Hey im updating again finally, well I can't be bothered to really say anything here so here's the update, oh and I'm sorry for leaving it on a quite destructive note last time, but I guess it's okay, so anyway…

Babysitting the Maniac

Chapter 5- in the emergency room

"Try not to be too hard on yourself; it was an accident, nobody meant for it to happen." Ryou tried to console Bakura again.

"But I was the one looking after him; Malik is going to kill me!" Bakura was pacing the hospital's family waiting room and had been for the last twenty minutes. The woman in the car who had hit Marik phoned for an ambulance, it had arrived quickly and rushed the injured yami off to the nearest hospital.

"Ryou's right, Malik will understand it's not like you pushed him into the road or anything." Maith said, trying to be helpful.

"How long did he say it would be before he got here?" Bakura asked Ryou.

"About 15 minutes" Ryou answered looking at the reception through the window. Ryou knew Bakura was panicking about facing Malik, although he was sure Malik wouldn't be mad at Bakura. A few minutes later Malik, Odion and Ishizu ran into the hospital reception. Ryou ran out to meet them with Maith, Bakura lagged behind slightly.

"Where is he?" Ishizu asked straight away, and she and Odion followed Maith when she offered to take her to Marik.

"I think I'm going to get a coffee, does anyone else want one?" Ryou asked, when the others declined he walked towards a vending machine.

"Malik, I'm really sorry." Bakura said looking at the floor. When Malik didn't answer he looked up to see the blonde looking off into space. "Erm, Malik?" Malik looked at him detachedly.

"If anything happens to my yami I'll never forgive you." Malik then headed off in the direction that his sister went. Bakura stood looking at his best friends retreating back.

"You okay?" Ryou asked standing next to his yami holding a steaming cup of coffee.

"You were wrong, Malik hates me." Bakura began to stare at the ground again and wrapped his arms around himself, as though to guard himself from those around him.

"It's probably just shock, when he's adjusted he'll understand."

"How can you be so calm?" Bakura's voice began to rise, "Why is it that you're absolutely fine about this?"

"Bakura, keep you're voice down." Ryou said avoiding the stares they were attracting, "maybe we should go back into the waiting room." Ryou headed towards the door that lead into the quiet waiting room and looked around to make sure Bakura was following, he was. "Look, just sit down and wait, when they find out that Marik will be okay, they'll come in here and everything will be fine. It's natural to feel guilty, even though it wasn't your fault." Bakura looked up at his hikari and nodded to show he understood. Ryou sat next to him and rubbed soothing circles on his back. A few minutes later, the Ishtar family and Maith came in and sat down. "How is he?"

"The nurse said he would be fine, there was a little internal bleeding but they stopped it, there won't be any lasting side effects." Ishizu answered. She looked at Bakura then back at Ryou. "We don't blame you Bakura, it wasn't your fault, isn't that right?" she looked behind her to Odion and Malik. Odion nodded his agreement with his sister, and Malik slowly followed suit.

"Really, you don't?" Bakura had hid his face in his hands when Ishizu explained how Marik was and his voice was muffled and croaky.

"No, of course we don't."

"And Malik doesn't hate me?" Everyone looked at Malik and his cheeks turned a slight pinky shade. He got up and crossed the room then knelt down in front of Bakura who still hadn't looked up.

"No I don't, I didn't mean what I said about not forgiving you, I would have been mad and upset if my yami had died, but he's not going to, it's okay, so there's nothing to forgive, it was an accident, I was just worried about Marik is all. I'm sorry Bakura." Bakura looked up and smiled weakly, his eyes were a little wet and there were the beginnings of tear tracks down is face.

"See I told you everything would be fine." Ryou said still rubbing his yami's back.

"You wanna go see Marik?" Malik asked. Bakura nodded reluctantly. They reached the ward Marik was in and heard his chirpy voice before they even entered the room.

"I got a lollypop from the guy who checked my ear!" the spikey blonde was telling a smiling nurse as she was taking his blood pressure.

"Oh hey, you're awake!" Malik ran forward and hugged his yami who was sucking on a purple lollypop.

"Yeah! The lady said I could go home in a few days!" Marik said.

"Oh that's fantastic!" Ishizu said happily.

"Oh Bakuuuuraaaaa!" Marik said in a singsong voice.

"What do you want?" Bakura said stepping forward, ready to do anything to make up for being a bad babysitter.

"You are the best babysitter I've ever had! Today was so cool! I got to feed ducks, take old people swimming and get a cool shiney plaster! Look!" he lifted his elbow and showed them the plaster with a shiney holographic design on it, "I cut my arm so they gave me this, isn't it cool?" The group stared at Marik in disbelief.

"Marik, you do know that you have stitches in the back of your head don't you?"

"Yeah," the yami said, "but they don't have cool shiney things on! Thanks Kura!" he gave Bakura a thumbs up.

"You're welcome, I think." Bakura said confusedly.

"Great! Does that mean I can come to your house again?"

"Erm, no."

"What, why not?"

"There is no way I'm going through all of this again!"

"Please Kura" Marik pleaded.

"NO!"

"Please!"

"HELL NO!"

"BUT WHY?"

"I think we should leave them to it." Ryou said quietly and backed quietly out of the room followed by the others, still not escaping the whiney voice of Marik and the annoyed growl of Bakura.

"Well at least we know one thing," Malik said smiling when the arguing had faded, "we know we have Marik back."

THE END

I suck at endings, anyway…

CELEBRATIONS! I actually finished a story! I'm a little sad it's over but I'm glad too, I enjoyed writing it. I did have a sequel in mind but I don't think I'm gonna do it, unless you want me to! Lemme know peeps! Anyway I'm off to go and celebrate by eating a cookie. Bye bye