Hi everyone (waves) I had so much trouble with this chap and what to do, but anyway it's up and for you to enjoy.

Warnings: M and Yaoi. Don't own Yugioh

Chap 25 Take Back and the Doctor

A black endless of nothing surrounded them as Malik moved himself in and out of the willing pale body beneath him, the bed that they were on seemed to be floating in the vast of nothing. Malik ran his tongue over the pale skin of Ryou's neck and a gasp came from parted lips. "Malik." The said teen instantly claimed those lips again in a needy kiss, swallowing all the moans and gasps that came from Ryou's mouth. The world that they were in should have made him concerned, but he couldn't bring himself to care right now. Malik ran his hand down the Neko's outer thigh guiding the leg to wrap around his waist; Ryou arched his body up pressing more into Malik's.

Suddenly Malik found himself falling through Ryou and the bed landing face first on hard cold light green tiled floor, only in his jeans. "Ryou?!" He pushed himself up to his feet, the fall should have left him winded but it hadn't, and he took a step forward only to walk into an invisible wall of some kind. "What?" He placed both hands onto the wall, and started to feel for a way around it or some kind of opening. Bright lights suddenly filled the area on the other side. Malik placed his arm in front of his eyes to block the light, but the lighting dulled all on it's own and there only four feet away from him was Ryou, laying on a table with his eyes closed. Malik banged on the wall again calling out Ryou's name to wake him up, but the Neko didn't move or couldn't hear him.

Malik's eyes widened as Dartz suddenly rose beside the table and Ryou, like a monster rising up from an oozing swamp. Ryou turned his head and opened his eyes looking right at Malik; Ryou's voice sounded so urgent but also softly spoken and it came from all around him. "Malik, help me." He watched horrified as Dartz plunged both hands into Ryou's chest for a few minutes and pulled out the Neko's beating heart laughing madly, Ryou's voice came again but a little louder and stronger. "I need you, Malik."

"Malik!"

"Malik!"

"Malik!" The teen jumped in his seat with a gasp, and looked around wide-eyed and but stopped as Jou's face came in to focus, the teen was leaning forward and watching him. "You dozed off." Jou frowned concerned and asked. "You okay? Ya don't look so good, man." Malik sat up and ran a hand over his face and rubbed at his eyes to remove the sweat and glanced out the car window, it had only been a dream; he didn't know weather he should be happy about it or concerned.

"I'm fine." Malik mumbled watching the scenery flash by his window, he wasn't fine he was far from it. he wanted Ryou back so badly. Low mumbling came from the rest of the group in the car; he wasn't interested in starting a conversation with anyone right now, the word Mokuba was mumbled by someone in the car, Malik clutched his fists, if it hadn't been for Mokuba, Ryou would have had a fighting chance against Dartz and be here with him now.

"Don't speak of things you don't know about." Seto growled at them as he over heard them, which wasn't hard considering the size of the limo they were in and the car fell silent as everyone looked at him.

"Then why don't you enlighten me on why Mokuba was following Dartz's orders?" Malik turned his head and looked at Seto with narrowed eyes, the other teen matched his glare with one of his own.

"It's none of your business."

"It is when your so called brother tried to kill Ryou and me!" Malik snapped at him.

"Mokuba didn't even touch you." Seto said his tone level but his ice blue eyes said he was pissed.

"Because Ryou pulled me out of his reach before he could take my face off." Malik was now turned in his seat slightly to face Seto better.

"Can we hold off on the arguments for another time, please!" Mai said, the last thing needed was a fight in such a small area and both teens were high-strung as it was.

"You want to know, fine I'll tell you just keep your pea sized brains up with me, I won't be repeating myself again." Seto said irritable. "Mokuba was twelve the doctors gave him two months to live. I was taking over a new company at the time. A man named Dartz shows up in my office one day, saying he could save Mokuba on a test program he was working on." Seto glanced about to make sure they were keeping up with him. "The down fall was that Mokuba had to leave with him."

