Magic Travels
Author- *sigh* Last fic please enjoy it! I- *notices Stevie*
Editor- *has a large booth set up with a sign that says, SECRETS FOR SALE*
Author- STEVIE!
Editor- *notices Retaw there and takes the sign down to reveal another sign that says COOKIES FOR SALE* Yes?
Author- YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT!
Editor- Well I- I mean- see its- cookie?
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Caitlin ran quickly in the middle of the road, she didn't mean to run in the road really, just it was the darkest place to run and she didn't want to be seen.
*I must look really strange* She thought, *With my hair slightly curled and put up to go to a dance, and my clothes all stained.*
She smiled when she felt the cold air ruffle her hair, the outdoors was a part of her now. It was the only thing she could rely on to always be there. Even her friends Zach and Megan couldn't ALWAYS be there. She always felt somewhat alone, now that she had friends again that would also be there, and she was leaving them, she would again be alone.
"You'll never be alone." A voice said.
Caitlin stopped and sung around, there was no one behind her. But she DID hear a voice didn't she? She looked franticly around her, she was the only one on the street. Wait a minute, the voice, did it read her mind?
"Can you please wait to go crazy AFTER you save your friends?" She said aloud.
"Hurry up, time is running out." The voice said again.
She looked around and started running faster, this was really starting to freak her out. But was the voice a boy's or a girl's? She couldn't define it. She lowered her head in an attempt to go faster.
*Not hearing voices.not hearing voices.I'm fine..I'm the only one here and I hear nothing.who's hearing voices? Not me cause I'm busy going to save me friends and get outta town.*
"You're pathetic." The voice said in her ear.
"STOP FOLLOWING ME!" She yelled, looking over each shoulder.
"I'm not hearing voices," She said aloud this time, "I'm fine..I really am."
She saw two dark figures start walking up to her, slowly. Caitlin stopped running and gasped. Were they holding chain saws?
The figures were just a normal couple.
*I'm just letting my imagination run away with me.*
"You bet you are." The voice, still undistinguishable, echoed back.
Caitlin almost cried, "I hear voices! AND THEY TALK BACK!! AND I SEE THINGS! I'M GOING MAD!" She yelled, sinking to the ground.
The couple passed her quietly, trying not to stare at her shaking in the middle of the road muttering something about hearing voices.
"Ok calm down." The voice said firmly, "We can do this, I'll walk you through it. First take three steps to the left, one to the front, and keep going forward until you run into a door. Open that door and you'll run into a desk. Ignore that desk. You with me?"
Caitlin screamed, but quickly covered her mouth so no one would notice her sneaking up to a jailhouse.
Little late for that.
Caitlin WAS hearing voices but she could still see where she was going, her stubborn side got the beset of her and she walked into the jailhouse, ignoring the sarcastic praising of the voice. Luckily it went away soon enough and Caitlin could blame it on Joey's cookie she had for lunch.
-=At the Dance=-
Tea looked at her watch, "It's been a half an hour and she hasn't come back."
Joey nodded, "It always takes girls a long time to dress but what gives?"
Tea finally got up from her seat and started to the door, Yugi looked up, "Where are you going Tea?"
"I'm going to see what's taking her this long. She's been acting really weird lately and I think she's gotten into some kind of trouble."
"I'm coming with you." Yugi said firmly.
"Me too." Joey added.
"And me." Tristen got up as well.
Bakura started to protest, but his other half got the better of him,
*He knows* Bakura thought, *He's figured it out already. This can't be good.*
//Oh.// His Yami answered mentally, //It isn't.//
-=At Tea's=-
"So she did come in here?" Tea asked her mom, who was a little puzzled by the urgent questions.
"I told you she did."
Tea and the others returned to searching the house, soon though, Tristen found something.
"Hey look at this!" He yelled, picking up the stained dress.
"A dress." Joey said, eyeing it in case there was anything out of the ordinary, "Haven't you ever seen a dress before?"
"No I think Tristen's on to something!" Yugi said, picking up the dress herself, "Caitlin isn't in the house anymore, she obviously took this off but didn't come back to the dance with a new one on."
"She left with her old clothes on." Tea voice came from her room, "Her old outfit isn't here. She left."
"But why?" Yugi asked, "Why would she leave."
"There's something else." Bakura said, reaching under Tea's bed. "Look at all these papers she wrote!"
"Wow!" Tea sighed, "I never saw her write these, she must have finished them when I was dressing or eating or something. She's got pretty good handwriting for someone who 'Has no use of writing down stupid math facts.'" Tea said, mimicking Caitlin's voice the day she had to do extra homework.
"What do they say?" Tristen said curiously picking up one.
"Caitlin's to do list?" Yugi read, "Oh my gosh! It's all here!"
"Well what's it say?" Joey interrupted.
"Save Megan from jail, get item back from Mai, keep item a secret, survive school, and one is written in a different color ink, so she probably added 'Make Jennet's life a living Hell.'"
"Well she's got her time cut out for her doesn't she?" Joey joked.
Tea gasped, "It all makes sense now! THAT'S why she was out late, she stole the item back from Mai! It wasn't a necklace it was an item."
"Sense when did she get an item?" Tristen said.
"She's always had one." Yami had taken over Yugi's body, "She's kept it a secret but somehow Mai got it."
"But why didn't she tell us?" Tea asked.
"Because she's never had a home, she can't afford to trust anyone. It's just how she's lived her life and old habits are hard to break. Even once she had learned that we were fine to trust, she couldn't shake off the fact she was a thief, she didn't feel like she'd be able to keep a friendship that way."
"A thief?"
"She stole the item from Kiba, she might refer to it as the 'Beetle.' She knows it has power and knows it contains a Yami, but she doesn't feel it's the same as the others. That is true, it is an 'unofficial item' that is not quite like the others."
"What powers does it have?" Bakura asked, eager to know more.
*Foolish Pharaoh, you're giving me the answers and I didn't have to do anything but find a bundle of papers.*
"I- I can not be sure. I don't know much about this new item and don't know it's powers, all I know, is that-"
"One more thing." Joey said, looking at another paper that read, 'SCHOOL, FROM A STUDENT'S VEIW' "She's going to get her friends out of jail and run away tonight. Like right now."
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Caitlin peaked into a small room to see if anyone was in there.
