BookDragon: "Hey, it's Saturday and my dad's coming home!" *fireworks go off*
Bill: "Is there going to be cake?"
BookDragon: -_-u "Yes…"
Bill: "I'M THERE!"
BookDragon: *rolls eyes* "On with the fic."
Chapter 10: Fighting is Bad
Ann sipped the blue mug slowly, savoring the hot liquid flowing through her lips and down into her. But she was still cold. Wrapping her frail fingers around the blue painted clay she looked up at the others, talking relatively about what to do about the current facts as they sat in her room. They had come back only a few hours earlier, after short farewells, and Ann unhooked the lock from her door to go get some refreshments, particularly warm since the Shadow Realm was icy and unwelcoming. She had gone down and started pouring some hot coco when she had been embraced by her sobbing mother. Apparently they had called the police Saturday night and was being looked for, which took Ann by surprise, more from her mother than the police. Luckily her sister stopped backing the moment she saw her, and she took immediately busted into tears. It took Ann more than a haft hour to calm them down and come up with some bogus story for her mother and to try and just smile for the sake of her sister. She had to pour new drinks before she came back up to a bored looking Brian, Kyle, and Bill tinkering with stuff in her room. Bill had decided to visit for a while.
He took a long sip and sighed.
"How was I suppose to know that you weren't on speaking terms? What was I to do? You were in a bad condition Ann."
"YES. I know Bill. But that gave you no right to get Marie all worked up and have to play big sister. She gave that up a long time ago. I'd rather have it that way. Besides you knew Ammon had things under control, he always seems to." Bill rolled this eyes annoyed.
"Look. He wouldn't tell me about the whole test. I had no idea that he'd send a griffin after you! He said that it was a guard. Yeah I know it was lousy but I didn't tell him. Then he comes out and says you're really hurt. What would you have done?"
"I would've talked to myself. Don't go play mother again Bill… it's embarrassing." Bill almost choked on his espresso as Kyle started laughing at him, making Brian silence him like an old Libran. Ann kept a giggle but straightened up, finding it exploded in her chest instead of the normal tickle. Keeping her eyes from watering she took a huge sip and listened to Kyle.
"What are we going to do?" Ann knew he was talking about the whole double thing again. She hid her face behind that large mug, still pretending to be drinking to avoid eyes, as Brian swished the liquid in his mug before placing it down with a loud tap.
"Yeah what are we going to do about that? We can't let you go into this alone you know…" Ann gave him a quick nasty glare, and slammed her mug down angrily.
"You should just stay out of it. It's my problem. I should have to deal with her, not you guys. I must do it alone." Kyle looked annoyed.
"Oh come on! Bill said you could barely move after that whole spell thing! And I heard Ammon saying she was a powerful assassin with deadly magic. She's got the advantage, and you know it! To go against her alone in your state she would kill you." Ann's eyes flashed at those words, and she kept her hands calm, reminding herself not to loose it like before; eyeing the dented pink walls was enough to keep her a lethal coolness.
"According to Ammon, he's going to be teaching me some of that magic. All I have to do is just avoid contact with any of them and stay alive through the lessons and I'll be able to do them."
"That's a bit of a stretch. They _know_ were Bill lives. They know you will be there often. They will come to get you. It's unavoidable. The question is…what can we do if they decide to come early? Splash espresso on there faces and run away with our tale between your legs?!"
"Humans don't have tales, Kyle." Bill told him in a smooth voice. Kyle attempted to punch him, but he missed and Bill leaped onto the bed quickly, giving him a bragging look. Kyle ignored it.
"We got to do something…" Bill yawned boredly, taking another sip of the hot dancing liquid and taking their attention.
"Ammon's already took care of it. He's fixed the cabin to be a complete safe house through magic. If they try to enter without permission, they'll have their heads rolling on the floor or being hanged by their fingers. We have them by the balls." Ann cleared her throat thoughtfully at the thought of her own counterpart, making him blush at forgetting her own double was female. No one visited that subject.
"How do we even know she's not like Bakura's aibou? He could just take over his body when ever he wanted." Ann hadn't thought of that. She looked at them unbelieving when their eyes changed from each other to her with a slow stare. She looked at them unbelieving and almost felt betrayed at such thoughts.
