The Confrontation
Author- So, lets review. Caitlin stole an item, then left the Antique store because the trails of any clues she left would lead there. Unfortunately, it did lead them there and now they've taken Megan instead of her! I would defiantly put that under the 'Hectic' column. So, let's continue!
~~~~ Zach and Caitlin ~~~~
Caitlin and Zach tried to walk casually to the cell where they told them Megan would be. Unfortunately, everyone looked at them while they past, and they ended up whistling very awkwardly until-
"Caitlin! She's over here."
Caitlin ran over to where Zach was pointing. There was a large lump underneath a moth bitten blanket on what looked to be a very uncomfortable bed. Although only the tuff of her hair was showing, Caitlin could tell it was Megan. She found it funny that Megan seemed to be living the same way as if she was still on the streets even though she was in jail at the moment.
"Megan!" She whispered, "Psst! Wake up!"
Megan stirred a little, then flung the blanket back over her head and groaned.
"Megan!" Zach hissed, "Watch out or the alien will eat you!"
Megan grunted and tried to get up quickly, ending up hitting her head on the bunk above her and cursing out loud. Zach covered his face with his hands to hide his laughter.
"I told her shouldn't have snuck into THAT movie."
Megan rubbed her head and looked up. Then she yelped and jumped, hitting the bed again with her head. "This HAS to be a nightmare! I CAN'T SPEND MY FREE TIME WITH YOU IN MY CELL!"
Zach rolled his eyes, "I'm not staying stupid I came with reinforces."
Caitlin made herself visible and waved, "Uh, hi again Megan!"
Megan shrieked and jumped to her feet, apparently she wasn't the person Megan wanted to see right now, "Please please PLEASE tell me you have nothing to do with this!"
"Uh, I...can't really do that."
Megan stomped her foot, "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! I GOT IN TROUBLE BECAUSE YOU STOLE THE....THE...THINGY! NO WONDER YOU WANTED TO LEAVE SO SOON AND-"
Caitlin looks around nervously and notices that everyone is watching the little temper tantrum, "Uh, Megan? Megan could you- I mean I need you to- Megan?"
"NOW IM STUCK IN YOUR MESS AND-"
Caitlin posed and smiled nervously, "^_^; Megan."
"AND YOU CAN'T EVEN HANDLE YOUR OWN PROBLEMS I BET THAT'S WHY YOU'VE COME ANYWAY!"
Caitlin stopped and pulled on her face in her frustration, "Ok stop right there Meg! I CAN control this! I can get my own self out of my own problems! WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK THAT I CAN'T HANDLE ANYTHING AND THEY HAVE TO SPRING TO THE RESCUE!?"
There is silence. The only sounds in the whole building, it seems, are the deep breaths of Caitlin who has just survived another one of her famous melt downs. She took a last breath, flattened her hair, and knocked on the bars to Megan's cell to make sure she was listening.
"Sorry. I just- am not having the best of days right now."
Zach scoffs, "I can tell."
"Shut up Zach it's mostly because of you."
"What!"
"Anyway, Meg. I promise you, promise that some how I will get you out of here ok? Cause I know it's all my fault and- I just want things to go back to normal."
"Your life has NEVER been normal."
"Shut up already Zach!"
"You mean-" Megan said softly, "-back when you still had your item. When you were little and didn't have a complicated life, and when you had your Yami."
"How-?"
"I know that's why you want your item back Caitlin. You miss having your Yami more then everything, that's why you traipsed over almost all Japan looking for that stupid beetle of yours."
Caitlin sighed, and grumbled a little, "It's not stupid..."
"Have you found him yet? Your Yami I mean?"
"I told you, it's a her. I'm a girl, it's a girl Yami."
"No, when you came in that time and showed us, it was a boy Yami. He looked just like you and-"
"Doesn't matter, point is, I really am going to try and it's my mess, so I'm going to clean it up."
Megan smiled, "Interesting thing to say."
"Not really."
Megan sighed and leaned against the wall, "So you'll get me out of here?"
"I will, I promise."
"Good."
"Then all is forgiven?" She said eagerly.
