-1A/N: You people are BAD VERY BAD!…. -hangs head- No, I can't put this off on you not keeping up on me. I deserve to be tortured slowly for leaving you all hanging the way I have, but PLEASE if I must be tortured can Bakura do it? I have full intentions of completing this fic SOON! I want it off my mind, and should I pick up reviewers again, who are interested I do have an outline for sequel but that is up to you people, WHOM I LOVE!

Dedication: To my daughters Mattea and Katie! Love you both dearly! You were the inspiration behind most of this chapter and the jokes that only you are likely to get. Oh and Tubby Bob Tasty and I are getting along great, he's perfectly edible! -giggles- Can't wait for you to come back over 'Tea!

Things We Shouldn't Do

Lilly allowed herself to be led into an empty class room, Ted closed the door behind them. Knowing the others weren't far off she didn't bother with the small spike of her adrenaline. Ted turned around and watched her, obviously hoping she'd do the girly thing and start conversation. "You really think you're above me?"

"In some ways, I know I am. Other's I'm just like you, but mostly I'm just beyond you." she answered with a shrug folding her arms over her chest and leaning back into one of the desks.

"Look," he said after a moment, starting to pace. "I k now you had a rough spot and made some really bad choices, but do you really have to punish yourself forever because of that?"

"My sister nearly died!" she half screamed, this was the one topic she'd rather die than get into. Reigning herself in, she spoke again, "I think a little repenting is the least I can do, to make up for that."

"Repenting doesn't mean no fun for the rest of your life. You did your job you got clean, you've brought your grades back up, you're a freaking saint at the church. My sister worships you, God, Lilly you're done. Come have fun with me, I promise no booze." He held up his hands showing he had only innocent intentions, which she didn't buy for a second.

"I have fun, Theodore, I just measure it and keep it very clean."

"Fun isn't meant to be measured. I'll keep the party clean, too. So give me one good reason you can't come?"

"I already have plans this weekend," she said pulling out her final card.

"With who?"

"Bakura and I are going out," the moment the words were out of her mouth she wanted them rephrased. Ted glared at her growling something under his breath, before turning sharply, fists clenched, and stormed out. Lilly waited until she was sure he was gone before leaving. Bakura was leaned again the lockers where she'd left the others. He smirked viciously at her when she approached. On a whim she greeted her white haired companion, "Hello, Tomb Robber."

"Lady of the Nile," he nodded with a grim smile. "So, tell me, what are you willing to do to get out of this charade?"

"I stop just short of murder," she teased.

"Hmm," he hummed giving the hall leading to the dance and assessing glance. "I say we go look into license plate theft, I don't know about you but this town is too quiet."

Until the final bell rang Bakura and Lilly loitered in the parking lot. Minor vandalism to a few cars may have been blamed on them if Lilly didn't have such a good girl rap. Matt and Justin gave them both disappointed glares when they were released. Lilly just slugged their shoulders as she passed taking the keys from her brother's hand and waved for Bakura to take the passenger seat.

"Dude!" Serena shrieked swinging a stick like a light saber, "Back fowl beast!" Ryou stayed in the barn, behind her waiting on Son of Sam to walk away. The wood connected with the feathery body and the bird was sent flying. "I hate to do that, but you gave me no choice." she rested the stick on her shoulder standing like a proud warrior watching her enemy jump up, shake itself, and run off to regroup. Sam's hens and Crooked Wings followed after him squawking as they waddled away.

"Is Lilly serious about teaching us to shoot Sunday?" he asked stepping out into the biting wind to trail Serena down the hill. The brunet nodded turning her back the wind, walking backwards to talk with him.

"If its not snowing," she frowned. "You too will disappear in the snow. Too damn pale, I thought all the sun we gave you would darken you up a bit… I might just tie a orange flag to your head."

"Hahaha," he rolled his eyes at his friend. She smiled at him winking in letting him know she really didn't mean it. "What is a Christkindlemart?" He wasn't clear on what it was, the internet hadn't been open for private research the past week as Lilly and Bakura were keeping a very close eye on a Kiaba Corp Tournament that both Yugi and Seto were in. But they'd both left for this festival shortly after breakfast and no one expected them home until nightfall. Well better put, they'd been threatened with bodily harm if they returned before nightfall. Ryou hadn't needed his mental link to Bakura to know this pissed his yami off.