"For how long?" Yugi asked interrupting.

Seto shot him a glare that sent the short teen cringing in his seat. "A year… When Mokuba came back, he was stronger; faster… it was as if he was never sick at all. His attitude had changed drastically when he returned. I thought it had been the medication he was on." Seto looked out at the window. "I took him out with me too look at a new apartment. He was looking around when he somehow fell from the balcony, seven floors down to pure cement. He broke his ankle; hit his head that was it… I was just happy that I didn't lose him, I didn't look to much into it… but then I thought on it more and saw it more often… he would get injured, like burn himself and cuts, they would heal instantly and he never felt the pain." Seto glanced around the car to see everyone was still listening to him. "Dartz came into town on business, I met up with him and asked him what was wrong with Mokuba and the stuff that I had seen. He said, Mokuba had to be rebuilt from the inside, out… and that I should just thank my luckily stars."

"What did he mean by that?" Yugi asked again.

Seto glared at him and then turned his gaze out the window, he guessed that they really couldn't understand but for Malik on what it felt like to have someone you love, turned into something their not and made to do things, they couldn't help but ask. "What do you think?" Seto snapped, but damn it! All the questions were so annoying right now.

Malik knew, deep down he knew, what Mokuba was put through in that year, what Dartz made him do, he had seen it in Ryou's eyes, the unspeakable horrors they were forced to do and had done to them, and to conform it all it had been printed out on paper, it all stuck in his throat like a rock. "It meant that Mokuba really did die in Dartz's care." Mai mumbled and added. "When did you find out?"

Malik frowned hard out the window, wandering if Ryou had been at some point a normal teenager just like him? With loving parents, maybe siblings, then Dartz shows up like a plague taking Ryou killing him and making him into what he is now.

"For a while I knew, I had some tests done on him soon after those little accidents and found that nothing matched, his DNA was different it had changed after Dartz had him." Seto sighed. "It was about five years ago." He then lent his head back looking at the ceiling of his car. "I pretended I didn't care. I was still able to talk to Mokuba, spend time with him. Dartz provided the medication and all was well… that was until I arrived at the beach house and met up with you guys, then that bastard phoned me on the night of my arrival asking for Mokuba back, that their was something he needed him to do."

"So if Dartz gave you your brother back, why are you after him?" Yugi asked.

"Because if Dartz had just left us alone, I would still have Mokuba." Seto seethed. "Dartz had something over my little brother that forced him to do anything that man wanted!" Seto was out of the car before the wheels had stopped properly.

"He's really cut up about Mokuba." Jou said sadly to the others, he had been there when they had ran onto the beach and found Seto holding his brother, he hadn't even shed a tear when the Medics said that the boy was dead. Seto hadn't really done anything but follow them back to the hospital where the doctors had announced that the boy had been dead for over an hour. Malik got out of the car and followed Seto towards the plane.

Mai and Serenity got out of the car followed by, Valon, Otogi, Marik, Jou and Bakura. Yugi stepped out and said. "I think we should just turn back now, Seto seems to be handling this okay… But I'm worried about Malik, he might not handle it so well once he finds out Ryou is dead." Malik turned suddenly and grabbed Yugi by the collar of his shirt and pushed him backwards against the car, the teen whimpered.

"We have been friends for a while now." Malik growled out, he was sick of hearing everyone saying that Ryou was dead, a few of the others stopped and watched what was going on. "But if you don't shut your mouth, I'll shut it for you." Malik let him go. "I don't need to hear you and what you think." Malik turned to walk away looking at the others, Yami even gave Yugi a displeased look.

"I'm only trying to help you!" Yugi shot back at him straightening his shirt up.

"Why is it so hard for you to understand that I want Ryou back?" Malik stopped again in his tracks and turned around.

"You have known Ryou for what? Like a month!" Yugi shook his head.

"So what?!" Malik seethed at him walking back towards him again. "It's what I feel for him that counts."

