Okay the little radio is in the past I should have said something but, it's part of the plot and any guess on who and what you're free to make (chuckles) anyway, Not much left to say here but enjoy ;D

Warnings: Rating M, swearing, child abuse, if this type of thing offends you then DO NOT READ! This is a fictional story and nothing more. This rating will be staying the same nothing will change, so please take note.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh.

CHAP 9: The Injured, the Prisoner and the Ice Breaker.

The sunlight came through the crack in the dark curtains; Marik sat up half asleep and rubbed his eyes and movement next to him made him look down as Malik on his right side rolled over into the spot that he had just been in, Malik curling up at his lower back, and Ryou on the left sound asleep on his back lightly snoring. He smirked and got out of bed without waking them. He grabbed his clothes and headed to the bathroom, and after the shower and shave he pulled on his shirt, but stopped as he heard the front door open and close. He frowned and listened but nothing, just last year his house had been broken into when he first moved here, the guy was more than sorry when he did, Marik saw to that. He wasn't going to let it happen while he was home and the boys, he pulled out his gun from its holster that was sitting on the basin.

He held it at his side as he walked down the hallway swiftly his bare feet not making any sound, he stopped for a second to find both Malik and Ryou still sleeping in his bed, 'so it wasn't them.' Is was safe to keep going as the only way up or down was by the stairs, so Malik and Ryou would have to pass him, or the intruder. He moved by the doorway and down the stairs stopping at the living room door. "Hi Marik." He jumped and quickly put his gun in the back of his pants, before she could see it, pulling his open shirt over the top of it.

"Hey, I forgot that you have a key."

"You would forget your head if it wasn't on right." She pointed out with a playful slap to his chest, Marik looked down to find Ra walking around his feet wanting food. "I'm making coffee." She said walking into the kitchen calling the cat, who ran after her. He turned and went back upstairs to finish getting ready, on his way; Ryou and Malik came running out of his room towards him.

"Hey." He scooped them both up giving them a hug. "A good morning to you two." Both of them had smiles on their faces. "Isis is in the kitchen." He placed them down on their feet.

"Where are you going?" Ryou asked as Marik walked by them back into the bathroom and grabbed his things and fixing himself up, Ryou and Malik walked in and he picked them up and sat them on the basin in front of him.

"To work, Isis is looking after you for a little while." Malik's head fell.

"But you'll be back, right?" Ryou asked worriedly, Malik looked up at him.

"Of course I will." Marik pulled them off and placed them on their feet.

"I seeing Kura today?" Ryou ran after him and followed Marik and Malik downstairs and into the kitchen, Marik placed his keys, badge and sunglasses on the counter then picking Ryou up and putting him down on a chair.

"Yes Ryou, later today we'll all go." Marik picked up Malik and sat him on a chair next him. They ate together but half way through the phone rang. Marik got up and walked over to the phone hanging on the wall and picked it up. "Hello?"

"Mr. Ishtar, It's Tucker from the hospital."

"Hi doc." He frowned.

"Would you mind coming to the hospital this morning for a talk about Bakura?" Marik looked at Ryou for a second.

"Sure, I'll be over soon." They both said good-bye and Marik hung up, then walked back to the table. "Okay I have to go." He said taking the last mouthfuls of pancakes.

"Okay, I might take them out today to the park or something." She said thoughtfully.

"Fine but just watch that it doesn't get to cold for them, there was going to be a snow storm today, and I don't want any of you getting stuck in it." Marik said, as Isis nodded her head, Malik jumped from the table and ran to the counter and grabbed Marik's things and ran out of the room.

"Malik?" Isis called out as she stood up Ryou gasped, Marik held up his hands to stop her.

"I've got this." He followed the way Malik had gone.

