Hello everyone and welcome to the second chapter, if you notice I may change the genre of general to mystery I figured this was a little more appropriate, since there is a little twists here and there. Reviewers, I am going to ask that you leave an email so that I can write to you my thanks to you personally, as for those anonymous ones, that don't leave emails, you get your reviews here where everyone can see them but they will be shorter then if I put them in email format.

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Galleria: Yes, I know I killed Josh, but there is a twist to that and you will see at the bottom of this chapter remember Josh is an actor, and I never said Duke was good just that in prison some personality changes happen, lol. Thanks for the review and I hope you enjoy more of this story.

Seething-Z: I would put enter after everyone speaks, the problem is that it would make the chapter even longer because a lot of the time when I have people speaking just one liners in the conversation, that's why I say he says or she says at the end. Thank you for your suggestion, and I will put it in consideration so I did try to do it in this chapter but I know a few slipped through the cracks, it's just my writing style and it's difficult to change over a short period of time. Thank you

Chapter 2

Lost hope

Kisty got a few hours later after getting some sleep but it was more unrest then anything, her mind was on constant replay of her last moments with Josh and that wasn't helping the wounds heal at all. Slowly Kisty walked out into the hallway and into the nursery, she saw Ally's baby crib she looked over and saw that her daughter was asleep with her thumb in her mouth. A small smile crossed her small white face as if having a good dream, last few weeks because of Kisty's unrest, poor Ally hadn't been able to sleep knowing her mother was unhappy.

Seto had just taken a break from working in his home office, which he did a lot more, ever since Kisty moved back into the mansion; he was walking past the nursery, and saw Kisty over her daughter. Seto leaned on the doorframe, and watched Kisty slowly touch her daughter's head running her fingers throw the small girl's blue hair.

"You know they say that if the baby is asleep, so should the mother," Seto spoke as Kisty looked over at him. "I don't want to lose her Dad," Kisty responded slowly. "I know, and you feel like she is the only one, that you can cling to, remember Josh," he said as he walked over and put his hand on Kisty's shoulder, "You need to understand that, Josh didn't leave you to raise Ally on your own," he said.

"It's not raising her, it's the fear that I could let her walk out the door and never see her again," Kisty said. Seto smirked, "I thought the same thing once, and you did walk out the door, also for a short time I thought I lost your mother forever," he said. Kisty and Seto begun to walk out of the nursery, letting Ally get some sleep.

"When did you think you lost mom?" Kisty asked as they headed towards the kitchen downstairs. "About the time you were 17 and just got your diploma, and you took off from the mansion in the middle of the night knowing what I did to hurt you down, I was kind of surprised that you were behind Mokuba's mansion that was a good way to throw me off," Seto explained. Kisty nodded, "Ok, so when I ran off you thought you lost what you had of mom?" she asked.

Seto nodded, "Yes, I did that was until I thought of how to get you back," he said, "I was a bad father at the time, I felt pushed and let my anger and lust for power take over, to put you though that training that made me lose you in the first place. Who would have known that Josh would help you come back, to me and that's when I realized your mother never left," he said.

Kisty stopped at the door of the kitchen, "What do you mean Josh brought me back, if it wasn't for that stupid contract I would of never went though that hell," she said. Seto nodded, "Josh was the one that made me realize that I was about to lose my little girl the last thing that I thought was left of Alexandra, but you weren't" he said.

"Ok, so what is left of mom now," Kisty asked. Seto chuckled, they both walked through the kitchen door, "Let me just say, that as long as you were alive and I had my memories I didn't need to hold a vice grip on you forever your mother was alive in here," he said pointing to his head.

Ann turned, "And she won't be dead as long as we all remember her," she said. Kisty nodded, "So you two are saying that, as long as I remember Josh, then he really isn't gone," she said. Ann and Seto nodded, at Kisty who let out a sigh, "It hurts not to feel him though," she said. Seto put his hand on Kisty's shoulder, "It will go away in time," he said moving over to the coffee pot. Ann with a spatula in her hand hit Seto's hand as he tried to steal a pancake, "Those aren't for you," she said pointing it at him. Seto rolled his eyes, "You know why, did you ever make me fire the cook?" he asked. Ann smirked back at Seto, "Because, I can cook better then that guy from iron chief and I like to make food for my family," she said.

Seto rolled his eyes as he reached for a pancake, "Can't I just take…"

"I said no Seto Kaiba, now stop trying to take food from your daughter," interrupted Ann. Kisty sighed, "Oh would you stop it I am not that hungry," she said then her stomach growled.

"Really, young lady, I was present when you were born, said your first word, and I know when your hungry and when your tired, don't try to pull anything on me, your hungry and that's that," Ann said.

