DISCLAMER: I do not owe YU-Gi-Oh,

Chapter 2

Wrong Pick

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As Tea, walked down the hall, she could hear talking coming from the living room. At first, all it sounded like was a mumble sound of nothing at all and made no since to her at all. Stopping partly down the hall, and not quite entering the living room, stopping to listen to talk that come to her ears. A voice she did not know was asking "Are you sure it is a good idea to let her stay here? What, I mean….from what you were saying is that you have not heard from her over 6 years or so as it is. Why would she be back, after all this time?" Than Tea heard Yami's voice, always the same strong and wise "Tea is my friend, and I am hers. Her parents were like mine. If she is in trouble I won't turn her out because of it." Someone growled and the same voice again "She is trouble with a capital T in it, and that kid is the same."

Tuning the voices out at that point Tea put her back to the wall, looking in to space, not even noticing the tears coming down her checks. Than her mind slowly fell apart, 'I knew as soon as I walked up the house this was wrong. Why did I come? I should be able to handle this with out anyone's help.' Tea, soon felt her hands press hard against the wall she was leaning up next to trying to think of what to do than it hit her. Slowly closing her eyes, for now she could feel the tears dripping down her face. Making up her mind, she wiped her face trying to hide the fact that she had been crying, pushed with her legs from the wall, stood up straight. Trying to show she did not hear them talking about her and walked in to the living room.

The first to notice Tea was Bakura, for he was getting ready to say something and quickly shut his mouth, when he saw Tea walk in to the room. Yami however, sensing Tea turned around in the chair he was sitting in to look up at her. Trying to get some idea of what was going on with Tea's mind, he tried to read her mind or to see if she would talk to him but all he got but all he saw in his mind eye was a wall. 'She has made up her mind about something I can tell from her face, and there is no changing it. But, what has caused this change? I could feel her plea for help in her own way, made her change her mind on that?' Yami, than narrowed his eyes at her, as Tea walked up to him and stopped. Looking down in to Yami's eyes for a second and seeing the questions that mirrored in his eyes, at that point she looked up so not to let him see her eyes, for she knew he would not like what he saw now in her eyes. 'Ok, here goes nothing.'

Yami was still looking at Tea real close, and than it hit him 'She has been crying, and it has not been that long ago at all. Did she hear Bakura talking to us? How much did she hear?' Tea, saw out of the lower part of her eye that Yami was still was looking at her 'I have to do this fast.' "Yami, thank you again for the bed for Matthew, and when he wakes up we will be on are way." Slowly turning away from him and everyone, in the room so they could not see the pain in her eyes at that point and try not to make them feel bad at the same time. Walking back down to the hallway "I will lay down Matthew, and after we wake up we will be on are way". But, than something happened to Tea, her steps became unsteady, and she started to fall and said one word "Ya…Yami". And that was it.

Bakura, watching Tea walk away saw something was not right in his mind, got up to at lest look like he was walking the same way as she was, just as he got close to Tea, his instincts kicked in and jumping the last couple of steps and caught Tea before she hit the ground. "Damn, she passed out!" Yami stood up just as Tea started to say his name, when she started to fall that was when Bakura caught her.

Coming over to them to help when he noticed something on Bakura shirt. "Bakura, what is that on your shirt?" Bakura looking down at his white shirt he had on. Knowing the feel of blood and smell of it too, looking at Yami right in the eyes "Its blood". Was all he said, as he lifted Tea in to his arms and walking to his room with her. Yami not far behind him "Yugi, get the first aid kit, quick!" hollering at him as he walked in the bedroom.

Bakura slowly laid Tea on his bed, and started to look on how to get her shirt off with out hurting her any more than she was "Damn, woman and their shirts, I can't get it off with out hurting her more than she is." Trying to pull the shirt off, but could not make a move, for every move he made of to get the shirt off, Tea moaned in pain. "Yami, here is the kit." Yugi said throwing it in to his Yami's hands. Yami caught the first aid kit in mid air, and turned back to the bed. Quickly laying the kit on the floor and opening it up and grabbing the scissors "Move over Bakura". Moving over and Yami started to cut the shirt away.

What they saw was not good "Hiss, God that has to hurt, and the blood is flowing to freely, going to have to stop it before she loses any more". Bakura reached out and pressed his hand to her side. Yami, nodding his head at that statement, started to feel power build up real quick. Looking at Tea, on the bed, he could see the power start to move around her body and than it hit Bakura, hissing in pain "I can't hold my hand here forever, she is fighting me". Just as he was moving his hand, for then the power started to move up his arm.