"No."
"Oh well. It was worth a shot." She then stopped, like she remembered something, "Oh shoot I've got to get back over to Tea's!"
"Tea?"
"^_^; Girl I'm staying with."
"Wait you left and you're staying with a girl who has money!?"
"I gotta go now bye!" She yelled, running past the cells of staring people and people in the main room, who were staring also. She didn't have time to look at them all, which is a shame because one of them, hidden in a cloak of shadows,
Was Yugi.
~~~~~~~~~~~
"Tea!" Caitlin shouted, jogging through the city, "TEA WHERE ARE YOU?"
"Caitlin?" She heard a voice behind her. When she turned around, she was half relieved, half-disappointed to see Bakura.
"Oh hi Bakura."
"Is something wrong? I heard you calling for Tea."
"Well, something IS wrong, but it has nothing to do with Tea and I think I'd rather keep it to myself thatyouverymuch." She said, immediately thinking about all the things she's ruined in two days.
"Oh, I see."
"Uh, you don't by any chance know what happened to everybody do you?'
"Well, Yugi went somewhere as soon as you left, didn't say though. Mai went home for dinner, because she spent all her money on clothes. And Tristen and Joey SAID they were going to study for a test at school tomorrow. Even though, most likely they are going to spend the time goofing off."
"I forgot you guys go to school. Too bad."
"I think Tea went to look for you."
"Well, I'll have to stay put for a while then. That what they always say to do when you get separated in the woods right?"
"I guess so, I've never been told that. But then again, I haven't been lost in the woods a large number of times."
"Oh. Hey Bakura?"
"Hm?"
"Please don't take this as an insult I'm just curious but do you have a multiple personality or something?"
Bakura stopped, as if shocked by the question; "Well I guess you could say that. See I've got a millennium item here and-" He took out his ring, "-and sometimes it... see I've got a Yami."
"Really? Well isn't that cool?"
"No, not really.
"Oh, how'd you find your Yami?"
Again, Bakura seemed surprised with the question, "I didn't really find it, it just came with the package."
"You say that like it's a bad thing, I thought Yami's were nice."
"Not mine."
"He isn't THAT bad."
"Yes he is, he's horrid."
"He was nice when he talked to me."
"Hold on a minute, He talked to YOU?"
"Well, yeah I assume he did. I mean he was a whole lot different then you seem now..."
"And he was NICE?"
"Yea, he said he'd help me stay a secret and such."
"NICE? Yami was NICE to YOU without SOMETHING in return?"
"Yea he just-"
"You still have your item right?"
Caitlin bit her lip, "Well, see, its kinda-"
"Caitlin!" Tea's voice came from behind.
Caitlin swung around and was happy not only to see Tea running up, but to be saved from breaking the news that she had left the item at Mai's.
"Come on Caitlin! My mom and dad said it's ok if you stay for a while. It took a lot of pestering but they said finally said yes! I haven't told them it's going to be a long stay yet so pretend you are only staying for a week ok?"
"Fine with me."
"Anyway, tonight we ordered in pizza so we've got to hurry back and- oh! Hey Bakura! Thanks for watching after her-"
"Tea! I'm a teenager hello? I don't need a babysitter."
"Common Caitlin! Thanks again Bakura!"
Bakura just nodded at his name and smiled reassuringly as they ran down to Tea's for dinner.
/Yami. Explain./
Bakura could mentally feel a smirk come across his Yami's face, //There's nothing to explain.//
/What were you talking about with Caitlin?/
//She told you the story, you don't need another version.//
/Oh yes I do Yami, you and I both know you never talk to people unless it's for a special occasion. Like for instance, stealing something./
//She has nothing I want.//
/EXCEPT the millennium item./
//I can't defend myself much there can I?//
/Yami, I told you no more stealing items!/
//You can't blame me much. Besides-// Another smirk, //You know as well as I you can't control me. You have no power over what I do.//
Bakura was quiet, he didn't want to admit that his Yami was true. Not to mention he had done enough talking back and was probably going to get punished for it already.
