The present…..
Tanith's eyes fluttered open and found herself quite comfortable. Warmth enclosed her in the form of two strong arms wrapped around her shoulders. Beneath her head and behind her was a firm body of a man who worked out. It would have been quite nice except Tanith suspected this was the person who drugged and kidnapped her.
"Good morning." He greeted.
"I should have known." She muttered.
He nuzzled the top of her head, "Known what?"
"That you'd be that stupid as to drug and kidnap me."
"That's not nice of you."
"Screw being nice." Tanith tried sitting up and found the warm arms tighten into steal bands of flesh. "Let me up…now."
"Would you hate me if I said no?"
"I already hate you!"
He sighed, "That was uncalled for."
"UNCALLED FOR?! YOU KIDNAPPED ME, DOPED ME UP ON RA ONLY KNOWS WHAT AND YOU GOT THE BALLS TO.."
Unseen by Tanith, her captor stabbed the contents of a syringe into her neck silencing her effectively.
"Now if only she'd stay as angelic while she's awake…"
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Meanwhile Bakura was standing alongside Croquet, Yugi, Yami, Ryou, Tristan, Joey and Tea at the Domino City Police Department filling out a missing person's report on Tanith.
Already they had been filling out paperwork for an hour and listened to the same questions since they arrived. How old is Miss Rivencroft? Sixteen. Are you sure she didn't run away? Yes, she was kidnapped yesterday at the airport. And Croquet has the knot on his head where someone hit him to get to Tanith. Are you family to Miss Rivencroft? No but she is as good as. Where is Miss Rivencroft's family. Dead.
About the third time around even Ryou was begging Yami and Bakura to send the police to the Shadow Realm. The fourth time Tristan and Tea were ready for some Shadow magic.
"Hey Croquet, we're going to leave now." Yugi said as his friends and Bakura got up to leave. "We're not helping here."
"Perhaps you may be able to find her better than the police." Croquet replied. "And ensure that Bakura doesn't kill someone while you're at it."
Behind Yugi, Yami smirked.
"He's just concerned as the rest of us." Tea argued as they left.
Croquet let out a sigh of relief once Bakura's scowling face was out of the building and prayed the teens would find Tanith before his Master discovered she was missing. He turned back to the policeman in front of him.
"You sure that white hair one didn't kill her?" the cop asked again in a whisper.
Croquet sighed again.
