Seto racked his brain for something, anything that he could use to prove that he was who he proclaimed he was. He had thankfully done some background researching on her before he had come so he was thinking back to what he had read. Then he remembered as he smiled to himself.
"Oh, hey I understand perfectly." Seto said as the doctor waited for his proof. Serena stared at him from the corner of her eye trying not to act interested in what he was about to say.
"Well, you see she doesn't like for me to tell people, but she has this small strawberry like birthmark, it kinda high up on her left cheek." He said indicating his butt cheek. "It's unique." He finished as Serena looked away in humiliation. Then with the air of a princess she got up off the chair and walked behind the television set. She then turned and checked to see is he was right. Seto leaned back in confidence; the doctor and technician watched anxiously, ready to be rid of the demanded woman. When Serena found the mark she turned a stunned look at Seto. He clapped his hands then held them out to her.
"Come to daddy." He said as the doctor and technician exchanged high fives.
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"Mister," Serena said addressing Seto through the back window. "What was I doing out in the ocean?" she asked.
Seto gave her a glance then quickly turned his eyes back on the road. Instead of allowing her the comfort of sitting in the passenger seat, he had made her sit in the bed of the truck.
"Well, diving for oysters is something you like to do; sometimes you get pretty far from shore, and well that undertow." He finished.
"Oysters in a cold ocean at night, that doesn't sound like me." She replied with a haughty flip of her hair. If was a few minutes after that when Serena started hacking and holding her throat. Seto looked back her curiously.
"I just…ate a bug!" she yelled. Seto smiled smugly to himself.
"Keep your mouth closed." He suggested. "There are a lot of things flying around out here." He said as Serena continued attempting to rid herself of the offending bug in her mouth.
They finally made it to their destination. Seto pulled onto a dirt road that was miles away from anybody and everything. From what he knew of Serena she was defiantly used to comfort and anything less than a mansion would just be too terrible for her to imagine. So if he wanted to make her as miserable as possible, he had to live in the worst shack he could find. Luckily he remembered that he did own a small house and that he mostly used it for storage. If everything had gone according to plan and Duke had done as he asked, his brothers should already be there and have the situation explained. He knew they would go along with the plan, they always did. Seto took a while to think about his brothers: Mokuba, his real brother, Yami and Yugi, the twins and Joey. Mokuba had slowly become friends with the boys when Seto found out that the three were brothers and lived in an orphanage. They would probably never be adopted because one wouldn't leave without the other two. And because Mokuba had made such good friends with them and they reminded him of his own situation once he decided to adopt them and they became his brothers as well. Seto's thoughts were averted as he pulled up to the house.
'Welcome home baby!" he said turning around not wanting to miss her reaction. Serena slowly pulled herself up and looked over the top of the truck at the house. Her mouth dropped open in wordless horror as she started at the house. Broken bits of furniture, garbage and other junk littered the badly kept lawn. The house was in desperate need of a new coat of paint and a few shutters hung down from the dirty windows. There was even a water barrel on the front porch and the roof had defiantly seen better days.
"I feel faint." She muttered as Seto tried hard to conceal his delight at her displeasure.
"Come on." He said propelling her toward the house.
"No," she said resisting his pull. "This isn't right." She said weakly.
'I know it seems that way and a lot of things are still in boxes from the move. I hardly recognize the place myself." Seto said moving once again toward the house.
"We moved here? Deliberately?" Serena asking in a shocked whisper.
"Last place was a real dump!" Seto said as he dragged her towards the house. Seto led her into the house as she stared dismally around. The rooms looked better than the outside of the house, but not by much. The living room was littered with dirty laundry and the TV screen was filled with static. None of the furniture matched and was covered with holes and spilled food. The carpet was stained with mud and dirt. Serena stared in misery at the house as Seto put his hand on her back and propelled her forward. "First why don't we take a tour of the house and see if anything comes back to you."
"Did I just go downhill?" Serena asked as she stepped forward.
"Look at that, it's already coming back to ya. Everything slants toward the bedroom!" He explained as Serena's face paled even more as led her away towards the kitchen. Serena pulled her gaze away from the mess of the living room and turned her attention to the wreck that the kitchen was in. Seto let his gaze sweep across the rooms as he inwardly applauded his brothers. 'They did their job well.' He thought as he took her though out the rooms. Each as slovenly decorated as the last.
"This is the kitchen." Seto said indicating it as they walked past. "Bathroom, only one!" he said giving her a brief glimpse inside. "And here it is… the old magic room." He said indicating the place which was going to be his new bedroom for as long as they stayed there. "We've gone a lot of miles on that mattress." He said giving out a little innuendo seeing how in made her squirm. "Later!" he said as he brought her back to the living room. Seto was about to say something else when he heard a myriad of yells from upstairs as the three oldest boys came charging down the stairs.
"There they are!" he yelled as Joey chased Yami and Yugi around the table holding a bat. He swung the bat knocking the top off of a popcorn popper spewing popcorn everywhere.
'Mokuba threw my turtle in the bathtub." Joey said as he ran past Seto.
"He didn't mean to throw it; it slipped out of his hands!" Yami said as he captured Yugi in a choke hold.
"Whoa whoa! Guys, look whose home!" he yelled pointing to Serena.
"Hi mom!" Joey yelled.
"Hi mom." Said Yami.
"Hi mom." Came the choked voice of Yugi as Yami let him loose.
"Gee mom, we really missed you. We're so glad your back!" Yami said with a fake cry as Joey gave him a slap on the back and Seto gave the indication to tone it down a bit. Serena stared in undisguised horror at the three boys.
"They're…they're not mine!" she managed to squeak as she gave a wide eyes look at Seto.
Seto hung his head and shook it sadly. "Oh, honey! I was sure you'd remember them!"
"Well," Serena began assuredly. "I think I would remember if I had three chil…"
"Four!" Seto said interrupting her. "Don't forget little Mokuba!" he said pointing up stairs at a black haired smiling boy. He waved happily to her as he leaned out of a makeshift window on the second floor. Serena closed her eyes in shock as she fainted.
"Well, that's about it except for…" Seto said pausing as Serena hit the floor with a thud. He looked at her then gave a half smile to his brothers as he dragged her towards the couch.