//If I choose to take the item, I will take it and you would be able to stop me.//
/Just please don't send her, or anyone to the shadow realm! I hate it when you do that and it only makes it harder to keep you a secret!/
//I can't promise that.// He said cooly, closing the connection between them.
Bakura sighed. He was going to have to be careful around Caitlin for a while.
VERY careful.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Tea knocked on the bathroom door for the third time, "Hello? Are you coming out or what?"
"I'm coming I'm coming I'm just putting on these- things."
"P.J's. For goodness sake Caitlin you'd think even YOU would know the name of those."
"You can't blame me. I've slept, worn, and begged in the same clothes for the last seven years."
"Then how come they still fit?"
"Well, ok I exaggerated. For the last two years, stole a new outfit then."
"How did you make money?"
"Questionable aren't we? I just, begged for money, stole some- which I'm not proud of- and made the rest by singing with a hat or something by my feet."
"Singing?"
"Yea, didn't think I sang good enough to make money off of personally. So I assume they pitied me so much they paid me to stop."
The girls laughed, and Caitlin finally came out dressed in a pair of blue PJ's with little words on them. They said mostly things like, 'Sweet dreams' and 'Night-night'. She acted like a model for a while, walking around in them, then asked Tea if she could use the phone.
"I need to call Mai. I left something that was REALLY important over her house the other day."
"What was it? Wouldn't think you owned anything REALLY important."
"It's a- uh- necklace that my mom gave me before I died."
" 'I' died?"
"I mean before SHE died."
"Oh, well sorry Caitlin it's Sunday."
"So?"
"That means that we can't use the phone after nine and have to go to bed at ten."
Caitlin suddenly got suspicious, "Why?"
Tea suddenly remembered something, "That reminds me! My mom said that if your parents were 'gone' for a while you could stay, only under one condition."
"And that would be?"
"You have to come with me and go to school."
~~~~~~~~~
Author- Dum- dum- dummm!
Caitlin- *falls on the floor screaming* No! Not school! Anything but that!
Author- *grins evily* Yes! School first think in the morning!
Caitlin- *faints and starts twitching*
Author- ^_^
Author- So, lets review. Caitlin stole an item, then left the Antique store because the trails of any clues she left would lead there. Unfortunately, it did lead them there and now they've taken Megan instead of her! I would defiantly put that under the 'Hectic' column. So, let's continue!
~~~~ Zach and Caitlin ~~~~
Caitlin and Zach tried to walk casually to the cell where they told them Megan would be. Unfortunately, everyone looked at them while they past, and they ended up whistling very awkwardly until-
"Caitlin! She's over here."
Caitlin ran over to where Zach was pointing. There was a large lump underneath a moth bitten blanket on what looked to be a very uncomfortable bed. Although only the tuff of her hair was showing, Caitlin could tell it was Megan. She found it funny that Megan seemed to be living the same way as if she was still on the streets even though she was in jail at the moment.
"Megan!" She whispered, "Psst! Wake up!"
Megan stirred a little, then flung the blanket back over her head and groaned.
"Megan!" Zach hissed, "Watch out or the alien will eat you!"
Megan grunted and tried to get up quickly, ending up hitting her head on the bunk above her and cursing out loud. Zach covered his face with his hands to hide his laughter.
"I told her shouldn't have snuck into THAT movie."
Megan rubbed her head and looked up. Then she yelped and jumped, hitting the bed again with her head. "This HAS to be a nightmare! I CAN'T SPEND MY FREE TIME WITH YOU IN MY CELL!"
Zach rolled his eyes, "I'm not staying stupid I came with reinforces."
Caitlin made herself visible and waved, "Uh, hi again Megan!"
Megan shrieked and jumped to her feet, apparently she wasn't the person Megan wanted to see right now, "Please please PLEASE tell me you have nothing to do with this!"
"Uh, I...can't really do that."
Megan stomped her foot, "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! I GOT IN TROUBLE BECAUSE YOU STOLE THE....THE...THINGY! NO WONDER YOU WANTED TO LEAVE SO SOON AND-"
Caitlin looks around nervously and notices that everyone is watching the little temper tantrum, "Uh, Megan? Megan could you- I mean I need you to- Megan?"
