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"A little, yes." Max said not wanting to refuse and set him off even though she wasn't hungry in the least.

"Great!" Oliver and Max ate in relative silence, she had wanted to make a sarcastic comment so bad she was forced to bite her tongue more than once. The meal went rather slowly or so it seemed to Max she didn't know since there was no clock in the dining room but if felt like hours that she had to keep up the pleasant fake smile. Dinner was finally over when Oliver wiped his lips and got up offering Max his hand.

"Why don't we go upstairs?" Oliver said quietly smirking down at Max. Max blinked and felt her stomach plunge down to her feet.

'Oh, god! He wouldn't! Not the first day we met! Would he?' Max let herself be led away hoping the Kaiba would get himself out of trouble cause she didn't think she could go through much more.

"Talking" 'Thinking'

With Kaiba ...

Kaiba slowly stalked through the corridors of the first floor silently avoiding the cameras placed in seemingly random places through the large hall. So far he had come across and dispatched three guards all weaker than Slade and great targets for his burning fury. He had come to a conclusion when he was getting information out of Slade. He cared about Max, since he had seen her at the airport she had been popping unbidden into his thoughts. He had tried countless times to deny the feelings that seemed to show up whenever Max was in the same room as him, but every time he thought he had rid himself of those nagging emotions Max would smile at him or say something that catch him totally off guard. Like this morning when Max had ended up crying on his shoulder, he hated to admit it, but it had hurt him to see her like that and be unable to stop the cause of her pain. Kaiba sighed shaking his head to clear those thoughts away. First he had to save Max, then he could dwell on the confusing feelings that haunted him.

"Yeah, I'm almost off for today! It'll be great to get some time off now that he's finally got her!" Kaiba paused outside a door listening to the loud conversation, looking through the crack he saw that it was an older woman and a young man talking in the kitchen.

"He should put more time into his work than capturing young women!" The older woman said with a frown as she turned on the man, he just shrugged and bit into an apple.

"Whatever makes him happy I'm fine with!"

"How can you say that? Max is a nice girl and doesn't deserve this!" The woman narrowed her eyes at his careless attitude. Kaiba had to stop himself from barging into the room at the mention of Max's name, he had to wait until one of the was alone before he could make his move.

"Do you want to get between something he wants?" The man asked a look of humor upon his face. The older woman paled and shuddered.

"No, but it's still not right!" The older woman scolded. "Now got out of here I have worked to do!" The man shook his head and stood up taking another apple.

"Yeah yeah!" The man crossed over to the outside door and opened it stepping into the night air. Kaiba got ready to move once the door closed.

"The nerve of him! I would help Max if I could!" The old woman's said sadly putting some items back into the cupboards.

"Then why don't you?" The woman jumped and turned around holding her hand to her heart.

Up with Max ...

Oliver pushed Max into a room and stepped in behind her shutting the door behind him. Max looked around quickly while he was busy locking the door, she was in a different room then the one she had been shown to first. This was yet another bedroom, the walls were windowless and grey the carpet and bed covers were both black. Max's eyes snapped back to Oliver when his hand closed over her wrist.

"W-what are you doing?" Max asked trying hard to keep her voice steady.

"Making you mine!" Oliver said a smirk appearing as he looked down on her. Max's blood ran cold as she tried to pull away from Oliver since there was no doubt left to what was going to happen. "You don't want to do that! Your boyfriend is still down in the dungeon and you wouldn't want him now would you?" Max paused for a second pondering Kaiba's situation and Oliver grabbed her wrist tighter spinning her around and wrapping his arms around her shoulders pinning her arms to her sides.

"Let me go! This isn't right!" Max struggled against Oliver's tight hold half heartedly still not wanting Kaiba to get hurt if he failed to get out.

"How do you judge what's right and wrong?" Oliver asked sarcastically.

"You have to have a conscious for that to work!" Max spat pure venom in her words. Oliver threw his head back and laughed.

"Admit your mine and I might think about letting you go!"

"What do you want from me?" Max asked calmly.

"I don't want anything from you! I want you! I want you to answer to me an only me! I don't want anyone else touching especially not that damned Kaiba!" Max punched her elbow back and hit Oliver in the stomach causing him to loosen his grip on Max enough for her to pull away from him. Max turned and glared at Oliver as he recovered his breath.

"Kaiba has never touched me!" Max said eyes flashing with anger at the careless words. Max's feelings for Kaiba were confusing enough without Oliver accusing him of being her boyfriend. "Unlike you he doesn't have a freakish fetish for me!" Oliver's eyes filled with anger and his smirk vanished. Max just hoped she was right and he really was the weakest of the group, if not she would be in deeper trouble than she first thought.

"You will be mine and mine alone!" Oliver yelled advancing on Max. "Say it!" Max stood her ground raising her fists, she couldn't stand it any longer she had to fight back against Oliver. Max just hoped Kaiba had gotten himself out of trouble, because she'd be damned if she would let Oliver claim her as his with all she had found out he had done in the name of wanting her as a possession.

"No!" Max said almost as loudly as Oliver, losing her temper for the first time in years.

"You will answer to me and me alone!" Oliver spat coming closer raising himself to his full height towering himself over Max and trying to intimidate her. Max would've laughed at him if she wasn't shaking with anger. He really was pissing her off and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

"No! No! No!" Max shouted with rage.

Down with Kaiba ...

"Take me to Max now!" Kaiba said after letting the woman calm down so he did not give her a heart attack.

"Well of course I will take you to her!" Kaede said readily agreeing with Kaiba's request.

"Where is she?" Kaiba said cautiously not fully trusting the maid.

"On the third floor in Master Oliver's bedroom." Kaede said regretfully. Kaiba paled and went rigid a cold fear running down his spine and filling his veins with ice.

"Take me there now!" Kaiba said coldly Kaede looked up at Kaiba fearing for whoever was on the wrong side of this mans anger.

"Y-yes, Mr. Kaiba!" Kaede crossed the kitchen quickly and exited the door heading for the stairs. Kaiba followed Kaede up three sets of stairs, he would have gone without her but she had gotten him around the guards so it was faster to take her though she slowed him down. Kaede paused after leading Kaiba through most of the third floor.

"Why are we stopping?" Kaiba demanded of the maid as she turned to face him.

"The bedroom is down this hall, last room on the left." Kaede looked behind them making sure they were alone. "If you fail I don't want to be caught helping you." Kaiba frowned at the woman but nodded.

"I won't fail!" Kaiba said remembering his promise to Max, the promise that he wouldn't let Oliver hurt her. "Call the police and hide." Kaiba dismissed her and turned to walk down the hallway.

"Good luck! Tell Max I'm sorry I helped Oliver." Kaiba stopped and looked over his shoulder.

"Tell her yourself!" Kaiba said, Kaede smiled and nodded turning away to do what she was asked. Kaiba turned back to his task and ran down the hall to the door the Kaede had told him Max was behind. Kaiba silently promised he would kill her if this was a trick, but didn't ponder that thought for long after hearing the muffled voices behind the door.

"You will answer to me and me alone!" Kaiba gritted his teeth eyes narrowing in anger, but not acting incase it was a trap.

"No! No! No!" Max yelled unmistakable anger in her usually calm voice. Kaiba growled fresh anger coursing through his body he twisted the door handle and found it locked, giving the door a glare that could have set it on fire Kaiba turned and walked back two paces.