"She hasn't done that. I swear if she did you guys would know. I'm not like her. You heard her say it, Bill. She'd try to get me to kill myself or kill one of you, which I can say I've never thought or even tried to do…okay maybe Bill once but that was because he had done something really stupid but I'm over that. I wouldn't _really_ do a kind of thing like that. I swear I wouldn't ever!" They backed off her case, which was one reason they were her friends. It was hard to explain why she mostly had male friends, one that puzzled her sometimes when asked, and confused her when she searched deep in herself.
The only way she could think of explaining it for most cases would be this: Friendship to girls is a glass vase. You have to be extremely careful with it in the beginning and slowly it would be easier to respect and take care of, to keep it from shattering. Friendship to guys is, instead of a vase, a football. They can kick it, pound it, drag it through the mud, throw it, smash it into the ground, and about anything else you can think of and it won't break.
Even now, as Ann watched Kyle dive for Bill on the bed and dragged him off of it making a loud bang onto the floor, they would be friends the next day, and would probably forget it all together. It was just that eerie sense of logic that made them so likeable, a reason why she seemed embarrassed to do all those girlish things like wearing make up and tight clothing, so she avoided it.
"ANN?! IS EVERYTHING OKAY UP THERE?" Her mother's voice rang from downstairs, snapping her attention back to the noise they had made.
"Er…YEAH MOM…EVERYTHING'S FINE!...I…uh…A COUPLE OF MY BOOKS FELL OFF THE SHELF!" A distant okay sounded from down stairs and everyone started to move from their frozen statue states. They continued in softer voices.
"Okay. We're still gonna help whether you like it or not." She let out a breath of hot air but accepted what Kyle said. They were all stubborn, and would go against anyone for the right reason; no wonder she thought of themselves as rebels.
"Fine. Just don't get yourself killed doing it. I would be cursing your names if you did that to me. I'll kill you if you do, so don't tempt me." Bill grinned at her comment and agreed, placing his cup down as if to shake on it.
"Beware guys, even in the after world you'd have to watch your back." A smirk lit onto her grim face and she slightly warmed, it was good to just hang around again. It was then depressing when Brian placed his cup onto the table after looking at his watch, which was now working again, and looked at them sadly.
"We should go. It's late and I actually want to sleep in my own bed for once…" Kyle nodded grimly and slowly got to his feet with Bill in a head lock.
"I'll go through the closet." Bill answered in an out of breath fashion and was released as they left the room quietly. She took them to her brother's room; a blue room with stuff littered all over the place and was in the front part of the house, to the window. She opened it and let an icy gust of wind pierce her face, causing her ears to turn red and ushered them out into the cold mournfully. Kyle and Brian climbed out the window nimbly and stood on the roof of the porch, and waved a farewell before hopping off the roof to the leafy ground and off home in the dark. It was the only way to get them out without her mom knowing they were here and welcoming the question of when and where they arrived. Bill and she waved as they silently roamed into the road and away down the street, watching until they couldn't be seen. Ann sighed and pulled the window shut with a jerk and turned to Bill expectedly. He nodded a slow jerk and went back to her room and opened the closet as she locked the door again and let him do the magic, making a large hole and waving a quick bye before jumping through, letting it eat him and shut like a human mouth into nothingness. She sighed again and shut the sliding door with a thud and turned to get ready to find her sister sitting on the bed looking at her. Jumping out of her skin she looked into her fierce eyes unexpectedly as she rouse from the bed and but her big sister roll of command into affect.
"You will take me to see him tomorrow." Ann blinked, dumbfounded by the words she breathed into the air and around into her ears. It took her seconds to realize that she was going to talk to Joey.
"Oh no. You can't." She was thinking about the whole Serenity & Kaiba problem coming arise with the fact that Marie was dating some other guys as well. Joey would be in a lot of pain.
"I must. I got to tell him the truth…that or I'll make you do it."
"You can't do anything to make me…"
"I'll tell mom." Ann looked at her with total shock, glaring at her angrily. She would tell her of everything that an occurred last winter, and where she was going now. This was so unfair.
