((Once again it is the weekend ^_^ Meaning I get to type! Okie, you all are probably DYING to know what happened with the lovely Vodka. so here ya go!))

"Oh, my head..." Seto sat up with a throbbing pain pulsing through his temples and squinted around the unfamiliar room. "Where am I?" His eyes fell to a sleeping form lying next to him and spread wide. "Holy Shit!"

He jumped back against the headboard and frantically glanced around the room again as hazy snatches of what he could remember from the night before flickered through his mind and he tried to recap.

'Okay. I had a couple glasses of Vodka. Went back into the room with Tea. We talked some and then-...' His gaze fell again to the form and he winced. 'Oh crap. How could I be so stupid?'

He swung his legs over the edge of the bed and grabbed his pants off of the floor. Putting them on he stood and headed downstairs to go sit on the couch.

Moaning he grabbed his aching head. 'Oh my god. What have I done? How could I have let this happen?'

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Ringalingalingalingalingalingaling!

"Ow..." Tea sat up in bed as the high-pitched noise reached her ears and shot through her head.

Ringalingalingalingalingalingaling!

"I'm coming... I'm coming... Be quiet already." She fumbled with her hand over the edge of the bed and picked up the small black nuisance and put it to her ear. "Hello?"

Ringalingalingalingalingalingaling!

"Ow." Taking it away she opened it and pushed the on button before putting it back to her ear for a second try. "Hello?"

"Tea?! Where's Seto?!" The panicky voice came from the other end and she cringed.

"Not so loud..."

"Oh, sorry. Where's Seto?"

Blinking slowly she slanted her head lazily. "Why would I know where he is?"

"Uh, because this is sort of his phone..."

"Wha?" Taking it away from her ear again she looked at it and then put it back. "Why do I have your brother's phone?"

An exasperated reply came back. "How on earth would I know? ...Hey! Does this mean you and Seto are back together?"

"Um. No. Look Mokuba. If I see you're brother I'll give you a call... Later." Groggily she pushed the button and let the phone fall out of her hand and back onto the floor. Just as she was about to go back to sleep the door opened.

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Seto stepped into the room and walked around it gathering up his items of clothing that were strewn around the floor while silently praying in his head.

'Please don't wake up. Please don't see me. Please don't wake up. Please stay asleep. Please don't-'

"Kaiba?"

'Crap.' Sliding his shirt back over his head he tugged it down and gave her a nervous smile. "Eheh, hey Tea..."

Tea sat up in the bed and pulled the sheet up over her front. "What are you doing here?"

"Um... Picking up my stuff. Don't worry, I'll be gone soon." Grabbing his phone off the floor as well he headed out the door before she could ask him any more questions. As he traveled down the stairs and out the door he ignored the throbbing pain in his temples and dialed for a limo to come pick him up. Sitting down on the grass outside her front door he groaned. 'My head hurts.. I just got drunk. And I just slept with the one person whom I said I would never again have anything to do with. Great, just great. Excellent job Seto. Just peachy.'

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'What in the-? How in the-? Why did he-? Why was he-? Huh?'

Lost and completely confused Tea blinked at the closed door for a few minutes after he had left.

'Kaiba? Was just here. In my room. In my house.' Her eyes fell across the scene of the rumpled up sheets. She in herself not wearing anything, and to top it all off she had absolutely no idea what happened, or how she got home for that matter...

Of course it doesn't take that long to put two and two together. And she got the idea... Which was not a very comforting thing for Tea, The Almighty Angel of Chastity.

'That didn't- We didn't-? No. It didn't happen. I'm just imagining things...' A smile grew onto her face as she got out of bed dragging the sheets around her as she went to her dresser and made herself decent. 'Yeah. That's right. I'm just making things up in my head. That wasn't Seto. It was just some figment of my imagination. Some other guy from a daydream.' She nodded fully convincing herself as she went on with her explanation to make sure it seemed true. Which of course it wasn't... But we all like to develop some sense of self in a situation that we utterly and completely don't want to believe happened. And as long as the story that is made up sounds logical enough, and there are only two people involved making it one word against the other. Who's to doubt you?