Marik walked into Malik's room and found him sitting in the far corner. "Malik." Marik saw the boy's frame shake. "Malik what's wrong?" He sat down behind the child. "Talk to me, please Malik." Marik gasped as Malik got up and threw himself at him in a hug, he was crying. "Malik I'm not leaving you, its just work I'll be back before you know it." Malik shook his head no and held on even tighter. "You have Ryou to play with and you're going out with Isis and when you get home again I'll be here waiting for you." Marik lifted his chin and found tears.

"Can I have my things back?" Again Malik shook his head no. "I have to work, so I can feed you, Ryou and the gusty cat." Malik smiled for a second and wiped his face with the back of his hand. "I know that you've had it hard Malik, but my job is to help little ones like you and even big people and if I'm not there to help them then who is."

Malik pointed to himself. "What you need help?" Malik nodded and picked up a drawing he did and held it up and pointed to it. Marik took it and looked it over, from what he could tell, it looked like a monster with a few girls, judging by the long hair they all had and they where all crying. Marik frowned as he looked at Malik. "Did you do this?" he nodded his head.

"Who is this?" Marik pointed to the monster and Malik's head fell as he pointed to himself, he needed the help more than anyone. "Malik." Marik lifted his chin again. "Is this you?" Malik just looked at him as tears fell.

Marik dropped the paper and pulled Malik into a hug and kissed the side of his head. "Malik!" the boy rested his head on Marik's shoulder, who got up taking Malik with him into the bathroom and sat him down on the counter and grabbed a washcloth. "Listen Malik whatever happened before it's okay to tell me, it'll just be between us and no one else will know." Marik wiped Malik's face with the cloth. "Just one word, a. Hi how you doing? Lets go for a walk? I'm Malik." Marik shrugged at him. "Anything at all?" Malik just bit his lip, Marik sighed then said. "Alright no more tears huh, Isis is going to bring you by my work… how about we leave together then, and do something?" Malik nodded his head and pulled Marik's things out of his pockets and handed them over Marik took them and picked him up again and carried him downstairs.

Marik put Malik down and Ryou took his hand. "You two behave and I'll see you all later." Isis stood and watched him put on his jacket and leave the house. Malik ran to the door and opened it running out, Ryou right behind him.

"Ryou, Malik?" Isis was after them.

Malik stopped on the top step. "We want to watch!" Ryou called out stopping at Malik's side taking his hand again. Marik backed out the driveway, Ryou giggled as Marik gave them a wave and drove off.

"Alright inside now, time to get dressed." She gathered them up and got them inside.

Meg groaned as she rolled over, her head hurt as well as her body, the sound of chains moving didn't register in her mind. As her face met cold cement and dust blew up into the air with a puff of her breath. She opened her eyes and looked around to find herself in a dark basement of some kind, from what she could tell. "What the hell?" Meg pushed her top half up off the ground her hips dug into the hard ground and the dull pain was ignored.

She found the room full of boxes with stuff in them, and crap, old bikes, hat racks, wardrobes, large mirrors, crap all piled along the walls and a small frosted glass window that told her she was definitely in a basement as they all had that window in them. "Fuck!" She got herself up but noticed for the first time that she was naked, she instantly placed an arm over her breasts and between her legs closing her knees together, this told her that she was in a every bad predicament.

Meg took a step forward, but was stopped by the chain on her ankle that pulled and she froze in place. "What?!" She gasped as fear started to eat at her she reached down and started to pull on it. "No, no, no this can't be happening." A sob escaped her without tears. "HELP!" she screamed. "SOMEONE HELP ME!" She pulled more franticly on the chain.

The door to the top of the stairs opened and the man that had paid for her, but obviously hadn't, was now standing in front of her a few feet away. "I have a few rules." She backed up now covering herself again. "One: no shouting, no one can hear you and it's really annoying. Two: do as you are told we only wish to hold you for a few days. Three: No trying to escape I have your clothes and you'll freeze to death before you can find help. Four: You disobey all the above you'll find yourself eating dirt and worms."

"What are you some freak movie copycat, is this how you get your kicks?" He smirked amused and walked up to her and grabbed her chin, her blue eyes widened.