"…You wouldn't dare…" Marie drew up a breath and was about to bellow to her mother when Ann leaped up, and jammed her hand over her mouth.
"Okay OKAY! You win. We'll go tomorrow since we don't have school, you can tell him then, and we'll go early in the morning so mom wouldn't find us missing, probably sixish. But you got to do as I say when we travel through, promise that you won't ever tell a soul on your life, and you can't ever return to the place I'm going to take you. Deal?" Marie hesitated, then slowly nodded and gave her her hand to shake. Ann took it with a tight grip and shook it with a painful grip.
"I swear."
"Good. Now, go away so I can concentrate." Marie left the room quickly at her command, leaving her to worry about some other problem as she flopped onto the bed annoyed yet again by this ever tightening circle strangling her as she drifted into an unwanted sleep.
She had that odd dream again, the one with the foggy thick mist and a black figure walking a bit closer than before and instead of silence a soft laugh echoed silverishly around her face and ears, tickling them gently, and making her gag at the golden tune enveloping around her when she awoke to her sister shaking her furiously.
"WAKE UP GOD DAMN IT!" Ann's eyes flew open and immediately shoved her sister off her, spinning upward in a frenzy of shock, her heart pounding terrible and her face glistening with sweat in the dim streaks of light coming through the shut window shades. Her surprise turned icily to anger as she snorted and started collecting her clothing she would change into, Marie watching a bit dazed at how hard she had pushed her away, and started out of the room much like Kaiba would.
"Get up and go fetch your things." She told her with a growling voice as she disappeared into the bathroom with a slam and the shower instantly came on at full blast.
She came out shortly after, hurrying with the whole process and accidentally burning her skin enough to glow a warm pink as she climbed quickly into her clothes and untangled her mess of curls and emerged to her sister's solemn face looking at her.
"I left a note telling mom we went to the mall. Are you okay with that?" It sounded more of an angry statement than a question. Ann nodded gruffly and pulled off her bracelet and strode into her room, to the closet, with Marie at her heels. She quietly flung the door open enough to start the process, half hoping it wouldn't work and she would have to do this another day. But, to both her and Joey's misfortune, it opened easily under her furious commanding and she simply took Marie's wrist and blindly leaped in as always.
It was cold. Enough to cause one's breath to go foggy and Marie to shiver due to the thin pants and tight shirt she was wearing, making Ann pull off her brown sweater and throwing it to her irritated as she started forward with just a tank top on. Marie paused a moment, looking at her with some surprise.
"Just put it on. I'm fine." Ann swung her head back and started walking forward, holding the bracelet out like a lamp and silently stumbled through the darkness as her sister quickly flipped the sweater on and gripped the white tank top to keep her from getting lost. Ann lead the best she could, losing her own footing a few times out of nervousness and how fast she was pacing to make herself seem to know where she was going. At least when she was Brian and Kyle she didn't have to lie, with Marie, she had to prove she could take care of herself.
"Are you sure it's this way?" Marie asked for the hundredth time.
"Yes I'm sure." Ann grunted pissed off when she suddenly noticed a light ahead. Stopping dead she froze at the sight of it and took Marie's arm with strong fingers. Her ears worked furiously at the small whispers, until she finally heard something familiar.
"She is no fool, she said she'd come in an hour and she will…have patience Marik." Ann immediately pulled her sister hard and lunged at the ground to look more like the floor instead of two figures.
"Damn…Kyle was right." Ann whispered fuming but slightly afraid. Kakra was supposed to show up. If that happened, then she was sure they would be dead.
"What's going on?!" She sister asked quietly with bright eyes, picking up the single cord of fear in her last words. Ann eyes darted back and forth as she thought of an answer she could prove her for the time being.
"Uhh…TombRobber is back with a new friend. Let's just say they make quiet a pair to get around…quick, crawl that way. If I can get us the hell out of here, it will defiantly be better…for our lives." She decided that Marie didn't need to know about her own aibou; that wouldn't come out of her lips for the world.
