Disclaimer:I'd like not to waste my time with this but I don't own one darn thing. Like to. The wonderus things I could do with Kura if I did own him... But I don't own any of this.

Truths and Trails

Lilly woke early the next morning unwilling to open her eyes she pet the small furry creature in her lap. Her mind still belonged to the dream world. She'd been with him again. In her dream the

boy had come back and helped her run away. She still could hear his voice in her ears. Lilly's hand reached a spot without fur and her eyes shot open. It took them a moment to adjust to the dim light in the stall. Laying in her lap was Bakura's head. His body attached lay next to her she was sitting up agianst the wall. In his arms lay a black, and white goat. Her eyes searched the rest of the stall. As hard as she tried she couldn't remeber the kid being born. Her eye's caught another kid laying in the middle of the stall. From its postion she knew it was dead. Then Kate sprung to mind, she was laying sleeping soundly in the corner opposite them. Now fullly awake she found her legs were cramping from sitting pretzel style all night.

"Bakura. Bakura?" she cooed stroking his unruly white hair out of his face.

"If you've got to go, go. You don't need me to hold your hand." he answered.

"But your on me."

"Sorry, Norfret." he shifted and picked up his head laying it back down on a pile of straw. None of this matter though. Norfret is what she was called in the cursed dreams that were haunting her. Realizing he too must be dreaming or that she had misunderstood him she developed a plan. What was it she was always asking the boy in the dream?

"Promise you won't leave me?" she wondered out loud.

"Nothing, not even the gods, could make me leave you behind Nor. Now be quick about it I want to leave a hour past dawn."

Looking at her watch she realized it was only dawn now. She stood up slowly holding onto the wall to keep from falling. Her whole body was stiff and she ached in places she didn't know she could ache in. It took her a moment to get her balance. Once achieving this she scooped up the dead kid. It was a buck. She couldn't help but feel a heaviness around her heart, holding the stiff, wet creature. She took it out beyond the barns to a small mound where they'd burried their stock. She laid the little one on top of it. Matt had called this a sacrifice. Which in a sense it was. If they laid out their dead the wild beast wouldn't come into the barns. She made her way back the hem of her pants becoming soaked from morning dew and the sun warming her back. When she got back to the barn she gave Kate some vitamin water and food sprinkled with minerals. Kate greatfully excepting this the doe climbed up onto the milking stand and ate merrily as Lilly set out her next task. The moment the little one sleeping in Bakura's arms heard the milk hit the tin bucket it aroused. Slowly it found it's footing and came to stand next to Lilly coursiously chewing at her pant leg.

"Bakura, it's a hour past. You ready?" she called to him across the stall. He sat up like someone had struck him.

"Why didnt' you make me sooner Norfret, we should be leaving now?" he asked a harsh whisper.

"Because I'm Lilly. And we've nowhere to go." Lilly answered sticking her finger in the frothy milk and sucking on it. It had a thick sweet taste. She new she was depriving the little one of a few drops of closterum but that wouldn't kill it.

"When was it born?" Bakura asked scooting back against the wall carefull to miss the wet, gooey stuff on the ground, matted in the straw.

"I don't know. I'm gessusing this to be the second. I already dispossed of the little buck." she sat the bucket down beside her and turned around on the stool picking up the kid. She turned in on it's back. "This is a doe. Good job Katy. A little girl nice and healthy. I'll put flyers up next week." Katelyn didn't respond only continued to munch.

"Neither of us were awake?"

"I don't gessus so. But she did good on her own. She normally does. But now we get to put her out with the older stock beyond breeding age."

"Your in a cheerful mood this morning." She shrugged and stood up with the kid in tow carrying the milk bucket.

"Is there reason not to be? But I'd like to know what you know of Norfret."

Bakura stood up to quick and fell back down, his legs giving way under him. Normally Lilly would of been laughing but now she just sat down the bucket and went to help him. It was strange what one night in a barn could do to a person. Not only could it make you stiff and achey but it could give you a new outlook on what you have. Lilly had found a companion in her night in the barn.

"She's someone I knew a long time ago." he said. This wasn't a lie she decided. Maybe her dreams were real. Maybe Elaine wasn't just blowing steam. Maybe she had an old soul. Of course Lilly's upraising had never given her the chance to think seriously about reincarnation.

"In Egypt maybe?"

"Maybe." Now they were both standing and started out of the stall with the kid and milk.

"Was she a friend?"

"Sometimes."

"She knew you well?"

"Enough."

"What should we name the little one?" Bakura followed her into the goat tack stall. Within were buckets and bottles and barrels of feed, hoof triming tools, sheers, and other such things. Lilly paused to look at him in this new light. "Will you get me that bottle please?" she asked pointing to the smallest bottle on the top shelf. Bakura nodded and handed it to her.

"Why ask me about the name?"