Seto grabbed a pancake and quickly hopped over to Kisty while Ann was talking. "Seto KAIBA put that back, now," snapped Ann. Seto shook his head and took a bite out of it, "Mine," he said putting down his untouched coffee. Kisty smirked and took Seto's coffee cup, "Mine now," she said taking a drink of it. Seto smirked, as Ann shook her head, "Like father like daughter," she said going back to pancakes.

Mokuba walked through the kitchen door, "Good morning everyone!" he said loudly. Kisty glared at her uncle and shushed him, "Ally's sleeping," she whispered.

Mokuba put a sorry expression on his face, "Sorry, Kisty," he said giving her a small hug and went to sit down next to her, as his brother got up to get some more coffee since Kisty stole his coffee earlier. "So Mokuba how is everything at Kaiba Industrial Corp?" asked Ann pouring more pancake mix on to the skillet in front of her. Seto reached for another pancake and was met with specula on his hand, "Take those to Kisty first then you can get what is left," Ann, snapped.

Mokuba smirked, he loved it how Ann was so dominate when she cooked, and Seto always was trying to take what ever she was making. "Actually, things today have been going well, umm, I also have some great news and some not so great news," Mokuba said looking over at Kisty who was also part of the company still but hadn't worked since Josh passed away and she moved back into the mansion.

"Well Duke is being released from prison this afternoon, and that's the bad now the great news is that he can't come anywhere near Kisty," said Mokuba quickly. Kisty crossed her arms over her chest, "Excuse me Mokuba, but he didn't come near me when he had me raped by my own board of supervisors, nor did he touch me when he had me whipped and tied to a chain to drop me in a tank full of sharks!" she yelled.

Suddenly there was crying coming over the baby monitor, Kisty rolled her eyes sky word, "GREAT!" she yelled and marched out of the kitchen to calm Ally. Mokuba looked at Ann and Seto they looked as if they were going to kill him the younger Kaiba brother. "Look, I didn't know that Duke could get out, his lawyer must have filed an appeal that finally got through the courts" he said.

"It was your job to make sure that Duke could never touch or go near Kisty or Josh. You messed up big time Mokuba," snapped Ann turning to the last of her pancake mix.

"My fault! This is far from my fault, I am not the lawyer in the kitchen right now. Your job was to make sure Duke stayed behind bars!" Mokuba snapped back.

"ENOUGH!" snapped Seto, "Look we have to deal with this now, what time is Duke's release?" he asked quickly. "Umm, that's the even worse news it was this afternoon, he is already out," answered Mokuba.

"WHAT?" yelled Seto shaking the entire mansion all the way to the foundation.

"SHUT UP DOWN THERE I AM TRYING TO GET ALLY BE QUIET!" yelled Kisty from the top of the stairs.

The doorbell rang suddenly, Seto, Ann and Mokuba looked at each other, then Kisty went to answer the door since she was by the stairs. Opening the door Kisty found Atem and his girlfriend Preethi standing there, "Umm, bad timing?" asked Atem after hearing Kisty from the other side of the door.

Kisty shook her head, "You could have picked worse," she said, trying to rub Ally's back as she cried and they turned from the door. "Let me take the baby there for a few minutes, you look like your going to pass out any second," said Preethi taking Ally in to her arms, "You rest Kisty." Kisty watched Preethi walk away with a now quieted Ally towards the nursery, since Preethi was the only person besides Ann that could quiet Ally when she was scared or was it something else.

Atem looked at Kisty, "You look like shit," he said.

Kisty shook her head, "You don't know the half of it, Duke is being released this afternoon," she said.

"I know and Tea went to pick him up," said Atem shutting the door after walking into the mansion. Seto, Ann and Mokuba had walked into the main entrance hall of the mansion, they all walked to the living room, Preethi joined them soon after.

"You wake my goddaughter, and you will feel my wraith," Preethi snapped at all of them.

Kisty shook her head as it lay on the couch Seto was next to her and Ann was next to him. Atem was sitting in a chair by the fireplace and above that was the TV. Preethi walked over to Atem and sat on his lap, "So what the heck happened to make Ally cry that loud? I never seen a child that worried in my life," she asked. Kisty looked at Preethi, "Well, lets see, Ally lost her dad a few months ago, and now her grandfather who had me raped, is now free from prison," she said in a sarcastic tone of voice.

"What, that's not possible Ann and I made sure that he couldn't get out, even his lawyer couldn't appeal it, also the man has no money what so ever," Preethi said.

"Apparently you failed on him being released," said Seto, he normally would of fired Preethi as Kisty's secretary/lawyer and Ann for being the family lawyer now, but ever since Kisty's mother had been in his life he learned to lighten up a bit and it was a big bit when it came to family affairs.

"So what are you all going to do about it?" asked Atem, as he sat in the chair with his girlfriend.

