It was morning, Dana yawned and got up, thinking about last night. She felt her head pains return and her hand went to head, her pain quickly vanished and chris began to wake up. Chris looked over to Dana as she turned to look at him.

" Morning Dana" she walked over to Chris and kissed him on the cheek. Dana walked back towards the door.

" Wait Dana" she wanted to leave but Chris's voice stopped her. " Your not mad at what happened last night are you" she turned around and smiled.

" Of course not, im just gonna take a shower" she said then she walked out the door and slowly closed it. Chris sighed and slammed his head into the pillow.

" She is mad at me" Chris said to himself. " Im so stupid, trying to take advantage of someone who is in pain" Chris pounded his fist into the mattress. " I wont force her to do anything" Chris said getting out of bed.

He removed his sweat pants and long sleeved shirt, only thing on him was a pair of boxers and black socks. He put on a pair of dark blue jeans and another long sleeved shirt. He sat down on the bed and growled at himself, looking down at the puzzle. " Dammit only got a week till they show up, phyiscally im ready, but not mentally", his brain was thinking about a million things at once, unable to focus on just one thing.

Chris knew what he had to do today, he needed to get in touch with Kaiba and enlist his help. " Not gonna be easy" Chris thought to himself. He picked up his deck and slid it in his pocket. Both his parents were gone on a business trip so he had the house to himself for a few days. He sighed and looked out the window, remembering what happened last night.

" Please...dont" Dana's voice echoed in his mind.

" Shes been through so much... I love her so much, but I feel so powerless" He made a fist and punched the wall as hard as he could, grunting from the pain and removing his hand from the hole in the wall. " Its her dad, she's so scared of him" He said looking at his bleeding knuckles. " I said that I unerstand her pain, but what i went through, is nothing compared to what she went through, if her dad is scaring her so much, maybe I need to take him out of the picture" He rubbed the blood off his hand on a piece of clothing he hasnt wore in awhile.

" But I understand, I wont force her into doing anything that she doesnt feel comfortable with, I dont want her to feel any more pain, one day she will leave the thought of her father behind" Chris pushed the thought to the back of his head and walked out the door, seeing Joey in the other room still sleeping. The shower was running in the bathroom and Chris walked by, heading to the kitchen and started to make some eggs.

Dana was letting the hot water hit every part of her body, she ran her hands through her wet hair and put her head under the streams of water, she sighed and put her hands against the wall, she felt a cold shiver run down her spine as she remembered last night.

" I love you dana" Chris said gently pecking at her neck as she moaned. His hands went slowly up her shirt and her eyes filled with tears, remembering her father.

" Please...dont" She said rubbing tears from her eyes and chris got off her.

Back in the shower Dana lowered her head and felt the streams of hot water drip down her face. She pounded at the wall quietly and clenched her teeth.

" Chris...I do love you its just that...im not ready yet" She addmitted to herself. She turned the water off and dried herself off, she put on a pair of dark blue jeans and a dark blue tank top. She wrapped the towel in her blonde hair and kept it there. Dana walked out of the bathroom and into the kicthen, seeing Chris making a pot of coffie. She turned his head to face her with her wet hand and kissed him on the lips then gently pulled away saying "Good morning"

" Feeling better now" Chris asked in a deepend voice.

" Yeah I do, thanks" she said fixing up a cup of coffie and pouring in the milk, she walked over to the table and sat down, taking a sip of the hot coffee. Chris watched her the whole time.

" You ok" He asked scraping a couple eggs on a plate.

" Yeah im fine" Her voice was filled with pain, she wasnt allright, she was thinking about something.

" Your not thinking about what almost happened last night are you" Chris asked her.

" Well...sort of" She said hesitantly, she put her head on the table and sighed.

" Man she's so depressed, I had to open my mouth about last night" Chris thought to himself.

" Surprised joey isnt up yet" Dana said. Chris smiled at her.

" Yeah its not like him to be asleep while someone is cooking" Dana's eyes grew wide and her heart beat began to beat faster.

" You dont think that he heard us last night, do you" Chris's eyes grew wide also.

" Oh boy, if he did, he's gonna tell everyone" Chris walked over and gave Dana a plate of eggs. She smiled happily and Chris nearly melted.

" This looks nice, thank you Chris" Dana replied, Joey walked out into the kitchen rubbing his eyes and yawning. " Hey Joey" Dana said.

" Morning Joe" Chris said walking over to the stove.