"A German festival to celebrating Christmas, its loads of fun. Lils and I used to dance for it, and the last two years we were pastry girls." She closed her eyes sighing dreamily, "Have you ever had a fresh from the oven cream puff?" She imitated Homer Simpson drooling "Creeeaaaam puffs."

"Cream puffs?" he asked almost hopeful.

"Know what?" she slammed her foot into the edge of the frozen barn door making it screech open. "I think we'll have to make some later." Serena grinned crookedly at him.

"Sere!" he grabbed her hand diving into the goat barn, slamming the door shut behind them. The crowing of Son of Sam was eased through the door. "Can we make a chicken pot pie too?" she laughed at him, shaking her head.

"If you'll clean him, I'll cook him." she promised.

Christmas Carols played on the radio, the heater blew hot, toxic air at them, and to keep from keeling over from the fumes they'd cracked the widows. Between them knotted together were their coats, Lilly's sleeves were shoved up to her elbows, and she hunched over the steering wheel peering out through the thick snowfall. Distracting her could mean black ice and a phone pole through his chest, so Bakura kept a watchful eye out for signs of danger and leaned back into the cracked leather seat of the beat up old ford. The DJ interrupted the steady stream of music with commercials and a traffic update before putting them back to their festive tunes. Out of nowhere a crowded parking lot appeared and the tension Lilly had been holding evaporated. They cut a left turn pulling into the lot, stopping almost immediately as a tall heavily garbed man in a ski mask came up to Lilly's window.

"Damn it!" the man grinned pressing gloved hands under his arms. "Hell did freeze over! Hans'll flip to know the devil herself has come."

"Johan, stuff it and park me. You're letting the heat out," Lilly's voice had a teasing quality with a razor sharp edge she usually reserved for Matt.

"Up the hill park with the rest the dancers," he winked. "Look forward to seeing you on the floor, Halse." he patted the truck's side and she pulled forward to inch up a tall hill.

"What's he mean dancers?"

"Serena and I used to dance, Bavarian folk music and costumes. I dropped it this year Ree quit few years back," Lilly tugged her coat free after parking. She nodded for him to put his on and locked the doors. "We'll stay an hour or two then we can do whatever you want. There's nothing too interesting here." they walked a little ways toward a large circus tent. "I heard there's a nice horror film in based around the Christmas holiday." Bakura nodded liking the sounds of this, maybe Frosty, Rudolph, and Santa would finally get what was coming to their jolly asses.

They needed their coats and then a big reflective shield to keep off all the people that crashed on them. Many knew Lilly and they'd be stuck in small talk for several minutes before they could move on. The festival was in a circus tent, someone played happy polka music laced with more carols on an accordion from the stage. Booths of food, arts, and crafts, lined the walls, from the liquor booth women in low cut brightly colored dresses called out with promises of hot drinks that would keep you warm. Men huddled together around a radio listening to the game and telling tall tales they swore to be the absolute truth, mostly. Belly rolling laughs erupted from those deep in their drinks sitting on unsteady chairs watching the entertainment, fatty half eaten chickens in their laps, potato pancakes walked by wrapped in napkins tucked into the hands of pudgy faced children.

"OI!" Bakura found himself jolted from Lilly's side, where he was trying to keep to desperately, by two boys dressed in funny leather short overalls and a girl in a red dress with elaborate embroidery. "Lils!" the green eyed brunet patted the arm that was suddenly around her chest as she was hugged from behind. "I didn't think you'd come," one of the boys with light hair and eyes said resting his head in the crook of her neck.

"Hans, get off." Lilly struggled free of his grasp reaching for Bakura and tugging him back to her side. "Hans, Christian, Heidi, this is Bakura. He's staying with my family." The girl he assumed to be Heidi looked him over with a critical eye before nodded with a smile.

"Cute, little…lean for my tastes, but cure." she said lacing her fingers with the darker boy, Christian. Christian was muscular, probably a line backer or the likes, more brawn than brain, but he smiled approvingly toward him so Bakura didn't fret. Christian on the other hand had a glare fixed on him, and was trying to move around to keep Lilly protectively in his reach. Bakura got the feeling he was trespassing on the mortal boy's territory and the though made him down right giddy. He flashed his favorite malicious grin, wrapping an arm around Lilly's waist and pulling her tight to him. He was surprised at how natural it felt, the way she fit into his side perfectly, and that she slid her finger into his belt loop.