"You haven't even told him how you feel!… I doubt that you can even say the words, Malik!" Yugi snapped back, the short teen had met most of the people Malik had dated in the past, which wasn't many as Malik was picky, but not one of them had Malik gone so far for, not like this.

"Why should I tell you? When the person that really needs to hear it isn't around!" Malik stopped in front of him. "I'm not going to be throwing the words around to just please you or anyone else." The words were rapidly shot back and forth between them.

"You're doing this for something that doesn't even understand…" There was a resounding slap that shattered the quiet of the afternoon; Yugi's head snapped to the right his eyes wide and his cheek stinging.

"Ryou's not a thing, and he does understand that I care for him." Malik seethed; he hadn't hit Yugi that hard it was enough to shock him into silence. "Go home Yugi." Malik turned away and started for the plane as the engines turned on. "I don't want you here."

"I think you're insane, Malik!" Yugi yelled out. "And I don't want to be a part of whatever you're going to be doing anyway." The teen stood his ground next to the car, all he had to do was stomp his foot and pout and he would have reminded Malik of a two year old.

"I'm sorry you feel that way, Yugi." Yami said as he followed the others, Yugi dashed forward and grabbed onto his arm stopping him.

"You don't have to go! There's going to be big trouble and you're going to get caught up in it." Yugi pleaded with him, he saw this as kidnapping and breaking so many laws.

Yami removed his hand from his arm and said. "I'm going, to help them. If you can't see that Malik needs this as much as Seto… then I don't think that you ever will." Yami said sadly then turned and waked away.

"Go! I'll be watching the lot of you getting arrested on T.V." Yugi called out and Jou was the only one that looked back at him, as everyone gathered on the plane. Yugi watched as the plane took off into the sky and headed for Tokyo.

The small private plane had landed that night; the group walked into the open night air and was greeted with airport staff welcoming them. Seto bowed his head slightly as he passed the women dressed in uniform. "Two cars." Seto said as he led them all through the crowd of people in the airport terminal. "We'll spilt up for the drive over there. You guys follow me and stay on the speed limit, we don't want unwanted attention tonight." They walked into the car park, Seto dug around in his pockets and pulled out keys and threw a set at Yami and Valon.

No one said anything more as they gathered into two cars and in no time at all speed off down the street. Malik was anxious on what had become of Ryou. "Are you sure Dartz is in the building?" Malik asked Seto leaning forward towards the front seat.

"He loves his work more than life itself, if Ryou is alive then Dartz will be with him and they'll both be in his building where he can accesses medical supplies." Seto said from the drivers seat and kept his eyes on the road, Malik sat back again looking out the car window, seeing the buildings and lights flash by.

"How do you know that Dartz is here in this particular town?" Malik asked, he couldn't help himself he needed to keep his mind off worrying about Ryou and finding out facts about where they would be, Seto stopped for a red light.

"Because." Seto's hands gripped the steering wheel as he watched for the change in lights. "This was where he brought Mokuba… he'll be here I guaranty it." The car surged forward again. Twenty minutes later they pulled up in a large almost empty car park, the car was parked diagonal and took up three car places.

Seto cut off the engine and got out, the rest followed him, the second car pulled up next to them and everyone got out as well and gathered around. Seto opened the trunk and pulled out a sliver brief case then closed the trunk again and placed the case down on top of it and opened it up. "A laptop?!" Jou asked then said rather confused. "I don't get it?"

Seto smirked as his fingers worked quickly with speed and accuracy, charts and grafts filled the small screen. "I'm cutting the power grid, no phone calls, no alarms, no lights and no locked doors." Seto pulled his hands away and looked towards the building with narrowed eyes.

Five minutes had passed and nothing happened. "Hey genius." Jou piped up breaking the quiet of the night and slapping Seto on the back. "It didn't work, so don't pass go and don't collect…" Suddenly all the streetlights and building lights were going out one at a time, throwing them into darkness, the building they were after was still lit up.

"I think I'll collect that two hundred from your hide if you doubt me again,Jounouchi Katsuya." Seto gave him a hard cold glare, as he opened his trunk again and pulled out a small bag. "I'll need two people to stay here with the cars."

