Recap:
"What did you do?" He asked coolly as thunder echoed in the distance
"I sent him to the mail room!" Max said with a shrug. Kaiba looked at her a small smile appearing on his lips for a brief second before quickly disappearing to his usual frown. "Did you need anything else Mr. Kaiba?" Max asked looking out the window at the storm then back to Kaiba.
"No!" he said thoughtfully. "May I walk you out?" He asked as he started to get up.
"Yes you may." Max said with a small smile that she also quickly hid. He walked over to Max and past her opening the door "Thank you!" she said as she walked out the door and stopped at the elevator pressing the down button. Max looked over noticing that the receptionist had already left, Kaiba walked over and stood at her side. After a few minutes of waiting in silence the elevator opened and they both stepped in and faced forward Kaiba on the right and Max on the left. He reached out and pressed the button for the ground floor, the elevator started to move going down ten floors. They heard a sound like a whip splitting the air and an electrical boom. The elevator started to rock and the lights went out, Max felt the elevator move and start to drop.
"Talking" 'Thinking'
They heard a sound like a whip splitting the air and an electrical boom. The elevator started to rock and the lights went out, Max felt the elevator move and start to drop the jerking motion threw Kaiba on top of her, Kaiba wrapped his arms protectively around Max as the elevator stopped after about ten floors throwing both of them violently to the floor. Max's head hit the floor with a dull thump as she heard Kaiba hit the ground with a sickening thud. She didn't move for five minutes to make sure the elevator was going to stay in place. Max slowly got up and shook her head gently trying to rid herself of the ringing noise in her ears.
"Mr. Kaiba?" Max called out softly getting no responce back she slowly crawled over to him and turned him gently over. Kaiba's eyes were shut and he wasn't moving. Max looked up as the emergency lights came on, they weren't much, but they were enough to see a little better. She looked down at Kaiba to see a trickel of blood running down his cheek. She frowned and moved closer parting his hair to see a shallow cut that was two inches long. Max moved two fingers to his neck.
'His pulse is normal.' Max thought after a minute opening his eye lids and checking his pupils 'Pupils are fine. That means no concussion.' SHe breathed a sigh of relief and checked his head wound again, it was still bleeding heavily. Max gently moved him to the side of the elevator and sat him up so the blood would not flow so fast to his head. She took the bag off her shoulder and looked inside for something that could help Kaiba.
'Great! There is nothing that will work.' Max frowned and looked down at her shirt and started to rip off the hem, ripping it upwards until she got a long enough piece, she pulled her tank top back down and looked down at the scrap of black fabric 'Not designer, but it will do!' Max thought as she knelt in front of Kaiba, she started to wrap the fabric around his head gently, but firm enough to keep it there, Max gently pulled out the hair that was stuck in the wrap and setteled it neatly around his face. Max pulled her hands back and looked at Kaiba's still form.
'He's so handsome.' Max thought looking at the unconsious boy. She shook her head and moved to the other side of the elevator checking her cell phone, she sat down and sighed 'No cell reception? What am I going to do now?' Max thought as she looked up at the top of the elevator. 'I hate small spaces.' she thought with an inward groan. 'Wait!' Max looked over at Kaiba 'Still asleep, good!' She closed her eyes and statred to sing softly.
"Drowning in tears that won't be me, I will soon be free from the chains of all this pain inside and though I cry it won't be long till I regain the strenght to know I can go on. I will find the way through the heartache I will not give up on love." Max shut her eyes tighter and wraped her arms around herself.
"I will learn to love again, I will learn to trust once this heart can start to mend, I will learn to, learn to love again." On the other side of the elevator Kaiba started to stir and opened his eyes, he tried to move and winced feeling his head. Kaiba curiously looked up when he heard Max singing, she still had her eyes shut tight. So Kaiba just sat there watching her.
"All of these tears time will dry them, I will survive them and make it through into another day. All of this pain time will heal it, there will be a time sometime I know, I will feel it. I will live through life without you after the hurting is done, I believe. I will learn to love again, I will learn to trust once this heart can start to mend, I will learn to, learn to love again." Kaiba just sat there unknow to Max watching her softly sing the hidden emotions.
"And I will find Someone who deserves my touch after all the hurt is through. I will be so over you. I will not give up on love." Max opened her eyes "I believe." She finished the song meeting the sapphire blue eyes of Seto Kaiba. This time he was not giving her an icy glare, he was not looking scornfully at her, he was just watching at her. Max gave Kaiba a small embarassed smile "It would be a lot eaiser if I actually believed the words of the song." She said and turned to her bag rummaging quickly through it. Max came up with a travel bag of asprin she tossed it over to Kaiba and he caught it with one hand. "That should help with your head, sorry I don't have any water." Max said and closed her eyes.
"That song isn't yours?" Kaiba asked in his usual monotone.
"No, it is I Will Learn to Love Again by Kaci." Max said without opening her eyes "I couldn't think of anything else I liked." Max opened her eyes and looked at the celing again. glancing at the two square foot hole.
