Joey just ran from the bedroom in a hurry, worried about what he had heard that devastated him, that made left him in shock and anger as he grabbed his car keys and proceeding driving as fast as he could on the streets. " Why did this have to happen?!" Joey thought as he worked up a sweat and hurried as fast as he could.

Joey slowly walked up the stairs, knowing that the punk girl he had met, was laying badly injured in a hospital not even knowing how bad the condition was, only knowing she was found in the bathroom badly beaten and not knowing who it was. "Why did this have to happen as well?! I have Mai disappear, my girlfriend taken away from Kaiba, and now to have the girl I'm close to end up in a hospital bed..." Joey felt like everything he loved, became his pain no matter what situation, and that girl he knew he was close with and he felt the guilt eat away at him from the inside, after yelling at her. Joey placed his fingers in his hair angered, as he felt a small tear escape from his eye. "Hopefully she isn't in bad condition... please don't be.."

Joey hoped as he walked down the hospital passing by open rooms only to see patients laying in the bed injured, bruised that brought a chill up his spine. Slowly Joey stood in front of the closed door, and stood there nervously and swallowed. Joey felt his hands shake as he opened the door and saw Taya and Serenity around the patient that laid quickly in the bed, as Joey was alarmed to see oxygen mask over her face, and monitors all of her as she laid still resting. "What happened to her?!" Joey just froze seeing how she looked. The cuts all over her arms and body, and scars scattered over her entire body. "Joey..she's-" Joey suddenly cut Serenity off as he rushed over to the side of the bed in alarm and looked at her heavily breathing and seeing her laying in a hospital bed was about to make Joey stream tears. "Is she going to be alright?! Please speak to me.. please.." Serenity looked sadly up at Joey, as Joey's eyes lit up in fear when he saw how she was, for him it was hard enough to handle. Serenity looked at her brother concerned only knowing her condition was worse than that.

"Joey, she can't hear you..." Serenity added in as Joey looked up at his younger sister with her head bowed down as Joey worriedly kept asking questions as he held Mai's hand just hoping she would awake, and smile once more like he had always seen her. "Serenity is she alright?.." Joey stopped and looked at the expression on his sister's face. She knew that she was blackened out and hadn't awaken since the night before, and Joey felt his heart beat steadily fearing the worst. Serenity couldn't lie to her brother, she just looked down and looked back at Joey's sad face. "Joey, she hasn't waken yet. She's been out for a day now Joey. She isn't in good condition...."

Joey lifted his head from his knees and thought of Mai for a moment as he made a fist and looked at his younger sister, and Taya quietly sitting right beside Mai, doing everything she could. "Serenity, how did she get like this?" Joey felt the silence kill him, just the feel on being in the hospital was errie, as he past haunted him remembering how Serenity was always found in a hospital bed, knowing the hospital was becoming her home, just tore Joey up inside. Joey couldn't handle seeing anyone he cared about laying there, and feeling useless and unable to help them to only know they're condition was bad. Serenity sat in the gray chair beside Joey and dimly smiled as the smiled faded when she saw Joey's down sad face, with his face hiding behind his blonde bangs disguising his worried face. "Joey, Taya had found her in the bathroom like this. She found her laying on the ground with blood and shards of glass from the broken mirror behind her. We don't know how long she was there, and no body does know who might of done this to her. I'm sorry Joey.. The doctor said she might be out longer than a week, by the bad condition she is in."

Joey felt his hope shatter into pieces, it was like reliving the past, Joey couldn't handle being in a hospital again, he thought it would be the last time but he was wrong. Joey lightly smiled and bowed his head back into his lap, feeling the tears lightly stream against his face, and his sister could tell how much pain Joey was in. "Serenity, I thought this would be the last time we'd be here..." Joey said surprisingly , as Serenity felt bad understanding what Joey met. She knew when she was in the hospital Joey was tore, and could hardly keep himself together. Serenity went over near Joey and gave him a small hug as Joey smiled. "Joey I know. That's what we both thought..." Joey sat there with the tears in his eyes as silence and the wind blowing through was the only thing that happened. Taya looked at Joey and lightly hearing him underneath his breath whimper, Joey was already in pain. "Aww Joey... Taya thought as she stopped in front of Serenity. "Serenity, how about we give Joey some time with her. I know ever since you were in the hospital, Joey was tore and I feel bad because I know this place reminds him of you." Serenity nodded as Taya slowly proceeded out the door as Joey still stood with his head lowered.

"Joey?" Serenity looked as her brother and his hands held tightly with Mai's. "I'm going for abit so you can keep an eye on her. Joey don't worry this will the last time we'll be here." Serenity thought cheerfully as it brought a smile to her brother, as she hugged Joey and watched him sadly sit alone. Joey just felt now it was alright to lift his head and cry, as he looked at her beautiful face, with all the monitors, and the oxygen mask surrounding her face and her eyes closed tightly almost like she was sleeping, but he knew with everything on her she wasn't. Joey tightly held her hand with each gruesome thought of his, just remembering his past about Mai, and seeing only Serenity's face appear on the hospital bed. "I thought this would be the last time I'd be here.. But I thought wrong.. Brings back so much pain of my sister remembering what she had to go through now this. To feel bad about what I said to her earlier, know seeing her lay in a hospital bed. Just please wake up soon I know this was all my fault somehow.. everything is..

(Aww Poor Joey... please read and review...)