Stupid cops. Do they ALWAYS need to be there? How's a person supposed to break out of jail if the cops are there?!
Caitlin changed her mind and decided it was better to talk to Megan and Zach first. She turned around and crept into the hall where the prisoners were kept. Most of them were sleeping, which Caitlin thought weird seeing as it was only eight or something. Megan and Zach were sleeping as well in their usual cell.
"Meg! Zach! Wakie wakie eggs and bakie!"
No one moved, ok, plan B. What did Zach say it was again? Oh yeah.
"Guys you'd better run or the alien will eat you!" She hissed.
She soon heard the sound of a head hitting the top bunk, and a head hitting the ceiling. Zach and Megan were awake.
"Bout time you guys came to."
"Caitlin!" Megan gasped, "You actually came!"
Caitlin rolled her eyes, "Duh. Like I would leave you here."
"So, what's the hold up? How come you don't have the key?"
"Oh that, see, funny thing. The cops are still here."
"So? I thought you had EXPIRIENCE."
"I do, but when people aren't there."
Zach and Megan felt faint, the whole plan wasn't going to work unless she got the key.
"Wait! Got an idea in the making." Caitlin said, taking a bobby pin from her hair and picking at the lock.
"Picking the lock? That's a stupid plan."
There was a click, and the door swung open, "Worked didn't it?"
"Caitlin!" A voice called, "What do you THINK your doing!?"
"Shoot." Caitlin thought, so close. "You weren't supposed to follow me Tea!"
Megan smirked, "She gave me that same excuse when I caught her the night she left."
Tea tapped her foot, "I can't believe you are actually going to break criminals out of prison."
"Ok, they aren't criminals, I am. It's my fault they're here and you guys need to get out of here before someone catches us all!" She hissed opening the door a little wider.
Bakura took this to his advantage and slipped his fingers into her back pocket- (where she had hid the item, hoping it would be less obvious) -and took out the item. It seemed too easy to believe! But you know what they say about if it's too good to be true, it usually is. He had to get out now before-
"And what- may I ask- are a few teenagers doing in a prison at this time of night?"
Too late.
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Caitlin tried again at the lock with her bent pin. There was a twang, so she tried to push the door open, but it wouldn't budge. She cursed so loudly everyone in the prison stared at her. She set forth again to pick the lock.
"Some fool proof plan." Zach said angrily.
"Will you shut up its not my fault!" She snapped, looking at him with such malice that they barely recognized her.
One thing about Caitlin is that she has rules for getting this angry. Rule number one, she USUALLY gives them time to apologize. Rule number two, after she snaps SHE apologizes, unless they deserved it.
In Caitlin's eyes, Zach deserved it.
All she had done was work to get him out and all her sympathy had now turned into anger. She was determined to get them out. Why wasn't it working! She exhaled hard through her teeth to calm her down and tried to pick the lock now for the twelfth time.
"Of coarse." Bakura muttered under his breath, "I finally get something and can't get away. Figures."
Beads of sweat formed on Caitlin's forehead as she worked her arm around into a different angle and picked. She then dropped the pin. Caitlin cursed even louder and knelt onto the floor. She reached for the pin that was laying on the ground a centimeter away from where she could reach.
"Stupid pin." She said angrily, tears of rage coming, "Stupid, stupid, stupid piece of junk." She cried.
She reached so far an imprint of the bar was forming on her cheek. She finally gave up and leaned her head against the wall next to her. Caitlin tried to stop the tears from flowing but they did. Curse these sudden mood swings.
*I lost. * She said to herself. *I lost everything. I failed to rescue my friends, I failed to keep my cool against Jennet, a failed to keep a friendship with new people, I failed everything.*
She looked at her feet and watched the drops wet the ground, one by one, quickly. She closed her eyes and bit her lip, she was going to jail without the item her parents gave her. The only thing she had to remind her that she ever had people in her life that loved her. The only thing to remind her that she was a part of something. But that something was gone.
Caitlin banged her fist against the bar and felt for the beetle. But it wasn't there. She got up and looked around her, she had lost it.
Everything was gone.
All the hope, the dreams, even the whole point had lost meaning.
"Where are they?" She heard Yugi say.
Caitlin looked up at him, her eyes were red from crying so much and her lip was close to bleeding. "What?"
"Your parents. What happened to them?"
Caitlin took a breath; she had never talked to anyone about her parents before, not even Zach, who was like her brother! "It- it was my birthday."
"Your birthday?"
"Yeah, they had given me that golden beetle for my birthday and we were going to dinner. I took it with me everywhere! I remember my dad saying something funny, and when I stopped laughing and looked up, there were screaming."
The tears started coming again, "I remember the lights, my mom screaming like she had never screamed and then there was nothing, just a hissing noise. My mom wasn't screaming, my dad wasn't laughing, and there wasn't any screaming. I asked my mom what happened and she didn't answer." 'I went up into the seat and tried to wake them up, I thought they were sleeping or something, but they did nothing. I screamed for them to wake up, but they didn't. They wouldn't.' 'I was seven then, the people started to come up to the car and screamed for others to call 911, I was so afraid. I ran out of the car and no one saw me escape into the darkness. No one saw the little girl who didn't have a mother or father anymore. No one cared. No one knew me, I didn't know myself anymore."
There was a long silence. Then Caitlin started to cry again, although it made her feel better to get that thought off her chest, a new sadness came.
"I miss them very much." She sobbed, turning away so no one should see her like this.
"I had no idea." Yugi said in awe.
"There wasn't any reason for you to." Caitlin replied, ashamed of herself.
Zach kicked something on the floor, "That's- that's horrible."
Caitlin just nodded and swallowed the unnecessary drama, "I even lost my beetle. It's gone, the only thing my parents gave me on the day they left is gone."
Everyone except Zach, Megan, and Caitlin immediately stared at the all-to- innocent looking Bakura.
"What?"
Yugi's other half had once again taken over, "Hand it over tomb robber."
Even Caitlin looked at him this time, tomb robber? Oh boy not ANOTHER thing she had messed up! She watched Bakura's facial expression change, no, not just his expression, his whole face! Bakura said something about having a Yami but she didn't know Yami's changed your face! Come to think about it she didn't know much about Yami's at all.
He smirked, "I haven't a clue what you are talking about."