"We'll stay!" Mai volunteered herself and Serenity.

"You should come with us Mai, just in case." Seto looked at her hoping she got what he was saying without having to say it to her.

"Oh right." She mumbled apparently she had got what he was thinking.

"Valon, Otogi you guys stay here with Serenity and the cars." Yami suggested.

"Fine but this is the last time I do watch duty, Yami." Valon mumbled crossing his arms over his chest displeased about the whole thing. "I'm not some watch dog, you know?"

"That would be taking Jou's job." Seto remarked with a smirk as he started to walk away towards the building.

"Here we go again!" Mai shook her head as she followed the tall teen.

"Kaiba, say that to my face!" Jou took off after him. "And it didn't work cos the building is still lit up like a Christmas tree!"

"I just did… and I placed a five minute timer on it." Seto said coolly. Malik, Bakura, Mai, Yami and Marik followed quietly. Seto pushed open the doors and the group walked into the building. The floors were a tiled cream marble, and paintings on the walls, with flowers on little tables placed here and there, the soft lighting topped it all off, the large room looked like the show room of an art gallery, than a pharmaceutical company headquarters.

"No! You walked away like always!" Jou seethed as he followed Seto up to the front desk where two guards stood up. Seto turned swiftly to face Jou; the others stopped walking and watched, not believing that the two could argue at a time like this.

"I always walk away because I shouldn't have to waste my energy stooping to your level of insults!" Seto shot back, the guards gave each other a look before walking around the desk and approaching them.

"You don't even have a level cos you're so stuck up, you self-conceited bastard!" Jou poked him in the shoulder.

"Maybe if you didn't leave yourself open and make it easy for my insults, you would be fine." Seto narrowed his eyes.

"Excuse me, can you take it back outside." The older guard said trying to break up the fight.

"I don't make it easy for ya, you just like taking cheap shots at me." Jou snapped at him, the guards looked at the others who shrugged their shoulders.

Bakura whispered out to the guards with a grin pointing to the arguing two. "Lovers quarrel." The guards seemed to be rather more annoyed at this little bit of information and moved in to throw everyone out of the lobby.

"Because you're cheap!" Seto called out and with that Jou and the tall teen turned and punched out the two unsuspecting guards, the two older males were out cold on the ground, Seto bent down and grabbed one of the guard's ankles.

"Wait, you think I'm cheap?" Jou asked hands on his hips looking at him rather unpleased by the comment.

"Help me move them." Seto rolled his eyes; and for once he was glad that Jou didn't blow it. The group moved in and started to pull the guards away from the door so they wouldn't be seen from anyone passing by.

"Okay, Yami and Jou you guys stop anyone from leaving or coming in." The two nodded their heads. "And if I remember correctly Dartz's medical labs are on the top floor, but we really have to move it." Seto ran for the stairs and Marik, Bakura, Mai and Malik followed him.

They had reached the top floor when suddenly all the lights went out then a few minutes later the stairwell was thrown into eerie red lighting. "This is it." Seto said as he pushed open a door.

He didn't get to finish as the power went out all over the building and the back up power turned on throwing the place in red lighting. "I'm locking down this room." Dartz ordered.

The Doctor called out. "482 is…"

Dartz cut him off again. "No one gets in or out." With that he walked to the door and stepped out. "I'll be back once I find out what's going on, we'll talk then."

The Doctor shouted out after him. "You have to hear this, 482 is…" The doors closed and the heavy lock fell into place.

Dartz sighed and looked to his left down the empty hallway. "Hey?!" Dartz whipped his head around to his right just in time to see a fist coming at him and then the pain shot through his face and the back of his head hit the door by the force and he slumped to the floor.