"I don't know," Kisty groaned, "Move away go into hiding, I am still getting over Josh and his father just got out of prison," she said putting her hands to her head.

Seto put his hand on Kisty's shoulder, "He's not coming near you," he said.

Ann shook her head, "We don't know that Seto," she said.

"What about Tea, she went to pick him up?" asked Mokuba in the doorway since he didn't sit down anywhere, "She's the enemy now I guess."

Atem shook his head, "Tea wouldn't do something like that without reason, she and Duke used to be close when her parents pasted away, she could be returning the favor. I mean he doesn't have anybody now," he said.

"Tea has always been the friendship queen even if they are considered enemies to everyone else," said Seto with a small smirk. Kisty rolled her eyes under her hands, "Doesn't matter Duke is out and…." Kisty stopped in mid sentence when Ally started crying again.Kisty groaned, "Excuse me, my daughter is calling," she said getting up and heading up the stairs.

"Has Ally been doing a lot of crying lately?" asked Preethi. Ann and Seto nodded, "We have to sleep down here with movies, on to not hear the crying," said Seto.

"I see," said Preethi, "Cuddle bear would you excuse me for a moment, I am going to have a talk with Kisty," she said and walked out of the room.

Seto raised an eyebrow, "Cuddle bear? When did the King of Lame start taking embarrassing nicknames," he asked with a small smirk.

"Kaiba, if I were you, I would keep my mouth shut about that, Preethi thought it would sweet to call me that, and beside I know where you keep that Blue eyes white dragon plushy," Atem fired back. Ann raised an eyebrow at Seto, "You still have your plushy?" she asked annoyed.

"I gave it to Ally, I am just keeping it here at the mansion, and does it matter if I still have it does it?" asked Seto in a snappy tone. Mokuba put a hand over his mouth to keep the laughter silent that was threatening to spill out, the fact his older brother still had a toy was a funny thought, however Mokuba remembered, he kept some of his old toys he just didn't let his wife find them.

Meanwhile up the stairs Kisty was trying to get Ally to fall back asleep, "come on honey mommy can't take your crying," she said. Preethi walked into the room, "Let me, Kisty," she said offering to take the baby. "Thanks Dedi," said Kisty handing her the baby. Ally suddenly stopped crying, when Preethi took hold of her "Why does she do that to everyone but me?" Kisty asked leaning back in the rocking chair.

"Were you and Josh always together when you looked in on the baby?" Preethi asked. Kisty nodded, "Yeah, she seem to only cry when she was alone or there was only one person in the room, why do you ask?" she said. Preethi smirked, "I know what this little girl's problem is, she wants her father but since she knows he is gone, she can't handle being with just one person in the room. In other words you need someone with you when you take care of her, until she gets used to it being just you and her," she explained.

Kisty nodded, "You know Dedi, Ally was always quieted down with more then one person near by, I guess that's why," she said looking sad, "I am guessing she misses Josh."

"Would you stop it, Kisty, your stronger then this, look Josh passed away a few months ago but the funeral was a few weeks ago, you put it off for so long, because you couldn't deal with it, but now he is in the ground, and you're here, live with it," Preethi said.

Ann walked up to the nursery to check on the quietness of Ally, "So, how is it going?" asked Kisty's stepmother. "We found a way to make little Ally here quiet," said Preethi, "Kisty needs to have some one with her, since she and Josh always looked in on Ally as a pair," she said.

Ann nodded, "You know, why we didn't think of that before?" she asked.

"Because Ally was never quiet enough to let us think," Kisty said rolling her eyes.

"Kisty," said Ann.

"What? I am just saying that my daughter has been noisy ever since her father died and I can't console her and know she understands her father is never coming back," Kisty snapped and marched out of the room.

Seto was watching in the hallway as Kisty marched to her room, he shook his head, 'she's going through the motions again, the next thing she probably going to do is stop eating,' Seto thought remembering when Kisty was a child and her mother passed away. Atem and Mokuba were by the front door, they heard Kisty's slam the door, "I take it that Kisty is still mourning Josh?" asked Mokuba.

Seto nodded his head, "It's like Alexandra passing away all over again except this time Kisty is mourning for Josh, and at the same time knows that she is my shoes now of raising the kid on her own.

"She's not alone Kaiba," said Atem with smirk.

Seto nodded, "I know, she isn't, she just lost her hope that Josh would make it, but we know that's not happening," he said looking at the ground.

In Domino, "Tea, did you ever tell Yugi about how your parents were killed?" asked Duke as he sat in Tea's car and they drove to Duke's new apartment.

"No, and I am not going to, Yugi, Chris and Rose don't need to know about what you and I were into or up too, I want to make sure they stay out of this," she said.

Duke shook his head, "We have to tell them," he said.

Tea shook her head as they pulled to a stop light, "If we tell them that would put my family in danger of being killed by that gang, do I have to remind you of the reason why my parents died," she snapped.