"It's tradition...Bakura I've been having these dreams." she didn't know why she was telling him of all people about the dreams. She didn't know why she was drawn to him and repeled from him at the same time. He had a rebel streak in him a country mile wide and twice that long. He was unlike anyone she had known before he showed up on her farm. Only in her mind and books had she heard of such people existing."I'm this girl in ancient Egypt. My parents weren't married. My father is a man of the court and my mother is a peasant. Your there too. Or someone who looks like you is. His father beats him. He's one of my best and only friends. One day our village was burned we were practically the only ones to live. My father shows up all high and mighty on horseback and takes me to his home."

"After a while he starts to get drunk and beat you. He calls you by the name of your mother. His wife disappeared long ago and you were one of the few who knew he had killed her. One night after a beating where he cut the inside of your thigh, the boy came. He crept in through the window and made you a promise. He promised nothing would make me lose you again. I came to visit nearly every night after that. When your leg is healed you limped a bit. But it didn't matter. We ran off." Lilly listened to him. While she'd been speaking she'd poured milk in to the bottle and now she held it halfway through putting the nipple on it.

"You had to leave. Your father was trying to get you married to one of the sons of the court. You were afraid of everything. You never left my sight after the night you ran away. We were hunted like wild beast along the Nile. At some point we were seperated. You went out to dispel some urine and didn't come back. I searched everywhere for you. Even went back to your father. I seached tombs, stables, homes, even the river. I thought maybe you'd been kidnapped and were being forced to work in some tavern being played with by any man who'd pay. I came up with lies I told myself. I said you played me for a fool and had just used me to get out of your father's house. Then"

"Here they are Serena." Ryou's voice wafted in the small room.

"Mornin' Ry. How are you?" Lilly greeted quick to recover from her trance.

"Good. I see you got a little one." Lilly nodded.

"Tis a girl. Just waitin' on 'Kura here to name 'er." Serena stepped in behind Ryou making it nearlly impossible to move without tripping over someone or thing.

"Just one? I thought she was a twin." Serena said distaste evident in her voice.

"There were twins. Buck and doe, the little boy was dead though."

"What's her name?" the younger girl asked.

"Bakura's going to name her. If it were up to me I'd stick with the type of name the others have. The billys are all named after the knights of the round table except Merlin. The nannys all have names starting with Lady. Or are named after the wives or misstresses of the knights." Lilly imformed the room. Though he knew it was for his own benefit alone.

"Right. Kate not taking the baby?" Serena asked.

"Didn't seem intrested in her. She was in Bakura's arms all night so. I was going to try to introduce them later."

"Well, you go ahead and feed 'er and then come in for breakfast. Matt'll be here soon." The two younger teens left Ryou inquiring about bottle feeding and other goaty things. Their previous conversation lost as he watched her try and give the bottle to the little doe.

"Can I try?" he asked. The little one took right onto it when he tried. Lilly huffed and crossed her arms over her chest. She stood in the corner pouting pretending to do something useful.

The day continued on as normal after a large breakfast. Toward nightfall the animals got extra hay as always on a Saturday night. They'd tried several times to get Katelyn to take the little doe but she always refused it. So now that Bakura sat on Lilly's bed waiting for her to get off the phone and continue showing him Yugi's placement in the latest tournment. There was a shoe box open next to him filled with cards. Some sorted into decks, others according to type or strengths all with rubberbands around them. He picked up the only lose card. It was a Blue Eyes with a siganture on it. Seto Kiaba. The wall over Lilly's bed was adonrned in her own drawings of the young CEO. In his lap sat the little doe, who still had no name but was being called Baby Girl for now.

"Yes, sir. I'll ask him... Of course...First thing in the morning...Thank you...Send my love to the little ones...Night...You too." she was talking to Father Lou.

"What he want?"

"He's going to be busy with some witch burning thing or another with some of the more uptight memebers of his congergation on Halloween and wants us to take the kids trick or treating." She sat the phone aside and began typing hurridly. There was suddenly a song playing over the computers sound system. "Yugi Mutto did well as always. He is the king of games and no less should be thought of such a talented youth. He's once again come out on top with this tournument. His last duel is to be Monday at 3PM with Mr. Seto Kiaba. This will be a duel for the books and you'll be able to get a full naration here in our chat box." she read."So basically Seto is about to get his cute little butt kicked by the shrimp." He smirked. She had a soft spot for the CEO."What?"

"Nothing at all. You gonna duel me or not?"

A/N Sorry about taking so long on the last chapter. I had a case of writers block and I was grounded. I'm back now and will be working on the next chapter momentarily. Finally nearly half way through the year. I've read and reread and read this chapter agian. I feel like I'm pushing the plot to hard. Like pulling teeth. But after this chapter there's alot of fun to be had. The boys have yet to learn what a farm is like in the winter. Plus with the new understanding between Lil and Kura I can put more meaning into their silence. I sure hope I can at least. I know this all sucks so get over it. I also think I've doubled a day.