Malik made a grab for him again but Dartz scuffled out of his way and up to his feet and stumbled to his left. "Remember me?" Malik grabbed him punching him again, breaking his nose this time and sent him falling to the floor again on his back. Dartz placed both hands over his nose as tears and blood blinded him. "What did you do with Ryou?" Malik pulled Dartz up to his feet and punched twice in the stomach. "I swear if you have hurt him in anyway." Malik shoved the older male away from him, who was coughing and gasping for air and doubled over holding his stomach and nose.

"Fuck!" Dartz cried out landing on his side hard. "Enough!" Malik narrowed his eyes as he shook his hand; the skin on his knuckles was split, broken and bleeding, but it felt numb to him in his anger. "What do you people want?" He asked, Malik glanced at Seto as Marik and Bakura raised an eyebrow, Mai just hung back from them so not to get too involved.

"Dartz was never one for pain." Seto explained in a disgusted tone. "Always had his men do his dirty work for him." Dartz blinked trying to see and held his hand up in front of his face the blood looked black in the low red lights, he placed his hand back on his now swollen nose.

"What have you done with Ryou?!" Malik took a threatening step towards Dartz and grabbed him by the back of the head holding on to hair as well and pulled him up to his knees.

"I don't know who you're talking about!" He blurted out.

"I'll re-jog your memory for you." Seto moved passed Malik and grabbed Dartz by his shoulder and pulled him free from Malik and dragged him all the way to the end of the hallway and pulled out a gun and shot the window out. The shattering glass was louder than the bang of the gun, thanks to the silencer that was on it. Seto shoved Dartz back onto his knees on the edge, the glass cutting into his knees and the older male cried out in pain, a gust of wind blew their hair about. "Fitting isn't it, Mokuba fell and you will to, but it won't be falling on water and rocks." Seto placed the barrel of the gun to his head; Marik and Bakura stood back and watched them, Mai looked away not able to watch. Malik shook his head, what if Dartz moved Ryou and he was somewhere else? If Seto killed him he may never find Ryou.

As much as Malik hated to say the words he said them. "Where is 482?" Anything to get something out of Dartz as Seto looked ready to kill him, don't get him wrong, Malik wanted the bastard dead, but finding Ryou was more important. Seto growled and pushed Dartz a little forward over the edge when he didn't answer. The broken glass crunched under his knees as he moved, Dartz gasped out in pain again. Malik's heart jumped and lodged in his throat almost choking him.

"In that room there!" Dartz cried out much to Malik's relief, he turned on his heels and ran back down the hall towards Marik, Bakura and Mai looking at all the doors, there was nine doors all up in the hallway and each one of them had a pin code access and they were all active and locked despite the power being out.

"Which door?!" Malik called out, he looked back down the hallway just in time to see Seto hit Dartz on the back of the head with the gun.

"Which door?!" Seto growled as he then pressed the gun harder to Dartz's head the older man cried out again.

"Seven!" Dartz gasped out, Malik looked at the door next him that read five and dashed down to where he had hit Dartz the first time that door was six and the next one up was seven.

Malik pulled on the door and found it wasn't going to open with out the needed code to remove the lock. "The code?!" Malik said then biting his lip his heart pounded in his chest he was so close to seeing Ryou. "The code?!" Malik called out again, Dartz cried out and gave up the code to the door. Malik's hand was shaking so bad that he couldn't put it in correctly and it beeped at him and flashed. "Come on!" Malik hit it, Marik walked up and did it for him and the door slid open.

"Come on you and me are going to have a little chat." Seto pulled Dartz to his feet. "Bakura will you help me?" Seto asked, Bakura gave Marik a glance and nodded his head and walked towards them the three headed for the stairs at was closer to them.

Malik dashed inside the room that was lit with red lighting like the hallway and the rest of the building, and there what he had came for was Ryou, who was hocked up to machines and a soft irregular beeping sound of a heart monitor filled the room. Malik stopped a few feet away from the bed as his eyes locked on with the other man, a doctor by the way he was dressed and standing next to the bed on the other side. "Get away from him, now!" Malik said dangerously as he moved cautiously towards the bed glancing about the room to make sure there was no one else.

