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The day was once again rainy. Kaiba was immediately irritated by this. 'Why is it always raining the past few days? It causes nothing but wetness and gigantic traffic jams!' And indeed, he was stuck in the traffic again. He still had quite a lot of time to get to school, but as this rate, he wouldn't even be there until it was already finished!
Mokuba had turned out to have a light fever, forcing him to stay at home ill. He hated it, but his brother wouldn't let him go to school with a body temperature of 40ËC/104ËF.
Kaiba sighed as he got his umbrella. He contacted the driver in the front. "You just get back to the mansion. I'll walk to school." He then got out of the big car and started walking.
The rain was pouring down hard on the umbrella, and his day certainly didn't get better when he was about ten minutes walk from school and saw a certain group of friends with raincoats on walking in front of him. 'Oh no...'
They had noticed him. "Hey, Moneybags, are ya walking in the rain? I thought you would go by limousine, or take your personal helicopter!" he was greeted by Joey.
"If you hadn't noticed, mutt, there are huge traffic jams everywhere and it's a little stormy to be inside a helicopter. It would probably crash down."
"So?" was Joey's immediate answer. But this was too much for one of the persons in the group.
"Joey!" Serenity cried.
"What? Who would care for that?" They had walked to a little behind the group, while Kaiba was speaking with Yugi. Unbeknownst to the Wheelers, Kaiba could hear what they were saying exactly, though. "It's not like he is nice to anyone, is he? I mean, he screams and insults anyone on his path. Who could care for such a piece of scum?"
"Joey, this isn't fair! He isn't annoying to everyone! And I'm sure there would be people who care! Have you ever seen him bother Yugi? I mean bothering him like he bothers you? No, you haven't. You are bothering him too, but does that mean everyone wants you dead? You're bragging to other people too. He just does it a little more, but I'm sure there'll be a reason for it."
Kaiba was surprised at this. 'Did Serenity, I mean Wheeler just defend me from her brother? What the hell...'
"Seren, truly... You always surprise me! You're defending Kaiba now?"
"Big brother, we had a fight over this already. I don't want to start all over again! Please," Serenity pleaded.
"I know, Seren, but I just can't help it. He always seems to get on my nerves, and I can't do anything but trying to annoy him..."
'The feeling's mutual,' Kaiba thought.
"I think the feeling's mutual," Serenity said at exactly the same time. "But you could at least try, can't you? I mean, Yugi's nice to him, and he almost never bothers Yugi. It just might work..." Serenity tried.
"I don't know, little sis. I just don't know..."
"Hey hon!" Mai called to Joey. "Can you come over here? I've got something to ask you! It's pretty important!"
"I'm sorry sis. My girlfriend's calling for me, so I'll get to her." He grinned the whole time saying this. Serenity smiled at him and told him he could go.
"Just try..." she whispered. She didn't know if Joey heard it or not. Kaiba had. He stiffened a little. What was she thinking, getting into his business? Yugi was now talking to Ryou, so he was walking alone. Serenity came walking next to him.
"Hi Kaiba," she said, a little shyly. He didn't answer. "Kaiba?" she tried again. He kept quiet.
"Please, Kaiba, why won't you talk to me?" she asked desperately. "It's not that bad, is it? Just say 'hello'. Just say anything..." He looked at her with a freezing glare, only to be confronted with a pleading face.
He hated this weak feeling. He responded to it completely the opposite of how he was feeling. Ice cold, he never gave her a chance to get closer. "I don't say hello to a Wheeler," he just said sternly.
Instead of the angry reaction Joey always gave him, Serenity seemed to sound a little desperate now. "Kaiba, I'm not my brother. I haven't ever done anything to you, have I?"
'Yes, you did! You made me fall in love with you,' he thought, but he didn't say it out loud. "You're the mutt's sister, which makes you a bitch. I'm not talking to any kind of dog," was all he said. Inside his mind, it was some kind of battlefield. 'Why did you just say that?'
'I don't love her! Why couldn't I act like that to someone I hate?'