"Oh no my dear, I'm far worse than some horror movie, I can't be switched off at the bad parts, I'm real and so are my intentions."

"Just let me go I won't tell anyone… I'll do anything you want. Just please let me go." Her voice came out in a tremble and a whisper.

"I know you will do as you're told anyway." He roughly kissed her then pulled back. "Be an angel while I'm gone!"

"Gone, where are you going?" She watched him walk towards the stairs and tears started to fall. "You're leaving me here to die aren't you? You bastard!" She took a step but stopped as he gave her a smirk. "The average person can live for quite some time without food." He pointed to the water tap a few feet from her, but she didn't look at it.

"You… you said you were keeping me for a few days then are you letting me go?" She started to shake in the corner of her mind she knew the answer but she needed to hear it.

"No I said I wish to hold you for a few days, I said nothing about you leaving here alive." She fell to her knees.

"So it doesn't mater weather you leave me here to starve or you kill me later, I'm going to die here regardless." She stared blankly at the floor.

"You know you're the first girl to work that out within ten minutes of waking up here." He lent on the wooden railing still grinning at her. "A shame that a smart girl like you Meg is going to die, I just wish that half the girls that I have brought down here got it as quick as you." He sighed. "They screamed and cried for days before I came down and killed them."

"There have been others?!" She looked up her face pale and she was numb from the inside out.

"Quiet a few. So your nothing special."

"Why me?" She whispered, her eyes widening as cruel laughter rang out in the room.

"They all say that as well." He took a few steps up then stopped. "Sooner or later." With that he was gone leaving her in the darkness.

Marik walked into the hospital and went right for the front desk. "Hi I was called by…"

"Mr. Ishtar glad you could come." Tucker said as Marik turned to meet her.

"How do you do that turn up like that at the right time?" Marik frowned at her and found it creepy.

"I'm a doctor that's what we do." She smiled. "Turning up at the right place at the right time."

"Riiight… you called me anyway about Bakura?"

"Oh yes, come with me." She started to walk and Marik was at her side. They stepped into the elevator taking it to the fifth floor. "Bakura's lacking nutrition much more than what Ryou was, so much in fact that he has some internal damage that we can fix over time with the right food and care."

"What else?" Marik asked as they stepped out and stopped outside the ICU she turned to him leaning on the glass window.

"Bakura's heart took some damage as well, when it had stopped and the heart attack didn't help either."

"So he needs a heart transplant?" This was not good the waiting list for something like that was too long.

"No, once again care and time will repair him back to full health." Marik let out the breath that he had been holding, and the good news that he could tell Ryou when he got home.

"Umm so can I see him?" Marik asked, she nodded her head and walked in.

"He's been in and out of consciousness most of the night and morning, he's still very weak." She pulled aside the light green curtain and let him in.

"I'll make it short." Marik moved to the bed and she left, he pulled up a chair and sat down. "Bakura, are you awake?" Marik lent forward.

"Yes!" Came the dry reply and he started to cough, Marik got up and grabbed him a cup of water with a straw, he took a few sips and let his head fall back down to the pillow then looked at Marik.

"I know you, you're that cop." He frowned.

"The names Marik."

"What do you want? I have nothing and I have done nothing." Marik raised an eyebrow at him.

"Calm down." He sat down on the chair.

"Where's Ry…" He stopped and then tried to get out of bed, Marik jumped up to stop him, but they both stopped as Bakura was strapped to the bed like some psychotic patient.

"What the hell?" Marik growled, as Bakura yelled in pain and fell back to the bed.

"Nurse!" Marik called out.

"They put this on me last night so I couldn't escape." Marik looked at him.

"Why would you?"

"That's none of you business." He growled, Tears filled Bakura's eyes, as it hit him that Ryou was still at the warehouse and he didn't know how long he had been in here for, for all he knew Ryou was most likely dead.

