Quick Recap!
RECAP! Yami's been kidnapped and tied up in a corner while Yugi's being tortured for information he doesn't have, or does he...?
WARNING: THERE IS LOTS OF BLOOD SO IF YOU HATE IT STAY NEAR A BUCKET!
Yami smiled back at him. I'll suffer with you, hikari-mine.
"Please! Leave him! He's not involved! Yami doesn't know anything! Please, please don't hurt him!" Yugi cried, tears rolling down his cheeks. Then suddenly, those eyes cleared, the fear vanished and he drew in a gasp.
Yami looked at him and Yugi looked back. The look said one thing to Yami. I know where it is. I know.
"Stop it!" Yugi screamed suddenly. Dartz raised a hand to make Raphael pause. Yugi winced as Dylan jerked him, making him talk. Yugi licked his lips and croaked out "I don't have them, but I know who does… and you've killed her"
Everyone froze.
Yami gasped.
The thugs looked at Dartz.
Dartz was glaring. "I have no time for you're games, kid. Who has them?"
Yugi smiled, he actually smiled. Yami translated the look in confusion; you've lost. "The puzzle was a gift to my Mother. When Dad left you that message, it was before the crash, Mum was still alive. The puzzle was in her possession when he told you that. She had them… but you drove her off the road… they're lost forever…"
Dartz was frozen. Yami was silent in awe. Yugi was right! His Father couldn't have meant him, he remembered Solomon telling him that the puzzle belonged to Ran before Yugi got it, Ran had those documents!
Brilliant Yugi! You figured it out! Yami praised silently, his heart singing in pride for the broken angel before him.
Dartz pulled out his own knife and walked up to Yugi, his breath quickening. "You lie" he breathed out softly.
Yugi shook his head "You've lost them" he screamed when Dartz slashed him, rage making him lash out, Yugi's blood poured form his chest. Yami yelled.
"You lie!"
Yugi shook his head again "Mum had them- Ah!" the knife cut his arm.
"YOU LIE!" Dartz screamed and slashed like crazy some hitting Dylan's arms as well as Yugi who was screaming non stop in terror, too weak to run.
Raphael approached "H-hey boss, he's had enough, we don't want to be done for murder ag-"
"QUIET!" Dartz threw the knife and it hit Yami's arm. Yami yelled, but the ropes moved… the knife had cut through them and into his arm, he wriggled it a little… his arm was free!
Suddenly the place was filled with white light so bright everyone cringed away from it. Yami closed his eyes. His hurt arm rose to protect his eyes, even though it killed to move it. "This is the police! We have you surrounded! Drop your weapons now!"
Dylan and Raphael dropped their weapons and raised their hands. Dartz did neither. He pulled out his gun and pulled Yugi to his feet, placing the gun to his bleeding head. "I'll shoot him!" he threatened. Yugi whimpered and put his hands to Dartz's arm to be able to breathe.
"Shoot him! Don't mind me! You have to get him!" he whispered to the police hoarsely.
Yami pulled off the gag and used his teeth to pull out the knife from his arm, then used it to free his arms and legs. He saw that the police and Dartz were arguing so he gripped the knife and snuck up behind Dartz… then grabbed the gun and threw it up while the knife went to his throat. "How dare you hurt Yugi!" he hissed angrily in the creep's ear.
Dartz froze then shoved the both of them away and a shot fired wildly. Suddenly the police were there. Holding down Dartz and arresting the thugs. Yami panted, ripping off the last of the ropes, and looked at Yugi.
Yugi was leaning heavily on his arm against a crate, a hand to his lower stomach, his eyes wide and unfocused. He looked up at Yami, his face losing what was left of its colour and a trickle of blood trickled from his mouth "Y-Yami…" he coughed out.
Yami rushed up to him. "Yugi… that bullet…" he pulled Yugi's hand away and saw the hole in his torso, Yugi's hand attempted to slow the blood "Oh my Ra… Help! Yugi's been shot! Help me!" Yami shouted as Yugi collapsed into his arms, his eyes scared. "Hold on Yugi…"
"Yami… your arm…" Yugi's fingers touched some of the blood.