'Understand it, Seto! You are in love with her, and hiding from them will not make those feelings disappear! Do you know how much you have probably just hurt her?'
'So? Why should I care? She's the mutt's sister! Some low-life dog! She's just an annoying, meddling, worthless, pathetic, sweet... Wait a second where did that come from? What am I thinking?'
'Seto, look at it! You're in love with the girl! Why won't you dare to admit it?'
'I won't, because it isn't the truth! Now get away!'
All the way to school, he was thinking about this. He had been talking with Yugi and Ryou for some time, but he didn't have many ideas on conversation topics, and he wasn't really in the conversation either. Mai and Joey were talking and laughing about something while Tea, Duke and Tristan seemed to be discussing something that had to do with maths. This left Serenity to walk alone...
She was thinking about anything. Her father... Seto... Her whole life just seemed so messed up. Nothing seemed to go the right way...
Kaiba really had no idea how much he had hurt Serenity with his words. He didn't want to think about it, either.
Her head was throbbing heavily. Her father had thrown it into the wall harshly yesterday, and it had caused another heavy loss of blood. Nobody seemed to notice her while she was swaying slightly, trying very hard to maintain her balance. Luckily, they were at school soon, allowing her to go to her own class and hoping school would be over soon...
Their last class! Finally! Joey was much exited about this weekend, because Mai would sleep over at his apartment (A/N: Joey had moved out, remember? If not; it's written in chapter 8). The rest of the weekend, they would do fun stuff together. He was just hoping it would stop raining soon.
Serenity was less enthusiast about going home. The only good thing about it was that it was dry and sometimes even warm. But, now she thought of it; where did she want to be? Not at home, because her father would be there. Not here, or with her friends either, because she always had to act as if nothing was wrong, even when she felt horrible. But then where? 'Do I even want to be anywhere on this earth?' The answer to that question haunted her all the way back to her home, which she walked alone, because all of her friends had went somewhere else, she was told by a classmate of theirs. They had banished her from this...
Kaiba was once again inside his limousine, typing away on his laptop. When he looked at his watch, he noticed any normal school girl would be at home now, so the girl he was looking for, too. Just when he had acknowledged that, he started to become drowsy the all-too-familiar way. And for some reason he just knew that what he would see, or mainly hear, now would happen right at the same time...
Serenity entered her house. When she got in, she immediately noticed a strange scent between the alcohols. She didn't recognise it immediately, but when she saw her father sprawled all over the couch, she noticed something besides him. Drugs...
Careful not to wake him up, she walked to her room. She didn't get the chance to go trough the door, though, when she was grabbed at her wrist. She swiftly turned around to see her father standing there.
"Afraid, aren't we?" he growled, slurring his words terribly. The effects of the alcohol were increased by the drugs. "You should be!" Her head hurt of his fist hitting her.
"You unworthy dog! You're nothing but a waste of time!" He grabbed his belt and hit her with it, putting her down with his words at the same time. Finally, when she was barely conscious, he stopped. She sighed in relief, but this was replaced with an even greater fear when she heard her father order her.
"Put down your pants." She was terrified now, and crawled to the corner of the room. "Do it!" But she just sat there shaking with fear. Then, he started to laugh. It was a terrifying, cruel laugh. He then knocked on some door, which she knew that was his bedroom. She started crying softly when she saw three of his friends come out, smirking at her.
"So, this is your daughter?" one of them said cruelly. He pulled her up, and she noticed he was even stronger than her dad. But she resisted anyways, trying to hit him. He laughed at it, giving her one big hit and making her completely disorientated. By the time she could focus on anything again, the three men had already started with her, her father standing after them smirking cruelly.
"Father, help, please!" She kept screaming, but the help never came...
The voice of his driver drowned the girl's screaming away. "Master? Master? We have arrived at your mansion, Master," he said. Kaiba was too shocked to answer as he walked into his mansion mindlessly; the only thing on his mind was the girl...
When Serenity woke up again, her father and his friends had left. She was lying on the floor bare naked. She cried softly at the memory of that afternoon. Her decision was made. She slowly got dressed, not bothering to put the body paint on. Behind her large rain coat, no one would notice it anyways. People probably had better thing to do than to stare at some passer-by...
