Hey I'm back again with another chap for you (insert evil laugh here.) Yes! starts to celebrate with Fallen-Angel I love giant balloons, Peggy is DEAD! (Jumps around in a dance). YesI too have had no sleep, I was thinking that Peggylived but I think not, as there are only two chaps left. Now we have to see what is happening with Ryou. Anyway I was listening to a sad song and this popped into my head so I changed it at the last minute hope you enjoy.
Warning: M and Yaoi and cliffhanger. This chap isn't as bad as the last one, but do I dare say it, NO! I'll let you read it, nothing really bad in this chap so it's cool AHHH! HELL! Just read it.
Disclaimer: still don't own Yugioh.
CHAP 22: Fading Away
Marik sighed as he had tried for a few hours now to get Bakura to clean up but the reaper just didn't want to go anywhere until he knew that Ryou was all right. "Bakura if you go in there looking like that your going to freak Ryou out. You know how sensitive he is especially about you." Bakura gave him another one of his looks.
"Ryou won't be awake when I see him," Bakura waved him off.
"You don't know that, it'll take five minutes and you'll feel better." Marik pointed out.
"No, I'm not going anywhere," Bakura growled.
"That's it," Seto pushed off the wall, "as much as I love to watch you two freaky bitches go at it, I have Jou at home waiting for me, so let me know how Ryou's doing." Seto walked outside the sun was starting to rise.
Yami stopped Seto at the door, "Let Yugi know that I'll see him a little later I want to know before I leave," Seto nodded his head as he looked at Marik.
"Anything you want to tell Malik?"
"Yeah I'll being stay here with Bakura until I know he can behave," Marik said as he looked at Bakura.
"He's going to be waiting a long time then, see ya," the door closed, Yami walked over to the couch and laid down closing his eyes.
Bakura narrowed his eyes more at the spot that he had been staring at all night. Marik had thought that if he stared any harder the spot would melt way. They both looked up to see the door opening. Bakura pushed off the wall and stepped forward. Then as Solomon came out and spotted Bakura right away he gave him a sad look and sighed, Bakura swallowed the lump in his throat and his heart, contemplating whether or not to ask, the look he was getting couldn't be good. "How is he?" his voice was strained and the words seemed to choke him.
"Not good I'm afraid," he was wiping his hands on a cloth blood still stained down the front of him. Bakura started to growl. "Before you go blaming everyone, I have to talk to you about him." Solomon walked over and pushed Yami's feet of the arm of the couch forcing him to sit up and he sat down. "Before we talk, you go and shower I'm not taking to you like that," he frowned.
"Can I see him first?" Bakura asked.
"He won't do anything that I ask him to do, so just let him see Ryou so he'll clean up," Marik tried as well.
"I'm sorry but the state that your in, I don't need Ryou getting something from the wounds and old blood, you have to do what I ask then you can see Ryou," Bakura growled even more.
"FINE!" Bakura snapped turning on his heels and started to walk away but stopped "when I get back I expect to see Ryou," Marik sighed as he followed him.
It wasn't long before Bakura was healed and stepped out of the shower, he dried off and he closed his eyes as his body was wrapped in clothes he opened his eyes they moved to Marik standing in the corner of the room, "lets go," Bakura pulled open the door and walked down the small hallway, to be greeted by a female healer.
"Bakura if you'll follow me I'll take you to see Solomon now." She turned on her heels.
"I don't want to see the old fool, I want to see Ryou now take me wench," he grabbed her. Marik pulled his hands off the angel.
"He needs to talk to you first," she said as she backed up a bit and started to walk down the narrow hallway passed the stairs, she knocked on the door that was to their right, "come in" was heard from the other side and she pushed open the door and stuck her head in, then she stood up straight and looked at them "You can go in," she turned and walked back the way she came.
Bakura walked in first then Marik, "Take a seat."
"I'll stand thanks," Bakura said and waited.
"Very well…when Ryou was brought into me last night his wings were torn from his body." He sat down.
"Yes I know." Bakura hissed narrowing his eyes. Solomon put his hand up to silence him.
"Let me finish." Bakura crossed his arms over his chest.
"We are fighting to keep him alive at the moment but it seems that we are failing to do so," Bakura's growl increased but Solomon continued. "I thought the ring would help him like last time to stabilize him but it glowed and put Ryou into a hibernation that we can't bring him out of. I don't know if it's the ring doing it or him, the hibernation isn't a healing one that's what's got me."
"But will he live?" Bakura asked.
"I still can't tell you that, how he is at the moment we could loose him." he stood up.