Yami shook his head, sweet hikari-mine, you shouldn't be worrying about me, Yami's eyes swam with tears "It's not that bad. Stay with me Yugi" the police were crowding them looking at his injuries and calling for an ambulance through their radios.
"Yami!" the teen looked up. Anzu, Serenity, Seto, Joey and Teá were all standing there. Anzu screamed when she saw Yugi. "Yugi!"
"Oh God!"
"Hurry up!" Joey shouted at the paramedics that rushed through.
Yugi was pulled onto a stretcher and the paramedics hurried him into an ambulance. All the teens piled in. "Y-Yami…" he gasped out when he lost sight of the crimson eyes as he was loaded into the vertical. "Y-Yami! Yami!" his small voice rose in panic.
"I'm right here!" Yami soothed, touching Yugi's face gently.
Yugi locked eyes with him, his tiny form shaking "Please don't leave me" he begged, the other teens not hearing this exchange as they made room for the breathing equipment and held on as the vertical raced to the hospital.
"I'm not going anywhere, I promise" Yami assured Yugi, stroking his face, trying to calm him, Yugi's eyes suddenly widened and he spasmed, trying to curl around his stomach. The men restrained him, making Yugi cry out louder in pain and fear, not understanding who these people were or what was happening.
Yami cupped his face "Look at me. Not at them, look at me!" Yugi did. "Don't look away, and if you do keep thinking of me" Yugi nodded. Yugi was panting heavily, coughing out blood often. Holding Yami's hand and his eyes either opened wide or screwed tightly shut in pain.
Yami held his hand, not caring about his own wounds "Yugi, hold on. Can't you do something?" Yami snapped at the paramedic who was monitoring his heart and breathing, oxygen and pain medication.
He patted Yami's shoulder "Everything we can, son. Clear the back exit, we're unloading in two minuets. Sorry you'll not be allowed in surgery" he told the worried teens. "Breathe into the mask, son" he told Yugi.
Yugi breathed in but then coughed back out again before he got a good lungful.
Anzu and Serenity gripped each other's hands tightly. "Oh god… Yugi…" Serenity was sobbing, biting her nails and lips. Joey was gripping the bed rail and Seto was holding Joey just as concerned.
The man turned to Yugi "Stay awake, boy. Tell me your name, son."
"Y-Yugi" everyone froze as they heard him speak for the first time.
Yami cut into them "He started talking again today and yesterday. Shut up"
The paramedic nodded and then took Yugi's heart rate again. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen" Yugi slurred out, his eyes fluttering.
"Hold on, grip your friends hand" the man encouraged. Yugi's grip tightened. His sight got blurrier, dizzier, his world spun…
"Yami…" he called out helplessly again as his eyes rolled back into his skull…
"Open the doors!"
Yugi got wheeled out. Everyone cleared the way. A Doctor was informed of his condition as she wheeled him to surgery "I want three lots of AB positive blood, this kid's going to need it. Heart monitor, morphine, get an X-ray for broken bones I don't like the colour of his chest-"
"Doctor!" a nurse rushed up, her face scared. Everyone stopped "Our last bunch of AB positive was used it out last surgery, we don't have enough!" she said in a rush.
The Doctor froze "No! Even if we call the blood bank now, it won't be fast enough…" Yami gasped, Yugi was going to die…
Anzu jumped "What's his type?" she asked.
The Doctor jumped "Miss, listen-"
"What's his Fucking Type?" Teá almost screamed at her.
Everyone shut up.
The nurse answered "AB Positive, it's rare"
Anzu shook her head "No, it's not! Me and Teá have that blood type! Take it from us!"
Teá nodded and held her arm out "Use ours! Don't let this brat die!"
Everyone shut up again, stunned that Teá was sticking a needle in her arm for Yugi's sake…
"Y…am..i…" a soft voice murmured through a mask, his hand tightened then-
"Yugi!" Yami shouted as the hand in his went slack.
The Doctor jumped to action "Do it" she told the nurse. "As fast as possible, take it from both of them, get him to surgery! Stabilise him! He's still got a pulse…" her hand at his slender neck.
