So, I finally decided to try and update a little more often than once a month. I finally got my brain to make the ideas flow a little faster…and I had more free time, too. Though I spent most of that on another site (check my profile page if you wanna know what it is).

Thanks to all of my reviewers!

lilxangelxsweetz: I did! And of course I wouldn't have them find Mokuba yet…it would make the story too short. And too simple.

Dragon's Lair: Well, sorta. She's thinking of him as someone who could use another friend. She's not that mean! Not in my fic, anyway. Haha, you sent me two reviews…one was signed and one wasn't.

shanichan11: There will be, don't worry. It would be pretty uninteresting if it didn't have any SxS in it. In fact, there's some in this chapter…

ChibiTrinity: Of course it isn't the end! If it was, that would be one major cliffhanger…and as I said to lilxangelxsweetz, it would make the story too short and too simple.

Sorry if there's typos. I don't have time to proofread this before I go on a short trip...Yep, I'm going to Almador Lake tomorrow until Tuesday. Well, I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as you enjoyed the other ones!

Serenity sighed quietly to herself. School was finally over for the day. It had been a long Monday, with her thoughts occupied with Mokuba and his older brother. She hadn't been sure that she would see the older Kaiba brother today after the argument that had happened the day before, so most of those thoughts had been full of worries and pessimistic. Well, if he wasn't going to let her go to KaibaCorp, then she would just have to walk home herself. At least her brother would be happy that she wasn't staying around Kaiba anymore.

Backpack on her back and her DI script in her hands, she walked with her head down to the parking lot. She had finally found a piece she liked, and was pretty far behind on memorizing it. Her concentration was so deep into the piece that she didn't even notice when she made it into the parking lot instead of walking the other way for home.

Stopping at her usual spot where she waited for Kaiba, she sat down on the curb with the script still in her hands. A car backed out of a parking spot, but she only heard the sound distantly and didn't pay attention. Even when the car drove towards her, she didn't notice. It wasn't until the car stopped almost before her and something blocked the sunlight that she finally looked up and realized she wasn't alone.

She squinted as she looked up. The sun was right behind the person, so it was hard to see who it was. All she saw was a tall figure…and glints from blue eyes. "Kaiba?" she asked, surprised. "I thought you wouldn't be here today." Her eyes widened and she put a hand over her mouth, though it didn't help. The words had already slipped out.

Despite the unintended hidden meaning of the words, he spoke with his regular tone of voice. His facial expression didn't change. "What do you mean? I never told you that."

Serenity's face turned a bright red. "No—no—no one did…" she stuttered. "I just thought that...that…"

"You really took what I said to heart, didn't you?" A slight smirk crossed his face. She didn't answer. When Kaiba saw how seriously she took it, though, he wiped the smirk off of his face. "Look, I was just angry, alright? I needed something to vent my anger on. Or somebody. You were just there, so I found it easiest to let out my anger on you."

She looked down at the paper in her hands, but again, she did not answer. Kaiba stared down at her a little longer, then abruptly sat down beside her on the curb, his long legs stretched out before him. Unconsciously, he began to toy with the keys in his hand. "I'll put this a different way, then. Why are you still here, if you thought I wasn't going to be here? If you thought that I didn't want your help in looking for Mokuba?"

A moment of silence followed. Kaiba didn't think that she would ever answer his questions or even talk to him again because it was so quiet, but she finally answered. "I don't know why I came out here. It's a habit, I guess. I was going to head for home, but I was so into my DI piece that…I guess I didn't know where I was going." She opened her mouth to add more, but she couldn't. She wanted to add what she had thought about the previous weekend, but it was too uncomfortable for her.

"Nothing else?"

"No…why do you ask?"

"Just wondering." He stared across the parking lot before his car. "What about my other question? Why are you still here if you thought I really didn't want your help with Mokuba?" He looked back at her.

She thought about this before she answered. She could have easily said that she was out here for the other reason she had already told him, but she could tell he already knew there was another reason. He probably knew that she was hiding something about the other answer, too. Knowing it was hopeless to hide it, she answered, "Well…I thought I would still have a chance to help. Maybe even the smallest chance." For the first time, she finally looked at him. A small smile turned up the corners of her mouth. "I guess luck helped me this time."

The smile startled Kaiba. How was a thought like that able to bring her spirits up and not something she wanted to hear? Didn't she want to know that he would like her to help?

He shook the thoughts mentally out of his mind. "Then I guess that's it." He got up and stuck his right hand in his pocket, twirling his keys once with his left hand and then catching them. "Are you going to come with me to KaibaCorp today? Or are you going to head home?"

"I think I want to go to KaibaCorp…" she said as she hastily put her papers away and got up. By the time she was finished, Kaiba was already in the car. She quickly opened the door, got in, and put her backpack on the rear seat, then buckled on the seatbelt.