"Let, me." Yami said and placed one hand on her side, and the other on Tea's forehead and closed his own eyes. It took a while, but the power slowly drained out of the room, by the time Yami was done, he was sweat covered, by what he had to do to get the power to go away was not an easy thing to do at all. For it had been a while since he had to make Tea turn her power off and make it drain from her. Opening his eyes slowly and breathing a little harder, "It should be fine now". Moving his hand from Tea's forehead, "You should be able to work on her with that not happening again". Nodding his head Bakura, got what he needed from the first aid box.

Getting started to work on her wound, cleaning the mess up around Yami's hand before he had Yami move his hand so he could finish the job. Looking at Yami, he nodded his head and Yami moved his hand out of the way. The blood started to flow again but not as fast or as hard, Bakura had it well in hand, and in no time at all her wound was covered and the bleeding had stopped, by the time, he was done. "You, pretty good at that, where did you learn to do that?" Yami asked as he started to help clean up some of the mess.

Smiling at Yami, as he slowly rolled Tea on to her side to remove the rest of her shirt "Had to patch myself up a couple of time real fast." As he pulled the rest of the shirt away and started to take her pants and shoes off. "How did she come by this cut, Yami? This cut is only a couple days old at the most." Yami slowly shacking his head at that question, looking at Tea laying there now asleep in the bed, but still in pain that covered her face. "That is a good question, Bakura. What is she running from, and why?" Pulling clean sheets up to Tea's chest and than started to walk out the room, when mumbling started coming from the bed "No, please… I did not mean to do it." Tea and the bed started to shack at the same time and was getting hard at each second went by.

Yami, looking at the bed and mumbling out load "It is going to be a long day". And started back to the bed. Bakura reaching out to Yami's arm to stop him from going back to the bed "Are you sure about this, what I mean, can you control her power like this?" Looking in to his lover's eyes with a small smile on his face "I helped her control her powers when it got out of control years ago, she knows me and my aura and will accept me, but to help her it is hard to say if she will. But, right now I will do what I can." Walking to the bed and sitting on the edge of the shacking bed and just reaching to hold Tea's hand, and slowly the bed stopped moving. "You, and Marik should use my bed to get some sleep, I will sleep here for now." Bakura just nodded his head and walked out closing the door behind him.

Yami, sat there on the bed looking at Tea, just holding her hand and wondering why she would come here, was she looking for help, and than turn around and end up saying she was leaving after she just got here? What about the wound on her side, how did she come by it, who did it, and why? When after all these years would she end up on his doorsteps and what about her husband? The one she wrote to him about year after she got to New York that she was getting married to a great guy, and he accepted her for everything she was, right down to her powers she had.

Why was she still not there in New York, and where was her husband Charles? At that point, there were too many questions and not enough answers to figure out what was going on. Hoping that after Tea woke up, all the questions would be answered then. Lying down in the bed next to Tea, looking at her face, that once was filled full of sweet promises of a very happy girl. How could her face change so much after she went to New York, slowly sleep claimed Yami as he laid there, and he fell asleep himself in the same bed with Tea, in no knowing it he put his arm around her as if to protect her from what ever she was running from.

The first thing, that brought Tea back from her sleep, was the pain in her side. The pain was a dual ack that seem to pulse with each breath she took. A small moan came to mind as she lay there, but than something else hit her at the same time 'Where am I, and who is body am I lying on?' Feeling the rise and fall of the chest her head was laying on, and then an arm that was wrapped around her waist. Taking a deep breath, but not to hard to hurt her side, and she could smell the person 'What is that scent, I know that scent of only one…' than something in the room did not feel right, some one was watching her, or was it the person next to her. Not wanting to use her powers to give them away, for she knew there were people out there that would do anything to have someone like her or her son to use, as they wanted.

Slowly Tea, opened her eyes, and seeing a light tan chest in front of her, but the stares where not coming from the person she was lay next to, but at the end of the bed. Lifting her head and looking to the end of the bed. Tea's eyes went wide, for there stood 4 men looking at her than it hit her, who was she cuddling up next too? 'Yami, I am sleeping in the same bed with him, and they are just looking at me.' Raising her head to move and sure enough there was Yami, asleep in the bed with her. A light blush came across her face at what they were seeing in the bed. Tea took a deep breath and slowly tickled Yami's mind to let her go.