"Oh, I believe you do. Now hand it over or-"
"I don't think you realize who you are talking to Pharaoh."
Caitlin suddenly got a sense to what was happening. Kiba was going to be here any minute now, he was going to take everyone captive, everyone was going to go to jail, and she was spending the whole time feeling sorry for herself! She knew what she had to do.
"I don't think YOU realize who you are talking to now hand over the item!"
Caitlin quietly came up behind the arguing Bakura and saw the lump that indicated he had also put it in his pocket. She dove her hand into the pocket of the off guard tomb robber and gripped the beetle in her fist. She was about to pull it out, when she felt him grip her arm firmly.
"What-" He said loudly, "Are you doing in my pocket?"
Caitlin tried her best to get free, only resulting in a painful twist of her own arm. Bakura was pulling it upward slowly, waiting for her to let go of the beetle he had stolen from her. He wasn't going to let her take it back just like that. She cried out in pain and felt her knees give way underneath her.
"THAT IS QUITE ENOUGH!" She heard Yugi's Yami say.
Yami Bakura only smirked and twisted harder; Caitlin screamed and squeezed the beetle hard so as not to let go of it. Then she felt the pain wash away from her, completely vanish from her body. The voice she had heard echoing before said a few words and Bakura stopped turning her arm.
He was plain old Bakura again.
Bakura let go of Caitlin (who dropped to her knees) and backed away in horror. "Please tell me I wasn't just doing that."
Caitlin nursed her arm and opened her palm to look at the golden beetle once more. She smiled to see it again and put it quickly around her neck. Then that stupid voice came again.
"So, are you going to thank me or not?"
Caitlin yelled out again in fright and covered her ears, "Stop talking to me!"
The Yugi Yami walked over and touched her on the shoulder, "Are you alright?"
Caitlin opened her tightly shut eyes, "It keeps talking to me. Someone keeps talking to me and I don't know who! I keep telling it to shut up but it wont and it's driving me bonkers!"
Yugi's Yami smiled, "I think you've found your Yami."
Caitlin blinked, "How did you-"
"You can talk to it as it's talking to you. You just need to listen. I think you've awoken the Yami inside."
"How- how am I supposed to talk to it though? I don't remember how."
"Just talk to him naturally."
"Uh, h-hello?"
Yami laughed, "No, naturally. Don't any noises."
"Well I'm sorry but if I don't make a noise I don't talk!"
"Just try."
Caitlin huffed and concentrated, she thought hard about how to say hello. She tried in Japanese, in German, all the ways she could think of, right down to a simple wave and hand shake.
//I'm not BI-lingual here just speak regular please?//
/Uh, hi, I'm Caitlin./
//Yeah, I got that. So, what's the hold up? How come you haven't gotten out of this dump yet?//
/I- kinda broke the pin./
//Well then 'Kinda UN-Break the pin'.//
Caitlin came back to the normal world and huffed again, "Gosh if I'm anything like my Yami I'm really annoying!"
No one said anything, so Caitlin flung up her arms, "You don't need to agree with me you know!"
//Hello? Still here.//
/Ok, how am I supposed to UN-break the pin?/
//Ok, maybe not like that but- do you have another pin?//
/No./
//Then get one! Hello? The world doesn't revolve around you! There ARE other peoples in that cell!//
/Thanks I guess, uh, ok stupid question. Are you a dude or a girl?//
//You're right, it is a stupid question.//
/Just answer it for goshness sake!/
//Fine, I'm a boy.//
Caitlin's eyes came back to the normal state and she rubbed her face hard saying, "My Yami's a dude!"
Megan smirked, "Told you."
Caitlin finally stopped rubbing her face and pointed at Tea, "Do you have any pins or something? Anything that could pick a lock?"
"Um, I think so, here." She took a long pointy needle looking pin from her bun and the hair fell back down to a normal state.
"Perfect. Ok, now, everyone just be quiet for a minute while I concentrate."
//Does that include me?//
/Yes, especially you./
//Oh, saved your arm and this is how you repay me.//
/Speaking of which, what exactly did you do to Bakura?/
//I thought you didn't want me to talk to you.//
/Enough with the smart-butt attitude and spill it./
//Well, it wasn't really a spell, it was more like a- spell. Anyway, I wrote it a while back and it was supposed to let the host take control again.//
/You wrote it?/
//Coarse. Wrote practically everything.//
/Stupid lock won't budge!/
//Let me take over.//
/...You can do that?/
//Again, of coarse. Just let your energy flow into mine.//
/How am I supposed to do that?/
//Just close your eyes.//
Caitlin suddenly stopped picking the lock and closed her eyes. Everyone thought she gave up, but she wasn't going to back down that easily. A faint glow came from her amulet and she started to change. Only her change was a whole lot more obvious then Yugi and Bakura's. She changed into a boy.
He was almost the splitting image of Caitlin, but his hair was shorter and he had a different figure. He started to rigorously pick at the lock and soon, they heard it click and the door swung open.
"Voila!" He said turning around, "Open sesame!"
"Well." Tea said in awe, "You aren't- exactly the same as before."
The spirit blinked a few times and then noticed Yugi's Yami standing there, in almost as much awe as the others.
"Ph-pharaoh!" He gasped, bowing his head, "You're here too?"
Yami smiled, "Ah, my most loyal scribe. It is good to see you again."
He smiled, "It is good to see you too, how unexpected!"
Zach tapped her Yami on the shoulder and grinned sarcastically, "I'm sorry but I have to break up this little reunion and remind both of you that we are still in jail and had better get out of here."
"Oh, right." Caitlin's Yami nodded and ran out of the cell with the others.
They hurried into a parking lot and noticed a cop was unloading supplies and left his van door open. Caitlin's Yami smiled devilishly and jerked his head to signal to jump into the van. They all did what he wanted and he ended up being the one in the front seat.
//Aw man!// He told her, //I've always wanted to drive one of these!//
/Do you know how?/
//...I've always wanted to drive one of these!//
/Oh no./
Her Yami turned the keys, shouted, "Let's ride!" and pushed the pedal hard. Everyone was ready to go, but it didn't move. Yami hit the brake and pedal many times before asking, "Why isn't it going?"
Tristen pointed, "You have to put it in gear."
"Oh thanks!" He said, turning the gear and flooring once more.