They walked immediately to Kaiba's office as soon as they arrived, not bothering to go down to the room like they had always done to make sure nothing was amiss and to check for any other extra information. Serenity found this a little odd. Wouldn't Kaiba want to find out if there was any new information that would help him reach the goal of his search a little faster?

He must have known what she was going to ask, because he didn't wait for her to ask before he said, "Over the weekend, I connected those computers with mine so I won't have to go down there every day to check the progress. Everything I need to figure out I can find there. We already know where he is, or was, anyway, so we have no trouble keeping track of where he is." Serenity obviously looked a bit surprised to hear the answers to her questions, because a smirk crossed Kaiba's face again. She didn't comment, and neither did he, so the walk to the office was quiet the rest of the way.

While Kaiba took out the keys to his office door and put them in their corresponding locks, she took the liberty to take a look around her. Nothing seemed different, but she had a nagging feeling that there was something that needed attention. It made her feel suspicious, almost as if a security camera was watching her.

"Are you done looking around?" Kaiba's voice said impatiently. "We've got work to do." He paused. "What are you looking for, anyway? You've seen this place at least fifty times already."

"Nothing…" Her face had a small tint of pink in it, but her eyes easily betrayed the fact that there was something troubling her. Even with Kaiba standing by her and making her nervous, she couldn't help but look over her shoulder again. Her eyes landed on the security camera.

"That's a security camera, Wheeler," he said mockingly. "Are you scared of it? It's been there ever since I can remember. It's nothing new." She turned even redder at his remark. He sighed in exasperation. "What's bothering you so much that you can't stand the sight of a camera?"

"Well…I thought…I…Never mind," she said. Kaiba was still holding the door open, so she slipped into the room.

He frowned, then followed her in, shutting the door behind him. He simply stood in front of the door, arms crossed, and watched her put her stuff down. She was too stiff and seemed too conscious of everything around her, as if she expected something to jump out at her in any minute. Maybe it was because he was looking at her she was acting like that, but he highly disbelieved that. It was something else.

Thinking to test this, he walked silently behind her and tapped her shoulder. Her reaction was exactly what he thought it would be—she jumped in surprise and gasped, twirling around so quickly she almost tripped over her things on the floor. Something akin to fear was in her eyes. "Don't scare me like that!" she exclaimed when she realized who it was. "I thought you were…that you were…"

He cut her off. He didn't need her to explain. What she was going to say would be a "never mind". "What's bothering you? It's not something small, or else you wouldn't be jumping around like this at the smallest thing. You're acting like an animal caught in a trap with guns pointed at you."

She turned pale when he said the simile. It was a few seconds before he realized what he said was too close to what had happened on the weekend for her to comfortable with. "Look, just forget about that comparison, alright? What's bothering you? Last weekend?"

A tear glinted at the edge of her eye. "No…it's not that…" she whispered. Her eyes began to fill with tears.

Kaiba was about to snap at her to stop crying and just tell him; crying wasn't going to help anybody and if she never told anyone she would have to deal with whatever it was all by herself and not have someone to help her sort it all out. If she wanted it that way, fine, but don't go asking me for help when you need it, because you never took it in the first place. But he couldn't find it in himself to say that. After being target practice for two guns and being blamed for all of the troubles of another man's life, she had the right to let it out of her. And to think she was still here after all of that.

Wordlessly, he guided her to a chair in front of the desk, usually reserved for business partners, clients, and other people who thought they were helping him in business when they were just wasting his time. He then sat down in his office chair and swiveled it to face her.

Kaiba let Serenity cry for a moment, her head bowed down to hide the tears, auburn hair falling down on shaking shoulders. When he thought she had gotten enough of it out of her system to talk again, he asked, "What's bothering you, Serenity? You can tell me if you want to."

She wiped her eyes with a sleeve, then looked up. A bit of confusion showed. She's surprised I used her first name, he thought, amused.

Serenity took a breath to steady herself. "When we were outside, I thought…" She stopped. What if he thinks I'm foolish for my thoughts outside? I really don't need to bother him with it. It was only a feeling. "Well, I thought…" Tears started coming to her eyes again.

"When you were outside my office door, was it what happened last week that bothered you, or was it something else?"

"Something else, I—I guess…" She kept her gaze on her hands.

"What do you mean?"

She hesitated for a second. "When I was outside, I wasn't really thinking about…last weekend." She paused to wipe her eyes. It was hard to even think about it.

"And?"

"And…um…" She didn't want to say it in fear of sounding foolish.

"Just tell me. What was it?" She didn't answer; instead, her face turned red. "You don't have to be so embarrassed about it."

He sighed. "Look, Serenity, I'm just trying to help you. Do you want it, or not? If you don't, then we can just go back to doing our work and forget about it. Would you rather talk about it, or just forget about it?"

She mumbled something, but he couldn't hear. "What?" She said something, but her volume had barely changed. "What? I can't hear you."

"I said, I—I felt like something was out there that…that didn't feel like it was supposed to be there." Her face started to turn even redder than it did before.