'Last night I went to that party. And afterwards I got in a cab and came home. Probably just stumbled upstairs dead tired and ended up here.' The rest she wasn't even going to go into. It didn't exist in her mind, so she didn't care. Giving another nod with a little giggle to match it her face brightened as she went into the bathroom to fix herself up and to get a couple of aspirin so that she wasn't going to drag through the day. 'Yeah. That's it. That's what happened...'

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Back at the Kaiba mansion however, as the limousine pulled up towards the front door and was opened and Seto got out. Things were not being shoved into a little box and ignored so that they seemed to be something else. It had happened, in a very real, and quite disturbing way the young executive to admit.

If he had ever been planning for something of that degree to happen between them in the first place it would have been quite different. Something special... Not some cheap night from Las Vegas that was influenced by nothing more than a few shots of alcohol. He was very upset with himself for letting it happen that way. And very upset that he had given into the nagging temptation to create a convenient excuse for himself to think it meant nothing.

'Childish. Stupid. Completely idiotic. Now what have we learned today? Don't drink. Don't do drugs... And don't go anywhere near your old girlfriend when she's wasted and vulnerable...'

His fist met his own forehead in a frustrated gesture, which he immediately regretted as the pain shot through his head. Wincing he leaned against his own front door which he had managed to drag himself up against.

'I'm such an idiot. I'm such a complete moron. I let this happen against my own will. I let my emotions take over my head and look what happened... Stupid Seto. Just stop thinking about it and remember that you don't need anybody. It's foolish to keep trying to lead myself down a path that is never going to turn out in my favor...'

Twisting the doorknob he pushed inward letting himself inside where he pushed himself onward further to the stairs. Each step he took the throbbing went further through his head as he mentally harassed himself for being such an idiot. Upon reaching the top of the stairwell a small body launched at his legs and latched onto him, almost knocking Kaiba back down the stairs again if he had not managed to grab onto the walls.

"Seto! WhatHappenedToYou? IWasSoWorriedWhenYouDidn'tComeHomeLastNightAndIThoughtSomeReallyReallyReally BadMightHaveHappened! YouDidn'tAnswerYourPhone! AndYouWeren'tAtWork! AndILookedEverywhereAndIHadNoIdeaWhereYouWereAnd-"

Kaiba cut him off when he put his hand over the younger's mouth as the syllables pounded through his head. "Mokuba... Calm down. Everything is fine. There's nothing to worry about. Calm down okay?"

The black head bobbed up and down vigorously so the hand was removed and the flow of words started out again in a much calmer sense. "So what happened? Where were you? Why didn't you call? Why did Tea answer you're phone this morning? Why didn't you leave me a message? Why-"

Seto cut him off again as he unlatched the hands from around his waist and started dragging himself to his room. "I'm asking you to be quiet now. Let's just say you're brother did something that he's not very proud of last night and..." His eyes narrowed and his voice hardened in a threatening tone. "And I swear, if I ever catch you drinking... You're going to be grounded for the rest of your life. Understand?"

Another vigorous nod from Mokuba.

"Good." His eyes softened again. "I'm going to go take a shower now. See you in a bit..." With a slim half smile he opened his room door and disappeared behind it leaving Mokuba to grow a very big smile on his own face.

Unbeknownst to himself the night's last comings had given Kaiba one big emotional boost. Just what the doctor ordered... And just what was making Mokuba grin at this very moment.

Another very well known fact: kids pick up feelings very easily. And Mokuba of course was no exception, especially since that had basically been the only way he's been able to know what's happening with his older brother for his entire life. So just the fact that he knew his brother wasn't sinking into a little hollow was a comforting thought. And it lifted a load off of his shoulders as he skipped down the stairs and turned on his Nintendo to continue on with his insane world of button clicking with a light heart.

((Well. I did it. Now you lovely people have another chapter that has been read ^_^ Hope you liked. And now. I'm going to ask you lovely people for help... Since I'm having writer's block, I need an idea of where Seto should run into Tea. I'm all out of idea's -.- Stupid brain of mine.. ANYWAY! Please give me reviews! Really appreciate it! Later!))