This time the car went forward and everyone's head was flung back onto the seat. Caitlin made a mental note never to let her Yami drive again.
EVER.
They saw a limo pass them like a streak of white light and Yugi had to yell to be heard over the roaring engine and the shouts of delight by Caitlin's Yami. "THAT WAS KIBA'S CAR!"
//Oh shoot, who's Kiba again?//
/The guy that will put us in jail if we don't hurry./
//Oh. Ok, well in that case we'd better- why is the car slowing down.//
/Please tell me you didn't run out of gas./
//How do I know if I did?//
/There will be a pointer thingy that is pointing to the E./
//Oh, uh.//
/It isn't pointing there is it?/
//......//
/I had better take over./
//Thanks.//
Caitlin regained her body and opened the door yelling to the others to run.
"Were exactly are we running to?" Joey asked.
"To the school dance! Just hope Kiba didn't see us driving in a car driven by a mad Yami!"
//Hey!//
-=At the Dance=-
The group rushed into the school once more, trying to get off the trail that Kiba would have found. Caitlin's advise was to grab some punch to put on you, so if they sent out the hounds they'd smell different, and to mingle with the crowd before running out the back exit.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Tea whispered to Caitlin a few minutes later.
"No. But it's the only plan so far and we don't have a-" Caitlin cursed.
"What?"
"It's Kiba. He's followed our trail and he's here."
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Author- THE END!
Everyone- *groans and throws stuff at her*
Author- Ok fine it isn't the end, intermission!
Everyone- NO!
Author- I'll ask one more time, how about an intermission?
Tristen- How bout, not.
Author- *huffs* Fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kiba walked into the crowd of people and scanned the groups for Megan, Zach, or anyone else who might be suspicious. Caitlin clutched her amulet and turned to the others.
"Try to act normal, but get to the exit as quickly as possible."
"Caitlin!" A female voice said. Caitlin turned around and saw the second worst person she could get caught by right now.
"Mai? What are you-"
"Listen Caitlin, I feel so bad because I lost your necklace!"
"No, Mai it's ok, really. I've got to go and-"
"No it's not ok! The first piece of jewelry I loose and it's yours."
"Mai I really-" Kiba caught sigh of her. Not good.
"I promise I'll pay you back how much did it cost?"
"Mai, I've already forgotten about it now it you could-"
"Forgotten it? How could you forget it! It was the gold one that looked like a beetle of something?"
Caitlin covered her face with her hand and started to back away to the exit, Kiba was coming her way. He had heard the thing about the beetle and he wanted it back. He kept coming, Mai kept talking, Caitlin kept walking.
"Mai I've got to go now bye and thanks!" She yelled, turning and running to the exit, there was no way she'd be able to get out of it if Kiba caught her. She looked over her shoulder to see him start to run after her.
//Can't you go any faster?//
/Oh shut it Yami you're worse then Zach!/
Then she felt Kiba grab her arm, her sore arm, that Bakura had twisted. She yelped and was turned around. Kiba looked down at her.
"You have something I want." He said, glaring at her, "And I want it back."
He barely touched the beetle on her chest and it started to glow. Angry that she had taken it, he tried to pull it off her, but Caitlin's Yami wouldn't stand for it.
"Let go-" He said, "Of the amulet."
"It's mine." He said back, now aware that she had used her Yami. He would have been surprised if Yugi hadn't done it many times before.
"Let go of it." He said again, "Or I will have to send your soul to the shadow realm. It is a fatal mistake to take an item that rightfully belongs with it's owner."
"Which is me. Now I'm not going to let you have what should be mine."
"Neither will I. And if I were you, I'd let go of it this minute or an eternity in nothingness will be your fate."
/You go Yami./
Kiba gritted his teeth, not wanting to be sentenced to the shadow realm but not wanting to let go of the multi-million worth golden beetle. The Yami seemed to understand and smirked evilly.
"You are a hard headed fool. But I have no intention of letting you live forever in the realm, it isn't my style. Though I have no intention to let you have the item, so there is but one thing left to do."
Kiba felt a cold sensation come over him, and when he once again opened his eyes, the beetle was not in his grasp. He wasn't in the shadow realm, in fact he was in his bed. Another thing he didn't know, was that nothing would be remembered of the certain Yami or golden bug in a few minutes.
Caitlin smiled at her Yami from her soul room, and he smiled back. It was good to have someone like that on her side again. She took over again, and let herself walk into the empty classroom; she needed to do one more thing.
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Tea picked up the scrap of paper that was on the ground and showed it to the rest of the gang. They hadn't seen Caitlin come out of the room when they ran out and were wondering where she was.
"Look, it- it's from Caitlin."
Everyone looked at it, but because Zach couldn't read, Tea read it out loud.
~~~~~~~~~~~ "Hey everyone, it's me again.
It was a hard thing for me to decide, but I've made up my mind to go to America and try my luck there, seeing as I've caused enough trouble here. Don't mention anything to Kiba, because my Yami sort of brain washed him. (Not my idea!) I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your lives, seeing as I won't be there, and I want to thank you for all your help, understanding, and friendship through this whole ordeal. Maybe I'll see you again sometime. Tell Mai I'm sorry I couldn't talk to her before, and that she shouldn't feel bad that she 'LOST' she item, because I stole it. I would say a more formal goodbye, but I feel I've already done that quite enough at the Dance.
Thank you again, love,
Caitlin Whatshername
P.S- I promised myself I'd quit stealing after I stole from Kiba and Mai, but I had to bend that promise to myself for that self-absorbed, vain, hard- headed pig we all know as Seto Kiba. He won't notice if a few thousand dollars were taken right? ~~~~~~~~~~~
Tea closed the note and sighed. It was all over.
"Do you think we'll ever see her again Yami?" Yugi asked his other self who had come out to read the letter.
"All depends. If her future folds out for her, we might see her yet." Then he smiled and returned to his puzzle.
Good bye Caitlin, holder of the millennium amulet.
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Author- That's it! It's all done!
Caitlin- *screams* I'm disappearing!
Author- No your not.
Caitlin- Oh, right. ^_^;;
C.Yami- That stinks, I didn't even get to be in more then one chapter!