As fast and silently as they were able to, both girls quickly scrambled through the shadowy fog, away from them to the right, following the small tugged on her bracelet as she felt her sisters fingers clasped on her jeans as Ann's mind started tinkering at the fastest pace she had ever felt. Why did this have to happen today? This really topped everything off. What would she do if they were caught? Could she get out of their hold with that spell she had learned? She doubted it. Marie wouldn't be able to carry her out of here and through a portal with any of them still alive and breathing nipping at their heels. There was just no way.
Scrambling through the dark like a frightened child her hand hit something warm and smooth under her fingers. Freezing for a horrified second, her eyes traveled to a pair of golden eyes flashing at her through the clouds and a grin soon appearing. Kakra was here. Having no time to scream her tanned hand immediately clasped the back of her shirt and easily lifted her off the ground with one arm and threw her off somewhere toward the two figures in the distance. Ann let herself fall on the ground in a shocked thud and heard Marie shout in some surprised as her grip was ripped away from her leg, making Ann leap to her feet and sprint back at full speed and launch herself onto Kakra through the hazy blackness, tarring and clutching to her waist as they fell to the floor in a cluttered mess. She heard an enraged shriek and felt a foot kick her straight in the chest with such force to knock her back a couple of feet and to feel like her ribs had become a football. Stumbling back Kakra loomed out of the darkness and attacked her again, a swinging kick that tripped her and left her a lump on the floor, groaning as she felt increasingly worse and heard running footsteps exploding in her eyes. She stumbled to her feet wobbly and glared at Kakra watching her with madness in her bright sun orbs eyes in the gloom, wiping something wet off of her face she let it hit the floor with a splashing flick of her wrist and started to circle her, like a lion. Grinning Kakra followed her lead and started to talk, smoothly and business style, but savoring every word.
"You can't win. I'm the better half of you…"
"If you call being the biggest pain in the ass then I would have to agree." She laughed and let the shrieking gusts echo around them. Marie was close by and listened to their talk and slow movements around in circles, Ann knew she had to be listening. So did Kakra.
"Is that you sister traveling with you? Not much of a fighter is she? It's surprising to find you standing for her when she is older, but I would expect something like that from you... you at least are a bit like me I must admit." Ann glared annoyed as Kakra continued, shouting at the darkness to her sister in the shadows.
"DON'T YOU KNOW GIRL? THAT YOUR SISTER'S DOUBLES ARE OF THE DARK TYPE?! THAT SHE HAS A WHOLE MATCH OF SLY WITTED AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN LIKE HER? How do you like it, to know that your own sister could be as black hearted…" Ann snorted and started laughing, causing Kakra to snap her eyes furiously back to her, fuming deeply at the high cackling.
"What's so funny?" Kakra's voice oozed angrily into the air. Ann dimmed her laughing down to a giggle.
"Just the fact that you're contradicting yourself. You said before that I was different, from all of you, and now you tell me I'm dark hearted. It's amusing. And yet, you are here, trying to kill me, a part of you, and you think that I'm black hearted? You confuse me, but then again I confuse many people, so we mustn't be as different as you believe. How do you explain that?" Kakra leaped enraged at her and Ann was taken a back at how fast her hands meet her throat and she was thrown down to the ground with the extra weight. It was like before, getting the air squeezed out of her, but instead of panicking, she felt calm and everything was unusually clear before her eyes. It was more so to where her feet was, under Kakra. Tears springing to her eyes from getting no air her legs sprung into action and throw her off of her throat with more force than what she had used before on Marie. She watched as Kakra flew up and away and quickly rolled backward onto her feet, and into a punch in the side. Coughing immediate she fell down and was kicked hard in the head, a loud cracking sound commencing as something metallic tasting dripped out of her mouth as everything changed oddly. Dazed and confused Ann dragged herself to her feet and looked up to a pair of dark violet eyes looking at her with the single bright golden Egyptian eye on his forehead. She watched the grin over come his face, looking twisted insane and more dangerous, but she was too dazed by the blow to her skull and the amount of blood pouring sticky down the side of her face, to be at all terrified and both surprised when out of know where Bill appeared from the thick space and took him to the ground with all his strength. A series of enraged shouts of anguish and screams of revenge exploded into the blackened air around Ann, as she slowly climbed to her feet, no sure what she was doing and having a hard time thinking straight, approaching the mess of the two boys rolling on the floor kicking and punching at each other with red flashing in their eyes. She stood unmoving over them a moment, wondering why Bill was pinned and getting punched in the face and unable to protect himself from Marik's mad cackling. All at once, she felt her mind cloud deeply as a part of the back of her mind that was never used opened widely and let a blast of murmurs and odd laughing take her over. This had only happened once before, and she recognized the voice whispering in her ear to be one that she did not make up in her own head.
