Self Destruct
By Katia-chan
A/N: Resurrection of a fic, one of the most noble of causes. I really am trying to update things that have been long abandoned, and even a few that haven't. I hope you can all forgive my lack of chapters. I don't have much of a life outside school, and I'm really busy, at least I have been, so please forgive me!
This fic did go through spell check, but if I missed some wording or something please let me know so I can fix it.
Arigato!
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They waited together for another hour or so and then the same doctor came to speak with them.
"He's in intensive care, but soon to be moved to a normal ward. If you two would like to see him?" Bakura jumped to his feet and Isis got up and they both followed the doctor.
"Is he conscious?" Isis asked, jogging to keep up with Bakura.
"No, it may be a while. We had to sedate him heavily to keep him unconscious until the morpheme kicked in, but he should come around in the next hour or two." The doctor waved a hand at the door. "He's in there, if you wouldn't mind only taking a few minutes, we'd really rather he rest alone, but since this was quite a bad accident I'm willing to be lenient with time restrictions, since he's out of critical condition."
"Thank you." Isis said, and then followed Bakura into the room.
The white haired spirit stood over the bed, looking at Ryou with anguish plastered on his face. "I can't believe I did this to him." He murmured, touching Ryou's bandages lightly.
"If what you tell me is true, then this wasn't your fault, though I'd like to know why you were trying to shock him in the first place?" Bakura stared down at his hikari and sighed. He had to tell her, he owed her that much at least for saving Ryou's life.
"I don't even know for sure what's going on, but he told me. He told me he hears voices." He stopped and looked at Isis's face. She was as impassive as usual, but he could see the doubt in her eyes. "I know, that's what I thought, he's lost his mind, but then he started screaming. He got all pale and he fell on the floor. He pleaded with me to hurt him, any way possible. From what he told me earlier that was all that would make the voices go away, pain." Bakura balled his hands into fists and stared angrily at the little red lines from his nails.
"So, he asked you to hurt him?" Isis looked confused, and scared.
"Yes, he begged me, and if you had seen his face you would have done it too. He was so afraid." Bakura trailed off softly and then grabbed Isis's hand. "You have to believe me; do you think I would have done this for no good reason?"
"I know you didn't, relax. I'm just curious." She said no more for a minute, and then took his hand. "We should let him rest." Bakura nodded and allowed himself to be lead from the room.
When they got back to the waiting room Isis sat him down and then went and got them both Styrofoam cups of coffee. "Drink up, you look terrible." He took the cup and sipped it gratefully.
"You're a godsend, you know that?"
"I keep trying to tell Malik that, but he won't seem to listen." Her usually expressionless face shone with amusement and Bakura chuckled. Who'd have thought that the all mighty Isis, seer of the future would ever smile like that, especially after all the Ishtar family had been through.
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It was a few hours later when they were informed that he had been moved to a normal ward. They decided to grab dinner before going up.
As they ate neither spoke, both were afraid of what they would find if they found the younger boy awake.
Finishing up they went upstairs to the room. Isis knocked, but when they received no answer she just opened the door. Ryou lay on the bed, sleeping soundly.
"He looks so cute when he sleeps." Isis said, brushing his hair away from his face.
"I know, I love to watch him sleep. It's so. . . "But he said no more. Ryou's body tensed and both stared in horror as he opened his mouth to scream.
"He won't wake up." Bakura gasped. "The sleeping meds are to strong. What are we going to do? This is exactly what happened last time, except he was awake." Isis looked around the room, looking lost.
Meanwhile Ryou had gone it appeared. His body was tight and cramped, his arms and legs shook and he was breathing shallowly. Before he could think Bakura leaned forward and pressed a hand hard across Ryou's chest. The boy jolted, groaned and then lay still.
"That, was the most horrifying thing I've seen in a long time." Isis said, staring at Ryou.
"I know," Bakura said, wiping Ryou's face with a washcloth from the bathroom. "Isis?"
"Yes?"
"I was just thinking, is there any way you could use the necklace, find out what's making him this way?" She looked skeptically at the jewelry around her neck, and then removed it and placed the eye on the boy's forehead.
Bakura watched in apprehensive silence as her body went rigid and her hands clenched the necklace, her face blank. This lasted for a few minutes and then she relaxed.
"What did you see?" Bakura asked. Isis wiped the sweat from her face and caught her breath. Her body came out of trances slowly, so she just shook her head. Nothing.
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Isis fought not to show the tears in her eyes. She was bound by the rules of magic, to not give away anything she saw, but even more now were the bounds of friendship. How could she tell Bakura that all this was his fault?
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A/N: Well, it's not good, but it is a chapter. Hope you enjoyed it, sorry it's short.
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Katia-chan