Kaiba simply watched her for a few seconds. That was it? "What was so hard about saying that?" She didn't answer. "You don't need to think that people will think you're foolish just because you think something. Somebody will listen. You shouldn't be afraid to tell people what you think." He turned on his computer. "Alright, let's see if there was anything out there."

Serenity sat there and watched as he clicked a few things and typed a few words. She wasn't going to move from her seat until Kaiba said, "Come here. I want you to watch and see if there's anything I miss."

She got out of her chair and walked over to a spot beside Kaiba's chair. She would rather stand behind it, but the chair was almost too tall for her to see over it. What she saw was what she immediately recognized as what the security camera saw.

"I'll put it from yesterday, since I checked it the day before. I haven't had time to see if anything's amiss since then," he explained.

"But don't you have other people who check it?" Serenity's courage had risen up again, but her voice still had a small presence of tears to it.

"They sit there and dose off," he said. "Plus, there are so many people that work here, that if they saw someone putting something by my office, they'd just think it was the mailman. You can't expect anything better out of them. Which is why I always end up doing the work myself."

She nodded in reply. "Is—is there any other computer I can watch this from? I don't want to bother you while you're working…"

"You want to do this yourself? Alright then. You can go use the spare computer in the room a couple doors down." He pushed himself out of his chair and walked towards the door. "Are you coming or not? You're not going to know the passwords or how to get to the file…"

Serenity had been staring at the screen for almost an hour. Before he had left, Kaiba had given her a few tips to make it easier, and she had tried using every one of them. If there's no movement, fast-forward it at double the speed. If there is, make sure to watch it over twice, if not more, to make sure that's not what you're looking for. If it turns black, then fast-forward it quadruple the speed. She was starting to think that what she had felt out there was just a false alarm.

Just as she was about to turn off the computer and apologize to Kaiba for wasting his time, she spotted something. It was a light movement, nothing more. She froze, staring at the corner of the screen, where it projected the window by the office door. Once again, she saw it. It stopped again, then resumed.

After a few more seconds, she saw the movement came from outside. It looked like something was hanging off of a small hook before it. It just dangled there for a few seconds. Then, as she watched, the window opened.

She had no idea how it had happened, and Kaiba's words came back to her. She rewound it until she couldn't see any movement, then played it again. Once again, she saw something dangling before the window, and then the window being opened. Knowing that she would never see it at regular speed, she rewound it, then slowed it down to half speed. She still saw the same thing.

"Find anything yet?" a voice said from the doorway. Serenity turned around quickly, and saw it was only Kaiba. She breathed a small sigh of relief.

"I think…" she said, turning back to the screen. "But I can't really tell what's happening."

"Play the part for me, then."

She did exactly as he asked. Keeping it at half speed, she rewound it yet another time. Both of them watched like hawks, with Kaiba looking over Serenity's head. "I can't figure out this part," Serenity said as the window opened.

He didn't answer. He continued to watch as the small object was thrown into the room. It landed in a small pot that was holding a tall plant. Then the window was closed, just as mysteriously as it opened, and the hook disappeared.

Kaiba reached across and replayed it. When he finished replaying the same scene twice, he seemed satisfied, but his expression was cold. Still silent, he strode toward the door and went out into the hallway. Serenity hesitated for a second, then minimized the window and hurried after Kaiba.

She found him sticking a hand into the plant that they had seen in the clip. He was kneeling on one knee, looking at the ground in concentration. A few leaves fell to the floor, but he didn't seem to notice. His hand dug a little bit more, then he suddenly stood up and dusted himself off, a small object clenched in his hands. "What is it?" Serenity asked him.

He opened his hand and put it between them. They bent over it, puzzling over the mysteriousness of an object simply coming into the building. "It's a memory chip," Kaiba said, a bit of surprise showing on his face. Serenity looked up at him as the object was moved from her view into one of Kaiba's pockets in his trenchcoat.

He walked in front of her to the window. He opened it, then put his head halfway out of the window to see the edge of the window where something had opened and closed the window. He ran his finger down the length of it, then stopped halfway to mess with something. When he pulled himself back in, he had another small object in his hands. "I found this at the edge of the window. It's a small device that, when triggered by a small object, can send waves to the other side of whatever the object is on and undo the mechanics. In this case, the hook must have triggered it and the device made the window's latch pop open." Serenity didn't answer. She wasn't really sure if she understood what he was saying.

He also put the device in the same pocket that he had put the chip in, then walked into his office. "Your senses are accurate, Serenity. This may be the key to finding Mokuba and his captors."

Serenity stood slightly outside the door, her hand pointing to the room she had been in. "Do you want me to…"

Kaiba answered without looking back. "Go ahead. Come back in here when you've shut it off, though."

Serenity rushed back to the room, shut off the computer, and shut the door behind her. In less than a minute, she was back in Kaiba's office.

So, that's it. Not much to say other than I sorta made up the part with the hook and the device that opened the window…my mind wasn't functioning much, and still isn't. Other than that, like I always ask, review, please!