Serena walked next to her father as they boarded the yacht.
"Welcome back Ms. Staten." The captain said tipping his hat. Serena glanced at him as she went into her room, trying to hold back her tears. She changed out of the clothes she had on and stood on the bow. Silently staring as Domino harbor pulled out of view, taking her away from what she had come to know as home and the man she had fallen in love with. Serena wiped a tear that trickled down her cheek as she promised herself that she would forget about Seto.
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Seto was back at the mansion typing on his laptop when Duke entered the room.
"They won't come out." Duke informed him referring to his brothers. Seto gave a sigh of annoyance as he got up and went to talk to them. He rapped smartly on the door to their playroom as Mokuba undid the lock on the door allowing Seto entry.
"What's going on here?" Seto asked calmly crossing his hands over his chest.
"We're getting mom back!" Yugi said defiantly.
"We miss her." Mokuba explained.
"Yeah," Yami said adding in his comment. "She cuts the crust off my bread!"
"She doesn't take any of my crap either!" Joey said. "I need discipline."
"This is a job for Doctor Death!" Yugi said naming one of the popular superheroes in Domino.
"Yeah! Doctor Death could do it." Yami agreed.
"We gotta do something, right Seto?" Mokuba pleaded.
"Wrong!" Seto said in aggravation. "She's gone guys. I mean, she hates me!" he said remembering her pushing him off the side of the yacht.
"She has her rich family back, and we are back at the mansion and that's the end of it." Seto said as he strode out of the room; signaling that that was the end of the conversation. The boys watched as he shut the door firmly behind him, they could tell he missed Serena as much as they did, if not more. They returned to plotting how to get her back.
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"How is she Dr. Carmen?" Edith asked the psychologist sitting at the piano in the living room of the yacht.
"Will she ever once again be the debutant I raised?" Edith pressed. She, Grant, and Dr. Carmen, a famous doctor from New York, were sitting in the living room of the yacht discussing Serena's amnesia.
"Will she be one of us?" Grant asked using us to refer to the rich people of the world.
"Serena's memory is almost completely restored." Dr. Carmen replied. "She even remembers the time that I wrote this…" With that he proceeded to play a song on the piano as Grant and Edith exchanged annoyed glances.
"DR. CARMEN!" Grant yelled at his as Edith hit him with her hand. "I want an analysis. Not moon river! I want my daughter back!" Grant lied as he cast a look at his mother in law, remembering how annoying his daughter was before.
"Serena knows who she is, and she is trying to behave that way. Happy?" he asked annoyed that his piano solo was cut short. Just then Serena entered the room, dressed in a formal dress.
"Ah, my darling Serena." Edith cooed as she entered the room.
"You look radiant, Sere." Grant flattered as Serena cast her father an aggravated look.
"Please don't call me that. I feel like a Pomeranian." She whined.
"You always liked being called Sere. It was ditums you hated."
"Nana, does Dr. Carmen have to be here?" she asked covertly.
"Aww, Rina" Edith simpered. "Dr. Carmen has been a friend of the family for years and he just wants to make sure that your okay. Just indulge Nana. Come on, sit."
"Andrew! I'm sitting!" she said to the butler. Andrew walked over and lifted some of the poof of her dress as she fell backwards into the chair, her dog on her lap. Grant rolled his eyes as Serena took a seat on the couch. Andrew then went to retrieve a tray with four glasses of champagne and offered one to Edith then turned to Serena.
"Andrew, I'd love a coke." She asked.
"A Coke?!" Edith asked in disgust. Serena turned to look at
her grandmother stricken.
"that's wrong
isn't it?" she asked nervously.
"Nothing is ever wrong." Dr. Carmen commented as he moved from his position at the piano to a chair next to Edith. "Actually, I don't see any harm in accommodating her wishes." Andrew nodded as he left the room.
"Cigarette darling?" Edith asked as she offered Serena a packet of expensive cigarettes.
"I don't smoke. Nana." Serena said in refusal. "Oh, wait do I?" she asked.
"Course you smoke, you've always smoked!" Grant said looking at her strangely.
"Why don't we all smoke?" Dr. Carmen said trying to relieve the tension.
"Why do I have to smoke?" Grant complained. "I get sick when I smoke."
"Grant," Edith said looking as her son in law crossly. "We aren't interested in your therapy."
"I had my nervous breakdown and I didn't have therapy, I never had therapy!" Grant whined loudly as Dr. Carmen raised his eyebrows in annoyance. Serena got up while her grandmother and father were arguing and retrieved a tray that had little snacks on them. She picked it up and took it to her grandmother.
"Nana, would you like one?" she asked.
"I'd love one!" Dr. Carmen said reaching for one as Grant intercepted his hand.
"Put that down!" Grant ordered taking the tray out of her hands. "Good gracious, Serena, we have servants for that."
"Now, really this had gone on too far!" Edith said.
"Yes," Dr. Carmen said professionally. "What motivated you to rise and go get the serving tray?" Serena looked at them wringing her hands nervously.
"Well, I thought that you all might be hungry." She said simply.
"Excellent, just excellent." Dr. Carmen muttered.
"What's excellent about it?" Grant asked crossly.
"I was hungry." Dr. Carmen answered. Grant looked at him angrily. "Who cares if you were hungry. My daughter has turned herself into a waitress."
"My granddaughter is a waitress?" Edith asked as if it were the worst thing in the world. While there were talking Andrew had brought in Serena coke and handed it to her. Serena took the coke as Dr. Carmen instructed them to be quite and watch what she did. Serena popped the tab and took a big gulp and sighed as the carbonation tickled her nose. "Ah, good stuff." She muttered as she noticed everyone looking at her strangely.
"I'll stay here a couple more days." Dr. Carmen muttered to Edith who nodded worried about her granddaughter.