" Morning you guys, so you guys have a nice night together" As Joey said that Chris and Dana froze in there place. Sweat running down both there necks.

" Yeah...it was nice" Chris said nervously.

" Joey you dont think that we" Dana said as Joey finished.

" Well, I heard you two making noise last night so I figured" Joey left the sentence hanging.

" Joey, we didnt do it, if thats what your thinking" Chris said finishing Joeys sentence. Dana sighed in relief.

" Well any way its good to wait, dont you guys think your moving a bit fast" Joey questioned with a grin.

" We have been going out for five months now, can we just drop this subject" Chris asked, they both nodded. " Joe, take a seat got another thing off eggs here" Joey sat at the table oppoisite side of Dana. Chris walked over to Joey handing him a plate of eggs.

" Thanks man" Joey said, Chris walked over to the stove and turned it off.

" Not gonna eat hun" Dana questioned.

" Na, not that hungry" Chris replied.

" Wow, Chris this is really good" Joey said stuffing his mouth full. Dana backed away from the table and Chris backed far away as he could. Joey looked up, food hanging out his mouth " Something wrong guys" Joey said.

" Disgusting, dont have to eat like a animal you know" Dana said, Chris laughed.

" Let me know if you guys need anything else" Chris turned on the computer and sat down.

" How about some more eggs" yelled Joey as Chris sighed.

" Sorry Joe, no more eggs left" Chris smiled evily, imagining the expression on joeys face. " Pop tarts in the pantry if your interested"

Chris opened up windows media player and Joey was going through the pantry, Dana still staring at him oddly. " Hey, I found em" Joey ripped the box apart and took two packages of pop tarts and ran to the living room and sat on the couch. Chris laughing in his mind. Dana left in the kitchen with confusion.

" Uhhh ok" Dana continued eating as Chris was looking for music on media player. He found some songs by linkin park and decided to play one. He turned the speakers on and the song began to play.

" Crawling in my skin" Chris clicked out of media player to use the internet, while the music played.

" Hey Chris, what are you up to" Dana asked as she put her plate in the sink, walked over to Chris and wrapped her hands around his neck.

" Well, I fugured id screw with Kaiba before I asked him for help" Chris grinned evily. The smile scared Dana slightly.

" What are you gonna do, Kaiba isnt the type to mess around with" Dana said as Chris looked up Kaiba corp.

" Dont worry, im not gonna buy out his company" Chris and Joey laughed " Like I ever could"

" Then what are you gonna do" she asked.

" Im gonna screw around with his computers a bit" Chris typed in something and a large network of computers appeared on the screen.

" Your not gonna send him a virus are you" Dana asked gripping Chris's neck even harder.

" Na, not gonna do anything that drastic, im gonna shut down his computers" Chris typed in something and hit enter, and turned around in the chair.

" How can you do that from here" Dana questioned.

" Its not that hard really, Kaiba's system is easy to hack, a two year old could do it" Chris and Dana laughed and Joey walked over to look at the moniter.

Back at kaiba corp...

Kaiba was once again checking out on his latest project. " Good, it should be ready to ship today" A small smile crept on Kaiba's face as he said that. Then the power went off. Kaiba stood up with fire in his eyes, about to burst into anger from the power going out. He picked up the phone and started to dial some numbers. " The hell happened to the computers" Kaiba hissed.

" Someone shut them down sir" Someone said.

" Get them back on now, and find who did this" Kaiba slammed the phone on the reciever allmost breaking the phone in half. Kaiba walked over to the window and began to think. " I think I know who did this, Evertsen"

Chris Joey and Dana laughed seeing multiple computers turn off on a diagram of Kaiba corporation.

" Kaiba's pissed by now" Joey said in between laughs. Dana sat on Chris's knee and leaned back on Chris's chest. Chris wrapped his arms around her waist, kissing her gently on her neck. She sighed deeply and looked at the moniter.

" Something wrong" Chris asked whispering in her ear, sending a shiver down her spine.

" No im fine, its just that...my father" Dana stopped, leaving the sentence unfinished. Chris moved his hands to her hair.

" Dont worry about him, there's no need to live in fear of him anymore" Chris said as Dana smiled in the back of her mind.

" Yeah dont worry about that creep, hes not gonna bug you no more" Joey said walking over to the window " Well what do you say we get outta here, you know, go to walmart or something, I hear a small tournament is going on, Sargent told me on the phone, saying hed meet up with us later, well how about it" Joey asked, Dana looked over to Chris and smiled. Chris closed his eyes and nodded.