"I've been looking after Ryou for the last couple of days. I found him with the address you gave me." Bakura just stared at him. "He is staying with me and Malik, who by the way have made great friends with each other." Bakura didn't know what to say. "Ryou has a warm bed to sleep in, he's being feed… and right now he's most likely on his way to the park." Bakura was lost for words, Ryou had somewhere to stay, he looked at Marik.

"You have been looking after him all this time?"

"Yeah and he seems happy too." Marik moved closer to the bed. "You know I'm willing to take you in as well give you your own room and you get to stay with Ryou for as long as you like."

"What's the catch?" Bakura gave him a skeptical look.

"That you stay in this hospital get better, and no more stealing."

"Are you for real?" Bakura narrowed his eyes, that's all he knew was stealing to stay alive, well Ryou anyway, he stole for Ryou to feed him and clothe him.

"I am." Marik said sternly, Bakura relaxed on the bed suddenly feeling tired and drained. "Lets put it this way… hypothetically." Marik started to un-strap him taking it off his chest and his good arm. "You run off, say you take Ryou with you. You live on the street like you have been… stealing and such. But with the condition that you're in at the moment I'd say you would have a month or two before it bites you in the ass and it kills you." Marik moved to his ankles un-strapping them, Bakura glared at him. "Little Ryou ends up starving to death on his own or freezing… or beater, he ends up in an Orphanage all on his own, unprotected, and the foster system isn't that well looked into." Marik met him in a lock stare that neither was going to back out of. "I know I've had a few calls." Bakura swallowed the lump in his throat. "Is that enough of a reality check for you?" Bakura slowly nodded his head, anything for Ryou.

"I'm fair Bakura, I have never looked after anyone but myself but I won't take crap from anybody and I won't put up with it, you are old enough, and I have Malik and Ryou's best intentions in mind, and I won't have you jeopardizing that." Marik gave him a look and again Bakura nodded his head.

"Fine I'll try." He mumbled then said. "But if I find out that Ryou's been mistreated in anyway we are gone."

"Fair enough, I'll bring him by to see you this afternoon." Marik covered his feet up with the blankets. "You promise to stay and be taken care of?"

"Yes." Bakura moved a little, what more could he ask for, it seemed that Ryou had a good thing going for them and this Marik guy seemed okay, but time would tell, but he wasn't one to knock something back like this for now anyway.

"Okay then, Ryou will be here this afternoon, you rest and behave I'll be back." Marik turned and went to walk out.

"Marik?" Bakura called out, he stopped and looked over his shoulder. "For what is worth… thanks for looking out for us."

"Get some rest, I'll be back later." Marik smirked then left, Bakura stared after him, before falling back asleep.

England, April 22nd

The radio was going in a small shop, for everyone to hear. "Under a week ago the shooting of three men is still under way. One of them was identified as Mayor Jack Winter, who was out on business that day, the other was local business man Roy McCrypt, and his employee Marcus Black. All three men where gunned down in the middle of a business meeting, to say why the killer struck those three men and killed them in cold blood murder has troubled the entire police force. Investigators are still trying to track down the killer. More on this story as it unfolds."

The present day, Domino City December 11th

Isis sat in the park on a bench watching Malik and Ryou play on the equipment; the park was full of other children and their parents. She sighed as she looked up at the sky, it was clear and the air was still. "Excuse me." A woman asked getting her attention.

Malik stood there with a deep frown on his little face as he watched Ryou run by him and up the ladder. "See Malik like this, it's fun." He giggled as he went down the slide again. Malik just gave him a look on why anyone especially himself would find such a thing fun.

Ryou grabbed onto his arm. "Malik have a go with me." He tugged on Malik's arm, who pulled his arm back again and gave Ryou a hard look, who pouted and his eyes filled with tears. "Please Malik." He sniffled, in the short time of him being with Malik, he didn't mind at all that Malik didn't talk or couldn't talk, he had someone his own age to play with and who wasn't mean to him and didn't have Bakura come in and scare them away, telling them that he was going to eat them, or something like that, then lecture Ryou on not staying close by.

