rhio-okigrl47- erp! Okay Here it is!!
Something tugged at Joey's heart. The feeling made him walk quicker. Made him run so fast down the hall that he almost ran right past Seto's room. Slowly he came to a stop turned and snuck into the room.
He looked much like he did when Joey had last seen him in the hospital. He hated seeing the boy hooked up to so many different tubes. He hated that Seto was here when he should be in the park with Mokuba or working on some new technology.
Slowly Joey sat down beside Seto's bed and looked at the pale boy. He took a deep breath and swallowed solidly. He directed his chocolate brown eyes down to the famous CEO's hand. He so badly wanted to hold it...but-
"Well Kaiba," Joey began. "Here I am again."
***
The other Kaiba nodded again. "I knew you'd say that. But...."
Seto sighed impatiently and was about so say something but froze as a voice rang through his mind. But it was not the memory of words....but something being said right at that instant....
"....I hate seeing you all in tubes and such...it kinda scares me ya know?"
"Joey?" Seto whispered.
"-are you sure?" the darker Kaiba finished.
***
"Because you are such a strong guy Kaiba. You have a will to live. A will to defeat and to be the best. And it scares me that....that if you could look like this I could be worse. I am not a strong as you. Secretly I wish I was."
Joey sighed and put his head in his hands. "Come back Kaiba. Once again here I am begging you to come back and this time, again for all of the same reasons. Mokuba loves you so much Kaiba. I don't know if he could live without you. Just like you couldn't live without him...."
"Come back Kaiba. Please come back."
***
Seto stared at the darkness around him. "He's....trying to get me to come back....again? Why? I've done nothing but ground him into the floor ever since I've known him...why?"
"He seems to be doing it for your brother, not himself," the other Kaiba said.
"Yeah....but what I've done to him deserves hate....but still...he fights for be no matter on who it's for. Why?"
***
"Téa Gardener?" A nurse appeared from the hall way and looked around the small waiting room. Téa was sitting with Yugi who had just showed up moments ago. The brown haired girl stood quickly and walked across the room to the nurse. She had signed to be the first informed if something was wrong with Kaiba and Mokuba wasn't around.
"Is something wrong?" she asked quietly.
The nurse nodded slowly. "Mr. Kaiba's taking a turn for the worse. I want you to keep it from Mokuba though, alright? Because he could be fine in the morning...I just don't want to see the poor boy all worked up alright?"
Téa nodded slowly then looked up at the blonde nurse. "What is your personal opinion?" she asked softly, dreading the answer.
The nurse looked directly into Téa's eyes. "I don't think that he'll last the night."
***
"Last time the only reason I thought you should have come backs was for Mokuba and for Kaiba Corp. But things are changing Kaiba....I....if you come back again....I'm going to hope that it was because of me. That it wasn't just luck that you came back last time that I was in the room."
Joey sighed and looked down at the limp boy. "Please Kaiba....I know you hate me but....maybe...just maybe I don't hate you anymore. Maybe I'm starting to see what Mokuba sees in you. A cold man with a kind interior. Kaiba..." Joey stared down at the CEO's limp hand and then slowly slid his hand into it. "Come back Kaiba....it sounds so selfish...but come back to me Kaiba."
***
"He-he....!" Seto turned to the dark Kaiba. "You knew." It was not a question, but a statement. "Who are you?"
The darker Kaiba nodded. "I am you other half, you're sub-consciousness. And you are correst. I did know that Joey fell in love with you, but because I am your sub-counsciousess I could not tell you. So you found out for yourself."
But..." Seto stared around him. "What do I do?"
The darkness nodded. "You could start by returning to your body."
"But life is so bleak....its so..."
"What about Mokuba? What about Joey?"
Seto opened his mouth then closed it and then opened it again. He turned and nodded at the darkness. "Take me back."
***
Slowly Joey let Kaiba's hand fall back to the bed and he closed his eyes almost painfully. So it had just been a coincidence. Kaiba hadn't come back because Joey had asked him too....it was all just....
The blonde boy stood and began to walk towards the door. A strange lonely feeling wrapped itself around Joey's heart. A deep darkness...his deep hope that Kaiba had come back for him was destroyed. A single, solitary tear worked itself down Joey's cheek as he closed his eyes.
A sudden figure appeared before his closed eyes, tall and slim with a smirk on his face. He smiled and lifted a hand. Light shone brightly from it banishing all of Joey's dark thoughts.
Quickly and with a gasp a pair of chocolate brown eyes flew open to stare into a pair of sapphire eyes that were blinking open.
"Joey?" Seto whispered.