[Save the boy.] Its laugh oozed into the cloudiness and caused her to obey the command, ignoring her legs buckling from her own weight as her hand flew forward and grabbed Marik's tan wrist with a force that she did not have in her and twist it, listening to the bones snap like twigs and a scream of something in too much pain leap into her ears as she somehow lifted him like a rag doll and throw him away with a flick of her wrist. Watching the body hit and skid off somewhere she barely noticed Bill's look of total shock imbedded onto his face. Lying motionless was how she left him, as the voice danced and muddled her thoughts more so she could only listen and do.
[Find the girl that shares your blood.] Her eyes flashed through the blackness, somehow able to see through it perfectly and see Marie holding her legs afraid in the distance and her own other wandering around, and suddenly flicking her attention to her. Kakra leaped forward in full assault, but Ann snarled something in a drunken manner and sent her tumbling back with a blast of ice filled gust of wind and kept swaying toward her sister, making more of a problem controlling her own body that taking care of Kakra and leaving her an ice statue that was steadily melting. Ann reached Marie and took her wrist gently but with the powerful grip and pulled her to her feet, letting Marie's arms embrace her a moment and started back to Bill on the floor still white, past Kakra's glowering bright yellow eyes, and letting Bill sheepishly smile at Marie as she let go over her to do what was called next.
[Get out.] Something in her mind started to protest but the stronger voice drowned it out.
[You will leave her. It is not the proper moment. Leave.] Ann's vision blurred and unburied as her fingers traced little symbols in a large circle around them and let the bracelet go haywire in her steady grip as she explained dominance to it. It submitted to her will and called up an opening to the right world and dumped them somewhere in it, before Kakra could completely defrost, and before Tomb Robber could harm them from behind. Why she could she that she didn't know, but soon everything went black as they were suddenly free falling down.
"Ann? Ann!? Hey can you hear me?!" Her vision blurred and slowly cleared to a pair of bright violet eyes streaming a worried look upon her face as she slowly groaned and lifted her hand to the horrible pounding enveloping her current thoughts, unnoticing the door shut tightly again in the back corner of her mind. Cloth tickled her fingers, slowly realizing she was sitting in white sheets and a soft bed. Ann slowly focused to Yugi sitting on her bed, looking nervously but relieved at her, making her laugh a bit at how worked up he looked. It was a bad idea, it was terrible to laugh it hurt so bad, and sent her over coughing.
"Easy…" Yugi breathed as she pulled herself up again to look at her, still rubbing her prickling fingers on the course cloth on her head.
"…Where am I?" She finally asked, her voice no more than a whisper against the steady walking and voices echoing from somewhere around the room.
"You're in the hospital." She looked at him confused.
"Bill took you here as soon as you got back, Kaiba made up some fake record of you so be careful if they start calling you Lady Smith." She grinned at the name and let herself lay back and hold onto the warm metal rail on the side of her cot.
"Where's Marie?"
"She's in the lobby, I told her I'd get her when you woke up." He quickly got up to do so.
"Wait." Yugi spun around quickly on the heel of his sneaker, his hair swinging with his head.
"Don't... Not yet… Has she seen Joey?" Yugi blinked, puzzled at the question.
"No…" It was a puzzled 'what is this about?' question.
"She has to talk to him. It's important. She seeing someone…" Yugi looked gloomier as she told him that, making her feel worse to see his purple eyes sadden for his friend in such a bright lit white room.