Author- *rolls her eyes*
THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO READ THIS FANFIC! REMEMBER TO READ AND REVIEW! (R&R)
Author- *sigh* Last fic please enjoy it! I- *notices Stevie*
Editor- *has a large booth set up with a sign that says, SECRETS FOR SALE*
Author- STEVIE!
Editor- *notices Retaw there and takes the sign down to reveal another sign that says COOKIES FOR SALE* Yes?
Author- YOU PROMISED YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT!
Editor- Well I- I mean- see its- cookie?
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Caitlin ran quickly in the middle of the road, she didn't mean to run in the road really, just it was the darkest place to run and she didn't want to be seen.
*I must look really strange* She thought, *With my hair slightly curled and put up to go to a dance, and my clothes all stained.*
She smiled when she felt the cold air ruffle her hair, the outdoors was a part of her now. It was the only thing she could rely on to always be there. Even her friends Zach and Megan couldn't ALWAYS be there. She always felt somewhat alone, now that she had friends again that would also be there, and she was leaving them, she would again be alone.
"You'll never be alone." A voice said.
Caitlin stopped and sung around, there was no one behind her. But she DID hear a voice didn't she? She looked franticly around her, she was the only one on the street. Wait a minute, the voice, did it read her mind?
"Can you please wait to go crazy AFTER you save your friends?" She said aloud.
"Hurry up, time is running out." The voice said again.
She looked around and started running faster, this was really starting to freak her out. But was the voice a boy's or a girl's? She couldn't define it. She lowered her head in an attempt to go faster.
*Not hearing voices.not hearing voices.I'm fine..I'm the only one here and I hear nothing.who's hearing voices? Not me cause I'm busy going to save me friends and get outta town.*
"You're pathetic." The voice said in her ear.
"STOP FOLLOWING ME!" She yelled, looking over each shoulder.
"I'm not hearing voices," She said aloud this time, "I'm fine..I really am."
She saw two dark figures start walking up to her, slowly. Caitlin stopped running and gasped. Were they holding chain saws?
The figures were just a normal couple.
*I'm just letting my imagination run away with me.*
"You bet you are." The voice, still undistinguishable, echoed back.
Caitlin almost cried, "I hear voices! AND THEY TALK BACK!! AND I SEE THINGS! I'M GOING MAD!" She yelled, sinking to the ground.
The couple passed her quietly, trying not to stare at her shaking in the middle of the road muttering something about hearing voices.
"Ok calm down." The voice said firmly, "We can do this, I'll walk you through it. First take three steps to the left, one to the front, and keep going forward until you run into a door. Open that door and you'll run into a desk. Ignore that desk. You with me?"
Caitlin screamed, but quickly covered her mouth so no one would notice her sneaking up to a jailhouse.
Little late for that.
Caitlin WAS hearing voices but she could still see where she was going, her stubborn side got the beset of her and she walked into the jailhouse, ignoring the sarcastic praising of the voice. Luckily it went away soon enough and Caitlin could blame it on Joey's cookie she had for lunch.
-=At the Dance=-
Tea looked at her watch, "It's been a half an hour and she hasn't come back."
Joey nodded, "It always takes girls a long time to dress but what gives?"
Tea finally got up from her seat and started to the door, Yugi looked up, "Where are you going Tea?"
"I'm going to see what's taking her this long. She's been acting really weird lately and I think she's gotten into some kind of trouble."
"I'm coming with you." Yugi said firmly.
"Me too." Joey added.
"And me." Tristen got up as well.
Bakura started to protest, but his other half got the better of him,
*He knows* Bakura thought, *He's figured it out already. This can't be good.*
//Oh.// His Yami answered mentally, //It isn't.//
-=At Tea's=-
"So she did come in here?" Tea asked her mom, who was a little puzzled by the urgent questions.
"I told you she did."
Tea and the others returned to searching the house, soon though, Tristen found something.
"Hey look at this!" He yelled, picking up the stained dress.
"A dress." Joey said, eyeing it in case there was anything out of the ordinary, "Haven't you ever seen a dress before?"
"No I think Tristen's on to something!" Yugi said, picking up the dress herself, "Caitlin isn't in the house anymore, she obviously took this off but didn't come back to the dance with a new one on."
"She left with her old clothes on." Tea voice came from her room, "Her old outfit isn't here. She left."
"But why?" Yugi asked, "Why would she leave."
"There's something else." Bakura said, reaching under Tea's bed. "Look at all these papers she wrote!"
"Wow!" Tea sighed, "I never saw her write these, she must have finished them when I was dressing or eating or something. She's got pretty good handwriting for someone who 'Has no use of writing down stupid math facts.'" Tea said, mimicking Caitlin's voice the day she had to do extra homework.
"What do they say?" Tristen said curiously picking up one.
"Caitlin's to do list?" Yugi read, "Oh my gosh! It's all here!"
"Well what's it say?" Joey interrupted.
"Save Megan from jail, get item back from Mai, keep item a secret, survive school, and one is written in a different color ink, so she probably added 'Make Jennet's life a living Hell.'"
"Well she's got her time cut out for her doesn't she?" Joey joked.
Tea gasped, "It all makes sense now! THAT'S why she was out late, she stole the item back from Mai! It wasn't a necklace it was an item."
"Sense when did she get an item?" Tristen said.
"She's always had one." Yami had taken over Yugi's body, "She's kept it a secret but somehow Mai got it."
"But why didn't she tell us?" Tea asked.
"Because she's never had a home, she can't afford to trust anyone. It's just how she's lived her life and old habits are hard to break. Even once she had learned that we were fine to trust, she couldn't shake off the fact she was a thief, she didn't feel like she'd be able to keep a friendship that way."
"A thief?"
"She stole the item from Kiba, she might refer to it as the 'Beetle.' She knows it has power and knows it contains a Yami, but she doesn't feel it's the same as the others. That is true, it is an 'unofficial item' that is not quite like the others."
"What powers does it have?" Bakura asked, eager to know more.
*Foolish Pharaoh, you're giving me the answers and I didn't have to do anything but find a bundle of papers.*
"I- I can not be sure. I don't know much about this new item and don't know it's powers, all I know, is that-"
"One more thing." Joey said, looking at another paper that read, 'SCHOOL, FROM A STUDENT'S VEIW' "She's going to get her friends out of jail and run away tonight. Like right now."