When she was fully dressed and ready to go, she sat on her bed, the Monstriary on her lap. She opened her mind for DarkMG and Kuri. [I'll end this all...] was all she said, but they were there almost immediately.
{What are you going to do, Seren?} DarkMG asked concerned.
[Farewell you guys. I'm unable to handle this any longer... I'm sorry...] their shocked faces disappeared as she pulled their cards out of the Monstriary. She stood up, threw the thing with the cards down on her bed and ran out of the door, crying...
Kaiba and Mokuba were sitting in the living room. Kaiba was thinking once again about who this girl could be. He was now determined to find her and help her. If only he could find out whom she was! No one at school behaved strange, or was looking like she was beaten up last night. He just couldn't figure it out.
{...Wheeler...} Kaiba recognised the mind voice as DarkMG's, since he had heard it in his dreams a few times. It was really distant, almost as if someone was screaming at him from a mile away.
'Wheeler? What could the dog probably have got to do with this? He's not behaving weirdly. At least, not more than ever, and I'm looking for a girl. Wheeler surely isn't...' Kaiba's face went completely white and his eyes widened. "Oh no..." he whispered.
He jumped up while telling Mokuba he would be away for the evening and ran out of the door. He jumped into his sports car and pulled away quickly. His foot was practically pushing the accelerator pedal trough the bottom of the car. 'Shitty traffic jams! Shitty rain!' Many people pushed their claxon when he cut them off, but he couldn't care less. He had to get to Serenity's home right now.
'How could I not have noticed? Why didn't I just know it? It was so obvious. I, of all people, should have known!' His foot pressed even harder, if possible, when he pictured Serenity in all of those dreams. He recognised the voice now, too.
He pulled up at her house and ran up to the door. When it wouldn't open immediately, he just kicked it open. He was standing in the living room now. He didn't notice the blood on the floor at first. "Serenity?" he called for her. He went trough the other rooms hastily, finding nothing but a great mess.
After a very short time, he got to the last room. When he saw it, he was sure it was Serenity's. Everything was put away neatly. He gasped, though, when he saw the blood on the floor. Usually, Serenity or DarkMG and Kuri would clean it. The only thing that wasn't inside a closet or something was something looking like a diary lying on her bed, opened. Kaiba couldn't hold his curiosity, so he went over. When he picked it up, though, he noticed this wasn't a diary. There were two rectangular spaces in it. Then, he noticed the two cards lying on top of it. When he took a look at them, he noticed it were a Dark Magician Girl and a Kuriboh. The spaces in the diary-like thing seemed to be made for them, so he put them in the spaces.
He was really surprised when the two Monsters appeared in front of him. He gasped when he took a look at Dark Magician Girl. "You're DarkMG!" he exclaimed. He heard her answer, or parts of her answer, inside his head. {Yes... he... Kuri,} she said, while pointing at the Kuriboh. {We... explain... not now... where... Serenity?}
"I don't know," Kaiba said shocked but worried.
The next of DarkMG's words, he heard clearly. {Serenity, NO! Don't! Don't do it!}
Kuri came in too. Everything was heard clearly by Kaiba now. {{Seren, please don't! Please... Hang on...}} Kaiba was too surprised to say anything. He wasn't yet able to know what exactly was going on. That is, until now...
[I just can't anymore...] It was nothing more than a mind whisper, but it made Kaiba able to read Serenity's mind.
So much pain... So many insults... Nobody cared... What was the use of living? Would anybody even grief over her? Would they even mind? All of the memories returned... The hurtful words...
"You're nothing but a burden..."
"You're just worth nothing..."
"You murdered your mother..."
"You will make everyone suffer just because you are just too weak to look after yourself..."
"They wouldn't care a shit..."
"Everyone would be better of without you pathetic being..."
"Don't you dare to run away! Justified punishments should be taken without complaining! Only the complete weaklings would run off to tell their friends, bringing them into lots of trouble! Do you remember your other friend, Serenity? The one you told? The one that didn't survive your weakness..."
