Chapter 8

Lost time inside

Josh sat there after Kisty pulled away from him, he was in shock that she would have moved so quickly or was there another reason. Kisty looked at Josh's eyes with her deep crystal blue eyes and slowly touched her lips with her hand in utter shock, she did not know what she just did, but she was not regretting it, yet.

"What was that for?" Josh asked puzzled as he looked at the coffee table.

Kisty kept her eye looking at Josh, "I…I wanted to be sure," with that said she stood up and walked towards the kitchen and took her stance at the sink looking towards her father's mansion in the distance.

Josh walked into the kitchen behind Kisty, "Be sure of what, that I am me, or something else?" he asked slowly.

Kisty kept her back towards Josh, "I…I keep thinking I am in a dream that you're not alive, but there you are behind me…do you know how many times I wanted to wake up and see you there? Do you know how much I wanted you to see your daughter's firsts, do you know how many times…I knew that my daughter was going to have to grow up like me without a father most of her life? Josh, I didn't want that for Ally, even if it cost it my life, I would rather see my daughter dead and in the ground then to know that she would have to suffer so much…that I would suffer so much pain as well," she was crying at this point as she slid to her knees in front of the sink.

Josh wanted so much to take Kisty into his arms, but he knew he touched her that she would just pull away; he did not want to lose her again. He lost her too many times, when he was younger and they were in school and he let Jake make the first move, when he left for school, then being pushed away after the incident at Kaiba Corp when Kisty was battling her father, and now five years apart all because he wanted to protect those he loved from the pain.

"Kisty, I…I didn't think it would have to come to the point of which I would have to leave you like I did. If I knew then what I know now I would so stay, I would of made sure of it. I wanted to be there for you and Ally, but I knew it was not safe, if I did stay. You would be dead along with me and Ally would have no parents, but we are both alive, and so is she," Josh spoke to reassure Kisty that he had reasons.

"Doesn't matter either way what's done is done, you can't change the past, what we have to do is just move on, like we do for everything else," said Seto stepping into the kitchen.

Kisty looked at her father as she slowly stood up, "I can't Dad," she said turning away from both Josh and Seto.

Josh nodded his head, "I will be in the living room, and you're her father maybe you can…"

"Don't even think about it," interrupted Seto, "you caused Kisty this pain, of thinking you were dead, and now you must pay up and do what you should have done, the moment you saw her again."

Josh looked at Kaiba puzzled, "What do you want me to do, it's not like she going to let me touch her, it has been five years Kaiba, and well I can't really tell her what happened, I take it you figured out who is after me and Duke by now," he said.

Seto nodded, "yeah just didn't think it would lead all the way to them, again but it has," he said, and stepping out of the kitchen.

Kisty turned around, "What are you two talking about?" she snapped towards them as Seto left the kitchen.

Josh began to explain, "You remember how my mother came from a rich family, but I never told you how her family got its wealth. Well they decided to go after Duke for what happened and went on a killing spree of anyone that he had relations with my mom that included me. I didn't know how far that side of my blood line went Kisty, I swear if I did know then what I know now, I could have stopped this from happening," his eyes pleaded with hers to understand, in what he was saying. That everything that had happened and that it had to be done, what he done for them both of them, wishing it could have been different.

Kisty step back from Josh searching his face for any of what he said was not true, her eyes falling on him almost pleading with him to say and make it true.

"I need time to think," she told them, as she heard footsteps leave the kitchen, she shook her head, "how?" she whispered.

Josh and Seto walked into the living room, "I think you should stay here with Kisty tonight, I need to get back to tell the Mokuba, Lisa, and Ally what is going on since you have now come out of hiding to us," said Seto to Josh.

Josh shook his head, "I have to get back to work at the paper the boss there is the lead I need," he said then seeing the glare from Seto, "on second thought what's one night compared to 5 years of making your wife think you are dead?" he said nervously.

"Josh believe it or not, Kisty has forgiven you, I can see it in her eyes, when she looked at us in the kitchen she just needs you instead of me to watch her tonight, not to mention I have to explain all this to Ally, and that's going to be difficult," Seto said standing up.

"No, Ally isn't to know," said Kisty stepping over by the two men, "We keep this secret for the fact that Josh is still trying to fix all this and…I am going to keep my daughter as far from this as I can," she snapped at both of them.

Seto's cell phone suddenly rang in his pocket, and pulling it out it was Mokuba's number, as he answered it everyone in the room could hear Lisa's panic voice, "Seto, we got a problem," she shouted, "They took them…"