~~~~~~~~~~~
Caitlin peaked into a small room to see if anyone was in there.
Stupid cops. Do they ALWAYS need to be there? How's a person supposed to break out of jail if the cops are there?!
Caitlin changed her mind and decided it was better to talk to Megan and Zach first. She turned around and crept into the hall where the prisoners were kept. Most of them were sleeping, which Caitlin thought weird seeing as it was only eight or something. Megan and Zach were sleeping as well in their usual cell.
"Meg! Zach! Wakie wakie eggs and bakie!"
No one moved, ok, plan B. What did Zach say it was again? Oh yeah.
"Guys you'd better run or the alien will eat you!" She hissed.
She soon heard the sound of a head hitting the top bunk, and a head hitting the ceiling. Zach and Megan were awake.
"Bout time you guys came to."
"Caitlin!" Megan gasped, "You actually came!"
Caitlin rolled her eyes, "Duh. Like I would leave you here."
"So, what's the hold up? How come you don't have the key?"
"Oh that, see, funny thing. The cops are still here."
"So? I thought you had EXPIRIENCE."
"I do, but when people aren't there."
Zach and Megan felt faint, the whole plan wasn't going to work unless she got the key.
"Wait! Got an idea in the making." Caitlin said, taking a bobby pin from her hair and picking at the lock.
"Picking the lock? That's a stupid plan."
There was a click, and the door swung open, "Worked didn't it?"
"Caitlin!" A voice called, "What do you THINK your doing!?"
"Shoot." Caitlin thought, so close. "You weren't supposed to follow me Tea!"
Megan smirked, "She gave me that same excuse when I caught her the night she left."
Tea tapped her foot, "I can't believe you are actually going to break criminals out of prison."
"Ok, they aren't criminals, I am. It's my fault they're here and you guys need to get out of here before someone catches us all!" She hissed opening the door a little wider.
Bakura took this to his advantage and slipped his fingers into her back pocket- (where she had hid the item, hoping it would be less obvious) -and took out the item. It seemed too easy to believe! But you know what they say about if it's too good to be true, it usually is. He had to get out now before-
"And what- may I ask- are a few teenagers doing in a prison at this time of night?"
Too late.
~~~~~~~~~
Caitlin tried again at the lock with her bent pin. There was a twang, so she tried to push the door open, but it wouldn't budge. She cursed so loudly everyone in the prison stared at her. She set forth again to pick the lock.
"Some fool proof plan." Zach said angrily.
"Will you shut up its not my fault!" She snapped, looking at him with such malice that they barely recognized her.
One thing about Caitlin is that she has rules for getting this angry. Rule number one, she USUALLY gives them time to apologize. Rule number two, after she snaps SHE apologizes, unless they deserved it.
In Caitlin's eyes, Zach deserved it.
All she had done was work to get him out and all her sympathy had now turned into anger. She was determined to get them out. Why wasn't it working! She exhaled hard through her teeth to calm her down and tried to pick the lock now for the twelfth time.
"Of coarse." Bakura muttered under his breath, "I finally get something and can't get away. Figures."
Beads of sweat formed on Caitlin's forehead as she worked her arm around into a different angle and picked. She then dropped the pin. Caitlin cursed even louder and knelt onto the floor. She reached for the pin that was laying on the ground a centimeter away from where she could reach.
"Stupid pin." She said angrily, tears of rage coming, "Stupid, stupid, stupid piece of junk." She cried.
She reached so far an imprint of the bar was forming on her cheek. She finally gave up and leaned her head against the wall next to her. Caitlin tried to stop the tears from flowing but they did. Curse these sudden mood swings.
*I lost. * She said to herself. *I lost everything. I failed to rescue my friends, I failed to keep my cool against Jennet, a failed to keep a friendship with new people, I failed everything.*
She looked at her feet and watched the drops wet the ground, one by one, quickly. She closed her eyes and bit her lip, she was going to jail without the item her parents gave her. The only thing she had to remind her that she ever had people in her life that loved her. The only thing to remind her that she was a part of something. But that something was gone.
Caitlin banged her fist against the bar and felt for the beetle. But it wasn't there. She got up and looked around her, she had lost it.
Everything was gone.
All the hope, the dreams, even the whole point had lost meaning.
"Where are they?" She heard Yugi say.
Caitlin looked up at him, her eyes were red from crying so much and her lip was close to bleeding. "What?"
"Your parents. What happened to them?"
Caitlin took a breath; she had never talked to anyone about her parents before, not even Zach, who was like her brother! "It- it was my birthday."
"Your birthday?"
"Yeah, they had given me that golden beetle for my birthday and we were going to dinner. I took it with me everywhere! I remember my dad saying something funny, and when I stopped laughing and looked up, there were screaming."
The tears started coming again, "I remember the lights, my mom screaming like she had never screamed and then there was nothing, just a hissing noise. My mom wasn't screaming, my dad wasn't laughing, and there wasn't any screaming. I asked my mom what happened and she didn't answer." 'I went up into the seat and tried to wake them up, I thought they were sleeping or something, but they did nothing. I screamed for them to wake up, but they didn't. They wouldn't.' 'I was seven then, the people started to come up to the car and screamed for others to call 911, I was so afraid. I ran out of the car and no one saw me escape into the darkness. No one saw the little girl who didn't have a mother or father anymore. No one cared. No one knew me, I didn't know myself anymore."
There was a long silence. Then Caitlin started to cry again, although it made her feel better to get that thought off her chest, a new sadness came.
"I miss them very much." She sobbed, turning away so no one should see her like this.
"I had no idea." Yugi said in awe.
"There wasn't any reason for you to." Caitlin replied, ashamed of herself.
Zach kicked something on the floor, "That's- that's horrible."
Caitlin just nodded and swallowed the unnecessary drama, "I even lost my beetle. It's gone, the only thing my parents gave me on the day they left is gone."
Everyone except Zach, Megan, and Caitlin immediately stared at the all-to- innocent looking Bakura.
"What?"
Yugi's other half had once again taken over, "Hand it over tomb robber."
Even Caitlin looked at him this time, tomb robber? Oh boy not ANOTHER thing she had messed up! She watched Bakura's facial expression change, no, not just his expression, his whole face! Bakura said something about having a Yami but she didn't know Yami's changed your face! Come to think about it she didn't know much about Yami's at all.