Yami was stopped at a door. "Sorry, stay here" Yami looked pained as Yugi's fingertips left his own. He watched them get set up through the window, everyone crowed around and watched as they set him up to IV's and heart monitors and breathing machines. The Surgeon shouting instructions to the others.
"Where's that blood?" she snapped as the tried to stop the bleeding in Yugi's arm. "Stop that bleeding!" she snapped and three people instantly jumped to action and got on the other bleeding knife slashes.
The nurse hurried past with four bags of blood in her arms. Teá and Anzu followed slightly pale and dazed matching plasters on the insides of their arms where the needle had gone.
Serenity rushed to Anzu's side "Babe?" she asked.
Anzu nodded "Two full bags each, just encase. It's all up to them now…" she stood by the window bit her lip at the amount of blood Yugi had lost.
The doctors cut away his clothes and covered him with a blanket instead. Yami had a hand pressed to the glass "How did you find us?"
Teá shifted her feet. Seto answered for her, harshly "Teá was in league with them until you were kidnapped in his place, she wanted you back so begged us for help. Then when Yugi raced off we followed, we followed Anzu's and your phone signals until they died then we followed Teá's phone that the thugs number in it" Seto glared at the ashamed girl "She's the reason he's in there" he summarized.
Everyone glared at her. Yami looked about ready to kill her but then-
*Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep!*
"He's flatlining!" the Surgeon shouted. "Get those paddles!"
Yami stared wide eyed "Yugi!"
Yugi drifted in between pain and dark. He didn't know what was worse. The pain hurt to hell and would probably kill him. But the darkness promised to never let him out if he fell in there. Yugi began to cry. He was lost and alone and couldn't make a sound. The last thing he felt was the fingertips anchoring him leaving his skin…
Suddenly there was some light. He reached up towards it and he felt like he had grown wings…
Then he was surrounded in light, the darkness far below him. He would have gone into that light and never looked back but he saw two figures coming towards him from the light, blocking its brilliance…
"Mum? Dad?" he whispered.
They smiled and opened their arms. Yugi raced into them. "You're here! You're here!"
They held him tightly and kissed his spiky head all over. "Yugi, my boy" his Mother whispered. Yugi looked up at her and let her kiss away his tears. "You've been so brave…" she told him. Her violet eyes proud but sad that her son had to suffer.
Yugi blinked and remembered he looked at his Dad "Why did you tell them that it was me who had those papers Dad? Why?"
Charlie looked sad and shook his head. "I never intended the message to be interpreted that way… I know my message wasn't-"
"Clear!"
Yugi's body arched off the bed as they shocked his heart. Serenity was digging her nails into Anzu's arms and Anzu was death gripping her too. Yami was chanting Yugi's name, Joey was staring at Yugi as if he was waiting for Yugi to get up and say that it was all a joke. Seto had white fists, Teá looked terrified.
*Bleep*… *Bleep*… *Bleep*…
"He's back! We've got him! Now stop that bleeding! X Rays! Good no broken bones, get that bullet out, no wait for him to recover, his heart might give out again if we go ahead now"
Yami felt like falling to his knees, that had been the most terrifying thing ever… his hikari's heart had stopped. The Doctors had gotten him back after the first shock though, so maybe…
Teá let out a breath and sank to the floor.
"Yami! Guys!"
Everyone turned to see Tristan, Miho and Solomon hurrying along the corridor.
Solomon gripped Yami's arms "What happened?" he demanded "Is he alright?"
Teá spoke up "It's all my fault!" she sobbed. Miho rubbed her back soothingly. "I was jealous and made a Fucking deal with the Fucking bastards that did this to him! I'm so sorry!" she wailed and punched the floor.
Joey spat at her "You BITCH!" she yelled at her. Seto and Tristan were suddenly holding him back. "You twisted witch! What the hell were you thinking? They could have both died!"
Serenity sobbed "Yugi's heart stopped a while ago, they got him back though. He's lost a lot of blood. Anzu and Teá had to donate their rare type to the surgery" she sniffled and gripped Anzu again. "Poor Yugi…"
Yami loosened the old man's grip and turned back to the surgery. He'll make it. He'll make it. He'll make it. He'll-
*Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep!*
Yami's own heart stopped when the heart monitor flatlined again.