" Ok, well go, I need more practice before the servants get here, only a week left" Dana got off of him and Chris got up. " well, shall we go now" Chris asked, they both nodded.

" Yeah lets go, I improved my deck a little and id like to test it out" Dana said strapping on a duel disk.

" Yeah I do too" Joey said " hey, think Kaiba will be there"

Chris sighed. " Dont count on it, he never did like watching other people play".

Dana walked outside and Chris stared at her the whole time. He thought about stopping her but let it go. She closed the door behind her and began to pant wildly, her eyes grew white and her hand went to her head, her pain coming back to her. She stood back up with a blank look on her face. Visions appeared before her. It was a battle field, a war of some sort. Bodys covered the ground.

" What is this" She thought, a strange figure caught her eye and she looked at it. It was a young girl about the same age as Dana. She had a pair of twin swords and was fighting to stay alive. She had black hair and green eyes, wearing skin tight shorts and a white shirt that was smeared in blood. After she stopped getting attacked she fell to the ground breathing heavily, the swords making a loud clash as they hit the ground. The vision faded and a new one appeared.

Dana was in a black room, she saw nothing in the distance. She started to run screaming Chris's name everywhere.

" Chris, are you there" She yelled while running.

" He is not here, but I am" a voice echoed in the room. Dana turned to see where it came from.

" Where are you" Dana asked, she heard foot steps approch her as she turned to see a girl with black hair and green eyes, wearing skin tight shorts and a blood smeared shirt. She stared at Dana coldly, making Dana look down to the floor. " Who are you" Dana asked.

" You will not be able to contain me inside your mind forever, I havent accomplished so much, just to be stuck in your feeble mind forever, I will emerge again, someday and then your little friends will belong to me, even that Chris Evertsen you seem to love so much" Her voice was cold and harsh.

" No, you leave them alone" Dana yelled at her.

" Your friends are alive for now but when I emerge I wont hesitate to kill them" She turned and started to walk away.

" I will never let you harm Chris" Dana said bursting into tears.

" We shall see" The figure dissapeared and Dana was left alone in the darkness.

"Dana...come on snap out of it" Chris was shaking her a bit, she still had a blank look on her face.

" Hello Dana" Joey waved a hand in front of her face " I dont know man, day dreaming or sumtin"

" This will work" Chris kissed her gently on her lips and she closed her eyes slowly. Not realizing what was going on at the moment. She moved her hand to Chris's cheek and he pulled away. " You ok" Chris asked

" Yeah, guess I just...day dreamed" She removed her hand from his cheek and put it against her head. " Shall we go" She questioned and got in the car, leaving Joey and Chris baffeled.

" I dont know, she seems fine now" Joey got in the car and Chris did too. He started the car and drove off. Joey looked through his deck, making any neccessary changes that he might need to make. Dana sat quietly the whole ride. Chris would take quick glance's at her but his eyes would soon go back to the road. The puzzle around his neck began to glow a bright yellow, The millenium symbol appeared on his forehead, Chris grew serious looking all around him.

" hmmmm" Chris mumbled to himself.

" Whats going on Chris" Joey leaned out of his seat sticking his head up towards Dana.

" Not sure" Chris said as his muscles tightend. Chris looked in the mirror and saw a mini van behind him driving fast " We got company" The van rammed in the back of the car sending Joey back to his seat. All there hearts began to beat fast. Hearing some guys laugh behind them.

" Son of a bitch" Joey cursed rolling down his window and looking in the back of him, to see a black van with three old guys in it, one was Dana's father. " Dammit, hes back guys" Joey said putting his head back in the car.

" Let me guess its..."

" Dana's father" Joey finished Chris's sentence, the van rammed hard against the back of the car and Chris stuggled to maintain control.

" No..." Dana whispered sliding down her seat. They felt another hard ram, Chris almost banging his head on the steering wheel again. Chris clenched his teeth and the puzzle grew brighter, and Chris grew more serious.

" Im ending this, right now" chris stepped on the gas and headed straight for the walmart parking lot. The mini van right behind them. " Dana im sorry but this must stop here and now, even if I have to kill this guy". Dana's eyes grew wide and the car stopped. Chris and Joey got out first. " I got a idea follow me" Chris took Dana's hand and ran for the door's, Joey behind him.

The man in the drivers seat smiled and stopped the car, watching the three run in the store. " Heh, we got em this time" all three got out and cracked there knuckles and began to walk towards the store.