"Accept it, little bitch! You're only a big trouble to anyone, not good enough to do anything right..."
Unnoticed by Kaiba, because he was too wrapped up inside Serenity's memories, DarkMG and Kuri had picked him up, so that they were now flying in Serenity's direction.
All of the beatings... Justified... Not able to tell anyone, because of her fear to send them into death... Just like her other friend...
She had told him, hoping for help... He had tried, going to her father... She had found him inside an alley... Dead... Her father had murdered him...
Her mother... She had told her... Her father beat her up every night... Her mother confronted her father... She never returned... He had murdered her too...
"The same fate will be there, waiting for any other person you tell about this. Your weakness will lead them into death..."
It was all too much... She would end this now... Rid the world of her unworthy presence... Only one step off the cliff... Who would care? Nobody... It would be over soon... No pain... No misery...Only one small step...
Serenity, when DarkMG tried to talk to her, didn't even hear her. She was too sucked up inside her own thoughts. DarkMG said to Kuri and the now kind of back in action Kaiba {we'll have to do something quickly, just to keep her busy long enough for us to get there. We have to think of something!}
"Can't we send her happy memories or something?" Kaiba asked after thinking.
This afternoon... Her father's friends... It hurt so much... He never cared... Enjoyed seeing her in pain... Smirking, like anyone else would have if they had been there...
{We could at least try. But you would have to help. Do you think you could handle that? I mean, you were pretty out of it a few moments ago, and we can't take that...}
(I will manage,) Kaiba told them by mind talk. He knew how to do it pretty quick.
{We have to stop these negative thoughts and make her think of something happy, just long enough for us to get to that cliff!} They all ducked into Serenity's thoughts now, determined to save her.
Nobody loved her... She didn't deserve to be loved... She was pathetic, weak... Why would anyone care for such a useless bitch? Nobody could like, let alone love something like her...
Her friends ignoring her... Her crush giving her the cold shoulder...
"They have already left to school..."
"Got to go, Seren..."
"They told me to tell you they are going somewhere... Don't have to wait..."
She deserved it...
"You're a Wheeler..."
"The mutt's sister... A bitch..."
She deserved all of it... They did the right thing... Showing her she was worth nothing... She was just a pathetic, poor little bitch... One step from freedom...
{All of the good times she had with her friends... The happiness and the warmth of their friendship welcomed her... She loved them... Her big brother...}
They had succeeded in entering her mind. DarkMG had inserted these first happy thoughts. Kaiba was once again surprised at what he found there. He was her crush? He had hurt her deeply by his behaviour... And he was determined to make it up to her.
{{DarkMG and Kuri... Always at her side... Helping her trough... How she had brought them to life... By her own ingenious mind... All of the good she had done to the world...}}
These memories were all new to Kaiba. He was pretty surprised when he saw them. But DarkMG and Kuri couldn't hold this up much longer. There weren't many happy memories in Serenity's life. {Seto, it's all up to you now...} He knew...
The step became harder to make... Bad memories started flooding over her again... She slowly started leaning forwards...
(Soft, warm lips met... It was the kiss they shared... Both shocked, though enjoying every small moment of it... Their eyes meeting... The love they shared became visible... Looking at each other, though just small glances... The other might see it...)
Kaiba was almost out of it, but the cliff became visible in the background. They could just see a small point on it, but they knew it was Serenity...
Kaiba felt that DarkMG and Kuri were very surprised as he added the memory of the kiss. The mind connection had been locked off by then, so they had no idea.
But their bond with Serenity was fading again. She got lost inside hell again.
She couldn't forget all of the torture... Nor could she forget the small pieces of happiness... But did it matter any longer... She was fading anyway... Would she do it herself? Or would her father have? Just one step was the decision... Freedom would be the reward... No more doubt...
She never noticed the three landing. Nor did she notice them yelling at her to stand still. She was fading... Blood loss had taken its toll... Her eyes slowly closed as she started to fall forwards, off the cliff...