"I'm only helping." The older male said holding up his hands to show the other that he was harmless as he moved away.

"I don't care what you were doing, just get away from him." Malik growled out, as the man backed away, Marik walked in and grabbed the Doctor and pulled him from the room and out into the hallway.

Malik turned his attention to Ryou; he removed the mask and brushed the sweat damp white hair from Ryou's forehead and eyes. "Ryou, wake up." Malik cupped the Neko's face in both his hands and lightly kissed him on his dry cracked lips. Malik thanked every god known to man that Ryou was alive, a few tears fell free as Malik pulled back enough to look over Ryou's face, then looked over his body that was covered in bandages and a sheet pulled up to Ryou's hips, his chest rose and fell unevenly as if Ryou was struggling to breath on his own. Malik lent back down a placed another lingering kiss to Ryou's unmoving lips; it was contact and gave him some reassurance that Ryou was once again with him and safe.

"We can't stay here." Marik called out, Malik straitened up and wiped away the few tears with the back of his hand and nodded his head.

Mai walked in. "I don't know what kind of help I'm going to be right now." She said and stopped by the bed and looked over all the tubing and started to remove them carefully from Ryou's hands and chest.

"Just free him from this stuff and I'll carry him out." Malik said watching her from over the top of Ryou, Marik glanced in and as he did the Doctor rushed in.

"Don't move him!" He called out and Marik was instantly on him, he grabbed the Doctors arm and twisted it behind his back forcing the old man onto his knees. "Please you have to listen to me!" He winced.

"Why the hell should I?!" Malik snapped at him. "You're Dartz's laky."

"He kidnapped me from the hospital a few days back, I've been helping the boy." Malik ignored him, he had no reason to listen to him or trust him. "I'm the one that's kept that boy alive for the last few days and if you want him to die… then go right ahead I can't stop you."

"He has a doctor!" Malik shot at him as Mai still worked on the tubing, she stopped what she was doing and glanced up at Malik biting her lip.

"Malik." She whispered and he looked down at her. "I have no idea what I'm doing."

"What?" He hissed at her.

"I'm a vet, this is out of my knowledge." She stood up and lent over the bed slightly towards him and saying softly so only Malik could hear her. "I'm afraid if I pull something I could hurt him more." Malik glanced at Ryou then at Mai.

"I can't leave him here until he's better, we have to take him now." Malik looked down at Ryou, who's face twisted up with pain every now and then and sweat run down his temples and forehead. "Just get the wires off him."

"Please let me help! I can have staff waiting and give him a private room, if you just let me help him." The Doctor said.

"You shut up!" Malik snapped at the Doctor pointing at him then looked at Marik. "Get him out of here."

Marik pulled the older male to his feet. "Come on, let's see what we can find to tie you up with." Marik said casually.

"Malik." Mai was staring at him. "Ryou looks really bad and that Doctor maybe Ryou's only chance of getting out of here alive." Malik shook his head she wanted him to let some nut-job of a lab Doctor work on Ryou to get him out of here, he might as well just walk away from Ryou right now, with what she was suggesting to him.

"Are you Malik?" The Doctor interrupted their whispered conversation, struggling against Marik to stay in the room.

"Come on old man I don't want to hurt you." Marik pulled at the Doctor again trying to get him through the door. Malik glanced at him, he didn't know what to do, it had all played out in his head so well, rush in, take Ryou and live happily ever after or something close to that.

"Are you Malik? 482 mentioned a Malik a few times in his unconscious state… are you him?" The Doctor asked.

"So what if I am?" Malik growled out. "His name is Ryou." The Doctor nodded his head.

"Then there is something you should know… Ryou is powerless." Malik frowned at him and looked down at his Neko then back at the Doctor.

"What are you talking about?" Malik shook his head.

"Ryou's tapped into all his powers that's left to heal himself and fight against the drugs that's in his body, I have gone over his records this is the first time it's happened to him, but what's made it worse, is that the boy made an attack on Dartz on the second day of being here in an attempt to kill him that it's drained him completely."

