Chapter 15 I'm Sorry

Disclaimer: Hey everyone, guess what, I don't own Yugi-Oh! I know, it may be hard to believe, but I'm not smart enough to think up a manga series/ TV show this cool. Sorry if I disappointed anyone.

This chapter may be a little confusing. If you have any questions, ask them in your review, and I'll be glad to answer them in the next chapter. Oh, and I'm just warning you now, if you don't like Tea at the moment, you absolutely despise her after this.

Seto

"Seto, are you sure you want to do this?" Mokuba asked as they entered the flower shop. His brother gave a swift nod, but said nothing as he went to look at the flowers in the glass case. Mokuba continued. "Because you don't have to if you don't want to. I mean, it's not like you two were friends or anything."

"Mokuba, it still wouldn't be right not to do anything, Here, what do you think of these?" he pulled out a bouquet of white roses and tulips. Mokuba shrugged.

"They look good."

"Okay." Seto started walking up to the cash register, but stopped short.

"...Tea?" he asked, startled. "I didn't know you worked here."

"Hmm?" She looked up from the book she was reading. "Kaiba! Um...hi, what are you doing here?"

"What the hell does it look like I'm doing?" was what he wanted to say, but since his dinner with Serenity three days ago, he was trying to make it a point to be a little nicer. That was why he was there in the first place. "I'm buying flowers."

"Really..." She took them from him and scanned them. "Are they for a certain woman?"

"Yes..." He said, pulling out his wallet.

"Would...I happen to know her?" She pried.

"I don't think so." Seto answered, much to Tea's despair. "How much will it be?"

"Um...sixteen seventy-five...what's her name?" Now, Seto really wanted to tell her to mind her own business, but once again he decided that it wouldn't be worth it.

"Karen." He handed her the money and left quickly, Mokuba following him.

"...I have to call Serenity!" Tea said aloud once he was gone.

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"This is the place." Seto said to his new driver through the intercom.

"Uh, Mr. Kaiba, are you sure?" The confused driver asked, looking at the small, shoddy house.

"Of course I'm sure!" he said heatedly. The driver shrugged and stopped the vehicle. "Mokuba, I want you to stay in the car." He said, getting out. He walked up to the paint peeled door and knocked, seeing that there was no doorbell.

"Just a minute!" Came a voice from the inside. Seto stuffed his hands into his pockets to keep them warm. The door opened.

She was wearing grey sweat pants and a white tank top. Her dark, curly hair was pulled up into a sloppy ponytail, and a sleeping baby was in her arms.

"Can I help you?" She asked, quite taken aback by the tall stranger at her doorstep.

"Yes, you are Karen, I presume?"

"Yes I am." She shifted the baby to her shoulder. Seto could hear children laughing in another room.

"I'm Seto Kaiba-" Her caramel colored face went chalk white. Slam! The door met his face. He heard the baby crying from the other side.

"Get off of our property, murder!" She cried. Ouch, if only she knew the half of it. "Because of you, my husband is dead!" He heard her sink to the floor, sobbing.

"If you would just let me explain!"

"No! If it weren't for you, my husband would still be alive today, and my children would have a father! You have no right to be here!"

"Just listen to me!" he cried. She slowly opened the door, and he thrust the flowers at her. "I came to apologize. I know...I know I can't possibly make it up to you...but if there's anything I can do..."

"You've done enough." She said angrily.

"Yes...that's true. But if I could come in...maybe we could talk?" For a minute, he thought she was going to say no. Then she nodded and let him in.

"Come on, let's talk in the living room." she led him to a small room which, to him, could've been one of his closets. There was a couch, (with some stuffing missing) a couple of chairs, and a small fireplace where a little fire was glowing. Two children lay in front of the fireplace. One, a little girl with her black hair pulled into braids, was playing with a makeshift rag doll, and the other, a little boy with the same dark hair and almond shaped eyes, was drawing a picture.

"I'm sorry it's so messy, I was in the middle of cleaning. Jose, Maria, this is Mr. Kaiba." Karen said. The two children gasped and dropped their things.

"Mommy, isn't he the guy who killed daddy?" the little girl, Maria asked, her almond shaped eyes gone wide.

"No...it was...an accident. I would like it if you would go to your room now." She said. The two children stood obediently and went to their room. Karen laid her baby in on a pallet in the floor and gave it a few toys to play with . The baby squealed with delight, and Seto couldn't help but smile. The little half Mexican, half American baby was beautiful.

"His name's Johnny." She said quietly, watching the baby play.

"He...was named for his father?" Seto asked, recognizing it as the name of his ex-driver. She nodded.

"Yes..." she sat on the couch next to him. Seto stared at the baby. It looked back and him and gave him a big, toothless smile, a teething ring in it's hands. Seto swallowed.

"What did you want to talk about, Mr. Kaiba?" Karen asked.

"Please, you can call me Seto." He said absently. "And...I wanted to...say how truly sorry I am for what happened." he turned to her. "If I had know this would've happened, I would have listened to him..." He sighed. "He...tried to tell me the road was too slick. And I...Just snapped at him like he was..." he didn't finish, but she understood.

"Seto...I'm sorry for the way I acted earlier. It's just that now I know that Johnny will grow up not knowing who his father is. Maria and Jose are old enough to remember, but Johnny..." She sighed and took her eyes away from his. "He'll grow up without a father..." When she looked back at him, she had tears in her eyes. "And then there's the house...I don't want to raise my children in a house like this. When Johnny was with us, he brought in money for food, heat, everything. Now that he's gone, we're running out of money fast and-" She stopped herself. "Oh Seto, I'm sorry for ranting like this to you..."

"Oh, I understand." He said quietly. "It must be hard raising three children by yourself. I've raised my brother, Mokuba, but I had help...." "Lots of help" he thought.

"Mr Kaiba...I mean, Seto, thank you for coming. It means a lot that you apologized."

"Oh please, don't thank me. I don't deserve it...but a think I know a way I can help to make up for it. Are you still going to celebrate Christmas this year?"

"Oh..." She looked away. "Christmas is going to be a little tight this year."

Seto smiled as an idea formed in his head.

Serenity

"A girlfriend?!" Serenity cried over the phone. "How can he have a girlfriend?!"

"Well, he is a very attractive man..." Tea said softly.

"Yeah, but he just took me out to dinner three days ago. Are you certain about it? Could it have been his mother or someone?"

"Serenity, his mother's dead. Tell me, did he ever give any hints that it was a date?"

"He...offered me his coat..."

"He was just being a gentleman."

"He let me kiss him..."

"He probably didn't know what you were going to do..."

"Oh...what's her name?"

"Karen."

"I'll bet she's beautiful...far more beautiful than I'll ever be...do you think that's why Seto doesn't like me?"

"Don't talk like that, Serenity. You don't need him."

"You know what? I don't."

Now, doesn't everyone hate Tea? Doesn't she just go around messing up everyone's life? K, I thought so. In case you couldn't understand, Karen is Seto's driver's wife, you know, the guy that was killed in the car accident. And with that said, I remind you: REVIEW!!!