Lass: Wow! I think this is my best chapter, don't you? Please tell me in a review! I'll update if you review...
The day was once again rainy. Kaiba was immediately irritated by this. 'Why is it always raining the past few days? It causes nothing but wetness and gigantic traffic jams!' And indeed, he was stuck in the traffic again. He still had quite a lot of time to get to school, but as this rate, he wouldn't even be there until it was already finished!
Mokuba had turned out to have a light fever, forcing him to stay at home ill. He hated it, but his brother wouldn't let him go to school with a body temperature of 40ËC/104ËF.
Kaiba sighed as he got his umbrella. He contacted the driver in the front. "You just get back to the mansion. I'll walk to school." He then got out of the big car and started walking.
The rain was pouring down hard on the umbrella, and his day certainly didn't get better when he was about ten minutes walk from school and saw a certain group of friends with raincoats on walking in front of him. 'Oh no...'
They had noticed him. "Hey, Moneybags, are ya walking in the rain? I thought you would go by limousine, or take your personal helicopter!" he was greeted by Joey.
"If you hadn't noticed, mutt, there are huge traffic jams everywhere and it's a little stormy to be inside a helicopter. It would probably crash down."
"So?" was Joey's immediate answer. But this was too much for one of the persons in the group.
"Joey!" Serenity cried.
"What? Who would care for that?" They had walked to a little behind the group, while Kaiba was speaking with Yugi. Unbeknownst to the Wheelers, Kaiba could hear what they were saying exactly, though. "It's not like he is nice to anyone, is he? I mean, he screams and insults anyone on his path. Who could care for such a piece of scum?"
"Joey, this isn't fair! He isn't annoying to everyone! And I'm sure there would be people who care! Have you ever seen him bother Yugi? I mean bothering him like he bothers you? No, you haven't. You are bothering him too, but does that mean everyone wants you dead? You're bragging to other people too. He just does it a little more, but I'm sure there'll be a reason for it."
Kaiba was surprised at this. 'Did Serenity, I mean Wheeler just defend me from her brother? What the hell...'
"Seren, truly... You always surprise me! You're defending Kaiba now?"
"Big brother, we had a fight over this already. I don't want to start all over again! Please," Serenity pleaded.
"I know, Seren, but I just can't help it. He always seems to get on my nerves, and I can't do anything but trying to annoy him..."
'The feeling's mutual,' Kaiba thought.
"I think the feeling's mutual," Serenity said at exactly the same time. "But you could at least try, can't you? I mean, Yugi's nice to him, and he almost never bothers Yugi. It just might work..." Serenity tried.
"I don't know, little sis. I just don't know..."
"Hey hon!" Mai called to Joey. "Can you come over here? I've got something to ask you! It's pretty important!"
"I'm sorry sis. My girlfriend's calling for me, so I'll get to her." He grinned the whole time saying this. Serenity smiled at him and told him he could go.
"Just try..." she whispered. She didn't know if Joey heard it or not. Kaiba had. He stiffened a little. What was she thinking, getting into his business? Yugi was now talking to Ryou, so he was walking alone. Serenity came walking next to him.
"Hi Kaiba," she said, a little shyly. He didn't answer. "Kaiba?" she tried again. He kept quiet.
"Please, Kaiba, why won't you talk to me?" she asked desperately. "It's not that bad, is it? Just say 'hello'. Just say anything..." He looked at her with a freezing glare, only to be confronted with a pleading face.
He hated this weak feeling. He responded to it completely the opposite of how he was feeling. Ice cold, he never gave her a chance to get closer. "I don't say hello to a Wheeler," he just said sternly.
Instead of the angry reaction Joey always gave him, Serenity seemed to sound a little desperate now. "Kaiba, I'm not my brother. I haven't ever done anything to you, have I?"
'Yes, you did! You made me fall in love with you,' he thought, but he didn't say it out loud. "You're the mutt's sister, which makes you a bitch. I'm not talking to any kind of dog," was all he said. Inside his mind, it was some kind of battlefield. 'Why did you just say that?'
'I don't love her! Why couldn't I act like that to someone I hate?'