"How is that possible? Ryou was made that way." Malik said frowning.

"Ryou's just like everyone else in this room right now and it's placed his life on a more critical level and he could every well die in this room… let me help him I can get him through this alive." The Doctor tried again, he really wanted to help them both.

Malik looked down and noticed for the first time that he had been holding Ryou's hand in his; he didn't know what to do. Would Ryou forgive him if he let the Doctor do this and he made a misjudgment costing the Neko his life? Malik lent forward and placed his forehead against the side of Ryou's head. "What do I do?" He asked whispering to Ryou, knowing full well he wouldn't get an answer. He squeezed Ryou's hand gently and straightened up looking at the Doctor, with his mind made up. "Okay, you help us get him out of here." Marik let the Doctor go and took a step back. The Doctor rushed over to the bed and Malik grabbed his upper arm in a bruising force and lent in slightly, the Doctors eyes widened somewhat. "If he dies you're following him." Malik threatened, the Doctor nodded his head mutely and Malik let him go and stepped away.

"With the right help and medications I can save him." The Doctor said confidently as he started to work disconnecting the tubing and the wiring from Ryou. "Take the bottom sheet, we'll have to use it as a stretcher." Malik and Marik got into place and lifted Ryou off the bed. "Don't drop him!" The Doctor warned.

"Guys we should really get out of here, now." Seto called out into the room, but seeing the others walking out towards him he backed up out of the way.

"Call for an ambulance." The Doctor ordered.

"Ryou can't be seen how he is." Malik said heading to the stairs worried on everyone seeing the Neko's ears, Seto, Mai and Bakura led the way holding open doors for them along the way.

"Don't worry." The Doctor took off his jacket and placed half of it over Ryou's head. "Just until we get to the hospital, his pointy ears will stay a secret for a long time yet." He gave Malik a smile the teen just looked away.

Jou and Yami glanced up as the doors opened to the stairs and Bakura came out and held open the door as Mai and Seto walked out and rushed to them. "Open the front doors." Seto ordered then added. "Tell the others to bring the cars around." Yami and Jou ran off.

Marik came out of the door backwards holding the feet end, the trip down the stairs had been slow for him so he wouldn't fall, then Malik holding the end with Ryou's head, the Doctor was the last out of the stairwell and by then the ambulance pulled up outside the doors.

The Medics rushed in with a real stretcher and Malik and Marik placed Ryou onto it gently and he was strapped in securely and taken towards the vehicle. "Malik we'll follow you in the car." Seto said, Malik nodded his head and followed Ryou. Soon the ambulance and the cars sped off towards the hospital.

In no time at all Malik was running through the doors of the hospital with the Doctor, who called out his orders and nurse ran about getting what he needed, they pushed Ryou down a long hallway, Malik was jogging to keep up with them, when a nurse stopped him. "Wait here please." She said sternly.

"What are they going to do with him?" Malik watched as once again Ryou was taken from his sight as he vanished through the double doors.

"The doctor will talk with you once he is done, just wait out there." She pointed in the other direction that Malik had come from.

Malik sighed and stood there for a while after the nurse left him; he was hoping he didn't make a mistake in letting this guy look after Ryou. He turned and walked back the way he had come from. He knew he shouldn't trust them with Ryou and put up more of a fight to stay with him, but that last thing that he wanted was to be kicked out of the hospital. Malik walked into the waiting room as, Marik, Bakura, Yami, Mai, Valon, Seto, Otogi, Jou and Serenity walked in looking around for him.

Mai spotted him and rushed over asking. "What did they say?" Coming to a stop in front of him.

"Nothing…they took him away." Malik mumbled and made his way to the seats and sat down, his friends followed sitting around him, when was he going to get a break and have Ryou back to himself, was that selfish of him to think that?

"I'm sure they're only helping him and doing the best they can." Serenity added, Malik slumped back in his chair and waited as his friends talked to him trying to cheer him up a little, it wasn't working.

