Ch. 4 Of talking and Healing

He woke about twenty minutes later, standing up quickly, not knowing how long he had been asleep. He felt something touch his hand, making him jump. He looked down to see Rose had taken over Lilliths body.

"You are the one who helped Lillith?"

"I am, and you're the High priestess, Darkside."

"Yes. I need your help. That tomb robber hurt me as well, but I wish to hide it from Lillith."

Zeke nodded, not thinking that she couldn't see it. He picked up the bottle, and filled the needle once again.

"It's on my stomach," Rose told him, lifting her shirt slightly. Zeke injected her, and went back into his medicine room to grab a vitamin shot to restore her damaged skin cells.

"You should rest," he told her after the second injection. Rose frowned, and her hands suddenly shot out, feeling out for him. She touched his face, moving her hands around until she felt the cut above his eye. He flinched as her thumb brushed across the injury.

"You're hurt as well," she said.

"It's nothing, just rest. I'll check on you now and then, so you won't be alone." Rose frowned again, and placed her hands on her stomach.

"You should bind it before you get sick," she told him before the anesthetic sent her into a deep sleep. Zeke smiled a little. He hadn't thought of binding it. He was starting to like this girl.

It was about a day before the girl woke again. Zeke's eye had tried to heal as much as it could. The iris and pupil were together, but it looked like a broken piece of glass, a jagged crack in the middle of it. All the white of his eye had filled with blood, making it look pretty gruesome.

He was making breakfast on the stove when he heard Lillith groaning awake. He turned off the heat, and went to the living room. He squeezed her hand lightly to let her know he was their. He still wasn't sure when he should take off her eye patches.

"Glad to see you're awake," he told her. Lillith smiled lightly. "How are you?"

"I'm still hurting and I can't open my eyes," she told him. Zeke licked his upper lip. He needed to find some things out about Lillith.

"Do you mind if I ask you some questions?"

Lillith looked up at the ceiling before she answered. "Sure, go ahead." Zeke sat down on his recliner.

"What were you doing up at that house?" was his first question.

"Visiting my boyfriend," she answered. Boyfriend? That didn't make sense, but Zeke decided to ask more about Bakura later.

"Who's your guardian?" he asked her.

"I have two," she said. Zeke blinked in surprise.

"Who?"

Zeke saw a spirit flicker behind Lillith. It was Rose in a pale image. "Rose and Silver Fang," Lillith answered. Her tiara glowed, and Zeke heard a howl echo around the room. A silver wolf image formed next to couch.

"She is the one that guards the corridors of my item, and keeps us both company," Lillith continued. The wolf bowed, then disappeared. Zeke thought for a second before he asked his next question.

"Have you discovered any of your millennium powers?" he asked her.

"Just one."

Zeke frowned. That wasn't the answer he wanted or expected. He would ask Rose later. He changed the subject.

"Why are you in love with that sadistic freak?"

Lillith smiled weakly. "Only his light-hearted sided," she said. Zeke was confused. How could anyone see a 'light' side in such an evil person?

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

Lillith laughed, which caused more confusion for Zeke. "He also bares an item. The one I love is the light half of the two." Zeke nodded, finally understanding what she was saying. An evil Yami spirit. Zeke never thought about that, seeing as he never had one. Zeke couldn't think of anything else to ask.

"Any questions for me?" he offered.

"Who are you, really?" Lillith asked immediately.

Zeke paused, laughing to himself. "I work for Ishizu," he said, trying to think of what exactly to say. "I seal the shadow rifts that the cards, millennium items, and other things that create havoc. I also do other errands for her, like what I did for Rose."

"How did you know me?"

"I saw you at Duelist Islands. I had something to do over their and I noticed you with Yugi Muto."

"Anymore questions for me, or Rose?"

"How's your back?"

"Could be better, I can move more though." Zeke smiled a little, knowing she couldn't see it.

"That's good. Can you get Rose out here?"

"She's been watching, but…" Her physical features changed once again.

"Hello Rose," Zeke greeted her. She smiled lightly in return. "I'm sorry, but can you shut out Lillith?"

"Yes," she answered. "Silver can keep her company."

Zeke waited for a couple seconds before saying, "Good, is she gone?"

"She is. The door to her soul room is closed, and she will not open until I knock on her door."

"All right. How's the stomach?"

Rose moved her hand under her shirt. "It's a lot better then yesterday," she replied.

"That's good. Why haven't the tiara's powers been activated?" This question was so sudden that it took a second for Rose to frown, and then answer,

"Only one is the power of visions. Lillith sometimes suffers horrific visions that rob her of sleep for days. The others, if there are more, I wish not to activate."

This was going to be more difficult then Zeke thought. He was pretty sure that the little event that took place at the museum was to make the tiara's powers surface.

"The purpose of the memory restoration was to trigger some of the important abilities. Why don't you want them to activate?"

"If they are as bad as the visions, then Lillith will suffer, and I don't want to put her under that distress."

"Visions of the future are terrifying, but there is some powers that deal with the present. I ask you, find those, and make use of them. They may help you."

"I don't want Lillith to suffer… I'd rather keep the visions, but its not always the juture, but the horrible brutality of our past."

Zeke covered his face with his hand. He couldn't believe he had become half-blind to rescue such a stubborn girl. He sighed, and decided he would try to get her to learn to use the tiara some other time.

"I see I won't be able to convince you," he said. "Just remember what I said."

"I will. We will see if I do as advised. I might, I might not. It might happen by accident."

Zeke nodded nimbly. Maybe he did convince her a little.

"One more question," Rose said. "How do you seem to have a miniature hospital in your house?"

Zeke smiled. "I've taken a few things from medical store rooms," he replied. "When you do the things I do, it helps to have it around."