'Understand it, Seto! You are in love with her, and hiding from them will not make those feelings disappear! Do you know how much you have probably just hurt her?'
'So? Why should I care? She's the mutt's sister! Some low-life dog! She's just an annoying, meddling, worthless, pathetic, sweet... Wait a second where did that come from? What am I thinking?'
'Seto, look at it! You're in love with the girl! Why won't you dare to admit it?'
'I won't, because it isn't the truth! Now get away!'
All the way to school, he was thinking about this. He had been talking with Yugi and Ryou for some time, but he didn't have many ideas on conversation topics, and he wasn't really in the conversation either. Mai and Joey were talking and laughing about something while Tea, Duke and Tristan seemed to be discussing something that had to do with maths. This left Serenity to walk alone...
She was thinking about anything. Her father... Seto... Her whole life just seemed so messed up. Nothing seemed to go the right way...
Kaiba really had no idea how much he had hurt Serenity with his words. He didn't want to think about it, either.
Her head was throbbing heavily. Her father had thrown it into the wall harshly yesterday, and it had caused another heavy loss of blood. Nobody seemed to notice her while she was swaying slightly, trying very hard to maintain her balance. Luckily, they were at school soon, allowing her to go to her own class and hoping school would be over soon...
Their last class! Finally! Joey was much exited about this weekend, because Mai would sleep over at his apartment (A/N: Joey had moved out, remember? If not; it's written in chapter 8). The rest of the weekend, they would do fun stuff together. He was just hoping it would stop raining soon.
Serenity was less enthusiast about going home. The only good thing about it was that it was dry and sometimes even warm. But, now she thought of it; where did she want to be? Not at home, because her father would be there. Not here, or with her friends either, because she always had to act as if nothing was wrong, even when she felt horrible. But then where? 'Do I even want to be anywhere on this earth?' The answer to that question haunted her all the way back to her home, which she walked alone, because all of her friends had went somewhere else, she was told by a classmate of theirs. They had banished her from this...
Kaiba was once again inside his limousine, typing away on his laptop. When he looked at his watch, he noticed any normal school girl would be at home now, so the girl he was looking for, too. Just when he had acknowledged that, he started to become drowsy the all-too-familiar way. And for some reason he just knew that what he would see, or mainly hear, now would happen right at the same time...
Serenity entered her house. When she got in, she immediately noticed a strange scent between the alcohols. She didn't recognise it immediately, but when she saw her father sprawled all over the couch, she noticed something besides him. Drugs...
Careful not to wake him up, she walked to her room. She didn't get the chance to go trough the door, though, when she was grabbed at her wrist. She swiftly turned around to see her father standing there.
"Afraid, aren't we?" he growled, slurring his words terribly. The effects of the alcohol were increased by the drugs. "You should be!" Her head hurt of his fist hitting her.
"You unworthy dog! You're nothing but a waste of time!" He grabbed his belt and hit her with it, putting her down with his words at the same time. Finally, when she was barely conscious, he stopped. She sighed in relief, but this was replaced with an even greater fear when she heard her father order her.
"Put down your pants." She was terrified now, and crawled to the corner of the room. "Do it!" But she just sat there shaking with fear. Then, he started to laugh. It was a terrifying, cruel laugh. He then knocked on some door, which she knew that was his bedroom. She started crying softly when she saw three of his friends come out, smirking at her.
"So, this is your daughter?" one of them said cruelly. He pulled her up, and she noticed he was even stronger than her dad. But she resisted anyways, trying to hit him. He laughed at it, giving her one big hit and making her completely disorientated. By the time she could focus on anything again, the three men had already started with her, her father standing after them smirking cruelly.
"Father, help, please!" She kept screaming, but the help never came...
The voice of his driver drowned the girl's screaming away. "Master? Master? We have arrived at your mansion, Master," he said. Kaiba was too shocked to answer as he walked into his mansion mindlessly; the only thing on his mind was the girl...