The hours passed him by and Malik was growing more anxious by the minute, the group had started to move about a few hours ago getting restless themselves, going to the cafeteria and bringing him back a coffee. Marik and Bakura called up a hotel to stay in for the time they would be here, Seto offered to pay for all the rooms until Ryou was well enough to be let out.

The sun had made its way into the sky; Serenity, Mai, Jou and Valon had dozed off on the chairs a while ago. Suddenly the doors opened and the Doctor walked out looking for Malik, who was up on his feet and dashed over to him. "Where is he?!" Malik demanded and relived that the Doctor hadn't run off with Ryou, leaving Malik and others to chase him down.

"He's fine, sorry I took so long." The Doctor smiled apologetically and held open the door for Malik. "Come with me." He then noticed the others and added. "All of you if you like." The group followed the Doctor down the hallways as he talked to Malik. "We placed Ryou into a room on his own and only restricted staff are allowed in, that's myself and two nurses."

"What were you doing with him?" Malik glanced at the older male suspiciously as they stepped into the lift and went up.

"I did a few tests and placed him on the right medications to help him, it wasn't easy to do, as I'm not the one who made him or have his files with me."

"So what happens now?" Malik asked as they stepped out into a large open hallway that had pale tan-carpet, with white walls, nurses walked about in white dresses and soft shoes holding clipboards and pushing trays about, a few doctors walked around also in the hallway.

"It's all up to Ryou now, I've done everything to help him pull through." The Doctor stopped outside a door that had a red sign on it that did indeed say.

'Restricted staff only. Quarantine zone beyond this point! NO ENTRY!'

"This is the most quietest floor in the hospital." The Doctor said as he pushed open the door and walked in.

Jou, Mai, Valon and Otogi started to walk into the room when Marik stopped them all and said. "It's okay, we'll wait out here." Malik gave him a thankful look and walked into the room, but that didn't stop Marik from getting annoyed looks from everyone else, who wanted to know how Ryou was doing, as they had came all this way to help get him back. Marik thought that Malik needed a little alone time with Ryou and they could always see him at a later time.

Malik walked in and went right to the bed, there was less bags hanging by the bed this time, two drip bags that ran into the one tube and into the back of Ryou's hand, a mask over his mouth and nose, a sheet pulled up all the way up to Ryou's chest, he seemed to be breathing a lot easier too and the beeping of the heart monitor sounded even and steady.

"All you can do now is wait for Ryou to wake up." The Doctor stayed by the doorway then said. "I'll come back in a bit to check him over."

Malik heard the door softly close and he took Ryou's hand in his and lent down brushing his cheek against Ryou's closing his eyes, he was careful leaning over the Neko like he was so not to hurt him and said. "You have to wake up so I can give you my answer." Malik sighed bending his head down a little bit and placed a small kiss to Ryou's bare shoulder.

The group looked up as Malik stepped out some time later. "How is he?" Was the question spoken from most of them.

"He's still asleep." Malik ran a hand through his hair and said. "I'm going to stay here for a while longer, if you guys like to leave you can."

"Can we just say hi to him?" Jou asked and a few of the others nodded their heads wanting to see him as well.

"Sure." Malik said, after all they had come all this way to help him. Everyone entered the room, but Malik stopped Seto by his arm. "What happened to Dartz?" He asked, he didn't want that man walking in here and taking Ryou away again.

"He's not going to bother you or Ryou ever again." Seto smirked as he moved to walk into the room.

Malik stopped him again. "You left him alive?!" He harshly whispered so no one would over hear him.

"Don't worry I fixed him good, real good." The tall teen walked into the room, Malik followed him in, wondering what Seto had done to Dartz to stop him from coming after Ryou again.

TBC

Yes the first part of this chap was a DREAMI hoped no one was confused about that, but any questions, ask away, but remember there are a few chaps left, one or two? Not sure. I have an idea on how to end this, but lets see how I go. 15 pages people so do your part R&R me and you'll get another chap (love and cookies)