami silently agreed, Yugi had never done anything to anyone and now he was fighting for his life in the hands of a bunch of people that had a piece of paper telling Yami that they would save Yugi. (Their degree)
"You never think it's going to hit this close to home," the other guy spoke up, this one had been younger then the rest of them, maybe a brother, or boyfriend, Yami thought.
The doctor came out to talk to the family and Yami was afraid that he was going to tell them that their little baby girl had died. Instead he cleared his throat and tried to smile, Yami could tell that this was not a face he wanted to see.
"She has slipped into a heavy coma, we did our best but the damage was extent. The driver that was intoxicated was killed on impact and if you daughter does survive, maim, she may never be able to walk again," the doctor told them straight out. Yami cried inside, no this was definitely not the face he wanted.
Yami had been studying the faces of the doctors, learning what meant bad news, what meant not dead but close to it, and the one Yami wanted, the one that meant they will be fine. Seto and Joey arrived sometime while Yami was studying faces and they silent sat together and talked a little, about how they met Yugi, his situation, what was going to happen to him after he got through this. They were both very confident that Yugi was going to live.
"Well you see, I talked to the officers before they left the hospital, he is still too young to live on his own so he would be sent to the orphanage on Vine Street," Seto said, he also informed Joey that he was going to do all he could in his power to convince the judge on Yugi court date that Yugi's mental condition would be much better in a familiar environment surrounded by familiar faces. It sounded like it would work, he might have to spend a little time in the orphanage but he would have Yami in the puzzle to help him though it.
Seto had talked to Yugi's doctor as soon as Yugi got out of surgery, before he went to tell Yami and Joey about the news. Seto wanted to be able to be there for his friends, the only ones he had, when they got the news. He was better with medical terms and could translate it so that Yami and Joey would understand what was happening to their friend.
"Well Mr. Kaiba, he is alive, but unconscious. He lost a tremendous amount of blood but we are doing our best to replace that right now. We got the bullet out no problem and he had about ten stitches closing the wound, he will be sore if he wakes up tomorrow, let's just say tonight is critical," the doctor said giving it to Seto straight. Seto nodded understanding Yugi's position, then he went off to tell the others.
Yami had realized what Seto had gone to do and as soon as he saw him he jumped up out of the seat he had occupied for the last five hours to ask him about Yugi.
"Yami, he is alive but tonight is important, he has to survive tonight and then he should be on a good path to waking up," Seto said giving Yami a pat on the back. Yami, hearing that, started to breathe again and let a weak smile out.
Seto went to the nurse at the desk and asked for Yugi's recovery room. She gave it to him telling him only family was aloud in for now. Seto smiled, Yami needed to see Yugi more then any of them anyway and he was the only one that could pull it off as Yugi's older brother.
Seto led Yami to Yugi's room and then left him outside it. Yami almost chickened out; he wasn't sure how he would handle this. Finally, swallowing the lump in this throat, Yami opened the door and walked in.
Yami, his pale little Hikari was lying motionless on the white bed, in the white room, with the white curtains. Yami hated this room, it was too light, no dark colors at all, but it was perfect for Yugi.
Yami looked over to Yugi; he had an IV for fluid and nutrition as well as medicine. He also had another one that looked just like the IV giving him more blood. He had a wire coming up from some place near the headboard that spit into seven different color wires and went under his white hospital shirt, keeping his heart beat. Many different machines were in the room and they were beeping and making a lot of noise. Yami liked the noise almost, the noise of Yugi's life.
Yami sat down next to Yugi and took his hand and held it softly in him. He rubbed the back of Yugi's hand with his thumb hoping to encourage the boy to open his eyes and wake up.
"Yugi, you wouldn't believe what I did out there," Yami said laughing a bit, "I started praying to Ra, I might have even been praying in Egyptian, I'm not sure. I got down on my knees and reverted back to my pharaoh training and went into traditional praying position. Everyone must have thought I was crazy."
Yami just kept talking, not really staying on one topic but always running his mouth. He just wanted Yugi to wake up but didn't get his hopes up. Eventually Yami's exhaustion over took him and he fell asleep with his head on Yugi's hand and his arm across the small boys body.
The nurse came in at midnight to tell Yami that even family had to leave at the time but loss the heart to do that when she saw Yami sleeping on his brother hand with his arm protectively over his body, not on his wound though. The nurse didn't see any harm in letting his just sleep, she had a feeling she wouldn't have been able to move the over protective brother even if she called the guards. She also had a feeling that he would be just what the small boy needed as far a medicine.
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Another chapter goes down!!!! I hope this one is better then the last few have been. Review to tell me, please!!!!!!!!