When Serenity woke up again, her father and his friends had left. She was lying on the floor bare naked. She cried softly at the memory of that afternoon. Her decision was made. She slowly got dressed, not bothering to put the body paint on. Behind her large rain coat, no one would notice it anyways. People probably had better thing to do than to stare at some passer-by...
When she was fully dressed and ready to go, she sat on her bed, the Monstriary on her lap. She opened her mind for DarkMG and Kuri. [I'll end this all...] was all she said, but they were there almost immediately.
{What are you going to do, Seren?} DarkMG asked concerned.
[Farewell you guys. I'm unable to handle this any longer... I'm sorry...] their shocked faces disappeared as she pulled their cards out of the Monstriary. She stood up, threw the thing with the cards down on her bed and ran out of the door, crying...
Kaiba and Mokuba were sitting in the living room. Kaiba was thinking once again about who this girl could be. He was now determined to find her and help her. If only he could find out whom she was! No one at school behaved strange, or was looking like she was beaten up last night. He just couldn't figure it out.
{...Wheeler...} Kaiba recognised the mind voice as DarkMG's, since he had heard it in his dreams a few times. It was really distant, almost as if someone was screaming at him from a mile away.
'Wheeler? What could the dog probably have got to do with this? He's not behaving weirdly. At least, not more than ever, and I'm looking for a girl. Wheeler surely isn't...' Kaiba's face went completely white and his eyes widened. "Oh no..." he whispered.
He jumped up while telling Mokuba he would be away for the evening and ran out of the door. He jumped into his sports car and pulled away quickly. His foot was practically pushing the accelerator pedal trough the bottom of the car. 'Shitty traffic jams! Shitty rain!' Many people pushed their claxon when he cut them off, but he couldn't care less. He had to get to Serenity's home right now.
'How could I not have noticed? Why didn't I just know it? It was so obvious. I, of all people, should have known!' His foot pressed even harder, if possible, when he pictured Serenity in all of those dreams. He recognised the voice now, too.
He pulled up at her house and ran up to the door. When it wouldn't open immediately, he just kicked it open. He was standing in the living room now. He didn't notice the blood on the floor at first. "Serenity?" he called for her. He went trough the other rooms hastily, finding nothing but a great mess.
After a very short time, he got to the last room. When he saw it, he was sure it was Serenity's. Everything was put away neatly. He gasped, though, when he saw the blood on the floor. Usually, Serenity or DarkMG and Kuri would clean it. The only thing that wasn't inside a closet or something was something looking like a diary lying on her bed, opened. Kaiba couldn't hold his curiosity, so he went over. When he picked it up, though, he noticed this wasn't a diary. There were two rectangular spaces in it. Then, he noticed the two cards lying on top of it. When he took a look at them, he noticed it were a Dark Magician Girl and a Kuriboh. The spaces in the diary-like thing seemed to be made for them, so he put them in the spaces.
He was really surprised when the two Monsters appeared in front of him. He gasped when he took a look at Dark Magician Girl. "You're DarkMG!" he exclaimed. He heard her answer, or parts of her answer, inside his head. {Yes... he... Kuri,} she said, while pointing at the Kuriboh. {We... explain... not now... where... Serenity?}
"I don't know," Kaiba said shocked but worried.
The next of DarkMG's words, he heard clearly. {Serenity, NO! Don't! Don't do it!}
Kuri came in too. Everything was heard clearly by Kaiba now. {{Seren, please don't! Please... Hang on...}} Kaiba was too surprised to say anything. He wasn't yet able to know what exactly was going on. That is, until now...
[I just can't anymore...] It was nothing more than a mind whisper, but it made Kaiba able to read Serenity's mind.
So much pain... So many insults... Nobody cared... What was the use of living? Would anybody even grief over her? Would they even mind? All of the memories returned... The hurtful words...
"You're nothing but a burden..."
"You're just worth nothing..."
"You murdered your mother..."
"You will make everyone suffer just because you are just too weak to look after yourself..."
"They wouldn't care a shit..."
"Everyone would be better of without you pathetic being..."
"Don't you dare to run away! Justified punishments should be taken without complaining! Only the complete weaklings would run off to tell their friends, bringing them into lots of trouble! Do you remember your other friend, Serenity? The one you told? The one that didn't survive your weakness..."
