Don't fear the Reaper….

Bakura's POV

We burst into the room and found Tim pounding into Ryou. I stopped short after seeing this scene. My Ryou's mouth was open…I couldn't tell if it was from the pain or shock of what Tim was doing to him. Even when I did that to Ryou, he never reacted like that. A low growl rumbled in my throat and a sudden burst of protection came over me…and a taste for revenge.
"Prepare to meet your maker!" I shrieked.
Steven stood up and I got a chance to look that sick bastard right in the eye. Jessica slid off of my Ryou and stood behind Steven.
"Bakura!"
"Steven…just what the hell do you think you are doing?"
"What I do with my son is my business!"
Ryou gasped from the bed. "Save…..Aten….Do it for …..Aten."
Marik gripped his Millennium Rod and jumped onto Tim digging his fingers into the back of Tim's neck. "So….you love to love little boys, huh?"
Marik pulled Tim off and out of Ryou and threw him into the window handing on the wall. The glass shattered as Tim fell onto the floor. Tim held his face, cut by the slivers of crystalline glass.
Jessica and Steven jumped and I put my hands on the Millennium Ring. "Freeze right there!"
Jessica and Steven were frozen in motion. I approached Ryou, his eyes still wide. His arms were released, but he remained still as if he were still pinned.
I brushed my fingers over Ryou's hair and I kissed his lips. My relief that he was alive was infinite. But, his state made me very concerned.
"How could you do that to your own son?"
Steven shot me a dirty look.
"Nothing will convince you to accept Ryou. I could understand your objection to him being the way he is and being in love with me. I can understand that you weren't thinking straight when you tried to poison him. But this…"I pointed to Ryou's naked, love-covered form gasping and crying. "I can never forgive this…I never can. And that is why I must do this."
I pulled out my dagger and gripped Steven's shirt. "You are going to be begging for mercy when I'm done."
Marik gripped Tim and removed the dagger from the Rod. "So you like to make yourself feel superior by raping someone? By taking away their power? Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander…And since you already took Ryou….then it's only fair you get something in return."
"Open your mouth and close your eyes…you're going to get a big…..surprise!"
Much to our collective amazement (and disgust) Marik took the Millennium Rod, dagger out, and jammed it up some unmentionable place that made even ME cringe.
Tim's scream pierced the room and we heard Aten from the next room wailing. As if that had any chance of relieving Marik? That didn't help Tim.
"MAKE IT STOP!"
"Don't mind if I do!" Marik gripped the Millennium Rod and pulled it out and he picked up Tim by the hair and ran the Millennium Rod through his chest skewering him. Tim's head flew back and his body began to shake with the last few twitches of life. Tim stopped and Marik dropped him in a pool of blood.
I took Steven's shirt and ripped off the shirt. "Well, since you are going to the underworld, I may as well prepare you. Marik….go into the kitchen and find me jars."
Marik left the room and I heard Marik knock on the door next to us and I heard Aten's weak voice cry to his father.
"Marik…tell Aten we will get him in a minute. This sight is not for a child his age to see."
I unfroze Steven's lips so he could talk. I needed to hear him scream.
Marik returned with jars.
"I'm sorry we don't have the appropriate jars, but good jars are wasted on your organs.
I made a small cut on the bottom of Steven's belly and he began to cry out in pain.
"What are you going to do, Bakura?"
I cracked my knuckles and I reached into the incision I made. I could tell he was in immense pain. My hands gripped around and I clenched onto my target. I gripped and ripped forcefully, the blood gushing forth.
I pulled out his liver and placed it into one of the jars. "What does it look like I'm doing, Steven? I'm preparing you for the underworld. I'm mummifying you."
Jessica's throat screamed in horror. Steven's face was covered in sweat.
"Don't….Bakura…"
My hand reached in again and I pulled out his intestines…inch……………………….by…………………inch………..yard………..by……..yard….. His stomach was the next to be removed.
Marik came beside me with a hanger.
"What…do you need……that for…Bakura?"
My lip curled and quaked with anticipation. "Don't you know what is coming next? You are an archaeologist! Lean your head back, Steven."
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT!"
"Oh…I am missing the lungs. Oh well…."
I jammed the hook up through the nasal cavity and Steven began to gasp and slowly, a glazed look came to his face. Marik put his hands into the incision and gripped at Steven's lungs.
"This is for my son, you bastard!" Marik yanked and Steven's head fell back. Marik put the lungs in the jar and turned to Jessica.
Marik rubbed his fingers across Jessica's lips. "I guess you should have gone first, Jessica. After all, ladies first. Shall I do the pleasure, Bakura?"
"She took Aten. Jessica is yours as far as I'm concerned. Do what you wish, Marik."
Marik's lip curled in a satisfying, sick way. Steven was gone. That is all I cared about.
I returned to Ryou and I picked him up out of the love-covered, bloody bedsheets and cradled him in my arms. I removed him from the room to the living room.
Ryou's eyes were fixed to his right…towards me. He must have watched his father die, but his eyes showed no evidence of recognition. It was almost as if…he didn't know I was there holding him.
"Ryou? Ryou? Tenshi….answer me."
Ryou didn't move, his eyes closed and he began to whimper. I covered him in a blanket as he began to shake, thinking maybe he was cold. I held him close to me as Marik came out several minutes later with Aten in his arms asleep.
I looked up at Marik. "What did you do to Jessica?"
Marik grunted and held onto his Millennium Item. "I'm going to have to sterilize this thing for a month solid." Marik cradled his son's head gently and kissed him. I almost saw a tear in my former lover's eye as he held his child.
"Thank Ra you are ok, Aten," he whispered. "How is Ryou?"
Ryou curled up shaking holding onto me. He wasn't responding to anything I did.
Ryou was still bleeding even after Tim had finished with him an hour before.
"We have to get Ryou and Aten to the hospital."
Aten began to moan in Marik's arms. "I wan my Chain of Heart pwushie, daddy…weft it…downstaiws."
Marik took Aten downstairs as I called Seto.
/ Seto Kaiba. /
"Seto, how fast can you be in Brackenridge?"
/ About fifteen minutes minimum, why? /
"Seto…..I found him."
/ WHAT THE HELL??!! YOU FOUND HIM? HOW IS HE? Aria, no more M&M's for you, your daddy will kill me! /
"Ryou and Aten need to go to the hospital. Aten looks thin and he's very pale. Ryou isn't responding to him."
"What do you mean by 'not responding?'"
/ You'll see when you see him. Get here fast, Kaiba….Please, Seto. Come quickly. /
I hung up on moneybags and held Ryou close to me. It's going to be ok, Ryou. It's going to be ok."

NEXT CHAPPIE: Update will be Saturday or Sunday latest. Tomorrow will be too busy. Next chappie, Ryou and Aten go to the hospital and a possible Bakura and Yami Yugi standoff.

IDEA FOR SEQUEL: ok, guys. I have an idea for the sequel. This fic is not near done yet, so don't worry. My idea is that Child Services receives an anonymous letter and comes to take Aria away from Ryou and Bakura. Child Services knows Ryou's past and it is thought that Ryou may be "mentally unfit" to fulfill his role as caretaker after his hospitalization. They try to take Aten away, too, much to the fury of his father. This is just a beginning idea. If I give out any more details now, it would ruin the surprise of the sequel. Right now this is the beginning of the plan.