"What other choice do we have Tea, I can't tell my story without you telling yours, Kisty and Kaiba would kill me if I even try to get near them to explain why I did, what I did," argued Duke.

"Putting everyone at risk for knowing that a secret society that's not suppose to exists, still exists, is a very bad thing Duke, they took out your parents too and when you became an adult, you joined them," Tea snapped at him.

Duke sighed, "They changed their name how was I suppose to know that they were the same group Tea. It wasn't until I was in that I found out after Katharine and I had Kisty raped that they were the ones reponsible. Look they took out Josh, which means that Kisty is in danger as well as her daughter, they have to know the truth now," he said.

Tea sighed, "You will tell them, but right now you need to keep as low of a profile as possible, by now I am sure Mokuba's informed everyone that your out which means…" she said.

"That Kaiba will be looking to kick my ass, I know Tea," Duke said annoyed.

"We're here," announced Tea as they pulled up to the apartment complex, with its slum look and broken windows. "You had to pick this place?" Duke asked. Tea sighed, "I didn't pick it you parole officer did, he thought you would be safer in some place rundown," she said.

Duke rolled his eyes, "You used your connections to get me out?" he asked. "There are many advantages to being the so called King of Games' wife. However this wasn't one of them, you got out by telling them that there was a higher group and you did it to save Josh," she said.

Duke nodded, "Looks like I save him a little too late, doesn't matter now," he sighed, "I have a granddaughter to watch out for," he said.

"You know Duke your acting kind of on the good side for once," said Tea. Duke smirked, "Who said I was playing on the good guys, I am just trying to keep innocent bystanders for getting caught in my fight," he said.

"And Kisty would be…" Tea asked.

"Kisty was the key to getting Katharine to head of Industrial Illusions, that's her involvement, in the plot, but since Kaiba is in the company now and Hawk is in jail. There's nothing she can do to help this time besides, she was part of that society too. Therefore, she was able to ask for their help that's why she called me to get my group to rape Kisty. It was kind of funny that it was members of her own, board of stock holders and partners that happen to work for me, and that secret society," Duke explained in the car. Tea's mouth dropped, "You used all of them Duke," she snapped.

"And I plan to use the pieces again, to get my revenge," he said with his green eyes glaring at Tea, "You better not tell anyone about what I am up too, or that society will visit your family, like they did your parents," snapped Duke.

Tea glared at Duke, "Don't tell me how to protect my family, Devilen, I haven't lost a son to them," she said letting Duke out of the car.

Duke got out of the car and said good-bye to Tea a she sped up the street and around the corner. Two figures sat in the trees above Duke, he didn't turn his head to look at them he knew it was Bakura and Ryou. "You two were supposed to protect my son, how you could fail me?" Duke snapped.

"We agreed to watch the boy so long as you weren't behind bars, and if I do recall the young actor was very good at what he did," said Bakura with a smirk. Duke smirked devilishly "So you mean to tell me he is off the radar now?" he asked. There was no answer from the two, "I will take that answer then," Duke said and walked up to his apartment.

Duke walked up to the third floor of his new apartment even though it was run down quite a bit. Trash was in the hallway, rats were digging through some of it, and a few drunks lay passed out among the trash. Duke pulled out the key and opened the door to the apartment there was some furniture, a couch, table and TV, kitchen table and chairs.

Duke closed the door, he saw a figure on the couch, "I know what your going to say and I promise not to hurt you little girl," he snapped to the figure.

"Or Kisty," said the figure in a familiar voice.

"I can't guarantee that I can get her out of this, as for your daughter, I know I can," Duke said putting his wallet on the table.

"Well, Dad, you better get Kisty out of it, I faked my own dam death so I can help you out of your mess, you put yourself into," snapped the figure standing up and walking over to Duke, with his green eyes flaring.

"Josh, my son, you need to relax, I will do what I can for Kisty and your daughter, you just help me out," Duke said.

"You better, or I swear, Duke, you will pay, this time and I am talking deadly," he snapped pulling out a gun and pointing it at Duke's head.

Duke turned his head, "You know if you kill me the police will find evidence leading to your lovely little angel queen," he said.

Josh smirked, "I know or else I would have put your brain on the walls by now," he said removing the gun.

Duke smirked, "That's my boy, threatening till the end, and tell me did you ever tell Kisty what you really did in New York besides become an actor?" he asked. Josh shook his head, "As far as I know, Kisty doesn't have a clue that I worked for you," he said with anger in his voice.

"Good because you're going to need to do a few jobs for me, and one is going undercover," he said. Josh rolled his eyes, "As long as I am nowhere near Kisty," he said.

Duke nodded, "You won't be, leave that one to me, I will pull your daughter frist then we can work on your your little dove," he said with a smirk.

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