"What do you mean we, it's me that'll loose him no one else," Bakura slammed his fists on the table.
"If Ryou pulls through this, which I'm sure he will, he'll need a few months recovery and short bursts of healing once a week and that ring he'll never be able to be to far from it, he'll have to keep it with him at all times. Now we just have to wait and see I have done all I can for now. He can't stay long if they find out I kept the machines I'll be thrown out of here, so as he is able to be moved you can take him home."
"Whatever, can I see him now," Solomon nodded his head and walked to the door. He turned around and looked at them, "If your going to leave here at any time then leave from inside this place, don't go outside" he opened the door and walked out. He stopped Bakura by putting his hand on his shoulder, Marik too stopped and wondered what he had to say. "Ryou will never re-grow his wings back or be able to return here again, he will also need help to deal with this, if you can't then I can… terminate," Solomon was pushed to the wall and Bakura growled right in his face.
"I warn you old man talk like that again you'll join Pegasus," Bakura hissed as he let him go.
"Very well," Solomon straightened himself "but I was just warning you, I don't like to see anyone suffer and if I think he is suffering I will terminate him, whether you kill me or not," he said, Bakura punched him sending him to the floor, he advanced upon him lifting him up by the shirt.
"You go anywhere near Ryou, I will kill you."
"You forget I'm the only one that knows how to heal him." He made his point.
"That for now is what's keeping you alive, you'll heal him and only heal him, if I suspect that you are doing anything other then that, I'll make death look like an easy way out." He hissed as he dropped the angel back to the floor.
Solomon got up and gave Bakura a look and started to walk back down stairs again, Bakura watched his back growling the whole time. He opened the door and stepped aside "he is down there," Bakura eyed him up and down before he walked down the stairs. Once at the bottom he saw his pale angel laying on a table face down and his arms hanging over the sides, the dull light hanging above him, a mask covered his mouth and nose and hissed every now and then with the ragged rise and fall of his back. The white bandages that were wrapped around his torso up his chest and over his shoulders with a little around his neck seemed to blend making it hard to see them. He then noticed the ring was placed around his neck and sat above his head on the table so not to get in the way or choke him, but the ring glowed blue in the dim lighting and it pulsed like in irregular heartbeat. Bakura rushed forward and knelt down so he could look at Ryou's face he gently caressed his cheek.
"Ryou, I'm here now," Bakura whispered then frowned "Come on, I want to take you home." Bakura lent in more their nose almost touching. "The old man is saying that you might not live." Bakura sighed, as he got no response. "I can't be without you," a few tears fell pooling at the bottom of his chin and falling onto his knees wetting his black jeans. "I love you Ryou, pull through… for me." Bakura hung his head as his other hand squeezed Ryou's. "I got Pegasus, he's dead now, the beasts of Zilla got him, he screamed like a girl," it would have been funny any other time but Bakura's body gave a jerk with the suppressed sob, but it didn't work as his shoulder started to shake. From in the shadows Bakura was being watched and he sighed and closed his eyes then left without anyone knowing of his presence.
Marik paced back and fourth in the waiting room that looked like a lounge room. He had never seen Bakura this depressed before, sure Bakura would storm around and yell Egyptian profanities, kick things that were in his way and take out all his anger on some poor bystander, then he would be fine as if nothing had happened he would be back to his normal self well as normal as Bakura could be.
Yami sighed from his spot on the couch both of his hands behind his head as he watched with his eyes the pacing form. "How is he doing?" breaking Marik from his thoughts.
"Not good, if Ryou doesn't waken soon, Bakura might just take it out on this place again." Marik stopped and looked at Yami.
"Lets just hope that doesn't happen. I don't feel like going to war," Yami sat up. "If you want to rest I'll watch out for Bakura." He stood up, Marik sighed he was tired.
"Thanks," Marik laid down on the couch as soon as he put his head down he fell asleep.
Five days had passed Solomon would go down to check on Ryou heal him, look at his back shake his head then leave, much to Bakura's annoyance when he would leave again without any new news of Ryou's condition. Yami had gone home to Yugi as he couldn't wait anymore, Marik had gone down to see Malik but told him that he had to stay with Bakura until Ryou woke up Marik was relieved that Malik understood.
Marik walked to the door with an arm full of blankets and a bag with some clothes for Bakura. He opened it and descended the stairs to see Bakura at Ryou's side he hadn't moved from the room at all. "Bakura?" he raised his head and looked at Marik, his red puffy eyes from lack of sleep and crying no doubt.