"Lilly, we're short a girl, can you fill in?" Hans asked his voice becoming stronger and clearer as he reinforced his stance. "Just doing one set," he practically begged.

"Can't. I wouldn't want to leave, Kura alone and I promised him we wouldn't be here long," she shook her head. Not wanting to be and excuse at the same time that he was delighted to be her excuse he stopped her.

"No, Lil, if you want to dance. I think I can survive," he threw a careless look around at the crowd. "They don't seem to be any scarier than you," he teased, actually getting a smile out of her. Heidi nodded, her free hand toying with her skirt, she bounced with energy, which was dangerous considering one good jump and she'd spill over the top of her dress. The corset like bodice was laced tight, pushing up her small breast. Bakura turned his attention else where, knowing Lilly wouldn't let him live it down if he were caught staring.

"You sure, babe?" Lilly asked him pulling slightly at his pants, in what he knew to be a nervous movement.

"We have all day," he reminded her. "Go, have fun with your friends, as long as I'm taking you home tonight, I'll wait." Hans squirmed watching the two of them. Lilly didn't notice though her green eyes locked on his coffee ones.

"What time we go on?" she asked her friends without breaking eye contact, he felt a gentle brush of mind on mind and grasped at it quickly. Bakura held it long enough to identify that it was hers and released it again.

"Let's put it this way, if you're dancing I need to start working on you now." Heidi proved Bakura's theory wrong by pouncing Lilly. "You're dress and everything needs done up," she ran fingers through Lilly's almost raven locks and clucked. "I'm going to have hell putting these things in any sort of order. You boys keep Kura-kins busy, I'm going to go get our little lady put together." Heidi took Lilly's hand and dragged her away from him. Bakura watched after them until the crowd swallowed the girls up.

"So, what does she mean you're staying with her?"

Justin and Mandy had left for Ted's party, Matt and Chris were trimming goat hooves and tooling around in the barns, Mr. Halse was still selling trees at the church, and Mrs. Halse had called an hour ago to check on them, promising to be home before midnight. So with everyone securely preoccupied Serena called Suteki over and the three now stood in the kitchen about to mount a new adventure in the world of baking.

"Do you know how to bake?" Ryou asked worriedly tying on an apron and flipping through the family recipes for Cream Puffs.

"Yea, sure!" Serena's words lacked the confidence he'd hoped for. Suteki giggled, which worried him, as she gathered the 'duh ingredients'.

"She knows how to make charcoal cookies, bubbly cake, and explosive muffins." Ryo eyed his friend wearily, wondering how bad it would be to banish her to the table.

"Fine, party poopers, we'll just make cookies," Serena sighed, pushing herself up on the table and going to get a bag of chocolate chips from the pantry. "Think we can handle this?" Suteki nodded.

"Most definitely! I can bake cookies in my sleep, Ry, wanna grab me a mixing bowl from under the sink?"

Lilly swirled, stomping, and clapping to the beat. Her bright red dress with the simple white, green, and black stitch work around the hem only set off her green eyes. She plastered a false smile on her face, her lips painted red, eyes traced with eyeliner, and blush kissed her cheeks. Her bodice was laced as tightly as Heidi's, but she had more to push up. Bakura had suffered through the Spanish Inquisition from Christian and Hans, neither boy was impressed with his short vague answers. Lilly was on the stage, and he found his eyes glued to her. When everyone filed off stage she jumped off the front landing in front of him, her smile finally becoming real.

"Lets go, I'll change and we'll go eat." he nodded numbly and followed after her. Sweat glistened on her chest and the curls her hair had been teased into bounced as she shivered in the cold. They had to walk outside to the main building. "What'd you think, lamest thing ever?"

"No, Mouto has that title," he answered causing her to roll her eyes.

"I can't wait to get this thing off," she said lifting her skirt and twisting the slip underneath, careless of all the on lookers. "You do nice work though, ever think about making this America thing permanent and going to Hollywood? You really had Hans going, I loved it." He didn't respond, an answer wasn't really necessary. She pushed open the heavy doors and led him to the bar, parking him by an elderly man, "Stay here, I'll be right back." she hopped up to kiss his cheek, winking when his eyes questioned her.

