Chapter 22:
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or Harry Potter.
Sorry it has been so long since I last updated, I got really sick and then my internet wasn't working so I started making plushies of all my Original Characters. I was in the middle of making one when my internet started working again so I decided to finish it before I went back to updating. For those of you who are wondering yes this story is almost done but I am working on another one. It is called A Story Without A Title.
Summery: Serenity has just started attending Domino U. Her first assignment is to write a novel and she finishes her rough copy in one night. The next day strange things start to happen. Is her Novel really a window into her future and Seto's Past?
Well now that I have done my rambling it is time to get to the story. I hope you all love it.
Over the next week Seto noticed major changes in the way Serenity was acting. She was much more submissive to Seto's will, she always looked at him and waited for him to let her know if she was allowed to speak or not before answering anyone who spoke to her, she flinched every time someone raised a hand to her even if it was just to give her a hug, and she had become much more soft-spoken. Even Joey had noticed these changes in her.
Serenity and Joey were sitting at a table in the library one-day talking about the holidays what they had gotten for their friends and Joey trying to guess what Serenity had bought him.
"Did ya get me a broomstick?" Joey asked.
"No." Serenity answered in a hushed voice.
"Come on sis tell me, I have guessed everything I can think of." Joey pleaded, "Is it something I have guessed already."
"No it isn't and I can't tell you. It would ruin the surprise." Serenity said enjoying watching her brother try so hard to figure out what it was she had bought him.
"Joey," Serenity said her tone all of the sudden unusually serious. "Can I tell you something?"
"Of cores sis, you can tell me anything." Joey responded glad that Serenity would confined in him.
"You have to promise not to get mad though ok." She said as if she was afraid that Joey was going to flip out.
"Cross my heart and hope to die." Was Joey's response as he drew an X over his heart.
"Do you remember how Dad got me?" Serenity asked.
"Yeah…" Was all Joey said.
He knew that she was not actually his sister and that she had been bought by his father.
"Where did dad get me?" She asked tonelessly.
"The haunted mansion." Joey Said not exactly sure where this conversation was going.
"Joey… Seto owns me." She said almost silently.
"WHAT?" Joey exclaimed at the top of his lungs.
"Joey it's ok. He did it to save me from being sold to a horrible person who was going to be mean to me," She explained trying to calm him down and then added under her breath, "and because we were going out."
Somehow Joey had managed to hear the last part of her remark which just made him angrier.
"WHAT, YOU HAVE BEEN GOING OUT WITH MONY BAGS?" Joey shouted.
"Joey calm down, he's…" Serenity stopped in mid-sentence because she had seen Seto walk in the doors to the library.
Joey followed Serenity's gave and also saw Seto. He immediately got up and marched toward Seto anger bubbling up in him.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Joey Shouted at Seto.
"What are you talking about mutt?" Seto asked obviously confused by the statement.
"DATE MY SISTER, AND THEN BUY HER LIKE SHE WAS A POSESION?" Joey seemed to be stuck in screaming mode.
"I'm sorry, would you have rather had me leave her with your abusive father?" Seto asked perfectly calmly.
"How'd you know about my father?" Joey asked slightly bewildered now.
"I know a lot of things mutt." Was Seto's response.
Seto's glance caught Serenity slink down in her chair trying not to be noticed. He brushed passed the very confused mutt and walked over to Serenity.
"Hi love." He said giving her a small kiss on the top of her head.
"Hi." She whispered.
"GET AWAY FOM HER MONY BAGS." Joey screamed.
"Why I have every right to speak to her, or is it illegal to speak to my girlfriend?" Seto was remaining unusually calm.
"Serenity lets go." Joey ordered.
Serenity looked at Joey and then at Seto. She wasn't sure what she should do. On one hand Joey treated her like his sister, but on the other Seto could easily beat her if she did something that displeased him.
"You make the choice Serenity," Seto said kindly, "I won't cause you any harm if you choose to go with your brother."
Serenity had made her choice. She finally realized that Seto would never hurt her. She looked at Joey with raw determination. She was about to do something she had never done before.
"No." She said firmly.
"What?" Joey asked startled at her response.
"I want to stay here with Seto." She clarified.
"Fine but if you stay here with him don't expect me to treat you like my sister any more, and you are not coming to live with me for the summer."
Joey seemed to have been planning this moment for some time. It was like if he couldn't keep her on a short leash than he didn't want her at all.
"Fine. I won't. You were never a good big brother anyway." Serenity spat back.
Joey ignored this and stormed out. He seemed to not care at all about Serenity. Where she was going to go for the summer was not his problem now though.
Serenity felt freed of some great load that she had been carrying. It was like Joey was just a burden to her. His over protective ways had prevented her from doing so many things, not to mention that she spent more time picking up after him that she did anything else.
"Did that feel good?" Seto asked.
"Yes." Serenity replied with a sigh of relief and a huge smile.
"If you have no where else to stay for the summer vacation, you can stay with me." Seto offered knowing that that was the thought pressing into Serenity's mined.
"Thank you." Serenity replied.
The two of them spent the rest of the day in the library talking. Serenity had stopped acting like a pet and Seto was very happy about that.
Well that was chapter 22. I hope it wasn't to horrible of a chapter. Please R&R and tell me what you think.