Lightning-Dono: Whooo! The chapters are in sync with then days. Crazy, ne? I think I might make this fanfic longer than I intended when I first planned it all out. I think I might make it a two-part type thing. It's never worked well in the past, but it'll do. xD

This chapter sucks. Just to let you know beforehand.

Answers to the reviews. :D

can't think – Yeah...Well, you'll have lots to review now! xD; I wonder if there are more Seto x Isis fics out there? o.o I've only seen a rare few...Oh, and they were watching some children's Saudi Arabian show. :) Nothing special.

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The woman wholly welcoming his presence, even though this turned several heads as he walked by. The patients that were able to walk grouped together and pointed excitedly at Kaiba's back. Sadly for them, he didn't even turn his head as he made his way along the maze of beds before pulling up a nearby chair and settling by Isis, setting his briefcase down.

Nurses fawned around him as he sat by her side. Then, that dreaded nurse chose just that moment to shoo the other women away, blush, and say, "Would you like something, Kaiba?"

"Go away," Isis murmured menacingly, gritting her teeth together like she was doing a frenzied dance with a rose in her mouth.

"Much obliged," the nurse replied dazedly as she threw her head back, grinned a sparkling grin, and made her way into the hall where she was sure to show off to her friends.

Kaiba's blue orbs found their way into Isis's as they shared a mutual understanding about what the following conversation would be about.

"Well..." Kaiba started, fidgeting oddly in his seat. His tension and nerves made Isis relax, letting go of the memories left behind in the helicopter wreck. "I came to check on you," he finished lamely.

"I'm glad you decided to." Her eyes glittered with mirth. Isis was near bursting level as she felt the warmth from his hand as he rested it on hers. Surely things couldn't get any better than this?

"Yes, and I was just thinking that...er..." Kaiba searched through his extensive vocabulary, just scanning for the right word, wondering how Isis would accept this excuse. It was probably far from anything she would've thought true, but he'd give it a go.

Isis urged him on with a swift movement of her head, jerking it forward, trying to indicate that she wanted to hear the rest. Kaiba, however, seemed to be lost in his own thoughts, wondering whether this was all true.

"Darkness is descending upon the land," Isis said wisely. "You should tell me sometime before sunset."

Kaiba's eyes wandered, his throat tight. Should he say it? Suppose she wouldn't accept it? He started over. "Isis, I really want to tell you something."

A faint clatter of dinner dishes as the nurses fixed up a dinner fit for the patients rang through the air, giving Kaiba yet another moment to be distracted by something that was unexplainable. I can't tell her that I love her, Kaiba realized. You can't nearly kill someone and say, "I love you." It's not right. It never will be. His self-esteem shattered into a thousand pieces as he malingered, stalling for enough time to think this whole deal over.

"You wouldn't mind just saying 'I hope you're feeling better', would you? I'm getting quite hungry and I'd hate to have to spend another moment waiting." Isis's finger twitched into Kaiba's palm, which made his reflex's react. He removed his hand from Isis's, feeling particularly hot in the face as he usually did in moments of true humiliation. This is it. Now or never. Kaiba chose never, but it wasn't a very truthful one. Isis needed to know. She needed to know that he was a man with a pulsating heart, one that could contain feelings of love and agony. One that could understand things that others couldn't.

Kaiba felt like he was about to faint on the spot from pressure. Regaining his composure, he put his hands by Isis's, hoping to rejoin them once more, and opened his mouth. This time actually saying what he was intending to instead of sitting there, clueless, and staring into space.

"Uh...Hey."

The eyes returned. "...Yes?"

"Er, y-you know how I came here?"

Patients grew amused to see the almighty Kaiba Seto stutter, unable to come up with suitable words. "Hey," they hissed. "Just spit it out." Some patients seemed to take this literally as one actually leaned over the edge of the bed and hurled into a bucket below, creating a loud, wet and obnoxious sound rise through the air.

"Yes, why are you here, Kaiba?"

No stalling, he told himself. Don't do it. She won't like it.

A nurse, the one that had been so kindly serving Isis since the beginning of her consciousness in the hospital, trotted by with a tray of food, ditzy and annoying. Tripping over a loose tile, she stumbled forward into one of the beds, handing it to the occupant as though she had been aiming for it the whole time. On her return to the makeshift kitchen, she tossed her hair, hoping to catch Kaiba's attention. The man watched her disdainfully as she threw Isis a superior grin.

"I just came to tell you-,"

The nurse stopped right infront of Isis's bed at the sound of Kaiba's delicately deep voice.

"As I was saying, I came to tell you that...I really didn't mean to send you on a helicopter that was meant to crash...With you on it." Strength burst through his voice, emotion rising in his chest and gathering there. "It wasn't until you left that I knew that I had done something wrong. That I shouldn't have. I felt awful, Isis, can't you see? I was internally hurting when I saw you off. I-" His voice cracked as he felt Isis press her hand into his palm.

"I understand."

Was that it? Kaiba thought in disappointment. I'm apologizing and that's all she'll ever say to me? I'm saying I love her in another way and she's only going to do that? Wo- His train of thought was broken in two as he felt something fall against his cheek, something warm and with a hint of moisture.

It took a while for Kaiba to see what it was because a dark, looming shadow had obscured part of his vision for a moment. It was Isis's rich, dark hair, he realized as she pulled away from him, satisfied.

At the foot of her bed, the nurse was on the ground, weeping hard into her hands, knees adjacent and leaning over.

The brief romantic moment was returned to reality as Kaiba reached over to help up the young woman.

"Foolish...She could already see, couldn't she? I didn't come to visit her."

Isis giggled lightly as she scrutinized the young lady, frail and girly, tramping back in the kitchen, bitterly wiping tears from her eyes.