The man he sat by just stared at him the whole time Lilly was gone, and Bakura was playing with things he'd do if he had his shadow powers when Lilly returned. Her dress boots peaked out from under form fitting blue jeans, and her V-neck sweater striped with red and white had been donned again but she hadn't straightened the curls or removed the make up. Though the lipstick and blush weren't needed he was glad that the eyeliner remained, she batted curled lashes holding out her hand, which he quickly took. He'd figured it out while she was gone, she was playing along with his game from earlier, if they were going to fool her friends they might as well lead everyone else on too.

The drive to the movie theater was as uneventful as the drive to festival, if it could really be called that. The film didn't scare either of them in the least though, he'd found Lilly sitting closer to him than usual. When the credits rolled they stood stretching and yawning, stumbling but were the only ones not bothered by the near total darkness of the theater. They moved quickly without any hinderment towards the door.

"Just a sec," Lilly said suddenly veering off toward the concession stand with their empty tub of popcorn. She smiled sweetly, and even from a distance he knew her words were sugar coated and her eyelids were heavy forcing her to look at the gangly boy through lashes, she leaned over the glass counter giving him a nearly full view down her shirt. But returned with a free bucket of popcorn and a large coke. "Now we can go,"

"What was that?" he wasn't sure if he was pissed or if he admired what she'd done.

"It's ebbing on three, an hour drive would only put us home at four, but I promised Mom I'd do something I wouldn't want her to know about." Lilly shrugged offering him the coke. He took a swig and returned it, stealing a handful of the popcorn as they walked toward the truck.

"Your mom won't find out about it right?" he asked an idea forming in his mind.

"Yea, the idea was I act up, like a normal teen."

"Okay, lets go to Walgreen's."

Ryou decided that girls were far too easily distracted by the promise of a guy in nothing but cotton pajama bottoms diving in a lake. He glared at his batter soaked bangs as they flopped in his eyes. It was going to take years before he got all the goo scraped up off the floor, walls, window, stove, sink, and of course scrubbed out of his hair. Serena, wasn't ever going to operate anything with the word "Kitchenaid" on it again. He'd actually been glad when Suteki decided to distract her with her little DVD. The pair had managed to make him burn three trays of cookies, by talking him into multitasking and dueling at the same time. Neither of them had a strong handle on the game, that or, which he believed to be more likely due to the fact that they giggled the whole time, they liked his accent and were acting like ditzy blondes just to hear him explain it all over and over.

He pulled a tray from the oven setting it up to cool and sliding in the last of their dough. A fit of giggles drew is attention toward the living room. He sidled it to stand behind the couch and watch over the girls heads as the promised scene took place. He didn't manage to keep in his question.

"Why would he do that?" It didn't make sense the George would jump in the lake, after seeing impossible, tortured, dead bodies floating there.

"Because," Suteki sighed as if this were elementary, "The hottie with the body is always better wet!" Serena tilted her head at the screen watching intently as the man pulled himself back up onto the deck.

"He'd best pull up his pants before he loses them, too." Ryou add shaking his head. This scene had to have been added to keep the female audience watching because it really didn't hold much weight with the rest of the plotline.

"George looks like Jesus," Serena said smacking her best friend's leg. Suteki groaned, and Ryou left seeing as he'd only cause their guest more trouble. Besides, he had work to do.

"You just killed George, Rena."

Lilly gawked. She hadn't expected this, she wasn't sure what she had expected but this wasn't it. They stood in the hygiene aisle between the condoms and pads, where they had some relative privacy. She looked at her pale companion and he nodded, she wanted to laugh but that wasn't an acceptable response. A clerk who'd passed them several times stopped this time to ask if they needed any help. Bakura pulled her too him, without any resistance, and smirked.

"No, we're just looking at preventatives. Got any preferences you'd like to share?" The clerk looked between the two of them, he probably had a teenager at home that he was working a part time job along side his full time just to support. Seeing the man's hesitation Bakura kissed her, and Lilly was stunned at her body's response she actually pulled him into her, demanding the kiss to deepen. It wasn't the clumsy first kiss she'd always heard of, this was natural well practiced, like they'd done it a million times and this was no different. But Bakura didn't allow it to go very far, and though she knew he'd been as hungrily involved in the kiss as she was he showed no signs of it when he returned his gaze to the clerk.

