"Honey, could you hand me a towel?" Seto asked as he washed his face. Serena handed him the underwear that she had found in his glove compartment with a scowl. Seto felt the satin fabric and wiped his face with the back of his hand.
"What is this?" he asked looking from the underwear to her. He was surprised to see the fire in her eyes.
"No that's my question." She replied coolly. Seto took another look at the underwear in his hands as his eyes widened in surprise. These were hers. The ones that the doctor had given to him in the envelope. He had forgotten that he had placed them in the glove compartment of his car when he had Duke make the fake pictures. She had apparently found them and thought that they were someone elses.
"I don't know what these are." Seto said playing innocent as he handed them back to her and walked past her.
"Oh and thanks for putting my clothes out for me." He added trying to avert the subject.
"Oh stop it." Serena said sternly, not willing to let him off the hook.
"This is nothing." Seto protested as he moved around the house. Serena followed him all the while yelling at him.
"Nothing!" she demanded shaking the offending article of clothing in his face. "I give you the best years of my life, I raised your children, I bore your fruit four times and you tell me that this is nothing?!" she shouted angrily.
"You are making a big deal out of nothing." Seto tried to reason with her as he sat on the bed and put his shoes on.
"Well, that nothing happens to be the number one cause of divorce!" she yelled trying to hold back her tears.
"What are you saying?" Seto asked annoyed avoiding her gaze.
"I'm saying what I'm saying!" she retorted.
"Your saying what your saying, what you want a divorce?"
Serena blinked for a second before answering. "Um… yeah, maybe I do." She asserted trying to scare Seto into apologizing.
"Well, you can't have one." Seto told her as he walked out of the room. Serena stared after him, hands on her hips.
"Oh really!" she replied angrily. "I can have a divorce if I want one." She stated as Seto moved around the living room. She followed him and sat on the chair.
"Do you love her?" she asked quietly. Seto stopped what he was doing, his heart breaking at the forlorn sound of her voice.
"Do you? Tell me." She quietly begged him as he tried to avoid her gaze.
"Honestly, yes and no." he answered.
"More yes than no?" she pestered. Seto stood up completely annoyed, he didn't have time for this.
"This is unbelievable" he shouted at her. "How did you even find these…You know what? I'm glad this happened." He said as Serena gave him a piercing look.
"Look, I've been trying to find a way to tell you." He said as he leaned on his hands and put them on the arms of the chair Serena was in.
"SS is you. These are yours and we aren't married." He revealed. "There I finally said it!"
"What's her name? Sarah, Stacie?" Serena persisted not believing him.
"Look, these aren't yours and I'm not your husband." Seto continued.
"Did you meet her while you were unloading those parts? What did she drive the truck!" Serena asked bitterly
"You aren't my wife and they aren't your children! You didn't bear anything!" Seto yelled trying to get her to listen to him.
Serena stood up completely aggravated that he was avoiding the subject. "Don't change the subject, who is she?!" she demanded.
"Come here!" Seto said grabbing her hand and pulling her to where the boys where.
'Mom, we're still all clean!" Yami said proudly as Mokuba stood next to Serena. Serena put her hand comfortingly on his head as Seto turned to the boys.
"Okay, I just told her about her not being your mother and I want you guys to tell her too." Seto ordered looking at all four boys. The boys looked back at Seto, not saying a word.
"Go ahead." Seto said annoyed. "Tell her."
"Dad, tell her what?" Joey finally spoke.
"That she isn't your mother." Seto said through clenched teeth.
"But she is our mother!" Yugi protested.
"No, don't tell her what I told you to tell her. Just…tell her about the day I brought her home." Seto said wearily.
"She went for a swim, I was really worried. I was up all night pacing!" Yami said.
Seto glared at them. "For crying out loud you guys have never seen her before in your life!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Don't you speak to our kids that way! I have had it!"
Serena ordered him with fire in her eye as she stalked off. Seto made a move to
go after her then turned to the boys.
"What they heck are ya'll doing!"
"We aren't going to let you ruin everything." Joey said. "We're keeping her."
"You can't keep her. She doesn't belong to you." Seto retaliated.
"She didn't belong to you either, but that didn't stop you." Yugi pointed out.
"I had my reasons!" Seto argued trying to get them to agree with him.
"So do we." Yami said quietly. They all looked at each other for a moment.
"We like her, Seto!" Mokuba piped up.
"Oh, you all like her do you? You like her so much that you would rather live with her than your own brother!" Seto demanded to know. The boys exchanged glances not sure what to say. Seto looked at them and left without a word to find Serena.