"You can't let Joey see her yet…he's gonna be in a lot of pain when he finds out Serenity is in love with Kaiba…I'm sure that will come out of the closet soon, it'll be a lot to bear so do the best you can for him." Yugi's jaw unhinged and hung freely, dumbfounded at the thought of Serenity and Kaiba; together, as a couple. That just didn't make sense. She agreed with his expression. No matter how she could put it, she felt bad for the blonde, hot headed, joking, sometimes dim witted Joey she had grown to be fond of as the best friend a guy/ girl could have; she felt the need to help even if she had only known him for a couple of days last year, and practically months on television. That was true for a lot of the characters now, she supposed that she was fond of them to begin with, and was happy to have them around; what Yu-gi-oh fan wouldn't? She lightly waved as he left the room thinking hard, leaving her to soar in the sun light shinning onto her fingers. That and the row of get well cards and a pot of flowers sitting on the table next to her bed. Blinking a bit puzzled at the golden smooth petals she knew to be marigolds, she reached for the blue card sticking out of the green steams and read it.
"Get well soon." Was written in pretty curvy letters, making her admiring the handwriting, but frown at the sight that no one left their name. Baffled at you could've sent her them and why they would, she jumped unexpectedly as Marie entered the room, looking joyous but careful as she slowly entered, not getting at all close to her.
"It's good to see you up…and acting normal." Ann looked away from her sister's steady gaze, knowing her shameful secret and watching her go completely out of it, like mad.
"I'm still glad I didn't tell you, even if you are pissed now, it's my problem and I should take care of it." Marie's eyes narrowed as a smug smile came to her face and she walked to the side of her bed to point a finger at her.
"A problem that could kill you? I've heard of Man vs. Himself but this is just ridiculous. How would do you think mom would feel if I just came home to tell her that her other daughter is dead and I couldn't ever tell her the truth! Wake up Ann! It's not all about you." Ann eyes flashed with a sudden bit of fury over taking her.
"YES I KNOW THAT! IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT MY FAMILY! WHY DO YOU THINK THAT I'VE LIMITED MY LIFE! TO PROTECT YOU, MY FAMILY! I'VE SUMITTED MYSELF TO DO THAT AND ONLY LIVE IN MY DREAMS OF ADVENTURE UNTIL I WASN'T NEEDED. THAT WHY I-" She froze suddenly, holding her hand over her mouth to silence herself from that few words that almost slipped away, the deepest and most dark secret she held with in her. Marie just stood, with her arms crossed, awaiting the rest of the lecture.
"Just get out." Ann finished, turning away to the window to watch the birds, knowing Marie would refuse.
"That's why you do what Ann? Finish your rant."
"GET OUT. I have to think." Marie's anger flared.
"You think all the time Ann! I would think it would get you somewhere." Ann almost took the plant to throw at her, but instead controlled it and lunged a pillow at her face.
"GET YOUR ASS OUT OF HERE!" Marie turned fuming as she spiraled out of the room at a fast pace, leaving her with thoughts of anger and grief at what she had just done.
"…But she can't know. No one can…now, where did you come from?" She asked more the plant than herself, picking it up off the table and onto her lap to let its smelled intoxicate her senses and leave her to dream and escape this reality. It didn't work. So she remained sitting and rubbing her fingers against the flowers as she thought aloud to herself, just to master talking straight.
"Now. Where have I seen this handwriting before? Why you'd anyone send me flowers?"
"Cause they were worried." She answered herself in a 'you idiot' fashion. She shook her head all the more puzzled when Bill walked into the room, his face white but happy to see her.
"Did you get Marie pissed?"
"Yeah… why?" Bill shook his head.
"Well, she just took out two doctors and is being "escorted" out of the hospital for a while…it's gonna take me hours to convince them to let her back in."
"Don't. We're in a cat fight right now." Billed nodded in an understanding matter, but his eyes still looked at her confused.
"What?" Bill hesitated.
"…Do you remember anything you did? Most preferably breaking Marik's arm like that?" Ann nodded gloomily.
"That voice came back again. I know it's bad to here voices but I'm not insane, it's not from my own head, it's like a…oh…what do you call it? That thing were you can share thoughts with someone?"
"Who do you think you would have a physic link with inn the Shadow Realm _and_ my own house of all places?" Ann thought a moment, and then shrugged as Bill sighed.
"I dunno…Who left the flowers?" She asked him, changing subjects. Bill sat down in a chair while talking.
"Bakura did yesterday, and stayed for a while. Then he stayed for like an hour today and left. Something about going to the library."