"Tro..tah.." the man sputtered before he was paged and nearly ran away from them.

"You want to do it or not?" Lilly gave the condoms a wistful glance before nodding.

"I'll do it if you will." Bakura let her go, eyeing her for a moment before agreeing.

"Of course." Ten minutes later they slammed the doors of the pick up truck and fled from the store. Once they were a safe distance away Lilly pulled the truck off the side of the road into a patch of trees and emptied her pockets. She hadn't stolen anything of significance, maybe five dollars worth of ink pens and thumbtacks. Bakura laughed at her booty, dropping his own on the car seat between them, he'd lifted a pocket knife and a pez dispenser with a Woodstock head.

"Mom, would kill me!" Lilly grinned devilishly.

Her heart was still racing and she wasn't sure what to do with herself, and then what had started her heart came back to her mind. With all the speed of a cobra she struck. Lilly had her seat belt undone and was over Bakura before he could think of a response she pressed her mouth onto his. Her lips crushing his as her fingers tangled in his hair. Never being one to be dominated Bakura bent her back toward the driver's side of the cramped cab. She moved into his every touch, her back arching when he place his hand in the small of it. Something had just been unleashed and she was inviting him inside with every movement.

There were none of the cheesy lines she'd heard in the movies, neither of them muttered anything about first times. Bakura wasn't clumsy when his fingers found her bra, instead it expertly removed the barrier, suddenly bare skin rubbed bare skin. But Lilly increasingly found she wasn't controlling herself. It was nearly the same feeling from the dreams, she possessed, at least, the memories of another life. A hard life on desert plains, stealing from the dead to survive, and constantly chasing after the King of Thieves. When Bakura spoke it wasn't her name it was Norfret, and she knew this meant he too was lost in another life.

When it was over, and they scurried to dress and get back on the road neither spared the other a look. But with unreal clarity she still remembered Norfret's life. She could recall days in Egypt just as easily as she could days on the farm. A thought hit her then, and she didn't want to lose it. She couldn't let it go, so she posed the only question that would set her free.

"I know this is going to sound crazy, but is it possible to remember a past life?" Bakura looked at her sideways, and swallowed. She'd never seen him actually look nervous, and she saw the glint of gold, remembering the sharp stabbing around her breasts while they were tangled, he hadn't removed that damn talisman of his.

"Yes."

"You said that a soul could be old because it was locked in an object, like a genie in a bottle, were you?" Lilly was afraid of the answer and Bakura hesitated to give one.

"You're not crazy, but you'd be better off to believe you are. The people who know the truth get hurt," his voice was sincere when if finally came. Lilly nodded slowly and brushed her thumb over the steering wheel, she'd just given it up to a spirit or something, she expected to feel enraged but instead she just felt like things had finally clicked into place. Since his arrival she'd found a discovery she'd made years ago was much easier, she could reach out and touch minds with her own it made sense now. He'd sparked the newer dream/memories that had been coming, with them her ability to use her mind touch had grown, and now after having… After what had just happened she knew it all, she understood what was going on as well as she could hope.

"Why?"

"Because, that's how this game works. We're not genies either, we don't grant wishes. We're just spirits," he sighed and touched the ring that hung from his neck. "There are a few of us, our souls were locked in certain items that hold magical abilities. The idea was that fate would release us again to reenact a battle we already participated in. Our roles are already chosen." He grabbed her hand suddenly. "Lilly, you have to believe me, if I could change this I would, of all people I'd never want Norfret to be in this all again. You can't imagine what her role was last time." Lilly bit her lip, she did know, she didn't need to imagine.

"She died. Sacrificed her life so you could get away. She wanted you to live even if she couldn't," she looked from the road to their entwined hands.

"And I sought revenge; revenge for everything that had to happen after our village was burned."

A/N: Okay, so this is hopefully long enough for you. It's 1 am, my internet is off but will be fixed tomorrow sometimes so I'll try and put this up then. I know I couldn't post last time I was on; chapters wouldn't upload. Hope I threw you a few curve balls you hadn't expected, Lilly and Bakura sure threw me one. I'm starting to think that sequel will have to happen.