He smirked, "I haven't a clue what you are talking about."
"Oh, I believe you do. Now hand it over or-"
"I don't think you realize who you are talking to Pharaoh."
Caitlin suddenly got a sense to what was happening. Kiba was going to be here any minute now, he was going to take everyone captive, everyone was going to go to jail, and she was spending the whole time feeling sorry for herself! She knew what she had to do.
"I don't think YOU realize who you are talking to now hand over the item!"
Caitlin quietly came up behind the arguing Bakura and saw the lump that indicated he had also put it in his pocket. She dove her hand into the pocket of the off guard tomb robber and gripped the beetle in her fist. She was about to pull it out, when she felt him grip her arm firmly.
"What-" He said loudly, "Are you doing in my pocket?"
Caitlin tried her best to get free, only resulting in a painful twist of her own arm. Bakura was pulling it upward slowly, waiting for her to let go of the beetle he had stolen from her. He wasn't going to let her take it back just like that. She cried out in pain and felt her knees give way underneath her.
"THAT IS QUITE ENOUGH!" She heard Yugi's Yami say.
Yami Bakura only smirked and twisted harder; Caitlin screamed and squeezed the beetle hard so as not to let go of it. Then she felt the pain wash away from her, completely vanish from her body. The voice she had heard echoing before said a few words and Bakura stopped turning her arm.
He was plain old Bakura again.
Bakura let go of Caitlin (who dropped to her knees) and backed away in horror. "Please tell me I wasn't just doing that."
Caitlin nursed her arm and opened her palm to look at the golden beetle once more. She smiled to see it again and put it quickly around her neck. Then that stupid voice came again.
"So, are you going to thank me or not?"
Caitlin yelled out again in fright and covered her ears, "Stop talking to me!"
The Yugi Yami walked over and touched her on the shoulder, "Are you alright?"
Caitlin opened her tightly shut eyes, "It keeps talking to me. Someone keeps talking to me and I don't know who! I keep telling it to shut up but it wont and it's driving me bonkers!"
Yugi's Yami smiled, "I think you've found your Yami."
Caitlin blinked, "How did you-"
"You can talk to it as it's talking to you. You just need to listen. I think you've awoken the Yami inside."
"How- how am I supposed to talk to it though? I don't remember how."
"Just talk to him naturally."
"Uh, h-hello?"
Yami laughed, "No, naturally. Don't any noises."
"Well I'm sorry but if I don't make a noise I don't talk!"
"Just try."
Caitlin huffed and concentrated, she thought hard about how to say hello. She tried in Japanese, in German, all the ways she could think of, right down to a simple wave and hand shake.
//I'm not BI-lingual here just speak regular please?//
/Uh, hi, I'm Caitlin./
//Yeah, I got that. So, what's the hold up? How come you haven't gotten out of this dump yet?//
/I- kinda broke the pin./
//Well then 'Kinda UN-Break the pin'.//
Caitlin came back to the normal world and huffed again, "Gosh if I'm anything like my Yami I'm really annoying!"
No one said anything, so Caitlin flung up her arms, "You don't need to agree with me you know!"
//Hello? Still here.//
/Ok, how am I supposed to UN-break the pin?/
//Ok, maybe not like that but- do you have another pin?//
/No./
//Then get one! Hello? The world doesn't revolve around you! There ARE other peoples in that cell!//
/Thanks I guess, uh, ok stupid question. Are you a dude or a girl?//
//You're right, it is a stupid question.//
/Just answer it for goshness sake!/
//Fine, I'm a boy.//
Caitlin's eyes came back to the normal state and she rubbed her face hard saying, "My Yami's a dude!"
Megan smirked, "Told you."
Caitlin finally stopped rubbing her face and pointed at Tea, "Do you have any pins or something? Anything that could pick a lock?"
"Um, I think so, here." She took a long pointy needle looking pin from her bun and the hair fell back down to a normal state.
"Perfect. Ok, now, everyone just be quiet for a minute while I concentrate."
//Does that include me?//
/Yes, especially you./
//Oh, saved your arm and this is how you repay me.//
/Speaking of which, what exactly did you do to Bakura?/
//I thought you didn't want me to talk to you.//
/Enough with the smart-butt attitude and spill it./
//Well, it wasn't really a spell, it was more like a- spell. Anyway, I wrote it a while back and it was supposed to let the host take control again.//
/You wrote it?/
//Coarse. Wrote practically everything.//
/Stupid lock won't budge!/
//Let me take over.//
/...You can do that?/
//Again, of coarse. Just let your energy flow into mine.//
/How am I supposed to do that?/
//Just close your eyes.//
Caitlin suddenly stopped picking the lock and closed her eyes. Everyone thought she gave up, but she wasn't going to back down that easily. A faint glow came from her amulet and she started to change. Only her change was a whole lot more obvious then Yugi and Bakura's. She changed into a boy.
He was almost the splitting image of Caitlin, but his hair was shorter and he had a different figure. He started to rigorously pick at the lock and soon, they heard it click and the door swung open.
"Voila!" He said turning around, "Open sesame!"
"Well." Tea said in awe, "You aren't- exactly the same as before."
The spirit blinked a few times and then noticed Yugi's Yami standing there, in almost as much awe as the others.
"Ph-pharaoh!" He gasped, bowing his head, "You're here too?"
Yami smiled, "Ah, my most loyal scribe. It is good to see you again."
He smiled, "It is good to see you too, how unexpected!"
Zach tapped her Yami on the shoulder and grinned sarcastically, "I'm sorry but I have to break up this little reunion and remind both of you that we are still in jail and had better get out of here."
"Oh, right." Caitlin's Yami nodded and ran out of the cell with the others.
They hurried into a parking lot and noticed a cop was unloading supplies and left his van door open. Caitlin's Yami smiled devilishly and jerked his head to signal to jump into the van. They all did what he wanted and he ended up being the one in the front seat.
//Aw man!// He told her, //I've always wanted to drive one of these!//
/Do you know how?/
//...I've always wanted to drive one of these!//
/Oh no./
Her Yami turned the keys, shouted, "Let's ride!" and pushed the pedal hard. Everyone was ready to go, but it didn't move. Yami hit the brake and pedal many times before asking, "Why isn't it going?"
Tristen pointed, "You have to put it in gear."