Malik gave in on the look and went to the ladder and started to climb up, Ryou clapped his hands together happily as he had won and rushed after him. Coming to a stop at the bottom of the slide, Malik stopped as if frozen in place, Ryou crashed into his back sending them both to ground.

"Sorry." Ryou said pushing himself up, Malik jumped up wanting to go again, he grabbed Ryou's arm and pulled back towards the ladder, this was fun, Ryou took the time to show Malik the wonders of playground toys, and he loved it.

He came to a stop again at the bottom of the slide, and saw a bright green ball bounced by him, he got up and ran after it, Ryou saw him and called out. "Wait for me!" He slid down and ran after him.

Malik chased the ball down the hill it soon stopped when it got caught in a bush. He picked it up and looked it over. Ryou came to a stop panting out of breath. "We have to go back Isis will be..angry…with.…us and…" He trailed off as Malik held up the ball with a grin. "Wow." Ryou lent in. "C-can we play with it?" forgetting what he was saying, Malik nodded his head.

By the time Isis was done giving directions to the woman, she thought on heading into the city to do a few errands then meet up with Marik, she got up and walked over to the play centre. "Malik. Ryou!" She called out. "Time to go now." She gave them a few minutes to respond, all the years of looking after Marik taught her anything was that little kids couldn't be pushed into leaving their play time, she learnt that the hard way through Marik's temper tantrums on such occasions. "Boys we're leaving now, come on!" She tried again and nothing, but for the happy screams of the other children, so she walked around. "Boy's!" She frowned as she couldn't spot them, after a really good look, she couldn't find them amongst the other children.

She started to walk around asking a few people as she passed them if they had seen two little boys giving a short description of then, getting nothing but a negative reply she thanked them and moved on as she started to panic, after twenty minutes of looking and not finding them, she called Marik.

A little bit later, she ran to the front gates as a not to happy Marik pulled up got out with Elder and Yami, she rushed over to them. "I'm sorry Marik." He walked by her.

"How long have they been missing?" He asked her.

"I don't know." She replied, Hoshi walked by and said. "I'll got to the other entrance make sure no one walks out with them." She jogged off.

"I'll look at all toilets." Yami went to run off, Isis called him making him stop. "I come with you." Marik headed for all the playgrounds.

Ryou giggled as he threw the ball to Malik, which he missed big time, making Malik run after it, then when Malik caught up with the ball he picked it up. Ryou would run towards him, taking them further away from where they should have been and towards the duck pond. "I got it, I got it!" Ryou spread his arms out to catch it but it landed about two feet from him, he giggled as he ran after it, getting it he picked it up. "Ready Malik." He called out, said boy nodded his head eagerly, spreading his arms wide to catch it, but the whole time of playing not once did they come close to even touching it while it was in the air. "It's a big one." Ryou called out, again Malik nodded his head waiting.

"Go!" Ryou threw it, it was in the air for about two foot then landing and rolling down the small hill, Malik ran after it as Ryou burst into giggles again and ran after them, the ball hit a rock sending it a little faster, Malik ran as fast as he could to get the green ball.

The ball rolled onto the ice of the duck pond stopping a fair way in and without fail like a honey-bear to honey Malik followed, Ryou stopped at the edge. "Throw it Malik!"

He stopped and picked it up, stopping as sounds of cracking came around his feet. "I'm ready!" Ryou called out, Malik straightened up turning around, but as he did the ice gave way, his eyes widened as he fell through.

Ryou cried out as he watched Malik vanish under the ice. "MALIK!"

TBC

Cliffhanger monster, yes I'm that mean to leave it there… . (evil chuckle) Hands up who thought Malik would run into his father (narrows eyes) Come on lets see them... But I gave you a few extra pages for not posting this story in a while and for the wonderful reviews you guys always give me. (glomps readers) thank you. R&R (Love and Cookies)