"Why don't you shower, change and get some rest," Marik put the stuff down on a chair. Bakura growled, "I bought you down some blankets so you can sleep in here and I'll watch him for you," Marik walked over to him and put his hand on his shoulder.
Bakura shrugged him off and turned his gaze back to Ryou, it seemed that the pulse of the ring and light was beginning to fade with each day and Solomon had to turn up the machines "I don't want to leave him, for days now he hasn't changed at all." He sighed, in fact he seemed to be fading away.
"It's just for five minutes," Marik knew that if he was going to shower then he wouldn't be that long, Bakura sighed as he stood up, "I'll fix you up the bed." Bakura nodded his head as he grabbed the bag and walked out of the room.
Marik sighed as he brushed Ryou's hair off his face and kissed his forehead, "you better wake up soon, Bakura can't take much more of this," he sat down in the chair, and sighed.
Bakura walked back into the room bringing Marik out of his thoughts, he walked over and kissed Ryou on the cheek he lingered for a minute his eyes drifted over to the ring. Then walked over to the made up bed, he sat down looking at Marik. "You'll wake me if anything happens." Marik nodded as Bakura lent down and put his head on the pillow and closed his eyes, he frowned as a dripping sound met his ears not water it was thicker he opened his eyes the blue pulse stopped and the light was gone.
Bakura sat up a little panicked his heart skipped a beat as he looked Ryou over, his back was bleeding and the blood ran onto the table and then to the floor. Bakura got up and rushed over to the bed, the machines started to beep and whine. Solomon, Ishizu and Shizuka come running down, "What's going on?" Bakura asked as he was pushed aside, Marik moved out of the way and stood next to Bakura.
"There's no pulse," Shizuka said.
"His temperature is very low and his eyes have… dilated," Ishizu looked, Solomon frowned.
"Charge the machine," Shizuka ran to the biggest one, Ishizu moved back as Ryou's body jerked ridged on the table then slumped back down, Solomon listened to his heartbeat again and shook his head.
"Again," he ordered and the same thing happened his body jerked ridged for a few seconds longer before falling.
"WHAT IS GOING ON!" Bakura yelled at them, as they seemed to be ignoring him, and the fact that they made Ryou's body jump almost off the table scared him, though he had seen it many times when he had to collect a soul from a hospital, he had seen doctors doing the same thing and the out come was never the same.
"He's not responding!" Ishizu said as he looked, Solomon sighed and closed his eyes.
"Again" he said flatly and again Ryou's body jerked then fell limply on the table.
"Solomon," Ishizu said.
"I know," he sighed as he looked at Bakura and the words that he dreaded to say but had to, "I'm" he didn't get to finish as Bakura grabbed him.
"Don't you dare say what I think you are, you try again you bring him back to me" he growled.
"I'm sorry but he is gone, his wings when they were ripped out, Pegasus might as well have ripped out his heart, he ensured his death." Solomon was thrown to the wall. Ishizu stood up.
"Calm yourself, if you should be angry then it shouldn't be with us we tried to help him." Bakura went to fall to his knees but Marik caught him before he touched the ground. Bakura looked at Ryou's lifeless body.
He pushed Marik away and walked over to the table and caressed Ryou's cheek and in deed it was cold, "Bakura" Marik said as he walked up to him. "They tried, Ryou must have just given up maybe what ever Pegasus did just broke him completely and he found this way out was painless for him."
"I would have never looked at him any different," Bakura's voice was thick with tears, "I made him pay for what he did, wasn't that good enough, am I not good enough?" Bakura more asked Ryou, he reached out a hand and brushed the hair out of Ryou's closed eyes. He fell to his knees and sobbed on Ryou's back, "Come back Ryou, don't leave me." His voice was muffled "I'm sorry that I didn't take you away, I'm sorry that I ever left that morning, I'm sorry that I lied to you when you fell, I'm sorry that you found out about me the way you did I wanted to tell you, I'm sorry…I just loved you so much." Bakura mumbled into his back. "Just come back…" his body shook with the force of his sobs.
Marik watched as Solomon stood up and everyone in the room watched as Bakura sobbed heartbrokenly for his love to come back, Marik wiped a few tears that fell on there own.
TBC
(Cries) Poor Bakura and Ryou (uses desk as a shield while readers throw random objects) don't hurt me or no more (hey watch it, that was close) chaps for you, before you claim my head wait for the next chap I did say this would get a little anguish, I won't keep you hanging for to long, flames will be used to toast my marshmallows. And just to let you know I do NOT! Like characters deaths in stories or movies they make me to sad, (starts crying again)
R&R