Yami's arm let go of Tea, and she slowly set up to face the 4 men looking at her. Marik, looking at the bed and seeing Tea sit up 'No, blush covered her face now, and no emotions showed at all, it was as if life what ever she had was gone, and their sits a lost soul.' At that point, Yami opened his eyes, and saw Marik, Bakura, Yugi and even Ryou standing at the end of the bed with questions written on there faces. However, Yami just graced them with a lazy sexy smile "Can I help you?" that made Tea turn her head and look at him with surprise written on her face.

Than a child's voice came from out of the door and was looking for someone "Momma, Momma, where are you?" Matthew was looking around to see where everyone had gone too at the same time "Buck, where are you?" Tea raised her eyebrow at that statement "Buck?" looking at the 4 men standing at the end of the bed. Bakura had a slow blush come over his face "That happens to be me. Your son can't say my name right, so it comes out sounding like Buck, instead of Bakura." Saying this and turning around shouting out the door. "In here Rugrat!" 'Now this is just getting plain weird here with all these names' Tea said watching for her son come in the door.

Walking in the door and looking right at Bakura "My name is not Rugrat!" with such a serious look on his face. In the end got a chuckle from everyone in the room even from Tea, as she watched her son trying to stand up for him self. Than he looked around, saw Tea in bed "Momma", and ran to the bed, threw his small arms around her waist to hug her. "I wake up, and not you not with me, and Buck up and he was scary first, but than I got…?"

Looking at Bakura for what he had for to eat "Pancakes" he said to Matthew, and than he turned around back to Tea "ancakes, momma" with a big smile on his face. Yami watched Tea as she talked to her son 'the voice she used with him, it was sweet but strong to my ears, but than she was still in pain about something and hiding it from her son at the same time so he won't see it in her voice or in her eyes.' This put a smile on his face on how Tea, was a good mother even with out her knowing she was a good mother.

Tea, started to get up, but hissed in pain of her side "Momma, your hurt side still?" asked Matthew with a small frown on his face, and worried at the same time. Looking at Matthew with a smile "Just a little bit, Sweetpea, some aspirin will help". Saying as just as she was about to really try to get out of bed, and than it hit her 'Where are my clothes?' Turning to look at her partner in bed with her. "Aha…Yami, where are my clothes?" looking around the room to see if her clothes were around in the room, the only thing that she saw was her shoes.

Marik, looking a little bashful at what he was going to have to say to Tea about her clothes. "I had to throw them out, for they were beyond, repair and help, no washing was going to help them or the cut in the shirt you had on." Tea, looking at him with a confused look on her face, than it hit her 'My side starting to bleed again.' "Wait a second, what happened to my shirt, I mean that was my favorite shirt, and so where my pants?" Bakura, looking Tea right in the eye "We had to cut the shirt off, and as for your pants, they were way too gone to be saved". With a matter fact statement voice.

With a sad face on Tea's face "But, that was my only shirt, and my favorite one at that". Trying to get out of bed again, but than sitting back down with the sheet wrapped around her chest. Looking a little bashful at what she was going to have to say now. "Well, than I still need something to wear, for the time being." Looking at all, the 4 men still were standing at the end of the bed. "Your clothes Tea will not be able to wear again, or be saved." Yami stated as he climbed out of the bed, still fully clothed. "Well I still need something to wear, Yami?" Tea said with a frustrated voice at him as he started to walk over to Marik.

Just then Bakura walked over to his own closet, looked at some of his shirts, and pulled out a black short sleeves shirt "You can wear one of my shirts but, I don't think my pants will fit you at all". Throwing the shirt at Tea still sitting on the bed with the sheet wrapped around her to hide from the men in the room from looking at her and seeing her naked. "Yugi can you go get a pair of my sweatpants for Tea to wear from my room?" Yami asked as he wrapped his arm around Marik shoulders and started to lead him out of the room to the kitchen. Ryou went with them, for so far he had not said much about Tea being in the house let alone why she was here right now. Holding the shirt up Bakura started to leave the room also "Thank you Bakura". He just ended up grunting in a replay to her and left the room.

A little while longer Yugi showed back up at the room, and walked in and handed Tea the pants with a smile on his face "Here you go, Tea". Smiling at the young man, that looked so much like Yami, Tea still could not get over how much they looked like. 'I don't remember Yami ever saying that he had a brother, but than he could a long lost cousin too, but why did he never say anything about it when we were growing up? Maybe he did not know as I did not know he had one either.' "Thank you, Yugi, that is your name right?" Nodding his head yes and walked out while closing the door, but said the one thing Tea love to hear "There is coffee when you get ready".

