Chapter 4

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Yu-gi-oh.

(A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in soooo long. That's midterms; work for midterms and the Pre Standardized Assessment Test [aka PSAT] a few essays for you.)

The body jerked up and down, left and right; then every thing stopped. Merrick and Abnore' had to watch in horror as Chantel's eyes role in the back of her head and a strange liquid excreted from her mouth.

All Abnore' could do was whimper, trying to stifle her tears.

Merrick was strangely quiet. However his mind was a different matter. Everything he could think off pointed to the cause of death- the pharaoh.

When anything wrong or bad happened, Merrick's father Alexander blamed the pharaoh. Although his father had only said it to take blame off of himself, Merrick grew up believing that the pharaoh was responsible for everything wrong in his life. The pharaoh was punishing him for something he didn't even do. Even though at the time when his father was alive, there was a different pharaoh ruling all of Egypt, it did not matter to Merrick; to him the pharaoh was a power-hungry man, just there to sit in his pretty palace with his beautiful wives while the rest of his people suffered. No, his newly found brother-in-law would have to go. Even though he was just reunited with his sister, he believed she deserved better than that. Than a wicked thought was planted into Merrick head. 'What if my biological father was in on it, and had given me up. Yeah, that's it. He didn't want me too remind him of his dead wife so he gave me up. How is it he could take HER to Spain and not me? Maybe the pharaoh threatened my life so he sent me here. That's it. I know she thinks she loves HIM, but he will slit her throat if she lets him. I can't let that happen. I HAVE to split them up.'

The two walked out to the main part of the house quietly. Both stifled their cries but the tears rolling down their cheeks and the expressions on their faces was all Yami needed to figure out what had happened.

Yami and Abnore' were on their way out when Yami offered to let Merrick stay at the palace. It was after Merrick had buried the only mother he had ever known.

"That's okay, I'll be fine." He said. 'I don't want or need your charity pharaoh. You just want to show off your palace and my poor sister is too in love you to see It.' he thought bitterly.

"Are you sure?" Abnore' asked tenderly.

"Yes, I'm sure." Merrick replied.

Abnore' took off her necklace and placed it around Merrick's neck. "Open the locket. The man on the left is father, the woman on the right is mother, and the little girl is me at age 4. Don't worry, I have one at home."

Abnore' looked so eager to have him have it that he couldn't refuse. They said their good-byes and the royal couple were off on their way back to the palace.

"I have something for you, Abnore'." The pharaoh said. "But to get to it, we must pass through my mother's garden. The two scampered along the smooth stone embedded walkway through the garden and into a garden labyrinth and into a doorway Abnore' had never seen before. Inside was a room with a velvet bed and in the center of the room, the sun shone directly on a golden necklace. On the right side of the room were roses of all the colors you could possibly imagine filling that side, making the room seem considerably smaller yet elegant with sweet smells of a waterfall.

Abnore' was still looking around the room when Yami interrupted her, "It's called a Millennium Necklace, it was my mother's. She told me before she died that I would know who to give it to when time was right." Abnore' had hardly notice it before. It had an eye like pendant in the middle and was made in complete gold. It was the most extravagant gift Abnore' had ever been given. They kissed and walked back to the palace together.

Later that night, once everyone had gone to bed Abnore' left her bedroom chambers that she shared with her husband to go stack on whatever was left in the kitchen. She didn't know why, but she was hungry and had cravings all the time now.

Seto had been watching her secretly for a while now and he realized the Abnore' leaves her room around midnight to head to the kitchen. That night he was already there when she should up. She did not notice him at first until he stepped into the little bit of light from her lantern.

"Seto, what are you doing her at such a late hour?" she asked as she put down a piece of bread and ham left over from dinner.

"I've come to talk to you." He paused unsure of what to say next. "You know I have always liked you." He took a step closer to her.

"You yelled at me on my first day of work." Abnore' stated; then she silently cursed herself for making a sandwich near a wall so she had no escape route, but Kaiba seemed to already know that.

"I'm a busy man, what can I say." he said taking another step forward. "So, everyone is talking about the pharaoh's new bride."

"All good things I hope." Abnore' chuckled nervously. She knew Kaiba was up to something but what.

"You're the envy of all unmarried women in Egypt. You've married Egypt's 'night in shining armor.'" Kaiba stated taking another step dangerously closer.

There was nowhere for Abnore' to go, her back was up against the wall as close as it could ever go. "Just lucky I guess." she chuckled nervously again.

"Yes, lucky in deed. People have found out about your father. How rich he is. So how did you end up a maid, and where has your father run off to?" When he took his last step, he was so close Abnore' could feel his breath on her. Before she could answer, Seto kissed her.

It took her a while to get over her shock to push him away, " I married to Yami, Seto. I don't think of you and him in the same way. I love Him." She headed back for her room.

"Aren't you going to eat your sandwich?" he called out to her.

"I'm not hungry anymore." she replied bitterly.

Mokuba sat underneath the kitchen table in shock. He had seen everything.