"-clear. But I wasn't talking about you, or your Mother"
Yugi looked confused "Mum doesn't have the documents? I was wrong?"
Ran shook her head "I never knew any of this until I was reunited with your Dad. I understood why he did what he did. He was only trying to protect us, but he wanted to make sure that no one else would be able to get hurt, so he was planning on handing them to the police anyway"
Yugi nodded "I'd do the same"
Ran moved her arms around Yugi's back and pulled all the feathers from his shoulders, ruining his wings.
"Mum? What are you doing?"
Ran kissed his cheek "It's not your time to follow us, my little game boy" Yugi blushed at his nickname that his parents called him. "You see we don't want you to hurt-"
"Again!" snapped the Surgeon as Yugi fell back without responding the first time. "Increase the shock… and… Clear!" Yugi arched up again and remained still. "Again!"
Yami felt all hands gripping him. He had his hands at the window clawing it as he panted, pleading with Yugi to get up.
To not give up.
"Yugi!" he shouted.
*Bleep*…... *Bleep*…... *Bleep*…
The doctors jumped as the heart started again, beating slower now. The Surgeon started on the bullet again. "Get that blood into him! More pain medication! There's no such thing as third time lucky!" she ordered the others about, and they got the third blood bag hooked up.
Yugi was pale and his heart jumped around weakly and irregularly. His knife wounds still bled. Two doctors stitched them up and tried to be quick and then-
Yugi turned his head to the side and vomited blood in a hazy state of half consciousness. The nurse pulled his mask off and let him clear his airways. The Surgeon winced "Not good… Check his throat, lungs, X-rays, check them again! It could be from his stomach or gut, but don't risk it! Hurry up with that extra blood!" she paused in her shouting "… and… got it" she pulled out the bullet and placed it on a side as she started stitching him up.
"Be quick. He won't last if not" she warned.
Serenity was sobbing, Anzu and Miho too. Tristan was panting and Joey and Seto were gripping each other tightly. Yami was crying too, his little hikari's heart had stopped again. He was weakening…
Suddenly a little light shone in Yugi's half opened eyes and for a split second it seemed that the turned head was looking right at Yami.
"Yugi…" Yami breathed, pressing as close as he could to his little one.
The soft pink, blood stained, lips moved slightly then the eyes rolled back into his skull and his light went out.
*Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep! Bleep!*
"Yugi!"
"-again by leaving the one you love"
Yugi blinked "The one I…? Who? Is this allowed?"
Ran and Charlie laughed and nodded "If we weren't the angels of death would be here, we're allowed. You have your whole life left to live, my son"
Yugi smiled and hugged them both "I don't want to leave you again…" he said through tears.
They hugged him and removed the regrowing wings gently. "Your heart wants to return. Remember him…"
Yugi suddenly heard a voice.
"Yugi! Yugi No!" it was deep and confident but now simply broken.
Yugi blinked and gasped "Yami? Oh Yami, he's crying isn't he?" the two angels nodded. Yugi turned back to the blackness "I have to tell him I'm alright. I have to tell him not to cry…"
Ran kissed his cheek as Charlie kissed the other. "It will be painful, but hold on to that pain until you feel the blackness at your heals. If you can brave that, you'll return to him"
Yugi felt his heart lighten at the thought of his Yami. He smiled and turned to his parents. "I love you both, I miss you so much… but he needs me. I'm in love with him"
The two nodded "We know. Go back to him, we'll be waiting patiently for your true death"
Yugi sighed and fell back into the pain and blackness "I love you both!"
"We love you to son!"
"Goodbye Yugi!"
Yugi smiled and then embraced the pain, it hurt. It tore through his stomach and all over his chest, inside him and out, his throat was warm and raw as if he had vomited, his head pounded. But through all the pain, he heard Yami's voice… so he held on…
"Clear!" Yugi arched up yet again, bowing against the cold paddles that zapped his heart for the fifth time. The heart monitor continued to wail, the Surgeon shook her head, sad and frustrated. "Call it…" she said at last.