Tea looked at her son, which has been standing by the bed and not say much at all, but just looking at her. "Matthew, could you wait out side for momma, while I get dress, and I will be out in a sec." Looking at her son in his green eyes, which she fell in love with the first time she saw him. "Ok, momma, I go see Buck." Tea, knowing her son "You be good, and be nice also, and no funny business at all young man!" Tea said as her son walked out the door and closing it behind him and hearing, "I will good". Tea, watch her son leave the room, shacking her head that her son, in how cute he could be, but that the same time a very big troublemaker at the same time too.

Only then did Tea slowly swing her legs over to the edge of the bed. Reaching for the shirt Bakura had given her to wear, while thinking at the same time. 'What am I going to do? They have seen my side and are going to want to know how I got the cut. Nevertheless, than, Yami also is going to want to know why I came here too? I should have not come here; in the first place, I should have gone right to my parent's old house instead.' Pulling the pants on and still thinking and trying not to fall as Tea pulled the sweatpants on, still feeling weak from the loss of blood.

Puffing a little after getting the pants on, Tea felt dizzy as a wave hit her as she just stood there by the bed reaching for the headboard to hold her up as she got her balance. 'I guess I am weaker than I thought. I could always call Yami to help me. But, that won't work I have to show I am strong enough to move around on my own with out help, and if I call him, than I might as well say I am staying. I can't put him in the middle of my troubles. That will just not do.' \Tea, stop acting like you are strong and ask for help!\ 'Well your no help with this conscious, if I want your help I will ask for it' \ But it is the right thing to do.\ 'You would think so in the first place.' \but you can't handle him he is to strong, and that is why you are here\ 'But, you heard them they don't want me here in the first place let alone Matthew too' \All you can do is ask? \ 'Yea right' \It is worth a try and it can't be helped. You need help and they can help you\ 'I should have not come here, and I can handle him I know that now' \Yea right like you did last time? \ "SHUT UP!!!!" Tea started to shake her head to clear her thoughts and started to walk very slowly to the door to get out of the room and her thoughts that were plaguing her in that very room.

Just as Tea, put her hand on the knob to open the door, 'I am doing the right thing about leaving, I should have not come here in the first place, they don't need my problems on top of theirs in the first place' just then someone on the other side knocked on the door. Just with that one knock Tea, put her own thought on the back burner for now, and slowly opened the door to see who is there, and Yami was standing in front of the door as if he was waiting for her to come out in the first place "Need help?" he asked with a concerned on his face that mirrored in his eyes too.

Tea slowly walked out of the room and said the one thing he always hate that she did even when they were kids. "Only if you want to." Tea trying her hardest to put on a happy smile for him. Growling at her, "I wish you would not do that, always got me in trouble at school when you did that." Tea chuckling a little at that statement for in some part it was true "Me, do that, now where did you come up with such a crazy idea like that?" Smiling at him with an innocent look in her eyes, as if I could never do any wrong at all. "Stop that, I know better than that." Yami said as he started to put his arm around Tea waist to help her to the kitchen.

Walking alone to the kitchen Tea, saw the living room, the TV was on some cartoons, and there sat Matthew so close to the TV you would have thought that his eyes glued to the set. //Matthew, please move back from the TV, you are sitting to close// Tea sent to her son in the living room. Out, of nowhere "Yes, momma" and Matthew moved back from the TV. Than his small voice came back "Momma can I have a drink?" he said turning head to see Tea walking by with Yami's arm wrapped around her waist.

At seeing this Matthew's face started to get a dark look on his face for what he was seeing 'He is not my father, and he should not be holding momma like that' thinking as his face got a little darker at what he saw in his own eyes. Tea watched her son and saw that look that came over his face and quickly put an end to what he was thinking before it got out of hand. //Now, Matthew don't get mad, Yami is only helping momma to the kitchen so calm down.// Just as Tea sent this to Matthew Tea stumbled a little if it was not for Yami having his arm around her waist she would have fallen, for when she stumbled, Yami pulled her back up so not to fall on her face.

//MOMMA!!// Matthew said as he saw Tea start to fall a little //I am fine Sweetpea, just a little weak, I will eat and be fine// Matthew nodded his head at that, but he still had a worry look on his face as Tea started again to go to the kitchen. //See son if Yami was not helping me, I would be flat on my face right now. So don't worry he won't do anything, we are friends Matthew and that is all it will be. However, you know this as much as I am telling you that you already know this son. You are smarter than that what you are thinking so get that look off your face// "Matthew if you want a drink please come to the kitchen and I will get you a drink, or Bakura will get you one". Tea said as she walked in to the kitchen.