"NOW IM STUCK IN YOUR MESS AND-"
Caitlin posed and smiled nervously, "^_^; Megan."
"AND YOU CAN'T EVEN HANDLE YOUR OWN PROBLEMS I BET THAT'S WHY YOU'VE COME ANYWAY!"
Caitlin stopped and pulled on her face in her frustration, "Ok stop right there Meg! I CAN control this! I can get my own self out of my own problems! WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK THAT I CAN'T HANDLE ANYTHING AND THEY HAVE TO SPRING TO THE RESCUE!?"
There is silence. The only sounds in the whole building, it seems, are the deep breaths of Caitlin who has just survived another one of her famous melt downs. She took a last breath, flattened her hair, and knocked on the bars to Megan's cell to make sure she was listening.
"Sorry. I just- am not having the best of days right now."
Zach scoffs, "I can tell."
"Shut up Zach it's mostly because of you."
"What!"
"Anyway, Meg. I promise you, promise that some how I will get you out of here ok? Cause I know it's all my fault and- I just want things to go back to normal."
"Your life has NEVER been normal."
"Shut up already Zach!"
"You mean-" Megan said softly, "-back when you still had your item. When you were little and didn't have a complicated life, and when you had your Yami."
"How-?"
"I know that's why you want your item back Caitlin. You miss having your Yami more then everything, that's why you traipsed over almost all Japan looking for that stupid beetle of yours."
Caitlin sighed, and grumbled a little, "It's not stupid..."
"Have you found him yet? Your Yami I mean?"
"I told you, it's a her. I'm a girl, it's a girl Yami."
"No, when you came in that time and showed us, it was a boy Yami. He looked just like you and-"
"Doesn't matter, point is, I really am going to try and it's my mess, so I'm going to clean it up."
Megan smiled, "Interesting thing to say."
"Not really."
Megan sighed and leaned against the wall, "So you'll get me out of here?"
"I will, I promise."
"Good."
"Then all is forgiven?" She said eagerly.
"No."
"Oh well. It was worth a shot." She then stopped, like she remembered something, "Oh shoot I've got to get back over to Tea's!"
"Tea?"
"^_^; Girl I'm staying with."
"Wait you left and you're staying with a girl who has money!?"
"I gotta go now bye!" She yelled, running past the cells of staring people and people in the main room, who were staring also. She didn't have time to look at them all, which is a shame because one of them, hidden in a cloak of shadows,
Was Yugi.
~~~~~~~~~~~
"Tea!" Caitlin shouted, jogging through the city, "TEA WHERE ARE YOU?"
"Caitlin?" She heard a voice behind her. When she turned around, she was half relieved, half-disappointed to see Bakura.
"Oh hi Bakura."
"Is something wrong? I heard you calling for Tea."
"Well, something IS wrong, but it has nothing to do with Tea and I think I'd rather keep it to myself thatyouverymuch." She said, immediately thinking about all the things she's ruined in two days.
"Oh, I see."
"Uh, you don't by any chance know what happened to everybody do you?'
"Well, Yugi went somewhere as soon as you left, didn't say though. Mai went home for dinner, because she spent all her money on clothes. And Tristen and Joey SAID they were going to study for a test at school tomorrow. Even though, most likely they are going to spend the time goofing off."
"I forgot you guys go to school. Too bad."
"I think Tea went to look for you."
"Well, I'll have to stay put for a while then. That what they always say to do when you get separated in the woods right?"
"I guess so, I've never been told that. But then again, I haven't been lost in the woods a large number of times."
"Oh. Hey Bakura?"
"Hm?"
"Please don't take this as an insult I'm just curious but do you have a multiple personality or something?"
Bakura stopped, as if shocked by the question; "Well I guess you could say that. See I've got a millennium item here and-" He took out his ring, "-and sometimes it... see I've got a Yami."
"Really? Well isn't that cool?"
"No, not really.
"Oh, how'd you find your Yami?"
Again, Bakura seemed surprised with the question, "I didn't really find it, it just came with the package."