Chris ran inside, still tugging on Dana's arm, about ready to come out of its socket.

" Stand clear, move it people" Joey said going through countless people. The millenium symbol still on chris's head, he took this oppertunity to try and hide Dana from site. He looked in all direction's.

" Dana down there" They both walked over to the carts and Dana ducted behind them. " Please stay here, dont get invovled no matter what, understand" His voice sounded different now, but it sounded like he could be trusted. It's as if he is a whole different person when he has that symbol on his head. He's more serious, Dana nodded in approval.

" Ok" She said.

" Dont worry I wont let anything happen to you, ill handle this" Chris said rubbing her shoulder.

" Where are those bastards" a voice said.

" Stay quiet" Chris said, he stood back up.

" Hey look its the blonde boy" one of them pointed to Joey. He growled and put his fists up ready to attack. The three guys laughed.

" Look, he's actually gonna fight all three of us, well lets not disappoint him" Another of the men said. Chris appeared in front of Joey, taking a few more steps forward.

" Well well well, if it isnt the boy friend, you up to another beating" The father smiled pulling out a switch blade. Chris grew even more serious. " Heh, whats that on your forhead" he asked staring at Chris.

" Its something you could never understand, what do you freaks want" Chris put himself in a defence stance.

" Well, I came to get my little runaway slut and bring her home" The three laughed and Chris growled.

" Dont you ever call her a slut, scum like you shouldnt even be allowed to have children in there house, people like you make me sick" Chris clenched his fist and the fathers two hench men looked ready to attack.

" Im guessing you wont tell me where she is then" he said twirling the blade in his hand.

" No, she doesnt want to stay with you anymore, all you do is abuse her, she is far better off without you in her life, so why dont you just beat it before you hurt yourself with that knife of your's" Chris grew angry and clenched his fist even harder. The father clenched his teeth.

" Ok that does it, your dead, leave him hes mine" The two others nodded and took a few steps back.

" Have it your way" The man rushed Chris and swung down with the knife, Chris dodgeing with ease. " You missed" The man growled and tried to stab Chris, but swung the dagger poorly. " Missed again" The man grew more angry and tried multiple stabs, he was letting his anger take control of him, making his stabs poor.

" Stop it now, your letting your anger get the best of you, you cant beat me like that" Chris dodged every one of his stabs and the father began to grow tired, breathing hard.

Dana could tell Chris had the upper hand, she knew Chris could kill him at any given moment. Her eyes swelled with tears and she stood up. " Both of you stop" Dana yelled.

" Well if it isnt the slut" Chris got angry and punched him in the face, he fell to the ground bleeding.

" I told you, dont call her that" Chris backed up a few steps and smiled " Go back to where you came from, your no match for me"

The old man growled then looked over at dana and smiled sickly.

" You dont even diserve to look at her, get lost" Chris pointed towards the door.

" Actually I got a better idea, how about we duel for her" The father said smiling sickly.

" Sorry, but I wont risk Dana over a stupid game" Chris said, but Dana stepped forward a few steps.

" Then your afraid you will lose to me" the man smiled.

" No he wont duel you, I will instead" Dana said loading her deck in the duel disk. Chris's eyes grew wide with concern.

" No Dana dont, there's way too much riding on this duel" Chris yelled.

" I know, but if I win, this means that he will stay out of my life forever, I want to forget about my father but something inside of me wont, he may be physicly stronger then me, but not mentally and ill prove it, do you agree father" she yelled at him. The man smiled.

" Fine ill duel you instead, if I lose you can stay with Chris, but if I win" Chris didnt like what was about to come out of his mouth. " You will come back with me, and you will be my bitch forever, doing whatever my little heart disires until I die"

" You son of a bitch" Chris yelled at him and tried to rush for him but Joey stopped him.

" I agree" Dana said seriously, the father smiled.

" No...Dana...You cant if this guy wins hell get you, and do you honestly think ill forgive myself if you lose, no I wont, ill spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for you, do you want that" Chris said as Joey let him go.

" Dont forget the flip side to that coin, if I win he will be out of my life forever, so I got nothing to lose" She said.

" No...you got everything to lose, you lose, I lose" Chris said as the old guy smiled putting on a duel disk and sliding his deck in the duel disk.

" Duel" they both annouced as there points rose too 8000.

" Dana you must win this, or ill never get a chance to see you ever again" Chris thought to himself as they drew there first five cards.