"Accept it, little bitch! You're only a big trouble to anyone, not good enough to do anything right..."
Unnoticed by Kaiba, because he was too wrapped up inside Serenity's memories, DarkMG and Kuri had picked him up, so that they were now flying in Serenity's direction.
All of the beatings... Justified... Not able to tell anyone, because of her fear to send them into death... Just like her other friend...
She had told him, hoping for help... He had tried, going to her father... She had found him inside an alley... Dead... Her father had murdered him...
Her mother... She had told her... Her father beat her up every night... Her mother confronted her father... She never returned... He had murdered her too...
"The same fate will be there, waiting for any other person you tell about this. Your weakness will lead them into death..."
It was all too much... She would end this now... Rid the world of her unworthy presence... Only one step off the cliff... Who would care? Nobody... It would be over soon... No pain... No misery...Only one small step...
Serenity, when DarkMG tried to talk to her, didn't even hear her. She was too sucked up inside her own thoughts. DarkMG said to Kuri and the now kind of back in action Kaiba {we'll have to do something quickly, just to keep her busy long enough for us to get there. We have to think of something!}
"Can't we send her happy memories or something?" Kaiba asked after thinking.
This afternoon... Her father's friends... It hurt so much... He never cared... Enjoyed seeing her in pain... Smirking, like anyone else would have if they had been there...
{We could at least try. But you would have to help. Do you think you could handle that? I mean, you were pretty out of it a few moments ago, and we can't take that...}
(I will manage,) Kaiba told them by mind talk. He knew how to do it pretty quick.
{We have to stop these negative thoughts and make her think of something happy, just long enough for us to get to that cliff!} They all ducked into Serenity's thoughts now, determined to save her.
Nobody loved her... She didn't deserve to be loved... She was pathetic, weak... Why would anyone care for such a useless bitch? Nobody could like, let alone love something like her...
Her friends ignoring her... Her crush giving her the cold shoulder...
"They have already left to school..."
"Got to go, Seren..."
"They told me to tell you they are going somewhere... Don't have to wait..."
She deserved it...
"You're a Wheeler..."
"The mutt's sister... A bitch..."
She deserved all of it... They did the right thing... Showing her she was worth nothing... She was just a pathetic, poor little bitch... One step from freedom...
{All of the good times she had with her friends... The happiness and the warmth of their friendship welcomed her... She loved them... Her big brother...}
They had succeeded in entering her mind. DarkMG had inserted these first happy thoughts. Kaiba was once again surprised at what he found there. He was her crush? He had hurt her deeply by his behaviour... And he was determined to make it up to her.
{{DarkMG and Kuri... Always at her side... Helping her trough... How she had brought them to life... By her own ingenious mind... All of the good she had done to the world...}}
These memories were all new to Kaiba. He was pretty surprised when he saw them. But DarkMG and Kuri couldn't hold this up much longer. There weren't many happy memories in Serenity's life. {Seto, it's all up to you now...} He knew...
The step became harder to make... Bad memories started flooding over her again... She slowly started leaning forwards...
(Soft, warm lips met... It was the kiss they shared... Both shocked, though enjoying every small moment of it... Their eyes meeting... The love they shared became visible... Looking at each other, though just small glances... The other might see it...)
Kaiba was almost out of it, but the cliff became visible in the background. They could just see a small point on it, but they knew it was Serenity...
Kaiba felt that DarkMG and Kuri were very surprised as he added the memory of the kiss. The mind connection had been locked off by then, so they had no idea.
But their bond with Serenity was fading again. She got lost inside hell again.
She couldn't forget all of the torture... Nor could she forget the small pieces of happiness... But did it matter any longer... She was fading anyway... Would she do it herself? Or would her father have? Just one step was the decision... Freedom would be the reward... No more doubt...
She never noticed the three landing. Nor did she notice them yelling at her to stand still. She was fading... Blood loss had taken its toll... Her eyes slowly closed as she started to fall forwards, off the cliff...
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