A/N: I don't own Yu-gi-oh...I think it's cruel I have to keep stating what doesn't belong to me over and over...

Chapter 4

Serenity woke to discover she was alone in the room. Tea must have left her a while ago, if she had even gone to bed. The second bed in the room was neatly made and didn't look slept in. Serenity stretched and yawned, the clock read 10:30. She had slept in. Though she dreaded running into Kaiba she knew she had to leave the room eventually and her stomach had already determined it was time. After a quick trip to the bathroom and a miserable attempt at pulling herself together she left the safety of her room in search of breakfast.

She wearily rounded the corner and walked up the short flight of stairs that led to the living room. The kitchen, she assumed, was right off the living room. She wandered room to room for a few minutes then zeroed in on the kitchen. She walked in and was confronted by a rather annoyed worker.

"Can I help you?" The man asked her gruffly. The question wasn't meant to help it was meant to intimidate her. She hated it here.

"I-I was looking for…for something…" She blushed and hung her head. "I just wanted something to eat. Please."

"You missed breakfast," he said with impatience. "You'll have to wait for lunch. This isn't a pleasure cruise. If you sleep through breakfast, you miss breakfast."

She turned to leave the kitchen with a miserable knot in her belly. She noticed a bowl of fruit and grabbed an apple, hiding it in front of her as she pushed through the door leading back into the living room. The apple was ok, but it just reminded her how hungry she really was. She hadn't eaten anything since yesterday and that was just a few bites of the meal she was served here. She hardly touched it, fearing Kaiba might have laced it with some drug so he could toss them, unconscious, overboard last night. She wanted to go home and be with Joey. Never again would Tea talk her into doing anything.

Idly wondering where Tea was she got up and threw out the core of her apple. It was time to track down the brown haired girl who's ambition had gotten them kidnapped. Out on the deck she realized that they were stopped and anchored. She looked around at the several islands that were around them. Just where in the hell were they? She walked over to the railing and looked down at the water.

"Not planning to go over are you?" A snide Kaiba asked, making her jump before she turned quickly to face him.

"Not unless you decided to throw me over." She could have smacked herself for giving him ideas. "Where is Tea?"

"Throw you over huh?" He smirked. "Well, I'm not going swimming twice today, if you go over you're on your own."

She noticed his slightly damp hair. "What do you mean twice?"

"Twice, Wheeler, meaning more than once but fewer than three times. How did you manage to get a job if you don't know how to count, then again how much skill does it take to work for that piece of crap some loosely call media?"

"I know how to count Kaiba," she whispered meekly.

He could hear the fear in her voice, Tea didn't fear him as much as this girl did.

"You don't know how to think though, do you?" He came within inches of her face in an intimidating manor. "If you did you would have never come after me, but here you are cowering like your brother does…the Mutt's sister…"

She wanted to say something, anything, but she couldn't think of anything. He was scary and she decided she didn't like him. No, she didn't like him before they got on the boat, now she hated him.

"Where are we?" She asked timidly in an attempt to change the subject.

"Not that you could profit from that information, we are in an island chain. Before you think of swimming for shore you should know they are deserted." He stood there, coldly looking down on her.

"Why are we here?" She managed.

He smirked at her; she was timid and quite shy. "You'll just have to wait and see why, now won't you?"

"Where is Tea?" She mumbled, trying to look at him, but not able to summon the courage to do so.

"She's safe in my bed." He noticed her eyes grow wide, just the reaction he was hoping for.

"Your-Your bed?" There was no way Tea would sleep with Kaiba. Did he rape her? Was he that big of a monster? Was it possible they were on this boat in the middle of nowhere with a maniac? She gasped at her own imagination, taking a few steps back from this man that emanated pure evil.

She was terrified of him and he found himself enjoying it. Tea, on the other hand, wasn't as intimidated. She was slightly scared, but this was genuine terror.

"Why is she in your b-b-bed?"

"Would you care for me to show you what I did to her there?" He asked, laughing on the inside how innocent it all was but how he was making it all seem so guilty. He nearly smiled at the thought of showing Wheeler the bottle of meat tenderizer, but he figured he'd play with her until he was bored.

"N-n-no thank you. That is, no, sorry I don't want to see, I mean show, I mean know." She sounded like a fool. "No I don't want to."

