Diane nods grimly. "You are right of course. . .but it makes me so angry. He doesn't deserve this. Any word on when his Grandfather's custody hearing will be yet?"
Seto Kaiba shakes his head. "And without some help from big shots, it's unlikely he'll win, anyway."
Diane sighs. "Again you're right. . .I hate that you always seem to be."
Then, a shrill alarm sounded, along with the announcement "Emergency personnel to room 329 stat, Code Blue."
Diane and Seto gasped in chorus. "That's-"
Seto cut her off. "Yugi's room, yeah, let's move!"
The two entered to find doctors bent over the boy while a nurse wheeled in the crash cart, The chaos was accompanied by the high-pitched screech of the vital signs monitor's alarm.
Diane couldn't help right now, and she knew it. . .she was off the clock, and out of uniform. So she did the only thing she COULD do, prayed as fervently as she ever had.
Finally, the monitor stopped emitting its screeching tone, and slowly the heartbeat returned to normal.
As the doctors left, she knelt next to his bed and made a silent vow. "I will get you out of that home and into one where you can feel safe and loved."
And so began the quest in the court system to save a young boy's life and sanity.
Yugi's recovery was slow and rocky, especially with the lung having to heal on its own. Diane knew it was likely he'd be afflicted with a mild form of asthma from it, which made it even more imperative that a better home be found for him. So it was that three days after Yugi was admitted to the hospital Diane and Yugi's grandfather stood in front of a judge, trying to get Sugoroku custody.
"I am sorry, Mr. Mouto, but without further evidence, there's nothing I can legally do. The boy will have to return to his parents."
