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After negotiating Kaido's employment details, Seto finally hung up and looked to me. "Get the hell off my desk, I spent a lot of money on the chairs in here, so USE THEM!" I jumped down and rolled my eyes as I sat in one of the leather winged back chairs facing his desk. "Why her?" I asked, barely remembering the details of her last visit to Domino City. "Because she's good, and I know I can trust her. Now stop asking questions and leave me alone. We both have a lot of work to do before we can go to bed, and we both have school tomorrow." I shrugged and stood up, failing to mention that I'd already finished my share of the work, and walked out of his office and up to my room. I left the window open as I changed and slipped into bed, shivering as a cold breeze flowed through the room.
(During the Night)
The bright glow of the Millennium Armlet woke me. Glancing at the clock, I noticed it was around 3:45 am. I knew I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep, so I got up and showered, then dressed for the day. The Armlet's never awakened me like that before... something's wrong, I thought, as I walked down the stairs. I came to the bottom of the stairs and was instantly greeted by the cause of my item's bright glow. Seto's girlfriend, Lilliana Saffire, had just walked into the mansion and her own Millennium Locket was giving off a glow. She stood staring at me, as if she'd just seen a ghost. I immediately recognized the look in her eyes, having had it myself not so long ago. I could tell without asking that she'd just had a run in with Domino's local psychopath, the Spirit of the Millennium Ring, or Bakura as he was more commonly known as around here.
"Hey Lil.. It's ok, you're safe now..." I said, taking her arm and guiding her into the living room. I sat her down on the couch and shook my head. What the hell'd he do to her... I wondered, as I quickly got her a glass of water and brought it to her, then sat down next to her. She finally looked at me, fear still evident in her blueish purple eyes. "Myst... I..." I smiled slightly and nodded. "I know Lil.. you ran into Bakura right? So did he hurt you?" She shook her head no, but didn't say anything else. I heard a noise from the entrance hall, and turned to see Seto standing there. Taking this as my cue to leave, I quickly ran back up to my room, leaving Lilliana to tell Seto what had happened.
(Narritive POV)
Seto watched his sister run up the stairs, then walked into the living room where his girlfriend sat. She sighed as she set the glass of water down on the coffee table and looked up into his cerulean eyes. He sat down in an arm chair across from her, crossing his legs and arms, managing to look more like a theropist than a boyfriend. "Alright Lilliana, what happened? I know something's wrong with you, you're pale." Lilliana took a deep breath, "I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to sleep, so I decided to walk over here, since it's not that far. But on the way over... Bakura showed up and pinned me to the ground, demanding that I duel him for my Locket..." She began, absently rubbing a bruise on her arm. "Well?" "Well... I didn't have much of a choice.. so I dueled him... in the shadow realm." Seto's eyes narrowed. "You what?" "I had to Seto... I won though." "That much is obvious since you're sitting here with the Locket." Tears began to form in her eyes as she sat there, not knowing what else to say. She was about to get up and leave when Seto stood and walked to the couch, sitting next to her and putting an arm around her shoulder. "You're fine, next time call and have someone pick you up if you want to come over." Lilliana just nodded and laid her head on his shoulder. The two of them sat there in silence until they had to part for school.
(Later that day - Domino High - Mystic's POV)
I still hadn't found out anything about what happened to Lil, and I was beginning to worry about it when I noticed Ryou walking towards me. He shyly smiled and said a quiet "hi". I was almost too shocked to speak. Ryou and I weren't enemies, but we weren't really friends either. In fact I didn't have any friends due to the fact that everyone assumed that being a Kaiba meant I was just like my brother. I quickly recovered however and tilted my head to the side. "Hey Ryou.. what's up?" He sighed and looked to the ground, then told me that the Spirit had taken over again and tried to steal Lil's Locket. I didn't really know what to say to the poor kid, so I just said "It's not your fault Ryou... and Lilli knows that. I'll talk to her for you though." That seemed to calm him some and he left me to myself as Yugi and his friends came to drag him off to lunch.
During Lunch, I sat in a corner working on my lap top and watching Seto be a general ass to everyone. Yugi and his friends were all gathered together as usual and everyone else was off doing their own thing. I worked in silence, and was surprised to the point of actually jumping when an IM popped up on my screen. BEWDMaster had come on-line while I wasn't paying attention. Why are you in a corner? Cause I have nothing better to do, and no friends to do it with anyway. So why don't you go make some? Same reason you don't... is there a point to this Seto? Not really, I'm actually more interested in the report you did yesterday. So you IM me at school to ask me about work... typical. What about it? I want you to make a copy and send it out to the board. Fine, and why did you have to IM me when you're only about 5 ft away from me? Because I can. With that, Seto logged off, earning a middle finger from me, which got me sent yet again to the office. This, was one day I should have stayed in bed.