"Well Wheeler, at the moment you don't need to learn her lesson. I would be careful if I were you though, otherwise you might just end up in her position. On my bed…clad only in a towel…"

She gasped, placing her hand over her mouth. Was Tea ok? Was she alive? What had he done? Was she next? She bumped into the railing. There was no more room to back away from him and she knew he could easily grab her if she decided to start running. She began whispering a short prayer, he snickered at her for that.

"Please leave me alone," she was nearly in tears. She reminded him of a deer caught in the headlights.

"Are you scared Wheeler? You should have thought about that when you became a stowaway. I don't take kindly to intruders. Keep yourself scarce and out of the way and maybe you won't find yourself cast off on one of these desolate islands. Then again, maybe I should put you on one and your friend on another. How would you like that? I don't think you could survive together but apart you'd be doomed." He turned and walked away from her leaving her to her thoughts.

He was petrifying. She would, from now on, avoid him at all costs. The first thing she had to do was find Tea, and then she would be like glue. He was just awful and knowing she was trapped also brought with it the thought that it would only get worse. As the days went by he would get harder to live with. She had to figure something out. If Tea couldn't come up with a plan for escape she sure as hell would. For now, it was in her best interest to practice avoidance. She absently wondered where Kaiba's room was…she had to find Tea and discover what happened.

Tea sat up on the bed, her towel slipping a bit before she grabbed it to her. She searched the room, but she was all alone. What would have happened if her towel had slipped while Kaiba was there? She blushed madly at that thought. His hands exploring her were bad enough, but that was just to soothe her wounds. She bit her lip, it wasn't all that horrible. It was quite surprising that a man who was so cold could be that gentle.

The turning of the knob brought her back from her recollections.

"I see you're awake finally," Kaiba said as he walked in and closed the door behind him.

"Yes I am," she managed. "Thank you for your help."

He looked at her with those malevolent sapphire eyes. He would never admit that the experience wasn't unpleasant.

"Are you in any pain?" He asked as he sat beside her. He was slightly afraid she would have an allergic reaction to the nettles. Thankfully the gelatinous orbs were the common type, nothing fancy like man-o-wars. She would have been in trouble then.

"What exactly did you give me that made me sleep for so long?" She asked as she yawned. Her hand covering her mouth caused her towel to slip a bit and Kaiba's eyes gained a mind of their own as he took in the slight amount of exposed skin. She had a very nice figure, he had to give her that much. He also knew she worked out. When he touched her he could feel the sculpting of her muscles.

"Benadryl. It's an antihistamine. I want you to take it for the next day or two. Mokuba's doctor recommended that after Mokuba encountered nettles. It does make you sleepy." His voice was gruff, but not unpleasant.

His fingers traced one of the welts on her shoulder. He wondered if she would scar, but doubted it. Mokuba never did.

"Do you need more tenderizer?" He asked, hopeful of her answer.

Her eyes searched his. Why was he acting this way towards her? It was almost scary. Then again, she reminded herself, he could turn his emotions on a dime and any second he could turn into confrontational Kaiba. She liked this one better.

"I think I'm ok, but thank you." She shivered at the thought of his hands on her skin again.

"I want you to stay in here for the day and rest." He stood, towering over her now. "Don't think for a minute we've finished our discussion about why you're here. You have a lot to answer for." There, this was the Kaiba she knew. She wondered if he would come back and check on her again.

"I'll have your lunch brought to you." He opened a drawer and tossed a shirt at her. "Put this on. The only people on this ship are men and I sure as hell don't need you giving them any ideas."

With that he was gone, she idly wondered if the click she heard was a lock. She pulled on the shirt and laid back into the pillows, letting the pill take her back to sleep.

Kaiba found Serenity sitting in the living room flipping through a magazine. It was a Duel Monsters one, announcing new cards and giving information on upcoming tournaments. There was little else to do on this boat.

"I've made a decision Wheeler." Kaiba announced. He noted how the girl struggled to keep the magazine from falling. She was very jumpy and he was about to make her life worse…

A/N: Oh well…there you have it. Please don't flame me for Serenity's behavior. I can't have both girls defying Kaiba-where would the fun in that be? Please read and review. I'm still trying to develop this story and reviews would help it come along…Thanks!