"Oh."
"Jeez, for landing in a garbage can and looking like hell for three days, it's good to have you taking again."
"We landed in a garbage can and I've been asleep for three days?! That's great, how wonderful to be practically dead to the world for a full 72 hours of my life and worse to end up smelling of old trash." Bill just smiled as she let him know she had regained her sarcasm and little humor she had. She sighed.
"When am I getting out of here? The bed already reminds me of throw up."
"When the doctors say your okay and officially send Kaiba the bill. He was slightly ticked off when he heard I couldn't pay it. I've got it all in the house…and some saved up for food and stuff." She sighed at how much of a burden she was becoming in these past three days.
"You're lucky. They said you should've had brain damage from the amount of blood loss and were practically freaked out at how much you injured yourself. They wouldn't let Ammon do anything to fix it until the second day when we coaxed the doctor into letting us."
"More soup?"
"Yeah, that and some little spells…oh, speaking of which Ammon was impressed with that traveling enchantment and told me to give this back." He held out her arm bracelet and clasped it back onto her arm.
"Right where it should be..." Kaiba abruptly walked briskly into the room, a huge wad of flapping papers in one fist, and looked at the two of them.
"You. Fill these out." He flopped the massive mess of parchment onto her bed as she grimaced at the whole load of work just thirsted at her. Sighing she took the first slip of crisp clean paper and squinted at the small black inked letters sadly as Kaiba sat down in the nearest squashy blue chair, trying to relax by resting his head all the way back and staring at the ceiling. Bill looked at him curiously.
"What's your problem?" Kaiba glared at him annoyed.
"…that…_girl_ keeps stalking me. Wheeler should keep her on a lish…" Ann dropped the paper and stared at Kaiba dumbfounded. Kaiba had found out about Serenity, and now it was worse; Bill was standing right there. His white was white and his eyes wide in disbelief.
"…Serenity has a crush on you?" Kaiba didn't notice how odd he was acting and put his feet up on the end of the bed while rubbing his forehead.
"Yeah, and she's stalking me." Bill quickly got up from where he was sitting; wearing the most twisted expression she had ever seen and paced out of the room mumbling something about paper work. Kaiba glanced at him and looked back to Ann irritated confused, looking for an answer. Ann simply shook her head slowly.
"It's hard to explain… what is all this stuff anyway?"
"Information about the patient, that sort of thing, I couldn't fill it out before and Bill supposedly didn't have a clue about any of it." Ann groaned at the questions. Her first name, last name, date of birth, weight, mother's and father's name, name of grand parents, uncles and aunts, allergies, blood type, etc. She took a pen from the nearest place, which was the table, and started scribbling when someone else arrived.
"Is Bill alright?" Bakura's voice asked from the doorway. Ann sighed, still looking at the mess of ink.
"Yeah, he's just got love problems…he'll get over it." Kaiba sighed annoyed.
"That kind of love is for fools." Bakura didn't say anything, but sat down slowly and stared out the window for a time until Ann flopped the papers down done making up fake names and stuff.
"How's everything on the outside?" She already felt like a prisoner. Bakura sighed.
"Everything's okay, Joey and Tristan are picking up hamburgers for everybody, Yugi's looking like he's dying of the chemicals in his hair and Yami's asking him if he's alright, I guess there in a huge conversa-" His brown orbs suddenly widened in surprised and dived under the window fast, making Ann blink at him surprised, and glance out the window at a huge group of girls looking around on the side walk; she started to laugh.
"Girl problems?" He blushed but nodded as they left slowly, heads and eyes darting in all directions for the white haired boy cuddled under her window as they walked into the front door of the hospital.
"It's okay, there gone…but they are in the hospital." Bakura froze when he started to get up, grimacing at the new problem. She guessed he was having the same day as Kaiba except about ten times worse. He got to the door and locked it quickly and paced the room, thinking fast about away to escape. Ann couldn't even help him if she tried, and instead put her face in the flowers to relax. She was starting in wonder how she was ever going to get well again, almost dying twice in the past week; her parents probably worried sick. As soon as she was out she would pay them a visit, and she guessed try to figure out how to control the magic she kept using. That was a question for Ammon.
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