"You say that like it's a bad thing, I thought Yami's were nice."
"Not mine."
"He isn't THAT bad."
"Yes he is, he's horrid."
"He was nice when he talked to me."
"Hold on a minute, He talked to YOU?"
"Well, yeah I assume he did. I mean he was a whole lot different then you seem now..."
"And he was NICE?"
"Yea, he said he'd help me stay a secret and such."
"NICE? Yami was NICE to YOU without SOMETHING in return?"
"Yea he just-"
"You still have your item right?"
Caitlin bit her lip, "Well, see, its kinda-"
"Caitlin!" Tea's voice came from behind.
Caitlin swung around and was happy not only to see Tea running up, but to be saved from breaking the news that she had left the item at Mai's.
"Come on Caitlin! My mom and dad said it's ok if you stay for a while. It took a lot of pestering but they said finally said yes! I haven't told them it's going to be a long stay yet so pretend you are only staying for a week ok?"
"Fine with me."
"Anyway, tonight we ordered in pizza so we've got to hurry back and- oh! Hey Bakura! Thanks for watching after her-"
"Tea! I'm a teenager hello? I don't need a babysitter."
"Common Caitlin! Thanks again Bakura!"
Bakura just nodded at his name and smiled reassuringly as they ran down to Tea's for dinner.
/Yami. Explain./
Bakura could mentally feel a smirk come across his Yami's face, //There's nothing to explain.//
/What were you talking about with Caitlin?/
//She told you the story, you don't need another version.//
/Oh yes I do Yami, you and I both know you never talk to people unless it's for a special occasion. Like for instance, stealing something./
//She has nothing I want.//
/EXCEPT the millennium item./
//I can't defend myself much there can I?//
/Yami, I told you no more stealing items!/
//You can't blame me much. Besides-// Another smirk, //You know as well as I you can't control me. You have no power over what I do.//
Bakura was quiet, he didn't want to admit that his Yami was true. Not to mention he had done enough talking back and was probably going to get punished for it already.
//If I choose to take the item, I will take it and you would be able to stop me.//
/Just please don't send her, or anyone to the shadow realm! I hate it when you do that and it only makes it harder to keep you a secret!/
//I can't promise that.// He said cooly, closing the connection between them.
Bakura sighed. He was going to have to be careful around Caitlin for a while.
VERY careful.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Tea knocked on the bathroom door for the third time, "Hello? Are you coming out or what?"
"I'm coming I'm coming I'm just putting on these- things."
"P.J's. For goodness sake Caitlin you'd think even YOU would know the name of those."
"You can't blame me. I've slept, worn, and begged in the same clothes for the last seven years."
"Then how come they still fit?"
"Well, ok I exaggerated. For the last two years, stole a new outfit then."
"How did you make money?"
"Questionable aren't we? I just, begged for money, stole some- which I'm not proud of- and made the rest by singing with a hat or something by my feet."
"Singing?"
"Yea, didn't think I sang good enough to make money off of personally. So I assume they pitied me so much they paid me to stop."
The girls laughed, and Caitlin finally came out dressed in a pair of blue PJ's with little words on them. They said mostly things like, 'Sweet dreams' and 'Night-night'. She acted like a model for a while, walking around in them, then asked Tea if she could use the phone.
"I need to call Mai. I left something that was REALLY important over her house the other day."
"What was it? Wouldn't think you owned anything REALLY important."
"It's a- uh- necklace that my mom gave me before I died."
" 'I' died?"
"I mean before SHE died."
"Oh, well sorry Caitlin it's Sunday."
"So?"
"That means that we can't use the phone after nine and have to go to bed at ten."
Caitlin suddenly got suspicious, "Why?"
Tea suddenly remembered something, "That reminds me! My mom said that if your parents were 'gone' for a while you could stay, only under one condition."
"And that would be?"
"You have to come with me and go to school."
~~~~~~~~~
Author- Dum- dum- dummm!
Caitlin- *falls on the floor screaming* No! Not school! Anything but that!
Author- *grins evily* Yes! School first think in the morning!
Caitlin- *faints and starts twitching*
Author- ^_^