Chap 2

Cookies to Dark magician of Chaos and great thanks to Tsukiyo Kagami. And thanks for the pep talk about voices Icy sapphire15

Well here we go another chappie!

Oh and if I fail school I blame the evil muse for making me write this instead of my homework…

'…' thoughts

"…" speaking

"Well that was fun…"

Kaiba drawled and moved away from the boy, who by now was bloody and slightly blue.

It had been fun trying to freeze the boy. He had struggled after a point, and that had been a mistake… Kaiba had beaten him unconscious.

It had passed and he was now left to deal with the aftermath of his actions.

His love, the one who he couldn't live without, lying spread-eagled on the floor, bloody, battered and almost dead, thoroughly beaten.

He hadn't meant it to go this far… but the thrill of power he got when he had complete power over the other was beyond all else.

Staring down at his handiwork he felt ashamed, he had taken more of his love's soul, more of the hope that burned dimly in the boy's eyes. Jou still hadn't come round, even though it had been a while since he stopped. In fact if anything his breathing was getting more and more erratic…

"Jou? Jou it's time to get up... Jou come on love, please?" the last said on a rising plaintive wail, as Kaiba knelt down cradling his puppy's head in his lap, feeling the coldness of the boy's skin Kaiba shuddered.

"Damn it pup, I'm so sorry…I'm sorry…"

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Kaiba began to look round for something to cover the blond with; he was erratic in his movements, lost, and berating himself over what he had done.

He knew what he had to do, warm the boy slowly and not give him anything to drink but he was going to panic about what he had done.

Jou was still breathing but only just, one or more of his ribs had been broken showing twisted beneath his skin, distorting his perfect outline with jagged ends, his skin was a mass of sculpted lines, carved in his soft silken skin with a scalpel and may be worse, as Kaiba had knocked him out, he had his head pounded into the floor. There was a slow patch of sticky blood forming where his head touched the floor.

'Well the cold did one good thing…the bleeding is slow.'

Kaiba bent down and pulled the boy up into his arms, careful to keep him flat. He remembered what had happened to Mokuba years before and knew how to deal with this 'little' problem.

Carefully he held the boy to his chest, and making sure he was wrapped up well, started off to the manor proper.

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As he entered the back door, Kaiba was glad that he only hired help to clean out once a month. There would have been too many questions about what had happened to the pale blonde in his arms. Gently Kaiba took the boy up stairs to his wing of the house. Even if his brother came home from his holiday early he would never venture into the elder's wing for fear of being separated from his games.

What could he say, they both enjoyed games, just his were of a different nature…. Speaking of which he had reached his room and was headed to the bathroom. He gently laid the boy out on the bed, still covered but still a very pale slightly blue colour, and went to run a warm bath.

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A bit later…

"Come on pup it is time for your bath…Jou love? Can you hear me?"

Sighing Kaiba walked over to the boy and clasping him to his chest carefully so as not to aggravate the injuries. The boy moaned slightly, he was still too cold, so Kaiba took him into the bathroom and plopped him fully clothed into the bath.

Kaiba watched his love for a while, he had had to get into the bath to help a shivering Jou out, and then he stood the boy while he checked the wounds he had inflicted.

"Shit, did not mean to do that … shit… I'm sorry Jou, Jou?"

Jou had not really stopped shivering even though his clothes were on the floor and he was wrapped in a large fluffy towel. Slowly he turned to his tormentor and looking into those blue on blue eyes tried to answer.

"S-s-s-sor-r-ry S-s-set-t-to, I-I …." Jou was interrupted by a pair of soft lips brushing his, telling him it was ok to stop. Jou felt his legs go out from under him, as he fell a strong pair of arms wrap themselves around his waist and pull him up to a well defined chest. Jou rested his aching head on his Seto's shoulder.

Seto tucked his lover into the large bed watching as the shivers wracking the smaller boys body increased in intensity. Jou was not in good shape, he was going to get a fever if not more because of what happened.

"Sleep well pup, I'll be here when you wake."

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It had been a few days since the incident in the pavilion and Seto was defiantly worried about Jou, the boy varied between bouts of shivering and sweating, both caused by the fever that was tearing through his body, never slowing or stopping.

Jou was occasionally lucid but was more often than not delirious.

In his fever Jou was saying things, admittedly most were incomprehensible but those that were easily understood…. They were enough, Seto never knew his pup had it like that, when the fever got worse, the ramblings seemed to go further back into the past. Jou had of course told some things to Seto but what he was screaming about had never even been hinted at.

Some of what was said froze Seto's blood in his veins.

Jou had been reduced to a wreck several times as he was forced to relive his nightmares, things that no child should see, hear or be put through.

Each time Seto would comfort him, trying often in vain to make the crying and shaking stop.

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Well there you go another chappie. I wont be able to update regularly but you will know if I stop writing this!

if anyone knows what the lines are for please tell me!