"No!" Yami screamed, falling to his knees and sobbing his heart out. "Yugi! Wake up! Please wake up hikari-mine!" he beat his fist against the glass and wailed his heart out while everyone else sobbed hysterically around him, but it was Yami that screamed the loudest, that hurt the most.
Yugi lay on the table, still and cold. "Time of death; Eleven nine, ninth of May-" a nurse began to cover his face with a blanket. Touching his cheek softly.
Yami screamed again and clawed at his heart "Hikari-mine! Wake up! I love you! Wake up!" Yami turned and ran down the hall, still crying. He couldn't bear to see Yugi's empty shell. Yugi!
Yugi jerked as if he heard the silent call, he suddenly breathed in and –
*Bleep*… *Bleep*… *Bleep*…
Everyone froze.
The Surgeon turned back to the boy and put a hand to his neck and her eyes widened when she felt his pulse "My god…" she whispered. Several of the doctors crossed themselves and whispered about a miracle. The Surgeon smiled suddenly "Fight with us, son" she told Yugi then yanked off the blanket "Get that blood into him Now! Stitch that up, bandages! Antibiotics! He's back, we're not losing him again!"
Yami fell to his knees in the middle of a hall and cried. He didn't care if people saw him. Yugi was dead. What was left to care about?
Serenity and Anzu rushed after him then saw him. "Yami!" Serenity knelt by his side.
Yami shoved her away "Yugi…" his beautiful angel was gone. Sweet innocent, helpless, kind, bleeding-heart Yugi was gone! "Hikari-mine… he's gone" he choked out and sobbed bitterly into his hands.
"He's alive, Yami!" Anzu said in a rush.
Yami looked up at her, her face joyful and truthful "His heart started up on it's own after you left. He needs you, come on" she pulled him up and Serenity pulled his other hand and they both guided him back to Yugi.
They arrived as Yugi was being wheeled out. His face was pale and he was weak, the doctors were talking about running some brain damage tests when he woke up. Yami put a hand on Yugi's chest and felt the little heart beating against his fingers. Yami smiled tearfully "Hikari-mine" he whispered softly.
Yugi moaned slightly and seemed to fight against the sleeping medicine for a moment, his eyes moved under the lids and his pink lips trembled. "Ya…mi… don…'t… cry…" he slurred out. Yami scrubbed at his eyes, he had been crying his eyes out a minuet ago… Yugi knew this somehow… Yugi…
The Doctors smiled between the two of them and the nurse said "That's one special boyfriend you have" then put an arm around him and guided him just behind the stretcher to his room.
"Will he be alright?"
The nurse chuckled, it was strained after such a scare and worry but it was authentic "This one's got angels watching him, you and all those friends. I think he'll be just fine. You can stay here tonight if you wish. I doubt he'll be awake tonight though"
Yami smiled at her and then walked up to Yugi and touched his face lightly "Yugi…"
Anzu and Serenity cuddled in the doorway "That's so sweet…" Anzu nodded with her girlfriends comment and nudged Teá so she saw it too.
Teá wince and pouted then marched out and said "Brat. Nearly getting me done for assisted murder" the she walked down the hall.
Seto smiled at his cousin. "Nice to see you've found someone Yami" he chuckled.
Yami nodded absently. Joey sighed "We'll leave ya for a while. See ya tomorrow"
Miho appeared at Yami's side and then said to him "Teá says 'please don't hate me' and wants to know how many times she should expect to be slapped by you" Miho waited for Yami to think about it.
Yami sighed and shook his head "Tell her not to bother" Miho nodded and left with Tristan in tow.
Solomon sat on the other side of Yugi and smiled at Yami. "I believe I heard you say that you loved my Grandson"
Yami nodded and ran his hand over Yugi's face again, gently. "More than the world"
Solomon smiled and then settled back to wait for Yugi to wake up. I'll need the full story when we've finished this adventure…
See? I'd never kill Yugi like that, I'd warn you about character death first, natrually. ;)
I wannted fluff but that's hard with dying and people being stabbed, shot and lots of other things...
Ja Ne, Till the next chapter!