"Oh thanks!" He said, turning the gear and flooring once more.
This time the car went forward and everyone's head was flung back onto the seat. Caitlin made a mental note never to let her Yami drive again.
EVER.
They saw a limo pass them like a streak of white light and Yugi had to yell to be heard over the roaring engine and the shouts of delight by Caitlin's Yami. "THAT WAS KIBA'S CAR!"
//Oh shoot, who's Kiba again?//
/The guy that will put us in jail if we don't hurry./
//Oh. Ok, well in that case we'd better- why is the car slowing down.//
/Please tell me you didn't run out of gas./
//How do I know if I did?//
/There will be a pointer thingy that is pointing to the E./
//Oh, uh.//
/It isn't pointing there is it?/
//......//
/I had better take over./
//Thanks.//
Caitlin regained her body and opened the door yelling to the others to run.
"Were exactly are we running to?" Joey asked.
"To the school dance! Just hope Kiba didn't see us driving in a car driven by a mad Yami!"
//Hey!//
-=At the Dance=-
The group rushed into the school once more, trying to get off the trail that Kiba would have found. Caitlin's advise was to grab some punch to put on you, so if they sent out the hounds they'd smell different, and to mingle with the crowd before running out the back exit.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Tea whispered to Caitlin a few minutes later.
"No. But it's the only plan so far and we don't have a-" Caitlin cursed.
"What?"
"It's Kiba. He's followed our trail and he's here."
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Author- THE END!
Everyone- *groans and throws stuff at her*
Author- Ok fine it isn't the end, intermission!
Everyone- NO!
Author- I'll ask one more time, how about an intermission?
Tristen- How bout, not.
Author- *huffs* Fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kiba walked into the crowd of people and scanned the groups for Megan, Zach, or anyone else who might be suspicious. Caitlin clutched her amulet and turned to the others.
"Try to act normal, but get to the exit as quickly as possible."
"Caitlin!" A female voice said. Caitlin turned around and saw the second worst person she could get caught by right now.
"Mai? What are you-"
"Listen Caitlin, I feel so bad because I lost your necklace!"
"No, Mai it's ok, really. I've got to go and-"
"No it's not ok! The first piece of jewelry I loose and it's yours."
"Mai I really-" Kiba caught sigh of her. Not good.
"I promise I'll pay you back how much did it cost?"
"Mai, I've already forgotten about it now it you could-"
"Forgotten it? How could you forget it! It was the gold one that looked like a beetle of something?"
Caitlin covered her face with her hand and started to back away to the exit, Kiba was coming her way. He had heard the thing about the beetle and he wanted it back. He kept coming, Mai kept talking, Caitlin kept walking.
"Mai I've got to go now bye and thanks!" She yelled, turning and running to the exit, there was no way she'd be able to get out of it if Kiba caught her. She looked over her shoulder to see him start to run after her.
//Can't you go any faster?//
/Oh shut it Yami you're worse then Zach!/
Then she felt Kiba grab her arm, her sore arm, that Bakura had twisted. She yelped and was turned around. Kiba looked down at her.
"You have something I want." He said, glaring at her, "And I want it back."
He barely touched the beetle on her chest and it started to glow. Angry that she had taken it, he tried to pull it off her, but Caitlin's Yami wouldn't stand for it.
"Let go-" He said, "Of the amulet."
"It's mine." He said back, now aware that she had used her Yami. He would have been surprised if Yugi hadn't done it many times before.
"Let go of it." He said again, "Or I will have to send your soul to the shadow realm. It is a fatal mistake to take an item that rightfully belongs with it's owner."
"Which is me. Now I'm not going to let you have what should be mine."
"Neither will I. And if I were you, I'd let go of it this minute or an eternity in nothingness will be your fate."
/You go Yami./
Kiba gritted his teeth, not wanting to be sentenced to the shadow realm but not wanting to let go of the multi-million worth golden beetle. The Yami seemed to understand and smirked evilly.
"You are a hard headed fool. But I have no intention of letting you live forever in the realm, it isn't my style. Though I have no intention to let you have the item, so there is but one thing left to do."
Kiba felt a cold sensation come over him, and when he once again opened his eyes, the beetle was not in his grasp. He wasn't in the shadow realm, in fact he was in his bed. Another thing he didn't know, was that nothing would be remembered of the certain Yami or golden bug in a few minutes.
Caitlin smiled at her Yami from her soul room, and he smiled back. It was good to have someone like that on her side again. She took over again, and let herself walk into the empty classroom; she needed to do one more thing.
~~~~~~~
Tea picked up the scrap of paper that was on the ground and showed it to the rest of the gang. They hadn't seen Caitlin come out of the room when they ran out and were wondering where she was.
"Look, it- it's from Caitlin."
Everyone looked at it, but because Zach couldn't read, Tea read it out loud.
~~~~~~~~~~~ "Hey everyone, it's me again.
It was a hard thing for me to decide, but I've made up my mind to go to America and try my luck there, seeing as I've caused enough trouble here. Don't mention anything to Kiba, because my Yami sort of brain washed him. (Not my idea!) I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your lives, seeing as I won't be there, and I want to thank you for all your help, understanding, and friendship through this whole ordeal. Maybe I'll see you again sometime. Tell Mai I'm sorry I couldn't talk to her before, and that she shouldn't feel bad that she 'LOST' she item, because I stole it. I would say a more formal goodbye, but I feel I've already done that quite enough at the Dance.
Thank you again, love,
Caitlin Whatshername
P.S- I promised myself I'd quit stealing after I stole from Kiba and Mai, but I had to bend that promise to myself for that self-absorbed, vain, hard- headed pig we all know as Seto Kiba. He won't notice if a few thousand dollars were taken right? ~~~~~~~~~~~
Tea closed the note and sighed. It was all over.
"Do you think we'll ever see her again Yami?" Yugi asked his other self who had come out to read the letter.
"All depends. If her future folds out for her, we might see her yet." Then he smiled and returned to his puzzle.
Good bye Caitlin, holder of the millennium amulet.
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Author- That's it! It's all done!
Caitlin- *screams* I'm disappearing!
Author- No your not.
Caitlin- Oh, right. ^_^;;
C.Yami- That stinks, I didn't even get to be in more then one chapter!
Author- *rolls her eyes*
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