"Think we can get out through there?" Kaiba asked, Max moved her gaze from the human sized hole to Kaiba.
"Not unless you want to be fried!" Max said frowning not at Kaiba, but at the situation in general "It appears that a bolt of lightning struck directly above the elevator, so the whole outside of it is one giant electrical nightmare. No cell phone reception either. I tried already." Max said and closed her eyes again and leaned her head against the side of the elevator. She heard Kaiba sigh and rip open the packet of asprin.
"Why did you lie?" Kaiba asked siddenly, Max opened one eye and looked at him.
"Which time?" Max asked after she closed her eye again.
"At school." Kaiba cleared it up a bit more.
"Whick time?" Max asked again.
"About who you were."
"Because." Max sighed again "If they knew who I really was, everyone would want to be my friend just because I'm rich. I mean look at you! I was there one day and five girls asked me to join the Seto Kaiba fan club. And do you know how many rules you have to follow to be in your fan club? It's freakin' insane! How shallow can you get to make a fan club for a guy? No offence Mr. Kaiba, your great and all, but its just.." Max sighed and opened her eyes "Sorry, that was a major subject change." Kaiba looked at Max working hard to try and hold back a smile.
"Why are you so mean to Yugi's group?" Kaiba asked seriously. Max sighed and wraped her arms around her legs putting her chin on her knees. Max looked at Kaiba matching his serious expression.
"I'm guessing you want honesty?" Max asked and Kaiba nodded "I had a few close friends and was brutally betrayed by them, they were after me for my money. They were not intrested in friendship, so now I make a habbit of not keeping friends." Kaiba gave Max a look of understanding.
"What about Mokuba? You did not seem to treat him like dirt." Kaiba asked looking intrested though he tried to hide it. Max looked at him thinking over her answer carefully.
"Well... Mokuba? He's different. There is just something I see in him that makes me want to trust him." Max said honestly. "Like you, I've read so many stories on how cold hearted you are, but when you came to pick up Mokuba and saw him injured there was something in your concern for him that was... different from everything I have heard about you. It was genuine." Kaiba looked at Max one eyebrow raised. She leaned back against the elevator annoyed at herself ror reaveling so much about herslef so easily. "Are we through playing Twenty Questions Mr. Kaiba?" Max asked flatly closing her eyes again.
"Just Kaiba please." Kaiba said softly, Max shivered as a cool breeze came through only vent. Kaiba noticed and opened the emergency supply box and took out the contents, he sorted through them one blanket, a deck of cards, two flashlights and among other things, a note that said not to panic. Max opened her eyes and watched Kaiba expertly sort through the items in the box, after a few minutes her eyelids started drooping and she let sleep over take her.
Kaiba's P.O.V.
Kaiba finished going through the emergency box after what he figured was a little more than twenty minutes.
"Ahh Daddy stop!" Kaiba glance over at Max who was curled into a ball her eyes shup tight and wimpering slightly. Kaiba frowned in confusion and went over to Max, looking down at her pale form, a cold sweat was obvious on her exposed skin.
"Daddy look out! The car!" Max cried as she gave a strangeled sob Kaiba leaned over her his brow furrowed in concern.
"Max, whats wrong?" Kaiba asked softly. A tear escaped Max's eye after he asked the question.
"Daddy and Mom are dead and its my fault!" Max answered in her sleep, her hands clutching themselves into fists at the memory.
"It's not your fault!" Kaiba said softly.
"Yes it is! I made them take me to my science demonstration. If I hadn't they would still be alive!" Max argued in her sleep as another tear escaped her shut eyes. Kaiba reached down and gently brushed the tear away. "It's not fair that I lived and they died!" She said continuing to talk in her sleep "I was in the same car with them, I should have shared their fate! Now they left me all alone." Kaiba moved forward and took Max's hand in his, wasn't sure why he did it, he only knew that it felt right.
"Your not alone Max! I'm here!" Kaiba said softly. Max's hand tightened onto his as she opened her eyes and sat up, the tears she held back made her eyes shine like diamonds.
"Will you stay?" Max asked almost to quietly for Kaiba to hear, but he did. Kaiba moved forward and wraped his arms around Max holding her close as she laid her head on his chest.
'What am I doing?' Kaiba asked himself 'This feels so right, but..' He sighed and looked at Max's sleeping form 'She was just sleep talking, she didn't even know what she was saying. Her eyes might have been open, but it was her subconsious that was talking.' Kaiba reached for the blanket and sat back against the elevator still holding Max, he wraped the blanket around her and pulled her closer. 'But that just means that she meant what she was saying, though she probably won't even remember it in the morning.' Kaiba looked down at Max sleeping on his chest her hand was placed lightly on his left shoulder. Kaiba sighed and answered Max's question.
"Yes Max, I will stay with you." Kaiba said and laid his head gently on top of Max's drifting off into a peacful slumber.